From June 27 to 29, the first “Workshop for multi-functional materials” took place, organized by the Cross-Border Materials Institute UPHF-UMONS and open to partners from the EUNICE alliance.
The event, aimed at bringing together the EUNICE alliance’s scientific communities involved in materials science and engineering, attracted over 130 participants over the three days, with a total of 37 oral presentations and two discovery and exchange sessions based on scientific posters.
An initiative of the Cross-Border Materials Institute
The Cross-Border Materials Institute, which initiated this event, was officially created during the EUNICE alliance’s General Assembly in Valenciennes in June 2022. This Institute, comprising three UPHF laboratories (LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, IEMN UMR CNRS 8520 Valenciennes site, CERAMATHS), and University of Mons’ Materials Institute, aims to strengthen academic and scientific cooperation, create international opportunities and facilitate the advancement of knowledge in the field of materials.
About EUNICE and Reunice
EUNICE, the European University for Customised Education, is designed to solve social and economic challenges, both globally and locally. In 2020, EUNICE was selected during the second call for pilot projects of European Universities of the European Commission. The alliance is nurtured by ten universities’ intellectual and infrastructure input –Poznań University of Technology (Poland), Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany), University of Cantabria (Spain), University of Mons (Belgium), University of Catania (Italy), Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (France), University of Vaasa (Finland), Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (Portugal), University of Peloponnese (Greece) and University of Karlstad (Sweden)–.
This alliance, born from the European Universities initiative and funded by the European Commission, is building a solid network of interactions between educational institutions and other agents to work on social and economic challenges.
EUNICE Research (Reunice project) was born in October 2021, funded by the EU’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, to align research and innovation agendas within the alliance. At the core of it lie the following objectives: to enhance human capital by implementing best practices, to share research infrastructures, to foster inclusivity and equality, to promote open science and cooperation between universities and other non-academic sectors.
For more information on Reunice, visit this page.
