Q-Neko is an EU–Japan collaboration advancing quantum-enhanced high-performance computing (HPC+QC), bridging supercomputing and quantum acceleration to address concrete societal and industrial challenges.

How do we turn today’s quantum promise into real-world impact?

Q-Neko is an EU–Japan collaboration advancing quantum-enhanced high-performance computing (HPC+QC) — bridging supercomputing and quantum acceleration to address concrete societal and industrial challenges.

Funded by Horizon Europe and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) alongside Japan’s Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), Q-Neko brings together leading European and Japanese research and industry partners.

🎯 Project mission

  • Transform today’s promising quantum capabilities into reliable hybrid HPC+QC workflows for end users
  • Enable reciprocal access to world-class infrastructures, allowing results to be tested, compared, and improved across platforms
  • Build long-term collaboration through researcher and engineer exchanges, shared practices, and joint symposia

🔬 Use-case focus

  • Materials science
  • CO₂ reduction
  • Telecommunications optimisation
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Satellite image analysis

🌍 Why this matters

Q-Neko implements the EU–Japan Digital Partnership in practice by:

  • Making major infrastructure investments usable sooner
  • Targeting high-value societal and industrial priorities
  • Creating a much-needed evidence base for policy and procurement
  • Reducing fragmentation through pre-standardisation and roadmapping
  • Investing in people and trusted collaboration, not just technology

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