Work priorities, infrastructure and services
Photonics Austria is active in a variety of business areas and also supports organisations by introducing and advertising their products, like, for example, the Photonics Explorer. Furthermore the members of Photonics Austria offer their infrastructure to make special machinery and technologies available and to help develop research projects of associated companies.
Work priorities
- Contactoffice to support the stakeholders
- Maintenance and updating of the association homepage
- Collaborate with others to develop national and international research strategies, -programs and –funding programs
- Interconnection with european activities
- Support the positioning of Austria as a research and development location regarding the international field of photonics
- Maintaining the Austrian stakeholder association in relevant national and international committee and networks
- Stimulate growth in collaborations of equal and complementary partners in defining future R&D-plans
- Coordination and bundling of regional activities in Austria to achieve a critical mass for market positioning in the international environment on the one hand and to avoid duplication at the Austrian level on the other
- Consult members in regard to taking part in research funding programs
- Identify strategically important research and development topics and initiate their implementation reaching a consensus of economy and science
- Development of roadmaps, strategies and programs
- Events
- Exhibitions
- Social Media
- Website
Infrastructure
The partners of the technologies platform Photonics Austria have an impressive infrastructure at their hands to develop, produce and evaluate new technologies and products.
If easy and uncomplicated access to these instalments (machinery, know-how) is what you are looking for, please let us know by sending a short inquiry to:
infrastruktur@photonics-austria.at
Upon receiving your request, we will do our best to establish contact between you and the particular partner that can offer the requested service.
- Clean rooms/optical and chemical laboratories
- Lasers and optics (measuring - development - production)
- Optical sensors and spectroscopy
- Optical components (design - development - production)
- Measuring technology for optical data transmission
Our services for members
Networking - REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS - Information
Networking
- Networking with photonics experts of Photonics Austria members from business, science and university (association meetings, working group meetings, innovation workshops)
- Events for networking with other platforms and clusters (Industrie 4.0, Additive Manufacturing Austria, Silicon Alps, Swissphotonics, OptoNet, u.v.m.)
- Topic-specific networking and brokerage events (Photonics4 series, e.g. Photonics 4 Industrial Production, Photonics 4 Sorting, Photonics 4 Additive Manufactured Products)
Representation of interests
- Member presentation as well as promotion of photonics in public (events such as the “Day of Light”, brochures about Photonics Austria & members, representation at trade fairs, photonic success stories, and much more)
Gathering of national research needs and communication with politics and administration
- Representation of Austrian interests in Europe in the public-private partnership “photonics21”
Information
- Prepared information on funding and partner contacts in the field of photonics at the various levels (EU / national / regional)
- Summary of current activities in the field of photonics (events, publications, technologies and initiatives)
- Specialist groups on specific topics in photonics (e.g. ALPIN – Austrian Laser Production Network)
Photonics Explorer
Experimental kit for optics & photonics
The Photonics Explorer offers a variety of experiments to students of all ages. These experiments encourage self-studying the basics of optics and photonics and offer a first impression of scientific work. Topics included are diffraction, lenses, colour spectra and polarization.
New: Quantum Explorer
The Quantum Explorer is a construction kit for school and university students that can be used to simulate quantum mechanical phenomena in photonics.