17 – 18 October 2016
Brussels, Belgium
Website: http://europa.eu/
EuCOMC 2017 – 22nd European Conference on Organometallic Chemistry
9 – 13 July 2017
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Website: http://www.eucomc2017.amsterdam/
ISSNP 2017 – International Summer School on Natural Products
3 – 7 July 2017
Naples, Italy
Website: http://www.issnp.org
EICC-4 – 4th EuCheMS Inorganic Chemistry Conference
2 – 5 July 2017
Copenhagen, Denmark
Website: http://www.eicc-4.dk
CCE 2017 – 16th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment
18 – 22 July 2017
Oslo, Norway
Website: http://icce2017.org/
Circular Economy in Drugs
5 April 2017
Valleta, Malta
Website: http://www.euchems.eu/
Blue Green Innovation for Clean Coasts and Seas
Deadline: 14 February 2017
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/
Bio-based Products: Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan
Deadline: 14 February 2017
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/
EUREKA Network Projects Call with Chile
Deadline: 25 November 2016
Website: http://www.eurekanetwork.org/
EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017
Deadline: 3 November 2016
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/
Call for Experts for High Level Group of Innovators to provide expert advice to the European Commission in designing and developing a European Innovation Council (EIC)
Deadline: 27 October 2016
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/
Independent Advisory Panel on Characterising Flavours in Tobacco Products
Deadline: 20 October 2016
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/
2017 IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists
Deadline: 1 February 2017
Website: https://iupac.org/
Revision of the Clean Vehicles Directive
The objective of the Directive is to increase the demand and deployment of cleaner vehicles thus strengthening the competitiveness of the EU industry while decreasing CO2 and pollutant emissions of transport. To achieve this goal, the specific policy objectives of this initiative can be defined as 1) increasing the public procurement of all categories of clean vehicles, 2) adjusting the available options to provide adequate incentives to procure/develop cleaner vehicles and 3) adjusting and simplifying the existing monetisation methodology to remove counter – incentives to the procurement/development of cleaner vehicles.
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/
Evaluation Roadmap – Directive on Batteries and accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators
The evaluation will address all substantive provisions in the Directive and will consider all relevant aspects, i.e. legal (e.g. legal base, internal coherence, consistency with other legislation in approaches, terminology and legal concepts), environmental (e.g. main environmental impacts of batteries along the whole life cycle of batteries, efficiency of measures), economic and social (e.g. access to (critical) raw materials, costs and benefits).The objective of the Batteries Directive is to contribute to the protection, preservation and improvement of the quality of the environment by minimising the negative impact of batteries and waste batteries. It also aims at ensuring the smooth functioning of the internal market by harmonising requirements concerning the heavy metal content and labelling of batteries and accumulators.
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/
Public Consultation on the Evaluation of the Aerosol Dispensers Directive
The Aerosol Dispensers Directive is one of the oldest EU legislations related to product safety. The directive was adopted in 1975 harmonising the differing national legislations in force at that time in order to create a genuine European market based on common requirements concerning the safety of the dispensers and the hazards due to pressure. The objective of the evaluation is to assess whether the Directive is meeting its objectives of guaranteeing free circulation of aerosol dispensers within the EU while ensuring a high degree of safety.
Deadline: 15 January 2017
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/
Public Consultation on the Active Substance Methoxyfenozide
EFSA will assess all comments from interested parties regarding the active substance methoxyfenozide. Input is requested on the following: physical/chemical properties; details of uses and further information; methods of analysis; mammalian toxicology; residues; and environmental fate and behavior.
Deadline: 20 November 2016
Website: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/
Consultation on the Interim evaluation of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
The objective of the consultation is to ensure that, in addition to the organisations and individuals directly involved in or benefitting from the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), wider stakeholder groups as well as the general public have a say in its future direction.
Deadline: 20 November 2016
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/
The European Patent Office Survey – The use of Information in the Innovation Process
The European Patent Office (EPO) is conducting a Pan-European survey in order to understand what kind of information supports an organisation’s innovation process. EPO offers inventors a uniform application procedure which enables them to seek patent protection in up to 40 European countries.
Source: https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/news/
REACH 2018 – How Safe is your Substance?
Companies registering the same substance must work together to compile and share information on the uses, hazards and risks of their substance to demonstrate safe use. If new data involving animal testing needs to be generated, alternatives must always be considered first. All this information on the uses, hazards and risks should be reported in a registration dossier and submitted to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) by 31 May 2018.
Source: https://echa.europa.eu/
45 ERC Grantees Receive Top-up Innovation Funding
Forty-five European Research Council (ERC) grantees will bring the results of their frontier research closer to market thanks to Proof of Concept grants. This top-up funding will help them explore the innovation potential of their ERC-funded discoveries. These Proof of Concept grants, worth €150,000 each, can be used for example to establish intellectual property rights, investigate business opportunities or conduct technical validation. The scheme is open to ERC grant holders only.
Source: https://erc.europa.eu/
Erasmus+ Programme Guide and Calls 2016
The Erasmus+ Programme Guide and Call for Proposals for 2016 is out with more than €1,85 billion funding available. This year´s programme presents new opportunities in Vocational Education and Training Mobility, more targeted Strategic Partnerships, and a revised format of Sector Skills Alliances. Erasmus+ promotes, among other, the mobility of young students, researchers, or teachers, and has actions aiming individuals as well as organisations.
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus
Congratulations to Christian Schärf, Paul Rathke, and Friedrich Wanierke – EUCYS EuCheMS Award 2016
Christian Schärf, Paul Rathke, and Friedrich Wanierke, from Germany, are the winners of the 2016 EUCYS EuChEMS Award with their project entitled “Alpha-aluminium oxide-based gemstones: Development of a chemical synthesis process prompted by current mining conditions”.
EuCheMS special prize for best chemistry contribution at the European Union Contest for Young Scientist, is attributed every year at EUCYS to a young scientist for hers/his research work in the field of chemistry. EUCYS, an initiative of the European Commission that was set up in 1989 with the goal of promoting cooperation and interchange between young scientists and guiding them towards a future career in science and technology.
Source: http://www.euchems.eu/
European Commission at the China-EU Education Ministers Conference
As referred at the conference, there are nearly 3,000 students and professors selected to move between Europe and China under the Erasmus+ calls in 2015 and 2016, and dozens of Chinese universities participating in joint academic projects China-EU Cooperation. Mr Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, mentioned in his speech the “proven initiatives that have enabled us to boost academic cooperation, to foster student, teacher and researcher mobility”, namely the Erasmus+ programme and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The Commissioner also mentioned the China-EU cooperation in entrepreneurship actions, namely through collaborations under the European Institute of Innovation Technology.
Source: http://europa.eu/
Western Balkans Joins the European Open Science Agenda
Seven Western Balkans’ economies joined the European Union (EU) in pursuing the EU Open Science Agenda at the Open Data and Access in Science meeting organised by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) during the International Open Data Conference (IODC) on 6-7 October 2016. These countries agreed to appoint national points of reference on Open Science by the end of the year. Participants also formally established the Working Group on Open Science and outlined directions in which they will operate in the coming period by producing the draft three-year work plan. In the region of Western Balkans where the investments to public research systems are low and where, as the data from the Balkan Barometer showed, the cooperation between universities and industry is limited to a very small number of large businesses, the Open Science and Open Access Agenda has the potential to open access to the research results to be used for innovation in the smaller and medium sized companies, as well as for wider public. Earlier this year EuCheMS has organised an event on open science, its outcomes can be found here.
Source: https://wbc-rti.info/