Hightech Agenda Deutschland aims to strengthen Key Technologies:
At the end of July 2025, the Federal Cabinet adopted the Hightech Agenda Deutschland. The focus is on six key technologies that are strategically important for technological progress – including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biotechnology, and Quantum Technologies. The agenda aims to strengthen Germany’s innovation and economic strength through targeted investments in these future technologies, securing long-term competitiveness, value creation, and technological sovereignty. This is to be achieved through accelerated research, development, and application, as well as expanding technological capacities in Germany and Europe.
For each key technology, the federal government presents flagship initiatives with concrete timelines and measures. In Quantum Communication, for example, a German research satellite is scheduled for launch in 2025. The cabinet decision marks the starting point and the signal from the federal government for a comprehensive development of the Hightech Agenda Deutschland throughout the entire legislative period. A joint kickoff event is planned for autumn 2025, where representatives from the federal states, research, industry, and civil society will collaboratively advance the roadmap for the six key technologies.
The agenda’s goals for Quantum Technologies focus on four main areas: Quantum Computing, Quantum Sensing, Quantum Communication, and talent development. In Quantum Computing, the aim is to realize at least two error-corrected Quantum Computers at European cutting-edge level by 2030 and make them accessible to a broad user base. For Quantum Sensing, the objective is to utilize Quantum Sensors for early disease detection and to open at least one additional application field. The focus of Quantum Communication is on expanding the innovation ecosystem while incorporating end-users’ perspectives. Alongside excellent fundamental research, targeted technology transfer is intended to pave the way for robust cybersecurity in the Quantum Era. In 2025 and 2026, high-profile experiments under the QuNET initiative will demonstrate the capabilities of Quantum Communication. Furthermore, in 2028, the foundation for long-distance Quantum Communication is to be laid with a technology demonstration of the first Quantum Repeater. Accompanying these efforts, the “Quantum Future Professionals” skills agenda aims to enhance competence development throughout the entire career lifecycle – from school education to professional training.
With the Hightech Agenda Deutschland, the federal government is setting a decisive impulse to secure Germany’s technological leadership in an increasingly digital and globally connected world, and to promote sustainable growth as well as social progress. Click here for more information about Quantum Technologies as a key technology.
Source references: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/hightech-agenda-deutschland-2366912; https://www.bmftr.bund.de/DE/Forschung/HightechAgenda/HightechAgenda_node.html;
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