According to Annual meeting 2016 of public private partnership European Commissioner for energy and general assembly of photonic public private partnership has given a successful digitalization over industry of European business. Photonics has provided a recent competitive edge for every industry and robotics and factories provided image in future for photonics over strategic partnership as herd by commissioner Ratangad.

Benedikt Schwarz of the Institute for Solid State Electronics and Centre for Micro- and Nanostructures, TU Wien collected one of the prizes for his work on miniaturised mid-infrared sensors.