OQI
OQI
OQI

Our journey

At OQI, we have a growing community of over 500 individuals, all working towards contributing to co-shaping the future of quantum computing and its impact. Read more about what we have been working on in our latest progress report!

October 2025 report
March 2025 report
October 2024 report

Pilot Phase

OQI was officially launched in March 2024 for an initial pilot phase of three years, hosted at CERN. Now over halfway through the pilot phase, our global community continues to grow and keep momentum in advancing OQI’s mission.

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Incubation Phase

The OQI incubation involved prototyping OQI’s activities, and bringing our ‘4As’ to life. The funding and sustainable governance of OQI were also confirmed, paving the way to its official launch in 2024.

Incubation Advisory Board

During the incubation phase, the OQI incubation Advisory Board was created, providing advice and guidance from leading research, diplomacy, industry and impact experts. The incubation Advisory Board led to the formation of the official OQI Advisory Committee, formed during its pilot phase in 2024.

Quantum computing is one tool to get there faster. And our destination is the Sustainable Development Goals.
Özge AydoğanDirector, SDG Lab
Özge Aydoğan
Robust scientific evidence is at the core of the OQI; this is essential to counter the hype and focus on where quantum computing will really offer solutions for some of our most pressing concerns.
Cornelius HempelGroup head, ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub
Cornelius Hempel
Quantum computing needs multilateral commitment in order to reach its full potential and benefit all of us and the OQI is a futuristic and timely step towards such a goal.
Urbasi SinhaProfessor, Raman Research Institute
Urbasi Sinha
The OQI is proof that GESDA isn’t only talking about the future but really doing something about it.
Barry SandersScientific Director, Quantum City
Barry Sanders
Bringing together such diverse stakeholders is not trivial; the OQI does it through the joint commitment to progress towards the SDGs.
Anna Fontcuberta i MorralEPFL President
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Realising the full potential of quantum for the good of mankind will require our collective genius. We’re excited to join the OQI on its mission.
Matthias TroyerCVP, Technical Fellow, Microsoft
Matthias Troyer
We must harness quantum computing’s power with those who are the most affected by today’s global challenges.
Rosario FazioHead Condensed Matter Section, ICTP
Rosario Fazio
The OQI innovates with education at the nexus of quantum and SDGs for young scientists and entrepreneurs, but also diplomats. This will create a new generation of SDG-focused leaders.
Sana OdehProfessor, New York University
Sana Odeh
The OQI is a pragmatic, action-driven initiative. This ‘learning by doing’ and technology-agnostic approach is what makes it stand out in the field.
Stéphane DuguinCEO, CyberPeace Institute
Stéphane Duguin
The OQI is all about levelling the playing field so that quantum computing as a powerful technology will be made available in an equitable way across the globe and used towards the betterment of humanity.
Anousheh AnsariCEO, XPRIZE Foundation
Anousheh Ansari
Quantum technologies will have a global economic and social impact; therefore, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo supports the OQI as a neutral platform to collectively explore the potential of quantum computing for the common good during its development and before it is implemented.
Alberto AnfossiSecretary General, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
Alberto Anfossi

Public Announcement

The proposal for OQI was announced at the 2022 GESDA Summit, with significant traction in the quantum community and with diplomatic stakeholders.

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Design Phase

Out of 42 emerging scientific topics explored by GESDA, quantum computing stood out as a technology with transformative potential, requiring science diplomacy and international collaboration to ensure its benefits are shared globally and its risks are carefully managed. A task force of scientists, diplomats, industry leaders and philanthropists was created, with the mission to find a way to maximise the positive impact of quantum computing for everyone. From this collaboration, the idea for OQI was born.

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OQI Partners are institutions that benefit from peer recognition for their scientific contributions or impact expertise.

Requirements:

  1. Either have served as OQI’s spearheading partners during its incubation phase or have consistently engaged resources to OQI’s work as OQI members for at least a year
  2. Commit to co-shape the OQI’s unique value propositions for the three years of the pilot throughout the 4A’s​
  3. Are vetted by the OQI Advisory Committee
  4. Abide to OQI’s values and openness principles

OQI Members are institutions that benefit from peer recognition for their scientific contributions or their impact expertise.

Requirements:

  1. Have disclosed their governance structure
  2. Commit to actively contribute on at least one of the 4A’s assiduously for at least one year​
  3. Have appointed at least one expert from their institution as focal point of contact for OQI and contributor to its working groups
  4. Abide to OQI’s values
  5. Have submitted a complete membership form with supporting documentation and are vetted by the OQI Management Team
  6. Qualify for partner level after having demonstrated their commitment for at least one year​

OQI Friends are individuals (such as experts from the private or public sector, countries, citizens) who are committed to open science, inclusivity and all values as set out in OQI’s charter and associate themselves with the OQI.

Friends socialise the OQI to their communities.

Downloadable PDF version of Charter

 

Description:

The Open Quantum Institute (OQI) is a multilateral governance initiative that promotes global and inclusive access to quantum computing and the development of applications for the benefit of humanity. As a novel science diplomacy instrument, it brings together research, diplomacy, private sector and philanthropy stakeholders. OQI is hosted by CERN during its pilot phase (2024-2026).

 

Mission:

• Accelerating applications for humanity: Realising the full potential of quantum computing to have the widest possible societal impact by accelerating the development of use cases geared towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and succeeding framework , thanks to the combined forces of researchers, developers and entrepreneurs from academia and private sector as well as the United Nations, and large NGOs
• Access for all: Providing global, inclusive and equitable access to a pool of public and private quantum computers and simulators available via the cloud
• Advancing capacity building: Developing educational tools to enable everyone around the world to contribute to the development of quantum computing and make the most of the technology
• Activating multilateral governance for the SDGs: Providing a neutral forum to help shape multilateral governance of quantum computing for the SDGs

 

Values:

• Inclusivity, global scope
  • Enable people from all countries, regardless of whether they have any quantum computing capability of their own, to benefit from and to participate in the development of (i) quantum computing applications that address global challenges, in particular those that are closely related to their own specific challenges, and (ii) the multilateral governance of quantum computing for the SDGs
• Openness
  • Share experiences, knowledge, and methods for the benefit of all, following Open Science best practice
  • Make openly available the results – outcomes of joint activities related to the OQI mission conducted by the OQI community – to society via open repositories and/or through the use of open licences
• Focus on impact
  • Ensure that applications are developed for their quantum computing potential to tackle real-world problems that will benefit humanity
  • Consider and balance their ethical, legal, and societal implications
• Independence
  • Enable everyone to participate free from individual, national, corporate or any other agendas
  • Develop applications with a technology neutral approach.
• Collaboration
  • Foster a community of diverse expertise, backgrounds and geographies, enabled by international cooperation and diplomacy

 

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