The EU co-funded project Lasers4EU provides access to state-of-the-art laser technologies and services from primary and secondary laser sources to a wide range of laser-based instruments and techniques at 27 leading laser research institutions across Europe.
Three access routes are available in Lasers4EU:
Curiosity-driven single-instrument
For users requiring transnational access to a specific laboratory for a single project, covering everything from fundamental science to the validation of practical applications.
Curiosity-driven multi-instrument
For users requiring transnational access to multiple installations across different facilities, over several years if necessary. Needs only a single proposal for the whole duration.
Industry Access route
For industrial users, including users from medical centres, requiring transnational access to laser research infrastructures for manifold services, ranging from precision manufacturing and characterisation to joint technology development.
Why should the research infrastructures offer access to industrial users?
This route allows your facility to dedicate resources to technological innovation within a regulated framework that is fully supported by EU co-funding. It bridges the gap between academia and the market, delivering several key advantages:
- Accelerated Technology Transfer: Creates a direct route for know-how exchange, ensuring that cutting-edge technologies developed in the laser labs are actively adopted by the industrial and medical sectors.
- High-Impact Outputs: Fosters collaborative industrial projects that frequently translate into new patent applications and prestigious, indexed scientific publications.
- Stronger Innovation Ecosystems: Aligns with the European Commission’s objective to bridge the gap between research facilities and industry, including medical centres, through efficient technology and knowledge transfer.
Why should users apply for the industry route?
This route gives industrial users a straightforward, uncomplicated opportunity to access the latest European laser techniques and methods.
It provides customised entry points based on your company’s resources:
- Collaborative Research Access: Companies that lack the in-house expertise or staff to conduct independent experiments can participate by partnering with an academic collaborator.
- Industry-Tailored Proposal Management System: Industrial users with projects requiring absolute confidentiality, rapid turnaround times, and exclusive control over their intellectual property can participate through this model designed specially to meet their requirements.
It gives industrial users several key advantages:
- Co-funded R&D: Mitigate innovation risks and offset high costs using EU co-funding.
- Flexible, Secure IP Management: Safeguard your commercial interests on your terms. Benefit from shared academic insights, or lock down your data and intellectual property through strict, bespoke confidentiality agreements.
- Direct Facility Access: Access specialised European laser equipment and technical expertise without requiring internal capital expenditure.
Lasers4EU offers bottom-up research opportunities to scientists from academia and industry from all over the world.
Users benefit from free transnational access (including travel and accommodation) to these laser research laboratories.