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Chemistry Travel Award 2024: Call for Applications

The Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) announce the 2024 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 2024 and 14 May 2025 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. 

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024

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
06.02.2024

 

SCS Annual Report 2023

Dear members of the SCS,

With pleasure we look back on a very interesting and active year. The Swiss Chemical Society not only continued and developed its well-established activities but again pushed new initiatives to face today’s challenges. We also implemented new programs to incorporate community members whose interest were not covered so far. We successfully organized more than twenty on-site symposia and congresses respectively and were able to generate an important contribution to the exchange between academia and industry.

Unfortunately, the growing global instability that last year brought us has not improved, quite on the contrary. It is not the specific mandate of the SCS to solve political problems, but we can still all find a common ground over religious, political or historical disagreements through Science and Chemistry. While a better understanding of the transformation of matter will probably not solve most of the current problems the world is facing, it will certainly help bringing people together and form strong and beneficial communities. And this is precisely the main goal of the SCS. I encourage all of you to read (again) on the Society website its vision and mission statements, which have been reformulated a few months ago.

Another major event that last year brough was the public-wide availability of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT. Its use for trivial and time-consuming tasks is certainly a great help. But for us scientists, there is also a great danger. We should all keep in mind that the algorithms feed themselves on published data. Data that has been so far generated by humans, with a (hopefully) critical evaluation of their validity. If AI tools are now blindly used to produce data and publications, which is a growing trend, we will gradually create a recursive picture of reality that will drift away from reality. Science is the observation and understanding of the world as it is, and reporting on it cannot allow lax treatment of facts and ambiguous formulations.

In addition to the well-established activities that are part of the SCS portfolio for years and are mentioned later in this annual report, we focused on the following, new or specific initiatives in 2023:

  • revise the SCS vision and mission statement to
  • establish the SCS Mentoring Program to support the personal and professional development of students and postdocs with focus on career development.
  • provide event organization services for third parties.
  • further develop the IT infrastructure.
  • extend the SCS Partnership program to 24 companies.
  • prepare the merger of the Division of Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces with the MatChem Network to form the Division of Materials Chemistry as of January 2024.

The Swiss Chemical Society is a not-for-profit organization. Its programs are financed through sponsoring contributions, publishing, revenues from activities, and the membership-fees. We would like to thank all our members, sponsors and partners who supported us financially and logistically in 2023.

SCS Annual Report 2023

Please enjoy reading through the 2023 annual report that shows again a very active and lively society.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you very soon and I wish you a very successful 2024.

Prof. Christian Bochet                  David Spichiger,  
President                                        Executive Director

 


David Spichiger, SCS
02.02.2024

Prof. Angela Agostiano begins EuChemS Presidency

On 1 January 2024, after one year in the position of President-Elect, Angela Agostiano formally began her Presidency of the European Chemical Society.

Angela Agostiano was elected in 2022, at EuChemS’ General Assembly in Lisbon. After one year in the position of EuChemS President-Elect, she is following Prof. Floris Rutjes as President of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS), as the term of Floris Rutjes ended on 31 December 2023. He will carry on with his activities as EuChemS Vice-President.

Angela Agostiano began her term as EuChemS President after gathering significant leadership experience as the first woman president of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), between 2017-2019. During this time, she worked hard to increase SCI’s European and global reach by addressing societal and policy issues through chemistry, such as drafting official positions on chemical weapons. In addition, she continuously emphasizes the importance of gender equality in science, as the Chair of the EuChemS Task Group on Inclusion and Diversity, amongst others.

As the President of EuChemS, she will no doubt continue her involvement in the matters of fostering an inclusive and European chemistry community. One of her first activities in her new role will be the EuChemS Global Womens’ Breakfast event “Catalysing Diversity – How to Tackle Our Current Biases” on 27 February.

Alongside her, new Executive Board Members – Alexandra R. Albunia, Karsten Danielmeyer, Péter Szalay and Aura Tintaru also began their terms with the beginning of 2024.


Marton Kottmayer, EuChemS
David Spichiger, SCS
12.01.2024

EuChemS Magazine, January 2024

EuChemS News, Policy News, Events, Awards
 
Find our monthly compilation of chemistry- and science-related European policy developments in this newsletter! You will also find EuChemS' activities and news here. Take a look at our Headline Stories or Read EuChemS Magazine online!

Editorial

  • Angela Agostiano begins EuChemS Presidency

EuChemS News

  • 1 Year of EuChemS Magazine
  • EuChemS to discuss internal biases at GWB event

Policy News

  • Belgium takes over EU Trio Presidency
  • Switzerland-EU negotiations to improve research collaboration
  • Commission renews approval of Glyphosate
  • EU launches research initiatives in Kyiv

Awards

  • EuChemS Young Chemists’ Award
  • EuChemS Fellowship Scheme

Read the full magazine on: https://www.magazine.euchems.eu/

 


David Spichiger, SCS
18.01.2024

ECC9 in Dublin: Call for Abstract extended to January 15, 2024

As we move forward in the planning for 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC-9), we want to ensure you are aware of some deadlines for the submission of your research for presentation at ECC-9

Abstract Submission Key Dates

Call for Abstracts Closes: Monday, 15th January 2024
Notification of Authors: Friday 23rd February 2024
Presentation formats: oral communications, poster presentations.

More information on https://euchems2024.org/programme/call-for-abstracts/

Abstracts may be submitted under the eight Congress themes and subthemes:

  • Energy, Environment and Sustainability (including Emerging Sustainable Chemistry, Technologies, Biomass Valorisation, Green Synthetic Methodologies, Circular Bioeconomy, Food)
  • Physical, Analytical and Computational Chemistry (including Physical chemistry of materials, Advances in physical chemistry and new techniques, New analytical methodologies and applications, Sensors, Theory and applications of computational chemistry, Machine Learning/AI)
  • Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (including Asymmetric Methodology, Inorganic Methodology, Green Synthetic Methodologies)
  • Chemistry Meets Biology For Health (including Medicinal, Bioinorganic, Bioorganometallic, Radiochemistry, Food and Nutrition)
  • Catalysis (including Organometallic Catalysis, Organocatalysis, Biocatalysis, Photoredox Catalysis, Electrocatalysis)
  • Supramolecular Chemistry (including Chirality, Molecular Machines, Dissipative Systems, MOFs, Molecular Nanotopology, Sensors, Metallo-Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Logic, Host-Guest Chemistry, Self-Assembly Materials and Higher Order Structures)
  • Nanochemistry/Materials (including Organic and Inorganic, Material Science, Devices, Circuits, Systems, Neuromorphic Networks, and Bio-Inspired Computing)
  • Education, History, Cultural Heritage, and Ethics in Chemistry

David Spichiger, SCS
10.01.2024

  1. Dr. Gordon Honeyman started as the new Technical Editor of CHIMIA
  2. EuChemS Magazine, December 2023
  3. SCS Award Winners 2024
  4. SNSF Scientific Image Competition

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