Photonics Public Private Partnership Annual Meeting 2020

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  The European Technology Platform Photonics21 unites the majority of the leading photonics industries and relevant R&D stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe. Today ...
  
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  Photonics PPP
  Effective November 2013 the "Photonics 21 Association" - a legal entity under Belgium law - was formed to become the private contract partner in a contractual Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
  
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  Research & Innovation Priorities
  
  Research & Innovation Priorities
  Setting photonics research and innovation Prorities for the Horizon 2020 Work Programmes lies in the heart of the Photonics Public Private Partnership tasks.
  
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  Structures, Processes and Statutes
  The Photonics Public Private Partnership acts as a "mouthpiece" of the European Technology Platform Photonics21 (and its more than 2500 members) towards the European Commission.
  
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- Structure
  
  Structure
  Photonics21 is composed of several bodies. You can find more information on the structure of the platform in the following sections.
  
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  Board of Stakeholder
  
  Board of Stakeholders
  The Board of Stakeholders (BoS) is the main decision-making body of the platform. In particular, the BoS bears responsibility for:
  
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  Executive Board
  
  Executive Board
  The Executive Board (EB) is the managing body of the platform. The EB is responsible for the coordination and execution of the platform operations, for the preparation and the implementation of the ...
  
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  The Photonics21 Work Groups (WGs) are the main centres of activities within Photonics21. They focus on the development of the work group specific research and innovation priorites and the update of ...
  
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  Work Group 1
  Information and Communication
  
  Work Group 1
  Information and Communication Technologies, underpinned by optical broadband communuication technoologies, will address many of the socio-economic challenges. ICT supports and enables new ways of ...
  
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  Work Group 2
  Industrial Manufacturing and Quality
  
  Work Group 2
  With the 'laser light' tool, manufacturing processes can be handled automatically and flexibly, producing components and products of extraordinary quality, and in a much 'greener' way in comparison ...
  
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  Work Group 3
  Life Science and Health
  
  Work Group 3
  For most European countries, the projected demographic changes will have drastic consequences for European citizens and their healthcare systems. For example, the number of people older than 65 years ...
  
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  Work Group 4
  Emerging Lighting, Electronics and Displays
  
  Work Group 4
  This topic deals with a broad palette of interrelated photonics technologies, each showing different times to market, notably, LED (Light Emitting Diodes), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes), OPV ...
  
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  Work Group 5
  Security, Metrology and Sensors
  
  Work Group 5
  Today, over 70 million organic and inorganic substances are on record, and for most of these, little is known about their potential danger to humans. Although only a small fraction of this plethora ...
  
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  Work Group 6
  Design and Manufacturing of Components and Systems
  
  Work Group 6
  As a fundamental pillar of modern industry, a Key Enabling Technology, photonics underpins solutions for the widest possible range of socio-economic needs. For example, the Internet of today depends ...
  
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  Work Group 7
  Photonics Research, Education and Training
  
  Work Group 7
  Major progress is needed both on advanced research, and on education and training of highly-skilled workforce, if photonics is to address successfully the major socio-economical challenges facing ...
  
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  Mirror Group
  
  Mirror Group
  The Mirror Group constitutes the public complement to the industry-led Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. It supports and reflects ("mirrors") the activities of Photonics21 at policy level and from a ...
  
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Photonics21
The European Technology Platform Photonics21 unites the majority of the leading photonics industries and relevant R&D stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe. Today ...

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Photonics PPP
Effective November 2013 the "Photonics 21 Association" - a legal entity under Belgium law - was formed to become the private contract partner in a contractual Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...

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Structure
Photonics21 is composed of several bodies. You can find more information on the structure of the platform in the following sections.

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PPP Services
- Photonics for Finance
  
  Photonics for Finance
  The financing of innovative photonics companies in their different growth phases is a serious problem in Europe. Thats why Photonics21 strives to improve the access to financing for European ...
  
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- Photonics for Industry
  
  Photonics for Industry
  Several European Pilot Lines, which help companies take photonics technologies from lab into market, have been launched by the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Pilot Lines mean that ...
  
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- Photonics for Education
  
  Photonics for Education
  The Photonics PPP supports various projects with the aim of bringing photonics into the education system of Europe. In this sectore we dive a bit deeper into this projects.
  
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- European Calls
  
  European Calls
  There are regular Photonics Calls for Proposals published by the European Commission. The Photonics21 community is the dedicated body to define the European call topics for photonics.
  
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- Photonics Downloads
  
  Photonics Downloads
  The most relevant and recent publications from Photonics21 and the Photonics PPP can be found and downloaded in this section.
  
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Photonics for Finance
The financing of innovative photonics companies in their different growth phases is a serious problem in Europe. Thats why Photonics21 strives to improve the access to financing for European ...

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Photonics for Industry
Several European Pilot Lines, which help companies take photonics technologies from lab into market, have been launched by the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Pilot Lines mean that ...

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Photonics for Education
The Photonics PPP supports various projects with the aim of bringing photonics into the education system of Europe. In this sectore we dive a bit deeper into this projects.

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PPP Projects
- Current Projects
  
  Morphic
  In MORPHIC, we will enhance an established Silicon Photonics platform with MEMS actuators so photonic circuits can be programmed, and reprogrammed, for a variety of optical functions with built-in ...
  
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  MULTIPLE
  The MULTIPLE project aims to develop cost-effective multimodal monitoring solutions with a breakthrough impact on production quality and efficiency.
  
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  Imcustomeye
  IMCUSTOMEYE will develop a tool based on innovative photonics and modelling approaches in response to the need to personalize healthcare in ophthalmology, improve diagnostics and health outcomes, ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  PARADDISE
  The overall objective of PARADDISE project is to rationalize, to structure and to make available to the stakeholders of manufacturing value chain the knowledge and the tools for combining two ...
  
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  HYPOSENS
  The Vision of HypoSens is to develop a widely accepted,non-invasive and crucial prognostic tool for breast cancer progression in early stages to help clinicians and specially oncologists to decide ...
  
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  OCTChip
  Quick and cost-effective access to optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning is critical to identify critical retinal diseases that often lead to blindness. The aim of the project OCTCHIP is to ...
  
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FemtoSurf
The tremendous success of lasers in industry resulted in massive demand for photonics-based solutions. At the moment lasers are inseparable part of fields like communications, medicine, science and ...

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MULTIPOINT
MULTIPOINT's main objective is to develop a high power femtosecond laser system with a multibeam generation unit and custom beam delivery scanning and processing on the fly heads for high throughput ...

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Moloko
The main objective of MOLOKO project is the manufacturing, implementation and validation of a self-managing and automatic miniaturized integrated photonic sensor to be used as process analytical ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  Photonics Digital Innovation Hub secures €19 million to boost SME growth and ensure Europe’s global competitiveness
  • PhotonHub Europe – a new pan-European photonics digital innovation hub –has been awarded €19 million investment from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme.• PhotonHub Europe will help European ...
  
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  Photonics21 welcomes 18 newly elected Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder members
  By the closing date of 6th October 2020 a total number of 155 Photonics21 voters participated in the two weeks Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder online election. This corresponds to a voting rate of ...
  
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  Scientists use photonics to make wastewater eco-friendly
  Wastewater will soon become cleaner and less harmful to plants and animals thanks to a new, ultra-sensitive water sensor being developed by European scientists to detect tiny amounts of toxic ...
  
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Photonics Digital Innovation Hub secures €19 million to boost SME growth and ensure Europe’s global competitiveness
• PhotonHub Europe – a new pan-European photonics digital innovation hub –has been awarded €19 million investment from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme.• PhotonHub Europe will help European ...

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Photonics21 welcomes 18 newly elected Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder members
By the closing date of 6th October 2020 a total number of 155 Photonics21 voters participated in the two weeks Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder online election. This corresponds to a voting rate of ...

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Scientists use photonics to make wastewater eco-friendly
Wastewater will soon become cleaner and less harmful to plants and animals thanks to a new, ultra-sensitive water sensor being developed by European scientists to detect tiny amounts of toxic ...

Read more...
Events
- Upcoming
  
  05 November 2020
  
  Photonics21 towards Horizon Europe
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  09–13 November 2020
  
  OptoNet-Seminar Lighting Optics
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  24–25 November 2020
  
  "Photonics 4.0 - The Future of Mobility" online congress
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- Archive
  
  06 October 2020
  
  Growth financing through Venture Debt by the European Investment Bank
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  05 October 2020
  
  Photonics4 Agrifood
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  22 July 2020
  
  Webmeeting Pilot line PIXAPP
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05 November 2020

Photonics21 towards Horizon Europe
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09–13 November 2020

OptoNet-Seminar Lighting Optics
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24–25 November 2020

"Photonics 4.0 - The Future of Mobility" online congress
Read more...
Membership

Location

The EGG

Rue Bara 175
1070 Brussels
Belgium

Upcoming Events & Workshops

05 November 2020
Online meeting

Photonics21 towards Horizon Europe

As physical events are still not a good option for the rest of the year we decided to host an online meeting "Photonics21 towards Horizon Europe" on November 5th, 2020 from 10am - 12pm The aim of ...

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09–13 November 2020
Jena, Germany

OptoNet-Seminar Lighting Optics

The five day OptoNet seminar Lighting Optics gives an insight in the physics and mathematics of lighting optics and provides the participants a tool box with methods and design elements. The event ...

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24–25 November 2020
online

"Photonics 4.0 - The Future of Mobility" online congress

The Photonics 4.0 Conference is scheduled as virtual live event. Speakers of several continents present their expert views on the photonics’ role for the future of mobility and exchange insights on ...

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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Photonics Digital Innovation Hub secures €19 million to boost SME growth and ensure Europe’s global competitiveness

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Photonics21
Monday, 12 October 2020

Photonics21 welcomes 18 newly elected Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder members

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Photonics21
Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Scientists use photonics to make wastewater eco-friendly

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