The objective of IWAC09 located at the European Center of Ceramics will be to highlight the main answers that can bring innovative ceramic solutions to societal needs. IWAC09 will cover all aspects related to the design, processing, characterisation and modeling of ceramics, with emphases on energy and environment-related fields, information and communication technologies and bio-medical applications.

The oral presentations will be divided into seven topics:

• Energy Materials
• Environmentally Friendly Materials
• Materials for Information & Communication Technologies
• Bio-Materials
• Ceramic process & synthesis
• Modelling and artificial Intelligence for materials science
• In situ characterization of materials