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Transnational Cooperation

QuantERA II: ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies

FCT is a member of the ERA-NET Cofund QuantERA II, supporting international research projects in the field of Quantum Technologies. The QuantERA consortium includes 32 organizations from 27 countries.

ERA-NET Cofund QuantERA II: Joint Transnational Call 2021

The Call Announcement contains detailed information on Call topics, participating countries, funding agencies and respective funding commitments. Please consult the documents and selected links available in the box on the right.

CALL TOPICS

The submitted proposals are expected to be aligned with one of the two QuantERA 2021 Co-funded call 2021 topics:

• Quantum Phenomena and Resources (QPR)
• Applied Quantum Science (AQS)

Funded projects in both topics are expected to address one or more of the following areas:

1. Quantum communication
2. Quantum simulation
3. Quantum computation
4. Quantum information sciences
5. Quantum metrology sensing and imaging

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.

HOW TO APPLY

1. Please consult the Call Documents and Submission Platform in the box on the right.
2. Consult the National Documents available in the box on the right. Also read the specific National funding regulations of all the participating countries involved in your consortium (including your own), available in the Call Announcement. Non-eligible partners may lead to the rejection of the whole consortium.
3. Access the online submission platform, and proceed according to your role. (available in April)
4. Each Portuguese partner (or coordinator) has to send via email to the Joint Call National Contact Point a Statement of Commitment duly signed, dated and stamped by the Head of the Portuguese applicant organization and by the Principal Investigator, until 10 days after the submission deadline. Applicants need to keep the original documents, as it may be later required for legal purposes.

In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, QuantERA offers applicants a partner search tool available here: https://ncn.gov.pl/partners/quantera/. This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.

FCT FINANCIAL COMMITMENT AND FUNDING REGULATIONS (PORTUGAL ONLY)

• National funding commitment for the call: 250.000 €
  • Maximum requested funding for a consortium coordinated by Portugal: 250.000 €
  • Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 150.000 €

Note: if more than one Portuguese institution participates in a given consortium, the budget has to be shared among them. Consult the links provided in this webpage related to the national documentation.

Contacts

NATIONAL CONTACT POINT

Previous Editions:

QuantERA: ERA-NET Cofund - 2019