Posts Categorized: Education

New European Academy to boost the skills and know-how of industry in exploiting opportunities in the €615B global photonics sector

A programme to train thousands of industry workers in the adoption and development of innovative photonics-based solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges, from environmental sustainability to healthy living and smart infrastructure, has been established by a consortium of over 50 of Europe’s top photonics competence centres. The European Photonics Academy will offer training courses

NWO perspective program optical wireless superhighways

Building communication links with the tremendous capacity of a fiber, without needing a fiber. The 5.1M€ NWO perspective program will run for 5 years, accommodating 14 PhD students and Postdocs. Like the Netherlands has been the cradle for WiFi (pioneered at WCND in Nieuwegein) and for Bluetooth (by Ericsson in Emmen), the program has the

PhotonDelta Application Bootcamp with Hendrix Genetics

From 11th to 13th of February, the second PhotonDelta Application Bootcamp was held at TU/e. Experts in the field at the Eindhoven University of Technology tried to come up with solutions for Hendrix Genetics, with the use of integrated photonics. The challenge is set on measuring conventional egg properties. The company is enthusiastic about the

Successful first PhotonDelta Application Labs Bootcamp at TU/e !

From 4 to 6 November, a multidisciplinary team of PhD students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has been working hard to identify possible integrated photonics based solutions to the next-generation product requirements of Storex. TU/e and PhotonDelta are initiators of this three day event, called ‘Application Labs Bootcamp’. The PhotonDelta Application Labs Bootcamps consist