Registration is now open for the next Photonics21 Annual Meeting which will take place on March 27. & 28, 2012 in the Hotel Husa President Park, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 44-1000 Brussels. The focus of the meeting will be clearly on the future EU framework programme “Horizon 2020” and the founding of a Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP).

Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, considered the upcoming Annual Meeting as “a milestones event” with regard to the future role photonics will play in the next framework programme “Horizon 2020”. She committed her attendance at the meeting as a keynote speaker at the General Assembly on March 28, 2012.

We like to invite you to join, network and discuss with the photonics community, politicians and academia and work closely with your colleagues of the photonics community in your work group of interest. The public event will start with a get together on March 27, 2012 at the Husa President Park Hotel. As a highlight of the first evening we will award young and innovative researchers with the 2012 Photonics21 Student Innovation Award.

The registration fee has been set at 180 Euro (incl. VAT) covering entrance to all sessions, lunch, coffee breaks and the evening reception.

Further information about the event:
http://www.photonics21.org/News/index.php

register for the Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2011 here:
http://photonics21.org/registration_annual_meeting.php