News 44 Tribologie + Schmierungstechnik · volume 72 · issue 1/ 2025 The European Conference on Tribology - ECOTRIB - is a biennial conference organized in collaboration between the Austrian, Italian, Slovenian and Swiss tribology societies. Previous Ecotrib meetings have taken place in Ljubljana (2007, 2017), Pisa (2009), Vienna (2011, 2019), Turin (2013), Lugano (2015), and Bari (2023). The 9 th Ecotrib meeting will organized by Swiss Tribology in Zurich, Switzerland, in the main building of ETH Zurich. Topics to be covered in the meeting include • modeling, simulations, and machine learning in tribology • nano and microtribology • tribochemistry • tribocorrosion Please check for further information: https: / / www.ecotrib25.ch/ Swiss Tribology ECOTRIB 25 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 28-30 JULY 2025 • 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