- ECTN 2007
Annual Conference: two main updates, on the Plenary <read>
and on the first ECEN meeting <read>
- NAUCTS II Residential Summer School:
registration closed on March 30th. <read>
the application status.
As usual you will find few announcement for our Working Group
<read> as well
as a new journal on Analytical Chemistry, the Chemoinformatics
conference report <read>; and
a brief update on EChemTEst <read>.
The 2007 ECTN Annual Plenary Meeting to take place in San
Sebastian, Spain on 12-14 April 2007 is promising to be the biggest and best
ever. There will be about 180 participants from 27 countries, and almost 90 ECTN
member institutions will be represented. The programme has recently been
up-dated and can be seen on the meeting website. Maria Jose Fernandez Berridi and Rosa Alonso, our local
organisers, have been very busy making the arrangements for the meeting and we
are looking forward to a wonderful meeting.
There will be a poster session. Would all those who are presenting a poster,
please send Tony Smith a brief abstract before 4th April.
I look forward to seeing you all there.
Few figures
about the event:
181
attendees registered, representing > 24 European countries,
> The Russian Federation,
> 2 North-American (Canada, United-States)
> and we are proud to welcome Uruguay from South-America.
8
European Chemical Societies are represented, as well as the American
Chemical Society
ECTNA Administrative Council & ECTN Management Committee
The next
ECTNA Administrative Council meeting and ECTN Management
Committee meeting will take place
on October 2007 in Palermo IT.Please contact Hans-Günther
Schmalz (ECTNA) or Tony Smith (ECTN) if you
wish to make any suggestions concerning the 2007 Plenary meeting or
if you have any items you wish the Management Committee to discuss.
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Label).
Received from:
Ingo Eilks, Bremen DE (E.U.) -
March 13, 2007
Invitation to our first meeting in San Sebastian
Are you interested in innovative approaches to
university chemistry education?
Have you introduced any innovations into your own teaching in recent
years?
Are you interested in sharing your ideas and experiences with
others?
If yes, we invite you to join the first Workshop of our new ECTN-working
group "Innovative Methods in University Chemistry Teaching" at the
San Sebastian general assembly ...
ECTNA
Communication: Dissemination of the NewsLetter
Pascal Mimero, Lyon
FR (E.U.)
After the Italian Chemical
Society (SCI), the NewsLetter is also now forwarded to all members
of the:
"Real Sociedad Española de Química",
the Spanish Chemical Society - thanks to the combined action of
Prof. Raffaella PAGANI and collaborators of the society.
"ACEN, Asian-Pacific Chemical Education
Network" - thanks to Prof. Masato ITO
International
Conference on Chemoinformatics, Pune (India), January 22-24, 2007
Received from:
M. Karthikeyan, Pune IN (World) - February 14, 2007
The conference in its first edition was a great success ... you can
find valuable information on the conference website:
http://moltable.ncl.res.in/icci/
NL Editor: extracted from the
conclusion of the abstract conference as I think to be an important
announcement to be raised to the community: "During the
conference Dr Karthikeyan proposed a need for establishing Indian
Chemical Informatics Society (ICIS), which was well received by the
delegates, and all the delegates agreed for the formation of ICIS.
Many participants from Pune agreed to volunteer for the formation of
society. He highlighted the main aim and objective of the society to
promote the general advancement of Science and Technology of
Chemoinformatics in the country. This includes providing a forum for
exchange of information amongst the members and persons attached to
the Society. It is an educational, scientific, non-political and
non-profit making organization catering to the needs of its members
from various disciplines for science, engineering and technology."
Email the author:
A
New Journal on Analytical Chemistry
Received from:
Vladimir Zaitsev, Kiev UA (World) -
March 13, 2007
The first
issue of a new scientific journal titled “Analytical Chemistry and
Chemical Analysis” has come out. It was founded by the Shevchenko
National University, Kiev, Ukraine. The editor-in-chief of the new
journal is Doctor of Chemistry Vladimir Zaitsev. The journal should
ensure prompt publication of results of research in the field of
analytical chemistry, including research into sample preparation,
metrology, chemical sensors, chromatography, the development of new
methods and materials for analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical
analysis, and bioanalytical chemistry.
One of the tasks of the new journal is to decrease the gap between
applied analytical chemists and scientists working in this branch of
chemistry. The journal will have four issues per year. Articles can
be submitted in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. It is planned to
switch to publishing in English.
The journal will publish reviews by leading experts, original papers
covering scientific and applied problems of analytical chemistry and
neighboring fields, and papers on recent advances in analytical
instrument making. The journal website is
www.achem.univ.kiev.ua/moca/
Editor web address:
Vladimir Zaitsev
T. Shevchenko National University
60 Vladimirskaya
Kiev Ukraine 01033
www.achem.univ.kiev.ua
tel/fax 380-44-2393345
Email the author:
ECEN
the European Chemistry Exchange Network at the Annual Conference of ECTN
2007
Received from:
Johannes Fröhlich, Vienna
AT (E.U.), March 29, 2007
Dear Colleagues and Partcipants of the
ECTN2007 in San Sebastian,
this conference for the first time
an ECEN (European Chemistry Exchange Network) student workshop will
take place.
Date: Friday, 13.4.2007, in the time slot for the parallel sessions
from 11:45-13:30 (http://ectn2007.chemit.at/program.php).
8 students from different countries
have been invited funded by the ECTN provided that they deliver a
short presentation (10-15min max.), preferred in PowerPoint format.
The mini-lecture should answer questions like:
from what institution do you
come from, where did you spend / do you spend your student
exchange time abroad?
what chemical / study subjects
did / do you focus on?
what were your expectations to
achieve with regard to student mobility?
where your expectations
fulfilled (e.g. learning/teaching/study, scientific scope,
culture/new impression, contact to teachers/local
students/people outside the university ..)?
what about the acknowledgement
of the ECTS credits obtained abroad at your home institution?
what about the bureaucracy
associated with student exchange (suggestions, wishes,
complaints)?
They have been animated to prepare
an informative, interesting and also entertaining presentation (e.g.
with some photo during their stay, which might give us an impression
about their everyday student life, about work in the lab, about
culture and sightseeing at the place of their stay etc.). I guess
this workshop also might be of interest for
institutional/departmental ECEN co-ordinators.
Of course, all attendees are welcome to attend the presentations of
the students.
With best regards,
Johannes Froehlich
President ECEN
Received from:
Paul Yates,
Keele UK (EU), March 30, 2006
In advance of the closing date 38 applications
have been received for the Second Summer School for Newly
Appointed University Chemistry Teachers, to be held in Malta
from 12th to 16th June 2007. These are from Austria,
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands,
Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Delegates will be selected during the next two weeks; the selection
process will involve members of the working group who will meet at
the ECTN annual conference.
For full details please see the web pages which can be
accessed from here, by
clicking on "Summer School 2007" and from which a brochure can be
downloaded in PDF format.
Please note that
all applications received before 30th March will be considered.
Registration is now closed.
--
Paul Yates Centre for Professional Staff Development Hornbeam Building
Keele University Keele Staffordshire ST5 5BG United Kingdom
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