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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 4th edition of the Tech Tour European Photonics Venture Forum (EPVF) is organized by Tech Tour as part of the H2020 Innovation Action, Actphast, and in conjunction with the coordination and the ...
  
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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 from 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 4th edition of the Tech Tour European Photonics Venture Forum (EPVF) is organized by Tech Tour as part of the H2020 Innovation Action, Actphast, and in conjunction with the coordination and the ...

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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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  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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  Picture
  The objective of PICTURE project is to develop a photonic integration technology by bonding multi-III-V-dies of different epitaxial stacks to SOI wafers with a thinner and uniform dielectric bonding ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  RADICLE
  The RADICLE project will create a real-time adaptive control system for laser welding using a range of sensors in combination with intelligent and adaptive control technologies for in-process ...
  
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  APPOLO
  The APPOLO project seeks to establish and coordinate connections between the end-users, which have demand on laser technologies for (micro)fabrication, knowledge accumulated in the application ...
  
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  PLASMOfab
  PLASMOfab aims to develop CMOS compatible plasmonics in a generic planar integration process as the means to consolidate photonic and electronic integration. Wafer scale integration will be used by ...
  
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EPRISE
EPRISE project aims to promote and support Photonics as a KET with focus on Life Science applications in 4 target markets where Europe holds a leading position – Medical Technologies, ...

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Moicana
MOICANA aims to deploy a versatile, low-cost and large-volume manufacturing transmitter PIC technology by monolithically integrating InP QD laser structures on a passive SiN waveguide platform and ...

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AQUARIUS
AQUARIUS proposes disruptive improvements in laser based water sensing employing MIR quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). It is motivated by i) the EC Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) where ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  Market Research Study on Nanoscale Quantum Optics published
  In the framework of the COST Action "Nanoscale Quantum Optics" a Market Research Study on Nanoscale Quantum Optics has now been finalised and published. It will be presented tomorrow in Brussels.
  
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  AGM highlights European photonics leading position
  This year's annual gathering, at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, began by highlighting the strong position of European photonics.
  
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  European photonics roadmap "Europe's age of light!" handed over to the European Commission
  In preparation of the new EU framework programme Horizon Europe the new European photonics roadmap "Europe's age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation" was presented and handed ...
  
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- Newsletter
  
  15th April 2019
  Newsletter 2/2019
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  25.01.2019
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Market Research Study on Nanoscale Quantum Optics published
In the framework of the COST Action "Nanoscale Quantum Optics" a Market Research Study on Nanoscale Quantum Optics has now been finalised and published. It will be presented tomorrow in Brussels.

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AGM highlights European photonics leading position
This year's annual gathering, at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, began by highlighting the strong position of European photonics.

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European photonics roadmap "Europe's age of light!" handed over to the European Commission
In preparation of the new EU framework programme Horizon Europe the new European photonics roadmap "Europe's age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation" was presented and handed ...

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Events
- Upcoming
  
  24–26 April 2019
  
  21st European Conference on Integrated Optics
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  25–26 April 2019
  
  4th Edition of International conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallography and Applications in Modern Chemistry
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  16–17 May 2019
  
  Photonics in Food
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- Archive
  
  03–04 April 2019
  
  Photonics4 Recycling Waste Material & Metal Processing
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  27–28 March 2019
  
  Photonics Public Private Partnership Annual Meeting 2019
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  13 March 2019
  
  Photonics 4 Agri-Food
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24–26 April 2019

21st European Conference on Integrated Optics
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25–26 April 2019

4th Edition of International conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallography and Applications in Modern Chemistry
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16–17 May 2019

Photonics in Food
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