European Union Initiates a OpenSuperQPlus Program with €20 Million ($21.5M USD) in Funding to Dev...

The OpenSuperQPlus program is a successor to the previous OpenSuperQ program that will be coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and involve 28 partners from 10 different countries. It has a first stage goal of developing a 100 qubit system within 3.5 years and a second stage goal of developing a 1000 qubit system within seven years. The funding will come from the European Union's Horizon Europe framework program. A press release announcing the program can be seen on the Forschungszentrum Jülich website here and a list of all the partners in the program are shown below.

List of OpenSuperQPlus Program Partners

Germany

1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

2. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften o Walther-Meissner-Institute o Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

3. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.

4. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

5. Qruise GmbH

6. Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG

7. supracon AG

8. Zurich Instruments Germany

9. EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH

Finland

1. Aalto University

2. BlueFors Cryogenics Oy

3. CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.

4. IQM Finland Oy

5. Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy

Netherlands

1. Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

2. Orange Quantum Systems

3. QuantWare B.V.

4. Technische Universiteit Delft

France

1. Alice & Bob

2. Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

3. Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

Hungary

1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2. Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Austria

1. Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Sweden

1. Chalmers Tekniska Högskola AB

Estonia

1. Tartu Ülikool

Spain

1. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Israel

1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

March 25, 2023