2025 Declared as International Year of Quantum Science and Technology: A Global Celebration of Innovation and Discovery
UN declares 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology to celebrate a century of innovation and boost global quantum research and education.
United Nations Declares 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology to Celebrate a Century of Breakthroughs and Promote Global Innovation
On June 7 2024, the United Nations made a historic resolution by declaring 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). This will be a yearlong initiative to recognize the effects of quantum technology on science, on societies, and in achieving sustainable development. It is supposed to create global cooperative action in science education, bring attention to breakthroughs made in quantum research, and celebrate one hundred years of groundbreaking discoveries in the quantum universe.
The IYQ will convey honors to the foundational sciences pioneering contribution by physicists like Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan, who pioneered wave and matrix mechanics which would lay the foundation of what would come to be known as the First Quantum Revolution. The world is now poised on the brink of a Second Quantum Revolution after a hundred years. Once again, quantum science is about to transform industries and everyday life.
European leaders and institutions are increasingly joining in the celebration. Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union, mentioned the greater promise that quantum technologies hold in shaping a more sustainable and equitable future for all. On the other hand, Yasser Omar, the President of PQI, pointed out Europe’s current leadership on this front and the continued commitment to initiatives such as the World Quantum Day and the Quantum Flagship projects of the European Union.
The institutions that host the Quantum Flagship of the EU will be carrying out global activities in 2025 and displaying the advancements made in quantum computing, sensing, simulation, communication, and metrology. It is expected that these technologies will change the world’s way of dealing with some of its most challenging issues-from climate change to health.
Very interesting is that this international initiative goes hand in hand with the SDGs of the United Nations. Quantum technologies are used in building cleaner energy systems, more accurate climate models, better medical diagnostics, for example: Environmental conditions can be monitored by quantum sensors with hitherto unseen precision. Quantum chemistry contributes significantly to drug discovery and vaccine formulation. Lasting breakthroughs in quantum engineering enable the development of energy-efficient, cost-effective solar cells and future lighting techniques.
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The recognition of quantum science by the UN is neither an impossible tribute to bygone glories nor an exercise in hypocrisy for promising futures. It is in understanding the critical role quantum research will have in shaping sustainable industries, reducing inequalities, and creating innovation. The declaration results from a collaborative effort led by the American Physical Society (APS) and the German Physical Society (DPG) that set the stage for UNESCO’s endorsement and the final resolution of the General Assembly.
And as countries and institutions around the world gear up for IYQ activities, it promises to be a global celebration of science, innovation, and international fraternity in 2025. Very seldom, the whole world has an occasion to collectively observe the invisible bricks of reality-and the brilliant minds that continue to decode them.
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