Secure PQC implementations, Cryptanalysis and Post-quantum Digital Trust

In short

This is a Research and Innovation Action under Horizon Europe. The budget is €19 million for about 3 grants of €3 million to €4 million each. It is paid as a lump sum, so you report results instead of costs. Submission opens on 2 March 2027. Deadline: 15 September 2027.

What the call wants to achieve

• Practical robust implementations of PQC schemes that can withstand implementation attacks including side-channel attacks, fault attacks and combined attacks, and design of automated tools for evaluating the security of PQC implementations. Comprehensive guidelines for implementing countermeasures against a wide range (…)
• Advances in understanding the quantum hardness of mathematical problem classes; new quantum algorithms and improvements in quantum programming and implementation; security validation methods; design of post-quantum schemes with improved security against quantum and AI-based attacks
• Post-quantum schemes and protocols to support privacy-friendly applications and services, ncluding the secure and private use of electronic identities. Design of new digital signatures, key encapsulation mechanisms, and other schemes or use of existing ones to build new verification protocols.

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, CC BY 4.0, summarised. The official call text and its annexes decide eligibility, budget and deadlines.

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