8th WMRIF Symposium and General Assembly

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE BASED ON A GLOBAL NETWORK OF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
In June 2005, the first international meeting of directors of national materials research institutes was held at NIMS, Japan, with the participation of presidents of 15 material research institutes from 8 countries. In this meeting, the establishment of the World Materials Research Institutes Forum (WMRIF) was declared. WMRIF is an organization to develop a worldwide network of materials research institutes. To date 51 institutes from all continents are members of WMRIF. It supports innovations in the field of materials research through mutual information exchange and shared use of research facilities. Further, it serves as a forum for lively discussions on global strategies related to future materials science.

- Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Production,
- Advanced Materials for Traditional Power Production,
- Advanced Materials for Energy Harvesting,
- Materials for Quantum Computing.

The 2019 WMRIF General Assembly will be held on June 19, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will feature presentations from African materials institutes in Botswana and Nigeria, followed by a discussion of how WMRIF can encourage similar institutes from underrepresented regions to join our organization. There will also be a general discussion on the future of WMRIF, focused on ways to make the organization more relevant to materials institutes throughout the world. We encourage all attendees to participate in these discussions.