Workpackage 1 („Drawing a European Guideline for QIST“) aims at a survey of European QIST-related structures and in addition at the elaboration of a guideline for future funding of research and development within the area of QIST in Europe. Another task of this workpackage will be to draw an overview of the geographical distribution of QIST-excellence in Europe.
The ERA-Pilot QIST consortium will be responsible in general for awareness activities within the field of QIST. Therefore it will support the Publication Office of the EC by reviewing the publication “QIPC in Europe” which is a collection of reprints of “Scientific American”-style articles from prominent European QIST scientists highlighting the landmarks of EU research in the last 10 years.
In a second step within WP1 the European research community will be analysed. An overview will be elaborated that contains the following facts:
A concrete output from this activity will be a list of potential evaluators of QISTprojects as support for national funding organisations and for the European Commission. All facts that will be found within the tasks described above will be put into a database to be used as a basis for further activities and structuring measures.
This work will be based on the activities of the QIPC Roadmap Committee(lead by Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck) that has been established in September 2004. WP1 will update the draft roadmap in regular intervals to create input for the preparation of FP7 and subsequently FP8.
The upcoming work of the Workpackage WP1 is reported at the website ERA-Pilot QIST Roadmap.
WP1 will be led by a team consisting of Rosario Fazio from INFM (Italy) and Tommaso Calarco from OAW (Austria).