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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is with great pleasure to invite you to attend the
<b>2020 Summer School of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS),<a href="https://skd2020.chem-soc.si/en/2020-efcats-summer-school/" target="_BLANK" data-ogsc="" style=""> https://skd2020.chem-soc.si/en/2020-efcats-summer-school/</a>,</b> which
will be held from <b>15-19 September 2020 in Grand Hotel Bernardin Convention Center in Portorož-Portorose, Slovenia</b>.
<b>The event entitled “Engineering Materials for Catalysis”</b> is organized jointly by the Section for Catalysis of the Slovenian Chemical Society and the Austrian Catalysis Society.<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The 2020 EFCATS Summer School will focus on recent advances regarding synthesis,
<i>in-situ</i> and <i>operando</i> characterization and applications of heterogeneous catalysts as well as multi-scale modelling of catalytic processes. Besides, the publication system and less competitive free discussions will be addressed at the meeting.</span></p>
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the event.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ten worldwide known experts will deliver invited lectures. The participants will be able to present the results of their research work in the form of oral presentations
or poster contributions. A half-day tour to the ELETTRA synchrotron in Trieste, Italy, will be organized as part of the 2020 EFCATS Summer School.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The invited lecturers</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (confirmed) will be
<b>Prof. Dr. Bao Lian Su </b>(University of Namur, Belgium),<b> Dr. Svetlana Mintova
</b>(ENSICAEN-University of Caen-CNRS, France),<b> Prof. Dr. Bert Weckhuysen </b>
(Utrecht University, The Netherlands),<b> Dr. Giulliana Aquilanti </b>(Synchrotron ELETTRA, Italy),<b> Dr. Alexander Genest
</b>(Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore),<b> Assist. Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar
</b>(National Institute of Chemistry and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">,</span>
<b>Assoc. Prof. Dr. Joaqim Luis Faria</b> (University of Porto, Portugal)<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
</span> and<b> Dr. Nikolai Nesterenko </b>(TOTAL, Belgium). Please note that the list of invited speakers remains to be completed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is our pleasure to inform you that the abstract submission platform is active. You are kindly invited to submit your contributions via the platform
accessible at: <a href="https://www.conftool.org/efcats-summer-school-2020/" target="_BLANK" data-ogsc="" style="">
https://www.conftool.org/efcats-summer-school-2020/</a>. Please note that abstracts should be submitted on or before
<b>25 May 2020</b>.</span></p>
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website</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/2020efcatsss/" data-ogsc="" style="">
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