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Ecosystems: a term that we encounter more and more in the media. It is even said that companies and organizations will have a hard time in the future if they do not become part of it. But what does it mean? In what forms will we encounter them and how does it relate to the traditional networks we already know?

With the signing of an exclusive licensing deal, BIO INX becomes the latest spin-off from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University (UGent). It’s working on developing organic inks to produce human “spare parts” with the help of 3D printers.

B-PHOT welcomed Flemish Minister Jo Brouns to our Photonics Campus and its research infrastructure. The Minister was very interested in the groundbreaking Einstein Telescope project and the investments provided by the Flemish government.

The winners of the 2023 B-Photonics Cup have been decided! The annual competition between several schools in Belgium is an initiative of VUB, B-PHOT and Colruyt Group Technics and helps young students to develop their own gadget of the future by using light, together with their classmates and their science teachers.

VUB and B-PHOT are working on the Einstein Telescope project, one of the 11 priorities of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures to address European challenges. This unique third-generation gravitational-wave observatory wants to put Europe at the forefront of Gravitational Wave research.

B-PHOT is organising a workshop 'Photonics4FOOD' together with Flanders' Food on May 11th, 2023. Join us for free to discover how photonics and AI can work together to make the food industry safer and more sustainable.

PhotonHub Europe exists for two years! Time for a Q&A with two of B-PHOT’s leading figures of the project, Susan Brindley and Peter Doyle.

B-PHOT professor Nathalie Vermeulen has been featured in the newest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast. Together with Eric Van Stryland, she talks about the science of nonlinear optics and the wide range of applications – from astronomy to quantum computing – that have emerged.

B-PHOT has hosted a second training on Optics and Freeform Optics for engineers and developers in the framework of PhotonHub's Experience Centre. Our researchers opened up their labs and shared basic technical insights and skills in optics and freeform optics design, prototyping, metrology and manufacturing.

"The optics community continues to wrestle with a shortage of skilled technical workers for labs and shop floors." Optica's Optics & Photonics News interviewed several experts about the hunt for skilled photonics talent and came to Prof. Thienpont to see how PhotonHub approaches training & reskilling in photonics.

VUB Racing, the electrical racing team of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, presented their plans for the upcoming season at B-PHOT's Photonics Campus.

Last week, an international delegation of Flanders Investment & Trade paid a visit to the Photonics Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. B-PHOT professors gave the visitors a nice tour to meet our team and discover our highly equipped research labs.