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- 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
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  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
  
  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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  kW-flexiburst
  The aim of kW-flexiburst is to develop a high-power Ultra-short Pulse (USP) laser generating bursts that can be arbitrarily adjusted in terms of burst repetition rate, intra-burst repetition rate, ...
  
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  SOLUS
  SOLUS aims at developing an innovative non-invasive, point-of-care, low-cost, easy-to-operate, multi-modal imaging system (diffuse optics and ultrasounds/shear wave elastography) for high-specificity ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  WIPE
  The WIPE project is about researching new technologies for connecting micro-photonic integrated circuits (PIC's) and micro-electronic integrated circuits (IC's) in a most advanced way, enabling - ...
  
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  RAIS
  The overall objective of the RAIS project is to develop a new point-of-care label-free microarray platform, based on a proprietary interferometric lens-less microscopy design, which overcomes ...
  
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  HyProCel
  Individualised production is an emerging trend in manufacturing. Laser-based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) fits well with this trend, due to its capability of transforming digital designs directly ...
  
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PEROXIS
The PEROXIS project aims to develop a new highly sensitive and high spatial resolution X-ray imaging system that will provide advanced imaging functionalities for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and ...

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SOLUS
SOLUS aims at developing an innovative non-invasive, point-of-care, low-cost, easy-to-operate, multi-modal imaging system (diffuse optics and ultrasounds/shear wave elastography) for high-specificity ...

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WINTHER
The WINTHER project will develop next-generation fast RSOM (F-RSOM) that is two orders of magnitude faster than the existing RSOM, enabling assessment of endothelial functions.

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News
- News Archive
  
  View the candidates - Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder Online Election 2020
  The next Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder Online Election will take place between 22nd September and 6th October 2020. In total 18 Board of Stakeholder seats are open for election.
  
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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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  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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- Newsletter
  
  17th September 2020
  Newsletter 3/2020
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  9th July 2020
  Newsletter 2/2020
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  16th April 2020
  Newsletter 1/2020
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View the candidates - Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder Online Election 2020
The next Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder Online Election will take place between 22nd September and 6th October 2020. In total 18 Board of Stakeholder seats are open for election.

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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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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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Events
- Upcoming
  
  30 September 2020
  
  Webinar "Simulation of Interferometric Setups with VirtualLab Fusion"
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  01–31 October 2020
  
  INPHO Venture Summit 2020
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  05–30 October 2020
  
  INPHO, Venture Summit
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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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30 September 2020

Webinar "Simulation of Interferometric Setups with VirtualLab Fusion"
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01–31 October 2020

INPHO Venture Summit 2020
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05–30 October 2020

INPHO, Venture Summit
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