EuropaCat 2025 - 16th European Congress on Catalysis

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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. 

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 closed.

Notifications of acceptance are sent to authors. We will henceforth fill up vacant places for oral presentations in place of withdrawals.

Registration for EuropaCat 2025 is open and the deadline for Early Birds is postponed to June 11, 2025 

Acceptance of poster presentations is done by registration of participation within August 1.

Exhibitions will be assembled from 18:00 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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Silver sponsors of Europacat 2025

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News and information about the conference will be announced here as it becomes relevant. 

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Important!

Some participants have received emails from "Travel Housing Team" pretending to be from EuropaCat 2025, requesting that you provide your arrival and departure dates for your upcoming visit to attend the conference for securing a room for you.

DO NOT reply to these emails - they are not from EuropaCat 2025!

All official corresponance from EuropaCat 2025 is from Europacat2025@konferanser.ntnu.no, Europacat2025abstract@konferanser.ntnu.no or noreply@eventsair.com  and no one else. 

DO NOT pay anything in advance. All rooms booked via our registration portal must be paid for at the hotel.  We are working to stop these emails.

Summer holidays

Please note that July is the month for summer holidays in Norway. Europacat 2025 is staffed, but not to the same extent as normal. Therefore, you must expect a little longer waiting time than usual before you receive a response to your inquiries.

New Congress Dinner sponsor

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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

company logoJohnson 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 

Fábio Bellot Noronha, 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

company logoMatrix Global Speciality, part of a distinguished group with over 60 years in the chemical industry, is a global manufacturer and supplier of high-purity Pseudoboehmite alumina tailored for catalyst applications. With a state-of-the-art facility in India and a capacity of 10 thousand metric tonnes per annum (10 KTPA), they serve customers in 30+ countries. Their advanced alumina solutions, used in catalysts, supports, binders, and adsorbents, are trusted for their performance, consistency, and innovation across demanding industrial applications.

company logoSince 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.

company logoVSParticle 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.

New exhibitors

Chemspeed is a global team committed to enable automated and digitalized workflows for scientists in R&D and QC. Building your ideal automation and digitalization solutions have never been simpler with Chemspeed as your partner. Chemspeed enables innovation, sustainability and quality through gamification, augmented reality, digitalization, automation and robotics for R&D and QC.

company logoElectrification of Catalytic Reactions and Reactors – Joined Booth. This is a joint initiative of five EU projects—e-CODUCT, EReTech, ēQATOR, TITAN, and STORMING—advancing electrified catalytic technologies using Joule, microwave, or induction heating. These projects support the EU climate goals by enabling clean, energy-efficient, and renewable-powered chemical processes, accelerating industrial sustainability and circular economy transitions.

company logoSPECSGROUP 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.

EuCat 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

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

 

 

 

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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