TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Curticapean, Dan T1 - International Year of Light opens new dimensions in optics and photonics education T2 - Proceedings of SPIE N2 - The United Nations have declared 2015 as the International Year of Light (IYL2015) and light-based technologies [1]. As a main result, the public interest is focused on both the achievements and the new frontiers of optics and photonics. This opens up new perspectives in the teaching and training of optics and photonics. In the first part of the paper, the author presents the numerous anniversaries occurring in the International Year of Light 2015 together with their importance to the development of science and technology. In the second part, we report on an interactive video projection at the opening ceremony of the IYL2015 in Paris on January 19-20, 2015. Students of Offenburg University have established an interactive video projection which visualizes Twitter and Facebook messages posted with the hashtag #iyl2015 in a mapping technique. Thus, the worldwide community can be interactively part of the opening ceremony. Finally, upcoming global community projects related to optics and astronomy events are presented. KW - Licht KW - Optik KW - Physik Y1 - 2015 UR - http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/volume.aspx?volumeid=17383 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223056 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223056 VL - 9793 SP - 979308-1 EP - 979308-9 PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham, Washington ER -