Welcome Message 2023 from the New SCS Academy Manager Sarah Schmitz

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

Become a Volunteer for the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), Zürich, in July 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

Join IUPAC|CHAINS 2023 and submit your abstract!

Publish Open Access at no charge with Wiley's Hybrid Journals

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