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STRUCTURAL GLASS

on-going development of innovative
high performance structural glass
products mainly in architectural and
solar applications, and to European
standards in this field.

The Action identified and shared the
outcomes of existing fragmented
activities within the European research
community. Additionally, the Action
established a diverse multi-disciplinary
network that encourages new research
and collaborations across academics,
practitioners, and industry. Finally, the
Action strengthened the current and
future generations of European glass
designers by developing a structural
glass Education Pack for university
curricula across Europe.

RESULTS guidance of about 15 renowned The Action successfully organized
Since its start in April 2010, more than experts from all over Europe. With an two international conferences (Porec,
110 participants from 25 countries extraordinary high participant-number 2013 and Lausanne, 2014) to further
joined the Action, which established of about 150 early stage researchers disseminate the Action results.
a strong academic and professional from 20 different countries and a high Accordingly, high-quality proceedings
network. The participants have worked appreciation from the participants, the were published with an established
in 4 working groups to detect links training schools were considered a scientific publisher. In addition, the
between existing research projects great success. Action triggered the launch of a brand
and to identify demands for new new scientific journal ‘Glass Structures
research. In addition, 13 smaller Furthermore, the Action has facilitated & Engineering’ (Springer Nature),
specialized Task Groups were created an amazing number of over 40 which aims to be the leading reference
to efficiently work on defined tasks and successful short term scientific in the field and which therefor is of
to develop an Education Pack to help missions (STSM), allowing unique on- vital importance for the scientific
educating students and researchers in demand mobility and cooperation for community.
this field. a great number of young researchers.
STSM’s proved to be one of the Finally, the creation of a new Eurocode
A major tool in the development of the most powerful tools of the Action, in on Structural Glass in CEN TC250
Education Pack was the organization particular for ESR, and a great stimulus WG3 (currently replace by CEN TC250
of two Early Stage Researcher Training for common international research SC11) was heavily supported by COST
Schools on Structural Glass (Ghent applications and publications. Action TU0905. l
University, 2012 and TU Darmstadt,
2013). During 5 days, early stage Major publications
researchers (ESR) were educated by
means of presentations, workshops Belis J., Louter C., Mocibob D. (eds.). COST Action TU0905 Mid-term
and company visits under the Conference on Structural Glass. Leiden:CRC Press/Balkema, 584 p. ISBN 978-
1-138-00044-5
“COST (European Cooperation in
Science and Technology) is a funding Louter C., Bos F., Belis J., Lebet J.P. (eds.). Challenging Glass 4 & COST TU0905
agency for research and innovation Final Conference. Leiden:CRC Press/Balkema, 852 p. ISBN 978-1-138-00164-0
networks. Our Actions help connect
research initiatives across Europe Belis J., Louter C. Nielsen J., Overend M., Schneider J. Glass Structures
and enable scientists to grow their & Engineering, Springer http://www.springer.com/engineering/
ideas by sharing them with their civil+engineering/journal/40940 ISSN 2363-5142
peers. This boosts their research,
career and innovation.” M. Feldmann et al., Guidance for European Structural Design of Glass
Components, JRC Scientific and policy reports, S. Dimove et al. (eds.), Ispra, 2014.

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