Part­ner­ships

We main­tain close rela­ti­ons with the tech­no­logy clus­ters at regio­nal level and try to estab­lish cont­acts in the user indus­tries through sui­ta­ble formats.

Tech­no­logy Clus­ters Cen­tral Germany

• med­ways
• Spec­tro­Net 
• auto­mo­tive thüringen 
• Sili­con Saxony

Opto­Net is part of the supra-regio­nal net­wor­king initia­tive Optec­Net Deutsch­land e.V., in which a total of eight Ger­man pho­to­nics clus­ters have joi­ned forces to create a powerful, joint struc­ture at both fede­ral and inter­na­tio­nal level. They repre­sent a total of more than 500 play­ers in the Ger­man pho­to­nics industry.

The regio­nal Inno­va­tion Clus­ters of Optec­Net Germany

• bay­ern photonics
• OptecBB
• Hanse Pho­to­nik
• Pho­to­nics BW
• Pho­to­nic­Net
• Optech­Net
• Wetz­lar Network

We main­tain close cont­acts with inter­na­tio­nal pho­to­nics clus­ters and coor­di­nate coope­ra­tion via the Glo­bal Pho­to­nics Alli­ance GPA, a net­wor­king initia­tive which is signi­fi­cantly advan­ced by OptoNet.

Our Part­ners in the GPA

• Pho­to­nics Aus­tria Austria
• Pôle Opti­tec France South of France
• SWISSMEM Switz­er­land
• Pho­to­nics Fin­land Finn­land
• Dutch Optics Centre The Net­her­lands
• Opto­ni­que Qué­bec
• Pho­tons Canada Canada
• Pho­to­nics Israel • Israel

We are con­nec­ted with the Ger­man Indus­try Asso­cia­tion for Optics, Pho­to­nics, Ana­ly­ti­cal and Medi­cal Tech­no­logy SPECTARIS via a part­ner­ship agree­ment and coope­rate in supra-regio­nal fields of acti­vity in the inte­rest of our members.

Since 2018 we have been a mem­ber of EPIC, the Euro­pean Pho­to­nics Indus­try Con­sor­tium, and are actively invol­ved in Euro­pean initiatives.