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Funding for Ceramics Research and Education
The JECS Trust was formally set up in December 2007 to oversee the expenditure of funds passed on to the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) by the Society’s Journal and by its publisher, Elsevier.
In its allocation of the Trust’s resources, the Trust Council aims :
- To enable the European Ceramic Societies to engage in a broad range of activities for the benefit of its membership.
- To strengthen research and teaching in Europe within the subject of ceramics.
- To maintain and build on the current strong position of the Journals.
Conferences sponsored
08/25 - XIX ECerS Conference - Dresden 2025
The XIXth Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society will take place from August 31 to September 4, 2025 at the International Congress Center in Dresden, Germany.
08/25 - ECerS-FIRE Summer School
The school entitled "Mining the future of refractories and high temperature materials: the impact of sustainability, AI, computing tools and advanced techniques" will be organized at IKTS, Dresden, Germany, the week before the next ECerS conference, from Thursday 28 to Friday 29 August 2025.
Latest news
New forms for Applications!
Please use the new forms to submit your application for Mobility or General Activities starting on the next call with deadline on 31st May 2025!
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.
Application forms
Mobility
Funding of visits by individuals to other laboratories within Europe to learn new techniques or to access equipment not available in their own laboratories.
General activities
Events such as workshops / conferences, etc. which are specifically aimed at students / early stage researchers / high school teachers or on topical research areas likely to result in high quality papers for publication in the 2 ECerS Journals
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium