Congresses & Symposia

Forum for open discussion towards deepening the understanding of dynamic materials across different material classes and length scales.

Webinar on Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering Tools and Methodologies.

The goal of this two-day conference series is to stimulate a stronger interaction among persons working in different areas of analytical sciences. Scientists from applied and fundamental research, from industry, education, and regulation are welcome.

This 1-day visit will offer the possibility to get insights into Bachem. Additionally, there will be time to interact with the employees.

This 1-day visit will offer the possibility to get insights into Bachem. Additionally, there will be time to interact with the employees.

The event series with 1-2 events per year at Swiss universities enables students and PhDs to get an insight into process chemistry. Besides teaching the basics, an illustrative example from industry is discussed.

As the most important joint conference of German, Austrian and Swiss analytical chemistry, ANAKON 2023 offers the opportunity for scientific exchange between analysts from the German-speaking region - but also beyond.

This one-day symposium is organized for the first time by the youngSCS with support of the NCCR Bio-inspired Materials. It provides the opportunity for BSc, MSc and PhD students as well as PostDocs to present their research.

The Swiss Chemical Society Spring Meeting is a one day symposium and provides a high quality program with national and international speakers of a certain topic. The topic of the 2023 symposium is «Chemistry and Physics of the Atmosphere».

The Swiss Soft Days is a one-day workshop taking place 2 times per year where around 10 to 20 speakers give short talks (~15 minutes) to introduce their research activities in a way specifically designed for a heterogeneous public.

In recent years, we have seen an active shift towards data-driven decision making in chemistry with the goal of accelerating drug, crop protection, and materials discovery. The approach's power is demonstrated by data-driven solutions that led to breakthroughs in synthesis prediction, protein structure prediction, and generative chemistry.

Die APPLICA ist ein praxisorientiertes Fachseminar, welches sich an Anwender moderner Trenntechniken wendet. Der Fokus der 9. Austragung liegt auf Anwendungen im Bereich der Lebensmittel- und Umweltanalytik.

In 2023, the Swiss Biotech Day will again offer high-level experts from the life sciences industry the space and the time (one and a half days) to network, discuss and discover trends in R&D, manufacturing, data management, artificial intelligence and innovative financing.

The objective of this biennial conference is to regularly provide our members and other interested chemists working in process development and production with opportunities for professional training and networking.
This year's topic: «From Lab to Industrial Application - Trends/Innovation in Process Chemistry & Technology»

The main objective of this congress is to bring researchers together to discuss the progress of operando methodologies, i.e. characterization of functional materials in their working state.

The ‘SCS Conference on Stereochemistry’, better known as ‘Bürgenstock Conference’, is an outstanding international chemistry meeting of high scientific quality, with an optimal setting for intense inter-disciplinary discussion.

The conference CP2P’23 will bring together senior scientists and young researchers from France, Switzerland and Germany to meet and discuss, in a friendly atmosphere.

Wie technisch souverän sollte die Schweiz sein? Wie steht es um unsere Versorgungssicherheit in verschiedenen Bereichen? Am SATW-Jahreskongress diskutieren wir diese Fragestellungen mit Experten und suchen entsprechende Antworten.

The workshop with its focus on Ensuring reliable and accurate results of analytical processes will be relevant to anyone involved in analytical processes, for example quality laboratory technicians and managers; measurement instrument manufacturers, representatives of accreditation authorities, metrology institutes and standardisation bodies; technical assessors as well as customers of laboratory services.

Annual meeting of the Division of Industrial & Applied Chemistry (DIAC) and visit of Sika Schweiz AG in Zürich. Registration is mandatory.

Akademische Freiheit und internationale Zusammenarbeit unter Druck: Vorträge und Diskussionen rund ums Thema Internationale Zusammenarbeit mit Institutionen, die unter eingeschränkter akademischer Freiheit arbeiten müssen.

This is the world’s most diverse, stimulating, and exciting event for the future of all labs. Start-ups and disruptors will meet lab heads and lab techs, together with the tech & practice innovators.

The 'Patenting Workshop 2023' is a hands-on workshop for researchers in life sciences & chemistry and the program is specially built for PhDs students and Postdocs.

The 1^st Symposium on Materials Chemistry 2023 is the major event of the respective SCS Network. The program includes a keynote lecture, invited lectures and contributed lectures by PhD/postdoc. A poster session during lunch complements the program.

51^st International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques

The HPLC symposium series is known as the world leading conference on liquid phase separations and related technologies. Its program covers all aspects of separation sciences in liquid and supercritical fluid phases as well as hyphenation with advanced detection technologies in particular mass spectrometry.

The conference is organized as an on-site conference at the ETH Zürich. It serves as an interdisciplinary platform for expert discussions on all aspects of nanoparticles, freshly emitted from various sources, transformed in ambient air, distributed on local and global scale, on technical mitigation aspects, particle legislation, and impact of particles on health, environment, and climate. The conference brings together representatives from research, industry, and legislation.

The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is an annual competition for the world’s most talented chemistry students at the secondary school level. Nations around the world send a team of four students who are tested on their chemistry knowledge and skills in a five-hour laboratory practical exam and a five-hour written theoretical examination. 

The symposium provides a unique platform to bring together teachers and lecturers teaching at different levels such as Sek I, Sek II, universities of applied sciences (FH) and universities. The major objective is the dialogue between chemists working in education, research and industry. 

The SCS Fall Meeting 2023, one of the largest annual research conferences held in Switzerland and offers a unique opportunity for all members of the community to share the results of their research initiatives and to connect with each other.

Summer School in organic synthesis with education lectures and industry input lectures.

This one-week seminar will give insights into the current state of the art of digitalisation, and how it will influence the future of chemistry, chemical engineering and process development.

This International Summer School aims at providing an overview about state-of-the-art approaches and concepts tackling contemporary challenges which are associated with the decarbonization and defossiliation of the chemistry sector.

Symposium on Robotics and Industrial Automation: Referate, Ausstellung, Networking

The event provides an innovative platform to exchange on the various aspects of drug development with a focus on peptides.

Conference on applied surface and solid state analysis. The AOFKA conference is held biannually alternating between locations in the DACH domain. It has a very strong interdisciplinary character with the focus on scientific exchange between analytical-methodological developments and scientific-technological problem solving covering all fields of research on solids and surface microanalysis.

«Gemeinsam gegen die globale Umweltverschmutzung: Bildung und Forschung für saubere Lösungen»
Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der SETAC GLB e.V., GDCh-FG-Umweltchemie & Ökotoxikologie: 

This first edition of the European Healthy Soils Conference Series will address the relevance of healthy soils and soil fertility as prerequisite for a functioning society, environment, economy, and climate.

The 10th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2023) will be a 24-hour event, held in 3 locations, as well as online. We believe that this will optimize worldwide participation in this global event.

The evening will be a celebration of discovery and innovation in the chemical sciences.

Since 1959, ILMAC has been the sole Swiss industry fair for chemicals and life sciences that depicts all the industrial applications in process and laboratory technology. As a user-oriented trade fair, ILMAC is geared to experts in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biotechnology, food, drinks, cosmetics and others. 

Conference with lectures, award lectures, discussion forum and roundtables about the topic 'Digitalization'.

The 2023 SWC Networking Event is a followup of the SWC inauguration event that took place in 2019 and provides a platform for female researchers in our community to exchange experiences and to increase their visibility.  

Conference with lectures, award lectures, discussion forum and roundtables about the topic 'Chemical Technologies'.

Conference with lectures, award lectures, discussion forum and roundtables about the topic 'New Biotech Methods'.

The biennial EFMC-ISMC is a key symposium in the field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery and it traditionally attracts around 1.000 participants both from industry and academia.

The ‘SCS Conference on Stereochemistry’, better known as ‘Bürgenstock Conference’, is an outstanding international chemistry meeting of high scientific quality, with an optimal setting for intense inter-disciplinary discussion.

The ECC is a scientifically excellent European chemistry meeting that reflects the outstanding research being done in Europe as well as its role in the international scientific community.

The evening will be a celebration of discovery and innovation in the chemical sciences.

Since 1959, ILMAC has been the sole Swiss industry fair for chemicals and life sciences that depicts all the industrial applications in process and laboratory technology. SCS  will again organize the ILMAC Forum.