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
06/27 - XX ECerS Conference - Valencia 2027
The XXth Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society will take place from 27th June to 1st July 2027 in Valencia, Spain
07/26 SFS Webinar: Clean Energy Research at Zhejiang University
On 24 July 2026 at 03 p.m. CEST, the SFS Alliance invites you to a webinar with Prof. Jianhua Yan from Zhejiang University. The webinar will introduce the research and development activities of the National Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization and address current challenges in sustainable energy development in China.
Topics include clean combustion, waste-to-energy, CCUS, energy storage, solar thermal utilization and the use of artificial intelligence in energy technologies.
08/26 - International Conference on Sintering
The next International Conference on Sintering will be held in Aachen, Germany, from August 31st to September 3rd, 2026.
Latest news
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 5th call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the International Conference on Advances in Refractory & Ceramic Materials 2026 organized by the Indian Ceramic Society on the occasion of their 90th Annual Session that will be held from 14th to 16th December 2026 at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 4th call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 11th International Congress on Ceramics – ICC 11 – that will take place from 6th to 11th September 2026 at the Sapporo Convention Center in Sapporo, Japan.
Funding Opportunities
JECS Trust
The JECS Trust sponsors activities or conferences involving a collaboration between different ECerS member countries as well as Mobility projects for young researchers...
Frontier of Ceramics
The proposal aims to promote frontier research and knowledge transfer in the field of materials, devices and processes related to any application area of ceramics.
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium