On 12 October, HBP Scientific Director Katrin Amunts and Tommaso Calarco, chair of the Quantum Community Network of the Quantum Flagship, presented two special pieces from Forschungszentrum Jülich to the European Commission in Brussels: an enlarged image of human brain fibres and a true-to-scale replica of the quantum computer "OpenSuperQ".

The two European Flagship projects represent innovations for Europe's scientific and technological sovereignty and are both unique in the European research landscape. "Both exhibits illustrate the successes of the two European flagship initiatives particularly vividly. As such, they can be displayed in the European Commission and symbolise how far cooperation at the European level can take us," said Astrid Lambrecht, member of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich, in her welcome address during the ceremony.