QUSTEC · international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral doctoral programme in Quantum Science and Technologies
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2019-05-15 → 2025-07-14
- EU contribution
- €4,230,720
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-COFUND
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Results in brief
QUSTEC: international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral doctoral programme in Quantum Science and Technologies
The main objective of the cross-border doctoral programme QUSTEC was to train the cohort of doctoral researchers in an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral setting. QUSTEC aimed at closing the gap in the increasing need for a highly trained workforce in the emerging European QST domain. This was achieved by combining the fundamental research training with exposure to the industrial sector and comprehensive transferrable skills training. The coordinator of the programme was the Eucor – The European Campus, and PhD projects were implemented at the partner organisations: University of Basel University of Freiburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Strasbourg – all four are members of Eucor – and Walther-Meißner-Institut and IBM Research Europe. The QUSTEC programme identified four Grand Challenges situated at the forefront of modern quantum science and technology: (I) Understanding decoherence, (II) Engineering better qubits, (III) Enabling technologies, (IV) Emergent quantum matter. The research training offer was developed to tackle those scientific challenges. The QUSTEC programme was fully committed to promoting the careers of women in the QST field, QUSTEC hosted 10 female PhD candidates out of 37. The QUSTEC programme followed the best practices of the MSCA in terms of providing innovative doctoral training. The PhD candidates were prepared to enter the academic research careers, and also be ready to enter the industrial domain, to pursue the research entrepreneurship endeavour or to join the policymaking domain. In conclusion, QUSTEC successfully contributed to • the training and career development of the participating PhD-fellows since they benefit from the joint courses, networking, and experiences. • the enhancement of research in the QST field and the development of new data, research results and application opportunities in the areas of the Grand Challenges stated above. • the establishment of closer links between the participating institutions, associated partners and further entities that will spark new opportunities for further cooperation.
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Project objective
QUSTEC offers interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international doctoral training in the field of quantum science and technologies (QST) to 39 early-stage researchers. The coordinator is the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) Eucor – The European Campus that consists of five universities that are located in the Upper Rhine research area, at the border between France, Germany and Switzerland. Within QUSTEC programme, the Eucor Members, University of Basel, University of Freiburg, University of Strasbourg and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are joined by IBM-Research in Zurich and Walther-Meissner-Institute in Munich. The QUSTEC training programme is in line with the European Charter for Researchers, the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and the EU Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training. Fellows can choose their research projects among the offer of the partner organisations and will be enrolled in a doctoral programme of one of the partaking universities. They are selected in an open, transparent, merit-based procedure based on international peer review. All early-stage researchers are offered a generous 4-year employment contract with the corresponding social security provisions. An individual training panel in a three-tier training programme will supervise them. With a budget of 9 139 308,48 Euro and an overall duration of 6 years, the QUSTEC programme offers one call and one reserve call for candidates from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field. The scientific focus lies on the six areas of quantum electronics, artificial quantum systems, quantum nanodevices, non-equilibrium quantum systems, quantum resources, and quantum simulation. The MSCA COFUND support serves as a nucleus for early-stage research career training, creates synergies among the partner institutions and contributes to Europe’s leadership role in the emerging field of QST.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- EUCOR - THE EUROPEAN CAMPUS · FREIBURGCoordinatorGermany
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