Workshop for Multi-functional Materials (REUNICE) a great success
From June 27 to 29 took place the first " Workshop for multi-functional materials ", organized by the Pôle Transfrontalier UPHF-UMONS and open to partners of the European university alliance EUNICE.
.The event, which aimed to bring together the EUNICE alliance's scientific communities involved in materials science and engineering, counted over 130 participants over the three days, for a total of 37 oral presentations and two discovery and exchange sessions based around scientific posters.
An initiative of the UPHF-UMONS Cross-Border Materials Cluster
The Pôle Matériaux Transfrontalier UPHF-UMONS, behind this event, officially came into being at the EUNICE alliance's General Assembly in Valenciennes in June 2022. This cluster, made up of the LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, IEMN UMR CNRS 8520 site de Valenciennes, CERAMATHS, and the Institut Matériaux de l'Université de Mons laboratories, has as its main objectives to strengthen academic and scientific cooperation, create international opportunities and facilitate the advancement of knowledge in the materials theme.
Denis Rémiens, IEMN CNRS UMR 8520 site de Valenciennes ; Co-organisateur du workshopThe main aim of this workshop is to move towards more collaborations. We started with the UPHF - UMONS cooperation and now we're trying to extend these collaborations to the universities of the EUNICE alliance.
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REUNICE, research at the heart of the EUNICE alliance
In October 2021, the alliance initiated Reunice, an EU-funded project aimed at aligning research and innovation programs within EUNICE. The main aims of this program are to accomplish the following: establish best practices in collaboration with business and other non-academic sectors, strengthen human capital, foster inclusion, facilitate access to infrastructure and data to encourage joint research.
