Adhesion Innovation Award

The FEICA/EURADH Award for Innovative Adhesion Science

The FEICA/EURADH Award for Innovative Adhesion Science, which takes place every two years, aims to stimulate the interactions between industrial and scientific activities in adhesion science.

Applications are invited from young researchers and scientists, working in adhesion science in Europe, who have published outstanding work. FEICA and EURADH (biannual European conference on adhesion and related phenomena) launched the first Adhesion Innovation Award (AIA 2018) at the 2017 FEICA European Adhesive & Sealant Conference and EXPO.

The biannual EURADH/FEICA Adhesion Innovation Award is a great opportunity for both EURADH and FEICA to foster ties between industrial and scientific activities and to raise awareness of the outstanding contribution our sector’s innovators make towards a circular economy. Each year, excellent entries from across Europe are submitted. More information is available via www.adhesionaward.org.

AIA 2025

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The next (4th) edition of the FEICA/EURADH Adhesion Innovation Award (AIA 2025) was launched at the 2024 FEICA Conference and EXPO, which took place in Noordwijkerhout in Holland.

In 2025, the following candidates and publications responded to the AIA call for submissions:

  • Adem Can, Middle East Techincal University, with 'Improving film adhesive joining performance of poly(phenylene sulfide)/carbon fiber thermoplastic composite laminates by plasma surface treatment';

  • Adrià Roig Gibert, Gent University, with 'Structural Reversible Adhesives: Towards High Adhesion and Enhanced Circularity' (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona);

  • Fabiano Icisaca Indicatti, Institute of Joining and Welding (ifs) / Robert Bosch GmbH, with 'Optimizing adhesive rheology for stencil printing of fuel cell sealings using supervised machine learning';

  • Jan-Marten Sprenger, IFAM Bremen, ‘Anticipatory sustainability assessment framework for material development demonstrated on material selection for bio-based benzoxazine synthesis’;

  • Nidal Del Valle Raydan, Université de Pau et des Pays del'Adour (UPPA), with ‘Innovative Keratin-Based Wood Adhesive for Sustainable Applications’ (University of Pau and the Adour Region, UPPA, Mont-de-Marsan, France);

  • Tobias Evers, IFAM Bremen, with 'Role of bolt pretension for stresses and load-bearing capacity of hybrid joints'.

The award ceremony of the first prize winner will take place at the FEICA 2025 European Adhesive & Sealant Conference and EXPO in San Sebastian, Spain, on Thursday, 11 September 2025 during the Business Forum. 

Past AIA winners:

AIA 2018 was won by Dr René Hensel for his paper on ‘Composite pillars with a tunable interface for adhesion to rough substrates’.

The second EURADH/FEICA Adhesion Innovation Award (AIA 2020) was won by Dr Elisa Arikan for her paper on ‘Structural adhesive bonding of polymers - Surface characteristics and adhesion mechanism’. 

The third Award (AIA 2023*) was won by Mr Marvin Kaufmann for his publication on ‘How adhesives flow during joining’.

*The 2022 edition of the award was moved to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.