BMFTR

BMFTR (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt) is Germany's federal ministry for research, technology and space, created in 2025 out of the former Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is a government funder rather than a technology developer: it finances quantum research through programmes such as the Quantum Technologies Action Plan and the Munich Quantum Valley, and supports German participation in EU efforts including the Quantum Flagship. Money flows to universities, Fraunhofer, Leibniz and Max Planck institutes, DLR and startups, with no in-house quantum hardware platform of its own.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 24 September 2026

Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Status: Private

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Coverage

The Quantum Insider23 September 2026

German Government Selects QUDORA-Led Consortium For €122 Million Project

Germany's Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) selected a QUDORA-led consortium of seven research and industry partners for the NFQC-1k project, funded at €122 million. The consortium is tasked with building what the announcement describes as one of Europe's most advanced quantum computers.

OutlookPlausible

Within the next two years, this could place a German-built superconducting prototype in the hands of European algorithm developers, giving them a testbed for error mitigation and hybrid quantum-classical workloads that does not depend on US cloud access.

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