With this edition, we open the year 2025 with the latest information on the activities, achievements and plans of the community developing optics and photonics in Poland. The new year brings more conferences as well as new initiatives - we warmly invite you to get to know them!

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In response to the needs of the community, the Candela Foundation is coordinating an initiative to develop an English-Polish dictionary of terms in optics and photonics. The aim of the project is to create a reference that will facilitate and standardise Polish translations of specialist terms in optics and photonics.  Proposals of translationa can be submitted until 10 February. We warmly invite you to participate!

Creotech Instruments has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence (MON) for the supply of an Satellite Earth Observation System. Under the PLN 556.7 million contract, the Piaseczno-based company will design, build and deliver several optoelectronic Earth observation systems into orbit by 2027. (photo: Creotech)

This summer Candela and CFT PAN will host the 19th edition of the International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems, which will be held in Warsaw from 14-18 July. We encourage you to submit abstracts of your presentations and to actively participate in the conference. The call for abstracts runs until 28 February 2025. 

Candela Foundation announces the next call for applications for scholarships under the Rezonator yprogramme. The scholarship holders, selected in an open competition, will receive a scholarship of 9400 PLN to cover the costs of an internship in a different city in Poland than the one in which they study. The programme aims to support cooperation between research centres in Poland.

The Council of the Łukasiewicz Centre has approved the 4-year and 10-year strategies of the Łukasiewicz Research Network. The document, preceded by an analysis of the potential of the institutes and the economic environment, sets out the mission, vision and strategic goals of the Network, with the main objective of providing innovative solutions for the economy.

Toruń-based Noctiluca, a manufacturer of chemical compounds used, among other things, in OLED displays, has gained a strategic partner in China. Under a Joint Development Project (JDP) agreement, its solutions will be tested by one of the world's largest TV manufacturers (unofficially rumoured to be the TCL group).

Photonics once again proved its interdisciplinary nature by being among the works awarded in the ‘Gold Medal of Chemistry’ competition organised by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and DuPont. Michał Wnuk from Wrocław University of Science and Technology won the Silver Medal for his work entitled. ‘Construction of a mobile Raman spectrometer’. Congratulations!