
NoMaD 2025 Conference – Nouveaux Matériaux et Durabilité (New Materials and Sustainability), Nantes, 13-14 November 2025
After Toulouse (2012), Douai (2015) Liège (2018) Montpellier (2022) the NoMaD conference is being held this year in Nantes in the Halle 6 Ouest by the GeM from 13 to 14 November 2025. This conference will be focusing on experimental, theoretical and numerical research into new civil engineering materials in Read...

Manufacturing’21 seminar, Nantes, January 29-31, 2025
The Manufacturing’21 network brings together 25 French-speaking laboratories and research teams specializing in mechanical manufacturing processes and procedures. Its aim is to unite French teams around several key themes: modeling tool-material interactions, analyzing the mechanical behavior of structures, developing digital factories and designing innovative processes. The network organizes thematic seminars Read...

ECCM21 – 21st European Conference on Composite Materials for Academia and Industry
The 21st edition of the ECCM conference opened on July 2 at the Cité Internationale des Congrès in Nantes and will run until July 5, 2024. Over 1,300 participants are expected to attend this major event bringing together scientists from all over the world, from both industry and academia, to Read...

A look back at the 2023 ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School
The 2023 ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School, organised by Ioannis Stefanou (GeM) and Felix Darve (3SR), was dedicated to “Machine Learning in Geomechanics” and took place from September 28th to September 30th 2023. A total of 170 students participated in the school, during which fundamental concepts of machine learning were taught, Read...

ICCGS 2023 – 9th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures – Nantes – 11-13 September 2023
The Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métier (Icam), High School of Engineering, is organizing the 9th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (ICCGS 2023) that will be held in its campus of Nantes, France from 11th to 13th September 2023. About seventy scientists, naval architects and Read...