Deadline: 19-Oct-22
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for the EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Alternative Approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Communication, and Sensing.
The scope of this call is to develop innovative approaches to encoding, manipulating, or storing information in quantum objects, or to exploiting quantum phenomena for information processing, communication, and sensing in a way that differs from the mainstream approaches currently being pursued in quantum research. Proposals should clearly identify the limits of the current quantum information processing paradigms they are trying to improve upon and propose relevant metrics to track progress and demonstrate success or a superior paradigm compared with conventional quantum information processing approaches.
Objectives
The proposals under this EIC Pathfinder Challenge:
- are expected to contribute to the development of information processing, communication or sensing components, for terrestrial or space applications, exhibiting similar advantages to the mainstream quantum technology approaches, in terms of sensitivity, accuracy, energy efficiency, etc;
- should describe how their proposed information processing or communication system would be controlled and could lead to the development of an information processing or communication device using a non-classical information theory approach;
- should aim to show how information processing or communications principles and architectures would be developed that demonstrate a clear and quantifiable advantage with respect to classical approaches and mainstream quantum technology alternatives. This should be applicable to a class of relevant problems or applications;
- should show how the foundations for novel approaches to encoding, manipulating, and storing information that could lead to practical applications would be established. Such novel approaches could find their roots in, for example, new phases of matter, exotic physical systems, biological systems, or other approaches;
- should describe how the proposed information processing or communication system would be controlled, programmed, and measured and should address relevant interfacing aspects.
Funding Information
Up to Euro 167.00 Million available.
Expected Outcomes and Impacts
This EIC Pathfinder Challenge aims at the following:
- technology breakthroughs that form the basis for future information processing, communication, and sensing technologies on ground and in space;
- synergetic collaboration with existing European platforms, infrastructures, and innovation eco-systems in quantum technology;
- increased diversity of information processing technologies platforms exploiting non-classical information theory approaches.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisation (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Rules for Participation have been met together with any other conditions laid down in the specific call or topic.
- In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e., Member States (including their outmost regions and overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), countries associated to Horizon Europe and low- and middle-income third countries.
- In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- Member States of the European Union (including overseas countries and
- territories (OCTs))
- Eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- Low- and middle-income countries.
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