by euchems office | May 25, 2018 | News
After a two-year transition period, the EUÂ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Â 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,...
by euchems office | Apr 17, 2018 | News
Benoit Champagne was elected President of the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC), the Walloon Royal Society of Chemistry in February 2018. He received his PhD in 1992 in Chemistry at the University of Namur, then known as the Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix,...
by euchems office | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Following indications of chemical weapons having recently been used in the Syrian conflict, EuChemS has issued a statement deploring the use of any and all chemical weapons. We reinforce our commitment to the declaration we issued in Seville in 2016, since...
by euchems office | Apr 6, 2018 | News
EuChemS is happy to welcome Dr. Matthias Urmann as the new President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society). Dr. Urmann studied Chemistry and obtained his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. After a postdoc stay at Harvard University...
by euchems office | Apr 3, 2018 | News
We are happy to welcome the new President of the Finnish Chemical Society: Pekka Joensuu to the EuChemS community. Pekka Joensuu is a university lecturer at the Aalto University. He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in...