News 2024

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.

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.

What is the EDI Committee? The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee is being formed to develop and implement a strategic plan that integrates EDI standards into the practices of the European Ceramic Society. Our goal is to foster a more supportive and inclusive research environment.

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"

Prof. Kang is one of the foremost worldwide specialists in sintering and this book, presented as a series of questions and answers concerning sintering may be useful both to students of ceramics and also to teachers looking for questions to discuss with their students.

In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 49th International Conference and Expo on Advance Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) in Daytona Beach, FL or the Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA) conference in Denver, Colorado, organised respectively in January and February 2025.

In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a 4th call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 88th Annual Session of the Indian Ceramics Society and International Conference in Advanced Ceramics for Sustainability which will be organised by the Indian Ceramic Society in the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (located in Chennai, India), from 28th to 30th November 2024.  

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)!

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.

The ECerS Bioceramics Network is delighted to announce the winners of the 1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest, which took place online from 17 to 18 April 2024!

In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a second call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 1st Brazilian Meeting on Ceramic Additive Manufacturing (CeramicAM Brasil) that will be organised by the University of São Paulo in collaboration with the Brazilian Ceramic Society from 19th to 20th September 2024.

The ECerS secretariat received 42 applications on the deadline of 26th February 2024 and after analyse of the Jury, 18 candidates were selected instead of the 15 initially announced!

Since first January 2024, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Ceramic Society, JECS, is Prof. Jérôme Chevalier, from INSA Lyon, France.

Sadly, The European Ceramic Society has lost an esteemed member – Prof. Günter Petzow died on February 4, 2024, at the age of 97. He was an emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Metals Research (now MPI for Intelligent Systems) and a professor at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University Berlin.