EuChemS Brussels News Update • June 2018

Brussels News Update - June 2018

Hello and welcome to the June edition of our Brussels News Updates newsletter – your monthly update on chemistry in Europe and EuCheMS’ activities!

Where to begin? The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding a wide range of topics, from the next framework research programme, Horizon Europe, to a Plastics Strategy, to Open Science. Meanwhile, EuCheMS has submitted feedback to the European Commission’s consultation on its European Heritage Label Action, as well as UNESCO’s Open Educational Resources draft recommendation text. So, scroll down to explore our debriefs on what has been keeping us busy here in Brussels!

European Highlights

EuCheMS responds to the European Commission’s consultation on the evaluation of the European Heritage Label Action

EuCheMS responded to the European Commission’s consultation on the evaluation of the European Heritage Label Action. With input from the … Read more

EuCheMS responds to UNESCO’s call for feedback on its Open Educational Resources draft recommendations text.

EuCheMS, with the support of the EuCheMS Division of Chemical Education submitted feedback on UNESCO’s Open Educational Resources (OER) draft … Read more

Horizon Europe and mission-driven science

It’s out! On 7 June, the European Commission made public its full proposal for the shape and scope of the … Read more

Open Science

On 22 April, the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) of which EuCheMS is a member, adopted a set of ‘prioritised … Read more

EuCheMS attends the Science and Technology in Society Forum – STOA event

EuCheMS attended the high-level conference on a strengthened cooperation between the Science and Technology in Society Forum and the EU … Read more

EU Education Package: European Education Area by 2025

On 22 May, the European Commission unveiled its proposal for a second package of initiatives with the aim at creating … Read more

EU Plastics Strategy– single-use plastics targeted

The European Commission has put forward a proposal for a ban on several single-use plastics most commonly found polluting our … Read more

REACH review

On 31 May, the deadline for the last REACH registration signalled the end of a 10-year registration period for existing … Read more

GDPR!

The General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) has now been in force since 25 May and EuCheMS has as such adopted some … Read more

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

European Research Council – impact, next president, #ERCSTOA

An independent study on the impact of European Research Council (ERC) projects in frontier research in 2016 and 2017 has … Read more

Consultations & Roadmaps

Call for feedback: Reducing marine litter – action on single use plastics and fishing gear

The European Commission has published an open call for feedback on it’s action on single use plastics and fishing gear. … Read more

Call for feedback: Multiannual Financial Framework: Erasmus Programme 2021-2027

As part of the European Commission’s announcement of its proposed Multiannual Financial Framework budget, there are a number of open … Read more

EFSA consultations

Know something about the active substance folpet? Captan? Tolpyralate? Or perhaps disulphide? EFSA, the European Food Safety Agency, has open … Read more

Education and training resources on the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal procedures for scientific purposes

The European Commission has published a survey seeking to find out what available education and training resources exist on the replacement, … Read more