In times of fundamental change and uncertainty, there is an increased sense of urgency in dealing with pressing issues related to climate change and sustainable use of resources, demanding accelerated scientific and technological advances that translate into industrial uptake and ensure industrial leadership[1].
Materials are at the core of every product and every process; advanced materials have delivered unforetold performance and product advances benefitting all sectors of life. On the other hand, materials are a finite and valuable resource, and their processing from mining or synthesis to re-cycling may be energy intensive.
Accelerating innovation in advanced materials and ensuring sustainability requires a step-change not only in materials research techniques such as advanced modelling and characterisation methods, but also in bringing together expertise and information (data with meaning) that meets the highly complex decisions that underly the innovation process and materials life cycle. Required are much improved, FAIR data integration, trust and transparency, fast, reliable and traceable decision systems, as well as sophisticated models.
The EMMC 2025 International Workshop will discuss advances and future directions in how both accelerated innovation and sustainability are supported by a Knowledge Ecosystem based on materials modelling and data integration.
The workshop will discuss these points from different perspectives including
The EMMC International Workshop is a leading, cross-cutting event where stakeholders from different materials & digital fields in industry and academia get together to discuss topics of strategic importance and elaborate on gaps and potential actions to move the field forward. Previous EMMC International Workshops had more than a third of participants coming from industry, benefitting from the opportunity to get a high level overview of key trends.
EMMC 2025 will again be located in central Vienna, in the main building of TU Wien. It will feature high-level plenaries from leading experts in industry and academia, discussion sessions stimulated by invited “Impulse” talks, and contributed posters with short presentations in each session.
[1] See also the EC Communication on Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership
[2] See Materials 2030 Roadmap https://www.ami2030.eu/roadmap/ , and EMMC Roadmap on Digital Transformation of Materials Science https://emmc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/EMMC_Roadmap-v2023.03-v3-publ.pdf
