UK-Netherlands Co-Innovation and Testbeds Pilot for Quantum Tech

£600,000 for innovative projects in quantum technologies

Registered businesses in UK and Netherlands can apply to collaborate on joint projects with application relevant partners and testbed facilities, to advance the development of quantum technologies and enable their commercial use cases.

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Quantum Technologies In Short

Project Costs Project Costs

£150k–£300k UK grant share (total fund £600k)

Project Duration Project Duration

Projects start by 1 Feb 2026, run 18–24 months

Partners Partners

UK and Netherlands organisations

Scope Scope

Testbed hosted at a UK or Netherlands National Lab

Funding Ratio Funding Ratio

Up to 70% of eligible project costs for SMEs

Application Deadline Application Deadline

28 October 2025 11:00am

Themes

This competition is focussed on advancing the commercial use of second generation quantum technologies, defined as those exploiting superposition and entanglement phenomena. Funding is available for Feasibility studies and Industrial Research into the development, prototyping, and testing of commercial quantum technologies in one or more of the following areas;

Software services or hardware solutions to advance commercial deployment of entanglement based quantum networking.

Quantum computing algorithms, software applications, and services development.

Adoption of quantum sensing for commercial applications in areas such as biosensing, public infrastructure and PNT.

Your proposal must demonstrate a clear intention to commercially exploit the results of the project domestically or globally.

Eligibility

  • The UK based project ‘co-lead’ must be an eligible business organisation registered in the UK.
  • To collaborate with the lead you must be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, public sector organisation, or research and technology organisation (RTO).
  • The consortium must contain at least one Netherlands registered business applying for Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) funding, which must be a separate legal entity from UK partners.
  • You must access a UK or Netherlands based testbed (development platforms).
  • Subcontractors are allowed, no more than 20% eligible UK costs and preferably from the UK. You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you cannot use subcontractors from the UK or the Netherlands.

Our approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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