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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 

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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Extended deadline for abstracts submission!

We have already received numerous abstracts. However, we have also received a large number of requests for an extended submission deadline.

We are therefore extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to January 31 .

This will be the final deadline.

 

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

 

New exhibitors

Hulteberg has specialised in research, development, production of catalysts and their implementation to enhance the time-to-market of their customers. They also perform other services related to their core business, as engineering services based on catalysts and designing reactors and systems around these, but also advicing related to due diligens. They will make sure to clarify the potential of your investment.

The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) association aims to make data systematically accessible and sustainably available. The consortium NFDI4Cat is a community-driven and user-oriented initiative to secure the digital future of catalysis. NFDI4Cat consists of 16 experienced partners from the fields of homogeneous, heterogeneous, photocatalysis, biocatalysis and electrocatalysis and is coordinated by DECHEMA e.V.

 

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.

 

Abstracts submission is opened!

Please see our abstracts page for guidelines and link to submission portal. Deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2025.

 

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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