ELCA General Assembly 2024: Reflecting on Success and Setting New Goals for 2025
On October 16th – 17th the ELCA held its annual General Assembly in Krakow, where members gathered to celebrate 2024 milestones and set ambitious targets for 2025. The two-day event brought together key stakeholders to review ongoing projects, showcase advancements, and foster collaboration in the field of lightweight materials.
The Assembly opened with a welcome session, followed by a review of what ELCA got up to this year in the 2024 action plan. After an overview of the year’s achievements, attendees engaged in a forward-looking discussion on ELCA’s 2025 action plan, including an introduction to upcoming projects.

Day two featured the highlight of the event: the final celebration of the AMULET H2020 project at the KOMPOZYT-EXPO®, showcasing breakthroughs in lightweight composite materials. Following this, ELCA hosted a joint workshop with the GIANCE project titled “Addressing Challenges: Graphene Solutions for Advancing Lightweight Materials,” an interactive session that explored graphene’s transformative potential and inspired new ideas for advancing material innovation.

The workshop brought together industry leaders, innovators, and researchers for an exchange of ideas and solutions aimed at real-world applications. The primary objective was to address pressing industrial challenges posed by AMULET beneficiaries and ELCA partners through graphene-based innovations.
ELCA extends a sincere thanks to all attendees and contributors, and with renewed enthusiasm, looks forward to continued growth and impactful collaboration in 2025!

From left to right: Indira Altynbekova (Bax), Carsten Lies (Fraunhofer IWU), Annabelle Sion (Polymeris), Tony Schuetze (RKW), Piotr Wojciechowski (Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster Tool Valley), Magdalena Valldosera (Cluster MAV), Mª Eugenia Rodríguez (EURECAT), Jakob Konig (Jožef Stefan Institute) Katalin Kurucz (Bay Zoltán), Mark Lelkes (Bay Zoltán), Katharina Schoeps (RKW), Ricardo del Valle (Bax), Nicolo Bertolini (Cluster MECH)