The TWISMA Advisory Board (AB) meeting was held online on 20 November 2025. The meeting was attended by the following AB members: Anna Vedda  (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Vladimir Babin  (Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Valery Dormenev  (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) Yevhen Izvarin  (Morgan Advanced Materials, USA) Igor Pritula  (Institute for Single Crystals, Ukraine) Laura Wollesen  (ECM Greentech, France) Agenda and Reports The meeting...

We are happy to announce the release of the second TWISMA teaching video on crystal growth processes. In the latest video, Dr. Kofanov overviews technological processes to grow BSO crystals by the Czochralski method. The video is published on ISMA official YouTube channel https://youtu.be/UdpdQ-Wig8g?si=2VP-ibjMB-GFvXCL

The Ukrainian newspaper Mirror of the Week (ukr. Дзеркало тижня), one of the country’s most respected and widely read newspapers, has published an article about the TWISMA project — a milestone for Ukrainian science and a vivid example of the resilience of Ukrainian people during the war. You may read the English version here: https://zn.ua/eng/ukrainian-crystals-for-the-large-hadron-collider-when-science-is-stronger-than-war.html