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 [...]
We cordially invite you to a unique event taking place on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at Pevnost poznání, 17. listopadu 939/7. Discover the latest trends in technical and vocational education, career counseling, and school–industry collaboration. Look forward to examples of good practice from various regions of the Czech Republic and [...]
You are cordially invited to the Members’ Meeting of the Czech Optical Cluster, which will take place on November 26–27, 2025, in Bořetice. 🕑 The General Assembly will begin on November 26, 2025, at 2:00 PM. After the assembly, we will hold a Czech Optical Cluster workshop “Shaping the Cluster’s [...]
On November 6, 2025, within the framework of the LASER-PRO project, in which we are proud to participate, a key international event focused on strengthening ecosystems in laser technologies and photonics will take place – “Photonics Frontiers – Building Stronger Ecosystems Together”. The event will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, [...]
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 [...]
We are pleased to cordially invite you to our autumn event, Optics Day, which we are organizing in collaboration with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology (BUT). The event will take place on Thursday, October 16, 2025, from 1:30 PM, directly at the faculty premises (Building [...]
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 [...]
Traditional Military Conference to Be Held Over Two Days This Year: September 23–24, 2025, at the University of Defence in Brno Title: "Sustainability and Life Cycle of Defence Systems: Optoelectronics as a Strategic Capability of the Czech Republic" The conference will focus on key challenges and opportunities in the sustainable [...]
As part of the LASER-PRO project, a significant technical achievement has been made through a collaborative effort between two Czech consortium members – the HiLASE Centre and CARDAM. The team successfully designed and produced a next-generation laser beam dump that offers improved performance, compactness, and thermal management, utilizing state-of-the-art metal 3D printing technologies and mathematical [...]