General Information

The Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies CEEES is proud to continue with the European Weathering Symposia EWS the tradition of the Colloquia of Danubian Countries on natural and artificial ageing of polymers, which were launched in 1967 by four relevant institutes from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia. For more than 40 years the Colloquia of Danubian Countries have been the only independent meetings – mean­while Europe-wide - in the field of natural and artificial weathering of polymers. In the tradition of these colloquia the EWS is a meeting point for a limited number of experts from industry and academy to learn from each other.

Key Themes of the Symposia are:

• New Procedures

• Analytical Methods

• Weathering of Plastics and Coatings

• Influences of Climatic Quantities

• Correlation Field/Laboratory

• Stabilization and Special Influences

The EWS is planning a strong link between the similar international conferences or Symposia in Japan, International Weathering Symposium (every 3 to 4 years) and in the USA International Symposium on Service Life Prediction of Polymers (every 2 to 3 years), but also to the other CEEES Symposia organised by the national societies for environmental engineering (www.ceees.org ).