MICG’s Poster Competition Set to Return to The Advanced Ceramics Show
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
A popular poster competition that creates networking opportunities for like-minded experts will be hosted for the third time by the Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group (MICG) this summer.
Researchers and innovators working on advanced ceramics in academia and industry can showcase their ideas at the Advanced Ceramics Show as part of the 2nd Alan McLelland Poster Competition.
The MICG-sponsored event invites entries on three themes: process innovation, product innovation and Ceramics 4.0 (Data and Modelling).
Dr Gilda Gasparini, of Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group, said: “MICG focuses on building a strong innovation focused network within the Ceramics and Advanced Ceramics sector across industry and academia.
“The poster competition has become an excellent feature of the sector work at the Advanced Ceramics Show and over the past two years we’ve had great feedback from both participants, judges and attendees, with further collaborations having developed from a first encounter enabled by this competition.
“Posters will be judged by representatives from MICG member companies on the technical content, clarity of communication and industrial application awareness, and we’re inviting researchers and innovators to start preparing their entries now.”
The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 9th May. Poster acceptance confirmations will be issued on Friday 6th June and posters will be displayed on the MICG stand throughout The Advanced Ceramics Show on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th July.
Prizes sponsored by MICG members will be presented for the winning projects.
More details on the initiative can be obtained from the dedicated webpage area at https://micg.org.uk/micg-poster-competition-2025/
Pictured Above: A selection of the winning posters from the 2024 Edition
MICG is made up of blue-chip companies including Rolls-Royce, Morgan Advanced Materials and Foseco, as well as SMEs including Lucideon, Precision Ceramics and PCL – together with the universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Loughborough.
MICG secured £18.27 million government funding, provided through UK Research and Innovation’s flagship Strength in Places Fund (SIPF), in October 2022.
The poster activity is part of the SIPF’s programme activities under its workstream covering education, skills and diversity.
More details about MICG can be found at https://micg.org.uk/