Country

Name

Website

Austria Photonik Austria www.photonik-austria.at
     
Belgium Cluster Photonique www.wallonie.be/photonique-fr
     
Europe EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium) www.epic-assoc.com
Europe Photonics21 www.photonics21.org
     
Finland Photonics Finlandclusters www.photonics.fi
     
France CNOP (Comité National de l’Optique et de la Photonique) www.cnop-france.org
France AFOP www.afoptique.org
France ALPhA – Route des Lasers www.routedeslasers.com
France ELOPSYS www.elopsys.fr
France OPTICSVALLEY www.opticsvalley.org
France Pôle ORA www.pole-ora.com
France OPTITEC – POPsud www.pole-optitec.com
France Photonics Bretagne www.photonics-bretagne.com
     
     
Germany OptecNet Deutschland www.optecnet.de
Germany Bayern Photonics www.bayern-photonics.de
Germany HansePhotonik www.hansephotonik.de
Germany OpTecBB (Optec Berlin-Brandenburg) www.optecbb.de
Germany OpTech-Net www.optech-net.de
Germany OPTENCE www.optence.de
Germany Optonet www.optonet-jena.de
Germany PHOTON AIX www.photonaix.de
Germany Photonics BW www.photonicsbw.de
Germany Photonic Net www.photonicnet.de
     
Greece PhotonicsGR www.iesl.forth.gr/research/project.aspx?id=123
     
Italy AEIT-CORIFI – Photonics National
Technology Platform Italy
www.aeit.it/corifi/struttura/pagedin.php?cod=about 
Italy OPTOSCANA www.optoscana.net
     
Latvia FOTONIKA-LV www.lu.lv/fotonika-lv
     
Lithuania Laser and Light Science and Technology Association www.ltoptics.org
     
The Netherlands Photonics NL www.photonicsnl.org 
     
Poland Polish Technology Platform for Photonics www.pptf.pl/en
Poland OPTOKLASTER – Mazovian Photonic Technology Cluster www.optoklaster.pl
     
Portugal SPOF – Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics www.optica.pt
     
Scotland SOA (Scottish Optoelectronics Association) www.optoelectronics.org.uk
     
Spain SECPhO (Southern European cluster in photonics & optics) www.secpho.org
Spain Fotonica 21 – Plataforma Tecnológica Española de Fotónica www.fotonica21.org 
     
Slovenia Fotonika 21 www.fotonika21.com/en/
     
Sweden PhotonicSweden www.photonicsweden.com
     
Switzerland SWISSPHOTONICS www.swissphotonics.net
     
United Kingdom Welsh Opto-Eletronics Forum www.wof.org.uk
United Kingdom The Knowledge Transfer Network www.connect.innovateuk.org/web/espktn 

Download: United Nations Press Release 20 December 2013 
Download: IYL-2015 Overview 

 

Country

Name

Website

   
France European Physical Society www.eps.org/?page=event_iyol
     
Sweden Ljusåret 2015 www.ljus2015.se
     
USA The Optical Society of America www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/international_year_of_light/
     
USA SPIE www.spie.org/about-spie/international-day-of-light/international-year-of-light
     
Unesco Launch of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 www.en.unesco.org/events/launch-international-year-light-and-light-based-technologies-2015
     
World Organisation International Year of Light 2015 www.light2015.org
  Download IYL 2015 Final Report IYL 2015 Final Report (PDF, 40515 KB)
   
  International Year of Light 2015 – Official Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R8jJ0wPM2Q

Although the International Year of Light ended over a year ago, many of the activities that were started in 2015 continue today, and indeed are being developed further and amplified worldwide.   UNESCO itself has provided us with a fantastic opportunity for the future with its Executive Board endorsing an annual International Day of Light that will take place every year on May 16, beginning in 2018.

John Dudley
International Year of Light Legacy Committee Chair
John.dudley@univ-fcomte.fr

See also:

International Day of Light : a United Nations Program