As an international graduate school, the Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP) offers an interdisciplinary master's and doctoral programme in the field of photonics. Students and doctoral candidates are fully funded and supervised by outstanding fellows who conduct research at 16 university and non-university partner institutions.
Quantum Technologies Flagship is a European Union research and innovation initiative that aims to put Europe at the forefront of the second quantum revolution. The aim is to support the transformation of European research into commercial applications that exploit the disruptive potential of quantum technologies.
EIN Quantum NRW is a broad network that brings together North Rhine-Westphalian universities, non-university research institutions and companies that are intensively involved in quantum technologies. Supported by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, this emerging ecosystem pools scientific and economic interests.
“Matter and Light for Quantum Computing” (ML4Q) is a Cluster of Excellence established in 2019 within the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. In ML4Q, scientists from the universities of Cologne, Aachen and Bonn as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich come together to spearhead quantum computing research.