by euchems office | Jul 4, 2018 | News
The European Commission recently ran a survey on available education and training courses and resources focusing on or including animal procedures used for scientific purposes, and more specifically, the 3Rs: Replacement, Reduction, Refinement. EuChemS has responded...
by euchems office | Jun 22, 2018 | News
EuChemS has responded to the public consultation on the European Food Safety Agency’s (EFSA) draft ‘Guidance on Communication of Uncertainty in Scientific Assessments’. The document is intended to provide guidance tools on how to best communicate ‘uncertainty’ from...
by euchems office | Jun 1, 2018 | News
EuChemS welcomes the move by EU ministers to endorse the European Commission’s roadmap on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), whose aim is to ‘support EU science in its global leading by creating a trusted environment for hosting and processing research...
by euchems office | May 29, 2018 | News
EuChemS has provided feedback on the draft UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) text. We are generally pleased with the text and its emphasis on open access to educational materials and ways to move forward with improving education on a global...
by euchems office | May 25, 2018 | News
After a two-year transition period, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approved on 14 April 2016 comes into force on 25 May 2018. The regulation, aimed at harmonising the right to data protection and privacy within the EU, provides a comprehensive legal...
by euchems office | May 23, 2018 | News
EuChemS has responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on the evaluation of the European Heritage Label Action. This provided us with a unique opportunity to promote the need to better recognise the role that science and chemistry play in our...
by euchems office | May 14, 2018 | News
In her Editorial of the Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the membership magazine of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, the German Chemical Society (GDCh), EuChemS President Pilar Goya Laza has written about the role national chemical societies need to play in a changing...
by euchems office | May 7, 2018 | News
The proposal for the future framework programme – Horizon Europe – was unveiled by the European Commission on 2 May, launching a lengthy process of negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council over the next few months. The proposal sets €100 billion...
by euchems office | May 4, 2018 | News
The Guidebook ‘Pre-Service Training for Chemistry Teachers’ edited in part by Iwona Maciejowska, Chair of the EuChemS Division of Chemical Education and an active member of ECTN has now been downloaded over two hundred times and was recently cited in an official...
by euchems office | May 4, 2018 | News
EuChemS has signed the Future Partnership Project statement launched by the Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust – a project which aims to send a powerful message to leaders in the UK and the EU that science knows no borders and that a shared vision for an ‘ambitious,...