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New Congress Dinner sponsor

Drochaid Research Services is a contract research organisation which focusses on industrial catalysis and process chemistry. Through its experienced scientists and bespoke equipment, Drochaid can support customers to discover, develop or improve their catalytic processes.

New silver sponsor

Johnson Matthey have for over two centuries helped tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. They are using their advanced metals chemistry expertise and technology solutions to enable the world’s leading energy, chemicals and automotive companies to decarbonise and reduce harmful emissions. With global challenges of climate change, energy supply and resource scarcity more pressing than ever before, they are making it their purpose to catalyse the net zero transition for their customers, and millions of people every day.

Plenary and Keynote speakers announcement

The two last plenary speakers are ready as the announcement of Bert M. Weckhuysen as the recipient of the 2025 Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis 2025 and Shannon S. Stahl as the recipient of the 2025 Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis.

The five other plenary speakers are: 
The two 2023 Francois-Gault-lectureship recipients Francois Jérôme and Andrzej Kotarba, as well as Núria López, George Willis Huber and Jan-Dierk Gunwaldt 

Xiulian Pan, Miao Sun, Gianvito Vilé, Gerhard Mestl, Albin Pintar, Eranda Nikolla, Thomas Schaub, Todd Hyster, Ning Yan, Jacinto Sá, Alessandra Beretta, Edd Anders Blekkan, Anna Chrobok, Tapio Salmi and Jakob Kibsgaard will all give keynote lectures.

Please follow the links to the program site for more details about the speakers.

Accomodation

The Congress hotel Clarion Hotel Trondheim is fully booked, and unfortunately, we do not have any more rooms available after September 5th. But rooms are still available in the other hotels 31.08 - 05.09.

However, these rooms will soon be made available for others that Europacat 2025 participants. It is therefore important that you register and book your hotel as soon as possible!

Registration

Regular price now applies.  Link to registration

Notification of acceptance was sent out 13.05.

Notifications of acceptance for long (20 min) and short(10 min) oral presentation or poster was sent out 13.05. Please be informed that in case of withdrawals of abstracts assigned for oral presentation, certain authors of poster presentations will be offered short or standard oral presentations spots. This selection will be based on the already completed reviewing process, alongside topical considerations.

New Copper partners

Since its inception in 1988, Zeolyst International has emerged as a global leader in the disciplines of zeolite powders, catalysts and adsorbents. It combines product development and manufacturing expertise in zeolites and catalysts from its parent companies, Ecovyst and Shell Catalyst & Technologies, into a single streamlined entity. Zeolyst International progresses concepts through R&D innovation, and can nimbly scale up to commercialize zeolite applications.

VSParticle is a leading supplier of next-generation tools for nanoparticle synthesis and deposition. Their technology reduces the preparation time of advanced nanoparticle samples to just hours, accelerating the development of novel materials for diverse applications. By addressing the reproducibility challenges in energy materials and introducing myriad of material and substrate flexibility, VSPARTICLE's technology provides a robust foundation for Self-Driving Labs—the next frontier in materials science.

Specson is an established designer and producer of fully automated, custom designed laboratory scale R&D testing systems and software. SPECSON experts in the field of catalysis do not only design your project-specific reactors and experimental setup, but also measure the activity of your catalysts, characterize them by the state-of-the-art-techniques, and apply in in-situ and/or operando testing with exceptional service quality for you.

New exhibitors

SPECSGROUP has more than 200 employees at its headquarters in Berlin and Hünstetten, and its subsidiaries in the USA, China and Switzerland. They have international channels in more than sixteen countries. A team of scientists and engineers is involved in developing and producing scientific instruments for surface analysis, material science and nanotechnology. By constant innovation new techniques, components or system concepts are developed since more than 40 years, revolutionizing the field of surface analysis.

Finden have been offering advanced characterisation and analysis since 2012. As well as offering conventional measurement and analysis their clients can take advantage of unique measurement services capable of giving unprecedented insight into their systems. Finden work with clients on a one-to-one basis and assign experts from a pool of exceptional technicians and researchers to meet the needs of the project. They provide timely measurement services to order or advise on and implement measurement strategies for short or long term projects and research programmes.

REALCAT consists of a high-throughput platform, unique in the world, devoted to R&D in heterogeneous, homogeneous catalysis and biocatalysis as well as to the ultra-innovative concepts of Hybrid Catalysis and Digital Catalysis. Situated in north of France, REALCAT is able to carry out high-throughput syntheses, characterizations and testings in the frame of academic and/or industrial collaborations or services. Feel free to contact them to know more!

 YEuCat Contest: Research in a nutshell

Research in a Nutshell will take place at EuropaCat 2025 and aims to recognize outstanding efforts by young researchers (PhD students and early-career PostDocs) to present their work in an accessible and engaging way. If you submit an abstract for an oral presentation at EuropaCat 2025, we encourage you to enter the contest. All relevant details are available here.

Tentative day plan 

A tentative day plan is now available. The final program with more details about the sessions and lectures will come in June. 

Exhibition webshop is open

Link to the Compass Fairs webshop for additional equipment to the exhibitor booths. More information about the booths and how they are equipped can be found here. Ordering deadlines: For printing August 10, and for additional equipment August 15, 2025. 

 All seven special sessions are announced

Session 1: Light as a reagent, chaired by Jacinto Sá and Géraldine Masson

Session 2: Intermetallic compounds in catalysis, chaired by Marc Armbrüster and Iryna Antonyshyn 

Session 3: Catalysts and reactors under dynamic conditions for energy storage and conversion, chaired by Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Linda Klag and Tanja Franken

Sesion 4: From data to AI: Catalysis digitization and ML-driven methodologies, chaired by Pedro F. Mendes and Núria López 

Session 5: Frontiers in Enzyme Catalysis: Bridging Chemistry and Biology for Sustainable Biotransformation, chaired by Changzhu Wu, 

Session 6: Electrification of catalytic reactions and reactors, chaired by Joris Thybaut and Marilena Radoiu 

Session 7: Sustainable fuels and chemicals via syngas, chaired by Ingeborg-Helene Svenum and Felix Herold,

Read more about the sessions here

Industry prospectus available

Take a look at the Industry Prospectus, which gives an overview of the various options for sponsors and exhibitors.

If you wish to become the next sponsor, you now can use the form linked here and directly book an exhibition space or sponsor package.

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