Quantum Grand Challenge
Funds early-stage quantum-computing firms to build a technical and financial roadmap.
Quantum Grand Challenge is a EuroHPC JU call that pays early-stage quantum-computing companies between EUR 200,000 and EUR 300,000 to build a technical and financial roadmap toward an integrated hardware-and-software quantum computing system. It's open to companies that already have a defined technology concept and initial feasibility work; standalone software-only or hardware-only approaches are …
The call is open to early-stage quantum computing companies that already have a defined technology concept and initial feasibility work, aiming at an integrated hardware-and-software quantum computing system. Standalone software-only or hardware-only approaches are not considered, even though applicants may start from a single key hardware component if they have a credible plan to complete the rest.
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