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ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTERS: A EUROPEAN TRAINING MODEL FOR PHOTONICS
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Nathalie DESTOUCHES 1, 2, *, Amélie LITMAN 3, Viktorija TAMULIENĖ 4, Tea VELLAMO 5, Sylvain GIRARD 1, 2, Denis BARATAUD 6, Frédéric FABRE 6, Philippe COLANTONI 1, Nataliya STROKINA 7, Stéphane GUÉRIN 8, Dylan RANNAUD-MONANY 8, Marino MARSI 9 and Eva RENOUF 10
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Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, Institut d’ Optique Graduate School, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR 5516, F-42023 Saint- Etienne, France – 2 Institut Universitaire de France, F-75005 Paris, France – 3 Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Med, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France – 4 Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 10, Vilnius LT-10223, Lithuania – 5 Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland – 6 XLIM Laboratory, UMR CNRS 7252, University of Limoges, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Campus La Borie, F-87060 Limoges CEDEX, France – 7 Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland – 8 Université Bourgogne Europe, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne ICB, UMR CNRS 6303, UFR Sciences et Techniques, F-21000 Dijon, France
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay F-91405, France
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Université Paris-Saclay, Pôle Relations internationales / UFR Sciences, Orsay F-91405, France * nathalie. destouches @ univ-st-etienne. fr
Photonics is now widely recognised as a key enabling technology. From high-speed optical communications and medical imaging to industrial sensing, aerospace systems and environmental monitoring, it is deeply embedded in our daily lives and it underpins the rapid development of artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, augmented reality and advanced sensing systems, often in regimes where conventional solutions reach their limits.
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In Europe, photonics rests on a strong and diverse ecosystem of academic laboratories, research organisations, large industrial groups and small and medium-sized enterprises( SMEs), which keeps the field highly competitive internationally in areas such as lasers, optical instrumentation, biophotonics, semiconductor technologies and quantum photonics. Its growth has sharpened the need for highly qualified specialists, as industry and academia struggle to recruit engineers and researchers with interdisciplinary skills spanning optics, photonics, electronics, data science, and systems engineering. In this context, Erasmus Mundus Joint Master( EMJM) programmes, combining the expertise of several European universities and industrial partners, offer students an international
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