Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
Funds a coordination action that benchmarks quantum-sensor navigation technology and builds an investment-ready roadmap for EIB follow-on funding.
A consortium delivers a roadmap and lab-validation package over roughly six months as a Coordination and Support Action funded as a lump sum — no EU funding of new R&I or prototype development happens under this CSA itself. The EuroHPC JU expects five grants of up to EUR 500,000 from this topic's EUR 2,000,000 budget, feeding into a separate Phase 2 EIB InvestEU investment process.
This topic funds Phase 1 of a two-phase Grand Challenge on quantum-enabled inertial navigation systems (Q-INS) for GNSS-denied environments, run with the European Investment Bank. It wants a technical and financial roadmap, benchmarking of existing or externally financed prototypes in cold-atom or chip-scale quantum sensors, and an assessment of non-EU supply-chain dependencies, aimed at maritime, aviation, space or autonomous-transport applications.
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