Partners & Network
ASP the central umbrella organization for a number of graduate research schools in the intersectoral network of the Abbe Center of Photonics, including attractive scholarship programs and industrial partnerships.
Scala dinner during the Dutch-Thuringian workshop 2017.
In joint research projects, ASP scientists and students tackle both fundamental and applied topics. One of our main objectives is to foster synergies between university institutes, affiliated non-university research centers, a robust international network, and — of course — our industrial partners. We are committed to creating scientific, societal, and economic value for our students, with their benefit at the core of our daily efforts.
The School's additional offerings are primarily funded through competitive third-party programs. Furthermore, the School is a key partner in a wide range of interdisciplinary projects with other research institutes and a member of the Graduate Academy Jena.
Key data of the Jena photonics cluster in 2022, comprising academia and industry.
Graphic: OptoNet e.V. and Christian Helgert.
ASP coordination of graduate schools and scholarship programs
- Integrated Research Training Group of the SFB-TRR 234 "Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials - CataLight"External link (DFG funded)
- Integrated Research Training Group of the SFB 1375 "NOA - Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic scales"(DFG funded)
- International Research Training Group GRK 2675 "Meta-Active" (DFG funded)
- Research Training Group GRK 3014 "PHINT" de (DFG funded)
- Max Planck School of PhotonicsExternal link, Germany's Excellence Photonics Education School (funded by the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung)
- Integrated QPhoton Graduate School of the CZS Center for Quantum Photonics (funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung)
- Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP)External link of the Abbe School of Photonics (DAAD funded)
- Graduate Research Projects within the Fraunhofer Leistungszentrum PhotonikExternal link (funded by the BMBF and the State of Thuringia within the Fraunhofer initiative on "Leistungszentren")
Former ASP graduate schools and scholarship programs
- Jena Alliance Life in Focus, de(funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung until 2025.
- International Research Training Group GRK 2101 "Guided light, tightly packed"External link,
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) until 2021. - Research Training Group "3D Technologies in Human-Machine Interaction" within the consortium "3DsensationExternal link", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) until 2020.
- Photonics-based analytics for biomedicine, funded as a concept for structural measures by the Carl Zeiss foundation until 2016.
- Graduate Research School for Photonics (GraPho), funded in public-private partnership by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the local state government and the German photonics industry until 2013.
- Graduate Research School - Optical Microsystem Technologies (OMiTec), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research until 2013.
- Graduate Research School - Green Photonics, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research until 2012.