GLACERCO

The network-wide Workshop of the EU ITN Glacerco project was held in Erlangen organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini on 8-9 October 2013. The program of the workshop is available. Invited speakers were: Dr. R. Mueller (BAM, Berlin), Prof. C. Zollfrank (TU Munich), Prof. W. Peukert (Univ. of Erlangen-...

Prof. Ivo Dlouhy and Dr  Z. Chlup of the Institute for Physics of Materials (IPM), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, visited our Institute earlier this month in the context of our collaborative project EU ITN Glacerco. We have a long standing collaboration with the gro...

Professor Krish Chawla, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Birmingham, Alabama, USA visited our Institute earlier this month in the context of the EU ITN project Glacerco. We have carried out extensive collaborative research activities with Prof....

The Marie Curie Initial Training Network GLACERCO (Glass and Ceramic Composites for High technology) held the GLACERCO School, the second Network-wide Workshop and the Mid-Term Review meeting on 19-23 November 2012 at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Professor Boccaccini delivered the following lectures...

In the framework of our EU funded GLACERCO project, on 4th May 2012, we received the visit of Prof. Ivo Dlouhy and Mr. Luca Bertolla (PhD student) of the Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno (Czech Republic), who are collaborating with our Institute in one of the subpro...

The first annual meeting of the ITN EU Project GLACERCO was held on 8-10 February 2012 at the Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno (Czech Republic). Mr Rama K. S. Chinnam (PhD student) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini participated representing our Institut...

A new Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by the EU has been awarded in the field of Glass and Ceramic Composites for High Technology Applications (GLACERCO) to a consortium with participation of our Institute. The total Funding awarded is: 3 890 000 €. The coordinating institution is Polytechnic...