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How to launch successfully: Startup Roundtable “Quantum Edition”
"The quantum computer is our moon landing," predicts Professor Andreas Waag from the Institute of Semiconductor Technology at TU Braunschweig. In order to transfer quantum technology into practice, two spin-offs have already emerged from the university's research...

On sabbatical in Braunschweig’s microelectronics
US Professor Fa Foster Dai visits TU Braunschweig When Bell lab researchers invented the first transistors over 70 years ago, they could not have imagined the profound impact this technology would generate on our way of living. Today, billions of transistors on...

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Braunschweig
Germany's highest research award granted to Daniel Prades from Barcelona TU Braunschweig welcomes Daniel Prades as their first Alexander von Humboldt Professor. The Spanish expert for nanophotonics receives Germany’s highest-doted research award with five million...

Industry meets Quantum at the HANNOVER MESSE 2023
With the joint stand Quantum Technologies, the Future Hub at Hannover Messe 2023 became the central point of contact for the latest industrial applications of quantum technologies. From 17 to 21 April 2023, various start-ups presented the innovative power of quantum...

Quantum sensors on the road to application
With unprecedented precision, quantum sensors are viewed as a technological leap for biomedicine. More and more start-ups are working to bring this potential out of the research lab into medical application. But it is often difficult to predict the success of...

Tickets are now available for the European Quantum Technologies Conference 2023
Celebrate the World Quantum Day and benefit from super early bird rates!

Spearheading tomorrow’s technology at MWC Barcelona
This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is all about velocity with the theme: “Unleashing tomorrow’s technology – today”. Quantum Valley Lower Saxony is part of the most visionary spearhead of tomorrow’s technology: The joint stand of Europe’s Quantum Flagship....

Europe-wide network for quantum training kicked off
Quantum technologies enable completely new applications for numerous industrial sectors. In order to tap the enormous potential and put it into practice, skilled workers are needed. There is a lack of qualified personnel, especially for the transfer from the...

Join in bringing quantum technologies to life at the HANNOVER MESSE
What innovative power lies in quantum technologies? What role do quantum technologies play for the trade guests and the thousands of participating exhibitors who will gather at the HANNOVER MESSE from 17 to 21 April 2023? Quantum Valley Lower Saxony (QVLS) invites you...

Neuromorphic Computing based on LEDs
For humans, driving a car in an unfamiliar environment is a comparatively simple exercise. For a computer, on the other hand, this task is extremely demanding and requires a lot of energy. Together, Professor Christian Werner from the OST Eastern Switzerland...

More expertise for quantum sensing in QVLS
Professor Nabeel Aslam researches diamond quantum sensors in Braunschweig Nabeel Aslam became a junior professor at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at TU Braunschweig at the beginning of October 2022. For the last four years, Professor Aslam was researching...

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for quantum information technology
Robert Raußendorf is coming to Hannover A great success in the competition for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded one of its Alexander von Humboldt Professorships this year to Professor Robert Raußendorf....

Playing with quanta
phaeno and TU Braunschweig present joint exhibits What are phenomena such as quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation all about? In the BMBF project HolodeckQ, the TU Braunschweig and the phaeno Wolfsburg jointly developed interactive exhibits to illustrate...

German-Japanese Summer
Visiting Tokyo with TU-Professor Vadim Issakov The cooperation between TU Braunschweig and Keio University in Tokyo continued to gain momentum over the summer. First, Professor Vadim Issakov travelled to Japan and lectured on analogue integrated circuits in...

DLR Quantum Computing Initiative contract for an ion-based quantum computer
Contract amounting a total of €208.5 million awarded to start-ups and companies QUDORA Technologies and its consortium partner NXP® Semiconductors have been awarded the contract to develop a 50-qubit quantum computer for the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as part of...

Boost for quantum computer development
ERDF funding accelerates installation of new laboratory structures for the miniaturisation of components 750,000 euros in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) will flow into semiconductor technology at TU Braunschweig until March 2023. Eight...

Federal government funds QVLS-iLabs with 15 million euros
QVLS-iLabs successful in Clusters4Future programme Up to 15 million euros from the federal government will flow into Lower Saxony's QVLS-iLabs over the next three years. This was announced today by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The QVLS-iLabs are...

QVLS-HTI: State of Lower Saxony funds high-tech incubator to support start-ups in the field of quantum technologies
Whether in computing, sensor technology, or cryptography – the possibilities for using quantum processes for groundbreaking technological innovations are promising. Efforts in basic research are intensive. And no less so are the approaches to turn all these...

Minister President Stephan Weil visits the laboratories of Quantum Valley Lower Saxony
Quantum technologies will drive profound social and economic developments in the 21st century. The first prototypes of a quantum computer are already being tested in the Hannover-Braunschweig region and are being further developed at a rapid pace. By 2025, the first...

Science meets industry at the World of Quantum
QuantumFrontiers and Quantum Valley Lower Saxony at the world's leading trade fair for photonics The Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers and the regional initiative Quantum Valley Lower Saxony (the QVLS) have a joint stand at Laser World of Photonics. The two...

QVLS-iLabs is gaining further momentum
Open innovation process for quantum technologies German cutting-edge research in the field of quantum technologies has the potential to boost the German high-tech industry. To transform the potential into a economic success for Lower Saxony, the QVLS-iLabs future...

Funding for quantum technology start-ups: kick-off on March 4th
Quantum technology start-ups wanted! The QVLS's high-tech incubator will start preparing deep-tech companies for their big breakthrough soon. It all starts on March 4th at 10 a.m. with our kick-off event. The state of Lower Saxony is funding so-called high-tech...

QVLS@MWC: Connecting the region with the globe
Quantum computers, Quantum Valley Lower Saxony is part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 in Barcelona. At the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event QVLS can show its regional ecosystem of research, industry and politics. Together with the...

What who should know about quantum
A guide to the quantum world Quantum computers, quantum dot displays and a quantum of comfort: little by little, terms and technologies from quantum physics are trickling into everyday life. Those who want to know more often read sentences like “Quanta contradict our...

DFG Funding Atlas 2021: Leibniz University of Hannover ranks top in quantum optics and geodesy
Leibniz University of Hannover received more than 153 million euros in third-party funding from 2017 to 2019. This figure was recently published by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in its latest funding atlas. The new Funding Atlas...