About
The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) is a European Quantum Flagship project coordinating the development of a quantum internet across Europe. Led by QuTech (TU Delft and TNO) and involving more than 40 research institutions and companies across Europe, QIA works to build the scientific and engineering foundations for a large-scale quantum network that can distribute entanglement between any two points in Europe. QIA's technical roadmap moves through six stages of quantum network capability: trusted repeater networks, prepare-and-measure networks, entanglement distribution networks, quantum memory networks, fault-tolerant quantum networks, and finally a fully quantum internet. Experiments at QIA partner sites have already demonstrated entanglement distribution over metropolitan distances using quantum repeaters and quantum memory nodes. Key partner institutions include QuTech (Netherlands), Inria (France), the University of Geneva, LMU Munich, the University of Stuttgart, and over 30 other European organisations. QIA coordinates closely with national quantum internet initiatives in the Netherlands (Quantum Delta NL), France (Plan Quantique), and Germany. The alliance helped build the first multi-node quantum network demonstrating entanglement-based protocols between three nodes. QIA received roughly 24 million euros in EU Quantum Flagship funding and coordinates Europe's quantum networking standardisation activities.
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