Now that bulk Nb technology has reached it full maturity, improving SRF technology demands that new materials need to be developed. For reasons explained in the talk, all next generation SRF materials will be in the form of thin films. The IFAST project has the ambition to coordinate European activities on that topic, not only throughout its own program (that will be presented here), but also by keeping in touch with all actors worldwide, with the hope of developing a more efficient collaborative actions, in a limited funding context. In this talk, we will present the challenges presented by the development of new thin films materials, each developed for tailored applications and the main research direction proposed by the thin film community.

Proceedings of the 65th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High Luminosity Circular e+e- Colliders, eeFACT2022, Frascati, Italy