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
  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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  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
  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
  Four 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
Four 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
  
  PAMMOTH
  X-ray mammography is the mainstay of breast cancer screening programs. It is estimated that between 20 - 50% of abnormal screening mammograms will prove to be negative. The paradigm in diagnosis is ...
  
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  3Peat
  3PEAT will develop a powerful photonic integration technology with all size, functionality and quality credentials in order to help a broad range of optical applications like optical switching and ...
  
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  plaCMOS
  The goal of the PlaCMOS project is to develop and demonstrate the next generation optical-electronic CMOS platform that will enable transceivers capable of real-time communication with data rates ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  HAMLET
  The new generation of broadband microwave systems in various fields (wireless communications, satellite communications, sensing, medical imaging) and especially the emerging 5G wireless technology, ...
  
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  RespiceSME
  The RespiceSME project aims to reinforce the innovative capacity of Europe's photonics SMEs, clusters and national platforms by stimulating targeted collaborations in and beyond photonics. RespiceSME ...
  
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  COMBILASER
  The COMBILASER project presents a great advance with respect to the current state of the art since it is the first time that all issues linked defects avoidance in welding or cladding process applied ...
  
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Miledi
The MiLEDI ambition is to demonstrate that the combination of the laser/electron beam technology and the quantum dots (QDs) optical properties are suitable for the micro LED (mLEDs) and micro OLED ...

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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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plaCMOS
The goal of the PlaCMOS project is to develop and demonstrate the next generation optical-electronic CMOS platform that will enable transceivers capable of real-time communication with data rates ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  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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  Participate - Survey for a new photonics market study
  Photonics21 is currently working on a new photonics market study. The work is done in cooperation with Tematys, a Paris-based team of photonics specialized consultants to get a comprehensive ...
  
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  Photonics21 goes digital
  In the last couple of weeks several digital meetings and online seminars have been conducted by Photonics21 and partners like the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. Also the ...
  
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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...

Participate - Survey for a new photonics market study
Photonics21 is currently working on a new photonics market study. The work is done in cooperation with Tematys, a Paris-based team of photonics specialized consultants to get a comprehensive ...

Read more...

Photonics21 goes digital
In the last couple of weeks several digital meetings and online seminars have been conducted by Photonics21 and partners like the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. Also the ...

Read more...
Events
- Upcoming
  
  24–28 August 2020
  
  SPIE Optics + Photonics 2020
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  25–29 August 2020
  
  Biophotonics Imaging and Graduate Summer School (BIGSS 2020)
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  25–29 August 2020
  
  BIGSS 2020 – Virtual Summer School
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- Archive
  
  22 July 2020
  
  Webmeeting Pilot line PIXAPP
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  15 July 2020
  
  Webmeeting Pilot line PHABULOUS: A new era for micro-optics manufacturing
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  08 July 2020
  
  MedPhab webmeeting on Diagnostics using Photonics
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24–28 August 2020

SPIE Optics + Photonics 2020
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25–29 August 2020

Biophotonics Imaging and Graduate Summer School (BIGSS 2020)
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25–29 August 2020

BIGSS 2020 – Virtual Summer School
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Membership

Location

The EGG

Rue Bara 175
1070 Brussels
Belgium

Upcoming Events & Workshops

24–28 August 2020
Free Digital Forum

SPIE Optics + Photonics 2020

The Optics + Photonics Digital Forum is a no-charge event that will run 24-28 August 2020. Learn the latest through live plenary presentations and on-demand technical talks, collaborate with ...

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25–29 August 2020
National University of Ireland, Galway and Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare

Biophotonics Imaging and Graduate Summer School (BIGSS 2020)

BIGSS is a biennial summer school event that is five ECTS accredited course with leading professors teaching for approximately four hours each to give a substantial grounding in the main topics of ...

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25–29 August 2020
Virtual (online summer school)

BIGSS 2020 – Virtual Summer School

BIGSS 2020 summer school will go virtual this year and we want your help to make it the most inclusive Summer School ever. The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday 18th of July 2020 and ...

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Photonics21
Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Scientists use photonics to make wastewater eco-friendly

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Photonics21
Thursday, 09 July 2020

Participate - Survey for a new photonics market study

Photonics21 is currently working on a new photonics market study. The work is done in cooperation with Tematys, a Paris-based team of photonics specialized consultants to get a comprehensive ...

Read more...

Photonics21
Thursday, 02 July 2020

Photonics21 goes digital

In the last couple of weeks several digital meetings and online seminars have been conducted by Photonics21 and partners like the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. Also the ...

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