Funding Type:

Grant

Project Size:

Total project costs must be between £1.5 million and £3 million.

Your Proposal:

The application should:

• Identify and outline one or more technological barriers and how they impact businesses.

• Describe the innovation that will overcome these barriers.
• Show how the innovation is technically and commercially viable.
• Provide a roadmap for future commercial exploitation.

Your project should focus on:

• Enhancing the scalability of quantum network technologies.

• Contributing to UK leadership in the global market.
• Utilizing second-generation quantum technologies involving phenomena like superposition or entanglement.

We Encourage Projects That:

• Enable large-scale operation of quantum networks.
• Develop security frameworks for quantum-enabled solutions.

• Advance critical technologies towards mass production.
• Connect quantum processors into network architectures.
• Collaborate with network architects, operators, and service providers.

Specific Themes:

The project must focus on:

• Data security in storage and during transit.
• Networking quantum computers for improved information processing.

Research Categories:

• Feasibility projects and industrial research projects are eligible for funding.

Exclusions:

Projects that will not be funded:

• Projects not utilizing second-generation quantum technologies.
• Projects that duplicate existing innovations.

Funding is not available for projects dependent on export performance or domestic inputs usage.