About event

The Mediterranean Combustion Symposium has become one of the primary regional conference series in combustion science and application. Combustion is a useful, beautiful, complex and interdisciplinary phenomenon, that has provided heat and power for ages and fascinated humans since the dawn of history. It now plays a prime role in decarbonisation of our energy system with the combustion of new low-carbon fuels, is important for wildfires and battery fires, and is a major research and development topic worldwide.

Follow MCS 2025 to learn about the combustion fundamentals, the new research tools that are being developed to probe flames and their behaviour, the applications to various sectors and how positive impact can be brought about and negative effects are mitigated. Special sessions on zero-carbon combustion and thermoacoustics are planned.​

The Symposium’s topics are broadly aligned with the Colloquia of the International Symposia on Combustion, organised by the Combustion Institute. For details, please see the list in the Topics, Program and Plenaries page.​

For a full history of previous Mediterranean Combustion Symposia, please see the document below.

List of past MCS

• June 1999 MCS1: Antalya – Turkey 
• January 2002 MCS2: Sharm El-Sheikh, 
• June 2003 MCS3: Marrakesh Morocco,
• October 2005 MCS4: Lisbon Portugal, 
• September 2007 MCS5: Monastir Tunisia,
• June 2009MCS6: Porticcio-Ajaccio, France, 
• September 2011 MCS7: Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy,
• September 2013 MCS8: Cesme, Ismir-Turkey, 
• Greece, June 2015 MCS9: Rhodes Resort, Rhodes, 
• September 2017  MCS10: Napoli, Italy,
• June 2019 MCS11: Tenerife, Spain, 
• January 2023 MCS12: Luxor, Egypt, 
• June 2025 MCS13: Corfu, greece,