Home page

Q-Alliance

Q-Alliance

The World’s Most Powerful Quantum Hub

An unprecedented alliance bringing together global quantum computing leaders, Italian scientific excellence and industry innovation to build the future of quantum technology.

First Scientific High Council Join our Research Community Photo Gallery
Volta Declaration

Volta Declaration

On Quantum, Artificial Intelligence and Sovereign Computing Infrastructures

A strategic declaration bringing together institutions, research organizations, industry leaders and international partners to advance a resilient, competitive and sovereign European ecosystem for quantum technologies, artificial intelligence and advanced computing.

Milan, Italy 25 June 2026 IT · EN
Download Document Scientific High Council
Vision Future competitiveness and technological sovereignty depend on advanced computational infrastructures.
Forum The Volta Forum acts as a permanent collaboration platform for research, industry and public institutions.
Impact The declaration promotes scientific cooperation, technology transfer, policy recommendations and strategic initiatives.
Q-Alliance Moments

Selected moments from the launch

Add your gallery here

Insert a WordPress Gallery block below this section. Select the gallery, open Advanced, and add this CSS class: qa-moments-gallery

Official Document

Download the full Volta Declaration

Add the WordPress File/PDF block below this section to display the full bilingual declaration with the download button.

Scientific High Council

A scientific compass for the alliance

The Scientific High Council brings together leading figures from physics, mathematics, quantum science, data science and computational research to guide the alliance’s scientific agenda.

26 Strategic Quantum Programs
8 Research domains
2 Quantum technology pillars
1 Common language: QUBO
Open Scientific High Council
Quantum
Research
Engine
Council Programs Agenda Mission Contact
Research Agenda

The 26 Strategic Quantum Programs

The alliance’s research agenda connects quantum methods with real scientific, industrial and societal applications.

Materials Quantum simulation, nonlinear dynamics, QUBO material design and strongly correlated systems.
Artificial Intelligence Quantum neural networks, support vector machines, reinforcement learning and generative models.
Finance Portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo pricing, credit risk, fraud detection and hedging.
Life Sciences Quantum drug discovery, protein folding optimization and quantum genomics.
Infrastructure Routing, traffic, HPC scheduling, smart-grid optimization, security and sensing.
Governance & Insurance Socio-economic simulation, quantum game theory, risk aggregation, claims and reinsurance optimization.
The Great Challenge

Shaping NP problems into quantum-ready models

The Great Challenge invites academic and industrial teams to translate real-world NP-hard problems into Ising or QUBO form for quantum annealing and hybrid solvers. The focus is precise model formulation, embeddability, scalability, reproducibility and measurable solution quality.

Model clarity Embeddability Scalability Solution quality Reproducibility Hardware-aware formulation

Join the Q-Alliance ecosystem

Researchers, institutions and companies can contribute to research programs, submit quantum innovation projects or request a quantum assessment for industrial and scientific use cases.

Contact the Secretariat