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
  • Maintaining a Member‘s forum for questions and discussions on the website
  • 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
  • Identifying 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