The NOVAMAG project, lead by BCMaterials will start on April 1^st. The kick-off meeting will be between 7^th and 8^th of April in the Main Library of the Leioa Campus of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU).

The VII meeting of the "Spanish Society of Neutronics Techniques" (SETN) will be hold in Bilbao between June 26^th and 29^th. BCMaterials and ESSBilbao will organize the event. More information in the website: www.setn2016.org

BCMaterials leads the European INAPEM project and have published the project website. For more details go to www.inapem.eu The main objective of this Marie Curie RISE action is to improve and exchange interdisciplinary knowledge of materials design by modelling, materials synthesis, characterization, and materials processing for permanent magnet development to be able to provide a critical raw free permanent magnet to the industry. Permanent magnets are indispensable for many commercial and military applications.

The spanish newspaper "El Mundo" published the last sunday, 7^th of February of 2016 a new about the NOVAMAG project that BCMaterials lead. You can read the full article here.

When: 8 weeks: June 6th – July 29th Who: We are looking for motivated students in their last 2 graduation years of studies, preferable in Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biologist, Biotechnologist, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. What: Main topics are:

• Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMA).
 Bulk, single crystal and thin films materials for macro-, micro- and nano-actuators.
• Smart Polymers and composites
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BCMaterials presents 2015 anual workshop. New Materials for a Better Life: Materials for Energy It will take place on November 20^th in the Paraninfo of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV/EHU. Campus of Leioa. For more information visit: www.nm4bl.org  

Eduardo Fernandez will attend this  2015 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from 29th Nov to 04th Dec. His presentation will be on December 1 from 10:30 AM to 10:45 AM He will give a talk titled "High permeability thin-film magneto-impedance structures for bio-medical applications" Find more info at: http://www.mrs.org/fall2015/

BCMaterials presents the provisional program for this year "New Materials for a Better Life" workshop wich will take place in the Faculty of Science an Technology of the Leioa Campus (UPV/EHU) on friday, 20^th of November. This year the workshop theme is Materials for Energy.

Last thursday, on the tenth day of september, Professor Ludwig Schultz gave a talk about superconducting levitation at the Science and Technology Faculty of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). During the talk, he exposed different mechanisms of levitation by means of magnetic materials for urban transportation. The first mechanism consists on the employment of magnets to make the mean of transportation levitate.