EuropaCat 2025 - 16th European Congress on Catalysis
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.
Photo: Bernart Wood
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
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
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.
News
News and information about the conference will be announced here as it becomes relevant.
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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
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.
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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 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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