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€3 million funding for US-Ireland R&D partnership CoQREATE on quantum internet foundations A combined investment of €3 million in the CoQREATE (Convergent Quantum REsearch Alliance in TElecommunications) US-Ireland R&D Partnership has been announced to investigate technologies that will form the foundations of a quantum internet. The investment represents a joint research and development partnership between the United States of […]

INSQT hosts the first ‘Quantum Space Engineering and the Space Quantum Internet’ Workshop The first INSQT, International Network in Space Quantum Technologies, workshop took place 3 – 5 August 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland. The aim of this workshop was to identify key topics or challenges, stimulate cross-community interaction, and facilitate future research exchanges between INSQT […]

Photo Caption: SFI CONNECT Centre at the Tower Hotel Waterford. Pictured are Dr. Mark White, Vice-President for Research SETU, Dr Deirdre Kilbane, Director of Research, Walton Institute, Prof Dan Kilper, Director of CONNECT Centre, Prof Veronica Campbell, President of SETU, Kevin Doolin. Executive Director, Walton Institute and Dr Pat Kelly, Executive Director, CONNECT Centre. Photograph: Patrick Browne […]

Ireland’s first ever ‘Space Region’ established as academics in Walton Institute at SETU and MTU join forces Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Space network bids to forge links with European Space Agency TWO world-renowned research teams with expertise in areas such as cybersecurity, telecommunications, quantum communications and more have joined forces to establish Ireland’s first […]

Nitish Swami from Walton Institute, SETU member of the SEE Space Network presented his research in the field of quantum communications for the future networks at Equity 2.0 which took place at University College Dublin on 28th – 29th September 2022. Nitish presented his work on a quantum key distribution (QKD) network that uses free […]

(left to right): Tony Owens, Founder of Shibumi, Dr Niall Smith, Head of Research at MTU, Dr Frances Hardiman, Head of Faculty Engineering SETU Carlow campus, Dr Simon Pete Worden, Former NASA Ames Research Centre Director, Michael Martin, Engineering Manager at Realta Space, Dr Mark White, Vice President of Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies at […]

Copernicus Hackathon The Copernicus Earth Observation Hackathon in CIT demonstrated how satellite imagery can help the COVID-19 crisis. A team from the TSSG, led by Dr. Steven Davy, won the COVID-19 challenge with Near Me app to manage safe staycations and encourage social distancing.

This fully virtual event is designed to educate students in secondary schools and the general public about Quantum Science and Technologies. The event is organized by the Quantum Flagship and will take place during European Quantum Week (EQW) 2-6.11.20. EQW@Schools are interactive one-hour lectures that will take place online on 3/11/2020 at 10am, 4/11/2020 at 11am and 5/11/2020 at 12 […]

RIPE Hackathon The Quantum Internet Hackathon connected experts in 6 different European Locations. Publication: H. Murray, J. Horgan, J. F. Santos, D. Malone, H. Siljak. Implementing a Quantum Coin Scheme. IEEE 2020