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IN-HOUSE TALKS AND STATEMENTS
 

RILEM Grants for Sub-Saharan Africa
 
RILEM is delighted to launch two new RILEM grants aimed at promoting collaboration, mobility, and innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a key region for the future of the Association: the RILEM Senior Researcher Mobility Grant and the RILEM Africa Event Facilitation Grant. For full details on eligibility, selection criteria, required documents, and post-award obligations, please consult the official guidelines here. Submission is open till 15 March 2026.

 
 

ROC&TOK in December
 
The next ROC&TOK webinar will take place on 4 December 2025, at 3 PM CEST. The speaker is Dr Guoqing Geng, National University of Singapore, Singapore, presenting “Mechanical Behavior of C-S-H at Nanoscale”. The event is free, but registration is needed! Visit this page for further details!

 
 

STAR-in-a-Nutshell 221-SHC
 
With the aim of collecting fundamental and applied knowledge of self-healing in concrete, RILEM Technical Committee 221-SHC Self-Healing Phenomena in Cement-Based Materials was formed in 2005, and STAR 221-SHC published in 2013. The free STAR-in-a-nutshell of STAR 221-SHC offers a brief overview of the contents available in this book.

 
 

Interview with Eiffage Route's Project Managers
 
The second interview of the series “RILEM industry Endorsement” is out! The interviewees are 3 Project Managers at Eiffage Route, one of the leading construction companies in France. Dr Julien Van Rompu, Dr Flavien Geisler and Dr Thomas Attia talk about their experience as members of the RILEM Technical Committees of Cluster F “Bituminous Materials and Polymers”. 

 
 

DFBI2026
 
RILEM is happy to co-sponsor the International Conference on Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure (DFBI2026), taking place from 30 March to 1 April 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. The abstract submission will close on 30 November 2025… hurry up to submit your contribution!

 
 
 
 
upcoming rilem events
 

 
 
 
The RILEM newsletter BITS&BOBS stands for Bright In-house Talks and Statements & Brilliant Outsourced Businesses and Stories.