Expected outcomes.
• Scalable, efficient, and integrated production capacities for Europe, enhancing the availability of quantum technologies for computing, communication, and sensing.
• Sustainable pilot line open to European stakeholders (especially for SMEs and startups) across the whole value chain, from materials to applications, enabling technologies, and thereby creating a community of interest for those technologies, boosting the use of those technologies in Europe. The pilot line should significantly boost the innovation capacity on trapped-ion chips resulting in a competitive advantage for the European ecosystem.
• Development of a European supply chain for quantum technologies, fostering innovation capacities in SMEs and ensuring critical intellectual property remains within the EU.
• Demonstration of high-quality production with a focus on maturing the production towards scalability, efficiency, and integration of Quantum PDKs.
The pilot lines can be physically located at one or distributed over several hosting sites. A hosting site is the physical facility at which a hosting entity will host a pilot line and which is established in a Participating State that is a Member State. Proposals shall include the members that will host and develop the pilot lines for the whole duration of the SGAs.
The pilot line should aim to significantly accelerate industrialization and time-to-market resulting in a competitive advantage for the European trapped-ion chips ecosystem. Proposals should also develop concrete industrialization plans, providing a roadmap for the transfer of elements or all of the process technology to industrial partners in their deployment of massproduction facilities.
Proposals should clearly highlight important milestones and identify trapped-ion specific, and ambitious KPIs (e.g. high yield, high-quality quantum chips, reliability, reproducibility, high performance, and scalability of the production, etc.) that shall be met during the implementation of the pilot line. Technology and manufacturing process risk management plans for realistic and time-bound implementation should be also included in the proposals.
Collaborations
Proposals should clearly outline collaborative efforts that integrate the trapped ion pilot lines with existing European quantum initiatives, contributing significantly to the broader quantum technology ecosystem.
Proposals should provide a robust collaboration framework that integrates efforts across academia, industry, and existing quantum initiatives. Successful consortia should look for collaborations and synergies with other quantum technology projects and pilot lines. Consortia should promote the reusability of developed enabling technologies and methods, enhance the scalability of solutions, and foster a cohesive and innovative quantum technology landscape across Europe.
- Call Closed21 January 2025 (17:00 GMT+1)
