Find partners for Europe Quantum Technology CR&D 2024

This website is a virtual marketplace to search and profile project opportunities as well as facilitate partner-matching for the Europe Quantum Technology CR&D 2024 call.

The funding competition application page for UK businesses can be found here.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £3 million ISPF funding in collaborative research and innovation projects. The aim of this competition is to facilitate collaboration between the UK and international organisations, and in particular partnerships with entities in the EU. This will support with accelerating research and innovation in quantum technologies and removing technological and market barriers allowing successful commercialisation and adoption in the UK and internationally.

The aim of this competition is to fund business led projects that are focused on one or more of the following:

• Quantum sensing for applications such as industrial instrumentation, clinical devices, imaging, resource mapping, geological or oceanographic survey.
• Industrial products, processes, or services to advance scalable solutions such as chip scale quantum, photonic and optoelectronic systems for applied quantum technologies.
• Technologies for scaling quantum compute for example, but not limited to, qubit processor, switching, networking, control systems and cryogenics.
  

Competition Timeline

• Competition Opened: Tuesday 7th May 2024
• Competition Closes: Wednesday 28th August 2024
• Applicants Notified: Friday 27th September 2024

Briefing Event

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please listen to our briefing session >> click here. 

Eligibility

This is an opportunity for UK and EU businesses that have innovations that can accelerate research in quantum technologies and help remove technological and market barriers. To be eligible, your project must:

• have a maximum grant funding request of £600,000
• start by 1st December 2024
• end by 31st May 2026
• last between 12 and 18 months

To be eligible for grant funding from Innovate UK your collaboration:

• must include at least one UK registered SME
• must be collaborating with at least one European Member State-registered organisation of any size

You may choose to invite collaborators from other countries outside of the EU Member States.

One-to-One Meetings

The one-to-one meetings will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in innovative developments and build partnerships with UK and EU Member State businesses that are required to bid for grant funding.

Register and use this b2match tool to schedule 20-minute meeting appointments with one or more of the businesses on this platform, so you have the opportunity to bid for grant funding together. Once you've registered, you will see the timeslots available for each business. Once your meeting has been confirmed, you will receive an email with your virtual meeting login information.

Detailed descriptions of all businesses, including funding stage and partnership goals are available to all registered participants.

Good to Know

By registering, you create a profile that is visible to all registered participants on the event website.