The Cluster of Excellence Matter and Light for Quantum Computing (ML4Q) will continue to receive funding in the upcoming phase of Germany’s Excellence Strategy. This was announced today in Bonn by the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG). ML4Q is a joint research initiative between the University of Cologne (host university), the University of Bonn, RWTH Aachen University - with strong involvement of the 2nd Institute of Physics - and Forschungszentrum Jülich. The cluster addresses fundamental physical and technological challenges on the road to scalable and reliable quantum computing – from the development of high-performance qubits to modular architectures and the interface between quantum hardware and software. For more details see https://ml4q.de