Photonics Public Private Partnership Annual Meeting 2020

About us
- Photonics21
  
  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
  
  Photonics PPP
  The Association is an international non-profit association with scientific purpose governed by the provisions of Title 3 of the Belgium Law of twenty-seventh of June nineteen hundred twenty-one, and ...
  
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  Research & Innovation Priorities
  
  Research & Innovation Priorities
  Setting photonics research and innovation Prorities for the Horizon Europe Work Programmes lies in the heart of the Photonics Public Private Partnership tasks.
  
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  Structures, Processes and Statutes
  
  Structures, Processes and Statutes
  The Photonics Public Private Partnership acts as a "mouthpiece" of the European Technology Platform Photonics21 (and its more than 3,800 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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  Work Groups
  
  Work Groups
  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
  Digital Infrastructure
  
  Work Group 1
  Early 2020, with the onset of COVID-19, digital infrastructure became an even more essential part of our personal and professional lives, acting as a 'lifeblood' the likes of which we have never seen ...
  
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  Work Group 2
  Manufacturing
  
  Work Group 2
  The Grand Challenges facing European research are well-documented. Digitisation, and a sustainable and circular approach for manufacturing and materials, will be the basis for a competitive, ...
  
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  Work Group 3
  Health
  
  Work Group 3
  The European population is ageing increasingly: the number of people today older than 65 relative to those in the working-age is assumed to double by 2045. Since age is a major factor for a higher ...
  
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  Work Group 4
  Climate, Mobility & Energy
  
  Work Group 4
  Photonics plays a role in the targets of Decarbonisation towards Zero Emission Road Transport, Clean Energy Transition, the Industrial Battery Value Chain, Renewable Energy with photovoltaics, energy ...
  
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  Work Group 5
  Safety, Security, Space & Defense
  
  Work Group 5
  A key responsibility of government is to keep its citizens protected and to make them feel safe. This can be accomplished on three levels: (1) Civilian empowerment, (2) Law enforcement and public ...
  
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  Work Group 6
  Agriculture & Food
  
  Work Group 6
  By 2030, the technology to feed a world population of 10 billion, push back food-borne illness, and reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture needs to be in place. ...
  
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  Work Group 7
  Core Photonics
  
  Work Group 7
  Photonics will play a vital role in addressing the key socio-economic challenges facing Europe in the 21st century. As examples, we may note the following:
  
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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
The Association is an international non-profit association with scientific purpose governed by the provisions of Title 3 of the Belgium Law of twenty-seventh of June nineteen hundred twenty-one, and ...

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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 ...

Read more...about Photonics for Finance

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 ...

Read more...about Photonics for Industry

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
  
  OCTAPUS
  OCTAPUS aims to deliver an agile, low-cost and energy-efficient PIC technology framework that will re-architect the NGCO ecosystem, transparently upgrading its capacity to 51.2Tb/s and beyond, ...
  
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  LIBRA
  LIBRA project introduces a benchtop smart multi-sensing system for the in-line automatable screening of cultivation processes in bioreactors. The LIBRA sensing technology lies in the use of light ...
  
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  MASSTART
  MASSTART aims to provide a holistic transformation to the assembly and characterization of high speed photonic transceivers towards bringing the cost down to €1/Gb/s or even lower in mass ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  QAMeleon
  QAMeleon aims to deliver a new generation of faster, cheaper, and greener photonic devices spanning from beyond state-of-the-art transponders to novel reconfigurable add drop multiplexers (ROADMs) ...
  
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  ORIGIN
  The ORIGIN project is developing a vastly improved methodology, a photonics-based optical dose imaging and localisation system whose resolution will significantly reduce the overall risk of treatment ...
  
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  ICT-STREAMS
  ICT-STREAMS aims at developing a radically new optical technology for direct chip-to-chip, board level interconnection paradigm that overcomes the current limitations of server-board designs. It aims ...
  
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PUNCH
PUNCH will develop a new solution for optical switching that addresses several industrial requirements, including reliable and low latency communication with guaranteed service quality, less network ...

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REVEAL
The REVEAL project aims at installing a novel microscope at the interface of instrumentation, machine learning and Biology. This new microscopy technique will rely heavily on neural networks to be ...

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MultiFlex
The overall objective of the MultiFlex project is to open a market within the European manufacturing sector for high speed Ultra-Short Pulse (USP) processing using kilowatt average laser power and ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  Register to our workshops to identifiy R&I priorities for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025
  Photonics21 is organising a workshop series to identify the Research and Innovation priorities for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025.
  
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  Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 highlights the importance of photonics in key enabling technologies
  With over 200 high-ranking representatives from industry, science and politics the Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 took place in Brussels on 26 and 27 April. The Annual Meeting is one of ...
  
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  New Photonics21 Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda released
  A path towards strategic autonomy: The new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) was handed over to the European Commission.
  
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Register to our workshops to identifiy R&I priorities for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025
Photonics21 is organising a workshop series to identify the Research and Innovation priorities for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025.

Read more...about Register to our workshops to identifiy R&I priorities for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025

Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 highlights the importance of photonics in key enabling technologies
With over 200 high-ranking representatives from industry, science and politics the Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 took place in Brussels on 26 and 27 April. The Annual Meeting is one of ...

Read more...about Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 highlights the importance of photonics in key enabling technologies

New Photonics21 Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda released
A path towards strategic autonomy: The new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) was handed over to the European Commission.

Read more...about New Photonics21 Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda released
Events
- Upcoming
  
  13 June 2023
  
  VirtualLab Fusion Applications, Technology & Workflows: Control of the Accuracy-Speed Balance in Optical Design of AR/MR Devices
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  19–23 June 2023
  
  International School on Light Sciences and Technologies 2023
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  21 June 2023
  
  Laserlab-Europe Talk: "A multi-MeV Alpha Particle Source via Proton-Boron fusion driven by a 10-GW Tabletop Laser"
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- Archive
  
  08 June 2023
  
  Photonics 4 Masterpieces 2023
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  05 June 2023
  
  Photonics21 R&I priorities follow-up workshop "Climate, Mobility & Energy"
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  18 May 2023
  
  Photonics 4 Security & Defence
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13 June 2023

VirtualLab Fusion Applications, Technology & Workflows: Control of the Accuracy-Speed Balance in Optical Design of AR/MR Devices
Read more...about VirtualLab Fusion Applications, Technology & Workflows: Control of the Accuracy-Speed Balance in Optical Design of AR/MR Devices

19–23 June 2023

International School on Light Sciences and Technologies 2023
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21 June 2023

Laserlab-Europe Talk: "A multi-MeV Alpha Particle Source via Proton-Boron fusion driven by a 10-GW Tabletop Laser"
Read more...about Laserlab-Europe Talk: "A multi-MeV Alpha Particle Source via Proton-Boron fusion driven by a 10-GW Tabletop Laser"
Membership

Upcoming Events & Workshops

13 June 2023
Online

VirtualLab Fusion Applications, Technology & Workflows: Control of the Accuracy-Speed Balance in Optical Design of AR/MR Devices

Date: 13 June 2023 Time slots: 10:00 – 11:00 and 18:00 – 19:00 (CET) The design of optical devices for augmented and mixed reality (AR & MR) epitomizes the most important challenges that one ...

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19–23 June 2023
Santander, Spain

International School on Light Sciences and Technologies 2023

The sixth edition of the ISLIST summer school (VI-ISLIST) is scheduled for June 19-23, 2023 with the core topic "Light in health and Medicine". This school is envisioned to be a worldwide top ...

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21 June 2023
Zoom

Laserlab-Europe Talk: "A multi-MeV Alpha Particle Source via Proton-Boron fusion driven by a 10-GW Tabletop Laser"

Nuclear fusion between protons and boron-11 nuclei has undergone a revival of interest thanks to the rapid progress in pulsed laser technology. Potential applications of such reaction range from ...

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