Let there be light: GoPhoton! is ready for launch
Every time we use the internet, take a picture with our cellular phone, go to the ophthalmologist for a check-up, buy products at the store and scan their barcodes, we are using Photonics, the science of light and light based technologies. Photonics is one of the European KETs (Key Enabling Technologies) of the 21st century and affects large aspects of our daily lives, but for most people it remains an unknown science.
GoPhoton! aims to change that by starting a series of outreach photonics activities in eight European partner cities – with a peak in 2015 during the International Year of Light and Light based Technologies (IYL2015). In Barcelona, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Galway, London, Milan and Paris research centres will open their doors for open house days, organize exhibitions, talks, workshops, and many further educational and entertaining events revolving around the concept and applications of light. This is also the focus of the girls' technology congresses organized by the German partner Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik both in 2014 and in 2015 to be held in the Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof. The comprehensive activities within GoPhoton! aim to bring Photonics closer to society and to inform the general public at large as to the ubiquitous and pervasive nature of Photonics in our lives. The goal is to make Photonics a household word, gaining recognition and support for the opportunities and potential that this technology presents for society.
GoPhoton! has been launched by the European Centres for Outreach in Photonics (ECOP) and is funded by the EU through the FP7 program.
FBH news: 27.03.2014