European Photonics Venture Forum 2017 Dublin

Partners 


   
Tyndall National Institute is a leading European research centre in integrated ICT (Information and Communications Technology) hardware and systems. Specialising in both electronics and photonics – materials, devices, circuits and systems – we are globally leading in our core research areas of smart sensors and systems, optical communication systems, mixed signal and analog circuit design, microelectronic and photonic integration, semiconductor wafer fabrication, nano materials and device processing.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, we are focused on delivering real impact from our excellent research. Our ambitious 5-year strategic plan, developed in 2013, sets out a clear strategy to create employment and build critical mass within the Irish technology space.
The Irish Photonic Integration Centre is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre that brings together over 100 researchers from the Tyndall National Institute, Cork Institute of Technology, Dublin City University and University College Cork to develop new light enabled technologies. Our work focuses on developing the next generation of highly-compact and miniaturised photonics technologies in order to tackle some of society’s greatest challenges, especially in the areas of Information Communications Technology (ICT) and Health. This includes revolutionising the speed of data transfer for the continued growth of the internet, delivering new smart medical devices for improved patient outcome, developing highly compact instrumentation for point-of-care diagnostics and wearable devices. 
  ACTPHAST is a unique one-stop-shop solution for supporting photonics innovation in European companies. With almost €4M in innovation project funding already allocated to supporting over 70 companies all across Europe, 90% of whom are SMEs and nearly 50% of whom are non-photonics companies, ACTPHAST is already making substantial progress in growing the pool of photonics innovation and is continuing to process more project requests every month. However, improving the overall access to far greater levels of finance for photonics innovation by European companies is essential so that technical advances achieved through ACTPHAST-funded innovation projects up to TRL6-7 can be further financed through to TRL9 to achieve their full market potential. This is where the EPVF comes in.
    Association was founded in 2013 as a legal entity to set up the Photonics Public Private Partnership under the new European Research Framework Programme Horizon 2020.