The International Day of Light is celebrated each year on May 16. Its purpose, per UNESCO, is to strengthen cooperation and leverage its potential to foster peace and development. [1] Light-based technologies play an important role in education, science, art, culture, sustainable development, communications, energy and medicine.

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Repeats every year on the 16 of May 10 times. The United Nations observes designated days, weeks, years, and decades, each with a theme, or topic. By creating special observances, the...

The 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference has today proclaimed the date of May 16th as the International Day of Light. The proclamation of this annual International Day will enable global appreciation of the central role that light and light-based technologies play in the lives of the citizens of the world in areas of science ...

International Day of Light is celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of light and light-based technologies to every aspect of human life and leverage it to foster peace and sustainable development.

The International Day of Light is an annual, global initiative celebrating light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development. Communities worldwide participate in activities that demonstrate how light in all its applications can help achieve the goals of UNESCO – education, equality, and peace.

Today, 16th May 2024, marks the 7th edition of UNESCO’s International Day of Light (IDL) – an annual observance raising awareness of the broad societal importance of light science and technology across diverse sectors of the society and in diverse fields such as communications, energy & healthcare, as well as art and culture. Since its ...

On 16 May, the International Day of Light, we celebrate careers in optics and photonics. To pass the visual Turing test, virtual reality must be indistinguishable from the real world. Julia uses light to create headsets that complete the challenge, bringing new worlds to reality.

The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.

PURPOSE: The International Day of Light is observed every year on 16 May to highlight the role of light in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.