MASSTART started on the 1st of January 2019 as one of the fourteen new launched Photonics projects in framework of European Commission ’s H2020, Photonics21, @PhotonicsEU. Partners are CEA-LETI , ADVA Optical Networking, Mellanox Technologies, ficonTEC Service GmbH, Teem Photonics, BRIGHT integrated Photonics, ALMAE TECHNOLOGIES, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), DustPhotonics Inc., Tektronix. MASSTART will focus on MASS manufacturing of TrAnsceiveRs for Terabit/s era.