New projects totalling over £14 million launched to support efforts putting quantum to work - from affordable and portable hospital eye scanners to more resilient transport. International partnerships with Japan and California to keep UK research at the cutting edge of quantum. Announcements come at UK’s National Quantum Technologies Showcase – major event highlighting how this breakthrough technology will help deliver economic growth, better public services and national renewal.

NMI-Q, a new international alliance of National Metrology Institutes from the G7 nations and Australia, has been launched to advance global standards and measurement science for quantum technologies. Announced by UK Science Minister Lord Vallance at the National Physical Laboratory during the International Year of Quantum, the initiative aims to accelerate quantum commercialisation through coordinated research and standardisation. NMI-Q will focus on pre-standardisation research, developing and sharing best measurement practices, and supporting collaboration across industry, academia, and international stakeholders.

Canada’s 2025 federal budget allocates $334.3 million over five years to strengthen the nation’s quantum technology ecosystem under the new Defence Industrial Strategy.The funding, managed by ISED, NRC, and NSERC, aims to anchor quantum companies in Canada and accelerate technology adoption in defence-related industries.The investment is part of a broader $6.6 billion package to rebuild Canada’s defence capacity and drive innovation in emerging sectors such as AI, quantum, and cybersecurity.

Although still in its early stages, quantum computing is advancing rapidly, along with quantum technologies as a whole. Nobel Prize-awarded work on entangled quantum states and quantum mechanical tunnelling were driving forces behind this progress. Applications of quantum technologies are anticipated to improve our daily lives and contribute to solving global challenges.

The latest key experiment of the QuNET initiative was successfully completed today with a flight experiment between Oberpfaffenhofen and Erlangen. The aircraft formed a mobile node in a quantum network and established a connection to a ground station. There, the photons were successfully received and measured. The technologies from the demonstrated key experiment are groundbreaking for future secure quantum communication.

Australia and the G7 countries have recently signed a significant agreement to establish important standards and benchmarks for the rapidly developing field of quantum technologies. Known as an “unprecedented agreement,” this endeavor aims to coordinate efforts in quantum technology benchmarks.

The fragmentation of EU programmes needs to be reduced to help companies scale up. The JRC policy report “Future Directions for Quantum Technology in Europe” provides background data that informed the EU Quantum Strategy unveiled recently.

A consortium of university, industry and public actors equips Geneva with its first quantum communication network.On the occasion of the Swiss Quantum Industry Day, a consortium comprising the University of Geneva (UNIGE), CERN, HEPIA, ID Quantique, Rolex and the Cantonal Office for Information Systems and Digital Technology (OCSIN) announced the launch of a Geneva-based quantum network, the Geneva Quantum Network (GQN). Inaugurated in the presence of State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, this new infrastructure will enable large-scale quantum physics experiments to be conducted, promote collaboration in quantum technologies and highlight their potential through education and awareness-raising. It will strengthen Geneva’s expertise in this field, which is already internationally recognised.

Focusing on AI quantum and quantum intelligence, a forum drew experts from home and abroad to discuss pressing scientific challenges and emerging opportunities in the field of quantum artificial intelligence, as well as to explore future industrial applications in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science City on Sunday.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is announced in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 7, 2025. Three US-based scientists, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.