UK-Netherlands Co-Innovation and Testbeds Pilot for Quantum Tech Competition

Registered businesses in UK and Netherlands can apply to collaborate on joint projects with partners and testbed facilities, to advance the development of quantum technologies and enable their commercial use cases.

This competition is jointly operated by Innovate UK (IUK) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).

The aim of the competition is to strengthen collaborative research and development (CR&D) through Netherlands based and UK partnerships towards commercialising quantum technologies.

The co-innovation projects must focus on development, prototyping and testing of commercial quantum technologies in one or more of the following themes:

1. Software services or hardware solutions to advance commercial deployment of entanglement based quantum networking.
2. Quantum computing algorithms, software applications, and services development.
3. Adoption of quantum sensing for commercial applications in areas such as biosensing, public infrastructure and PNT.

Proposals must plausibly demonstrate co-innovation, high potential for commercialisation, address a technological challenge and global market exploitation plan.