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OptoNet goes Europe: Netzwerk ist Partner im EU-Projekt »OMNI-NET«

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OMNI-NET aims to provide EU national and regional stakeholders with analysis, methodologies, best practices, joint projects and policy recommendations to facilitate the necessary evolution of clusters in transverse and convergent technologies. OMNI-NET focuses on optics and/or micro/nano electronics clusters, relating to IST and NMP technologies.

Involved partners:		Located in:
Optics Valley	Network for Optics & Photonics in the Ile-de-France Region	Paris, France
CRIF	Ile-de-France Regional Council	Ile-de-France, France
UPS	University Paris-Sud	Paris, France
INNO	Strategic Management Consulting Company	Sophia-Antipolis, France
Optence	Competence Network for Optical Technologies	Wörrstadt, Germany
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum	Innovation Relay Centre	Stuttgart, Germany
Photonics BW e.V.	Competence Network for Optical Technologies in Baden-Württemberg	Oberkochen, Germany
Hessen Agentur	Official Business Promotion Agency	Wiesbaden, Germany
Thüringen innovativ	Provider for Technology & Innovationtransfer	Erfurt, Germany
OptoNet e.V.	Competence Network for Optical Technologies	Jena, Germany
ARIES	Romanian Association for the Electronic & Software Industry	Bucharest, Romania
Urzad Marszalkowski	Office of the Marshal of the Mazowiekie Voivodship	Mazovia Region, Poland
ITME	Consortium of Polish Optoelectronics	Warsaw, Poland
Technopolis	Centre of Expertise for Micro & Nanosystems	Helsinki, Finland
Scottish Enterprise	Scottish Micro and Optics Cluster	Glasgow, UK

OMNI-NET's key objectives are:
to identify and share best cluster practices to formulate a basic set of methodologies and disseminate it to other clusters to prepare a trans-regional network of clusters (metacluster) in order to identify and prepare strategic projects based on common needs for European cooperation on specific innovation themes to make policy recommendations to the EC and regional policy makers based on the project outcome
Planned actions:
analysis of OMNI-NET's 6 mature clusters and their regional economic systems exchange of knowledge and best practice identifying future joint projects and strategies methodology dissemination and exploitation
OptoNet's contribution:
OptoNet will contribute knowledge resulting from seven years of network experience. Furthermore, OptoNet is responsible for developing a strategy and detailed plan for the internal exploitation of OMNI-NET results and experiences during and beyond the project.

Press releases:
May 2006 \| OptoNet joins European network project OMNI-NET deutsch \| english

Contact:
Peggy Lerner (Project assistant) Tel: +49 (0) 3641 65 83 43 Fax: +49 (0) 3641 65 83 44 Email: info@optonet-jena.de