Final Activity Report Summary - NATURESMATSCI (Knowledge-Based Materials: Training Courses & Web Portal)
This activity supported a series of four summer schools on multidisciplinary materials science, attended by 176 people at all stages of their research careers, from first year PhD students to soon to retire Professors. Each year focused on one aspect of materials science:
- 2005 Single phase materials, held in Hurtgenwald, Germany.
- 2006 Composite and polyphase materials, held in Avdalen, Sweden.
- 2007 Partially molten and amorphous materials, held in Estremoz, Portugal and,
- 2008 Aqueous and porous materials, held in Trest, Czech Republic.
The participants represented 44 countries (either by citizenship or current location). The summer schools were designed to help overcome the research barriers between groups focused on different materials (biocompatible materials, ice, rocks, ceramics, concrete, polymers, metals, bone, wood, silk), different approaches (theory, experiment, observation, simulation) and different scales (macro, meso, micro, nano).
These Summer Schools, each lasting 10 days, offered young researchers:
- Presentations by 15 different world-class materials scientists each year from all domains of materials science.
- A combination of observational methods, experimental procedures, theoretical developments and simulation techniques.
- A state of the art knowledge of the similarities and differences between natural and engineering materials and how this leads to the new field of biomimetics.
- Insights into current research at a wide range of scales.
- Training in Science and Society, Science Management and Scientific Communication.
- Europe-wide contacts with researchers at all levels and from all materials science disciplines.
In order to provide a wider access to researchers in the European Union, to showcase the research skills of the participants and to capture the training materials prepared by the invited speakers and participants, Prof. Paul Bons, Tubingen has combined the teaching materials and participant presentations developed for this course into a continuing Web Portal and CD-ROM resource. This resource currently includes 212 PDF format files available for open access download.
- 2005 Single phase materials, held in Hurtgenwald, Germany.
- 2006 Composite and polyphase materials, held in Avdalen, Sweden.
- 2007 Partially molten and amorphous materials, held in Estremoz, Portugal and,
- 2008 Aqueous and porous materials, held in Trest, Czech Republic.
The participants represented 44 countries (either by citizenship or current location). The summer schools were designed to help overcome the research barriers between groups focused on different materials (biocompatible materials, ice, rocks, ceramics, concrete, polymers, metals, bone, wood, silk), different approaches (theory, experiment, observation, simulation) and different scales (macro, meso, micro, nano).
These Summer Schools, each lasting 10 days, offered young researchers:
- Presentations by 15 different world-class materials scientists each year from all domains of materials science.
- A combination of observational methods, experimental procedures, theoretical developments and simulation techniques.
- A state of the art knowledge of the similarities and differences between natural and engineering materials and how this leads to the new field of biomimetics.
- Insights into current research at a wide range of scales.
- Training in Science and Society, Science Management and Scientific Communication.
- Europe-wide contacts with researchers at all levels and from all materials science disciplines.
In order to provide a wider access to researchers in the European Union, to showcase the research skills of the participants and to capture the training materials prepared by the invited speakers and participants, Prof. Paul Bons, Tubingen has combined the teaching materials and participant presentations developed for this course into a continuing Web Portal and CD-ROM resource. This resource currently includes 212 PDF format files available for open access download.