- Start: 01/01/2021
- End: 30/04/2025
Photonics is a broad technology that enables a vast diversity of applications in a range of sectors. The EU-funded PhotonHub Europe project will establish a single pan-EU Photonics Innovation Hub as a one-stop shop solution integrating pioneering photonics technologies, facilities, expertise and experience of 53 European partners.
The hub will ensure all stakeholders have access to support services: training and upskilling opportunities within PhotonHub’s Demo and Experience Centres, ‘test before invest’ to engage with companies with highly collaborative innovation projects, and investment readiness coaching and investor matchmaking. PhotonHub Europe will support cross-border innovation activities and establish the PhotonHub Europe Association.
Objective:
PhotonHub Europe will establish a single pan-EU Photonics Innovation Hub which integrates the best-in-class photonics technologies, facilities, expertise and experience of 53 partners from all over Europe, including the coordinators of EU pilot lines and local photonics hubs representing 18 regions, as a one-stop-shop solution offering a comprehensive range of supports to industry for the accelerated uptake and deployment of photonics.
PhotonHub will provide European companies, in particular “non-photonics” SMEs and mid-caps that are first users and early adopters of photonics, with open access and guided orienteering to the following key support services: training and upskilling opportunities within PhotonHub’s Demo and Experience Centres throughout Europe and enhanced by digital tools for online learning; “test before invest” innovation support capabilities to engage with companies on highly collaborative Innovation Projects aimed at TRL acceleration from prototyping (TRL3-4) to upscaling (TRL5-6) to manufacturing (TRL7-8), and complemented by targeted business and IP advisory supports; and support to find investment through investment-readiness coaching and investor match-making organised in collaboration with major regional and European venture fora and deep tech Investor Days. PhotonHub will uniquely support cross-border innovation activities of European companies, while simultaneously working closely with the local photonics hubs to develop and roll out best practices of the “lighthouse” regions for ongoing regional financial support of SME innovation activities and to support the creation of new innovation hubs covering most regions of Europe. Finally, PhotonHub will fine-tune and implement its business plan for long-term sustainability in the form of the PhotonHub Europe Association as a durable entity which is deeply rooted within the wider ecosystem of local, regional and EU-DIHs for maximum leverage and impact on European competitiveness and sovereignty.
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Additive manufacturing, high power and high throughput laser processing, Laser assisted processing
- Leader: VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, ALPhANov, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE, INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM, CEA - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP ZOO, CNR - CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Photonics Bretagne (PHOT), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - ICCS, European Photonics Industry Consortium - EPIC, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Association Laser Photonique Hyperfrequences & Applications - ALPHA, NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED LBG, SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA, CARTIF FOUNDATION, FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT-ETIENNE, UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES, INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE THEORIQUE ET APPLIQUEE IOTA - SUPOPTIQUE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'INGENIEURS DE CAEN, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE MECANIQUE ET DES MICROTECHNIQUES, ECOLE CENTRALE DE MARSEILLE EGIM, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY, UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE, UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE, LIONIX INTERNATIONAL BV, UNIVERSITEIT GENT, POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA, CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI, IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS, SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ - INSTYTUT MIKROELEKTRONIKI I FOTONIKI, LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER PHOTONISCHE TECHNOLOGIEN E.V., LIGENTEC SA, LZH LASERZENTRUM HANNOVER EV, RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, SMART PHOTONICS BV, UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, EL.EN.-SPA, LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK, VEREIN SCHWEIZER LASER UND PHOTONIK NETZ, JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH, FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, PHOTONICS FRANCE, POLE OPTITEC, MINALOGIC AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES, SYSTEM@TIC PARIS REGION, STICHTING PHOTONDELTA, FLANDERS MAKE, OPTEC-BERLIN-BRANDENBURG (OPTECBB) E.V., OPTONET EV, PHOTONICS FINLAND, ELLINIKI ENOSI FOTONIKIS ASTIKI MIKERDOSKOPIKI ETAIRIA, VIESOJI ISTAIGA FIZIKOS INSTITUTO MOKSLO IR TECHNOLOGIJU PARKAS, POLSKA PLATFORMA TECHNOLOGICZNA FOTONIKI, EKONOMISKA FORENINGEN PHOTONICSWEDEN, CONFINDUSTRIA TOSCANA, CONFINDUSTRIA TOSCANA SERVIZI SOCIETA CONSORTILE ARL, SONNENBERG HARRISON PARTNERS, AMIRES THE BUSINESS INNOVATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE ZU, EUROPEAN BUSINESS AND INNOVATION CENTRE NETWORK AISBL, FUNDINGBOX COMMUNITIES SL, TECH TOUR GLOBAL EOOD, TECH TOUR EUROPE SA
- Acronym: PHOTONHUB
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.photonhub.eu/
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