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 3,000 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 ...

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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
  
  ELENA
  ELENA will develop the first European lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) PIC platform, accessible to all interested entities in the form of an open foundry service.
  
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  AMPLITUDE
  Amplitude targets the development of new multimodal imaging systems exploiting novel laser sources and state-of-the-art imaging and spectroscopic technologies to fulfil unmet clinical needs in terms ...
  
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  PHOTONFOOD
  Analytical techniques for the measurements of chemical and microbial contaminations along the food chain require detection levels in the ppb range. A direct measurement of contaminants at theses ...
  
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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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  TERIPHIC
  Efforts to develop optical interfaces with Terabit capacity for datacom applications have kicked off. A practical path to the Terabit regime is to scale the current 400G modules, which are based (in ...
  
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  PI-SCALE - LYTEUS
  LYTEUS, offers world class capability in pilot production services for customised flexible OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes):
  
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InPulse - JEPPIX
The JePPIX Pilot Line is the EC Manufacturing Pilot Line project for photonic integrated circuits. It is the Indium-Phosphide Pilot Line for up-scaled, low-barrier, self-sustained, PIC ecosystem

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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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PHOOTONICS
PHOOTONICS aims at developing a non-invasive, reliable and cost-effective photonics-driven device for DFU monitoring and management which can be applied for wide use.

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News
- News Archive
  
  Do not lose the key technology photonics in Europe
  The German Tagesspiegel published a point-of-view article of Photonics21 President and CFO/CIO of Mahr, Lutz Aschke. In the article he stated, that Europe must now become more ambitious to keep pace ...
  
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  Register to our workshops to set up the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
  Photonics21 is organising a workshop series to set up the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for the second half of Horizon Europe.
  
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  Annual Meeting highlights importance of photonics in key technologies
  Kick-start of a new Photonics Strategy Process, roadmapping the next decade for a key enabler for technologies like quantum, artificial intelligence and robotics.
  
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- Newsletter
  
  15th December 2020
  Newsletter 4/2020
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  17th September 2020
  Newsletter 3/2020
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  9th July 2020
  Newsletter 2/2020
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Do not lose the key technology photonics in Europe
The German Tagesspiegel published a point-of-view article of Photonics21 President and CFO/CIO of Mahr, Lutz Aschke. In the article he stated, that Europe must now become more ambitious to keep pace ...

Read more...about Do not lose the key technology photonics in Europe

Register to our workshops to set up the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Photonics21 is organising a workshop series to set up the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for the second half of Horizon Europe.

Read more...about Register to our workshops to set up the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Annual Meeting highlights importance of photonics in key technologies
Kick-start of a new Photonics Strategy Process, roadmapping the next decade for a key enabler for technologies like quantum, artificial intelligence and robotics.

Read more...about Annual Meeting highlights importance of photonics in key technologies
Events
- Upcoming
  
  06 October 2022
  
  Photonics21 Follow-up Workshop “Safety, Security, Space & Defense“
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  09–14 October 2022
  
  International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors
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  20–21 October 2022
  
  French Photonics Days
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- Archive
  
  05 October 2022
  
  Photonics21 Follow-up Workshop “Digital Infrastructure“
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  30 September 2022
  
  Photonics21 Follow-up Workshop “Agriculture & Food“
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  26 September 2022
  
  Photonics 4 Plant Phenotyping
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06 October 2022

Photonics21 Follow-up Workshop “Safety, Security, Space & Defense“
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09–14 October 2022

International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors
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20–21 October 2022

French Photonics Days
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