Quantum Technology training for policymakers - 3rd 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 three online sessions, 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:
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More sessions will be announced soon.
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: Standardisation roadmap in the context of the European Quantum Strategy
with Dr. Oskar van Deventer, senior scientist at Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO (Netherlands)
and Dr. Homer Papadopoulos, Research Director of Applied Science in the National Centre for Scientific Research NCSR “Demokritos”, co-founder of Syndesis Ltd (Greece)
moderated by Dr. Oxana Mishina, Quantum Physicist at National Institute of Optics CNR-INO (Italy)
2 October 2025
11:00 CET - 12 :00 CET
Agenda
- Welcome by Dr. Oxana Mishina
- Actions of the European Committee for Standardisation by Dr. Oskar van Deventer
- Contribution from the Quantum Industry Consortium by Dr. Homer Papadopoulus
- Q&A session
About the speakers:
Dr. M. Oskar van Deventer is a senior scientist at TNO and the European leader in the standardisation of quantum technologies. He has chaired the CEN-CENELEC JTC22 Committee on Quantum Technologies since 2020. He has several decades of experience in developing standards across numerous Standards Developing Organisations (ETSI, ITU, MPEG, DVB, HbbTV, etc.). He is the author of one book, more than 250 publications, over 90 patent applications, over 1,000 standardisation contributions and several international standards. He also edited the 100-co-author European Standardisation Roadmap for Quantum Technologies.
Oskar has more than 37 years’ experience in the field of communications and information technologies. He obtained his PhD in bidirectional optical transmission in 1994 at Eindhoven University of Technology. From 1987 to 1998 he worked at KPN Research on optical communication in a wide range of European projects. From 1998 to 2007 he was a senior scientist in voice networking at TNO. In 2007 he moved to media networking, discovering many commonalities with his previous work. In 2014 he shifted to blockchain networking and self-sovereign identity, again finding surprising overlaps with his networking expertise. In 2020 he also became active in the standardisation of quantum technologies.