In few days the
Annual Conference of ECTN 2005 will start in Thessaloniki GR, many
workshops and lectures are on schedule, with today 115 registrants from
25 countries.
The
Summer School organized by the Newly Appointed University Chemistry
Teaching Staff working group will be held in Malta in June 2005 <read>.
An interesting project called GRATE is also presented <read>.
Of course you will find your
regular updates on Eurobachelor <read>
and EChemTest <read>.
Summer School 2005 organized by the Newly Appointed University
Chemistry Teacher Staff working group of ECTN.
>>>
Congratulations Terry
... !! >>>
a new book on NMR becoming really popular and written by our colleague
and friend Terry <see>
To all
EChemTest surfers: Please update your
link to the EChemTest, and use now the following access
http://echemtest.unipg.it - Free
registration required.
Thank you.
The next meeting of
the Administrative Council will take place on 3 May, 2005, in
Thessaloniki, GR. Any Association members who have items they wish
to be discussed at this meeting should contact Tony Smith or any
member of the Administrative Council.
The Association General
Assembly will take place on May 5 - 6, 2005 in Thessaloniki, GR.
The agenda has been circulated to all members. Members who cannot
attend the meeting are invited to appoint a proxy, using the
appropriate form, for voting at the meeting.
The President, Vice-President
and the 5 Ordinary Members of the Administrative Council will be
elected at this meeting.
Techno TN 2005 Forum
The TechnoTN Forum will be held in Brussels on
20-21 May 2005. We still have a couple of places available for ECTN
members to attend this Forum.
Details of the Forum can be found on the TechnoTN
website at
www.upv.es/TechnoTN Please contact Tony Smith immediately if you
are interested in attending.
The next
ECTN plenary meeting
will be held in Thessaloniki, GR on 4-8 May, 2005. The meeting
will start on the morning of 4 May and finish on the evening of
7 May. You will find the provisional programme on the
meeting web site. Please register for this meeting on the web
site as soon as possible.
The ECTN plenary meeting will be
held in Thessaloniki, GR on 4-8 May, 2005. The meeting will start on
the morning of 4 May and finish on the evening of 7 May. You
will find the programme on the meeting web site. There will be about
120 members at the meeting. All the working groups will be active at
the meeting and there are several plenary presentations that will be
of general interest to all members and the opportunity for
discussions on a variety of topics.
Harry Kelly, GlaxoSmithKline,
will talk about GSK's industrial placement programme which has
won awards in the UK and France, as well as the training GSK
provides for new recruits.
Ana Barros, Aveiro, PT,
who is the coordinator of a successful Erasmus Mundus project,
will present this project.
Ian Freeston of the
Engineering Council UK will present the EUR-ACE project that
is looking at the accreditation of Engineering programmes at the
European level, along similar lines to the Eurobachelor in
chemistry.
There will be time allocated for
discussions in small groups on the topics presented by these
speakers.
This year, the ECTN working groups
will present their work to the meeting via a two minute presentation
and a poster session.
The deadline for the next application
for a three-year ECTN project is 1st November 2005 (pre-proposal). I
hope that members will come up with a number of innovative ideas
during the meeting on which we can base this application.
Lina Varella has done an enormous
amount of work to organise the meeting, and I am sure we will have a
successful meeting. I very much look forward to seeing so many of
you there.
The next ECTN plenary meeting will
be held in Thessaloniki GR on 4-8 May, 2005. The meeting will start
on the morning of 4 May and finish on the evening of 7 May.
Reserve these dates in your diary now.
We are really on the move! As of
Easter 2005 we have 5 applications from 4 institutions already
received (3 from Finland) and several more promised (including 2
from Italy). We have also already done our first site visit, at the
University of Helsinki on March 22nd. The visit was
carried out by Terry Mitchell, Lina Varella and (as national expert)
Tapio Hase. The Label Committee meets on April 9th in
Madrid to work on processing applications and to prepare a
recommendation for the Administrative Council as to whether Helsinki
gets the first Label.
For a full report on the
situation you will have to wait for the Thessaloniki meeting!
April was not a good month to
experiment and surf EChemTest. As announced on each webpages from April 5th, it
was due to the main Spring-cleaning ran on our server in Perugia IT - Thanks to
Carlo Manuali everything went well and is now back in operation, we have now
back online all available demos. The
English version of the certification tests of EChemTest will be officially
launched in Thessaloniki GR during the Annual Conference of the ECTN.
As a general information, I'm glad to announce
that I will be assisted by Valentina Piermarini for the EChemTest duties and
online administration.
A full report on activities will be provided
after Thessaloniki.
To all EChemTest surfers:
please update your link and use now the following
access: http://echemtest.unipg.it
. Ask for your individual Login and password. Thank you.
EChemTest
Developement
EChemTest translations and released versions online as of February 19,
2005: >>Check
here<<
Received from:
Ingo Eilks, Bremen
DE (E.U.) -
April 20, 2005
With
the ECTN-Newsletter
1/2005 the Links with Schools-Group within the ECTN started with
descriptions of examples of how to cooperate between HE institutions
and schools. In the present issue the group will give an overview
about activities for schools provided by the associations of
chemical industry in European different countries. The compilation
had been submitted by
Dominique Maréchal, Counsellor Communications, European Chemical
Industry Council (Cefic)
Received from:
Leila Birolo,
Napoli IT (E.U.) -
April 14, 2005
The success of the evaluation is strongly
related to students’ feeling about usefulness of the questionnaire,
that, in turn, is also strongly linked to the value the teachers
give to the questionnaire.
From the work carried out so far, that included
the preparation of a general questionnaire that was distributed to
854 students in 11 universities from 9 countries, we do conclude
that a strong collaboration of the teachers for a good dissemination
of the questionnaire is needed to convince students that the
evaluation is an opportunity for improving the quality of the
courses, clearly showing them the value the teachers give to the
questionnaire. Students can find filling the questionnaire several
times a year quite tedious, long questionnaires might be pretty
boring, but if they were convinced that it will influence the way
the teachers prepare their lectures, everything might become easier,
students might become willing to fill anything you could propose to
them, and it does not really matter if this is on a paper or on the
web. The only important thing is to make clear that it is an useful
procedure with a real outcome. The idea that has to be stressed is
that teaching cannot be consider as a one-way activity, but instead,
a contribution of the students is strongly advisable to get the best
from each course. What we can do further? Possibly work on teachers
before going back to students. Possibly, developing a questionnaire
to be distributed to the teachers?
Received from:
Paul Yates, Keele
UK (E.U.) -
April 19, 2005
The closing date for applications to the Summer
School was 15th April. To date there have been around twenty applications from a range of countries, and some
are still arriving and will be considered. Ten volunteers have helped to develop the
provisional timetable which is shown below. Accommodation has been reserved in Sliema, Malta.
The
Summer School
Web pages
are available, so please
have a look at these pages. These also give
details of the application process and who is eligible to
apply. Please do encourage your newly appointed colleagues to apply.
Graduate
and Postgraduate Study in Trans-disciplinary Environmental Science
(GRATE): A pilot project in modern environmental education.
Received from:
Piotr Stepnowski,
Gdansk PL (E.U.) -
March 21, 2005
In Central European countries for several years now,
many highly qualified and motivated students have left their
countries in search of further education and work. Only very few of
them return afterwards to Poland, for instance, and even fewer to
Romania. Thus, on the one hand, an on-going brain drain has come
into existence, but on the other no systematic programmes to
counteract it have been invoked at either governmental or
international level. Additionally, emigration of highly qualified
science researchers and teachers continues apace, mainly for
economic reasons, but also for the better professional opportunities
– the superior laboratories and research facilities (this applies
especially to Romanian graduates), and the more generous financial
support in the form of both personal income and University research
budgets.
For a number of years, the Centre of Environmental
Sciences and Technology at the University of Bremen (UFT) has been
gaining experience in trans-disciplinary teaching and
interdisciplinary research in the field of environmental issues.
Within this project (known as GRATE), the idea was born to transfer
this expertise to Gdańsk in Poland and Timişoara in Romania by
developing an international network of co-operation ...
10th EuCheMS - DCE Conference on Chemistry and Environment, Rimini
IT, 4-7 September 2005
Received from:
Luciano Morselli,
Bologna IT (E.U.) - March 3,
2005
10th EuCheMS-DCE International Conference on
Chemistry and the Environment. The Role of Chemistry in the
Environment: our choice, our life. Research, Education and
Professional. (Sun. 4th to Wed.7th September 2005).
For the Italian and European Divisions and all of us
that we represent it, it seems a remarkable challenge. The
organisation of the event requires much effort but the conference
also offers a great opportunity to show how research and training in
the field of environmental chemistry and cultural heritage are
carried on at a national level in line with European and
international standards.
Topic Sessions
Environment Quality Assessment and Management
Cultural
Heritage Chemistry
Green
Chemistry and Environmental Catalysis
Atmospheric Environment and Human Health
Soil and
Contaminated Sites
Waste
Management: Monitoring and Remediation Aspects
Water
management: Availability, Quality, Health Aspects
Marine,
Surface and Ground - water Ecosystems
Others Activities
Education and Professional Activities
Socio economic aspects
Training Courses
Call for Abstracts : Direct submission of
abstracts containing original results is through
Abstract selection will be made by the International
Scientific Committee
Deadline for abstracts is 29 April 2005
Abstract acceptance will be by: June 15th, 2005
We hope you will be able to take part in the event
and join us in the debate on different environment-related topics .
We are sure that everyone of you will contribute effectively to
finding the most suitable and sustainable solution.
Thank you for attention
Sincerely yours
Chairmen of the Conference
Prof. Luciano Morselli
Prof. Sergio Facchetti
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Received from:
Christian Segaud,
Lyon FR (E.U.) -
January 21, 2005
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Papers and Books ahead !
Pascal Mimero,
Lyon FR (E.U.)
An interesting report
related to the Dresden conference and the Bologna process
and the European reform was written
by Prof. Gilberte Chambaud, member of the SFC Educational
Board. Many references on the ECTN activities and our
involvement in promoting the Education in the future EHEA,
the Eurobachelor framework is also presented as well as the
EChemTest.
"Harmonisation in the
European Higher Education Area", Gilberte Chambaud,
L'Act. Chim., Mars 2005, n° 284, pp 35-38 (article in
French)
>>> Congratulations
Terry ... !! a new book on NMR becoming really popular and written by
our colleague and friend Terry. Over 600 copies already ...
"NMR - From
Spectra to Structures", Terence N. Mitchell,
Burkhard Costisella, Springer 2003.
"Links with School - 3", Ingo
Eilks (Dortmund, DE)
"Chemistry and Cultural
Heritage", Evangelia Varella (Thessaloniki, GR)
"Industrial Placement",
Ray Wallace (Nottingham, UK)
"ECTN Plenary / General
Assembly Report"
... and you permanent bimonthly
reports on "Eurobachelor" and "EChemTest"
October 2005
Edition of the New Editorial Program
2005-2006
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Graduate
and Postgraduate Study in Trans-disciplinary Environmental Science
(GRATE): A pilot project in modern environmental education.
10th EuCheMS - DCE Conference on Chemistry and Environment, Rimini
IT, 4-7 September 2005
All Conferences and Exhibitions worldwide ... with a mouse click !
June-July 2005