E-MRS Celebrates 20th Anniversary
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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETIES
PAST ACTIVITIES OF E-MRS
1983 First MRS-Europe meeting held in a hotel in Strasbourg, France, with one symposium.
1984 Second MRS-Europe conference with three symposia, held in the Council of Europe facilities in Strasbourg, France.
1985 E-MRS initiates and proposes the concept of European–multinational scientific networks on advanced materials to the European Commission (EC) in Brussels, “to initiate the process of European cooperation and integration in the field of materials research.” The proposal was composed of two sets of topicspecific networks, one on electronic materials and one on nonelectronic materials. E-MRS organizes and manages 16 scientific thematic networks, including a total of 500 public and private laboratories in Europe cooperating in the fields of advanced materials research and development. First European round table on industry–university collaboration held. Fall conferences launched in Strasbourg.
1986 Legal establishment of MRS-Europe. MRS-Europe becomes the European Materials Research Society or E-MRS.
1990 E-MRS network initiative becomes Networks of Excellence as they are incorporated in the European Commission (EC) Framework Programme, both in ESPRIT (Information Society Technologies) and BRITE-EURAM (Industrial and Materials Technologies) as well as in HCM (Human Capital and Mobility). E-MRS prepares a strategic study, “Prospects of Research on Electronic Materials,” for the EC Third Framework Programme, which was submitted and generally accepted.
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E-MRS Celebrates 20th Anniversary Background The year 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of the technical meeting that led to the formation of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). That meeting was held in Strasbourg, France, in late May 1983 and consisted of only one symposium, titled “LaserSolid Interactions and Transient Thermal Processing of Materials.” This was the first meeting of that type and style to be held in Europe, and its success led later to the establishment of E-MRS. In the late 1970s, the countries of the continent were divided into Eastern and Western Europe, with very little contact between them. In fact, there was very little contact even between individual countries within Europe in matters relating to materials research. Several political events had already taken place by 1983 that formed the seed of a larger European interaction. The Council of Europe was first established in 1949 and had 21 member states in 1983. It has now grown to more than 50 member states, including Russia, Canada, and the United States (the latter two as observers). Also, the European Union was established in 1959 and had grown to contain 10 member states in 1983. By 2004, it is expected to reach a membership of 25. Materials research was largely centered in the United States in the 1970s, and European scientists closely followed research progress there. Multidisciplinary materials research activities (rather than pure solid-state physics) were begun by a few European scient
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