The European Ceramic Society
2025 ECerS - FIRE Summer School - Dresden
The ECerS-FIRE Summer School "Mining the future of refractories and high temperature materials: the impact of sustainability, AI, computing tools and advanced techniques" will be co-organized by ECerS and FIRE at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, Dresden, Germany, the week before the next ECerS conference, from Thursday 28 to Friday 29 August 2025.
The school will be organised onsite but also online for those who could not travel to Dresden.
This 2025 edition of the ECerS-FIRE School will be a unique opportunity for the attendees (mostly PhD students, but also professionals) to learn more about (or discover!) refractories through 3 main aspects: fundamental approaches, industrial needs and new approaches on innovations.
The School will also be followed by a visit of the University TU BA Freiberg and a visit of the Freiberg Silver Mine OR of the Terra Mineralia Exhibition on Saturday August 30th.
Students will benefit to lodging in shared rooms in Dresden (4 nights from August 27th until August 30th).
20 grants of 500 € for travel will also be allowed by the JECS Trust to students participating to both the ECerS-FIRE Summer School and ECerS XIX Conference.
The Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation (CGIF) of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) also launched a call to allow 15 travelling grants of 1.500 $ for undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students based in non-European universities - Deadline to apply is April 27th, 2025 - Read more about it here!
The Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ) also launched a call to allow grants to students, members of CerSJ to attend the ECerS-FIRE Summer School! Deadline to apply is April 14th, 2025 - More information available here (in Japanese).
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