Call Corner
Enabling the Future of Quantum: Enabling Innovation and Impact
From Ecosystem Building to Ecosystem Impact
Throughout the programme, the needs of the Dutch quantum ecosystem have evolved. While the initial focus was on laying the foundation, building communities, infrastructure, and capabilities, the current priority has shifted. It’s now about enabling economic and societal impact through quantum technologies.
This shift calls for a stronger emphasis on:
Future-ready technologies
Applicability and scalability
Tech transfer and IP creation
Strengthening links between innovation and market uptake
A Lab-to-Fab Support Approach
QDNL is evolving its approach to better support this next stage of development. The objective is to align support instruments and programmes with key performance indicators across the ecosystem, enabling flexible and competitive pathways that accelerate:
Rapid innovation
Technology transfer
Application-oriented research
International leadership
This Lab-to-Fab approach is designed to help scale quantum technologies from research labs to real-world manufacturing and commercial use.
Towards Strategic and Challenge-Driven Funding
Our updated funding model will be:
More flexible, bold, and lightweight
Transparent and inclusive of end users, manufacturing ecosystems, and higher TRLs
Aligned with CATs and ALs to help achieve their KPIs
Structured to leverage QDNL’s funding by attracting national and international co-financing
Designed to promote global collaboration and position the Netherlands as a trusted partner
Eureka GlobalStars Open Call with Taiwan
Open to Dutch companies or knowledge institutions engaged in research into technologies and applications in high-tech fields such as semiconductors, photonics, AI, and quantum hardware, this call encourages Dutch organisations to collaborate with Taiwanese innovation partners on R&D projects with strong commercial potential in high-tech or sustainability fields. It is also open to sustainability projects, including those focused on the circular economy or carbon circulation in industrial processes. International application submissions are due 15 September (17:00 CET).
QuantERA
QDNL actively engages with strategic initiatives to amplify impact and reach. One example is QuantERA, a pan-European network that supports collaborative research in quantum technologies.
SME PROGRAMME
The QDNL SME programme is designed to connect 125 high-tech, multidisciplinary Dutch SMEs with the arenas of quantum technology where they’re needed most.
TRILATERAL PROGRAMME
Building on the trilateral statement on collaboration in quantum technology signed in November 2022, this joint programme of activities is the next logical step towards acceleration and greater synergies. It aims to address these four strategic challenges and builds on the coordination work already under way between the three signatories.
