European Quantum Industry Consortium
QuiC
Objectives The Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) will be the voice of the Quantum Industry in Europe. Its mission is to represent and promote the common interests of the Europe-based quantum industry towards the European Institutions and stakeholders in order to ensure a sustainable business environment and foster its global competitiveness. The objectives of the Quantum Industry Consortium are to: 1. Identifying the requirements both from the public and from the private sector side for a florishing EU QT Industry and market, particularly in terms of supply chain, enabling components and/or technologies, use cases, performance, standards, workforce; 2. Facilitate the coordination between QT industries, as well as liaise with public QT stakeholders (government agencies, EU institutions and academia); 3. Advocate at the public institutions level for industry needs, in particular to steer QT investment priorities.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to EU quantum Act
12 Dec 2025
The European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) welcomes the European Commissions decision to develop an EU Quantum Act, an essential step to strengthen Europes competitiveness, resilience, and leadership in quantum technologies. Quantum computing, communication, sensing, and enabling technologies will reshape global industries in the coming decade. Europe now has a unique opportunity to translate its scientific excellence into a coherent, globally competitive industrial ecosystem. QuICs response reflects a wide consultative process with its community of more than 200 companies, investors, research organisations, and academic institutions. It provides recommendations aligned with the three pillars of the Call for Evidence, introduces a fourth pillar on skills and talent, and features recommendations from non-EU-headquartered entities active on quantum in Europe. Pillar 1 Research & Innovation Framework Europe must overcome fragmentation, duplication, and weak technology transfer. QuIC recommends establishing a EuroQuantum Joint Undertaking as the core instrument for research and innovation across all quantum pillars. A balanced ECMember State funding model, streamlined administration, embedded standardisation, and shared access to critical infrastructures such as testbeds and pilot lines are essential. This framework should directly involve industry and ensure coherence with adjacent initiatives, including the EuroHPC JU and Chips JU. Pillar 2 Industrial Capacity & Investment Europe must develop all layers of the quantum technology stack, from hardware and materials to middleware, software, and applications. QuIC supports Dedicated EU Tools that prioritise concentrated investment in a limited number of European champions, selected through clear, milestone-based competition. Deep-techappropriate financing, strategic procurement, and challenge-driven programmes are needed to scale quantum companies, stimulate market demand, and reinforce industrial sovereignty. Pillar 3 Supply-Chain Resilience & Governance Europes quantum supply chain remains fragile and dependent on non-European suppliers. QuIC supports the creation of an EU-level framework for harmonised monitoring, early identification of vulnerabilities, and coordinated mitigation measures. Preventive design choices, targeted investment in critical components, and strong standards and certification frameworks will be essential to ensure interoperability, trust, and reduced reliance on non-EU norms. Pillar 4 Skills & Talent (Crosscutting) The quantum sector faces a significant skills shortage that threatens Europes long-term competitiveness. QuIC recommends a dedicated skills pillar that includes quantum education from early schooling to professional upskilling, EUcertified educator programmes, continuous training for industry, and measures to retain and attract talent. A simplified 28th regime, enhanced R&D incentives, and an EU Quantum Talent Visa would support companies in recruiting and scaling within the Single Market. International Perspectives Non-EU QuIC members stress that Europe must remain globally open and competitive, leveraging best-in-class components, ensuring coherent participation rules, and avoiding administrative barriers that hinder innovation or collaboration with trusted partners. Conclusion A bold and implementation-focused EU Quantum Act can transform Europe into a global quantum powerhouse. By establishing coherent governance, strengthening industrial capacity, securing resilient supply chains, and investing in skills, Europe can build a strong, competitive, and strategically autonomous quantum ecosystem.
Read full responseResponse to European Innovation Act
3 Oct 2025
The European Innovation Act represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape Europes innovation landscape and ensure that scientific excellence translates into societal and economic leadership. Across the diverse stakeholder perspectives explored from agile start-ups to large enterprises, from academia to investors, and from public sector to global partners a common theme emerges: Europe must act boldly, cohesively, and with urgency. The analysis in this paper reveals both shared and unique challenges faced by stakeholders, but also a strong alignment on the solutions needed. Simplifying processes, unifying the market, investing in people and ideas, and forging partnerships are recurring imperatives. Overarching Recommendations: The European Innovation Act must be bold in addressing Europes chronic innovation gap. Based on QuICs analysis across stakeholders, we recommend the following overarching priorities: 1. Simplify and Harmonize Regulation: Establish a unified startup framework and expand regulatory sandboxes to reduce fragmentation, cut red tape, and create a predictable single market for innovators. 2. Close the Scale-Up Funding Gap: Expand and diversify deep-tech funding instruments (EIC, Scale-Up Europe Fund, co-investment schemes), mobilize institutional capital, and incentivize private investment to provide patient, risk-tolerant capital. 3. Strengthen Infrastructure and Supply Chains: Invest in interconnected European R&I infrastructure networks, deep-tech foundries, and critical supply chains, ensuring SMEs and RTOs have affordable access to advanced facilities. 4. Accelerate Commercialisation and Market Uptake: Use public procurement, IP valorisation, and standards leadership to bridge lab-to-market gaps, create lead markets in strategic sectors, and de-risk adoption for buyers. 5. Empower Talent and Mobility: Improve research career paths, expand skills programs aligned with industry, introduce an EU-wide innovation visa, and support academiaindustry mobility to attract and retain top talent. 6. Enhance International Collaboration with Safeguards: Promote openness through global partnerships and standard-setting, while ensuring reciprocity and protecting Europes strategic technologies. 7. Institutionalize Stakeholder Engagement and Governance: Embed industry bodies, investors, and innovation hubs in structured advisory roles, align EU and Member State policies, and ensure continuous monitoring and evaluation of the EIAs impact. By implementing these overarching recommendations, EU policymakers can ensure that the European Innovation Act not only addresses the immediate needs of todays innovators but also builds a foundation for sustainable, long-term innovation excellence. As Mario Draghi cautioned, Europe has the talent and knowledge but has been trapped in a static industrial structure the EIA is our chance to break free of that trap. Likewise, Enrico Lettas vision of a reinvigorated Single Market with a fifth freedom of knowledge reminds us that deep integration and bold thinking are required. QuIC and its partners stand ready to work with EU institutions to make this vision a reality, ensuring Europes quantum and broader deep-tech industries thrive in the years ahead.
Read full responseResponse to 28th regime – a single harmonized set of rules for innovative companies throughout the EU
30 Sept 2025
On behalf of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), we welcome the opportunity to provide input to the consultation on the proposed 28th Regime. Please find attached our detailed position paper, The 28th Regime and Quantum Innovation. In summary, we believe that the 28th Regime represents more than administrative simplification. For Europes quantum industry, it is the legal foundation upon which sovereignty, competitiveness, and innovation depend. Only a regulation, not a directive, can provide the certainty quantum firms require to scale across Europe. By embedding labour law safeguards, integrating tax interactions, and aligning with the EU Startup and Scale-up Strategy, the 28th Regime can deliver a once-in-a-generation legal tool: one that allows Europes quantum startups to incorporate once, operate everywhere, and compete globally.
Read full responseMeeting with Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)
15 Sept 2025 · Quantum Strategy
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Jun 2025 · Quantum technology policy
Response to Quantum Strategy of the EU
9 May 2025
The European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) and its nearly 200 members enthusiastically welcome the announcement of an EU Quantum Strategy and an EU Quantum Act. Europe can position itself as a global leader in Quantum Technologies encompassing quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum sensing by leveraging its heritage in quantum science and research, and the progress spearheaded by the EU Quantum Flagship since 2018, by augmenting recent development and acquisition programmes such as EuroHPC and EuroQCI, and by building on quantum pilot lines introduced in the Chips Act. However, to fully capitalise on its strengths and overcome existing challenges, Europe must take urgent actions on the following key points: An intensive, coordinated European effort is required to develop a homegrown full-stack QC ecosystem, ensuring technological sovereignty and economic competitiveness. Investments should focus on modularity, co-design, interoperability, and integration with HPC and AI. Strengthening Europes quantum supply chain is essential to reduce dependence on non-EU suppliers. The EU must invest in key enabling technologies, manufacturing capabilities, and regulatory alignment to secure the entire quantum ecosystem. Enhancing European leadership in quantum chips through industrial-scale fabrication and testing facilities, fostering innovation in design, cryogenic electronics, photonics, packaging, and semiconductor technologies, and supporting IP generation for quantum hardware. Ensuring secure quantum communications and cryptography by accelerating the deployment of PQC, QKD, and QINs. The EU must act swiftly to mitigate security risks such as Harvest Now, Decrypt Later threats. Key enablers are the funding of a certified QKD space segment and a large-scale QIN demonstrator (terrestrial and space components). Driving industrialisation and market uptake of quantum sensing by establishing an EU-wide strategy for research, commercialisation, and deployment of quantum sensors in key sectors, including defence, space, healthcare, and climate monitoring. Creating an attractive investment environment for European quantum start-ups and scale-ups by addressing funding gaps, incentivising private investments, and ensuring fair competition for European quantum companies in global markets. Positioning Europe as a leader in QT standards and intellectual property by fostering strong European participation in international standardisation bodies, ensuring strategic control over quantum-related patents, and enhancing IP commercialisation mechanisms. Building a highly skilled European quantum workforce through education, re-skilling programmes, and talent attraction and retention policies, ensuring that Europe remains competitive in the global quantum race for talents. Ensuring European quantum sovereignty through harmonised export controls, strategic defence investments, coordination of national quantum strategies, and securing critical infrastructure. Maximising QT for environmental and societal benefits by aligning quantum research with sustainability goals, supporting energy- efficient QC, and leveraging quantum innovation for climate action and the public good. The detailed recommendations are included in the document QuIC Recommendations for the EU Quantum Strategy, which is attached to this submission. The European Quantum Industry Consortium and its community welcomes the opportunity to work with the EC in further refining and prioritising these recommendations in support of the European Quantum Strategy.
Read full responseMeeting with Gustav Kalbe (Acting Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
7 Feb 2025 · Regular status update on the state of the EU Quantum industry
Meeting with Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
25 May 2022 · Chips Joint Undertaking