Location: Van der Valk hotel, Mons, Belgium. Organised together with the European Ceramic Society

Date/time: Conference starts 09:00 Thursday 5th December 2024, and finishes 15:00 Friday 6th December.

Registration fee: no fee (covered by the STOP project), but participants may choose to attend (and pay for) a conference dinner on the Thursday evening.

Aim: technical presentations to motivate workshop-style informal discussion of themes of interest to the community, and to consider whether/how to repeat such an event.

Sessions

• Introduction
  • Prof. Artemis Stamboulis, Scientific coordinator of the STOP project
  • Mr. Dimcho Dimov, European Commission “The need for novel antimicrobial nanocoatings”
  • Keynote speaker, TBD
• Innovative antimicrobial materials and structures. (On metals, plastics, glass, textiles…)
• Modes of action: how to kill microbes or prevent their spread via surfaces (fomites)
• From lab to market: use cases, scale-up, sustainability, safety, & regulatory approval

The scientific programme will be updated here as details are firmed up.

For more information, or to register (attendance only, oral presentation, or poster) email info@stop-pathogens.eu