ChemAxon offers free access to all features of the recently developed chemistry online learning platform to universities closed due to coronavirus outbreak. University teachers can get free access to Zosimos online educational framework, to help facilitate online learning in their chemistry classes.

How to apply? Please provide your email address so we can send you the access link to a classroom within a few hours

How can Zosimos help closed higher educational institutions to teach chemistry?

  • The teacher manages a virtual class and sends the class link to the students. The students can start joining the class with a simple click on a link.
  • The teacher formulates practice problems and sets the criteria for the evaluation of student responses.
  • The teacher can either draw a molecule or enter a text as criteria for the evaluation of student responses. Because of the structure drawing, Zosimos is especially good at organic chemistry education.
  • The teacher adds the practice quiz to the virtual class and students can already start practicing on their own schedule.
  • The teacher can see the progress of the students and the automatically evaluated responses of the students.
  • The teacher may also assign a quiz to the students within a set time frame. It may be used for homework or tests and the result is only visible to the students once the teacher has closed the assessment.
  • Zosimos is supported on laptops, tablets, and mobile phones.

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Please keep in mind that this offer is valid for usage until the end of September 2020.

 

David Spichiger, SCS
09.04.2020

We would like to announce that the Swiss Chemical Society from now on has an open access Profile on the Social Media platform LinkedIn. Up to the present there only existed a group forum with exclusive access for our members, which will be replaced with the new profile. Due to improved communication channels we decided to follow through this transfer from a closed Group to an open access. We would like to invite our members to follow the official page Swiss Chemical Society. Prospective posts will be published from now on on the new page to make sure, all of the communication on LinkedIn takes place on one site. 

Please follow the link below:

LinkedIn Profile Swiss Chemical Society

 

Céline Wittwer, SCS
06.04.2020

 

 

 

 

Due to the developing situation across the globe, and the associated uncertainties regarding health and safety, transportation, catering, and access issues, we will explore different modalities for this event in due course. For now, we are still planning a physical conference and we hope that things will calm down. We encourage everyone interested to submit their abstracts and of course, we would keep every interested party informed about the further steps.
We wish you, your family, your friends, and everyone around the globe health, well-being, and solidarity.
 
The 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum (BSPF2), organized by the University of Basel and MDPI, will be held in Basel, 26–27 October 2020. The aim of the forum is to offer a platform for open and constructive conversation between researchers, learned societies, university librarians, funding agencies, scholarly publishers, publishing platforms, and other concerned stakeholders (professional associations, etc.) to identify implementable solutions for a sustainable global transition to open access.  A main topic of discussion of BSPF2 will be the challenges facing learned societies in this transition to Open Access. The conference will cover a broad array of topics relevant to these challenges, like the development of alternative metrics, the evaluation and promotion of researchers, the OA price transparency, the current situation and limitations of transformative agreements, copyright, etc.

We would like to invite all relevant stakeholders, especially the research community and representatives of learned societies, to join us and participate by sharing their experience, views, opinions, or results, and, to submit a proposal in response to Call for Presentations, Panels and Posters.
 
Submissions for presentation panel may be submitted in English to  before 30 June 2020.
 
We could love to count on your participation at this event! If you have any questions please feel free to visit our conference website or contact .
 
 
Céline Wittwer, SCS
06.04.2020

The 3rd Employment Survey for European Chemists (ESEC3) is open until 30 April 2020. Participation in this survey is open for all chemists and chemical engineers.This survey looks into the current education and employment situation of chemists and chemical engineers across Europe. Understanding job market needs, the challenges and opportunities facing chemists and what drives people to study and work in their respective fields will prove invaluable to better understand the current landscape. In turn, it will allow those directly impacted, as well as universities, institutions, companies and policymakers to focus their efforts on facilitating or improving certain measures whilst encouraging those that are so far successful. Your participation in this Europe-wide survey will help build a broad yet precise picture of the employment and salary situation of chemists and possibly reveal other cross-cutting issues.

The online survey is available on the following link: https://www.euchems.eu/esec3/.

 

David Spichiger, SCS
03.04.2020

Chemistry Europe (CE) announced 37 new Fellows, who are nominated to honour their extraordinary support and service to CE and the societies. The Fellowship is the highest award given by Chemistry Europe and this year the nomination of the Fellows will be celebrated at a reception during the 8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress in Lisbon. 
Please meet the Chemistry Europe Fellows, Class 2018/2019, including Prof. Katharina Fromm, University of Fribourg and Prof. Karl Gademann, University of Zurich as two Swiss representatives.

Swiss Chemistry Europe Fellows

2018/2019:
Prof. Katharina Fromm, University of Fribourg
Prof. Karl Gademann, University of Zurich

2016/2017:
Prof. E. Peter Kündig, University of Geneva
Prof. Michael Grätzel, EPFL Lausanne
Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann, ETH Zurich

2015:
Prof. Francois Diederich, ETH Zurich
Prof. Helma Wennemers, ETH Zurich

 

Céline Wittwer, SCS
01.04.2020

  1. ChemPubSoc Europe becomes Chemistry Europe: a new look for a new future
  2. World Sustainability Forum 2020 - Coronavirus Announcement
  3. SCNAT Newsletter, March 2020/2
  4. Brussels News Update, March 2020

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