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The third ITI HiFunMat summer school is dedicated to the transdisciplinary theme 'the environment'.
Preservation of the environment is crucial, as it is becoming increasingly clear that it determines the future of our societies and survival on Earth. Entitled "Materials for the Environment and the Society", the 2024 summer school will offer an overview of developments in research on this theme. From analysis systems for measuring water and air pollution to ecological restoration, hydrogeological studies, chemical, physico-chemical, photochemical and biological methods of depollution, recycling and recovery of pollutants, materials are omnipresent, at different scales.
The programme, spread over 3 and a half days, has been designed to reflect the diversity of techniques developed by scientists to analyse, preserve and repair the environment and eco-systems, and to understand the degree of mastery, progress and scope of these different techniques. It includes an introductory day aimed at anchoring these technical developments in a broader societal reflection on sustainable development. This day will cover the sociological, economic and legal aspects, as well as the concepts of the circular economy and eco-design, in order to explain the challenges and levers for innovation.
1 - 4 July 2024
Collège Doctorale Européen (CDE)
46 Boulevard de la Victoire
67 000 Strasbourg, France
Provisional program
The ITI HiFunMat Summer School 2024 consists of:
- 5 seminars on the sociological, economic and legal aspects of environmental innovations and challenges
- 13 scientific courses / seminars on research avancements in materials for the environment
- A poster session
- Workshops on environmental challenges
- A closing conference open to the general public
- 1 gala dinner
| Monday 01 July | Tuesday 02 July | Wednesday 03 July | Thursday 04 July | |
| Socio-Economical Aspects of the Environment | Materials for Environmental Analysis and Remediation | From waste to Resource: Recycling & Recovery | Healing the Environment and the Human Beings | |
| 08h30 | Registration and welcome | |||
| 09h00 | Julien Delord | Unistra Philosophical aspects & Societal responsibilities | Bénédicte Lebeau & Laurence Gondet | IS2M & IPHC Phytopol : a citizen science project to study the impact of urban pollution on plants | Barbara Ernst | IPHC Bio-hydrogen production | Isabelle Combroux | LIVE Unistra FR Ecological restoration |
| 10h00 | Marie-Pierre Camproux Duffrene | SAGE Social & legal aspects | Materials for air quality analysis | Alessandra Quadrelli | IRCELYON (INC) CO2 recycling via artificial photosynthesis | Green medicine(s) |
| 11h00 | Coffee break / Poster session | |||
| 11h30 | Anne Rozan | ENGEES Economical aspects | Modelling contaminants fluxes in rivers | Non-recyclable solid waste management | Student synthesis on the interactive workshops |
| 12h30 | Lunch Break / Poster session | |||
| 13h30 | Valérie MASSARDIER | INSA Lyon Circular economy and challenges of eco-conception | Angélique Simon-Masseron & Jocelyn Brendlé | IS2M Mulhouse Materials for air and water remediation: zeolites & argiles | Waste water valorization | |
| 14h30 | Arthur Laporte | APESA Life cycle analysis | Adrien Wanko | ICUBE Materials for urban effluent treatment | Maria Boltoeva | IPHC Recycling of heavy metals | |
| 15h30 | Coffee break / Poster session | |||
| 16h00 | Interactive workshops | Gwenael Imfeld | IMFELD ITES (INSU) Materials for soil bioremediation | Interactive workshops | |
| 17h00 | Jérôme SANTOLINI | CEA, FR Confernce open to the large public Social responsabilities of researchers | Interactive workshops | ||
| 18h00 | ||||
| 20h00 | Gala dinner | |||
Poster session
All students are welcome to present a poster, regardless of whether they work on a topic related to the summer school theme or not.
Poster presentations are mandatory for HiFunMat M.Sc and Ph.D. students
Objectives
- To introduce students to the diversity, mastery, progress and scope of techniques developed by scientists to analyse, preserve and repair the environment and eco-systems
- To bring about a broader societal reflection on sustainable development
- To give young researchers networking possibilities, to enable them to integrate into the scientific community.
- To bring young researchers from different research fields (e.g. physics, physical chemistry, chemistry, material engineering, and biology) in contact with each other, to learn to work as a team on multidisciplinary projects and to collaborate.
Registration
This summer school is open to national and international Master, Ph.D. and Post-docs. Registration is mandatory, and participants expected to stay for the duration of the entire program!
Registration fees & deadlines:
| Registration | Fees | Deadline |
| Early-bird | 100 € | 17/05/2024 |
| Normal | 150€ | 31/05/2024 |
* No registration fees for Unistra and UHA students.
Be aware that each registration entails consequent costs for the organizer. When registering be certain you can attend the full summer school.
Validation of the Summer school
At the end of the summer school all participants that have been present for the duration of the whole program, and have actively participated in the seminars, discussions, and exercises, will receive a certificate of successful participation. This certificate could help students to validate ECTS or hours for the doctorate school of their home university. Unistra and UHA students enrolled in ED 222 can validate 11 hours of scientific training in their discipline, students enrolled in ED 269 and ED182 can validate 9 hours of scientific training.
Organization
The summer school is organized by the interdisciplinary thematic Institute of Hierarchical and Functional Materials, which gathers a Master-Doctorate training program and a cluster of excellence, and is dedicated to the development of advanced composite materials with appealing and outstanding properties for health, environment, and energy applications. The Master-Doctorate program trains young researchers in the multidisciplinary domain of Material Science. The focus on th theme 'green medicines' as an example of eco-design is developed in partnership with ITI InnoVec (Innovating vectorisation of biomolecules).
The summer school is supported by the University of Strasbourg Initiative of Excellence, and partner institutions (Institut Charles Sadron, Institut de Science de Matériaux de Mulhouse, Institute for Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health, Hubert Curien Multi-disciplinary Institute). Their support underlines the formidable links between ITI HiFunMat and its partners, the strong collaborations, and the strength of the alsacian site in Material science.
Scientific organization:
- Valérie Caps
- Quentin Raffy
- Emmanuel Oheix
Participating Institutions and sponsors:
