Lighting Cluster ‘Luce in illaieneto’ connects lighting professionals to the building industry and to city administrators Lighting Cluster ‘Luce in Veneto’ organized two dissemination and networking events: on May 19 for a group of 150 attenders (lighting companies, lighting professionals, architects and municipality administrators) in the Villa Marcello in Levada
Lighting Cluster ‘Luce in Veneto’ connects lighting professionals to the building industry and to city administrators
Business Opportunities for Solid State Lighting
Jessica Kamps (jkamps@cicat.cat), of Clúster d’Il·luminació de Catalunya (CICAT), Barcelona, organized an outreach and matchmaking event on Thursday 3rd of December, in the afternoon and early evening. She brought together 56 people from the lighting chain, including manufacturers, architects, lighting designers, customers and researchers. The first presentation was by Marc
The future of Solid State Lighting
‘The future is bright’, says Peter Bracke, coordinator of the Groen Licht Vlaanderen Lighting Cluster of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) and partner in the SSL-erate project. ‘The efficiency of LED systems is great and the costs are steadily coming down’, he notices. This means that Solid State Lighting (SSL)
June 2015
At the end of June, ZVEI, the German Electrical Industry lobby group organised a one day presentation for the DIN Expert Panel about human-centric lighting. This was another opportunity for the SSLerate program to give disseminate news and information about the latest findings in the Human Centric Lighting program. The
Human-centric lighting: From the lab into the real world
To read a full report of the event please click here At a recent workshop organized by Lighting For People and Luce in Veneto, three consortia presented innovative lighting products that are the result of the Open Innovation method, designed in collaboration with various stakeholders. Companies Hikari, Metalco and Heliv, in
Lighting For People publishes analysis on the effect of lighting on human health and well-being
Lighting For People today publishes its analysis on the effect of lighting on health and well-being, drawing together conclusions from hundreds of research papers compiled and summarised by the experts at Lighting For People. This analysis covers the effect of light on health and well-being across a number of different
We need to explore and create new ways of working to capture the potential added value of Solid State Lighting
We need to explore and create new ways of working to capture the potential added value of SSL. Human-centric lighting provides a more positive social effect. But what is the micro and on macro level economic impact? How can the opportunities be harvested in real life applications in e.g. facotries,
The SSL-erate Project reaches the 18 month mark
SSL-erate, the driving force behind the Lighting For People platform, is a three year project that aims to accelerate the uptake of high-quality Solid State Lighting (SSL) technology in Europe by supporting open innovation and bringing validated information to all those who have a stake in high quality lighting, but
It is a Societal Social Responsibility to invest in Human-Centric SSL
Now that it is being clarified that light affects our well-being and health much more than most people realize and also having the technical means to act on this knowledge – it has become a Societal Social Responsibility to take action to make use of the new knowledge to alleviate
Open Innovation: Turning business opportunities into profitable businesses
‘Innovation knows no barriers’, says Lene Hartmeyer of the Danish Lighting Innovation Network. That is why they participate—as one of a total of five so-called Lighting Clusters—in the Lighting For People project, a European Coordination and Support Action. The Danish Lighting Innovation Network and the Lighting For People project jointly
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