When Bavaria's Minister President Dr. Markus Söder in a government statement to the Bavarian parliament in October 2019, he pointed out the great political, scientific and economic importance of the Hightech Agenda Bayern (HTA), he specifically referred to the role of future technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and SuperTech: China, the U.S., the U.K., Denmark, France and Israel would invest heavily long ago. "For Bavaria, I want to say: we will not stand idly by. [...] We are launching the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria. [...] We are thus igniting the research turbo so that Bavaria will still be able to play in the Champions League in ten years' time," said the Bavarian Minister President. The primary goal of the offensive, he said, is the "development of the latest technologies and their implementation in concrete practice."
The quantum technology formed already in 2019 with a funding volume of 70 million euros a focus of the program, which runs until 2024.
A year later, against the backdrop of the experience with the Corona pandemic, the Bavarian state government sets another impulse and launches the Hightech Agenda Plus (HTA Plus). With an additional 900 million euros or so, it aims to drive forward digitization and cutting-edge technologies such as quantum technology in the export-oriented Free State in 2020 and 2021.
On January 11, 2021, the merger of the five major drivers in the Munich quantum scene to form the Munich Quantum Valley initiative was finally announced: The alliance of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Max Planck Society, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich is intended to "establish Bavaria as a German pacesetter and internationally visible center for quantum technologies and quantum computing." This underscores Bavaria's efforts to establish a powerful quantum ecosystem centered in Munich and sets the stage for a successful application for additional federal funding.
