QuantAlpsAn ecosystem for quantum science & technologies :
From the philosopher to the industrial

Call for Equipments 2025

We are issuing a call for equipment during 2025 as part of the LabEx QuantAlps. This call is open to the entire scientific community, structured around five research axes:

• Social & Human Sciences for Quantum
• Quantum Information & Algorithms
• Quantum Engineering & Nanophysics
• Quantum Matter
• Cryogenics & Key Enabling Technologies

• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Communication
• Quantum Simulation
• Quantum Metrology & Sensing
• New synergies

To build your project, it's essential to get in touch with members of the Scientific Advisory Board. Outside experts will help select one or more projects for a budget from €60,000 to €120,000. QuantAlps will contribute to the operating/maintenance budget, attributing around 5% of the initial budget per year, added to the equipment cost over the first three years.

Selection Criteria:

Projects will be selected according to the following criteria:

1. Project quality and excellence
   • Quality (at international level) of the projects to be supported by the proposed equipment: scientific interest, relevance, feasibility.
   • Quality of the consortium involved.
   • Aim to development original instruments and prototypes
2. Synergy induced by the project: The collective nature of the use to be made of the equipment within the LabEx: opening up to several laboratories (or several teams in the same large laboratory), within one or more research axes or federative projects. And the resulting incentive to strengthen collaborations.
3.  A ripple effect in the direction of another LabEx (Microelectronics, MAteriAlps, etc.), R&D labs (LETI, LITEN, Startup, etc.), healthcare or Grenoble's industrial sector.
4. Complementarity with existing facilities (specificity, accessibility, etc.), this facility has to be indispensable to the research community.
5. The justification for the requested funding is to achieve usable equipment without waiting for non-acquired co-fundings.

Submission Process

Projects are to be submitted in 2 stages:

1. A letter of intent, maximum one page, describing: the science, the equipment, the collective aspect within the LabEx, the ripple effect and identifying contacts within the QuantAlps scientific advisory board. To be uploaded online (link below).
2. A complete project accompanied by the submission form (under the download title). To be submitted through an application platform, the details of which will be communicated.

For further queries on the call, contact “quantalps-contact@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr”

Selection Calendar

Projects will be selected according to the following schedule:

October 1^st, 2025: Announcement of the call for equipment.

November 16, 2025: Deadline for submission of letter of intent.

From November 17, 2025: exchanges and discussions between the project owner(s) and several members of the Scientific Advisory Board to help mature the project.

December 19, 2025: Deadline for submission of equipment projects.

January 15-16, 2026: Presentation of projects to the Scientific Advisory Board by project owners, followed by discussion. The Scientific Advisory Board will bring up new comments and suggestions. If this maturing phase has left too many projects in competition, the Scientific Advisory Board will make a preliminary selection of projects to be auditioned by external scientific experts (5 in number).

January 25, 2026: Deadline for submission of optimized projects following discussions with the Scientific Advisory Board. The submission platform will be announced by end of December.

1^st week of March 2026: Oral presentation by the project owners to the scientific expert committee and the Scientific Advisory Board. Selection of projects by the expert committee.

End of March 2026: Announcement of results