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.
