A reflection on how Materials will enable solutions for a healthy, safe, and resilient society to achieve a sustainable, stable, and stronger economy, able to respond to citizen’s demands. This Paper summarizes positioning, potential solutions, and recommendations that stem from the European Materials community towards Horizon Europe in the Post-COVID scenario. The paper compiles existing […]
Deployment, investment, technology, grid integration and socio-economic aspects Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is at the heart of the world’s accelerating shift from climate-damaging fossil fuels towards clean, renewable forms of energy. The steady rise of solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation forms a vital part of this global energy transformation. In addition to fulfilling the […]
World Materials day has been celebrated by our society since 2003 and this year, as usual, we celebrate it with the College of Materials Engineering. The headquarters of the Order of Engineers in the city of Coimbra was the chosen place to hold this event. The SPM and Order of Engineers Awards were assigned after […]
Young people are key agents for social change, economic growth, environmental protection, and technological innovation. As countries across the world continue to take bold steps towards decarbonizing their energy systems, the need to include youth in the energy transformation is becoming increasingly clear. Today’s youth will lead the sustainable development agenda of tomorrow. It will […]
The EFC Award Jury has recognized the contribution of Prof Maria de Fátima Montemor, to the field of coatings for corrosion protection of different metallic substrates and for the development of new technologies based on sol-gel technology, self-healing and multifunctional coatings and mechanisms of corrosion inhibition. Also for the contribution to a great extent to […]
Junior EUROMAT, Granada, Spain – 5-9 July 2020 17th EUROMAT, Graz, Austria – 12-16 September 2021 Junior EUROMAT, Guimarães, Portugal – 6-10 July 2022 18th EUROMAT, Dresden, Germany – 3-7 September 2023
FEMS Newsletter has just been published. It gives information on upcoming events including EUROMAT 2019 (Stockholm 1-5 Sept.), the FEMS Master Award, The highlights from Junior EUROMAT 2018, recent meetings, details of staff changes at FEMS, and more. Please click the link below to read the newsletter PDF on the FEMS website http://www.fems.org/newsletter/fems-federation-european-materials-societies-newsletter
The Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and Taylor & Francis are pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access journal, European Journal of Materials (working title). EJM will publish high-quality research across the entire discipline of materials technology. The journal was officially launched at EUROMAT 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden on 4 September 2019. Professor Paloma […]
The recognition of excellence in technological innovation and scientific research in the area of Materials is part of the mission of the Portuguese Materials Society (SPM). In this context, in May 2019, the SPM Board established the Maria Manuela Oliveira Prize, with the purpose of highlighting the crucial role that women play in research, development, […]
This report provides insights on 100 emerging developments that may exert a strong impact on global value creation and offer important solutions to societal needs. There were identified a set of emerging developments through a carefully designed procedure that combined machine learning algorithms and human evaluation. After successive waves of selection and refinement, the resulting […]
