For the last issue, I'm
pleased to welcome non-ECTN contributors from Colombia with a
presentation of the Journal of Science Education (JSE)
and from Russia with a conference announcement (ICAS).
Also reports on past conferences (Eurovarietyand AC&CA) and ECTN group reports are on the
Christmas menu, with the now usual report of the group "Links with
School" in part.V. <read>.
Our Austrian partner provided an interesting presentation of the
iChemEdu concept <read>.
For those seeking for a Post Doctoral Research
opportunity, one position is open in Narbonne France, and for those
willing to contribute to the new Bulgarian Society, <read>
the call of Prof. Borislav Toshev.
As the 1st Summer School
organized in Malta last June was successful, we are pleased to
announce the 2nd Summer School to be held next July 2006 in
Thessaloniki <read>.
And before concluding, on
behalf of the ECTN Network and Association, I wish all of you
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2006, and depending on your
hemisphere, either in front of q nice and warm wood-fire in your
chimney, or enjoying a BBQ on a sunny beach. We hope the coming year
might bring us peace and joy in our world.
Addressed to the Chemistry Community: European Survey on "History of Chemistry" proposed by the ECTN and
the EuCheMS, under the supervision of ,
Chairman of the Working Group Chemistry and Cultural Heritage
<read>.
The next
meeting of the Administrative Council will take place in Brussels,
BE on 13-14 January, 2006. Any
Association members who have items they wish to be discussed at this
meeting should contact or any member of the
Administrative Council.
The next ECTN Management
Committee meeting will take place
in Brussels, BE on 13-14 January 2006. Any members wishing to suggest items
for discussion at this meeting are invited to contact .
The Next Annual
Conference of the ECTN will be held at T.U. Vienna AT on April
19-23, 2006. The dedicated website pages will come soon, the organizer is .
ECTN A Strategy: The point of view of the Vice-President
The
establishing of an Association by ECTN was aimed at providing the
thematic network with an operative harm that could raise funds to
enhance the activities of the members and operate in a sustainable
fashion. For this reason the Institutions belonging to the
Association have committed themselves to pay a fee and are looking
forward to have tangible results.
The most noticeable results of the thematic network efforts are, to
date, the launch of the Eurobachelor (together with the activity
of the related label committee) and the construction of the
ECHEMTEST database (with the various libraries and sub-libraries for
levels and sub-disciplines) . (...)
Following the previous announcement, 9 TCs are
currently under consideration: Cologne DE, Helsinki FI, Lyon FR, Madrid ES,
Perugia IT, Reading UK, Vienna AT and to be decided in Greece Athens or Ioannina,
and in Poland Krakow or Poznan. Early January the local Testing Centre's (TC)
Administrators will be trained.
Compatibility
and PC ...
Compatibility tests will soon be
achieved with a special tests incorporating all kind of options in
order to identify the possible alternatives to Internet Explorer and
to complete as accurately as possible the User Guide. For this
purpose 2 computer platforms are used (Windows XP Professional
edition and Mac OS X 10.3) with a set of Internet navigators
(Internet Explorer 5.5-6; Netscape 7.2-8, Firefox, Safari, Opera,
iCab, Camino). Further tests will be conducted on Linux/Unix
platforms.
The results of this campaign will
be accessible early 2006 on the corresponding EChemTest webpage <here>.
Once the survey achieved the demonstration test's sets will be made
freely accessible online without registration (auto-login).
Meeting ...
The next
meeting of the EChemTest Committee will take place in Reading UK on
27-28 January, 2006.
Received from:
Ingo Eilks, Bremen
DE (E.U.) -
December 8, 2005
Starting from ECTN-Newsletter 1/2005 the Links with
Schools-Group within the ECTN will regularly provide examples of how
to cooperate between HE institutions and schools. The examples of
this issue are coming from the University of Chemical Technology and
Metallurgy, Sofia/Bulgaria, about using TV as a medium to make Links
with Schools visible, and the Northumbria University, Manchester/UK
about students’ lab-work courses.
Download the full report
(Acrobat PDF / 55 Kb)
Email the author:
Received from:
Evangelia Varella,
Thessaloniki GR (E.U.) -
December 8, 2005
The Working Group on "Chemistry and Cultural
Heritage" is organizing in Thessaloniki a Summer School on
topics dealing with Conservation Science. The funding permits us to
cover expenses of both lecturers and approx. forty students. The
dates envisaged are 18 to 23 July 2006.
Please let me know if you - or someone in your
Department - can join and bring (or sent) students.
Download the
Announcement
(Acrobat PDF / 30 Kb)
Email the author:
Received from:
Anna Kolasa,
Kraków PL (E.U.) -
December 8, 2005
The mobility of students at the second and third cycle is a
necessary condition for European dimension of studies. That,
however, can be negatively influenced by the diverse teaching
periods in various countries or even at various universities. The
following statistics, completed at Annual Conference of ECTN in
Thessaloniki, shows this in a very convincing way:
Received from:
Johannes Froehlich,
Vienna AT (E.U.) - November 30, 2005
Synthetic laboratory courses ("wet chemistry") play an important
role in chemistry curricula. Experimental procedures and theoretical
backgrounds are mostly taken from printed literature, but have to be
adapted to site specific general conditions. Due to frequently
changing supervising staff information as well as knowledge about
experienced practical problems get regularly lost, therefore
iChemEdu
aimed at the development of an internet-based laboratory information
and management system, iChemLab,
(in connection with an e-content pool,
iChemLecture, and an e-self-assessment tool, iChemExam) to preserve
knowledge and to maintain data, thus to supply a sustainable
solution. The following paper supplies a comprehensive overview of
the iChemEdu concept and
its three main elements iChemLab,
iChemLecture and iChemExam. The system -
although fully integrated in the student's everyday lab business -
is still under development and improvement. In particular, currently
extension of functions and adoption to new software technologies are
in progress. Moreover, interfaces for a tighter connection to the TU
Wien students e-administration system TUWIS++ is in process of
planning. Therefore a detailed description of such functionalities
is postponed to a report at a later date.
Nevertheless, the current paper gives a widespread review of the iChemEdu philosophy, its broad
scope and the rational behind.
E-mail the author:
. [N.o.E.: an email mismatch was
in the first issue, the Johannes Froehlich email is now
corrected]
Bulgarian
Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of
Chemistry (CE&HPC):
Call for Membership
Received from:
BorislavToshev,
Sofia BG (E.U.) - December 1, 2005
Announcement concerning the recent establishment of the Bulgarian
Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of
Chemistry (CE&HPC). The objective of that Society is to
encourage the community discourse on science/chemistry education.
Additionally we would like to provide a link between the hard science
(chemistry) and the soft science (history and philosophy of
chemistry) and in that way to enhance the interest of the public to
science/chemistry: this interest was dramatically damaged in the
last years while the interest to the social science was even
increased.
Received from:
Tatyana Shekhovtsova, Moscow RU - October 27, 2005
From: Date:
October 27, 2005 19:45:27 GMT+02:00
Dear Mr. Mimero,
I am a professor of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, deputy head
of Analytical Chemistry Division of Chemical Department, responsible
for teaching analytical chemistry in different departments of the
university (Professor Yu. Zolotov is a head of our division). [...]
At the closing ceremony of IMA conference I informed all the
participants that the International Congress on Analytical Sciences
will be held in Moscow in June 2006 and invited everybody to take
part in it. [...]
Received from:
Vladimir Zaitsev, Kiev UA - October 31, 2005
Date: 31 October 2005 12:52:13 GMT+01:00 Object: Final report about ACCA-05 updated now with photos
Dear Professor Mimero,
With this message I would like to inform you that
final report about ACCA-05 was updated and now has big variety of photos
made by the conference participants during AC&CA-05.
I combined photos to several albums and sub-albums such as:
Invited lectures, Oral presentations, Posters,
culture program, groups, individuals, discussions etc. Enjoy your memory about AC&CA-05.
For those who have photos from AC&CA-05, ARGUS-9 or
Memorial session and willing to share this photos with other
conference participants, please send it to me by e-mail or on CD
using address below.
Truly yours,
Vladimir Zaitsev
Head of ACCA-05 organizing committee
Chemistry department, T. Shevchenko National University
60 Vladimirskaya, Kiev Ukraine 01033
www.achem.univ.kiev.ua
tel/fax 380-44-2393345
Received from:
Iwona Maciejowska,
Krakow PL (E.U.) - December 8,
2005
From:
:
Object: report - European Variety in Chemistry
Education
Dear Colleagues,
The report (and some pictures) described our
conference European Variety in Chemistry Education has been just
published in the Newsletter BWM UJ (Autumn 2005 - pages 25-29) and
is available for
download (Acrobat PDF / Kb) from the Internet.
Received from:
Philippe Serp, Narbonne FR (E.U.) - December 6, 2005
From: Date: December 6, 2005 19:32:40 GMT+01:00 Object: post-doc position available
Dear colleagues,
You will find
as attached file the description of a post-doc position
available in our lab (starting date January 2006). If one of
your students is interested by this position he can contact me.
Best wishes and many thanks,
Philippe SERP Professeur à l'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Laboratoire de Catalyse Chimie Fine et Polymères
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Arts Chimique Et
Technologiques
118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse 31077 Cedex 4, France
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