Call for Papers: SURCON 2025
Venue: Warwick Conferences, University of Warwick
Date: Friday 27th June 2025
Time: Call for Papers Deadline
Inspiring Colourful Futures
The Oil & Colour Chemists' Association invites you to submit a paper for presentation at SURCON 2025
📍 Our Mission
OCCA's mission is to promote links between academia and the coatings industry to support technical and scientific discoveries, create innovative products and encourage talented students to take advantage of the diverse prospects for employment that are available in this sector. It is this interaction that has enabled the industry to achieve technical and commercial success in the past and will support the development of new solutions to future challenges.
🤝 Networking & Collaboration
SURCON 2025 will provide both a forum and a networking opportunity for researchers, engineers and technologists from academia, government laboratories and industry to present their findings, exchange ideas, share insights, make new friends and renew old acquaintances. OCCA has a proven track record of bringing academics and industry R&D professionals together and would like to encourage academia and industry to support collaboration by submitting papers and posters at this event.
🔬 Conference Focus
The conference will provide an opportunity to showcase innovative science and technologies related to surface science and surface coatings, including paints, inks, adhesives and sealants.
📝 Submission Requirements
Authors/speakers that wish to deliver papers of high technical and scientific value, are requested to submit a title and a 120-word abstract of the paper, together with a 50-word speaker biography, by email to techcom@occa.org.uk by the deadline date, 27 June 2025. Wherever possible, the use of tradenames should be avoided.
🔒 Confidentiality & Format
All submissions will be treated with the strictest confidence and will only be made public with the announcement of the final programme. The conference will be conducted in English and presentations will be 20 minutes duration followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
🍽️ Conference Dinner
The Conference Dinner, to be held on the evening of day 1, will provide a backdrop for important networking between academia and industry.
📞 Questions?
If you have any questions about the event or the submission, please contact the Technical Committee:
techcom@occa.org.uk
