Europe Is Rewriting Its Quantum Roadmaps and Asking for Comments

Table of Contents

• The Flagship behind the drafts
• Six roadmaps, one comment window
• Skin in the game
• What repeats across all six
• The missing PQC workstream
• Roadmap by roadmap
  • Quantum Chips Industrialisation
  • Quantum Computing and Simulation
  • Quantum Communication
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  • Supply Chain and Enabling Technologies
  • Standardisation
• What the final versions need
• The forms are open

In late July 2026, the European Quantum Flagship opened a public consultation on six draft technology roadmaps, with a questionnaire attached to each and comments open to anyone until August 16, 2026. The set runs to 192 pages and about 69,000 words: Quantum Computing and Simulation, Quantum Communication, Quantum Sensing and Metrology, Quantum Chips Industrialisation, Supply Chain and Enabling Technologies, and Standardisation. Together they are meant to become the technical spine of the updated Strategic Research and Industry Agenda, the reference document that guides how Europe coordinates its public quantum research, industrial policy, and procurement priorities through 2035.

The window is short and the conveyor belt behind it is visible, because the finished SRIA is due by November 2026. KPI tables and stage gates are the most portable parts of any strategy document; they have a way of returning as work-program language, grant conditions, and procurement criteria two years later. Whoever comments in the next two weeks is, in a small way, drafting the yardsticks for a decade of European public investment.

If you build, buy, secure, or regulate quantum technology in Europe, read at least the draft closest to your work and file comments while the text is still wet. I have spent two years arguing that regulators, insurers, and buyers set the quantum deadlines that matter; this consultation is one of the rare moments when you get to mark up the deadline-setters’ homework instead of merely receiving it.

My team at Applied Quantum has read all six drafts, every page, and we are preparing…