Dear members of the SCS,

Having now worked as an assistant in the SCS Head-Office for over 10 years, I am looking forward to a new additional challenge by taking over the management of the SCS Academy from Esther Wolff as of the beginning of 2023. The SCS Academy of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCG) is a very important part of the education courses in various fields of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. 

We do not only offer established courses in analytical sciences (spectroscopy, separation techniques, quality assurance and information management), but also new courses in the fields of laboratory basics and environmental sciences. From beginners to experts, all level of users are within our target group. We offer our courses in collaboration with industrial partners to ensure the relevance of application.

I’m really look forward to this new challenge and I hope I’ll be able to expand the Academy’s activities in numerous directions.

 Sarah Schmitz
Management SCS Academy
 

Sarah Schmitz, SCS
Bern, January 19, 2023

From 16 - 25 July 2023 more than 900 participants, mentors and volunteers from approximately 90 countries and areas are expected to attend the International Chemistry Olympiad 2023. Besides two chemistry exams the young talents will experience a wide range of cultural activities, Swiss business and lifestyle as well as the picturesque landscape of Switzerland.

More information about IChO 2023 in Zürich: https://www.icho2023.ch/

We are looking forward to your volunteering application!
There is no age limit, the most important is your motivation to make the IChO 2023 a success.

Contributing your time and energy to the IChO will also bring you in touch with dozens of co-minded volunteers and up to 350 brightest minds in Chemistry. It will be rewarded by team building activities for volunteers and a work certificate you can use for your CV.
Your expenses like accommodation, meals, and transport expenses will be covered. Above all, it will be ten days of fun and science feasts organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH Zurich and its partners.
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Please register here, if you want to be a part of IChO 2023

If you have any questions, send us an email to

The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is an annual international competition for talented young students in secondary schools and colleges. The first IChO took place in Prague in 1968. Since 1987, Switzerland has sent delegations to more than 30 IChOs but has never been a host country itself. The time has come in 2023! The Swiss Chemistry Olympiad Association (SwissChO) and ETH Zurich have been awarded the contract to host the event in Switzerland.

David Spichiger, SCS
17.01.2023

We are pleased to invite you to join us in the beautiful city The Hague for IUPAC|CHAINS2023 in August 2023. This conference, which combines the 49th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress and the 11th edition of the Dutch Chemistry Conference CHAINS, will take place from 20 till 25 August.

The theme of the conference is ‘Connecting Chemical Worlds’, and this is exactly what we aim to do. Connecting different disciplines of chemistry and getting academia, industry, junior and senior researchers to share what they love most about this beautiful science and help chemistry in answering the problems of tomorrow.

We hope to present an exciting program with plenary and invited lectures, parallel sessions, poster- and oral presentations. The first six plenary speakers are already announced, and we are excited to receive renowned scientist like Chad Mirkin, Jennifer Thomson and Nicola Spaldin. The full list of plenary speakers can be found at www.iupac2023.org/plenary-speakers.

And we also invite you to join the programme by submitting your idea for an oral presentation or poster now! Submission of abstracts is open now at www.iupac2023.org/abstracts. On the site you can find the form to submit and the submission guidelines.

Important deadlines

More information can be found on www.iupac2023.org.

For the latest updates, you can also follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and/or Instagram.

 

David Spichiger; SCS
16.01.2023

 



The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) is part and co-owner of Chemistry Europe (CE), a consortium of 16 European scientific societies and the Wiley publishing house that publishes a family of high-quality scholarly chemistry journals, covering a very broad range of disciplines. The SCS is strongly committed to motivate Swiss based researchers to publish their results in the CE journals. As in many other European countries, Wiley has also reached an agreement in Switzerland that authors affiliated with Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) may publish primary research and review articles as open access in any of Wiley's hybrid journals at no charge to the author.

To publish without having to pay additional Article Publication Charges (APCs), the article's responsible corresponding author must be from an eligible institution and the article must have been accepted on or after 1 May 2021.

You can be confident that by choosing open access your work has the best chance to be read, cited and shared. Read more about the advantages of publishing open access here. Publishing open access:

  • Complies with funder or institution mandates
  • Allows you to retain copyright through a CC BY license
  • Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)

To be eligible:

  • Your manuscript must have been accepted on or after 1 May 2021.
  • You must be the responsible corresponding author who is affiliated with an eligible Swiss institution at the point of acceptance.
  • All primary research and review articles qualify.
  • You must order hybrid open access by using our order workflow as described on the website.

Website of Chemistry Europe

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

 

David Spichiger, SCS
12.01.2023

The Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) announce the 2023 Chemistry Travel Award. 

The award includes a contribution of CHF 1'000 towards the cost of an active participation (poster or oral presentation) at an international conference between 15 May 2023 and 14 May 2024 in any field of the chemical sciences. 

Up to 45 doctoral students from Swiss research institutions will be awarded. Selection will be based primarily on scientific accomplishments and on the submitted conference abstract. 

The deadline for applications: 31 March 2023 

All the information about the conditions of participation and the application forms are under chem.scnat.ch/travel_award

 

David Spichiger, SCS / Leo Merz, SCNAT
11.01.2023

 

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