Summer School 2024 - ITI HiFunMat - Hierarchical & Functional Materials for health, environment & energy

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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

Download here the program & book of abstracts

Program

The ITI HiFunMat Summer School 2024 consists of:

5 seminars on philosophical, sociological, economic and legal aspects of environmental innovations and challenges
12 scientific courses / seminars on research advances in materials for the environment
1 closing conference on the path towards sobriety an carbon neutrality
3 workshops on interdisciplinarity applied to environmental challenges
1 general public seminar on what being a scientist means (download the summary here)
1 gala dinner
Coffee, lunch and poster networking sessions

Download the official program

	Monday 01 July	Tuesday 02 July	Wednesday 03 July	Thursday 04 July
	Socio-Economical Aspects of the Environment	Environmental Analysis and Remediation	Recycling and recovery	Healing the Environment
08h30	Registration	Daily sign-in participants
08h30	Welcome & Introduction
09h00	Julien Delord \| Unistra Opening conference From sustainable development towards sustainable ecological transitions	Adrien Wanko \| ICUBE Ecological engineering for urban waters sustainable management / Case studies in Strasbourg	Luc Averous \| ICPEES Biobased Polymers for a greener future	Isabelle Combroux \| LIVE Ecological restoration: better equipment for better practices
10h00	Marie-Pierre Camproux Duffrene \| SAGE Droit et transition écologique	Bénédicte Lebeau & Laurence Gondet \| IS2M & IPHC Urban pollution - Phytopol : a citizen science project to study the impact of urban pollution on plants	Barbara Ernst \| IPHC Valorisation énergétique de la biomasse	Nadège Blond \| LIVE Transformation des territoires : vers la sobriété et la neutralité carbone
11h00	Coffee break / Poster session
11h30	Anne Rozan \| ENGEES Economie comportementale : comment impulser le changement ?	Gwenael Imfeld \| ITES & FERED Transformation, impacts and remediation: the challenges of micropollutants in soil and water	Alessandra Quadrelli \| IRCELYON CO2 chemistry for climate. A transition, really?	Student synthesis on the interactive workshops
12h30	Lunch Break / Poster session
13h30	Valérie MASSARDIER \| INSA Lyon Circularity & challenges of eco-design	Gaetana Quaranta \| IPHC How to apply Life cycle analysis in an anthropized watershed: engineered TiO2 Nps in the Thur valley	Maria Boltoeva \| IPHC Strategic heavy metals recovery
14h30	Arthur Laporte \| APESA Toulouse Life cycle analysis	Charlotte Pham\| SICAT SAS Air pollution control: capture of fine particles	Stéphane Le Calvé \| ICPEES Indoor air quality
15h30	Coffee break / Poster session
16h00	Interdisciplinary workshop	Angélique Simon-Masseron & Jocelyn Brendlé \| IS2M Mulhouse Materials for air and water remediation: zeolites & clays	Interdisciplinary workshop
17h00	Jérôme SANTOLINI \| CEA Saclay, FR Confernce open to the large public Etre scientifique aujourd’hui / Being a scientist today	Interdisciplinary workshop
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

Registrations are closed

This summer school is open to all students and researchers interested in the transversal, multi-disciplinary field of environment and sustainable development.

Registration is mandatory, but FREE for all Unistra- and UHA-affiliated students, Bachelors, Masters, PhDs.

Registered participants are expected to stay for the duration of the entire program.

Registration fees & deadlines for non-Unistra/UHA students:

Registration	Fees	Deadline
Early-bird	100 €	17/05/2024
Normal	150€	31/05/2024

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.