(ANSA) – NAPOLI, 12 SET – An investment of 1 billion over five years has been requested for quantum technologies, and now we will have to wait for the Budget Law, said Tommaso Calarco, coordinator of the National Strategy on Quantum Technologies and professor of Theoretical Matter Physics at the University of Bologna, at the conference of scientific and space and agricultural experts organized in Naples by the Foreign Ministry.
“The government has already discussed and approved our Strategy in a meeting of the Council of Ministers,” he continued, and in the Strategy was “made the recommendation of an investment in the order of one billion over five years, to keep up with the rest of the activities at the European level.” It is a “recommendation that we express chorally, not only from the scientific community but also from policy makers.” Indeed, the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Enterprise and Made in Italy, the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the National Agency for cybersecurity.
“Of course, this requires concretization at the level of the Budget Law, and this is a decision of the policymakers on which we scientists clearly do not have more of a say. We are very very happy and optimistic,” Calarco added, “that this strategy, with this recommendation, is shared really very broadly. The economic commitment, he said further, “is certainly substantial, but it is not impossible to achieve. So the next step to concretize it would be right in the Budget Law, and then we would move on to the development of the structures that we have recommended within the Strategy.”
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“The government has already discussed and approved our Strategy in a meeting of the Council of Ministers,” he continued, and in the Strategy was “made the recommendation of an investment in the order of one billion over five years, to keep up with the rest of the activities at the European level.” It is a “recommendation that we express chorally, not only from the scientific community but also from policy makers.” Indeed, the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Enterprise and Made in Italy, the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the National Agency for cybersecurity.
“Of course, this requires concretization at the level of the Budget Law, and this is a decision of the policymakers on which we scientists clearly do not have more of a say. We are very very happy and optimistic,” Calarco added, “that this strategy, with this recommendation, is shared really very broadly. The economic commitment, he said further, “is certainly substantial, but it is not impossible to achieve. So the next step to concretize it would be right in the Budget Law, and then we would move on to the development of the structures that we have recommended within the Strategy.”
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