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. Both fifteen-minute oral presentations and posters are welcomed.

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.

To register, use this online form (hosted by ECerS, the European Ceramic Society). For further information email info@stop-pathogens.eu.

NB Immediately prior to the Antimicrobial Coatings conference, held at the same location, will be a meeting of the EU-funded training network AIMed: Antimicrobial Integrated Methodologies for orthopaedic applications.

Accommodation

ECerS have provided a list of hotels close to where the meeting will be held, together with a map showing their locations.