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ECTN NewsLetter June 2001 - Vol. 2, N° 6 www.ectn.net - www.EChemTest.net

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Summary

Foreword

1. ECTN Information
2. ECTN NewsLetter
3. ECT Chemistry Tests
4. Dissemination Programme
5. What's coming next !

Foreword

Dear All,

I must first apologize for any inconvenience in sending last month's News twice and soon after a short notice about some technical problems regarding address links. I hope that everything is now fixed and is working correctly ...

Anyway, here is the June issue, Summer time is almost here, and usually holiday time for some of us, and exams and marking sessions for some others ... it is maybe why the content of this issue is much shorter than the previous one ;-)

Considering this point, let say "a general Summertime lower activity period" and the fact that I will be away in July and early August, the July-August issue will be published later, on August 25. Please check item 2 below for more details.

Also, in item 3, I would like to draw your attention to the former Computer team, the so called "Computer-Experts" or "IT-Experts" and send them all a Huge Thanks for their own contribution in entering the original datas as well as the translations in the libraries of question we are all using now - it was an important and necessary activity for the Test creation, but also a very tedious task.

Well, it is now time for me to leave you enough ... time to read this NewsLetter !
and "See you" in August for the next issue of the News

Enjoy your holiday time, and take care of yourselves.

Best regards
P.Mimero

We have talked about the project 'Tuning educational Structures in Europe' in which chemistry has a role as a 'synergy' area. A working group has now been established for this project, as well as a parallel project submitted by Raffaella Pagani, Complutense University of Madrid, under the Complutense's Socrates Institutional Contract.The group consists of those people who signed up for Raffaella's project, and members of Terry Mitchell's working group (Teaching Methods and Assessment) of Paolo Todesco's group (Core Chemistry for the Future) - in order to have one representative from each of the EUR-15 countries. The group will be led by Raffaella Pagani (Complutense Madrid, ES).

The group members are:

AT - Austria
    Prof.Dr. Johannes Froehlich - TU Wien
BE - Belgium
    Prof. Bernard Leyh - Université de Liège
DE - Germany
    Prof.Terence N.Mitchell - Universität Dortmund
DK - Denmark
    Prof. Matthew S. Johnson - University of Copenhagen
ES - Spain
    Dr. Raffaella Pagani  - Universidad Complutense
FI - Finland
    Dr Kristiina Wähälä - University of Helsinki
FR - France
    Prof. Anthony Smith - Ecole Superieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon
    Prof. Jean-Pierre Gorrichon - INP de Toulouse
GR - Greece
    Dr. Evangelia Varella - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
IE - Ireland
    Prof. Brian Jennings -University College, Cork
IT - Italy
    Prof. Paolo Todesco - Universita di Bologna
    Prof. Gino Paolucci - Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia,
NL - Netherlands
    Prof.dr. Ad. Oskam - University of Amsterdam
NO - Norway
    Professor George W. Francis - University of Bergen
PT - Portugal
    Prof. Carlos Pascoal Neto - University of Aveiro
SE - Sweden
    Prof. Bengt Jergil - Lund University
UK - United Kingdom
    Dr. Richard J. Whewell - University of Strathclyde

This group has its first meeting on 22 June 2001 in Brussels. This meeting is being funded directly by the European Commission.

Part of the project will involve distributing questionnaires to recent graduates and to the chemical industry. It is likely that ECTN members will be asked to help in this task. More information will be provided in the next newsletter.

A. Smith

 

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JULY-AUGUST ISSUE : Due to the fact that I will be away for a month and a half in Australia, and also due to the Summertime general lower activity, the July-August NewsLetter will be published later, on August 20-25 instead of July 20-25.
Please submit your material at the latest by August 15th for publication.

About ACROBAT Reader

>>> Remember that the PDF format require the software ACROBAT READER to be installed on your Mac or PC computer (click here to download the Reader - then fellow the on-screen instructions). A "plug-in" is also necessary to display it directly within your browser "Internet Explorer / Netscape Navigator" for Mac and PC (click here to download the plug-in).

Tech tip : while clicking on a PDF link, if such a window screens alert appears on your monitor (screen 1, screen 2), it means that the Plug-in is not installed on your computer.

P. Mimero

—_—_—_ Special acknowledgement  _—_—_—

I'm taking this opportunity to focus on the former computer team, partners, all of them are Chemists and were involved in the computer preparation of the Chemistry Test, almost all of them from the real begining of the "Objective 1" project (Nov 97), during the European Commission contract. I really appreciated working with all of them, and I would like to send a HUGE THANKS to them.

Ladies first ...;-)

Dr. Janna VELDER
She is an Organic Chemist and a working partner in Hagga SCHMALZ's laboratory team formerly at TU Berlin (DE) and now at the University of Köln (DE) - she achieved a huge work between Novembre 97 and March 2000 with the Organic Chemistry Libraries as well as the polishing step of a tremendous number of questions on the other libraries, and on a couple of translated LIbraries as well in the second stage of the project. She also was often on-line since March 2000, providing the Russian version of the Organic Demo and the Webpages.
I'm glad to announce that she now will be involved in the Perception development and transfer of the question libraries.

Dr. Cecilia COLETTI
She was a Ph.D. student in Physical Chemistry, working at the University of Perugia (IT) with Prof. Vincenzo AQUILANTI ; once graduated she moved for a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen (DK) and for evident professional reason, we needed to stop our collaboration in the project after 1 year of fruitfull cooperation (Nov 97 - May 98). She was involved at the early stage of the Physical Chemistry Test libraries and demo development.

Men after !

Dr. Dave COCKER
As an Analytical Chemist working at the university of Cork (IE), he was involved between October 99 and March 2000, in the creation of the Demo in Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry Tests.

Dr. Jorma KOSKIMIES
He is working at the University of Helsinki (FI), in the Kristiina WÄHÄLÄ / Tapio HASE's Department of Chemistry. He was involved at the early stage of the General Chemistry Level 1 and 2 libraries and demo development. For professional reasons, he needed to stop his collaboration in March 99 with the "Objective 1" project.

Dr. Jari KAPERI
Succeeding at the University of Helsinki (FI) to Dr. Jorma KOSKIMIES, was involved until Décembre 99, in the second stage of the General Chemistry (1 & 2) Tests development and pre-testing activities.

And of course ALL of the members of the former "Objective 1" group, not listed here, who had also to work hard with the software, and for some of them who had to work after the IT Experts ended their own contribution.

Thanks again for the time spent, the work done, the kindness and the patience with the Question Mark Windows version software, who reminds us often that the computer highways are sometimes mysterious and unpredictable ... ;-))

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• ECT Work Organization

Agreement was made by the Working Group Leaders on the suggested organization for the coming months.
 

• Everything related to the test correction, mispelling, translation, updates ... will be taken in charge by the representative group leader.

Translators will be asked for participation directly by the Group leader, and will report to them.
Once the work done, polished, etc. ... the final test will be send to Lyon, for the integration on the new CDRom release
• Everything related to the general purpose (main file, discover, webpages, information) and the corresponding translation will be taken in charge by Pascal Mimero.

Translators will be asked for participation directly by myself, and will report to me.

 
• ECT Demo Tests

Thanks to the whole Bulgarian team, who now completed the translation of the Demo test.
 

• ECT Volunteers

Still needed, especially in the Analytical Chemistry Development ...
 

• ECT Website

Thanks to Gino P. and Gustavo A. for the Italian webpages revision !
Minor updates, especially regarding the item organization of the left handside banner.
 

• ECT dissemination

The Dissemination page information, recently setup on the Web, need to be fullfilled and updated. Please read the paragraph 5.

P. Mimero

A request is now made to everybody who had a chance to talk, present or run a demo - concerning especially the Chemistry Test, but also the ECTN activities if available - in a National or International event, such as conference, meeting, symposium, .... to please send us the appropriate information in order to complete the list :
 
• date,
• title of the meeting,
• city / country

if a resume was already submitted for the NewsLetter, I will create a dynamic link to the proper page ; if no abstract was submitted, it could be nice to have just a brief, short, description of your production or on the context / objective of the meeting.

This request also includes those of you who submitted a news item about ECTN to your national chemical society. A reference to the publication of this item would be useful for all ECTN members.

Would you like to do it right now ? click > here< !

Thanks

Anthony Smith / Pascal Mimero

• MuTALC activities (Cont'd)
• News from the Grundtvig application
• News from the Tuning meeting held on 22 June 2001
• ... the August NewsLetter

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