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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.
Latest news
Interview by Elsevier of Maria Canillas, guest editor for 2 special issues in Open Ceramics!
Maria was guest editor for the 2022 Special Issue "Young Ceramicists in the Spotlight" and the 2023 Special Issue on "Next frontier bioceramics: improvements from collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches"
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 30th November 2024!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of February 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 30th November 2024 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before mid-March 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