It aims to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous medium systems.
It acts as a platform for researchers active in modeling of flow and transport in natural, biological, and technical porous media, such as soils, aquifers, oil and gas reservoirs, biological tissues, plants, fuel cells, wood, ceramics, concrete, textiles, paper, polymer composites, hygienic materials, food, foams, membranes, etc.
In the course of 2006, researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University and Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart, under the leadership of Professor Rainer Helmig[1] and Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, respectively, developed a proposal for setting up a joint international graduate research program.
By Summer 2008, the geographical scope was expanded beyond Europe and the name was changed to the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore.)
A variety of activities, such as porous media workshops, conferences, short courses, are organized by national chapters.