Peter Zoller, Thomas Beth, D. Binosi, Rainer Blatt, Hans J. Briegel, D. Bruss, Tommaso Calarco, Juan Ignacio Cirac, David Deutsch, Jens Eisert, Artur Ekert, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Gisin, P. Grangiere, Markus Grassl, Serge Haroche, Atac Imamoglu, A. Karlson, Julia Kempe, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, S. Kröll, Gerd Leuchs, Maciej Lewenstein, Daniel Loss, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Serge Massar, J. E. Mooij, Martin Bodo Plenio, Eugene Polzik, Sandu Popescu, Gerhard Rempe, Alexander Sergienko, David Suter, John Twamley, Göran Wendin, Reinhard F. Werner, Andreas Winter, Jörg Wrachtrup, Anton Zeilinger

• We present an excerpt of the document "Quantum Information Processing and Communication: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe", which has been recently published in electronic form at the website of FET (the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission, http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm). This document has been elaborated, following a former suggestion by FET, by a committee of QIPC scientists to provide input towards the European Commission for the preparation of the Seventh Framework Program. Besides being a document addressed to policy makers and funding agencies (both at the European and national level), the document contains a detailed scientific assessment of the state-of-the-art, main research goals, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, visions and perspectives of all the most relevant QIPC sub-fields, that we report here