European Ceramic Society

We are a non-governmental, nonprofit federation of national ceramic societies each representing the ceramists of a member country.

ECerS was established in 1987 in order to co-ordinate and promote the study of ceramics and in particular :

  • To encourage education, training and research.
  • To consult with and bring together individuals and representatives of members, research establishments, academic bodies and institutions of governments and other bodies including the Commission of the European Community.
  • To collect, disseminate and exchange information with other organizations
  • To promote planning, promotion and organization of conferences and meetings
  • To procure planning, printing, publication and circulation of technical papers,

Conferences calendar

06/23 - Summer School Non-conventional sintering: science and technology

This school will be held at the University of Trento, Italy, from 5th to 7th June 2023.

06/23 - International Symposium on Inorganic and Environmental Materials 2023 (ISIEM 2023)

The next edition of the International Symposium on Inorganic and Environmental Materials 2023 (ISIEM 2023) will be held in Montpellier, France, from 19th to 23th June 2023.

06/23 - ECerS Summer School 2023

The 2023 ECerS Summer School will be organised prior to the 2023 ECerS Conference, on 29th and 30th June 2023 in Lyon, France. The topic of the school will be: Microstructural & Structural Characterization.

Last news

May 31, 2023
YCN Newsletter 17 - Research in Industry - Entrepreneurship in Materials Science by Daniela Gehrisch

Founder of MAF, a material analysis laboratory, is Daniela Gehrisch. She was born in Freiberg and grew up the Ore Mountains in Germany. Having been enthusiastic about maths and physics at school, she decided to look for a place to study in the silver city Freiberg. That's how she found the course in materials science and technology and graduated with a diploma.

May 31, 2023
YCN Newsletter 17 - Research in Spot - Bioceramic bone cements modified with bioglass by Kinga Kowalska

Research in Spot – 3rd YCN Workshop edition - Best online poster presentation

"Bioceramic bone cements modified with bioglass" by Kinga Kowalska

Funding Opportunities

JECS Trust

The JECS Trust sponsors activities or conferences involving a collaboration between different European Ceramic Society member countries, involving student/early ...

Frontiers of Research

Open to early stage researchers of the countries affiliated to ECerS, the proposal aims to promote frontier research in the field of materials, devices ...

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Our actions

ECerS coordinates and promotes the study of ceramics through the following actions :

ECerS office

Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4

7000 Mons

Belgium

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