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PLS 2014: International Year of Light 2015
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Nick Smith MILP MIES IEngManaging Director
Nick Smith Associates Ltd
Nick Smith MILP IEng
Managing Director
Nick Smith Associates ltd
T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l
Y e a r o f L i g h t a n d L i g h t b a s e d
t e c h n o l o g i e s 2 0 1 5
The Internat iona l Year o f L ight
and L ight 2015
C o m m u n i c a t i o n sH e a l t h Economy SocialEnvironment
O u t l i n e
• Background and overview
• O b j e c t i v e s
• O r g a n i z a t i o n – I n t e r n a t i o n a l a n d N a t i o n a l
• P r o p o s e d S t r u c t u r e f o r I n t e r n a t i o n a l Y e a r o f L i g h t
• T i m e l i n e
• A c t i v i t i e s
• W H AT D O Y O U W A N T T O S E E F R O M I Y O L 2 0 1 5 .
Background
The o r i g i na l i dea da tes back t o and ICQE
mee t i ng i n June 2009 p r i o r t o t he
announcement o f l a se r f e s t
Endorsed by the UNESCO Executive board in 2012
and UNESCO General conference in 2013, a
resolution by the UN General Assembly on 20th
December 2013
BackgroundW h o i n v o l v e d
• Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palau, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and United States of America
W h a t t h e U N W a n t s
• T o p r o m o t e l i g h t t e c h n o l o g i e s f o r i m p r o v e d q u a l i t y o f l i f e i n d e v e l o p e d a n d d e v e l o p i n g w o r l d
• T o r e d u c e l i g h t p o l l u t i o n a n d w a s t e e n e r g y
• T o p r o m o t e w o m a n ’ s e m p o w e r m e n t i n s c i e n c e
• T o p r o m o t e e d u c a t i o n a m o n g s t t h e y o u n g
• T o p r o m o t e s u s t a i n a b l e d e v e l o p m e n t
A N N I V E R S A R I E S I N 2 0 1 5
• 1015 : 1000 Years of Arabic Optics
• 1815: 200 years of Fresnel’s theory of diffraction
• 1865: 150 years since Maxwell’s electrodynamics
• 1915: Einstein Centenary , General Relativity
• 1965: Cosmic Microwave Background Penzias & Wilson
• Optical Fibre Technology, Charles Kao
IYOL 2015
• T h i s i s l i k e n o t h i n g w e h a v e e v e r d o n e b e f o r e
• International year of Astronomy reached 815 million people in 148 Nations
Sponsorship
• Many Companies, Universities and other institutions can benefit from the association with IYL 2015 and a UNESCO / UN resolution
• Global Sponsorship have a 24 months of visibility
• Various Funding Levels
– High 10K-100k+
– For Large Universities : Associate (5K)
– Other parties Associations (1-5K)
– Founding Partner levels
Who’s involved
• ACE - Association Concepteurs lumières et Éclairagistes• A-PDI - Asociación Profesional de Diseñadores de Iluminación• APIL - Associazione Professionisti dell'Illuminazione• AsBAI - Associação Brasileira dos Arquitetos de Iluminação• ASDluz - Asociación de diseñadores de iluminación Colombia• CPI - Centro Português de Iluminação• Concepteurs Lumiere sans frontieres• Dansk Center for Lys• DIA - Disenadores Iluminación Asociados• IALD - International Association of Lighting Designers• Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand• Illuminating Engineering Society of North America• ILP - Institution of Lighting Professionals• Inter Light Forum • Ljuskultur• Lyskultur• PhoScope• SLL - Society of Light and Lighting
• "KTH ABE, Architecture and Built Environment"• iLo - instituut Lichtontwerpen• Lighting Design Academy • Parsons The New School for Design
• Beforelight• GrupoFARO• Italian Lighting Designers• Lupercales• Social Light Movement
• EILD - Encuentro Iberoamericano de Lighting Design• Noche zero
• Illumni• L+D • Light ZOOM Lumière - Conception Lumiere• Lightecture• Luxemozione• Megaluz• MondoArc - Darc
IYL Opening Ceremony
• 19-20 January 2015
• 1500 attendees
• Live Webcast
• Nobel Laureates
• Diplomats
• Politicians
• International Undergraduates
• Scientist
• Industry
What’s in it for you
• More information?
• www.light2015.org
• Secretariat: [email protected]
We will only get one chance