Informazioni generali
Call: European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI)
Tipo di azione: DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions
Deadline Model: single-stage
Panoramica del bilancio
| Topic |
Budget 2025 |
Stages |
Opening Date |
Deadline |
| DIGITAL-IRIS2-2025-QCI-01 - DIGITAL-SME Digital SME Support Actions |
30000000 |
single-stage |
2025-07-15 |
2025-10-16 |
| DIGITAL-IRIS2-2025-QCI-02 - DIGITAL-CSA DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions |
3000000 |
single-stage |
2025-07-15 |
2025-10-16 |
| DIGITAL-IRIS2-2025-QCI-03 - DIGITAL-CSA DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions |
3000000 |
single-stage |
2025-07-15 |
2025-10-16 |
Descrizione
Expected Outcome:
Expected Outcome and Deliverables
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An assessment of the deployments of EuroQCI networks and systems for the operational phase of EuroQCI.
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Consolidated analysis of national and cross-border deployments, identifying the complementary activities (including technology developments) required to establish a complete EuroQCI system.
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Recommendations for the next phases of the operational and security-compliant pan-European EuroQCI networks.
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Contribution to a technologically autonomous European quantum communication ecosystem.
Objective:
Objective
To ensure a coherent EuroQCI initiative and support the Commission, ESA and the Member States by providing key support functions in coordination, industrialisation, dissemination and alignment, enabling national and cross-border EuroQCI networks to discuss progress, to identify and utilise synergies in their work, share best practices and information about EU components and their certifications, supporting QKD standardisation efforts, and coordinating overall progress towards a fully functional EuroQCI.
Scope:
Scope
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Facilitate connections and dialogue between the national and cross-border EuroQCI projects: support discussions on user requirements and use cases, standardisation and return of experience from the deployment of advanced national quantum systems and networks including on EU QKD components and systems.
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Provide support to the Commission, Member States, and other stakeholders in the deployment of EuroQCI.
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Produce a consolidated overview of the deployment of EuroQCI in Member States and a catalogue of approaches and technologies implemented in national EuroQCI projects.
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Coordinate inputs to support discussions and decisions on the further development of national and cross-border deployment plans and strategic efforts, with a view to achieving an overall EuroQCI system (space and terrestrial segments).
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Coordinate activities for developing an EU QKD ecosystem and the industrialisation of QKD devices in the EU.
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Organise outreach events and activities, prepare communication materials, promote the EuroQCI initiative, and ensure interactions with other relevant initiatives.
Aggiornamenti
Condizioni generali e documenti
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Call document is available here
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Additional documents:
Partecipazione
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