European Conference on Coal Research and Its Applications
The first UK national meeting on Coal Research and its Applications was held in 1996. This event has now grown into an established biennial conference with an international attendance.
Next conference - 3-5 September 2008
The seventh conference in this series will be held at Cardiff University, Wales, from 3-5 September 2008.
ECCRIA 2008 - Conference announcement and call for papers
Please note that the fax number in the first version of the announcement document was incorrect - the correct fax number is +44 (0)115 902 4006.
Previous conference - 5-7 September 2006
The sixth conference kicked off on a bright sunny morning in the pleasant surroundings of the University of Kent's Canterbury campus. The conference had once again attracted more than 100 attendees, although the figure was just short of our record attendance in Edinburgh in 2004. Some of our attendees had travelled considerable distances to be with us in that we had visitors from Australia, USA, India, Korea, China, Japan, Serbia, Spain, Russia, France, Sweden and Finland - as well, of course, as those from the provinces, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This was the first occasion when we had felt it necessary to run the conference programme with two parallel sessions so that we could shoehorn as many papers as we could into two and a half days without depriving the attendees of their mandatory caffeine intake. I think it is fair to say that, apart from a few minor technicalities, the event went well and most, I hope, enjoyed the experience. The poster session on Tuesday evening was followed by an excellent buffet and the conference dinner on Wednesday was generally well-received. The slightly premature starting of the meal can be blamed on those football fans anxious to see the Macedonia vs England match which was on that evening.