QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Thematic scope of proposals should include one or more of the following areas:

• Quantum communication
• Quantum simulation
• Quantum computation
• Quantum information sciences
• Quantum metrology sensing and imaging

One stage application procedure (joint submission of short and full proposals) will be open for consortia composed of researchers from at least three countries participating in the Call: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey. Additionally, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Switzerland are considering joining the QuantERA Call 2019. The final decisions will be communicated in the following days through www.quantera.eu.

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Excellence,
• Impact,
• Quality and efficiency of the implementation.

The national/regional eligibility criteria will be defined by each participating funding agency.

The anticipated deadline for proposals is 18th February 2019. The results of the Call will be released in the Autumn of 2019.

For details please check: https://quantera.eu/calls-for-proposals/call-2019.

QuantERA aims at spreading research excellence in the whole European Research Area. Therefore, proposal consortia are encouraged to include partners from the widening countries participating in the call: Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey

Please note that this announcement is for information purposes only. It does not create any obligation for the QuantERA consortium nor for any of the participating funding organisations. The official Call Announcement, to be published later, shall prevail.

QuantERA has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 731473.