QCA Incubator is an initiative designed to support promising interdisciplinary quantum ideas grow into structured, visible, and output-oriented collaborations.
Download call (PDF)Once a year, QCA selects one team and supports them over a one-year period through facilitation, visibility, matchmaking, and structured follow-up with the goal of reaching one concrete collaborative outcome.
The QCA Incubator does not provide funding. Instead, it contributes what an interdisciplinary cluster can uniquely offer: connections across disciplines, access to networks and infrastructure, and support that helps ideas move forward.
Application deadline: 17 August 2026 at 23:59 (CEST)
Notification of evaluation: September 2026
Kick-off: September/October 2026 (run for a one-year period)
QCA Incubator aims to:
The ambition is simple: the QCA Incubator team should produce one concrete outcome within one year.
Examples of ideas QCA could support include:
QCA invites small interdisciplinary teams to propose one promising quantum-related collaboration idea.
Teams should:
The incubator is specifically designed to create opportunities for students, early-career researchers, and emerging interdisciplinary collaborations.
Applications should be submitted as a single PDF (maximum 2 pages – see description above).
Please send your application by email to:
Lise Refstrup Linnebjerg Pedersen (lrlp@inano.au.dk)
Applicants will receive confirmation of receipt after submission.
Selected teams receive structured non-financial support, which may include:
The selected cohort will also be featured at QCA Connect as the annual Incubator Spotlight.
Applicants submit a short application (maximum 2 pages) describing:
Applications will be reviewed by the QCA Leadership Team.
Selection will be based on:
June – Call opens
August – Application deadline
Late August – Selection by QCA Leadership Team
September / October – Kick-off
December / QCA Connect – Incubator Spotlight
Following summer – Final output
Quantum Campus Aarhus (QCA) brings together researchers, students, infrastructure, and external partners across Aarhus University and the broader quantum ecosystem.
QCA works to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, increase visibility of quantum activities, and create opportunities for new research, education, innovation, and external engagement.
Through initiatives such as QCA Incubator, QUBITS, QCA Connect, networking activities, and ecosystem partnerships, QCA helps connect people, ideas, and opportunities across disciplines.
