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Summary

Foreword
1. ECTN 2 : the come back !!
2. ECTN : Academic Time
3. CDRom and Internet : next version endangered !
4. Chemistry Tests Libraries
5. European "Umbrella" Association
6. Dissemination Programme 2000 : Reports
7. Image of Chemistry : "ChemInsight"
8. What's coming next !

Foreword

Dear All,
Since the last NewsLetter, ... nothing has happened apparently, as I haven't received (almost) any comments !

Anyway,

important things are coming ...
and an important question needs to be answered.

Good news : ECTN 2 has been accepted
Bad news : hurry up, wake up, ... it already started on September 1, 2000 !!!
 

Tony Smith has sent an 'Academic Staff Time' form to be completed by all ECTN participants to show how much time they spent on ECTN business during the period from 1st November 1999 to 31st October 2000. If you haven't received one please contact Tony Smith immediately.

Please would all participants complete and return this form as soon as possible. It is very important to justify the universities contribution to ECTN costs.

Also, if anyone has any information about ECTN dissemination activities (during the period Nov 1st 1999 to October 31st 2000) suitable to add to the ECTN Final report (deadline mid-December) please send this to Tony Smith IMMEDIATELY. Many thanks for any help you can provide for this final report.

New version 4.0 : I'm sorry but I do not think that a new version of the CDRom will be issued by the end of the year. The participation for the first update file was so poor, sorry : almost inexistent !! I got only one file back !! Thanks Paolo T., but I won't use your contribution at the moment, maybe in the near future ... I hope !

Update (#1) : already received : Italian, English (original file) and French provided by myself.
Update (#2) : I decided to not send it at the moment - as there is no need anymore to rush - until YOU decide something.

IMPORTANT NOTICE : I would much appreciate to have your agreement. Would you - YES or NO - contribute to a new version of the CDRom and on the Internet ? Whatever your answer is, please send an email in order to have a clear view about what will be even possible to do. If the signal is not clear enough, I wonder about the dissemination process ! should we continue trying to convince people in Europe and overseas that we have a good test available ? What do you think about ? ... we are waiting your answer.
Thanks

ECT Website : The English pre-release of the future website dedicated to the Tests has been installed at CPE Lyon. The web address will be made accessible for the next NewsLetter (Dec. 2000). But, also, I wonder ... again, about the translation required for the Internet version ??? I think that at this average rate of production of the translated files it will last long ~ approximately 15 years ... the Internet technology will probably have changed by then  :-((
 

Antonio L and his Italian colleagues will start the review and the translation of the Physical Chemistry Libraries.
Thanks to them and good luck.

Other volunteers to translate the chemistry test libraries into their own language are welcome to contact Pascal Mimero who can supply the necessary files.
 

Chemistry presentation webpages on the CEETOK website (http://www.cpe.fr/ceetok/).

The correction of the Italian version was done (thanks to Gustavo A. and Paolo T.). Thanks to Pavel D. for his Czech translation - added early November to the website.

WATCH THIS SPACE NEXT MONTH (perhaps) for more information on the Umbrella Association - including a new name.
 

EUCO-CC3 - Budapest (Hungary) ; September 3-8, 2000
European Conference on Computational Chemistry

P. Mimero presented a poster on the Evaluation of the Core Chemistry and a live demo. The congress was oriented towards Computational Chemistry and modelization, but education aspects were not well represented. Meanwhile, I had a couple of very interesting contacts from various countries (Europe, Russia, USA, Taiwan). The Russians really appreciated the Russian version of the Organic test and are ready to look further and forsee a participation or collaboration to provide more translations. I am also in touch with some other contacts that confirm their own interest in our product.
ECTN was mentionned by Antonio L., while presenting the METACHEM project.

P. Mimero was invited in Berlin by the FIZ Chemie consortium, to present the ECTN and the Evaluation of the Core Chemistry project. It appears that the German network is really complementary to our network. They have the same Core approach as ourselves (see the ChemInt 2000 meeting report). They also have a very important task force, supported by the German Ministery of Education. We could maybe forsee for further collaboration.

INNO 2000 - Helsinki (Finland) ; September 2000
Innovations in Higher Education

K. Wähälä presented a number of contributions (conferences and posters) on several topics of the ECTN projects. Please check the website at : http://www.helsinki.fi/inno2000/.

Hendrik Z. sent me some information after the October meeting of the ECTN Image of Chemistry working group : a brand new website has been setup dealing with the objectives of the Image of Chemistry group.

The website is currently under work, but already includes some information and links in English, German and Portuguese. French will come soon. Please visit the ChemInsight website at : http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/ChemInsight/

I recently discovered another website on "Green - Environmental Chemistry" called "GEIN - German Environmental Information Network" at : http://www.gein.de

ECTN Management Committee meeting : Leeds, UK - December 16, 2000

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