General Meetings

General Meetings (GM) bring together all the members of the Action every year, as well as in a concluding meeting at the very end of the Action. This will be the opportunity for the workgroups to share their results with the wider network. YRIs, including students in the early stage of their PhD, will be encouraged to present in front of the community, while world-recognized experts will be invited to give keynote lectures.

These meetings will also emphasize basic knowledge in key disciplines linked to the network activities (rheology of materials, crystallography, mechanical testing, electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, tomography, synthesis, molecular dynamics, digital image correlation, machine learning….).

Now open: Fourth MecaNano General Meeting, Rome, April 27-29, 2026

We are excited to announce that the MecaNano 4th General Meeting will be held again in 2026! This year, the event will take place from April 27th to 29th at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering, Rome, Italy.

Flyer_GM4_MecaNano 2025

The local organizers for this event are Edoardo Rossi and Marco Sebastiani.

Deadlines:

  • Abstract Submission: 1 December 2025 – 23 January 2026
  • Registration Period: 5 February – 2 March 2026
  • Preliminary Program Online:  5 February 2026

 

For more details, abstract submission and registration please visit the meeting website: https://mecanano2026.sciencesconf.org/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Third MecaNano’s General Meeting, Krakow, May 19-21, 2025

We are excited to announce that the MecaNano 3rd General Meeting was held from May 19th to 21st at the Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH University of Krakow, Poland.

Flyer MecaNano GM3

The local organizers for this event were Wiktor Bednarczyk, Piotr Bała, Grzegorz Cios, and Anna Smyk.

 Abstract submission opened 14. February, and registration was in late February.

For more details, abstract submission and registration please visit the meeting website:
https://mecanano2025.sciencesconf.org/

Second MecaNano General Meeting – Vienna May 1-3, 2024

The MecaNano General Meeting 2024 was held in Vienna, Austria from 1st-3rd of May. The Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) hosted MecaNano in their Festsaal and Boecklsaal in the heart of Vienna!

A similar program to the 1st General Meeting with presentation and posters is was organized. Abstract submission will opened 1st January 2024 and registration will opened in early February 2024.

More information can be found at the General Meeting website: https://mecanano2024.sciencesconf.org/

Image courtsey of TU Wien

THE FIRST MECANANO GENERAL MEETING

The first General meeting was held 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.

It gathered approx. 80 participants from 24 different countries.

Oral and poster presentations related to all topics were covered:

  • Mechanical size effects and nanoscale deformation mechanisms
  • Experimental and simulation investigations, including
    • Nanoindentation
    • Nanomechanical testing
    • In-situ testing
    • Advanced characterization methods
    • Atomistic simulations
    • Meso-scale simulations
    • Finite elements
    • Crystalline, amorphous or hybrid materials
  • Management of research data in materials science
  • Machine learning applications related to the topics above