Welcome to AQuRA!
AQuRA, the Advanced Quantum Clock for Real World Applications, is a European consortium of five industry leaders, two national measurement institutes and three universities. The AQuRA clock will be the first industry led clock prototype aiming for instability and uncertainty at around a second over the age of the universe.
Such precise and accurate clocks are crucial for the precise navigation, communications and sensing challenges that underpin our modern society. 
The goal of AQuRA is to make the best clocks in the world robust and compact enough for real world applications. These "optical atomic clocks" are amazingly accurate. If such a clock would have been turned on during the Big Bang, almost fourteen billion years ago, the clock would still be ahead or behind by around a second today!
AQuRA aims to make existing optical clocks smaller and more robust. Currently, these clocks do not look like the clocks in your home – they are complicated machines that fill entire laboratories. AQuRA wants to make these clocks transportable, so that they can be used for measurements in the field and eventually even sent to space using satellites. This could for example make GPS systems much more accurate. AQuRA is one of the quantum technology related projects that together form the European Commission's Quantum Flagship initiative. On this website, you will find our latest news, an overview of the project's tasks, a more detailed description of the twelve partner institutes that make the project possible and open positions. as well as an overview of media appearances and materials. If you want to know more about AQuRA, don't hesitate to contact us! More about the AQuRA project... |
Recent news28 June 2024 - Quantum 2.0 Amsterdam Science Park Visit and Lab Tours
A group of participants of the Quantum 2.0 conference visited the Amsterdam Science park for the Quantum 2.0 Amsterdam Science Park Visit and Lab Tours. The participants were shown the research in the field of quantum science and technology in the Amsterdam Area, including the work on the AQuRA project. Special thanks to AMOLF, ARCNL and the group of René Gerritsma (UvA) for welcoming us to their labs! 
7 June 2024 - AQuRA Consortium Meeting in Paris
The second in-person AQuRA Consortium Meeting took place in Paris at CNRS on June 6-7, 2024. Besides a productive meeting, focusing on the upcoming system integration phase, participants enjoyed a French dinner, an astronomy session using the historical Arago telescope and a tour of the laboratories at SYRTE/CNRS. Special thanks to Jérôme and his team for hosting us! 
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