For our Pledgers and the Talents following the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative we would like to draw your attention to this funding opportunity.
As part of the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), the European Commission (EC) has launched its eighth Call for Proposals on Advanced Digital Skills with a total budget of 10 million EUR to help build a quantum skills digital academy.
Proposals are expected to focus on activities within the following three pillars:
- Knowledge, education, and training
- Building the ecosystem
- Measuring the progress
Quantum technologies have the potential to accelerate the creation of imminent solutions to global societal challenges and drive economic growth. To position the EU as a global leader in the development of quantum technologies and to stimulate their industrial applications, interdisciplinary training is needed, especially for domain professionals who do not necessarily have an education in quantum physics and engineering.
The Quantum Digital Skills Academy will serve as a single, central entity providing specialised, tailored training opportunities at different levels that bridge the gap between traditional disciplines and quantum technologies, and will play an important role in contributing to the objectives of the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies in the domain of quantum skills development and training.
It will organise tutorials and hands-on activities for non-quantum experts to gain practical experience on a quantum computer and develop activities like summer schools that enable students from neighbouring areas to acquire specialised knowledge in quantum technologies. Furthermore, it will provide support for education and training activities of research and development projects in quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum communication, and quantum sensing and metrology and accelerate its knowledge transfer to industry.
The Quantum Skills Digital Academy Call is open to consortiums comprised of partners who can demonstrate complementary roles in the proposal and demonstrate an outstanding track record in their respective fields. Consortiums are also highly recommended to include at least three degree awarding higher education institutions from three different eligible countries and two industry partners from eligible countries, along with being encouraged to include at least one higher education institution or research and technology organisation (RTO) from Member States widening countries.
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