Support CEFMA

For two days, 411 people from 20 countries met in the same room to talk about materials, energy and the environment. None of them paid to be there. There was no registration fee, no paywall to read the 184 contributions, and no hidden charge when asking for a certificate: whoever wanted in, got in.

Keeping that going costs money, and so far the CEFMA team has covered it out of its own pocket. The server this site runs on, the hosting, the email that carried every notice to your inbox, the storage for posters and videos, the domain. Taken one at a time they are small expenses; what weighs is that they never stop.

If this platform was of any use to you —if you found your poster in the gallery, if your certificate arrived, if you listened to a talk you could not otherwise have attended— you can help keep it standing. Whatever comes in goes entirely to the infrastructure and to making the next edition of CEFMA free again.

No large amounts are expected, and none are needed. This opens with a year ahead precisely because what adds up slowly, without hurry, is what makes it possible to open the next call without charging anyone.