The needs for a global Materials Strategy to meet the Grand Challenges related to Energy and associated sustainable development issues.

Economic Perspectives: What are the economic issues faced by industry and society in view of energy, resources and global changes?

Industrial Perspectives: What do leading companies identify as their future key challenges and what materials policy should they develop?

Scientific Perspectives: What are foreseeable technical solutions? Over what time schedule? And which are the research priorities?

To what extent the available resources of raw materials will be sufficient to allow the development of a sustainable energy system?

What are hydrocarbon and raw materials reserves? What is the impact of non-conventional resources such as tight gas or oil shale?

What about Li, Ni, Pt, Pd metals ?

What is the foreseeable contribution of the nuclear sector to electric power capacity?

What are new material developments to meet Gen-IV objectives?

The workshop should consider technologies as Gen-IV, the sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor, lead-cooled fast reactor or gas-cooled fast reactor…

The technologies selected in this workshop include:

- Hydrogen and Fuell Cells
- Wind and solar power

How far can renewable energies contribute to the overall energy balance?

Research priorities to support future materials development?

WMP 2011 will examine in detail each sector’s potential to contribute to a cost-optimal low-carbon future, including the technologies and policies that will be needed.

How to intensify lightweight transportation systems and what will be the impact of new motorizations on overall structures?

Impact of regulation, sustainable development and greenhouse gases?
How Improving the energy performance of buildings?

 How to intensify the energy intensity in industrial processes?