Dear Photonics21 members,

In this newsletter we already like you to save the date for the next Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020. Stay tuned for further information on this event.

After this years Board of Stakeholder election the newly elected members are officially published. Find out more on who is new in the Board.

A new photonics call is now open on the European Commission website. It is time to start writing your proposals. The deadline is April 22nd, 2020.

Find out more about our recent Photonics PPP project stories.

If you would like to inform the Photonics21 membership on any photonics activities or events within your national or regional photonics community or provide us your feedback to the Photonics21 newsletter you can send it to SECRETARIAT@PHOTONICS21.ORG.

Best regards
Photonics21 secretariat

Save the Date: Photonics PPP Annual Meeting 2020

It is again time to mark your calenders for the next Photonics PPP Annual Meeting in 2020.

The event will take place in Brusseln on May 27./28., 2020.

Further details will soon be announced on the Photonics21 website.

See you in Brussels!

Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder Election 2019 – Welcome to the new BoS members

The Photonics21 Board of Stakeholder online election took place from 22nd October to 5th November 2019. 224 registered voters could cast their vote for up to 21 candidates. By the closing date of the election 176 voters had cast their vote which corresponds to a turnout of voters of 78,57 %.

Find out more on who is newly elected and the composition of the board on our website.

Horizon 2020 Photonics ICT Call 37 now open!

The photonics call addresses project proposals in the field of research and innovation actions, innovation actions as well as Coordination and Support Actions.

The focus of the call is on following themes:

Research and Innovation Actions:

- Flexible Farm-to-Fork Sensing
- Novel Photonics Integrated Circuit Technology building blocks

Innovation Actions:

- Smart Photonic Sensing for Environmental Pollution Detection

Coordination and Support Actions:

- An industrial strategy for photonics in Europe

The submission deadline is 22nd April 2020 at 17:00 Brussels time.

Any further details about the call topics are available on the European Commission website.

Horizon 2020 Photonics Projects To Create 3,500 New High-Tech Jobs

A new survey found the 100 Photonics projects, established in Horizon 2020 from 2014 to 2018, will create directly 3,500 jobs in Europe over the next three years.

The European photonics industry that currently employs over 300,000 people, expects to add new high-tech positions to its workforce such as Optical Engineers, Chemistry Engineers, Physicists, Physics Engineers, Electronic Engineers, IT & Computer Scientists, Data scientists, Material Scientists and Specialists in Quality and Certification, according to Tematys.

Find out more about the study on our website

Powerful new laser to boost car manufacturing

With the ability to cut and shape ultra-high-strength boron steel up to one thousand times faster than existing technology, a new precision pulse laser looks set to boost the car industry with a 10% reduction in waste products, a 5% reduction in chassis costs, and a two-third decrease in manufacturing time.

Researchers use photonics to develop low-emission 1.6 Tb/s internet

The Horizon 2020 funded consortium TERIPHIC is developing new optical transceiver modules used in internet datacentres that will reduce power consumption by 50% per Gb/s and in turn see lower carbon emissions.

Using light to exchange terabits - or thousands of gigabits per second - the TERIPHIC group expect their new transceivers to solve problems faster and reduce queue times.