Materials Science Core Facilities Synergy Forum (MSCFSF)

The meeting is organised by the Materials Science Core Facility Network.

Registration opens soon.

Programme

Preliminary list of sessions:

How do core facilities contribute to European research goals

• Role of core facilities in national strategies

• Classification of core facilities

• Access programmes

Core facility management

• Establishing a core facility

• Creating sustainable core facilities

• Interactions with Industry

• How to manage advanced instrumentation at a core?

Core - National infrastructure relationship

• Collaborations between cores and national infrastructures

Scientific advances at core facilities

Data

• National Data Services

• Data mining opportunities

• FAIR principles

• Classification of Data

• Core facility obligations

• Electronic lab notebook, booking and inventory solutions

Outreach and PR

Collaborations, Networks and diffuse infrastructures

• Europeans materials research access networks

• Existing core facility networks - what can we learn?

• Managing diffuse national infrastructures

AI and Automation

• Robotics in materials research

• High throughput research pipelines

• Machine learning for experimental materials discovery

• Agentic AI

Prioritisation and Funding

• Nordic region funding bodies

• European funding initiatives

Technical Career Paths

• Technician/Engineer career development in European states

• Apprenticeship programmes

Preliminary planned tours:

• Chalmers Materials Analysis Laboratory

• Nanofabrication Laboratory Myfab Chalmers

• Gothenburg University SciLifeLab laboratories

• Chalmers NEXT LABS

• Chalmers FUSE

• CAM2 Centre for Additive Manufacturing