Annual Theme

Each year, we select a theme to guide and inspire our activities throughout the year.

The theme for 2025 will be: Education in Sample Preparation

In 2025, we aim to focus on developing innovative educational resources, fostering knowledge exchange, and promoting training opportunities in the field of sample preparation. Our goal is to support researchers, educators, and students by providing freely accessible guides, tutorials, webinars, and videos tailored to various levels of expertise, enhancing their understanding and skills in sample preparation.

We invite all members to actively participate and contribute to these activities. Your expertise and involvement will be invaluable in shaping a comprehensive and impactful year dedicated to education.

Building on the success of our first task force (TF) on green metrics, we are excited to announce an open call for new TFs to develop educational materials that will be freely accessible to all members. These materials can focus on, but are not limited to fundamentals of sample preparation, resources for university courses, step-by-step guides for methods, or any other innovative content. The output formats may include PDFs, videos, or other creative approaches to knowledge dissemination.

More details on the open call can be found here.

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The theme for 2024 was: Innovation in Sample Preparation

In 2024, we will make innovation a core value within our community, foster a culture of creativity and strive for continuous product and process improvement. We will also promote the co-evolution of academia, companies, and organizations and harness the collective expertise and resources to tackle environmental challenges effectively. Green sample preparation is a field that encourages invention and continuous improvement. Through innovation, we will transform our community and protect public health and the environment.

Together, we are delivering a common future by connecting, innovating and transforming the sample preparation community.

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The theme for 2023 was: Fundamentals of Sample Preparation

In 2023, we will go back to “basics”. We will unlock the sample preparation “black box” and reveal the complex phenomena underlying sample preparation. We will continue developing knowledge of other fields and embrace fresh perspectives of the phenomena we are exploiting. As a community we will defend bottom-up and curiosity-driven research, espouse a constructive skepticism in the science we do, and allow “space” in the field for creative scientific debates to happen. In 2023, several activities will be organized aiming to spread current fundamental knowledge and reflect on the theoretical challenges we face.

Together, we are delivering a common future by connecting, innovating and transforming the sample preparation community.

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The theme for 2022 was: Interdisciplinary Sample Preparation

In 2022, we broke down the barriers and collaborated across science and engineering boundaries. Several activities were organized aiming to transfer knowledge and integrate the processes, skills, and concepts from other disciplines into Sample Preparation. Our goal was to create new knowledge interfaces that would not only provide a node for dialogue, but also facilitate the co-evolution of our priorities, intent, and actions. Interdisciplinary Sample Preparation was the theme of the 2nd European Sample Preparation Conference (14-16 March 2022).

Together, we are delivering a common future by connecting, innovating and transforming the sample preparation community.

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The theme for 2021 was: Green Sample Preparation

This theme was chosen because Sample Preparation is central to the sustainable development concept. In 2021, a number of activities were organized aiming to promote the green aspects of sample preparation within and outside our community. Green sample preparation was also the theme of the 1st European Sample Preparation Conference.

Together, we are delivering a common future by connecting, innovating and transforming the sample preparation community.

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