Germany Photonics Digital Tender

PhotonHub Europe - a new pan-European digital innovation center for photonics - receives EUR 19 million from the EUs Horizon 2020 program. PhotonHub Europe aims to help European SMEs to develop into highly competitive digital companies through faster and smarter adoption of photonics-based technologies . This is expected to support the creation of over 1000 new high-tech jobs and almost one billion euros in new income and venture capital in the EU by 2025.Photonics - the science and technology of light - is a key digital technology that is radically changing traditional industry. Photonic technologies are used to develop and bring to market new products for end users in a wide range of application areas such as health digital infrastructure manufacturing security space and defense food mobility and energy.In order to accelerate the use and expansion of photonics technologies by European industry the PhotonHub project will set up a central photonics innovation center that will combine all photonics technologies facilities expertise and experience from 53 competence centers across Europe under one roof . The project will start work in early 2021 and continuously open calls to interested companies.In the form of a one-stop-shop solution the PhotonHub will provide open access and targeted orientation to European companies that want to develop innovations in the field of photonics and in particular non-photonics SMEs that are first-time users of photonics provide the PhotonHub office in Brussels with a wide range of services and skills. These include for examplethe support of training and further qualificationTest Before Invest innovation promotion andAssistance in the search for investors.Support for companies in training and further education will include both technology and application-specific learning in photonics specifically with the help of lecture-based tutorials practical exercises in the laboratory and train-the-trainer programs in the 40 demonstration and 10 research centers across Europe all coordinated under the umbrella of the European Photonics Innovation Academy of PhotonHub for uniform excellence standards.The innovation funding T est Before Invest for companies offers expertise and equipment for design prototyping experiments engineering and pilot production with further guidance and seamless connections to the industrial supply chain of manufacturing in Europe. These are provided by Europes leading research and innovation institutions which offer the broadest possible spectrum of photonic technologies covering the entire value chain from the product concept in the early phase to market launch.The PhotonHub will help companies seeking innovative solutions with photonics to find investment from appropriate venture capital or other private public sources to increase their ability to bring new photonics and phononics-based products to market faster.The PhotonHub will support cross-border innovation activities of European companies and at the same time work closely with the local photonics centers from the lighthouse regions in which photonics is already well established in order to develop best-practice models for promoting SME innovation. The PhotonHub will partner with key European associations such as the Research and Innovation Network of the European Regions ERRIN and the Assembly of Regions of Europe AER to spread the support model for photonics innovation and grow the pan-European ecosystem of local photonics centers . In addition the PhotonHubwork closely with well-established pan-European SME support networks such as the Enterprise Europe Network EEN and the European Business Network EBN to give all European SMEs access to the photonics innovation ecosystem. Three Fraunhofer Institutes Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies Leibniz- IPHT and the photonics network OptoNet become partners of the European innovation hub. The overall coordination lies with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB. In addition the PhotonHubcontribute to building a digital community through its close collaboration and coordination with the European Technology Platform for Public-Private Partnerships between the European Commission academia and industry - Photonics 21 - on the strategy for photonics development in Europe.