This year, Greece took a leading role in the pan-European EuroQCI initiative by hosting the prominent international QCI Days 2025 conference in Athens, from April 28 to 30, at the Eugenides Foundation. The event was supported by the Ministry of Digital Governance, under the guidance of the General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post, as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) and World Quantum Day 2025.
Following QKD Days Madrid (2022) and QCI Days Vienna (2024), Athens took up the baton to organize this landmark event for the research and technology community of Quantum Communication Infrastructures. The conference was co-organized by the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET), the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
The Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, inaugurated the international conference on Monday, April 28, stating: “Greece is at the forefront of European developments in digital security. The future of communications is already here—and it is quantum.”
Greetings were also delivered by Konstantinos Karantzalos, Secretary General for Telecommunications and Post, Aristeidis Sotiropoulos, CEO of GRNET, Aymard De Touzalin, representative of the European Commission, Ana Rosa Bofill, representative of the Ministry of Digital transformation of Spain, and Representatives of the National Quantum Communication Infrastructures (NatQCIs): Ilias Papastamatiou, coordinator of the HellasQCI project for GRNET, Vicente Martin, professor at UPM, representing EuroQCI Spain, Martin Stierle, Head of the Competence Unit for Security & Communication Technologies at AIT, representing the QCI-CAT project. The conference’s main opening keynote speech was delivered by Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, Merton College, Oxford, and the National University of Singapore, as well as founding director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT).
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