On 1–2 December 2025, the city of Ostrava hosted the DVN Ostrava Lighting Workshop, the first event of its kind in the Czech Republic within the Driving Vision News workshop series dedicated to automotive lighting technologies and innovation. The workshop offered a rich programme of expert presentations, discussions and networking [...]
On 26–27 November 2025, the Czech Optical Cluster held its regular member meeting in Bořetice, South Moravia. This year’s programme was rich in content and focused on defining the cluster’s strategic direction for the years ahead. The first day featured the annual general meeting, during which key activities from the [...]
From 19 to 21 November 2025, the LASER 65 conference took place at Resort Hotel Kurdějov in the Czech Republic, and the Czech Optical Cluster was proud to be a partner of this traditional event. LASER 65 brought together experts from academia, industry and the commercial sector who are professionally [...]
On 13 November 2025 at 9:30, another session of the MEZI SEBOU workshop series took place at Worklounge Dejvice in Prague, organized by the Czech Optical Cluster in cooperation with Meopta s.r.o.. For the first time, the event was held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join both in [...]
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, an event was held at the Pevnost poznání (Fortress of Knowledge) in Olomouc that showed that the future of education lies in cooperation. The discussion focused on how to respond to rapid technological changes and prepare the younger generation for a constantly evolving job market. The event had [...]
From 5–7 November 2025, the city of Vilnius, Lithuania, hosted an important meeting of the LASER-PRO Excellence Hub consortium, which brings together partners from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Ukraine to strengthen European ecosystems in laser technologies and photonics. The event was organized by the Center for Physical Sciences and [...]
On October 21–22, 2025, the Czech Optical Cluster co-organized the fifth edition of the Correlative Materials Characterization workshop (CMC 2025) in Brno. Together with CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology and the Brnoregion Microscopy Platform, we welcomed experts from leading European scientific and research institutions and universities, such as [...]
The Czech Optical Cluster, together with the Institute of Physical Engineering at Brno University of Technology (BUT), participated in organizing the second Optics Day 2025. The event, held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, attracted nearly 150 students, researchers, and business representatives who came to see and present how light [...]
In September, the Czech Optical Cluster took part in the prestigious international conference Photonics, Lasers, Space: Designing the Future Society – Vision 2040, which we co-organized with member companies and partners from both the Czech Republic and Japan as part of EXPO 2025 in Osaka. The conference explored a vision [...]
At the prestigious Laser World of Photonics 2025 trade fair, held in Munich from June 24 to 27, 2025, the Czech optics sector made a strong showing. The Czech Optical Cluster presented the Czech industry and research alongside renowned institutions: The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI ERIC) HiLASE Centre of [...]