Innovation Projects

QPhoton Innovation Projects are designed as "seed projects" that work to strengthen the cross-location relationship within the CZS Center QPhoton. The goal is to address the development of novel, location-independent competencies and, among other goals, create a foundation for further competitiveness in national and international funding schemes. Each QPhoton Innovation Project should lead ideally to joint publications such that a collaborating record for future joint applications can be shown to exist. In any of the innovation projects, partners from Jena, Stuttgart, and Ulm work together.

The 4th call for innovation projects is online. Deadline is October 15, 2025.

Calls

3rd Call 2024

In the third Call 2024 one innovation project was selected for funding after a peer-review process. The project will start in July with a duration of two years.

Directed quantum sensing of elevated temperatures at active zones inside a single living cell

2nd Call 2023

In the second Call 2023 the following two innovation projects were selected after a peer-review process. The projects will start in the course of 2023 with a duration of two years.

HoloQ - Developing novel holographic methods for applications with ultracold atoms

Schematic representation of optically controlling the rotational and translational motion of photonic micro-rotors, whose size is comparable to the laser wavelength, and which exhibit Mie-like optical resonances. Illustration: FSU Jena, Thomas Pertsch

1st Call 2022

In the first Call 2022 the following three innovation projects were selected after a peer-review process. The projects started in the course of 2023 with a duration of two years.

NV-qubit for precise sensing of rotational and translational mobilities of active proteins

Infrared single-photon detection via superconducting nanowires tailored by disorder, temperature, and magnetic field