The 4th Workshop “Advanced Materials“, organized within the H2020 project Materials Networking, will take place from July 21st to 25th, 2019 in  Sts. Constantine and Helena resort resort, Varna, Bulgaria. The Workshop will be attended by scientists from all four partnering organizations of the project, namely Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria, coordinator of the project, University of Cambridge, UK, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona.

The research topics that will be presented at the Workshop cover a broad range of scientific fields all related to the advanced materials. This workshop will combine lectures of experts from the partner institutions and from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, showing the main achievements and progress of the research activities in the Faculty in the corresponding area, to facilitate the communications and networking with leading researchers from the partner institutions, and to focus the plans for the future research activities.

The workshop will end with a Steering Committee meeting, which will discuss the implementation of the main project activities so far, as well as the reporting activities in the last year of the project.

You can find more information about the application procedure here:

Advanced Materials Workshop 2019 Invitation

Advanced Materials Workshop 2019 Abstract Template

“Materials Networking” project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692146.

Lecture of Yupar Myint

Head of the Impulse Programme for Entrepreneurship, University of Cambridge, UK

“Spreading the spirit of Enterprise: Cambridge Entrepreneurship“

21 March, 2019, 14:00 h at the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University

The visit of Yupar Myint is within the framework of the project “Materials Networking”, funded by H2020, in which the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University is collaborationg with the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge.

Yupar has more than 10 years of experiences in building up entrepreneurship programmes and international collaborations. She has been involved in developing of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Cambridge –Tirol (IECT) Hermann Hauser Summer School in Austria and serves as a programme director and mentor there. Yupar worked previously at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL), at the Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), where she led Ignite programme for over 11 years and at the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) in the Netherlands that trains European professors to teach entrepreneurship. She has a particular interest in understanding the social capital effect in entrepreneurial development.

https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/impulse-programme/impulse-team

The seminar aims at establishing working contacts with the industry in the field of Mechatronics and Clean Technologies.

It will be held on February 15, 2019 in the conference hall of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University.

Mechatronics and Clean Technologies Seminar program

The 3^rd Workshop “Advanced Materials“, organized within the H2020 project Materials Networking, took place from September 11^th to 14^th, 2018 in Duni, Bulgaria. The Workshop was attended by scientists from all four partnering organizations of the project, namely Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria, coordinator of the project, University of Cambridge, UK, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona.

Group photo of the participant at the 3^rd Workshop “Advanced Materials“, September 11^th-14^th, 2018, Duni, Bulgaria

Moreover, scientists from other research organizations such as Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia, Institute of Chemistry, Skopje, Macedonia, University of Melbourne, Australia, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and University College London, UK also took part in the Workshop.

The research topics presented at the Workshop covered a broad range of scientific fields all related to the advanced materials such as fuel cells, catalysis, smart materials, etc. At the Workshop were presented 1 plenary lecture, 33 oral presentations and 14 short presentations. The plenary speaker Prof. Konstantin Neyman from University of Barcelona gave a lecture entitled “Density-functional modelling of nanocomposite materials for catalysis and new energy technologies”. The short oral presentations were an opportunity for young researchers from all partnering organizations to present their research activities.

On 14^th September, the Steering Committee of the project had a meeting at which it was discussed how the project progresses and how the project goals and targets had been achieved so far. Also, the plan for the project activities envisaged for the last year of the project was outlined and discussed.

“Materials Networking” project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692146.

Within the frame of the Materials Networking Project, funded from the EU Horizon 2020 programme, from 17^th to 20^th of July, 2018, the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy was visited by worldwide known researchers from the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Lindsey Greer, Head of Physical Sciences Division of the University and Member of the Energy@Cambridge Strategic Advisory Board, visited the Faculty on 20^th of July and presented a talk entitled “Extending the applicability of the glassy state”.

 During his visit, Prof. Greer had a meeting with the Vice Rector of University of Sofia Assoc. Prof. Eliza Stefanova and discussed topics of mutual interest connected with cooperation between the two universities in education and science.

 Prof. Vasant Kumar and Dr. Rumen Tomov visited the Faculty from 18^th to 19^th of July, 2018. Prof. Kumar presented a lecture entitled “Sustainability of Materials in the Evolving Energy-Environment Paradigm”. During their visit the scientists from University of Cambridge had a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University as well as they had discussions on joint research topics and collaborations with scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

The 2nd School “Computational Modelling of Materials” within the H2020 project Materials Networking will be held on the 4th and the 5th of December, 2017 at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University. The School is organized for the young scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy who will be able to learn the advanced methods and applications of computational modeling in the field of the materials science  from leading scientists from the three partnering organizations. Confirmed lecturers at the school until now are Dr. Yuki Nagata, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, Prof. Eliseo Riuz, Dr. Sergio Madurga, Dr. Pablo Gamallo, University of Barcelona, Spain. The Programme of the 2nd School of the materials Networking project could be found here.