Institut national de la recherche scientifique will receive $7.4M in funding through NSERC’s Alliance Advantage grants program. This funding will support university-industry partnerships focused on integrating photonics and quantum technologies to enhance quantum communication, computing, and sensing capabilities. INRS and partners including McGill, the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, Université de Sherbrooke, as well as other educational and industry partners will receive over $4.99M over five years for a project focused on improving cybersecurity and biomedicine. More than $1.27M over four years will support a project on using photonic systems for quantum information processing. INRS will receive $1.17M over four years for a project in collaboration with McGill University, Polytechnique Montréal, and industry partners that will focus on developing a scalable platform for on-chip quantum communication.