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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
  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
  
  Custodian
  Different beam shaping technologies, appeared in recent years enable to tailor energy delivery using a tailored spatial and temporal power distribution in laser beam. This makes possible to solve ...
  
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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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  PIX4life
  PIX4life aims to mature a high performance, high yielding and CMOS-processing compatible SiN Photonic IC pilot line together with the accompanying supply chain for applications in the visible range ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  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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  MAESTRO
  MAESTRO aims to develop and combine with existing Selective Laser Melting (SLM) techniques five innovations that will constitute the basis of a highly competitive manufacturing value chain:
  
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  OpenAIS
  Following the trends of the creation of the "The Internet of Things" (IoT) and the rapid penetration of SSL based lighting, it is very advantageous to connect the luminaires in buildings to the ...
  
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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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MIRPHAB
MIRPHAB (Mid InfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) provides a platform to ensure the bridging between technology and component development and ...

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Miracle
MIRACLE will take towards commercialization the first mid-infrared (MIR) arthroscopy probe for in-depth evaluation of articular cartilage enabling early diagnosis of degenerative joint diseases such ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  2.1 million EUR EIC Accelerator funding for photonics company Hypermemo
  Hypermemo Oy, a company developing laser cutting technology in Joensuu, Finland has received EUR 2.1 million of EIC Accelerator funding. The funding supports companies with a high market and growth ...
  
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  Latest information on the Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020
  Due to the current Coronavirus crisis the Photonics21 secretariat decided to portpone the Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020 autumn 2020. The event will take place on 5th and 6th November 2020.
  
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  New strategy shows photonics key to Europe’s Industrial future
  The EC's ambitious new Industrial Strategy names Photonics among a list of KETs which are vital to the industrial transformation of Europe by 2030.
  
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- Newsletter
  
  15th April 2019
  Newsletter 2/2019
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  21 November 2019
  Newsletter 3/2019
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  25.01.2019
  Newsletter
  1/2019
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2.1 million EUR EIC Accelerator funding for photonics company Hypermemo
Hypermemo Oy, a company developing laser cutting technology in Joensuu, Finland has received EUR 2.1 million of EIC Accelerator funding. The funding supports companies with a high market and growth ...

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Latest information on the Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020
Due to the current Coronavirus crisis the Photonics21 secretariat decided to portpone the Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020 autumn 2020. The event will take place on 5th and 6th November 2020.

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New strategy shows photonics key to Europe’s Industrial future
The EC's ambitious new Industrial Strategy names Photonics among a list of KETs which are vital to the industrial transformation of Europe by 2030.

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Events
- Upcoming
  
  28 April 2020
  
  Webinar - European Investment Bank products for photonics Start-ups and SME
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  06–08 May 2020
  
  Postponed - AKL'20 – International Laser Technology Congress
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  14–15 May 2020
  
  Postponed - Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium 2020 (AWK'20)
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- Archive
  
  05 March 2020
  
  Photonics 4 European Products of the Future Workshop
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  12 December 2019
  
  Photonics4AgriFood 2019
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  24 September 2019
  
  Photonics 4 Food Symposium
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28 April 2020

Webinar - European Investment Bank products for photonics Start-ups and SME
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06–08 May 2020

Postponed - AKL'20 – International Laser Technology Congress
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14–15 May 2020

Postponed - Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium 2020 (AWK'20)
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