Events
9th ASST Symposium
VIPCOAT will be well represented at the Aluminum Surface Science & Technology Symposium 2023
(ASSTS-2023) on May 21-25 in Stockholm. C. Özkan and N. Abdelrahman will present their scientific achievements at the conference. Many other members of the consortium will provide the contributions to the event.
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VIPCOAT CONSORTIUM MEETING 2023
VIPCOAT M24 Consortium meeting will be on May 31-June 02. All partners are invited to take place in the meeting. A milestone meeting on Alpha-release of the VIPCOAT OIP is the focus of the M24. The meeting is organizing jointly by SINTEF Ocean and NTNU.
EuroNanoForum 2023
VIPCOAT partners will participate in EuroNanoForum in June 11-14, 2023, to contribute to panel discussions and OITB workshop. read more
International Conference of Engineering Against Failure (ICEAF)

JUNE 2023 The University of Patras is organising the 7th International Conference of Engineering Against Failure (ICEAF) in Spetses, Greece from June, 21-23, 2023. The conference aims to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to the prevention of technological failure. VIPCOAT consortium contributes with the organization of a session on “Environmentally induced degradation and damage: advanced modeling, characterization and optimization aspects”.
European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR)

VIPCOAT consortium organizes the focused joint session and round table “Multi-scale modelling for design of protective coatings” at the European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR23), which will be held in Brussels, Belgium, in August 27-31, 2023. read more
35th Conference on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT35)

VIPCOAT partners will participate to the 35th Conference on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT35) will take place from 18th till 22nd September 2023 in Hamburg. read more
EMMC International Workshop

APRIL 2023 From April 26-28, 2023, the 4th EMMC International Workshop on „Materials & Digitalisation: the backbone of the Green Transition“ will take place at the TU in Vienna, Austria. VIPCOAT consortium plays active role in the workshop scientific committee. read more
Collaborative Workshop: Open Innovation Facilitation In Horizon Europe

On 05-06 October 2022, H2020 EU projects VIPCOAT, MUSICODE and OpenModel, invite to the "Open Innovation Facilitation" workshop at the Hanse Office and Representation of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Brussels. During the two-day workshop, participants from industry, government, academia and society can expect an interdisciplinary exchange of opinions, requests and new ideas on promotion and development of open innovation processes and supporting tools in the context of new products design based on advanced modeling for materials and environmental sustainability.
The central idea of the presence workshop is to discuss the requirements for Open Innovation Platforms (OIP), which enable knowledge and technology transfer and realize open innovation processes, to be elaborated and systematized by involving all stakeholders from industry, governmental bodies, academia and society. The workshop results form the basis for the development of a digital Open Innovation Framework (OIF) with reference to European Open Science Cloud initiatives as well as content priorities of the European Commission.
Workshop materials
OIP-WS October 2022 Program
Multidisciplinary training
Multidisciplinary training is the part of VIPCOAT strategy on the Continues Professional Development. Two internal workshops on the Software development culture and Best practice, Materials modelling workshop and Nano-containers workshop were provided by different partners in the first half a year.
VIPCOAT-related PhD electrochemical school
Researches from VUB (Tom Hauffman and Herman Terryn ) are organizing an Electrochemical Doctoral School in the end of November 2021. The Doctoral School is open for PhD students and academia / industrial researchers seeking an in-depth understanding of electrochemical phenomena. This year the school does online.
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European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR)
VIPCOAT consortium organizes the focused session “Modeling Sustainable Active Protective Coatings” at the EUROCORR22 “Corrosion in a Changing World – Energy, Mobility, Digitalization” in Berlin next year. The consortium members Theo Hack (AIRBUS), Arjan Mol (TUD), Herman Terryn (VUB) and Mikhail Zheludkevich (Hereon) will organize the joint event of EFC WP22 (Corrosion Control in Aerospace), WP8 (Physico-Chemical Methods for Corrosion Testing), WP14 (Coatings), and WP6 (Surface Science, Corrosion Mechanisms and Modeling), to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry and to share the latest results, developments and innovations related to development of active corrosion protection technologies applied in aerospace and other branches.
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17th OpenFOAM Workshop
VIPCOAT consortium partner WIKKI is organizing the 17th OpenFOAM Workshop, which will be held in Cambridge, UK from 11 to 14 July 2022, at Cambridge University. The Workshop will be organized as a hybrid event allowing participants to join in person or online. This is a great opportunity to present your research to the OpenFOAM Community. Work-in-progress is gladly seen as well. It is also a great opportunity to disseminate the VIPCOAT project to the audience that is heavily involved in simulation techniques. For readers interested enough to join the OpenFOAM Community, contact the Organizing committee at m.horvat@wikki.co.uk or h.jasak@wikki.co.uk
More details about the Venue and Organization can be found here.
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ECCOMAS Congress 2022
ECCOMAS Congress 2022 accepted VIPCOAT proposal for the organization of a Minisymposium titled “Mathematical models and simulation tools for functional coatings”. Natalia Konchakova (Hereon) Peter Klein (Fraunhofer ITWM) and Heinz A. Preisig (NTNU) will organize the event together with colleagues from academia (Daniel Höche, Hereon, H2020 project OntoTrans) and industry (Ulf Schoeneberg, Evonik Operations GmbH).
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OntoTrans Workshop
VIPCOAT project has been presented on March 16 at OntoTrans First Open Workshop.
Natalia Konchakova, Peter Klein, and Heinz A. Preisig introduced VIPCOAT project and discussed the topic on Active protective coating ontology creation. Some ideas for the cooperation of VIPCOAT and OntoTrans projects have been presented.
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Cooperation Workshop: meeting with OIP projects
On February 17, 2022, VIPCOAT project was presented at the Cooperation Workshop of the OIP-projects organized by OpenModel consortia.
Peter Klein, Heinz A. Preisig and Natalia Konchakova gave an overview and advances of the VIPCOAT project and presented some ideas for technical cooperation in the fields of multi-criteria optimization, interoperability, ProMo and BPMN.
The agenda of the Workshop could be found here
ECCA congress
VIPCOAT project will be presented at the ECCA Congress in Brussels on November 29-30, 2021. Natalia Konchakova and Peter Klein will provide an invited lecture on Modelling Supported Design of Active Protective Coatings.
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Nanotechnoloty2021 conference
Cooperation with OIP projects (MUSICODE and OpenModel) has been started on July 08, 2021 in the frame of the nanotechnoloty2021 conference at the Workshop on Open Innovation and Standardization. Technical cooperation between three Horizon 2020 projects MUSICODE, OpenModel and VIPCOAT, running under call DT-NMBP-11-2020, was discussed at the second workshop on September 01-03, which took place in the hybrid format (as a physical event in Brussels and online).
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1st Corrosion and Materials Degradation Web Conference
Herman Terryn from Vrije Universiteit Brussel presented VIPCOAT at the 1st Corrosion and Materials Degradation Web Conference on May 18 2021. Hermann got the invited lecture “Prediction of Atmospheric Corrosion by FEM Modelling: Challenges and Bottlenecks”, which included focused topic of the project – corrosion modelling.
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eSSENCE-EMMC-meeting-2021
At the eSSENCE-EMMC-meeting-2021, on June 07. 2021 the project objectives and general ideas have been presented. VIPCOAT will ensure Sustainable Corrosion Protection through Materials Modelling and Digitalization.
Vipcoat Poster (1,3 MB)
6th International Conference of Engineering Against
VIPCOAT project focus and aims have been presented by the coordinator at 6th International Conference of Engineering Against Failure (ICEAF 6). Natalia Konchakova from Hereon provided the keynote lecture “Modelling Supported Design of New Active Protective Coatings”.
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The VIPCOAT Project received funding from the European Union‘s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 952903