Quantum Experimental Pilot Lines for Quantum Technologies
Quantum Experimental Pilot Lines for Quantum Technologies · HORIZON-JU-RIA · TRL 3 to 7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds the building of experimental pilot production lines for quantum hardware, such as quantum processors, sensors, and cryo compatible packaging. It aims to bridge the gap between academic quantum research and future industrial scale chip manufacturing, giving companies and researchers shared access to fabrication facilities. The goal is to mature quantum technologies from lab scale to a level where they can be reliably reproduced and eventually integrated into large scale chip pilot lines.
quantum technologies · semiconductors · advanced manufacturing · deep tech · research excellence
Who wins this
This call suits a consortium of research institutes, industrial partners, and quantum hardware companies that already operate or plan to operate experimental fabrication infrastructure and want to scale up quantum processor, sensor, or packaging technologies toward pre industrial maturity.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €14M to €15M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Also required
- This action implements the pilot production elements of the Qu Pilot Framework Partnership Agreement and expects one grant to be awarded with a total budget of 15 million euros.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes The general criteria are described in the General Annex D of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-2027. described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions The documents are described in General Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-2027.