Eclipse Qrisp Wins Quantum Effects Award 2026 for Quantum Software

Insider Brief

• Eclipse Foundation, an open-source quantum programming framework initiated by Fraunhofer FOKUS, won the 2026 Quantum Effects Award in the Quantum Computing Software & Algorithms category.
• The Python-based framework provides higher-level programming constructs and compiles them into optimized quantum circuits for different quantum computing environments.
• Qrisp supports hybrid quantum-classical computing, multiple quantum backends and integration with NVIDIA CUDA-Q while contributing to the SecQDevOps project.

PRESS RELEASE — The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced that Eclipse Qrisp, an open source framework for high-level quantum programming initiated by Fraunhofer FOKUS, has won the Quantum Effects Award 2026 in the Quantum Computing Software & Algorithms category.

As quantum computing advances, one of the fundamental challenges is making increasingly sophisticated quantum systems practical to program. Developers often work close to the hardware level, constructing algorithms through individual quantum gates, circuits, and qubits.

Eclipse Qrisp moves quantum programming up the software stack. Built on Python, it enables developers to express complex quantum algorithms using familiar concepts such as variables, functions, and control flow, then compiles those programs into optimised quantum circuits for execution across different quantum computing environments.