BNU October 2021

1 European Highlights, BNU October 2021, Brussels News Updates

Welcome to the 1st Global Sustainable Chemistry Week

The International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3), a EuChemS Supporting Member, is organising the first “Global Sustainable Chemistry Week”, from 8 to 12 November. For five days, ISC3 will host various online events, including panel discussions and lectures during which ISC3 partners and stakeholders will present their research activities and projects related to sustainable chemistry.

Nineta Hrastelj, EuChemS Secretary General, will join a panel discussion on the EU Chemicals Strategy on Sustainability on Friday 12 November 2021. She is invited to share her expertise in outlining the challenges, opportunities and potential pitfalls connected to this strategy.

Find out more about the Global Sustainable Chemistry Week in the ISC3  website.

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Ethics needs chemists!

On 7 October, the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) hosted the webinar ‘Good Chemistry – Do Chemists Need Ethics?” chaired by Dr. Jan Mehlich, recipient of the 2020 EuChemS Award for Service and member of the EuChemS Working Party on Ethics in Chemistry. Floris Rutjes, EuChemS President, welcomed with an opening speech the 177 attendees from 31 different countries who participated in this online event.

“EuChemS seeks to stimulate chemical education and aims to contribute to an integral education of students as important future enactors of progress and influential decision-makers in academia, industry, and the public sphere.”

– Floris Rutjes, EuChemS President,
Opening speech of the webinar ‘Good Chemistry – Do Chemists Need Ethics?’

During this interactive webinar, Dr. Jan Mehlich invited the attendees to reflect on the role of ethics in the chemical sciences through various examples and case studies. You are invited to watch the recording of this webinar on the EuChemS YouTube channel to discover all about the conclusions of this online event.

Dr. Jan Mehlich will be presented with the 2020 EuChemS Award for Service at the 8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress 2022 (ECC8) in Lisbon (Portugal) in recognition of his outstanding commitment and hard work in fostering chemistry in Europe, along with the activities and goals of EuChemS.

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Winner announced for the EuChemS Historical Landmarks Award 2020 (European Level)

Each year, EuChemS opens a call for a Historical Landmarks Award, to recognise various sights of cultural heritage that are significant for the history of Chemistry. The 2020 EuChemS Historical Landmarks (European level) goes to the Justus Liebig Laboratory in Giessen (Germany), where Justus von Liebig worked in the 19th century. You can read more about it here.

The call for the 2021 EuChemS Historical Landmarks Award nominations is currently open until 31 December 2021 (18:00 CET). Please visit this page for more information.

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