In the past ten years, QuTech was supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the Topsector Holland High Tech and Materials. This national support - laid down in the QuTech Partner Covenant - steered the research in Delft in new directions and positioned QuTech where it is today, with a strong international brand and reputation, embedded in a growing quantum ecosystem. Mid 2025, the QuTech Partner Covenant 2015-2025 ended. QuTech has continued its mission to create excellent and relevant research results for full stack systems, where possible to transfer these to industry and to address the growing need for quantum education, through contributions to the TU Delft curricula and through QuTech Academy.

In 2025 attention was given to social safety, and the year started with the QuTech Mindlab session in January. Mindlab is a theatre production that explores integrity and social safety within the university environment; the January session was especially organised for QuTech staff and well attended.

From 2023, QuTech has organised social safety training for all staff. In Q1 2025, new QuTech colleagues were invited to the last social safety workshop, as part of their onboarding process. Because TU Delft started offering a variety of social safety training, QuTech has stopped organising their own workshops and since Q2 2025, aligned with all training offered by TU Delft centrally, social safety courses are available to (new) supervisors for both scientific and support staff. Part of ‘the license to lead’ and good leadership, is social safety knowledge and skills. Many QuTech supervisors have already participated in trainings Leadership@TUD and social safety in 2025, the intention is that all supervisors will do so eventually.

In 2025 and to be continued in 2026: the follow-up on the Employee Monitor 2024. The Action Plan based on the results of this monitor has been assessed formally by the occupational health expert. Based on that assessment the Action Plan was revised and has been agreed on by QuTech Management and the OdC. Focus will be on workload and more specific a healthy balance between work and private life; a healthy psychosocial workload (in Dutch PSA/Psychosociale arbeidsbelasting).

Although QuTech has been prioritising social safety since 2022 - by organising meetings, workshops, training courses and developing the QuTech Etiquette - improving social safety and hence building a safe and fruitful working environment for all QuTech staff with special attention to the psychosocial workload, remains an ongoing process.

International challenges, such as current geopolitical developments, have led to government initiatives and regulations regarding knowledge security in the Netherlands and the EU in recent years that impact Dutch knowledge institutions. TU Delft has since embedded knowledge security within its line organisation. In addition to the existing central knowledge security team, which is responsible for coordination, advising on complex cases, and expertise development, the faculties and QuTech have defined their own responsibilities by appointing Knowledge Security Coordinators.

The QuTech knowledge security coordinator and TU Delft colleagues ensure a clearly identifiable process flow and provide an advisory function to support decision making by the QuTech General Director as well as an informative function towards the QuTech staff. End of 2025, our knowledge security coordinator was joined by two QuTech colleagues. Together, the three of them review the QuTech knowledge security advice requests that are submitted to QuTech. Also in 2025, the QuTech export control compliance project was launched, which will be completed in 2026. This project is carried out by QuTech's knowledge security coordinator with expertise from the TU Delft central knowledge security team.

QuTech remains committed to publish all peer reviewed articles as open access. Moreover, all relevant research data underlying novel scientific findings published in peer reviewed articles are made available through trusted data repositories such as Zenodo and 4TU.ResearchData. Moreover, QuTech has developed its own data management system to accommodate FAIR data even further. Additionally, a mission of QuTech is to make new quantum technology accessible to the public. To this end, QuTech has updated the Quantum Inspire and Quantum Network Explorer platforms that allow anybody to explore and learn about quantum computing and quantum internet.