Grant Opportunities
NSF – Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes
Deadline: September 17, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000,000 to $45,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education
Description: Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes are large-scale interdisciplinary research projects motivated by major challenges at the frontiers of quantum information science and technology (QIST). Institutes are expected to catalyze breakthroughs on important problems underpinning QIST, for example in the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and/or quantum sensing. Successful institutes will coordinate a variety of approaches to specific scientific, technological, and educational goals in these fields, including multiple institutions and building upon multiple disciplines, as motivated by the science and engineering challenges.