The university Côte d'Azur (UCA) gathers different actors (UNS, CNRS, INRIA, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,...) of the Côte d'Azur in an excellence initiative.
With the help of the CNRS, the French community of Quantum Information is structured around a GDR whose objective is to provide knowledge-sharing support. IQFA, for "Ingénierie Quantique, des Aspects Fondamentaux aux Applications", is supported by the CNRS institutes of Physics (INP) and Engineering & System Sciences (INSIS). IQFA unites more than 50 french laboratories.
The Nice PICQUE school is supported by the project "Integrated Quantum Circuit based on Waveguide Arrays" funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).
The international Training Program PICQUE, for "Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding", is an FP7 program supported by Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions.