Workshop Dutch National Research Agenda route Materials

Workshop Dutch National Research Agenda route Materials
On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 researchers from science and industry will come together at the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht for a route workshop about the additional Dutch National Research Agenda route Materials. The aim of the workshop is to agree upon engaging game changers for the Dutch National Research Agenda. This is a closed workshop to which participants will be personally invited.

What are materials?
Essential! They form our building blocks, lie at the basis of high-tech instruments and devices, produce our energy, form the human body and our food, and even more still.
All-encompassing! Materials science studies the design, synthesis, structure, dynamics and behaviour of novel materials with special properties and applications. Solving! The solutions for major societal challenges in the areas of sustainable energy supply, modern civil engineering and transport, health, ICT, climate and the environment all require revolutionary new developments in materials science.
Connecting! Materials science is a multidisciplinary discipline that unites physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. It is a superb example of the discipline that works by making connections. Finding a solution to a wide variety of major challenges often requires very similar insights and approaches from materials science.
Surprising! An integrated approach for challenges in materials science will always result in surprising links that would never have arisen in the case of a monodisciplinary approach.
Innovating! New discoveries in materials science result in products that lead to new enterprises (start-ups, SMEs, big companies) which is good for the Dutch economy.

Materials and the Dutch National Research Agenda
Within the 140 overarching questions established by the Dutch National Research Agenda, more than 20 are strongly focused on materials and these very naturally fall into four categories:
1. New construction materials
2. Materials for sustainable energy
3. Soft/biomaterials
4. Smart materials

By invitation only
Researchers from science and industry will be personally invited to take part in this workshop.

Further information about the workshop
For further information about the route workshop Materials please see: http://www.wetenschapsagenda.nl/materialen/
You can also contact Saskia Goetgeluk, +31 70 349 03 01 or +31 6 11 35 17 24.
Specific relationship between the Dutch National Research Agenda questions and the route Materials.
Roadmap 'Dutch Materials, Challenges for Materials Science in the Netherlands'

Further information about the Dutch National Research Agenda
Further information about FOM and the Dutch National Research Agenda can be found on the FOM website.