The 2010 Spring Meeting was held in Strasbourg at Palais des Congres, June 7 - 11, 2010. The conference featured 20 technical symposium, an exhibit, a plenary session with talks by outstanding researchers and a social event celebrating  the winners of the 2010 student awards. More than 2.200 scientists, engineers, physicists and chemists attended the conference.

The 2010 Fall Meeting included 15 parallel symposia, plenary session and some satellite events. The conference was supported by the Polish Ministry for Science and Higher Education and was co-organized by the Polish Materials Science Society.

The 2009 Spring Meeting was held in Strasbourg at "Palais des Congres et de la Musique" from June 8 to 12. More than 2.250 scientists, engineers, physicists and chemists attended the conference.The scientific program highlighted advances in international materials research and key novel applications. Special attention was given to the role advanced materials have in solving the energy supply problem for our future. Furthermore, the participants had a unique opportunity to discuss, in a special workshop, the suggested best practices for education, training and entrepreneurship in the future European Institute of Technology (EIT).

The 2008 Spring Meeting was held in Strasbourg from May 26 - 30.  The 2008 edition marked the 25th Anniversary of E-MRS. A special award for lifetime achievements in Materials Science was awarded to Professor Dan Schechtman of Technion, Israel. 1904 participants had registered for the 17 symposia being presented at the meeting. The countries with the largest number of participants were France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Romania, Spain and the UK. It was particularly pleasing that participation from Korea and Romania had shown a very significant increase. 

More than 2100 participants from 61 countries had registered to the E-MRS 2007 Spring Meeting. 56 different organisations were participating in the technical exhibition. The countries with the largest number of participants, in order, were France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Japan and Romania. The plenary session had been very good from the scientific aspect.

The 2007 Fall Meeting was held from 17 - 21 September at Warsaw University of Technology and consisted of 10 symposia, plenary, poster sessions and a workshop on "Perspectives of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology". 884 participants had registered. The 2007 Czochralski Award was made to Professor Shuji Nakamura during one of the plenary sessions. In addition, the Acta Materialia Gold Medal was presented to Professor Herbert Gleiter.

The 2006 E-MRS Spring Meeting was held in conjunction with the International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference on Electronic Materials (E-MRS/IUMRS-ICEM 2006) in Nice, France, on May 29–June 2, 2006. The thread of electronic materials and devices ran through the 23 technical symposia that were organized within six clusters: Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics, Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Materials, Materials for Energy, Composite and Organic Materials, Semiconductor Materials, and Education and Tutorials. Research conducted at the nanoscale level was also prominent in most symposia. The over 2.500 attendees from 62 countries were also treated to a plenary session, poster sessions, equipment exhibit, and an awards ceremony at the conference reception.

E-MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw, September 4-8. The meeting included 10 parallel symposia, plenary sessions and some training activities for young researchers and scientists wishing to extend their expertise to new fields. The conference was supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research and was co-organized by the Polish Materials Society and Polish Materials Science Society.

E-MRS 2005 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, May 31 – June 3. The conference included 17 symposia on various topics, in addition to an industrial forum on in-situ diagnostic and control systems in laser materials processing, a short course (MATSUP) on materials surface processing deposition and a forum on Europe-USA collaboration in materials research.

E-MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw, September 5-9. 500 material scientists and engineers attended the meeting The conference was in part supported by the Polish Ministry for Science and Information Technology

E-MRS 2004 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, May 24-28. More than 1.700 scientists, engineers, physicists and chemists attended the conference. 21 symposia with more than 2.300 oral and poster presentations presented a good balance between fundamental and applied research.

E-MRS 2004 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, September 6-10. The conference included 9 symposia and some training activities for young researchers or scientists wishing to extend their expertise to new fields.

E-MRS 2003 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, June 10-13. The year 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of the technical meeting that led to the formation of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). The scientific program featured 16 technical symposia spanning topics in: Nanomaterials & Techniques, Surface & Films, Photonics, Materials Modeling, etc

E-MRS 2002 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, June 18 - 21. Nineteen symposia, among them the TPP7 International Conference (Plasma) and new topics like colloids offered a forum to the international material community for fruitful discussions. More than 2.120 papers and posters have been presented.

First Materials Science Forum on Future Sustainable Technologies, Augsburg, September 17 - 20, 2002.

E-MRS 2002 Fall Meeting held in three locations: Moscow, Russia, on Software Development for Process and Materials Design; Warsaw, Poland, on Interfacial Effects and Novel Properties in Nanomaterials; and Zakopane, Poland, on Solid Solutions of the II-IV Compounds - Growth, Characterization and Applications.

E-MRS 2001 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, June 5-8. More than 1.600 scientists of all disciplines attended the Conference. Nineteen symposia with 1.850 oral and poster presentations highlighted recent advances in the development, understanding of advanced materials.