FORTH, recognizing the scientific, economic, and social impact of quantum technologies, has invested significant effort over the past decades in their development. During this period, FORTH has attracted a critical number of researchers, and the largest in Greece, who have established state-of-the-art infrastructures and conducted pioneering experimental and theoretical research in quantum information science and technologies. The significance, recognition, and dissemination of this work have been widely acknowledged by the scientific community, as evidenced by substantial funding from highly competitive international programs, a large number of high-impact scientific publications, numerous keynote and invited lectures at international conferences, workshops, institutes, and universities, as well as extensive and effective international collaborations with leading research institutes worldwide.

These achievements, combined with the rapid advancement of quantum technologies, have led to the establishment of the Center for Quantum Science and Technologies (FORTH-QuTech) at FORTH in 2024. The Center provides an ideal scientific environment for researchers to collaborate and work in a coordinated manner toward the development of new tools for groundbreaking research across a wide range of fundamental and technological disciplines, while generating new knowledge and advancing our understanding of quantum phenomena.

The vision of FORTH-QuTech is to continue being the national core research center in quantum science and technologies with international visibility. FORTH-QuTech aims to maintain and enhance the number of researchers from various disciplines to develop new paradigms, knowledge and understanding while dealing with: photonic, atomic, molecular and condensed matter systems for quantum information science (processing, communication, sensing, metrology, simulation, design of quantum algorithms and hybrid (quantum-classical) systems for computing and simulations).

Many individual experimental and theoretical activities of the Institutes of FORTH support FORTH-QuTech. These activities support the core research directions and the strategy of FORTH-QuTech. The FORTH-QuTech is coordinated by the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of FORTH in collaboration with the Institutes of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Computer Science (ICS), Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT), GeoEnergy (IG), Astrophysics (IA) and Biomedical Research (BRI).