Kick-Off Meeting

At our Kick-Off meeting at the beginning of March 2023, the consortium had a first chance to meet in person and discuss details to QCI-CAT. Each partner presented their company and their contribution to the project, project details and timelines have been discussed and within a fruitful thematic group work, some challenges within the project were already being tackled. The consortium had a chance to see the laboratory of the project lead AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and get to know each other on a more personal level during our working dinner.

ABOUT QCI-CAT

Building on the long research experience of Austrian institutions in the field of quantum technologies, the project QCI-CAT aims at an adoption of modern encryption technology based on QKD for highly secure communication between public authorities.

QCI-CAT will investigate and verify new security applications for public authorities, such as secret sharing and message authentication.

Additionally, QCI-CAT will also leverage a research testbed for new technological approaches such as the combination of post-quantum encryption with QKD, long-distance QKD with secured trusted nodes and field trials of quantum repeaters.

This project has received funding from the DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01 Digital European Program under Project number No 101091642 and the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development.