The EU HORIZON announced the success of our grant application in the summer of 2023. The HILIGHT consortium was thus formed in the autumn, and funding started on 1st December 2023. After the partners organized their work and started to deliver on preparatory tasks, on 17-18 January, we met in person for the first time for the HILIGHT kick-off meeting.
It was only appropriate for III-V Lab, the project coordinator, to host this meeting at their Palaiseau (France) site near Paris. Each partner presented their work packages, and we agreed on organizational structure, future meetings, and first steps, the usual things. It was also a great occasion to get to know each other as some of us never met in person but only through tens of meetings and the many emails exchanged during the pre-award stage. Also, it was great to tour the III-V Lab facilities, a major player in the fabrication and innovation of III/V semiconductors. We visited their impressive facilities with their large clean rooms, the reactors for epitaxial growth, and their people.
An exciting time for all of us, and we are looking forward to the first results we will share with the community. Watch this space.
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