IA (Innovation Action)

One type of action within Horizon programm is Innovation Action (IA). Its aim is an action primarily consisting of activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. For this purpose they may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication. 

PhotonHub Cordis Database Full title"One-Stop-Shop Open Access to Photonics Innovation Support for a Digital Europe"
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A new hub to facilitate cross-border photonics innovation in Europe

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.

CSA (Coordination and Support Action) projects

Carla Cordis Database Full title:"The European Photonics CAReer LAunch Path"
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Promoting careers in photonics
Photonics is behind many innovations such as lasers, optical fibres and the cameras in our smartphones, as well as LED lighting in our cars, homes and computer screens and TVs. Given its potential to enhance innovation across several industries, it is included in Europe's key enabling technologies (KETs) of the 21st century. To support the growth, leadership and innovation potential in this area, Europe needs more well prepared professionals. The EU-funded CARLA project will create a rigorous and tested instrument to address this need at the source. It will develop a model for European photonics career camp, a reproducible two-day intense, multi-format event that will encourage STEM university students, PhD students and young postdocs to pursue a career in photonics. CARLA will work hand-in-hand with all the stakeholders in the design of the camps and it will assess the methodology and scalability through 11 editions across Europe, leading to a comprehensive handbook to facilitate replication as well as an empowering gender diversity guide with lessons obtained during the project. 


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Closed Coordination and Support Actions

Photonics PPP strategic projects

ÉPRISE:
Full title: "Empowering Photonics through Regional Innovation Strategies in Europe"
This is the follow up project of the FP7 OASIS (Open the Access to photonics life Science Infrastructure for SMEs) project and will start End of 2016. This network, focused on Biophotonics, targets applications from Medicine, Pharmaceutics, Food and Water, Agriculture and Biology as well as Cosmetics. The 7 partners from OASIS (Netherland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and UK) plus 2 new partners (from UK and Finland) will form the consortium of Éprise. Further details can be found on the specific website of the Photonics Sweden Platform.
 Presentation Eprise 07.10.2016 (793 KB)

Presentation Pics4all 07.10.2016 (1.34 MB)

Presentation Photonics4all 07.10.2016 (1.77 MB)

Presentation RespiceSME 07.10.20161 (529 KB)

Phablabs 4 0 Photonics Ppp Csa Project Coordinators 20161202 (1.08 MB)

Presentation Laser-Go 07.10.2016 (613 KB)

Photonics Innovation Actions

Presentation Actphast 07.10.2016 (5.29 MB)

Further PPP innovation actions

LASHARE, "Laser equipment ASsessment for High impAct innovation in the manufactuRing European industry", Cordis database, Website, FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF, From 2013-09-01 to 2017-08-31; Expertise and resources from 6 EU renowned laser centers + more than 30 SMEs (incl. 2 partners from Switzerland)

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