The First International Conference on the Origin of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis will take place from October 1-5, 2007 at the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI), Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The OREPOC Conference is part of the European Forum on Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis, EFEPOC, which is a European Union funded Marie Curie Action Project for mobility, training and excellence recognition. EFEPOC is composed of two series of events:

The objective of this series of 2 conferences is to strengthen Europe’s leadership in the field of EPOC by defragmenting the European resources: organization of scientific exchanges, common publication and experiments, congress organization, harmonization of methodology, setting up of future European projects through the FP7. The EFEPOC conferences aim to regroup all the leading scientists in EPOC in the world. Prominent scientists from academia and industry will be invited to give Keynote Lectures on specified topics, reviewing the current international state-of-the-art and discussing the anticipated breakthroughs. Young and experienced researchers will be provoked to present their latest developments in both fundamental and practical aspects of EPOC.

The objective of OREPOC Conference will be to give an overview of recent studies focused on the origin of EPOC. The main interest will be to generate discussions, exchanges between researchers from various scientific communities (catalysis, surface science, physical chemistry, environmental chemistry, material science and solid-state electrochemistry). In order to elucidate the origin of EPOC at molecular level a whole arsenal of surface science, catalytic and electrochemical techniques have been employed during the last few years. These techniques have provided an unambiguous picture of the processes taking place on a catalyst surface under electrochemical promotion conditions. A combination of the results of these techniques would have sufficed to put together the puzzle, but each of them has something new to offer, some new facet of the surface chemistry reveal.
OREPOC Conference will provide the unique opportunity of a multidisciplinary but integrated approach of all experimental results and theoretical findings in order to conclusively solve the puzzle of EPOC and furthermore to explore the phenomenon limitations towards practical utilization.
This First International Conference on the Origin of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis will serve as a general forum for enhancing interdisciplinary interactions, dialogue, and collaborations among all scientists interested in classical and electrochemical promotion of Catalysis.
The OREPOC Conference will be held in the facilities of the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI), founding member of the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), established and located at the Thessaloniki Technology Park in Thermi.