International policies created within RoNaQCI

Based on research conducted by the Quantum team at POLITEHNICA Bucharest[0],[1],[2], several QKD scalability and network governance at European level were raised at various EuroQCI events, including PRISM Quantum Week, Hellas QCI Third Training Event, QCI Ireland Event and others. The issues were distilled into a one-page recommendation authored by the Quantum Team at POLITEHNICA Bucharest that was presented by Prof. Pantelimon George Popescu and Dr. Alin-Bogdan Popa at two dedicated online meetings organized via PETRUS with the applicants to EuroQCI Phase 2 (CEF-DIG-2024-EUROQCI). The recommendation was as follows:

"We strongly recommend each project to include in the proposal a plan of action (for example, a software layer) for inter-consortium operational collaboration, covering topics such as key rate bandwidth, network orchestration, protocols for governance and providing access to the proposed crossborder links to an external consortium, external use-case prioritization in emergency situations, protocols for external network breach mitigation."

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-64994-6
[1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.00877
[2]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12027
Example and impact of cross-border QKD link availability for external consortia, proposed in CEF: Connecting Elaborate Federal QKD Networks

Disseminated via PETRUS

PETRUS meetings with all CEF EuroQCI Phase 2 applicants: February 28th, 2025; March 14th, 2025

PETRUS NewsFlash dissemination

Endorsed By:

Policy in Numbers:

2

Debates

100+

Participants in calls

19+

CEF EuroQCI proposals impacted

25+

EU Member States impacted

Impact:

The policy proposed by POLITEHNICA Bucharest impacted all CEF EuroQCI Phase 2 consortium applications which, following the recommendation from EC and PETRUS, have integrated the recommended solution with a dedicated WP or group of tasks in their application.

Quotes from the proposed policy have been used in official communications of EC, HaDEA, and PETRUS, including on the EC Funding and Tenders application portal, where the European Commission officials recommended projects to "include a dedicated task covering liaison with other selected proposals or a deliverable on, for example, inter-consortium operational collaboration, covering topics such as (but not limited to) key rate bandwidth, network orchestration, and protocols for governance. Additionally, proposals could also specify if they would provide access to the proposed cross-border links to other consortia".

More information:

RoNaQCI: Romanian National Quantum Communication Infrastructure