2024 yCAM forum in Tampere

The 2024 edition of the young Ceramists Additive Manufacturing Forum (yCAM) was organized by ECerS at The Tampere University in Finland, from 6th to 8th May 2024.

yCAM is a symposium and a forum on Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics dedicated to young scientists and is an initiative of Europe Makes Ceramics (EMC), the Additive Manufacturing network of ECerS. Everyone interested in AM who is a student, young researcher or young professional was welcome to join the event. yCAM 2024 was a place for open discussion, combining high-quality scientific presentations with a fresh and informal discussion at all levels, from learning the basics of new technologies to sharing practical experiences.

The traditional 2.5 days conference layout had a special addition: the RheoCAM workshop dedicated to rheology which took place on the afternoon of the 8th of May.

The main topics of the 2024 forum were:

• Material jetting technologies (MJ, BJ)
• Vat photopolymerization (DLP, SLA, 2PP, Hologram)
• Material extrusion technologies (FFF, DIW)
• Emerging, hybrid and multi-material technologies
• Applications: dental and medical application, energy storage and transformation, space
• Technology: pre- and post-processing techniques, toolpath optimization, online monitoring, digitalization
• Analysis: mechanical testing, powder and slurry analysis
• Rheology in Additive Manufacturing

Some numbers about yCAM 2024:

• There were 100 participants attending coming from 17 countries (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Republic of Armenia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, UK and USA).
• 47 oral presentations were given : 40 during yCAM and 7 during Rhecam
• Two posters session were held with a total of 33 posters presented.

To facilitate the participation of young researchers, 20 travel grants of up to 500 € were sponsored by the JECS Trust. Priority was given to oral presentations and the abstract evaluation. 

For the third consecutive year, 2 awards were given to young researchers participating to the forum: the award for Best Oral presentation was awarded to Maria Mykland, from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and the award for Best Poster presentation was awarded to Subhadip Bhandari from Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.

yCAM 2024 was again a successful forum, thanks to the sponsor allowed by the JECS Trust.