PROJECT FINAL REPORT Grant Agreement number: 600788 Project acronym: QUTE-EUROPE Project title: Quantum Technologies for Europe Funding Scheme: Coordination and Support Action Period covered: from FEB 1, 2013 to JAN 31, 2016 Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project's coordinator 1 : Assoc. Professor Mario Ziman Fyzikalny ustav Slovenskej Akademie Vied Tel: +421 2 20910701 Fax: E-mail: [email protected]Project website 2 address: http://qurope.eu/projects/qute-europe 1 Usually the contact person of the coordinator as specified in Art. 8.1. of the Grant Agreement. 2 The home page of the website should contain the generic European flag and the FP7 logo which are available in electronic format at the Europa website (logo of the European flag: http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/emblem/index_en.htm logo of the 7th FP: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=logos). The area of activity of the project should also be mentioned.
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PROJECT FINAL REPORT Grant Agreement number: 600788 Project acronym: QUTE-EUROPE Project title: Quantum Technologies for Europe Funding Scheme: Coordination and Support Action Period covered: from FEB 1, 2013 to JAN 31, 2016 Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project's coordinator1: Assoc. Professor Mario Ziman Fyzikalny ustav Slovenskej Akademie Vied Tel: +421 2 20910701 Fax: E-mail: [email protected]
Project website2 address:
http://qurope.eu/projects/qute-europe
1 Usually the contact person of the coordinator as specified in Art. 8.1. of the Grant Agreement. 2 The home page of the website should contain the generic European flag and the FP7 logo which are available in electronic format at the Europa website (logo of the European flag: http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/emblem/index_en.htm logo of the 7th FP: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=logos). The area of activity of the project should also be mentioned.
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Quantum Technologies for Europe
QUTE-‐EUROPE
Coordination Action
Objective ICT 2011.9.12: Coordinating Communities, Identifying new research topics for FET
Participant no.
Participant organisation name Participant short name
Country
1 Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences FU SAV SK
2 Universität Ulm UULM DE
3 Fondazione Bruno Kessler FBK IT
4 Institut d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée IOTA FR
5 University of Geneva UNIGE CH
6 Chalmers University of Technology CHALMERS SE
7 Institut de Ciències Fotòniques ICFO ES
8 Instituto de Telecomunicacoes IT-‐LIS PT
9 University of Leeds LEEDS UK
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4.1 Final publishable summary report
Executive summary Research in QICT has since many years gained an important European dimension. The number of research groups active in the field as well as the number of publications testify to the vigorous and scientifically proliferate state of the community and show that QIPC research in Europe is well on par and highly competitive with comparable activities elsewhere in the world. The Coordination Action QUTE-‐EUROPE continued the coordination and promotion effort of QIPC research initiated by its predecessors QUROPE and QUIE2T and also continued to advance this European excellence via a structured approach towards the implementation of key topics such as a strategic vision, collaboration and dissemination. It carried out a set of actions that are specifically targeted at coordination and cooperation within the QICT research community in Europe and beyond, as well as increasing the visibility of the field to the scientific global community, industries and the public at large. The CA operated in three coordination work packages that are mapped to three identified key topics: 'Vision', 'Support' and 'Interaction': • The key area Vision was concerned with the coordination and development of a common strategic vision in the field of QIPC within the research community. • The key area Support carried out a number of supporting activities that were mainly directed towards dissemination and the spreading of excellence within the community and beyond. • Finally, the key area Interaction fostered links within the community of international research groups, and with QIPC stake holders from outside the research community. The CA set up a work structure with the ultimate goal of making the research community and its scientific achievements internationally recognized and sustainable. This guaranteed that the expertise and the knowledge gained through the CA activities was of benefit to the European QIPC research community, the global QIPC community and all involved stake holders in the field.
http://www.qurope.eu
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A summary description of project context and objectives The primary objective of the CA was to build a solid foundation for the future development and sustainability of the QIPC research community in Europe. During the last 20 years, QIPC has witnessed an enormous growth in each of its sub-‐domains and branches. The sheer scale attained necessitates some coordination on a supra-‐national level in order to enable further significant advance in the field. The main objectives of the CA were dictated by these considerations to foster the European excellence in the field: • Coordinate and structure the QIPC community, facilitate internal collaboration and dissemination Through the concept of Virtual Institutes and within the key strategic areas supported by the Work Packages, the CA continued to coordinate the research community, encouraged collaborations and co-‐operations within the community and beyond, increased the visibility of the field and its activities, and generally contributed to the strategic target objectives of the ICT WorkProgramme. A set of events organized by the CA contributed to the interaction between the project members and the research community and external stakeholders in the field of QIPC. Concrete coordination activities were established to support extending investigations towards emerging new areas, topics and applications, encouraging collaboration with adjacent fields of research and supporting integration and cross-‐fertilization across disciplines and sub-‐fields. The QIPC Strategic Report has by now become a reference document for the competitive and sustained development of QIPC research in Europe. Virtual Institute expert groups have continued to oversee regular updates of the document. A large consensus has been sought to provide input on strategic decision-‐making processes through reports, position papers and other documents. • Congregate and coordinate all QIPC projects at a supra-‐national level, in particular those relevant to the FET QICT objective A common web infrastructure for any QIPC related projects had been established and maintained by this CA’s predecessors, it has served as a data exchange and communication system for the QIPC community. • Increase the general awareness and visibility of the field and its activities A broad range of dissemination activities, including both authoring and encouraging publications for a general audience, organizing public lectures and appearances in popular and specialized media, encouraging research community members to document their public appearances, and similar activities have contributed to the general positive image of the research community and its members. Continuing the tradition, the bi-‐annual QIPC Young Investigator Award were organized, as well as the highly successful series of biannual international QIPC conferences. • Encourage exchange with extra-‐scientific communities Special emphasis was laid on outreach activities to other communities, targeted industries and the public at large. This has contributed to the general awareness of the field and the community, but also has involved feedback and synergy effects that directly have benefited the research community. By encouraging and establishing international contacts, i.e. exchange with research groups overseas, monitoring funding agencies and their work programmes and following active lines of developments in special industries, the community has widened its horizon towards new and emerging fields and technologies.
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The project is divided into four work packages (WP). WP1 ensures the administrative coordination of the project.
• Create the necessary conditions for a successful work and results according to the contract; • Manage all administrative and financial issues; • Produce a consortium agreement between the partners as required by the contract; • Organise the annual project reviews and reports; • Act as a mediating authority in case of any problems; • Effectuate any amendments to the contract and deal with associated legal issues, if any.
WP2 contributes to the coordination and development of a common strategic vision in the field of QIPC research. To achieve the ultimate goal of future sustainability, WP2 engages in a set of activities that focus on forward-‐look, anticipatory and strategy shaping actions.
• Maintain and update the QIPC Strategic Roadmap on a regular basis; • Contribute to white papers, reports and position documents; • Coordinate the work of the Virtual Institutes; • Contribute to the consolidation of Research Agendas.
WP3 carries out a number of supporting activities that are primarily directed towards dissemination and the spreading of excellence within the community and beyond.
• Continuously maintain and update the web site and associated databases; • Organize the bi-‐annual QIPC conference; • Organize the bi-‐annual Young Investigator Award; • Organize two QIPC schools; • Organize outreach activities, like general publications, press releases; • Overlook the Quantum Envoy activities.
WP4 fosters links within the community of international research groups, and with QIPC stakeholders from outside the research community. It also establishes Europe as the world-‐wide focal point of the activities in the future QuITC area. Coordinating the interaction between all interested parties:
• Establish sustained international contacts between the research community in Europe and the communities overseas (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, and others);
• Organize meetings with representatives of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa);
• Establish a database of international grant agencies; • Sustain contacts with representatives from commercial and industrial stakeholders; • Maintain and update the established Industry Database.
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A description of the main results
WP 2: Coordination and Collaboration The main task of work package 2 was to assist in the coordination and development of a common strategic vision in the field of QIPC research. The ultimate goal was to ensure the future sustainability of the field. To achieve this goal, WP2 QUTE-‐EUROPE: 1) has maintained and updated the Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) Strategic Report on a regular basis and 2) has contributed to white papers and other position documents.
• One of the most important achievements of the project is the elaboration of the roadmap for QIPC, which combines a thorough analysis of the field, its current status, visions, and goals. Due to the complexity of the QIPC Strategic Roadmap, the task of updating the document has been extremely complicated. The release of Version 9 has been scheduled for the year 2016 – the document is almost complete, for now we have provided a semi-‐definitive draft of the Roadmap.
• A position document Technological Readiness Level (TRL) of the various Quantum Technologies was
prepared as a result of the meeting “Scientific Support to Policy Making: New Applications of Quantum Technologies for Computing, Communication, Metrology and Sensing” (Walter Hallstein room, Berlaymont building, Bruxelles, 7 March 2013) organized by the Joint Research Centre.
• As a result of the Paris meeting involving the Commissioner of Digital Agenda N. Kroes, and Prof. A.
Aspect, Prof G. Fert (2007 Nobel Laureate) and Prof S. Haroche (2012 Nobel Laureate), a text on Quantum Technologies signed by the Commissioner Kroes and WP2 leader T. Calarco was elaborated. The article was titled What quantum technology can do for us.
• The unique position document Quantum technologies H2020 has been in response to an online consultation procedure launched by the Future and Emerging Technology (FET) unit, in order to identify game-‐changing directions for future research in any technological domain.
• Quantum Manifesto, which acts as a white paper for sustainability, has been preparing. A European
team together with the WP2 leader, Tommaso Calarco, formulate common strategy for Europe to stay at the front of the second Quantum Revolution. The Manifesto will be officially released on 17-‐18 May 2016 at the Quantum Europe Conference that The Netherlands is organizing in Amsterdam in cooperation with the European Commission, the QUTE-‐EUROPE Strategic Advisory Board, and the QuTech center in Delft.
This project has witnessed a lot of activity on the Virtual Institutes side:
• The structure of the VI of Quantum Simulation was finished. The institute comprises worldwide efforts using experimental platforms like ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases, ion traps, polariton condensates, circuit based cavity quantum electrodynamics and arrays of quantum dots or Josephson junctions and it aims to explore the potential of quantum simulations for different fields of science. It is now fully operative and prepares annual reports on scientific highlights.
• The different Virtual Institutes within QUTE-‐EUROPE prepared a selection of the scientific highlights of the year 2013, 2014 and 2015.
• The new virtual structures on Quantum Control and Quantum Engineering have strong interfaces with all existing VI’s, being therefore quite different in nature form the latter, it was decided to:
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Keep the five existing VIs as "pillars" of the European Quantum Technologies research community, corresponding to different application goals;
Complement them with two new "horizontal" coordination structures, called Virtual Facilities (VFs) on Quantum Control and Quantum Engineering (see scheme on opposite page);
Assign a coordinating figure (Director and/or Executive Secretary) to each VF.
The structure that has finally emerged and approved is the summarized in the following table.
Coordinator A. Acin
Virtual Institute
Computation Simulation Communication Sensing Theory
Director D. Esteve I. Bloch N. Gisin I. Walmsley I. Cirac
Executive Secretary
A. Wallraff S. Kuhr R. Thew K.Banaszek M. Wolf
Members
R. Blatt J. Bloch P. Grangier M. Plenio H. Buhrman
D. DiVincenzo J. Eisert R. Renner E. Polzik M. Troyer
D. Loss M. Inguscio G. Ribordy J. Wrachtrup
S. Wehner
P. Zoller M. Lewenstein A. Shields R. Werner
L. Vandersypen R. Ursin A. Winter
Virtual Facility
Engineering Control
C. Marcus S. Glaser
J. Morton F. Wilhelm
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Work Package 3: Dissemination The main dissemination tool of CA is its website qurope.eu that distributes information on most important activities, open calls, scientific meetings and schools, open positions, etc. Considerable effort went into the development of this high-‐quality web site. It has been maintained, updated and has also been extensively used by the community. Important achievements are also the databases on QIPC related topics including news, job announcements, conferences, etc. We also collected new FET projects and offered them hosting on the QUROPE website. The main objectives of this WP include:
• organization of one major conference QIPC The main task was the organization of International Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication. QIPC 2015 took place at the University of Leeds from Sunday 13 September to Friday 18 September 2015. Like previous QIPC conferences, we brought together researchers from all aspects of Quantum Information Science. Contributions were welcome on any aspect of Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Communication, Quantum Metrology, and Quantum Algorithms.
http://www.qipc2015.leeds.ac.uk/home/photos.html
During the conference, the 2015 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award was given to Oriol Romero-‐Isart from the University of Innsbruck. The award ceremony was hosted by Prof Philippe Grangier and was followed by a plenary talk by Oriol.
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• organization of two summer schools for young researchers Summer school QESS 2014, in Smolenice castle, Slovakia, 18-‐28 August 2014 Chalmers Summer School QESS 2015 at Hindasgarden, Hindas, Sweden, 21-‐27 June 2015
Summarizing, the both schools have been completed very successfully. The venues and programs worked out very well, just as planned. The lectures were highly appreciated and there were lots of discussion – we made a special effort to promote interactive lectures and discussion. The poster sessions were very intense. The venues were perfect for relaxation and informal discussions in the evenings with friends and lecturers, as well as for walking and running on the tracks in the woods.
• various dissemination activities We aimed to implement various dissemination measures in order to maximize the impact of the CA and to promote the QIPC concept at all possible levels (the academic and industrial RTD community; end-‐user groups not directly involved in quantum-‐based R&D; general public and sciences writers). Among the main activities we can count:
Event in Schloss Hohenkammer, 16-‐17 June, 2014 Discussions in New Scientist, 20 October 2014 Round Table in Paris, 2 September 2014 Quantum randomness public lecture in Barcelona, 7 May 2015
One of a new dissemination activity of the CA was the Quantiki project, https://quantiki.org.
The intention of Quantiki is to provide a portal and encyclopedia for quantum information that can be edited by the community. QUTE-‐EUROPE and QUANTIKI were seeking for a motivated person to help us to:
improve the user-‐friendliness of Quantiki implement new features add content and promote the site on the web join relevant databases of Qute-‐Europe and Quantiki
It was necessary to port the old site to a newly configured one. This was not easy, because the old site was a merger of two different technologies, MediaWiki and Drupal, and there was a lot of non-‐standard plugins and hacks which were over five years old. The new site has a refreshed layout, runs much faster, and many tweaks have been implemented, such as a much sleeker layout, https support, refreshed forums, improved list of groups, backup of the server, etc.
• organizing advanced online courses on Quantum Information Technologies
Partner IT-‐LIS organized the doctoral course Quantum Information Technologies at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, in the context of the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information (DP-‐PMI), in the Fall semester of 2014/2015 (goo.gl/uefQCk) and then 2015/16 (https://goo.gl/QLqzhW). All of the above two-‐hour lectures were video recorded, with the goal to publish them online, namely on the QUTE-‐EUROPE web site, thus contributing to reinforce the Dissemination goals of QUTE-‐EUROPE. This will give the project an e-‐learning component, corresponding to a new and wider dimension of advanced high-‐quality training available at global level.
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• promoting QIPC: Visit of President François Hollande at Institut d’Optique
As a general dissemination work towards the promotion of QIPC research, the Institut d’Optique Graduate School welcomed President François Hollande for a short visit on Thursday 17 September 2015, as a part of the visit of the newly founded Université Paris-‐Saclay. The IOGS team, with partial support by QUTE-‐Europe, was involved in organizing the visit.
• Quantum Envoy The Quantum Envoy activity was not fully along the lines of what was described in the DOW. For the Open Call for Quantum Envoy we received no application. Therefore, we decided to support the organization of two successful envoy activities by project partners: Round Table in Paris (2 September 2014) and Quantum randomness public lecture in Barcelona (7 May 2015).
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Work Package 4: Exploitation The aim of this work package is to foster links within the community of international research groups, and with QIPC stakeholders from outside the research community, as well as to coordinate the interaction between all interested parties. In terms of Industry initiatives, there have been several activities undertaken to further improve relations with industrial partners.
The highlight of the year 2013 was the Industry session at the QIPC 2013 conference in Florence, Italy and of the year 2015 it was the Industry session at the QIPC 2015 conference in Leeds, UK. Both were again a huge success. The speakers at these events marked an important landmark towards a quantum industry.
QUTE-‐EUROPE has seen an enormous amount of activity with respect to the involvement of industry in the quantum information processing and communication domain.
We have continued to update and expand the industry database on the Qurope.eu web site (http://qurope.eu/db/industries)
We have coordinated and are actively involved in various Technology platforms, such as Photonics21, NIS, and ENISA as a way of forming closer ties to industry as well as gaining a better understanding of industry demands.
The timing of QUTE is such that it overlaps with two QIPC conferences and so we have already
started to organise the Industry event for this year. We are expecting speakers covering computing, communication, metrology and funding and have already confirmed attendance from D-‐Wave.
2015 saw two seminal industry-‐oriented events in Brussels.
1) Towards a European quantum technology industry, 6 May 2015 2) Quantum Technologies: Opportunities for European industry, 13 October 2015
Industry White Paper
The first industry white paper for quantum technologies was formulated after the first industry meeting in Brussels in May 2015 by the authors: Richard Murray (Innovate UK -‐ UK), Peter Mueller (IBM Zurich Research -‐ CH), Jean Lautier-‐Gaud (Muquans -‐ FR), Kelly Richdale (IDQuantique -‐ CH), Steve Maddox (e2v -‐ UK), Freeke Heijman (Dutch ministry of economic affairs -‐ NL), Tommaso Calarco (University of Ulm -‐ DE).
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The potential impact
It is essential to stress that Europe has been playing the key role in the development of quantum information technologies worldwide. One can identify two most important reasons of this success: Firstly, it has been a continuous support to develop quantum (information) technologies both on national levels but most importantly on the European level. It has allowed us to build a coherent research community with a common vision and strategy. Secondly, it has been a coordination of European research activities in the field. The there has been a sequence of three coordination-‐like projects (QUIPROCONE, QUROPE, QUIE2T) via which the research community has been built and structured. The present coordination project was based on the best practices and experiences we had learned over the last years with a potential to further enhance synergy collaborative effects in the European research area but most importantly to maintain the leading role of Europe in the field.
In this context, the transformational impact of the project QUTE-‐EUROPE was at least twofold:
• We have maintained and continuously updated the common strategic Vision in the field of QIPC within the European research area. Our ambition was to secure the European leading position worldwide. This strategic Vision has had a potential to transform in a coordinated way the future QIPC scientific activities.
• Our supporting activities directed towards dissemination of new research results outside the community have had a transformational impact both on the further industrial development (via new technologies) but also on the society as such. In particular, our aim is to attract new young researchers who will be trained as a new generation of quantum “engineers”. One of our goals is to share our excitement about quantum physics (e.g. via quantum-‐envoy activities) with young people and to attract bright brains to join us in our research effort. We intend to contribute towards better quality of human resources, and simultaneously to stimulate creation of better living conditions for people via propagation (and implementation) of future quantum (information) technologies.
Dissemination activities always constitute a major work body within the CA. The aim was to continue the maintenance of the existing comprehensive web site that already serves as a central source of information for the community itself and to represent the field and the community to the outside, in particular other research communities, industries and the general public. Similarly, the comprehensive databases established by the predecessor programs had to be maintained and updated. This included general information data covering the field, as well as statistical data about the activities of the research community. Information about these databases was publicized not only on the web site itself, but through regular email updates to the community members as well as presentations and introductions at major conferences. Activities that contribute to the spreading of excellence and the dissemination of knowledge also include the organization and support of two major international conferences and the award of two prizes for young researchers. The conferences served as a major stage site to spread information not only about scientific issues, but also politics-‐ and socio-‐economic related topics connected with QIPC research. Industrial sessions organized at these conferences built up and increased the interaction with industrial representatives and companies.
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All the CA results have been disseminated towards specific target bodies. In particular:
• Dissemination towards the QIPC Scientific Community helps maximising the impact of the activities and constituted the basis for an efficient cross-‐fertilisation of the research activities with the broad international scientific community. The main instruments to support the dissemination towards the QIPC community have been the public web portal, the organization of the biannual QIPC conferences, and the regular update of the QIPC Strategic Report.
• Dissemination towards the industry is a critical task that facilitates the technology transfer towards European and international companies in view of fully exploiting the potential of quantum information technologies. The main instruments used was in this case the organization of ‘industry/funding sessions’ at the major conferences organized by the CA, and the information exchange channel maintained through the dedicated WP4 task.
• Finally, it is extremely important to keep the general public aware of the European excellence in the QIPC field. This was achieved through several channels: communications through general public scientific press, the publication and diffusion of information material, and the Quantum Envoy activities.
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4.2 Use and dissemination of foreground Section A (public) As a Coordination Action, this project has not produced any scientific (peer reviewed) publication. The following table gives a list of all dissemination activities carried out by the project.
List of dissemination activities
NO. Type of activities3 Main leader Title Date/Period Place Type of audience4 Size of audience
Web WP3 QUROPE web portal: http://qurope.eu/
FEB 2013 – JAN 2016 General Public
Web WP3 QUROPE databases: http://qurope.eu/db
FEB 2013 – JAN 2016 General Public
Web WP3 QUROPE mailing list FEB 2013 – JAN 2016 Scientific Community,
Civil Society
Conference WP3 QIPC 2015 13-‐18 SEP 2015 Leeds, UK Scientific Community
Other WP3 QIPC Young Investigator Award session 17 SEP 2015 Leeds, UK Scientific Community,
General Public
Other WP3 Industry session at QIPC 2015 SEP 2015 Leeds, UK Industry
3 A drop down list allows choosing the dissemination activity: publications, conferences, workshops, web, press releases, flyers, articles published in the popular press, videos, media briefings, presentations, exhibitions, thesis, interviews, films, TV clips, posters, Other.
4 A drop down list allows choosing the type of public: Scientific Community (higher education, Research), Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers, Medias, Other ('multiple choices' is possible).
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School WP3 Summer school QESS 2014 18-‐28 AUG 2014 Smolenice,
SK Scientific Community
School WP3 Summer school QESS 2015 21-‐27 Jun 2015 Hindas, Sweden Scientific Community
Other WP3 Scientific discussion Round table 2 SEP 2014 Paris, France General Public
Symposium WP3 Event in Schloss Hohenkammer 16-‐17 JUN 2014 Munich,
Germany Scientific Community,
General Public
Press Releases WP3 Discussions in New Scientist 20 OCT 2014 General Public
Lectures WP3 Quantum randomness public lecture 7 MAY 2015 Barcelona,
Spain Scientific community,
General public
Lectures WP3 Advanced online courses on
Quantum Information Technologies
Fall semester 2014/2015; Fall semester 2015/2016
Lisbon, Portugal Scientific Community
Promotion WP3 Visit of President François Hollande at Institut d’Optique 17 SEP 2015 Paris, France Scientific Community
Web WP3 Quantiki JAN 2015 – JAN 2016 Scientific community,
General public
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Section B (public) As a Coordination Action, the project has not produced any applications for patents, trademarks, registered designs, etc.
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4.3 Report on societal implications
A General Information Grant Agreement Number:
600788
Title of Project: QUTE-EUROPE Quantum Technologies for EuropeTechnologies
Name and Title of Coordinator: Associated professor Mario Ziman
B Ethics
1. Did your project undergo an Ethics Review (and/or Screening)? • If Yes: have you described the progress of compliance with the relevant Ethics
Review/Screening Requirements in the frame of the periodic/final project reports? Special Reminder: the progress of compliance with the Ethics Review/Screening Requirements should be described in the Period/Final Project Reports under the Section 3.2.2 'Work Progress and Achievements'
No
2. Please indicate whether your project involved any of the following issues (tick box) :
No
RESEARCH ON HUMANS • Did the project involve children? • Did the project involve patients? • Did the project involve persons not able to give consent? • Did the project involve adult healthy volunteers? • Did the project involve Human genetic material? • Did the project involve Human biological samples? • Did the project involve Human data collection?
RESEARCH ON HUMAN EMBRYO/FOETUS • Did the project involve Human Embryos? • Did the project involve Human Foetal Tissue / Cells? • Did the project involve Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)? • Did the project on human Embryonic Stem Cells involve cells in culture? • Did the project on human Embryonic Stem Cells involve the derivation of cells from Embryos?
PRIVACY • Did the project involve processing of genetic information or personal data (eg. health, sexual
lifestyle, ethnicity, political opinion, religious or philosophical conviction)?
• Did the project involve tracking the location or observation of people? RESEARCH ON ANIMALS
• Did the project involve research on animals? • Were those animals transgenic small laboratory animals? • Were those animals transgenic farm animals? • Were those animals cloned farm animals? • Were those animals non-human primates?
RESEARCH INVOLVING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES • Did the project involve the use of local resources (genetic, animal, plant etc)? • Was the project of benefit to local community (capacity building, access to healthcare, education
etc)?
DUAL USE • Research having direct military use No • Research having the potential for terrorist abuse No
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C Workforce Statistics
3. Workforce statistics for the project: Please indicate in the table below the number of people who worked on the project (on a headcount basis).
Type of Position Number of Women Number of Men
Scientific Coordinator 0 2 Work package leaders 0 4 Experienced researchers (i.e. PhD holders) 2 6 PhD Students Other 1 1
4. How many additional researchers (in companies and universities) were recruited specifically for this project?
0
Of which, indicate the number of men:
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D Gender Aspects 5. Did you carry out specific Gender Equality Actions under the project?
x
Yes No
6. Which of the following actions did you carry out and how effective were they? Not at all
effective Very
effective
Design and implement an equal opportunity policy Set targets to achieve a gender balance in the workforce Organise conferences and workshops on gender Actions to improve work-life balance Other:
7. Was there a gender dimension associated with the research content – i.e. wherever people were the focus of the research as, for example, consumers, users, patients or in trials, was the issue of gender considered and addressed?
Yes- please specify
x
No
E Synergies with Science Education
8. Did your project involve working with students and/or school pupils (e.g. open days, participation in science festivals and events, prizes/competitions or joint projects)?
Yes- please specify
x
No
9. Did the project generate any science education material (e.g. kits, websites, explanatory booklets, DVDs)?
x Yes- please specify
No
F Interdisciplinarity
10. Which disciplines (see list below) are involved in your project? Main discipline5: 1.2 Associated discipline5: 1.1 Associated discipline5: 2.2
G Engaging with Civil society and policy makers 11a Did your project engage with societal actors beyond the research
community? (if 'No', go to Question 14)
x
Yes No
5 Insert number from list below (Frascati Manual).
Web site, videos
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11b If yes, did you engage with citizens (citizens' panels / juries) or organised civil society (NGOs, patients' groups etc.)? No Yes- in determining what research should be performed Yes - in implementing the research x Yes, in communicating /disseminating / using the results of the project
11c In doing so, did your project involve actors whose role is mainly to organise the dialogue with citizens and organised civil society (e.g. professional mediator; communication company, science museums)?
x
Yes No
12. Did you engage with government / public bodies or policy makers (including international
organisations) No x Yes- in framing the research agenda Yes - in implementing the research agenda x Yes, in communicating /disseminating / using the results of the project
13a Will the project generate outputs (expertise or scientific advice) which could be used by policy makers?
x Yes – as a primary objective (please indicate areas below- multiple answers possible) Yes – as a secondary objective (please indicate areas below - multiple answer possible) No
13b If Yes, in which fields? Agriculture Audiovisual and Media Budget Competition Consumers Culture Customs Development Economic and Monetary Affairs Education, Training, Youth Employment and Social Affairs
Energy Enlargement Enterprise Environment External Relations External Trade Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Food Safety Foreign and Security Policy Fraud Humanitarian aid
Human rights Information Society Institutional affairs Internal Market Justice, freedom and security Public Health Regional Policy Research and Innovation Space Taxation Transport
x
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13c If Yes, at which level? Local / regional levels National level x European level International level
H Use and dissemination
14. How many Articles were published/accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals?
0
To how many of these is open access6 provided?
How many of these are published in open access journals?
How many of these are published in open repositories?
To how many of these is open access not provided?
Please check all applicable reasons for not providing open access: publisher's licensing agreement would not permit publishing in a repository no suitable repository available no suitable open access journal available no funds available to publish in an open access journal lack of time and resources lack of information on open access other7: ……………
15. How many new patent applications (‘priority filings’) have been made? ("Technologically unique": multiple applications for the same invention in different jurisdictions should be counted as just one application of grant).
0
16. Indicate how many of the following Intellectual Property Rights were applied for (give number in each box).
Trademark
Registered design
Other
17. How many spin-off companies were created / are planned as a direct result of the project?
0
Indicate the approximate number of additional jobs in these companies:
18. Please indicate whether your project has a potential impact on employment, in comparison with the situation before your project:
Increase in employment, or In small & medium-sized enterprises Safeguard employment, or In large companies Decrease in employment, x None of the above / not relevant to the project Difficult to estimate / not possible to quantify
6 Open Access is defined as free of charge access for anyone via Internet. 7 For instance: classification for security project.
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19. For your project partnership please estimate the employment effect
resulting directly from your participation in Full Time Equivalent (FTE = one person working fulltime for a year) jobs:
Difficult to estimate / not possible to quantify
Indicate figure: X
I Media and Communication to the general public
20. As part of the project, were any of the beneficiaries professionals in communication or media relations?
Yes x
No
21. As part of the project, have any beneficiaries received professional media / communication training / advice to improve communication with the general public?
Yes x
No
22 Which of the following have been used to communicate information about your project to the general public, or have resulted from your project?
Press Release Coverage in specialist press Media briefing Coverage in general (non-specialist) press TV coverage / report Coverage in national press Radio coverage / report Coverage in international press x
Brochures /posters / flyers x Website for the general public / internet
x DVD /Film /Multimedia x Event targeting general public (festival, conference, exhibition, science café)
23 In which languages are the information products for the general public produced?
Language of the coordinator x English Other language(s)
Question F-10: Classification of Scientific Disciplines according to the Frascati Manual 2002 (Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development, OECD 2002): FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1. NATURAL SCIENCES 1.1 Mathematics and computer sciences [mathematics and other allied fields: computer sciences and other
allied subjects (software development only; hardware development should be classified in the engineering fields)]
1.2 Physical sciences (astronomy and space sciences, physics and other allied subjects) 1.3 Chemical sciences (chemistry, other allied subjects) 1.4 Earth and related environmental sciences (geology, geophysics, mineralogy, physical geography and
other geosciences, meteorology and other atmospheric sciences including climatic research, oceanography, vulcanology, palaeoecology, other allied sciences)
1.5 Biological sciences (biology, botany, bacteriology, microbiology, zoology, entomology, genetics, biochemistry, biophysics, other allied sciences, excluding clinical and veterinary sciences)
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2 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 2.1 Civil engineering (architecture engineering, building science and engineering, construction engineering,
municipal and structural engineering and other allied subjects) 2.2 Electrical engineering, electronics [electrical engineering, electronics, communication engineering and
systems, computer engineering (hardware only) and other allied subjects] 2.3. Other engineering sciences (such as chemical, aeronautical and space, mechanical, metallurgical and
materials engineering, and their specialised subdivisions; forest products; applied sciences such as geodesy, industrial chemistry, etc.; the science and technology of food production; specialised technologies of interdisciplinary fields, e.g. systems analysis, metallurgy, mining, textile technology and other applied subjects)
3. MEDICAL SCIENCES 3.1 Basic medicine (anatomy, cytology, physiology, genetics, pharmacy, pharmacology, toxicology,
immunology and immunohaematology, clinical chemistry, clinical microbiology, pathology) 3.2 Clinical medicine (anaesthesiology, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, internal medicine, surgery,
dentistry, neurology, psychiatry, radiology, therapeutics, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology) 3.3 Health sciences (public health services, social medicine, hygiene, nursing, epidemiology) 4. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 4.1 Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences (agronomy, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry,
horticulture, other allied subjects) 4.2 Veterinary medicine 5. SOCIAL SCIENCES 5.1 Psychology 5.2 Economics 5.3 Educational sciences (education and training and other allied subjects) 5.4 Other social sciences [anthropology (social and cultural) and ethnology, demography, geography
(human, economic and social), town and country planning, management, law, linguistics, political sciences, sociology, organisation and methods, miscellaneous social sciences and interdisciplinary , methodological and historical S1T activities relating to subjects in this group. Physical anthropology, physical geography and psychophysiology should normally be classified with the natural sciences].
6. HUMANITIES 6.1 History (history, prehistory and history, together with auxiliary historical disciplines such as
archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, genealogy, etc.) 6.2 Languages and literature (ancient and modern) 6.3 Other humanities [philosophy (including the history of science and technology) arts, history of art, art
criticism, painting, sculpture, musicology, dramatic art excluding artistic "research" of any kind, religion, theology, other fields and subjects pertaining to the humanities, methodological, historical and other S1T activities relating to the subjects in this group]
