Activities and Events

To participate in the activities and events organized by MecaNano, you have to be part of a working group ! Please register on the e-cost website. Once it is done, you can register to the activity or event. Note that you should receive an invitation email. Please accept or decline the invitation once you get it.

Upcoming events:

3rd Online Symposium on Simulation and Modeling Challenges

MecaNano’s WG2 kindly invites you to submit an abstract for the 3rd Online Symposium on Simulation and Modeling Challenges in MecaNano, taking place on February 7th, 2025, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm CET. This symposium will spotlight innovative simulation and modeling techniques and clever solutions in numerical micromechanics, offering a platform for sharing cutting-edge ... Read more

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3rd General Meetings, Krakow, Poland

We are excited to announce that the MecaNano General Meeting will be held again in 2025! This year, the event will take place from May 19th to 21st at the Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH University of Krakow, Poland. The local organizers for this event are Wiktor Bednarczyk, Piotr Bała, Grzegorz Cios, and ... Read more

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Krakow, Poland, Nawojki 30, Building D-16
Krakow, 30-055 Poland
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Summer School on Nanomechanics for Young Researchers and Innovators

The next MecaNano's summer School on Nanomechanics, dedicated for Young Researchers and Innovators will take place at Kassel, Germany, from July, 28 to August, 01 2025. More info coming soon! Don't miss this great opportunity, especially if you are a PhD student or a post-doc researcher! This summer school is organised by Pr. Benoit Merle ... Read more

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Kassel, University of Kassel
Kassel, 34125 Germany
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MecaNano session at COMPLAS 2025

A COST MecaNano minisymposia entitled "Nanoscale Origins of Plasticity in Modern Nanostructured Materials" will be organized by J. Guénolé (LEM3, CNRS, France), J. Amodeo (IM2NP, CNRS, France), D. Mordehai (Technion, Israel) and V. Taupin (LEM3, CNRS, France) during COMPLAS 2025, Barcelona. Please visit the conference website for mor information. Conference will takes place at Barcelona, ... Read more

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Barcelona, Spain, Plaça d'Eusebi Güell, 6
Barcelona, 08034 Spain
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MecaNano at Euromat 2025

A session "D3 – Mechanics characterization and modelling" will be organised at Euromat 2025, by Prof. Benoit Merle (University of Kassel (DE)) and Dr. Verena Maier-Kiener (Montanuniversität Leoben (AT)). Don't hesitate to submit an abstract! Deadline for abstract submission is January, 31st. Conference will takes place at Granada, September 14-18th 2025. Please visit https://euromat2025.com/ for ... Read more

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Granada, Spain, P.º del Violón
Granada, 18006 Spain
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Past events:

MecaNano Winter School

Digitization has increased the effectiveness and sustainability of scientific workflows tremendously. Today we can use systems that, while we generate research data, associate, keep track and manage related contextual (meta)data in a digital and (semi-)automated manner. At the same time many labs stand at the brink of deciding and implementing certain software solutions in their ... Read more

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Aachen, Germany, Aachen, Germany
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WG3 online seminar

In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more

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Online Conference,

ECI conference: Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development IX

The next ECI: Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development will take place October 6th-11th, 2024 in Messina (Sicily), Italy. Oral presentation. Deadline for abstract submission is March 31st, 2024 (May 15th, 2024 for posters). The conference will start on October 6th with a MecaNano sponsored tutorial. More info : https://engconf.us/conferences/materials-science-including-nanotechnology/nanomechanical-testing-in-materials-research-and-development-ix/

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Messina, Sicily, Via Recanati 26
Giardini Naxos, Sicily 98035 Italy
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MecaNano session at MSE 2024

MecaNano will have a dedicated session (C05) at MSE 2024, september 24-26th, in Darmstadt Germany. Abstract submission is now closed. More details: https://dgm.de/mse/2024/topics/characterization#session-7979e862-2fec-4cfe-8df5-b87a09f50a5a

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Technical University Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 5
Darmstadt, 64289 Germany
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WG3 online seminar

In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more

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Online Conference,

WG3 online seminar

In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more

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Online Conference,

MecaNano’s 2nd General Meeting

MecaNano's 2nd general meeting will take place in Vienna, Austria, from 1st to 3rd of May. Abstract submission for oral is open until March 5th, 2024. (March, 8th for poster). More info : https://mecanano2024.sciencesconf.org/

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Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna
Vienna,
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WG3 online seminar

In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more

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Nanobrücken 2024

Nanobrücken 2024 will take place on March 19-21, 2024 in Lyon, France. Abstract submission deadline: february, 15th.  More info: https://www.bruker.com/de/news-and-events/events/nanobruecken.html

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Valpré-Lyon, 1 Chemin de Chalin
Ecully, 69130 France
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First topical workshop on Machine Learning

First topical workshop on Machine Learning The abstract submission is still open for our 2-day event related to the WG4 “Machine Learning” here: https://mecanano-wg4-24.sciencesconf.org/ The workshop will be held on 22-23 February 2024 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. (Note: this is a different city to Louvain!) The community is rather diverse and has a large range of ... Read more

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UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Place Raymond Lemaire 1
Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348 Belgium
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Online-Symposium on Experimental and Simulation Challenges

Virtual conference on experimental and simulation challenges organized by WG2, with highlight presentations from Dr. Barbara Putz (Montanuniversität Leoben / EMPA Thun) and Dr. Jonathan Amodeo (CNRS, France). Abstract submission is now closed. More details here.

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Online Conference,

WG4 online pitching event

The working group WG4 on "Machine learning" of the MecaNano Cost Action organizes an online Pitching Event similarly to the successful such events of WG1 and WG2. The main purpose is to get to know each other and for the WG4 leaders to assess the expertise/needs of the community regarding machine learning. This event is ... Read more

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WG1 and WG2 online pitching event

Don’t miss WG1 and WG2 online pitching events on October 5 and October 11, 2023. If you want to give a presentation on your work or your lab, please fill this form.

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First topical MecaNano workshop on Research Data Management

Research Data Management (RDM) addresses crucial cornerstones of modern research. On one hand, ever increasing complexity in our experiments mean that we need to improve the way we track our experimental samples, the experiments we conduct and the machines and tools we use at each step. The resulting data needs to be organised such that ... Read more

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Aachen University, Templergraben 55
Aachen, 52062 Germany
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MecaNano’s 1st summer school in Roma

The first of two planned summer schools of the MecaNano Cost Action will take place on 24-28th of July in Rome. The in-person event will take place at Università deglistudi Roma Tre, Department of Civil, Computer and Aeronautical Engineering in Rome. Christoph Kirchlechner of KIT and Marco Sebastiani of Roma Tre are organizing this event.  ... Read more

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Università degli studi Roma Tre, Department of Civil, Computer and Aeronautical Engineering, Via Vito Volterra, 62
Roma, 00146 Italy
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WG1 and WG2 online pitching event

Prof Diletta Giuntini, Prof Dan Mordehai and Dr Daniel Kiener from working group WG1 (size effect) and Dr Verena Maier-Kiener, Dr Julien Guénolé and Dr Tamás Csanádi from working group WG2 (Experimental and Simulation Challenges) are pleased to invite you to the online Pitching Event on June 20-21, 2023, from 10:00 to 12:00 am. The ... Read more

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Online Conference,

WG1 and WG2 online pitching event

Don’t miss WG1 and WG2 online pitching events on October 5 and October 11, 2023. If you want to give a presentation on your work or your lab, please fill this form.

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Online Conference,

First general meeting

The first General meeting will take place on 26th and 27th of April, 2023 at IMDEA Madrid, with Jon Molina and his team as local organizers. IMDEA Materials Institute is located at the Scientific and Technological Park of the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Tecnogetafe. Oral and poster presentations related to all topics will be covered: Mechanical ... Read more

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IMDEA Madrid, Tecnogetafe, Calle Eric Kandel, 2,
Getafe, Madrid, 28906 Spain
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