Aims and Scope of Activities

Our aims

to facilitate collaboration among industrial and academic researchers
to bring together porous media theoreticians, modellers, and experimentalists from academia and industry
to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and expertise for the improvement of porous media models
to identify research questions that will lead to major improvements in the theories and models of complex porous media and to define modelling challenges
to play a role in setting up strategic research priorities of major funding agencies on national and European levels
to identify sources of funding for collaborative research among partners and facilitate the establishment of collaborative research projects
to facilitate training and education

Scope of Activities

Setting up and maintaining a website (with partially restricted access) where news, lists, and documents can be shared among members of the Society as well as the general porous media community
Organizing an annual conference on porous media as well as annual business meeting

Setting up focus groups and organizing workshops focusing on specific research questions
Preparing and distributing a newsletter on a regular basis
Idenitfyin and honoring members of porous media community who have made extraordinary contribution to the field

Coordinating the preparation of documents (with the aid of a task force or committee) containing critical evaluations of current modelling practices of complex porous media as well as recommendations of modelling approaches appropriate for certain media

Coordinating the preparation of short scientific documents outlining major gaps in our knowledge of complex porous media and sending these documents to national and European research centres and funding agencies

Coordinating the study of major experimental methods for the characterization of material properties relevant to various complex porous media

Facilitating contacts among scientists from industry and universities by maintaining a list of researchers and their expertise

Maintaining a list of MSc- and PhD-level research subjects and facilitating contact among industrial researchers willing to host MSc and PhD students and the universities

Organizing short-term exchange programs for staff members from industrial and academic partners

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