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

01/25 - ICG 2025

The 27th International Congress on Glass (ICG-2025) will be hosted by CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India from 20-24 January 2025.

01/25 - ICACC2025

The 49th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC2025) will be organised by ACerS from January 26 to January 31, 2026 at Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

04/25 - yCAM 2025

The 2025 edition of the young Ceramists Additive Manufacturing Forum (yCAM) will take place at INP-ENSIACET, Toulouse, France, from 23rd to 25th April 2025.

Latest news

Interview by Elsevier of Maria Canillas, guest editor for 2 special issues in Open Ceramics!

Maria was guest editor for the 2022 Special Issue "Young Ceramicists in the Spotlight" and the 2023 Special Issue on "Next frontier bioceramics: improvements from collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches"

Nov 20, 2024
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 30th November 2024!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of February 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 30th November 2024 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before mid-March 2025.

Nov 20, 2024

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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