The European Ceramic Society
News 2024
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.
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.
Join the new ECerS EDI Committee: help shape the future of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Ceramic Community!
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.
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"
New book by Prof. Suk-Joong Kang:
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.
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program - 1st call!
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.
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 4th call!
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.
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)!
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.
Results of the 1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest
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!
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 2nd call!
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.
Bioceramics Network Student Speech Contest - 18 participants selected!
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!
New Editor in chief for the Journal of ECerS!
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.
Obituary Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Günter Petzow
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.
Latest news
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 31st May 2025
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before August 2025.
12th March - International Day of Ceramics!
Dear Ceramic Community,
We are pleased to announce that March 12, 2025, marks the first-ever International Day of Ceramics!
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