The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) is a not-for-profit association with headquarters in Paris, France.
EPIC focuses its actions on LEDs and OLEDs for lighting, optical fiber telecommunications, laser manufacturing, sensors, photovoltaics and photonics for life sciences.
The membership works together to execute the mission by proposing and implementing influential initiatives of significant impact on the industrial landscape.
The strength of EPIC comes from its capacity to represent the European photonics industry with a clear and articulate voice.
Nowadays, photonics is being included into many optoelectronic or mechatronic devices, therefore creating new components, new products and new industries.
The goal of this project is a roadmap leading from the R&D environment to mastering nano-electronics and nano-photonics technologies at an industrial scale.
[8] Beginning in 2007, EPIC and its members initiated the ACCORD project which purchases prototype photonics components and systems from SMEs and awards them to university R&D groups based on competitive proposals.
EPIC organised and led a consortium of 20 companies, SMEs, and research labs in a proposal to the European Commission for a €17 million project to develop new technologies for higher brilliance fiber lasers.