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

04/24 - 20th YCN Webinar

YCN is proud to announce its 20th Webinar that will be held on Thursday 11th April at 14:00 CEST!

04/24 - Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics: Materials for Extreme Environment Applications

The 2024 UHTC conference will be organised from 14th to 19th April 2024 at Giardini Naxos, Messina (Italy).

04/24 - Webinar

The DGM (German Society for Materials Science) and SFS (International Alliance of Societies for a Sustainable Future) are organising a Webinar on 24th April at 5 PM CEST, presented by Christian Berg from TU CLausthal.

Last news

Mar 20, 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!

Mar 1, 2024
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 31st May 2024!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2024. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2024 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before mid-August 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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