Periodic Reporting for period 2 - InCoQFlag (International Cooperation on Quantum Technologies)
Reporting period: 2022-03-01 to 2024-02-29
The contemporary world’s challenges are more and more related to international competition in Quantum technologies and Europe has a strong position with world-leading researchers in Quantum domain.
The overall criterion for international cooperation in research and innovation is that Europe should benefit at least as much as its partners from the international cooperation.
However, mechanisms enabling winning partnerships between the EU and countries that are massively investing in Quantum Science and Technologies are still to be developped.
The InCoQFlag project aims at delivering a roadmap of actions to be implemented in Europe to generate win-win strategies in international cooperation.
Within InCoQFlag, we will investigate what the best strategy for Europe is in terms of collaboration to develop win-win situations with targeted countries: the USA, Canada and Japan.
The overall objectives of the project are:
1. Outline Europe’s strengths and missing competences to benefit from international collaboration,
2. Mapping national innovation strategies and available funding schemes in targeted countries,
3. Roadmap for win-win International Cooperation in Quantum research and innovation.
The overall criterion for international cooperation in research and innovation is that Europe should benefit at least as much as its partners from the international cooperation.
However, mechanisms enabling winning partnerships between the EU and countries that are massively investing in Quantum Science and Technologies are still to be developped.
The InCoQFlag project aims at delivering a roadmap of actions to be implemented in Europe to generate win-win strategies in international cooperation.
Within InCoQFlag, we will investigate what the best strategy for Europe is in terms of collaboration to develop win-win situations with targeted countries: the USA, Canada and Japan.
The overall objectives of the project are:
1. Outline Europe’s strengths and missing competences to benefit from international collaboration,
2. Mapping national innovation strategies and available funding schemes in targeted countries,
3. Roadmap for win-win International Cooperation in Quantum research and innovation.
InCoQFlag actions consisted in collecting sufficient data about strenghts and competences in Europe and targeted countries (objectives 1 and 2) during the first period. During the second the consrotium worked on analalysis of the collected data and elaboration of global SWOT and roadmap to provide the recommendations for win-win cooperation in the field of Qunatum technologies.
To perform project's objectives, InCoQFlag partners have used three types of action:
I) Collect data from existing reports, conduct surveys and interviews among key stakeholders;
II) Organize bilateral meetings and events between the EC and targeted countries providing high value information from governments and key stakeholders.
III) Setting up and working with the Roadmap Committee to ensure input from the main stakeholders of the Quantum Flagship initiative
To achieve in a coherent way the global analysis of targeted countries' within project's different tasks, first action was to elaborate a common methodology to collect and analyze heuristic data from interviews and surveys.
Methodology implemented: profiles identified for all SWOTs' interviews; list of questions per profile; concentrate our action on suitable periods to contact stakeholders: close to the period of bilateral or networking event organized by InCoQFlag; validation process and scoring of the overal heuristic data.
In order to carry out the objectives of the project, each partner collected data in relation to their respective SWOT:
- TNO: QT Science, competences and collaborations (objective no 1)
- NCN: QT policies and funding schemes (objective no 2)
- CEA: QT innovation ecosystems (objectives no 1 and no 2)
The undertakings proceeded for the purpose of these tasks are:
-analysis of strategic policy documents and funding instruments in all mentioned regions;
- carrying out in-depth interviews with the high-level experts at the governmental, scientific and industrial level (during all planned networking events);
- gathering know-how from the European experts in the field in the form of guidelines/expertise on future cooperation (the EU perspective).
The three SWOT analysis have been delivered during the second period of project.
They were integrated as the learnings for the win-win cooperation strategies of the Roadmap lead by Partner ICFO, the final deliverable of InCoQFlag project (objective no 3).
Conerning the task on bilateral meetings and events, its implementation is linked to the political agenda of the European Commission.
For this reason, our planned actions could be deployed at different levels of achievments: we were able to act quickly and comprehensively with Canada, with the launch of a joint call, while this is not the case with Japan and the USA.
Nevertheless, several meetings with Japanese representatives were conducted, and a bilateral meeting date was fixed but this action had to be cancelled.
The Roadmap Committee has been created to be in charge of developing the roadmap for international cooperation document with recommendations for actions.
Regular working meetings and working sessions have been organised with RC to regularly share the available outputs and to fruitful discussions for better preparation of the roadmap document.
To perform project's objectives, InCoQFlag partners have used three types of action:
I) Collect data from existing reports, conduct surveys and interviews among key stakeholders;
II) Organize bilateral meetings and events between the EC and targeted countries providing high value information from governments and key stakeholders.
III) Setting up and working with the Roadmap Committee to ensure input from the main stakeholders of the Quantum Flagship initiative
To achieve in a coherent way the global analysis of targeted countries' within project's different tasks, first action was to elaborate a common methodology to collect and analyze heuristic data from interviews and surveys.
Methodology implemented: profiles identified for all SWOTs' interviews; list of questions per profile; concentrate our action on suitable periods to contact stakeholders: close to the period of bilateral or networking event organized by InCoQFlag; validation process and scoring of the overal heuristic data.
In order to carry out the objectives of the project, each partner collected data in relation to their respective SWOT:
- TNO: QT Science, competences and collaborations (objective no 1)
- NCN: QT policies and funding schemes (objective no 2)
- CEA: QT innovation ecosystems (objectives no 1 and no 2)
The undertakings proceeded for the purpose of these tasks are:
-analysis of strategic policy documents and funding instruments in all mentioned regions;
- carrying out in-depth interviews with the high-level experts at the governmental, scientific and industrial level (during all planned networking events);
- gathering know-how from the European experts in the field in the form of guidelines/expertise on future cooperation (the EU perspective).
The three SWOT analysis have been delivered during the second period of project.
They were integrated as the learnings for the win-win cooperation strategies of the Roadmap lead by Partner ICFO, the final deliverable of InCoQFlag project (objective no 3).
Conerning the task on bilateral meetings and events, its implementation is linked to the political agenda of the European Commission.
For this reason, our planned actions could be deployed at different levels of achievments: we were able to act quickly and comprehensively with Canada, with the launch of a joint call, while this is not the case with Japan and the USA.
Nevertheless, several meetings with Japanese representatives were conducted, and a bilateral meeting date was fixed but this action had to be cancelled.
The Roadmap Committee has been created to be in charge of developing the roadmap for international cooperation document with recommendations for actions.
Regular working meetings and working sessions have been organised with RC to regularly share the available outputs and to fruitful discussions for better preparation of the roadmap document.
The SWOT analysis have been delivered during the second period of project on Quantum Technology Policies and Funding Schemes, Quantum Technology science and recommendations, Quantum Technologies Innovation ecosystems in the EU, USA, Canada and Japan.
SWOT analysis reflect dynamics of the QT strategies in order to identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats for the win-win collaboration. This analysis has been integrated in global SWOT.
Impacts:
First tangible impact of InCoQFlag project is the launch of the joint call in the first Horizon Europe Work Programme in June 2021 with the overall €8M budget for collaborative projects gathering european and canadian academia scientists and industries.
Results of these projects will have economic and societal impact at first in Europe and Canada, but also more largely benefiting to the scientific community.
The EU-Canada networking event established contacts between public and private stakeholders of the quantum community in Europe and Canada.
Global SWOT analysis and roadmap highlight the recommendations of actions to establish win-win collaboration in the field of quantum technologies.
SWOT analysis reflect dynamics of the QT strategies in order to identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats for the win-win collaboration. This analysis has been integrated in global SWOT.
Impacts:
First tangible impact of InCoQFlag project is the launch of the joint call in the first Horizon Europe Work Programme in June 2021 with the overall €8M budget for collaborative projects gathering european and canadian academia scientists and industries.
Results of these projects will have economic and societal impact at first in Europe and Canada, but also more largely benefiting to the scientific community.
The EU-Canada networking event established contacts between public and private stakeholders of the quantum community in Europe and Canada.
Global SWOT analysis and roadmap highlight the recommendations of actions to establish win-win collaboration in the field of quantum technologies.