Three executive components divided by type of activity
Application activities
The construction of quantum communication infrastructure netQUTE as part of the European initiative euroQCI and development of single-photon detector for the needs of netQUTE
Scientific research
activities
The creation of a virtual institute of quantum technologies iQUTE, which will bring together individual research teams
Educational and awareness-raising activities
The creation of an educational study program and the establishment of the international training center eduQUTE, with the ambition to achieve European significance.
What we do?
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2025
26 Sept. 2025 – European Researchers’ Night 2025, Stará tržnica, Bratislava.
7–12 Sept. 2025 – 15th International Conference IEEE NAP-2025 (Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties), Bratislava, Slovakia. Organisers: IEEE Nanotechnology Council, Institute of Electrical Engineering Slovak Academy of Sciences. Technical support: Sumy State University, Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI) Vienna, University of Latvia, and National Research and Development Institute for Non-ferrous and Rare Metals.
deadline 31 Aug. 2025 – Contest “Hravé KvantoHranie”, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk (Mário Ziman, Diana Cencer Garafová)
30 June – 3 July 2025 – 20th CEQIP, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. Organiser: IP SAS (Mário Ziman, Mišo Sedlák, Radka Hovorková, Leevi Leppajarvi), CyberSecurityHubCZ (Daniel Reitzner, Jan Bouda), QUTE.sk (Pavol Surovec)
deadline 30 June 2025 – Art contest Q’ART – Quantum Odyesa, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk (Mário Ziman, Diana Cencer Garafová)
13–16 May. 2025 – Quantum Meets’25, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Djeylan Aktas
28–30 Apr. 2025 – QCI Days 2025, Athens, Greece. Invited talk: Djeylan Aktas.
14 Apr. 2025 – “Kvantové zápletky” – World Quantum Day 2025. Kácečko, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Mar. – June – KVANTA virtual class. Organiser: IP SAS (Mário Ziman), QUTE.sk (Diana Cencer Garafová)
22 Feb. 2025 – Aktuálne :24, Mário Ziman (IP SAS, QUTE.sk), STRV :24 (Slovak TV and Radio), [from 14:09 min]
4–5 Feb. 2025 – Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), Paris
2 Feb. 2025 – Quantum World: Between us atoms (“Medzi nami atómami“), 2nd article from a series Quantum World, Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Quark Magazine.q
9 Jan. 2025 – Article “Podporujeme technické odbory v školách“, Magazine: Obchod, priemysel, hospodárstvo, Article author: Jaroslav Šmíd. Publisher: Slovenská obchodná a priemyselná komora. Volume: 90 000
1 Jan. 2025 – Quantum World: Invisible Photon (“Neviditeľný fotón“), 1st article from a series Quantum World, Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Quark Magazine.
2024
3 Dec. 2024 – Komorový HiTech deň, Vladimír Bužek (IP SAS) a Mário Ziman (QUTE.sk), Trenčín, Slovakia. Read more in an article.
5 Dec. 2024 – Visit of European Commission Delegation in Slovakia, Presentation of skQCI project: Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS), Biomedical Research Center SAS, QUTE Pavilion IP SAS, Bratislava. Read more in an article.
26 Nov. 2024 – Jesenná ITAPA 2024, Diskusia Quantum Computing: Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Hotel Crowne Plaza, Bratislava. Read more in an article.
20–21 Nov. 2024 – Migration to Quantum-Safe Workshop, Vienna, Austria. Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS).
18–20 Nov. 2024 – EQTC – European Quantum Technologies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Invited talk: Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS). Read the full article.
13–15 Nov. 2024 – Multidisciplinary conference Laser 64, Třešt, Czech republic. Poster “Project skQCI: Kontaktovanie optického vlákna pre SNSPD detector”: Dušan Lorenc, Monika Jerigová, Eva Noskovičová (ILC CVTI SR).
14 Nov. 2024 – Konferencia Superpočítač a Slovensko, Bratislava, Slovakia. Talk: The Future is Quantum, Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Bratislava. Organiser: MIRRI. Read more in an article.
11–15 Nov. 2024 – Open day at QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava. Talks: Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Workshop: Daniel Buchta (Aricoma). Lab tours: Mário Ziman, Peter Rapčan, Djeylan Aktas, Younes Benamara (IP SAS). Read the full article.
7 Nov. 2024 – ISA Business Breakfast: The Future is Quantum, Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Bratislava. Read more in an article.
26 Oct. 2024 – Interview “Slovensko na tepe doby, kvantové siete sa budujú aj u nás“, Štandard, Article author: Martin Chabada
24 Oct. 2024 – The CARLA 360 – Quantum Experience, QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava. Talks: Vladimír Bužek (IP SAS). Workshop: Gilberto Borges, Younes Benamara (IP SAS). Lab tour: Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS), Pavol Neilinger, Martin Baránek (FMFI CU). Presentations: Leevi Leppäjärvi, M. Hamed Mohammady, Natália S. Móller (IP SAS). Read the full article.
16–17 Oct. 2024 – OpenSlava 2024, FEI STU, Bratislava. Talk Quantum and us: an Adventure into the Unknown: Saeid Salari. Workshop Exploring Quantum: Photonics, Entanglement, and Secure Communication: Gilberto Borges, Younes Benamara. Booth: Daniel Buchta, Ivan Doboš, Marek Kuruc (Aricoma), Pavol Surovec, Diana Cencer Garafová (QUTE.sk). Organiser: Accenture Slovensko. Read the full article.
2 Oct. 2024 – Introductory lecture of Classical and Quantum Computations at UPJŠ, Košice, Slovakia. Daniel Buchta, Ivan Doboš (Aricoma). Read the short article.
27 Sept. 2024 – European Researchers’ Night 2024, Stará tržnica, Bratislava. Talk “Komplexita: zložitosť našej situácie uprostred klimatickej krízy – z pohľadu štyroch vedných oblastí”: Natália S. Móller (IP SAS). Talk “Výpočtová zložitosť a kvantový počítač“: Daniel Reitzner. Workshop: “Zahrajme sa s kvantovým počítačom“: Daniel Buchta (Aricoma). Workshop: Quantum Inteligence Quocient, Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Scientific Booth: Andrej Gendiar, Matej Moško, Arash Ghoreishi, Ricardo Rivera, Mário Ziman, Younes Benamara (IP SAS), Diana Cencer Garafová (QUTE.sk). Read the full article.
11–13 Sept. 2024 – Time in Quantum Theory 2024, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. Organiser: Institute of Physics SAS (Natália S. Móller, Ricardo Rivera C., Saadat S. Shariff, Radka Hovorkova, S. Arash Ghoreishi, M. H. Mohammady, Mário Ziman). Read the recap article.
25 Aug. 2024 – fellowQUTE Open Call 2024. Granting authority: QUTE.sk
19–23 Aug. 2024 – Summer school 2024: Quantum Technologies, FMFI, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organisers: QUTE.sk – Slovak National Center for Quantum Technologies (Diana Cencer Garafová, Pavol Surovec), Institute of Physics SAS (Djeylan Aktas), FH Technikum Wien (Mira Maiwöger). Partner: FMFI, Mlynská Dolina, Bratislava (Miroslav Grajcar). 50 participants. Read the recap article.
14–15 July 2024 – We are Slovak Academy of Sciences (“My sme SAV”), Marcel Človečko (IEP SAS), Hviezdoslavovo námestie Bratislava, Slovakia.
1–3 July 2024 – QCI Ireland Event (PETRUS Workshop, Key Stakeholders Meeting, Ireland QCI workshops), Dublin, Ireland. Djeylan aktas, Peter Rapčan (IP SAS), Pavol Surovec, Diana Cencer Garafová (QUTE.sk) Read the recap article.
20 June 2024 – L’Oréal – UNESCO For Women in Science Award, Slovakia. Laureate: Natália S. Móller (IP SAS). Read more in an article.
19–21 June 2024 – 29th APCOM Conference (Applied Physics of Condensed Matter), Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. Talk: “Model for Optical Properties of NbTiN Thin Films Considering Quantum Corrections to Conductivity”, Samuel Kern (FMFI CU).
16–21 June 2024 – EIT summer school, Nice, France. Lecture: “Quantum Networks”, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS).
13 June 2024 – Expedition Quantum Slovakia: Doba kvantová od fotónu po qubit: Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Krajská knižnica Karola Kmeťka, Nitra, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk 25 participants. Read the full article.
12 June 2024 – Expedition Quantum Slovakia: Doba kvantová od fotónu po qubit: Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Nová synagóga, Žilina, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk. Over 50 participants. Read the full article.
11 June 2024 – TechFocus 2024, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Talk: Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Bratislava. Around 120 participants. Organiser: Aricoma. Read more in an article.
10 June 2024 – courseQUTE: Mark Hillery: Introduction to Quantum Algorithms, QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk. Read the full article.
9–14 June 2024 – 3. Summer School of Condensed Matter 2024, Liptovský Ján, Slovakia. Talk: “Superconducting single photon detectors”, Pavol Neilinger (FMFI CU). Talk: “Nobelova cena za fyziku 2023: Attosekundy”, Dušan Lorenc (ILC CVTISR). Talk: “Supratekuté hélium-3 – modelový systém pre kvantovú fyziku”, Peter Skyba (IEP SAS). Organisers: FMFI, UPJŠ
3–6 June 2024 – 19th CEQIP, Skalica, Slovakia. Organiser: Jan Bouda, Radka Hovorkova, Leevi Leppajarvi, Daniel Reitzner, Mišo Sedlák, Mário Ziman. Read the recap article.
1 June 2024 – Veletrh Vědy Praha 2024, EURAXESS carrier zone, Pavol Surovec, Diana Cencer Garafová (QUTE.sk). Prague, Czech Republic.
15 May 2024 – courseQUTE colloquium: Since time has a direction: Dieter Meschede, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk. Read the full article or watch online.
13–17 May 2024 – courseQUTE: Dieter Meschede: The Quantum World – From Experimental Insight to Technology, QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk. Read the full article.
13 May 2024 – “Smery fyzikálneho výskumu” Seminar, FMFI, Bratislava, Slovakia. Talk for undergraduate students: “PRNG model for evaluation of MRHS cryptanalysis”, Pavol Neilinger (FMFI CU).
29–30 Apr. 2024 – Mini-workshop: superconductivity, correlations, transport and layered materials, QUTE pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organisers: Denis Kochan (IP SAS), František Herman (FMFI CU). Read the recap article.
22–24 Apr. 2024 – BQIT24 (Bristol Quantum Information Technologies), Bristol, UK. Invited talk: “Development of the Slovak National Quantum Communication Infrastructure”, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS).
16–18 Apr. 2024 – courseQUTE: John Rarity: Quantum photonic device engineering, QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organiser: QUTE.sk. Read the full article.
16 Apr. 2024 – Accenture Brown Bag Session: “Prvý kvantový FEIK“, Accenture Campus Lab FEI STU, Bratislava, Slovakia. Public talk: Mário Ziman (IP SAS), Branislav Majerník (Accenture). Around 60 participants. Read in an article.
14 Apr. 2024 – World Quantum Day 2024. Public talk: “Druhá kvantová revolúcia“: Vladimír Bužek. Discussion: Vladimír Bužek, Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Moderated: Samuel Kováčik. Kácečko, Bratislava, Slovakia. 100 participants. Read the full article.
12 Mar. 2024 – Colloquium Development of a Slovak Quantum Communication Infrastructure for the Digital European Program, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS), IEP SAS, Košice, Slovakia. Read the full article.
11–13 Mar. 2024 – skQCI project Team Meeting, Košice, Slovakia. Read the full article.
2023
14 Nov. 2023 – Colloquium Development of a Slovak Quantum Communication Infrastructure for the Digital European Program, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS), MTF STU, Trnava, Slovakia. Read the full article.
23 Oct. 2023 – Relácia Experiment (“Supravodivosť a supertekutosť“), Peter Skyba (IEP SAS), RTVS, Slovakia.
18–19 Oct. 2023 – OpenSlava 2023, FEI STU, Bratislava. Talk: Fully meshed quantum network, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS). Organiser: Accenture Slovensko.
30 Sept. 2023 – European Researchers’ Night 2023, Stará tržnica, Bratislava. Scientific Booth: Peter Rapčan, Arash Ghoreishi, Martin Baránek, Denisa Lampášová, Mário Ziman, Pavol Surovec, Diana Cencer Garafová. Read the full article.
4–7 Sept. 2023 – 21st Conference of Czech and Slovak physicists, FMFI CU, Slovakia. Talk: Modeling the optical absorption of meandering niobium nitride nanowires in the infrared spectra, Martin Baránek (FMFI CU).
21–25 Aug. 2023 – Summer school 2023: Quantum Technologies, FHT Vienna, Austria. Talk: Single Photon Detectors for skQCI, M. Baránek. Organisers: Institute of Physics SAS (Djeylan Aktas), FH Technikum Wien (Mira Maiwöger). Read the recap article.
4–5 July 2023 – CECC23 (Central European Conference on Cryptology), Linz, Austria. Talk: PRNG model for evaluation of MRHS cryptanalysis, Pavol Zajac (FEI STU).
21–23 June 2023 – 28th APCOM Conference (Applied Physics of Condensed Matter), Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. Plenary talk: “NbN nanowires for single photon detectors”, Pavol Neilinger (FMFI CU).
21 June 2023 – Personal visit to Accenture Technology Hub, Sophia Antipolis, France. Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS).
4–9 Jun. 2023 – 2. Summer school of Condensed Matter Physics, Liptovský Ján, Slovakia. Organiser: FMFI CU.
3 Jun. 2023 – Video interview “Centrum pre výskum kvantovej informácie“, Vladimír Bužek (IP SAS). RTVS – Veda zblízka
26 May 2023 – Presentation and discussion with Accenture, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS), online
18–26 May 2023 – Cryocourse 2023, Nuuksio, Espoo, Finland. Talk: “Numerical simulations of absorption in single photon detectors”, Peter Dupej (FMFI CU).
24–26 Apr. 2023 – ISLOP23 (International Summit on Lasers, Optics and Photonics), Valencia, Spain. Keynote speaker: Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS)
30 Mar. 2023 – NATO Kick-off meeting. Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS)
27 Feb. 2023 – TV Interview “Začala sa doba kvantová: V relácii Spektrum 24 o prepojeniach, ktoré sa nedajú odpočúvať“, Mário Ziman (IP SAS) in interview with Ján Mečiar, TV JOJ.
23–24 Feb. 2023 – SiUCs-QUCOS QuantERA, Barcelona, Spain. Talk: The quantum-limited detectors based on superconducting weak links, Miroslav Grajcar (FMFI CU).
11 Feb. 2023 – Radio Interview “Kvantová komunikačná sieť”, Vladimír Bužek (IP SAS), RTVS Rádio Devín.
31 Jan. 2023 – Interview “Neprelomiteľná kvantová sieť sa na Slovensku stáva realitou“, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS). humanisti.sk, article author: MIRRI SR
31 Jan. 2023 – Interview “Slovenskí vedci vyvíjajú unikátny jednofotónový detektor, v Európe po nich bude obrovský dopyt“, Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Aktuality.sk, Article author: Lucia Kobzová, Ján Trangel
31 Jan. 2023 – Interview “Na Slovensku sa začína doba kvantová“, Mário Ziman (IP SAS). Správy SAV, autor: Katarína Gáliková
31 Jan. 2023 – Interview “Základom vysoko bezpečného internetu má byť neprelomiteľná kvantová komunikačná sieť“, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS). Trend
31 Jan. 2023 – skQCI Kick-off meeting, Press conference, QUTE Pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia.
30 Mar. 2023 – NATO Kick-off meeting, online
31 Jan. 2023 – Interview “Viete, ako to vyzerá v laboratóriu kvantovej komunikácie?“, Djeylan Aktas (IP SAS). Veda na dosah, CVTI SR, Article author: Andrea Fedorovičová
31 Jan. 2023 – EuroQCI Kick-off meeting, online
2022
3–5 Oct. 2022 – Mini-workshop: Superconductivity and correlations in reduced dimensions, QUTE pavilion, Bratislava, Slovakia. Organisers: IP SAS (Denis Kochan, Maria Surovcova, Angelika Winczerova, Mario Ziman). Supported by project SUPERSPIN (IMPULZ)
30 Sept. 2022 – European Researchers’ Night 2022, Stará tržnica, Bratislava. Scientific Booth: Peter Rapčan, Denisa Lampášová, Mário Ziman.
4–9 Sept. 2022 – 1. Summer school of Condensed Matter Physics, Liptovský Ján, Slovakia. Organiser: FMFI CU, UPJŠ.
4–8 Sept. 2022 – Quapital Summer School 2022, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. Organiser: IP SAS
22–24 June 2022 – 27th APCOM Conference (Applied Physics of Condensed Matter), Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. Plenary talk: “Model for Optical Properties of NbTiN Thin Films Considering Quantum Corrections to Conductivity”, Samuel Kern (FMFI CU). Co-organisers: IP SAS
29 June – 1 July 2022 – Kvantové rendezvous, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. Organiser: IP SAS (Denisa Lampášová)
7 Apr. 2022 – Video interview “Na Slovensku vznikne ultrabezpečná kvantová komunikačná sieť“, Mário Ziman (IP SAS). MIRRI
17 Feb. 2022 – Interview “Slovensko vybuduje nenabúrateľnú kvantovú komunikačnú sieť “, živé.aktuality.sk
27 Jan. 2022 – Interview “Slovenskí vedci chcú vybudovať kvantový internet, idú vyvíjať unikátne detektory“, Juraj Kubica (MIRRI), Mário Ziman (IP SAS). živé.aktuality.sk, Article authors: Ján Trangel, Filip Hanker
2021
24 Nov. 2021 – Establishing of Slovak National Center for Quantum Technologies – QUTE.sk