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Register now for the upcoming Technology Days event hosted by Hamamatsu Photonics on May 30th, 2024. This complimentary one-day event will include industry experts, live demos, and networking opportunities in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (Belgium). Discover our new Pilot Lines service!

B-PHOT Brussels Photonics, in collaboration with Hamamatsu Photonics and PhotonHub Europe, proudly unveils a brand-new initiative: Pilot Lines for advanced module solutions. This innovative service is designed to propel photonics innovations from concept to market-ready products, revolutionizing the industry landscape.

In a dazzling celebration of technological advancement, B-PHOT Brussels Photonics, in collaboration with Flanders Technology and Innovation (FTI), welcomed enthusiasts of all ages to explore the cutting-edge world of photonics during the Open Labs Days.

VUB, alongside KU Leuven and UGent, ranks in the top 20 in acquiring EU funding under the Horizon Europe framework. "Flanders has brains, that's what we possess", says VUB vice-rector for Innovation & Valorisation Hugo Thienpont in an interview with VUB News.

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is throwing its weight behind the Brussels segment of the Flanders Technology & Innovation festival, running from Friday, March 15 to Friday, March 22. Vice Rector for Innovation & Valorization Hugo Thienpont stated, "Artificial intelligence, robotics, photonics, biotechnology, and sustainable energy are crucial areas where the VUB excels."

On November 28, B-PHOT hosted a free PhotonHub Demo Center on Optical Fibre Sensing Applications. Our experts welcomed the participants at the Photonics Campus in Gooik for an interactive training session.

David Giltner spoke to B-PHOT research director Hugo Thienpont to find out what "flipping the tech transfer model" means. Prof. Thienpont explains his rather uncommon view on industry collaboration and how it was the foundation of our research group B-PHOT at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The press department of Vrije Universiteit Brussel has launched a Science Magazine to showcase the important research and innovation news of the university in the past year. B-PHOT has been prominently featured with different projects.

B-PHOT has hosted a third 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.

B-PHOT will host an online introductory training course on photonics innovation on 19 September 2023. Join this exciting 2.5-hour training to understand how photonics technologies can be innovatively applied to your industry!

B-PHOT researcher Lien Smeesters is representing PhotonHub Europe at the Agrifood Innovation Event in the Netherlands on November 21st 2023. She will moderate a session on how the consortium supports photonics within the agrifood industry.

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?