Quantum Technology training for policymakers - 2nd training series
The Quantum Flagship is offering a series of training sessions on Quantum Technology (QT), addressing policymakers at EU and national levels. The training has been designed in collaboration with EC policymakers accounting for their interests and needs.
The second training series consist of monthly online sessions from September 2024 to June 2025, each 60 minutes long with 30 minutes of presentations from experts and a 30-minute Q&A session. The sessions will be recorded and be made available on this page.
The training sessions will cover:
Click on the links below to be directed to the sessions and find more information.
- Societal Challenges of QT in Europe (September 2024)
- Unlocking Quantum Innovation: Opportunities for Companies and Research in Europe (October 2024)
- QT Use Cases: Gravimetry, Navigation, Mine clearance (November 2024)
- Efforts and investments in QT beyond EU (January 2025)
- EU and Bilateral Public Funding strategies for QT (February 2025)
- Commercialised and socio economic impact of QT (March 2025)
- Semiconductors production and Chip-act for QT (April 2025)
- Quantum Sensing roadmap and EU infrastructures (May 2025)
- What is the vision for integrating QT and AI? (June 2025)
Contacts persons:
Oxana Mishina (CNR-INO) oxana.mishina@ino.cnr.it
Costanza Toninelli (CNR-INO) costanza.toninelli@ino.cnr.it
About the moderator:
Dr. Oxana Mishina obtained her PhD in physics from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. She conducted quantum experiment simulations at both the Niels Bohr Institute and the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory. Her contributions also extend to developing a theory for cooling and squeezing atoms at Saarland University. In her role as a physics education researcher at TU Braunschweig, she engaged in collaborative work with the University of Trieste, focusing on in-service teacher training in the field of quantum physics.
Oxana works as the Italian National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council CNR-INO within the Coordination and Support Action of the European Quantum Flagship. She contributes to the areas of education and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the European Quantum Technology community by creating and coordinating the QTEdu.eu community (>400 members), organising the Quantum Technology training for policymakers, coordinating the Equity&Inclusion working group at QTEdu.eu (>100 members) and being a member of the EDI WG since 2018. Oxana is also an experienced science communicator, having been a Quantum Ambassador in schools since 2015 and having organised and participated in numerous outreach events in France, Germany and Italy, such as the Italian Quantum Weeks, which developed 20 Italian cities.
1st session: Societal Challenges of QT in Europe
with Dr. Marcela Linkova, Head of Centre for Gender and Science at Czech Academy of Sciences
and Prof. Pieter Vermaas, Professor in Philosophy of Design and Quantum Technologies and Ethics Research Lead at Quantum Delta NL
moderated by Dr. Oxana Mishina, Quantum Physicist at National Institute of Optics CNR-INO
26 September 2024
11:00 CET - 12 :00 CET
Agenda
- Welcome to the second training series by Oxana Mishina
- Strategies towards gender balance and latest news from GENDERACTIONplus CSA by Dr. Marcela Linkova
- Addressing the Societal Challenges of QT Innovation - Vision Paper 2024 by Prof. Pieter Vermaas
- Q&A session
About the speakers:
Dr. Marcela Linkova is the Head of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Charles University, Prague. Her research focuses on the sociology of gendered organisations and institutional change, gender-based violence in academia, the governance of research, and public policies for gender equality in R&I. Marcela is the Member State Co-Chair of the ERA Forum Subgroup on Inclusive Gender Equality; she coordinates the Horizon Europe project GENDERACTIONplus and has participated in multiple Horizon 2020 gender equality projects.
Prof. Pieter Vermaas is an Associate Professor in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Department at Delft University of Technology. At Delft University, Pieter Vermaas contributed to the creation of the Dual Nature of Technical Artifacts research program (2000–2005), which analysed technical artefacts as having both structural and intentional natures, with functions playing a crucial role in relating these natures. From 2006 to 2010, he conducted research under an NWO VIDI fellowship on the use of functions and functional decompositions in engineering design methods. In 2017, he helped establish the Delft Design for Values Institute, which aims to incorporate moral, societal, and legal values into technology through design. His current research focuses on design and quantum technologies, specifically exploring how societal aims can be realised through design in accordance with codes of ethics.
2nd session: Unlocking Quantum Innovation: Opportunities for Companies and Research in Europe
with Weronika Słomińska, Business Developer at TNO (Netherlands)
and Johanna Anteroinen, Senior Project Manager at VTT (Finland)
moderated by Dr. Oxana Mishina, Quantum Physicist at National Institute of Optics CNR-INO (Italy)
24 October 2024
11:00 CET - 12 :00 CET
Agenda
- Introduction to the training by Oxana Mishina (CNR, IT)
- Key findings of the industry needs analysis, conducted by the European Quantum Industry Consortium and presented by Johanna Anteroinen (VTT, FL)
- Presentation of the Qu-Test and QU-Pilot initiatives, highlighting business opportunities by Weronika Słomińska (TNO, NL)
- Q&A session
About the speakers:
Johanna Anteroinen is a Senior Project Manager in the Microelectronics and Quantum Technologies research area at VTT in Finland. At VTT, she manages the co-development project of Finland’s first three quantum computers and participates in the Quantum Flagship CSA, QUCATS. Prior to joining VTT, she worked in various industries, most recently in ALD and innovation consulting. She holds a licentiate degree in micro- and nanoelectronic circuit design from Aalto University.
Weronika Słomińska is a Business Developer for Quantum and Semicon at TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), where she explores ways to support the Dutch and European quantum ecosystem, including through European initiatives such as the Qu-Test and Qu-Pilot projects. She also has experience analysing the private investment landscape in the quantum market, helping to connect promising European startups with investors.
3rd session: Use Cases of Quantum Sensors: Gravimetry, Navigation and Mine Clearance
with Prof. Philippe Bouyer, Professor at UvA, TU/e (Netherlands), Founder of Muquans (now Exail, France), Quantum Delta chair of the board (Netherlands)
and Prof. Guglielmo Maria Tino, Professor at University of Florence, group leader at LENS, CNR-INO, INFN, founder of AtomSensors s.r.l. (Italy)
moderated by Dr. Oxana Mishina, Quantum Physicist at National Institute of Optics CNR-INO (Italy)
28 November 2024
11:00 CET - 12 :00 CET
Agenda
- Introduction to the training by Oxana Mishina (CNR, IT)
- Use cases for quantum sensors presented by Prof. Philippe Bouyer (UvA, TU/e, NL)
- Use cases for quantum sensors presented by Prof. Guglielmo Maria Tino (UNIFI, IT)
- Q&A session
About the speakers:
Philippe Bouyer is a CNRS research director on secondment, a professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a specialist in laser-cooled atoms. After completing his PhD at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory in Paris, he moved to Stanford University and then to the Institut d'Optique where, among other things, he carried out the first experiments on matter-wave quantum sensors and quantum simulators. Founder of the Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences laboratory and of the Muquans start-up in Bordeaux, he is now in charge of science and technology for the national Quantum Delta NL initiative.
Guglielmo Maria Tino is a Full Professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Florence, where he leads a research group at the Department of Physics, LENS Laboratory, CNR-INO, INFN. He graduated in Physics from Università di Napoli "Federico II" and received his PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He was a researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Naples before moving to Florence in 2001. He spent extended research periods abroad at JILA and NIST in Boulder-Colorado and at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Tino has secured funding as a national and international PI for projects from EC, ESA, MIUR, INFN, ENI, and others. In 2015, he founded AtomSensors s.r.l., a University of Florence spin-off. He is also the inventor of three patents in sensor technology, contributing to both academic research and industrial applications.