On January 1, 2023, Latvia commenced its national quantum communication infrastructure project, known as LATQN (Project No. 101091559), under the EU Digital Europe Programme. The project carried a total budget of €8,061,380, with the European Commission co-financing 50% of eligible costs (€4,030,690). The implementation period was set for 36 months, running through December 31, 2025.
The Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) served as the lead partner and coordinator. Other partners included the Electronic Communications Office of Latvia as the state-sector partner, Tet as the private-sector partner, and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia as the research and scientific partner.
Project deliverables included deployment of a national quantum key distribution (QKD) backbone, integration of QKD into existing communication networks, development of government data processing applications, and testbed activities for secure QKD gateways for 5G wireless networks. Additional use cases covered secure data transmission for the healthcare and financial sectors, as well as long-distance QKD research.