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Cascading call for the presentation of intervention proposals for the creation of "Partnerships extended to universities, research centers and companies for the financing of basic research projects" within the scope of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mission 4 “Education and research” – Component 2 “From research to business” – Investment 1.3, financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU.
Who is it aimed at?
Public and Private Research Organisations, pursuant to point 1.3 letter. (ff) of the Rules on State aid for research, development and innovation referred to in the Communication of the European Commission C(2022) 7388 of 19 October 2022, which carry out their activities in the field of quantum sciences and technologies and offer skills useful for achieving project objectives.
What does it predict
The cascading call provides for the financing of project proposals oriented towards low TRL dimensions and levels of technological maturity (fundamental research) by public and private research organizations in the following 8 areas of interventions: 1. Topological metamaterials and driven many body systems for quantum information processing; 2. Long-distance entanglement generation, resource theory approaches, and quantum engineering in complex networks; 3. Quantum many-body battery models for energy storage: charging/discharging times, storage times, and work extraction; 4. Quantum thermodynamics of quantum computation, NISQ technologies, and entanglement distribution in quantum networks; 5. AI-based optimization of energy flow and consumption in quantum information processing; 6. Continuous-time measurement control in quantum sensing and metrology; 7. Decoherence in open quantum systems, non-hermitian effects in quantum sensing and in quantum complex networks; 8. Higher spin and bosonic strongly interacting system for unconventional and hybrid quantum error correction codes. Quantum simulations on realistic platforms, also with synthetic degrees of freedom. The cascading call also provides for a reserve of funds equal to 1,785,000 euros intended for public and private research organizations that have an operational headquarters in Southern Italy (regions: Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia) .
