New projects:

CHARMING – Components for Highly Advanced time-Resolved fluorescence Microscopy based on Nonlinear Glass fibres

ICT, FP7 Project on the development of new integrated functions in fibres for compact and all-in-fibre sources applied to superresolution microscopy. Type of Funding Scheme: STREP. Starting date: September 2011, Duration: 3 years. http://www.charming-project.eu/ available soon.

ALPINE – Advanced Lasers for Photovoltaic INdustrial processing Enhancement

NMP, FP7 Project on the development of new fibre laser sources for the processing of thin films solar cells. Type of Funding Scheme: Large scale integrating projects. Starting date: September 2009, Duration: 3 years. http://www.project-alpine.eu/

IMPROV – Integrated Mid-infrared high Power source for Resonant ablation of Organic based photoVoltaic devices

ICT, FP7 Project on the development of a tunable mid-IR source for resonant IR ablation. Type of Funding Scheme: STREP. Budget: 3 M€ Starting date: September 2010, Duration: 3 years. http://www.fp7project-improv.eu/

P3SENS – Polymer Photonic multiparametric biochemical SENsor for Point-of-care diagnostic

ICT, FP7 Project on the development of a full polymer biophotonic sensor. Contract Type: Collaborative project (generic); Budget: 3.63 M€; Starting date: January 2010, Duration: 3 years; http://www.p3sens-project.eu/.

NEXPRESSO – Network for EXchange and PRototype Evaluation of photonicS componentS and Optical systems

NEXPRESSO is a continuation of ACCORD the Advanced Components Cooperation for Optoelectronics Research and Development. Coordination FP7-ICT-2009 Project. Starting date: July 2010, Duration: 3 years. NEXPRESSO has opened its First Call for Components: http://www.nexpresso.eu/news/stories/first-call.

Other Eureka and national projects like PLASMA, IFOAMS, HPP, BIOSE, MUSICAL and informal collaborations (with IMEC, ORC, ACREO, etc).