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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 15, 2025.

Registration for EuropaCat 2025 will open January 15, 2025, with deadline for Early Birds June 1, 2025 

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

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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.

 

Keynote speaker

We are deilighted to announce Todd Hyster, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, USA, as a new keynote speaker. Please follow the link to the Keynote speakers page for more details about the speaker.

Two more sponsors/exhibitors

company logoUmicore has joined as a copper partner. They are a leading circular materials technology company with an extensive expertise in the fields of material science, chemistry and metallurgy. Their overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on the ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils their mission: "materials for a better life".

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hte – the high throughput experimentation company, can be met at a regular stand at Europacat 2025. hte makes R&D in the area of catalysis faster and more productive. They enable cost-effective innovations and reduced time to market for new products, thereby allowing their customers in the energy & refining, chemical & petrochemical, and environmental industry to keep ahead of the competition.

 

Two special sessions 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 

Background information about the sessions can be read here.

 

Two more Keynote speakers

Thomas Schaub, Designated Senior Principal Scientist and Lab Head of Catalysis Research Laboratory, BASF Germany, and Honorary Professor at University of St. Andrews, Scotland and

Eranda Nikolla, Professor at University of Michigan, USA have both confirmed they will join EuropaCat 2025 as Keynote speakers. Prof. Nikolla was nominated by YEuCAT.  Please follow the link to the Keynote speakers page for more details about the speakers.

 

Abstracts submission is opened!

Please see our abstracts page for guidelines and link to submission portal. Deadline for abstract submission is January 15, 2025.

 

Plenary and Keynote speakers are announced!

Five plenary and seven 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. 

Ning 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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