- Start: 01/01/2025
- End: 31/12/2028
The EU-funded PHACTORY project will establish a pan-European virtual factory to strengthen photonics innovation and industrial competitiveness across the continent. The project brings together over 30 partners, representing Europe’s top photonics competence centres, to offer streamlined and open access to the full range of photonics technologies, capabilities, and supply chain activities – covering Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) 2–7. PHACTORY will focus on engaging SMEs, start-ups, and scale-ups, primarily as first users and early adopters, with the goal of supporting 125 high-impact cases through deep, cross-border technology interventions. Through expert guidance, tailored collaboration opportunities, and access to cost-efficient services, PHACTORY aims to unlock the commercial potential of Europe’s photonics innovators.
As part of the PHACTORY consortium, AIMEN is one of the Technology Support partners and offers its prototyping and pilot line capabilities in laser-based manufacturing and photonics packaging & reliability. Furthermore, AIMEN will offer open access to their stablished Demo and Experience Centers to provide first users and early adopters of photonics with suitable introductory experiences in photonics technologies and its applications in industry.
- Sectors: Energy, healthcare, mobility, Security
- Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
- R&D&i: Additive manufacturing, high power and high throughput laser processing, Laser assisted processing
- Contributors: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT, LIGENTEC SA, PanDao GmbH
- Leader: VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, 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, POLITECNICO DI MILANO, CNR - CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, European Photonics Industry Consortium - EPIC, NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, LIONIX INTERNATIONAL BV, 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., LZH LASERZENTRUM HANNOVER EV, RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, SMART PHOTONICS BV, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK, JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH, FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES, SONNENBERG HARRISON PARTNERS, TECH TOUR GLOBAL EOOD, FYZIKALNI USTAV AV CR V.V.I, III-V LAB, BRIGHT PHOTONICS BV, VLC PHOTONICS SL
- Acronym: PHACTORY
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.photonhub.eu/
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