What we do
The European Scientific Association for material FORMing -ESAFORM- is a non-profit scientific association. It was founded in January 1997 with the aim to propagate interest for all types of materials and all topics connected to Material Forming.
Next Conference
The 24th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming will be organized by University of Liège, Belgium, between 14th and 16th of April, 2021.
Material forming
Within the association, forming has an open definition and includes any process that changes a materials’ shape.
International
ESAFORM in the recent years has established protocols of cooperation with national and international associations related to Material Forming.
ESAFORM grants
ESAFORM offers a wide range of supporting grants for its members ranging from financial support in writing EU proposals over traveling of young researchers to workshop funding and support in the execution of benchmarks.
Industry & Research
Industrial participation to Esaform activities is warmly encouraged with papers submission to the annual conference and through the PhD Prize for Industrial Research
Publications
In cooperation with Springer, Esaform launched the International Journal of Material Forming in 2007 and the ESAFORM Book series in Material Forming in 2014.
Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee safeguards the scientific quality of the ESAFORM conferences.
Board of directors
The Board of Directors is responsible for leading the association and is partly renewed every other year.
Prizes and rewards
ESAFORM offers a wide range of supporting grants for its members ranging from financial support in writing EU proposals over traveling of young researchers to workshop funding and support in the execution of benchmarks.
We offer grants for:
- writing proposals for EU funding schemes
- mobility of young researchers
- organization of thematic workshops
- execution of benchmarks
Conferences
The purpose of these conferences is to bring together scientists working on all material forming processes with all types of materials.
The International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, is used to achieve one of the main goals of ESAFORM: to spread scientific and technological information related to material forming within academic and industry.
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Our objectives
We connect researchers in academic and industrial research laboratories.
We stimulate applied research and spread scientific information on material forming. We promote the interests of the material forming research community.
Membership
Participation in the annual conference includes a one-year membership. A direct application for membership, without conference participation, can be submitted here.
BOOKS
ESAFORM Bookseries in Material Forming
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