September 3rd, 2025

EU Gives Unprecedented Access to Quantum Computers – Accelerating Next-Generation Technology

With the successful conclusion of the project QCDC (Quantum Computers for Datacentres), Europe can now boast its own cloud-based computing service for trapped-ion quantum computers.

EU Gives Unprecedented Access to Quantum Computers – Accelerating Next-Generation Technology

The QCDC project was financed by the European Innovation Council, reflecting the EU’s commitment to supporting breakthrough technologies that have the potential to transform industries. Quantum Flagship is a 10-year initiative funded by the European Commission. It was launched in October 2018 to accelerate the development of quantum technologies and their commercialisation.

  • The EU-funded QCDC project established Europe’s first cloud-based trapped-ion quantum computing service, strengthening technological sovereignty and enabling independent research access.

  • Researchers have advanced next-generation technologies for biochemical research and materials science thanks to an EU-funded initiative that has granted unprecedented access to cutting-edge cloud-based quantum computers.

  • The collaboration took place between AQT and a team from QC Ware (USA), Covestro (Germany), and Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany), who all worked together to simulate the interaction energies of intermediate states in a chemical reaction.

  • Complex tasks can be challenging for traditional computing, or even supercomputers, will eventually be made possible with quantum machines developed and operated by AQT.

© Dieter Kühl

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