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Heading to FEMS EUROMAT 2025

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Are you going to be at the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 meeting next week?

The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes will run from Sunday 14–Thursday 18 September 2025 in Granada, Spain. The meeting and exhibition will cover a whole range of topics, including materials characterisation, testing and mechanical properties, modelling and sustainability.

Gerhard will be attending this meeting, so come along, have a chat and learn more about the work that we do.

He will be representing the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), and will be giving the keynote talk as part of the “Artificial intelligence, modelling and data science in advanced alloy and process design” sessions on Monday 15 September at 9.20–10.20am. His talk will be entitled: EMMO Ontology enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for Hardmetal Thermal Spraying Coatings.

A second presentation will also take place on Thursday 18 September at 2.30–4.30pm within the “Digital materials: rapid materials, experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability” session. This second talk will be entitled: EMMO: an ontology based on universal materials science concepts.

The EMMC works across Europe in the area of development, validation, adoption and industrial exploitation of materials modelling with a strong focus on digital tools and data, fostering interoperability, and standardisation so enterprises can become more sustainable, competitive and innovative.

EMMO — formally the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology — is a top-level ontology framework for materials, their properties, structures, and processes.

In addition, Gerhard is happy to discuss any of the work that we do, like here at Goldbeck Consulting, our European projects, such as BatCAT, and our work at Semantic Materials.

If you are interested in attending FEMS EUROMAT 2025, you can register here.

Acknowledgement

This work that will be presented at this meeting has received funding by the EU Horizon research and innovation programmes under GA Nos. 952869 (nanoMECommons), 862136 (OntoTrans), 953167 (OpenModel) and 101092211 (CoBRAIN).

BatCAT consortium meeting in Newcastle

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Last week, all partners from the BatCAT project met at The Catalyst in Newcastle, UK for a consortium meeting that marked the halfway stage of the project. Representatives from the partner organisations reviewed and discussed progress, exchanged ideas, and charted the course for the project’s next steps.

This successful meeting was an opportunity to see how far we have come and reflect on the project’s key achievements so far. In addition to the working sessions, the programme also included a tour of the facilities at the Centre for Process Innovation in Sedgefield — this included a first-hand view of the (robot automated) pilot lines for electrode slurry formulation and the recently installed coating line and cell build and testing line, an open training session entitled “On-line Characterization within digitalized manufacturing”, a walking tour of the area, and time to socialise and network with project colleagues.

We look forward to building on the outcomes of this meeting over the coming months. Here are a few photos of the event.

 

BatCAT consortium meeting
Visit to CPI Sedgefield
Facility tour at CPI Sedgefield
Walking tour
BatCAT consortium dinner

 

 

PSDI Materials Community Workshop

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This week (16 and 17 June 2025), Gerhard Goldbeck is attending a two-day workshop hosted by the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI).

The PSDI Materials Community Workshop is taking place in Manchester, UK, and covers a number of topics including:

  • Metadata and standards
  • Electronic research tools and automation
  • Workflows tools and reproducibility
  • Data-driven applications and machine learning

The PSDI is a UK initiative that works to connect and enhance data systems to make physical sciences research data more accessible, reproducible, and shareable by providing tools, services, and guidance.

Gerhard’s talk, entitled: Materials knowledge and data representation with a European ontology ecosystem discusses the path towards a widely agreed data-integration architecture for materials sciences, based on materials-specific metadata, conceptualisation and ontologies. The work is the result of many European projects under the umbrella of the European Materials Modelling Council‘s (EMMC), complemented by global efforts via a Research Data Alliance Working Group.

The presentation calls for the development of a materials-specific Application Profile of the DCAT standard, and the use of materials science ontologies for mapping data to federated endpoints. For the latter, the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) provides the basis for domain and application ontologies, such as battery manufacturing, electrochemistry and materials, characterisation and testing. As an example, the talk describes a battery manufacturing digital twin.

Gerhard’s presentation:

Knowledge-Organisation-PSDI-Workshop-Goldbeck

Or, you can view the presentation here.

Edit (08 October 2025)

All of the materials presented at this workshop are now available as a collection online.

Acknowledgements

The presentation acknowledges funding by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [GA 10091190], BatCAT.

Announcing Semantic Materials

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We are delighted to announce the launch of Semantic Materials, a new venture that delivers science- and analytics-based knowledge organisation systems to industrial and research communities across Europe.

Semantic Materials forms the semantic technologies branch of Goldbeck Consulting that brings together experts in science and engineering, and analytic philosophy to design and develop ontologies for research and innovation.

This venture is the culmination of several projects that we have been involved with. It incorporates the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) along with many tools and developments from several EU funded projects: OntoTrans, OpenModel, NanoMECommons and BatCAT.

Learn more about Semantic Materials or get in touch with us or the Semantic Materials team directly.

A look back over 2024!

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It has been a busy 2024 here at Goldbeck Consulting. Thanks to all of the support from you — our clients, partners and collaborators! We look forward to many more highlights in the coming year as well.

We have had the privilege to be involved with number of EU projects. Two of these projects have now successfully completed OntoTrans and DOME 4.0. We look forward to continuing work next year as part of the OpenModel and nanoMECommons projects. We have also enjoyed getting to know all of the partners within our new project this year, BatCAT.

We participated in lots of events throughout Europe, including NMBP-35 workshop, BIG-MAP EUnified Battery Data Space Workshop, BatCAT consortium kick-off and M12 meetings, OntoTrans consortium M48 final meeting, Knowledge Graph Alliance’s (KGA) 1st KG-AI summit, Materials Week 2024, CEN Workshop, 7th Semantics@Roche, Nanotexnology 2024 International Conferences & Exhibition on Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine, Semantics 2024, OpenModel Exploitation Workshop, International Materials Science and Engineering Congress, CONNECT-NM kick-off and the NanoMECommons Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation. Gerhard also gave an online talk with Materials Square.

We also hosted our own Semantic Materials workshop in London. It was a great meeting and we hope to run a follow up event soon.

And we have published a number of publications and reports with our partners and collaborators: 

Developing ontologies in Materials Science

OntoTrans project press release and final video

Social Media – the art nouveau of communicating research projects to citizens?

Semantic Knowledge Management for materials: the benefits of a FAIR data and model-based approach in industrial research and development

Battery testing ontology: An EMMO-based semantic framework for representing knowledge in battery testing and battery quality control

Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology: Leveraging perspectives via a showcase of EMMO-based domain and application ontologies

Operationalising materials modelling workflows in industrial R&D – a benefits analysis

Overall, a great year and looking forward to the next one! Our very best wishes to all our partners and clients for a prosperous New Year.

 

Logo of the Horizon Europe programme. A picture of the EU flag.

Announcing the BatCAT project

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BatCAT is a new research and innovation project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme that will run until June 2027.

The project aims to create a digital twin for battery manufacturing by developing a cross-chemistry data space for two technologies: Li-ion and Li-S coin cells and redox flow batteries.

Here at GCL, we are excited to be leading the work package on communication, dissemination and exploitation and contributing to physics-based modelling and ontologies.

The project is a large collaboration between 18 partner organisations from 9 European countries, coordinated by NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences).

We look forward to working on this innovative and sustainable initiative.

Read more in an announcement from our partners at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.