A map of quantum competencies

The European Union’s “Quantum Flagship” aims to bring quantum technologies into use. This includes now training the skilled workers who will handle these technologies in the future. But what skills are actually needed? This is what Professor Rainer Müller and doctoral student Franziska Greinert from the Institute for the Didactics of Natural Sciences investigated. On behalf of the EU Commission, they created a “Competence Framework for Quantum Technologies” – a kind of map of all the competencies that can be acquired in quantum technologies. Based on this, courses of study or professional training measures can be developed, for example.

The two researchers at the TU Braunschweig thus support both the “Quantum Flagship” of the European Union and local initiative “Quantum Valley Lower Saxony”. The goal is to develop an entire ecosystem of specialists for quantum technologies in Germany and Europe. The scope here includes projects such as MILQ, which aims to bring quantum physics into schools, or the establishment of a new master’s degree program at the TU Braunschweig, which will equip engineering students with skills for the future use of quantum technologies.

https://qt.eu/about-quantum-flagship/newsroom/needs-of-quantum-community/