Mission of Swissphotonics:

Improve competiveness of our members by strengthening the innovation forces to secure and grow industrial workplaces in Switzerland

About Swissphotonics:

• We organize Events: Workshops to foster the interaction within the innovation community, roundtables to address challenges and we support conferences to provide opportunities for communicating leading edge information.
• We support Labs which act as center of competence and provide single point of contact service and support to SMEs.
• We inform about Swiss and European strategic Research agendas, research platforms and initiatives.
• We provide information about Funding opportunities as well as supporting to access them.
• We serve the full field of photonics, starting from materials which convert electricity into light and light into electricity all the way to the application of light such as photonic manucaturing (material processing with a laser beam: cutting, welding and 3d additive), imaging, photonic life science, optical communication, photovoltaics and illumination.
• We serve companies, research organisations and universities in the field of photonics in basic and applied science, technology development, manufacturing and selling of photonics components and applications.
• We support the industry and reserach institutes in finding research partners and funding.
• We support networking within Switzerland and we establish international contacts, within Europe (Photonics21, EPIC) and worldwide (OSA, IOA)
• We work with Swissmem to support innovation in photonics.

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