EuRyQa Closing 2025: A Year of Strategic Progress on Europe’s Quantum Frontier

As 2025 draws to a close, the EuRyQa consortium celebrates a year rich in collaboration, scientific progress, and strategic engagement with Europe’s evolving quantum landscape. Throughout the year, EuRyQa partners have advanced key research directions in Rydberg quantum computing, strengthened community collaboration, and contributed to shaping broader policy and innovation frameworks.

In March and April, EuRyQa leveraged the United Nations’ designation of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, participating in Quantum Week 2025 in Strasbourg and marking World Quantum Day as moments to engage scientists, industry leaders, students, and the public in the promise of quantum technologies. These events underscored the project’s dual mission of scientific excellence and community building.

Summer brought recognition beyond the consortium: EuRyQa’s work was featured in the ETP4HPC Handbook, highlighting the project’s role within the broader European high-performance computing ecosystem.

In September, researchers within the consortium published insights on the Rydberg Atom Roadmap, elaborating on the path from systems with 200+ qubits toward the next scale of quantum processors and emphasizing the technical and scientific foundations that will carry the field forward.

October’s 6th Progress Meeting in Stuttgart crystallised scientific exchange among partners, with presentations spanning scalable instruction sets, benchmarking across platforms, and early strategies toward fault-tolerance. A poster session highlighted contributions from early-career researchers, reinforcing the consortium’s emphasis on knowledge-exchange and mentorship.

In November, EuRyQa invited participation in the European Commission’s consultation on the forthcoming EU Quantum Act, underscoring the project’s broader engagement with shaping the policy scaffolding that will guide quantum research and infrastructure in the years ahead.

Across this year, the consortium has balanced deep technical work with activities that connect research with outreach, policy discourse, and community engagement. As EuRyQa completes a pivotal phase of its mission, the project stands as a testament to collaborative European science and the vibrant future of scalable, Rydberg-based quantum computing.