Overview
Following the successful first five conferences on Turbomachinery in Erlangen (Germany), 1995, in Antwerp (Belgium), 1997, in London (Great Britain), 1999, in Firenze (Italy), 2001 and in Prague (Czech Republic), 2003, the ETC Committee unanimously decided to hold the next conference in 2005 in Lille (France) following the invitation of the Association Française de Mécanique and co-operating bodies in France.
The project's goal was to provide the support required for all activities related to the organisation of this Conference: programme development, announcements, invitations, materials dissemination, etc.
The Conference was of primary interest to researchers, design engineers and users of Turbomachinery components. The Conference was intended to be a primary event for technology transfer across Europe in this field through the presentation of latest developments and best practice.
The conference was also seen as an integrating element between the Western and Eastern European countries and as an additional mean to foster collaboration in turbomachinery research at a European level. Finally this conference was seen as an ideal forum to relate the results of research projects funded by the European Commission and benefits therefore also from the support by the Commission.
Four invited lectures were planned at the beginning of each day.
According to the number of papers that were chosen and to the ETC policy, the conference was divided in two parallel sessions.
Each session was chaired by a 'Session Chairman' chosen among the ETC Scientific Committee members and also among some of the 'Review Organiser' of the conference.
A set of five exhibitions were open during the conference meeting hours.
During the conference, special meetings were organised for the board of committee members in order to define the location of the next conference, the new ETC Chairman and the list of papers that will be offered for a special issue of IMechE publication. The total amount of participants was 230.
Funding
Results
The ETC 6 conference took place according to the dates that were initially chosen, from March, 7-11 2005, in Lille, France. The conference location was at the Nouveau Siecle in the very centre of the town, allowing the participants to be quite close to their accommodations. The conference rooms where all equipped with microphones, overhead projectors, projectors and laptops.
According to the number of papers that were chosen and to the ETC policy, the conference was divided in two parallel sessions. Each session was chaired by a session chairman chosen among the ETC scientific committee members and also among some of the review organiser of the conference.
A set of five exhibitions was open during the conference meeting hours. During the conference, special meetings were also organised for the board of committee members in order to define the location of the next conference, the new ETC chairman and the list of papers that was offered for a special issue of IMechE publication. The total amount of participants was 230.
Each participant received:
- a final programme with all the sessions and paper's titles
- the conference proceedings on hard copies
- a CD Rom
- a questionnaire.
The 5-days technical programme was supplemented with a series of social events over the week fostering international friendships, discussions and collaborative ventures.