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Welcome to Trondheim and EuropaCat 2025!

Welcome to Trondheim and EuropaCat 2025!

It is with pride and excitement that we invite you to EuropaCat 2025 in Trondheim, Norway. This will be the 16th European Congress on Catalysis under the auspices of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS) and organized as a joint effort of the Nordic Catalysis Societies.

Trondheim is easy to reach and safe, with beautiful natural surroundings and a Viking history. It is a lively, urban university town, small enough to make logistics very easy for the conference participants. We will create a vibrant catalysis hub on its seaside, with easy access from airport and public communication and plenty of different hotels nearby.

And we urge you to join and bring excellent science, hard work, bright ideas, successful catalyst development, innovative solutions and an open mind. It is clear that mastering “the force” of catalysis will be of outmost importance to the resource and environmental challenges that lie ahead for humanity.

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You will find updates about the event here, but please also sign up to receive announcements as well as the call for abstracts by email. We will also create channels via which everyone dedicated to catalysis can make suggestions to the program.

Welcome to a friendly and inclusive scientific event in the Nordic spirit!

Important dates and deadlines

Important dates and deadlines

Congress starts August 31, 2025  and ends September 5, 2025

Abstract submission is open and the deadline is January 31, 2025

Review of abstracts is expected to be finalized within April 2025

Registration for EuropaCat 2025 is open and the deadline for Early Birds June 1, 2025 

Exhibitions will be assembled from late afternoon/evening Sunday, August 31, and dismantled on Thursday evening, September 4.

Target groups

Target groups

The target groups for EuropaCat 2025 are academia and industry focusing on fundamental research, applied research and development within catalysis.

Participants from academia include both scientists and students focusing on catalysis, reaction engineering, chemical engineering, material science, analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, photocatalysis, organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, as well as computational chemistry.

Industrial participants come from businesses with focus on catalyst development and production, refining and petrochemistry, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals synthesis, energy conversion including use of renewable resources, car manufacturing (exhaust gas cleaning systems, clean combustion technologies), new materials (organic, inorganic), gas and water cleaning, abatement of emissions from stationary and mobile sources.

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New exhibitors

company logoPROREC is a company offering to clients worldwide a range of process engineering solutions for processes and equipment in laboratory and pilot scale. Their services cover the whole lifecycle of the research asset, starting from concept & detailed design and construction through to commissioning and operation. They deliver added value by applying their extensive know-how, independent perspective, years of experience and professional approach to develop solutions for complex challenges in the design and supply of R&D equipment.

Cape Catalytix manufacture bespoke catalytic research instruments providing quality insight into materials research and chemical processes. Their core expertise relates to laboratory-scale gas and/or liquid delivery systems, single or multiple catalytic reactor configurations, as well as simple product separation for off-line or on-line chemical analysis. This knowledge is combined with logistics to source, manufacture and/or assemble the ancillary components to produce turnkey test units, supported by computer integrated systems and equipment maintenance policies.

New Copper partners

company logoExxonMobil manages an industry-leading portfolio of resources, and is one of the largest integrated fuels, lubricants and chemical companies in the world. They continue to evolve to meet growing global demand for oil, natural gas and refined products and plan to play a leading role in the energy transition. ExxonMobil has evolved their operating model and global organization to better leverage the scale of their increasingly integrated company and global brands.

company logoHoum represent a range of well respected manufacturers of laboratory equipment and process measuring instruments, which are imported and marketed towards the Norwegian market. Certain niche products are also distributed to other European countries. A service hotline ensures that a team of highly skilled service engineers are available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Houm has created its sustainable competitive advantage through local know-how, technical competencies, quality of service and long-term relationships with key clients.

 

company logoSINTEF Industry enables the sustainable industry of the future. Together with our clients and partners, we develop solutions with a major impact on society. We do this through excellent science, combining our multidisciplinary knowledge base - with an emphasis on materials, chemistry, enabling technologies and geosciences - and advanced physical and digital laboratories.

company logosMICROTRAC is a technology leader, committed to innovation, with an extensive global network and an unrivaled offering in particle characterization. OLEINITEC work as a Nordic supplier with extensive expertise in material analysis. Rheology, electrochemistry and sampling are other focus areas. OLEINITEC is part of the Finnish WEST Invest group. Nerliens Meszansky AS (NMAS) is one of Norway's largest and leading suppliers of laboratory equipment. They are supplying instruments and consumables from world-leading manufacturers to laboratories in health, research and industry, as well as emergency preparedness and defence.

company logoExacer is a commercial producer of shaped catalyst supports. They have a broad portfolio across potential base materials (alumina, silica, zirconia, titania, zeolites, steatite, fluorides, carbon, etc.), and are specialized on creating highly sophisticated, tailor-made catalyst carriers, that would fit to a specific customer’s process. Exacer supports its customers in their own development projects and offers toll manufacturing services for customers that are searching for options to realize their internally developed recipes on commercial equipment.

company logoBronkhorst High-Tech offers accurate and reliable mass flow meters and controllers for gases and liquids, with unique expertise in measuring low flow rates, pressure controllers, vapor delivery solutions, customized fluid dosing systems. Our instrumentation is used in catalytic research and advanced process applications, from vacuum up to high pressure. Flow-Teknikk AS is the distributor for Bronkhorst High-Tech in Norway.

 

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.

 

All seven special sessions are announced

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

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

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

session logoSession 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

 

Plenary and Keynote speakers are announced!

Five plenary and ten keynote speakers have already confirmed their participation:

The two 2023 Francois-Gault-lectureship recipients Francois Jérôme and Andrzej Kotarba, as well as Núria López, George Willis Huber and Jan-Dierk Gunwaldt will all give plenary lectures. 

Eranda Nikolla, Thomas Schaub, Todd HysterNing Yan, Jacinto Sá, Alessandra Beretta, Edd Anders Blekkan, Anna Chrobok, Tapio Salmi and Jakob Kibsgaard will give keynote lectures.

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

 

Industry prospectus available

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

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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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