International conference ECOTRIB
The European COnference on TRIBology - ECOTRIB is a biennial conference organized in collaboration among the Austrian, Italian, Slovenian and Swiss Tribology societies.
ECOTRIB 2027
The next ECOTRIB conference will take from June 7 to 9 in Ljubljana. More information can be found here:
Past conferences
ECOTRIB 2025 was organized between 28th and 30th of June 2025 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was organised by the SwissTribology Society. More information can be found here: https://swisstribology.ch/.
ECOTRIB 2023 was organized between 21st and 23rd of June 2023 in Bari, Italy, and was organised by the Italian Tribology Society. More information can be found here: https://ecotrib2023.poliba.it/
ECOTRIB 2019 took place on 12-14th of June 2019 in Vienna, Austria, and was organised by the Austrian Tribology Society. More information can be found here: https://www.oetg.at/en/ecotrib-2019-2/
ECOTRIB 2017 was held between the 7ᵗʰ and 9ᵗʰ of June in Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More information about ECOTRIB 2017 conference can be found at: http://www.tint-ecotrib.com.
Ecotrib 2017 covered all areas of tribology, such as
- biotribology and biotribomaterials,
- coatings and surface engineering,
- friction, wear and contact mechanisms,
- green tribology,
- industrial, automotive and manufacturing case studies,
- lubrication and lubricants, including solid lubricants,
- modeling and simulations in tribology,
- nano and microtribology,
- tribochemistry and
- tribocorrosion.
Organizing committee:
- Aleš Arnšek, Petrol d.d. (Slovenia)
- Ewald Badisch, AC2T research GmbH (Austria)
- Enrico Ciulli, University of Pisa (Italy)
- Rowena Crockett, Empa (Switzerland)
- Uroš Gorjanc, Olma d.o.o. (Slovenia)
- Mousab Hadad, Nova Swiss AG (Switzerland)
- Janez Kogovšek, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Andreas Pauschitz, AC2T research GmbH (Austria)
- Adolfo Senatore, University of Salerno (Italy)
Scientific committee:
- Mitjan Kalin, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Conference chair
- Giuseppe Carbone, Politecnico di Bari (Italy)
- Lucija Čoga, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Nicole Dörr, AC2T research GmbH (Austria)
- Friedrich Franek, Austrian Tribology Society (ÖTG) (Austria)
- Alja Kupec, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Paolo Pennacchi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- Gerwin Preisinger, SKF Österreich AG (Austria)
- Marko Polajnar, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Alessandro Ruggiero, Università degli Studi di Salerno Fisciano (Italy)
- Nicholas D. Spencer, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)