Work Packages

  • Perform the overall legal, ethical, financial and administrative management during Period 1
  • Manage contract and consortium agreement issues
  • Monitor the compliance of partners with obligations under the GA
  • Define internal project controls
  • Facilitate communication and co-operation between the partners
  • Prepare periodic management and technical progress reports during Period 1, as required
  • Provide communication with EC
  • Prepare the scheduled project reviews within Period 1
  • Ensure that equal opportunities are offered to both genders
  • Provide technical planning with up-to-date contingency plan
  • Enable effective innovation management and response to opportunities.
  • Definition of LaiQa’s architecture
  • Definition of LaiQa’s use cases
  • Specification and definition of system-level requirements of LaiQa technology
  • Translate these requirements into a concrete component level specifications
  • Development of numerical and computational algorithms to estimate SKRs in satellite QKD systems
  • Perform system level simulation studies
  • Define the process flow for the assembly and packaging of on-board sources.
  • Design of the onboard EPPS
  • Design of the polarization-based P&M source. 
  • Selection and testing of the critical components for the fabrication of the EPPS and P&M on-board sources.
  • Design and development of PIC based EPPS. 
  • Design and development of Quantum Memory 
  • In lab characterization of PIC-based EPPS 
  • In lab characterization of Quantum Memory 
  • In lab characterization of space quantum internet integrated components
  • Design and development of 1550 nm free space to fiber coupling system 
  • Development of a hybrid Portable OGS 
  • Development of advanced methods for terrestrial WDM routing of the satellite distributed entangled states
  • Demonstration of WDM-routed entanglement distribution
  • Development of link budget calculator
  • Update the SKR calculators
  • Development of optimization algorithms for maximization of SKR 
  • Development of hybrid forms of OKD/QKD
  • Fabrication of on-board P&M source 
  • Fabrication of on-board EPPS 
  • In-lab testing of the on-board sources 
  • Space qualification of P&M source 
  • Thermal-vacuum cycling of EPPS prototype
  • Define the methodology and testing strategies for the system evaluation of LaiQa’s technological blocks
  • Prepare the characterization/validation testbeds 
  • System in-lab validation of LaiQa’s on-board components
  • Performance evaluation of h-POGS 
  • Performance evaluation of LaiQa’s prototype in terrestrial 2.5 km FSO testbed 
  • Field-trial in Helmos Observatory testbeds
  • Strengthen the position of the EU in the standardisation of QKD space systems. 
  • Focus on defining a standardisation roadmap for the EU 
  • Contribute to and/or start up standardization activities based on the prioritization as indicated in the roadmap and the developments within the technical WPs of the LaiQa’s project
  • Perform an initial market analysis and create a roadmap with concrete steps towards the commercialization of LaiQa’s prototypes 
  • Organize the plans of the partners for exploitation of the project foreground knowledge at the technology, component and system level
  • Monitor IPR across the globe, assess the possible threats 
  • Protect and manage the IPR that will be generated in the project
  • Monitor and continuously update the implementation of the DMP 
  • Implement the open science policy via the deposition of generated data sets to open access repositories
  • Disseminate results to the scientific community, industry, stakeholders and general public 
  • Set up the website, prepare a promotion video and streamline the rest of the D/C activities 
  • Promote the interaction with other European and national projects.
  • Perform the overall legal, ethical, financial and administrative management 
  • Monitor the compliance of partners with obligations under the GA during Period 2 
  • Monitor internal project controls 
  • Ensure the communication and cooperation between the partners 
  • Prepare periodic management and technical progress reports during Period 2, as required
  • Provide communication with EC 
  • Prepare the scheduled project reviews up to the end of the project 
  • Ensure that equal opportunities are offered to both genders 
  • Provide technical planning with up-to-date contingency plan 
  • Enable effective innovation management and response to opportunities.
  • Update the initial market analysis and the roadmap of LaiQa’s technology 
  • Update the plans of the partners for exploitation of the project foreground knowledge at the technology, component and system level 
  • Monitor IPR across the globe, assess the possible threats 
  • Protect and manage the IPR that will be generated in the project 
  • Monitor and update the implementation of the DMP 
  • Implement the open science policy via the deposition of generated data sets to open access repositories 
  • Disseminate results to the scientific community, industry, stakeholders and general public
  • Promote the interaction with other European and national projects.

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