In mid March of 2019, the Quantared team visited the premises of OMV at Gänserndorf to test the advances of their liquid-liquid extraction unit, as well as the interplay with the sample conditioning unit developed by OMV.

In order to define photonic structures in a certain layer of material first some areas are protected with a material on top (e.g. polymer or metal) while others remain exposed to the exterior.

The process flow comprises mainly three steps: the deposition of a thin layer of a photopolymer, the UV illumination through a glass mask with transparent/opaque patterns and the developing.

The main purpose of the meeting was to provide an in-depth update of the progress of the action and to assess the degree to which the work plan has been carried out.

Flow cell for the inline Oil-in-Water analyzer is ready! It provides the interface between the liquid and the semiconductor chip with integrated optical circuit, allowing for sensing by means of evanescent wave spectroscopy.

On the 9^th of March, 2018, Ralf Ostendorf from Fraunhofer presented the AQUARIUS project in a special session at the Photonics PPP Partnership Annual Meeting 2018 at the EC premises in Brussels.

On the 3^rd and 4^th of April, the AQUARIUS consortium came to together for a technical meeting at TU WIEN, in Vienna and also had to opportunity to meet and interact with the WATERSPY consortium.

AQUARIUS partners VIGO and QRT prepared a first vision for the AQUARIUS spectrometer.

A meeting with the advisory board member Martin Mayer from Siemens AG Austria was held at the 12^th of January 2018 at QuantaRed Technologies.

A meeting with the advisory board member Martin Kraft from Carinthian Tech Research (CTR) was held at the 19th of January 2018 at QuantaRed Technologies.

On 14^th December 2017, the AQUARIUS consortium presented the project results to the Scientific Officer, Michael Ziegler and two external experts within the frame of the 1st interim review meeting.

On 7^th of November 2017 AQUARIUS project partners QuantaRed Technologies and TU Wien met the Advisory Board member Rudolf Kessler in Tulln.

During a periodical meeting of the Horizon 2020 pilot line MIRPHAB on 19^th of October 2017 in Ożarów (Poland) the AQUARIUS project was introduced to the MIRPHAB consortium.

From 5^th – 6^th July 2017, the AQUARIUS Technical Meeting took place in Freiburg, Germany and was hosted by partner FRAUNHOFER IAF.

Representatives of 8 different partners from 5 different European countries participated in the AQUARIUS kick-off meeting which took place from 17^th - 18^th January 2017 at OMV’s premises in Vienna.

On 1^st of January 2017, a European cooperative research project within the Photonics Public Private Partnership, has officially started.