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

03/25 - THIRD SÃO CARLOS SCHOOL ON GLASSES AND GLASS-CERAMICS

The CeRTEV team is organizing the Third School on Glasses and Glass-ceramics from March 10 to 15, 2025 in São Carlos, São Paulo State, Brazil, following the success of the First International School in 2015 and the Second in 2023.

Latest news

Report on the Shaping 9 Conference and Summer School

The 2024 edition of the Shaping 9 Conference and Summer School was organized by ECerS and the Polish Ceramic Society at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, from 25th to 27th September 2024.

Dec 18, 2024
Report on the Electroceramics XIX Conference and Summer School

The 2024 edition of the Electroceramics XIX Conference and Summer School was organized  by ECerS and the Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 19th to 22nd August 2024.

Dec 18, 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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