Quantum grants in the Netherlands

Funds research exploring quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing for air traffic management.

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Pays one project, led by a photonic-quantum-computing startup, EUR 10 million to build toward a 1,000-qubit photonic quantum computer by 2030 with a named end-user demonstration.

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Funds up to five projects that mature and security-certify European quantum key distribution hardware and systems for deployment in telecom networks.

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Funds a single European academy that trains non-physicists to use quantum computers and technologies through hands-on courses and summer schools.

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Funds teams building use cases where quantum sensing makes an existing system measurably better.

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Funds teams hunting for entirely new quantum systems that could be used as sensors.

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Pays one European consortium EUR 1 million to draft pre-normative standards for quantum computing, communication and sensing and represent European priorities in bodies like ISO/IEC, ITU-T and ETSI.

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Funds one consortium to run standardisation work for European quantum key distribution components, systems and certification.

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Provides research teams and institutions for Support to Standardisation Activities CEN CENELEC ETSI in quantum systems, artificial intelligence, and materials science.

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Funds up to three joint EU-South Korea projects, worth EUR 2.5–2.7 million each, on quantum communication, computing or sensing.

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Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.

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Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.

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Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.

Between cycles

Funds Dutch firms developing high-risk new products or processes through repayable government loans covering project costs.

Between cycles

Offers Dutch companies and professionals tax credits to offset payroll costs for qualifying technical and research projects.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

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Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

Between cycles

Funds teams of two to four principal investigators carrying out joint frontier research in any scientific field through ERC Synergy Grants.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.

Between cycles

Supports allocation of exascale compute resources for scientific codes and high-impact computing studies.