The two main sources of funding are. ERDF funds and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
It is hoped that the investment will attract private investment of a further €700 million.
“The digital transformation we are undergoing is driving disruptive technologies that will change the world as we know it,” says Spain’s minister for digital transformation and public function, Óscar López, “one of these is quantum, where competition for global leadership is starting to intensify. The quantum race will not be easy, but Spain can and needs to specialise in specific sectors such as quantum communications. This is a sector that will be transcendental to protect critical environments such as financial transactions and energy distribution networks.”