OQI’s Educational Consortium shapes capacity building activities for 2025

On December 3 2024, over 35 members of the OQI Educational Consortium gathered to discuss OQI’s capacity building strategy for 2025 and how we are collaboratively aligning with the global activities planned during the International Year of Quantum (IYQ).

The consortium was created to establish a network of networks—bringing together domain experts, quantum experts and diplomatic stakeholders. The goal is to collaboratively co-shape and implement best practices for quantum technology and enable the development of future quantum ecosystems, while respecting sovereignty and local innovation and ensuring that quantum-underserved geographies have a voice in co-shaping global tech policies.

Last week, the consortium outlined and agreed on OQI’s key efforts for advancing capacity building—including the collaborative support and work of the consortium, OQI-supported hackathons, training for hackathon participants, community events, internship programmes and the launch of OQI’s Quantum Diplomacy Game. Throughout the IYQ, the consortium will focus its efforts primarily on two target groups: graduate-level researchers and developers from quantum-underserved geographies, and policymakers. These activities will be expanded and tailored to strengthen regional activities across five continents throughout 2025–demonstrating our continued support for the IYQ.

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The Open Quantum Institute (OQI) is a multilateral governance initiative that promotes global and inclusive access to quantum computing and the development of applications for the benefit of humanity. As a novel science diplomacy instrument, it brings together research, diplomacy, private sector and philanthropy stakeholders. OQI is hosted by CERN during its pilot phase (2024-2026).

Mission:

• Accelerating applications for humanity: Realising the full potential of quantum computing to have the widest possible societal impact by accelerating the development of use cases geared towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and succeeding framework , thanks to the combined forces of researchers, developers and entrepreneurs from academia and private sector as well as the United Nations, and large NGOs
• Access for all: Providing global, inclusive and equitable access to a pool of public and private quantum computers and simulators available via the cloud
• Advancing capacity building: Developing educational tools to enable everyone around the world to contribute to the development of quantum computing and make the most of the technology
• Activating multilateral governance for the SDGs: Providing a neutral forum to help shape multilateral governance of quantum computing for the SDGs

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• Inclusivity, global scope
• Enable people from all countries, regardless of whether they have any quantum computing capability of their own, to benefit from and to participate in the development of (i) quantum computing applications that address global challenges, in particular those that are closely related to their own specific challenges, and (ii) the multilateral governance of quantum computing for the SDGs
• Openness
• Share experiences, knowledge, and methods for the benefit of all, following Open Science best practice
• Make openly available the results – outcomes of joint activities related to the OQI mission conducted by the OQI community – to society via open repositories and/or through the use of open licences
• Focus on impact
• Ensure that applications are developed for their quantum computing potential to tackle real-world problems that will benefit humanity
• Consider and balance their ethical, legal, and societal implications
• Independence
• Enable everyone to participate free from individual, national, corporate or any other agendas
• Develop applications with a technology neutral approach.
• Collaboration
• Foster a community of diverse expertise, backgrounds and geographies, enabled by international cooperation and diplomacy