Quantum Transitional Call

Funding for researchers in Switzerland excluded from quantum topics of the Horizon Europe call “Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal”.

Important note: the SNSF has newly added paragraph 3 under chapter 4.1 in the call document: Proposals that are evaluated in the Quantum transitional call may not be submitted in parallel to any other SNSF funding scheme.

Due to Switzerland’s status as a non-associated third country in Horizon Europe, the federal government has mandated the SNSF to launch the Quantum Transitional Call funding scheme. It is aimed at scientists in Switzerland who are excluded from quantum topics of the Horizon Europe call “Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal”.

Researchers affiliated to a higher education research center in Switzerland who wish to conduct research in the following quantum fields can submit an application to the SNSF’s Quantum Transitional Call:

  • Quantum software ecosystem for quantum computing platforms
  • Developing quantum computers
  • Developing quantum simulation platform technologies
  • Quantum communication
  • Quantum sensing technologies based on effects such as entanglement and superposition

In addition, projects on quantum materials are welcome if they are key to one of the technologies mentioned above.

The applicants must carry out their work independently, under their own responsibility and with objectives they have set for themselves.