The European Ceramic Society

Gian Nicolas Babini (Industrial) Awards

    This award honours Gian Nicola Babini, who served as President of the European Ceramic Society for two terms (1993/1995 and 2001/2005).

    The Gian Nicolas Babini Award (ECerS industrial award) shall be given every second year to a person who contributed to the development of the European Ceramic Industry by an outstanding technical achievement.

    The achievement must represent an innovative technology or product successfully developed into a viable commercial item that demonstrates a gain to society through its diffusion and availability.

    The person, normally, shall have been a member of a national ceramic organization that is affiliated to the European Ceramic Society at least two years continuously at the established nomination deadline date when nominated.

    List of scientists who received the Gian Nicolas Babini Award:

    Jean-André Alary

    Jean-André Alary

    France

    14th ECerS (2015), Toledo (ES)

    Joachim Heym

    Joachim Heym

    Germany

    15th ECerS (2017), Budapest (HU)

     Jose María Domínguez Ibáñez

    Jose María Domínguez Ibáñez

    Spain

    16th ECerS (2019), Torino (IT)

    Franco Stephani

    Franco Stephani

    Italy

    17th ECerS (2022), Krakow (PL)

    Moritz von Witzleben

    Moritz von Witzleben

    Germany

    18th ECerS (2023), Lyon (FR)

    Last news

    Jul 4, 2024
    ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools

    The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024)  and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!

    Jun 27, 2024
    2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

    In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a third call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2024 Fall meeting of Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) that will be organised by the Korean Ceramic Society in Seoul, Korea, from 16th to 18th October 2024.

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