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80th RILEM Annual Week: submit now
 
The 80th RILEM Annual Week will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, on 4-11 September 2026. The call for abstracts is now open. Please visit this page to check the scope and topics of the conference, and this page for the guidelines for authors.

 
 

RYS 2025: registration is open
 
RILEM is thrilled to announce that the registration to attend the 1st RILEM Youth Symposium is now open. The symposium is a fully online event, on 20 and 21 October 2025. Register now, it is free of charge!

 
 

ROC&TOK in November
 
The next ROC&TOK webinar will take place on 6 November 2025, at 3 PM CEST. The speaker is Dr Luca Valentini, University of Padua, Italy, presenting “Raw materials sourcing and the built environment: the impact beyond CO2”. The event is free, but registration is needed! Visit this page for further details!

 
 

EPON
 
The RILEM Educational Portal Online (EPON) is a web portal for FREE educational resources on RILEM-relevant topics. The portal aims at broadening the education of PhD students and the professional community through promotion of interesting and informative webinars, talks, courses, and podcasts. If you have material that you think would be useful in EPON, please contact us!

 
 

Circular economy of lab equipment
 
RILEM encourages the donations of unused but still well-working laboratory equipment from construction materials laboratories, aiming to extend the lifespan and utility of such resources within the scientific community. If you work in a laboratory with functioning equipment no longer in use, please consider this initiative!

 
 
 
 
Did you know that...
 

… since 2016, RILEM has annually recognized the most outstanding papers published in Materials and Structures? The 2024 ten papers selected by the journal's Board of Editors for their excellence and contribution to the scientific community are available, all OPEN ACCESS, here!

 
 
 
 
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