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The European Commission is launching a €34.8 million call for eco-innovation projects. Business and entrepreneurs from across Europe can aplly for funding to help bring novel environmental projects to the market. The call is open to eco-innovative products, techniques, services and processesthat aim to prevent or reduce environmental impacts or which contribute to the optimal use of resources.

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The next Photonics21 Work Group 5 workshop will be held on the 15 June 2012 at the Vrije Universiteit (VUB) in Brussels. The meeting will be a one day event and take place from 10.30 – 16.30. The workshop will be held in the meeting room: Promotion room building D - D.201.

You will find a map on the meeting venue here. 

The Photonics21 Work Group 5 workshop will continue the roadmapping process which has been started at the Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2012 and will collect further input for the Photonics Multiannual Strategic Roadmap.

The meeting will be an important milestone in the photonics roadmap process as the Photonics Multiannual Strategic Roadmap will define the direction for future photonics research and innovation funding and will serve the European Commission to further elaborate on the new Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

If you would like to participate in the workshop we would kindly ask you to confirm your participation via e-mail to secretariat@photonics21.org.

As the capacity of the meeting venue is limited the workshop participation will be on a first come first serve basis.

Any further information about the workshop as will be announced as soon as possible.

The photonics summer school "Get Ahead with Optics" is an interdisciplinary program which is targeted towards female science graduate students from Tunisia and Germany. The content and structure are designed to provide them with professional skills and help them succeed in the dynamic and rapidly devolving field of optics and photonics. The ten day summer school in optics is a partnership between the University of Carthage’s Engineering School of Communications, Tunisia and Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. The summer school will provide career coaching and international networking opportunities for like-minded and promising young professionals to lay the groundwork for a successful scientific career.

The optic lectures will focus on the following topics:

• Tissues optics and medical applications
• Spectroscopy
• New microscopy methodes
• Laser application
• Optical signal processing
• Fiber optics
• Photonics
• Crystal fibers and applications
• Nanophotonics

You can find any further information about the summer school if you click here.

Further photonics summer school announcements can be found in the following section:
http://www.photonics21.org/TrainingEducation/summerschool.php

The next Photonics21 Work Group 2 workshop will take place on the 12 June 2012 at TRUMPF in Ditzingen alongside the LASYS exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. The workshop will start at 15:00.

The Photonics21 Work Group 2 workshop will continue the roadmapping process which has been started at the Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2012 and will collect further input for the Photonics Multiannual Strategic Roadmap.

If you plan to arrive early you will have the opportunity for lunch at 13:00, followed by a short guided tour through the TRUMPF application labs. 

If you would like to participate in the workshop we would kindly ask you to confirm your participation via e-mail to secretariat@photonics21.org.

Please indicate if you plan to arrive early for lunch.

As the capacity of the meeting venue is limited the workshop participation will be on a first come first serve basis.

You will find some travel indications how to get to the meeting venue here.

The detailed address is: TRUMPF Entrance 2.1, Dieselstr. 1, 71254 Ditzingen

The Photonics21 Secretariat invites you to mark the date in your diary.

DG Information Society and Media has extended the Call for Sponsors to a pilot action for the installation of an innovative SSL lighting solution in the Berlaymont building to the 31 May 2012.

The Call invites you to submit proposals to sponsor a pilot action for the installation of an innovative lighting solution based on Solid State Lighting (SSL) technologies (LEDs and/or OLEDs) in the Berlaymont building in Brussels, the main seat of the European Commission.The Call is to be seen as part of the European Commission's efforts to promote the wider deployment of advanced SSL and more specifically, in the context of the Green Paper "Lighting the Future".

Interested sponsors are requested to make contact in due time with the responsible EC services as listed in the Call text.

Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals for sponsorship has been extended to the 31 May 2012.

The plan of the area to be covered together with a FAQ documenthas been made available as a follow up to the visit to the ground floor of the Berlaymont building on the 17 April 2012.

You can find any further information in the call for sponsor announcement if you click here.

Furthermore, you can inform about the corresponding annex to the call of sponsors here.

Also you will find further information here.

The precise details of the European Commission’s (EC’s) “Horizon 2020” innovation platform may still be somewhat hazy, but one message is becoming clearer: those in the photonics sector who are hoping for EC funding from 2014 onwards will need to convince Brussels of the wealth- and job-creating potential of their ideas.

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First video files of the Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2012 have now been published on the Photonics21 website. You can watch the video files of the General Assembly if you click here.