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Association and ECEEN Association Electronic Publication - December 2009, Vol.10, N.4 - Copyright 2009 ECTNA
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The ECTN
Association and ECEEN Association Electronic Publication - December 2009, Vol.10, N.4 - Copyright 2009 ECTNA |
:: ECTN Network & Association ::
Quality
Eurolabels in Chemistry
:: Papers, News
:: European and International Conferences
Merry Christmas
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With this edition we welcome as the second Guest Editor, Prof. Leo Gros from the Fresenius Hochschule, Idstein, Germany:
It is a great pleasure and honour for me to introduce this newsletter. It comes a bit later than scheduled There is no excuse. May I, however, use this opportunity not only to thank Pascal Mimero for this patience, but also to say that the ECTN community is formed and shaped by people who have a job and many tasks in their respective universities and organisations. It is this constant engagement over years which has made the success possible. Without “driving forces” like Tony Smith and his team, we would not be able to start ECTN5 – EC2E2N. One new feature of EC2E2N is the close collaboration with the Chemical Engineering community. It answers an urgent need. It follows a general trend of co-operation of national and sectorial activities forming more powerful partnerships across Europe, driven by the communities themselves. What a chance for all of us!
I want to introduce some past and present projects to you, some of which are or will be included or disseminated within the working packages of this new EC2E2N project period.
1. Life long learning and mobility
2. Teaching methods and teacher training
3. Language training and testing
4. Chemistry training projects
I know there are many more projects around – please accept my apologies for the editor’s limited knowledge and horizon – this was just a personal selection. I do hope that some of the projects presented here stimulate your interest. They deserve “dissemination”, and they are there to be used by our ECTN community in multiple ways to exploit their benefits to a maximum.
I wish you a blessed Christmas time and a successful, healthy year 2010 with many ECTN contacts.
Best regards from Idstein, Germany.
Leo Gros
Enjoy your reading.
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EC2E2N Network Management Committee & ECTN Association Administrative Council |
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Anthony Smith, Lyon FR, December 7, 2009: As announced in the last newsletter, the new Thematic Network project entitled: EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING NETWORK (EC2E2N) was successful. This project will run for the next three years (1st October 2009 – 30th September 2012). We have begun work on this project. The leaders of the various working groups were (...)
Read the report online.
The next ECTNA Administrative Council meeting and ECTN Management Committee meeting will take place on September 2009 in Dresden DE.
Quality Eurolabels® in Chemistry, Eurobachelor® & Euromaster® |
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Pascal Mimero, Lyon FR
Our German Accreditation partner ASIIN, is pleased to announce 7 new Eurolabels® (6 Eurobachelor® and 1 Euromaster®) awarded to 4 new German institutions. Click here ... for the updated list of awarded Labels.
As announced earlier the old www.eurobachelor.eu website has been disconnected since August 2009.
The next Label Committee meeting will take place on January 2010 in Brussels BE.
European Chemistry Tests "EChemTest & ChemEPass" and Test Centres |
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With the start of the new network EC2E2N (European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education Network), the new integrated Work package 11 entitle "Internet-based Test Development" is composed of 2 original Internet based testing platforms and associated services. The enlarged dimension is combining :
EChemTest (European Chemistry Test), created by ECTN (European Chemistry Thematic Network), and,
ChemEPass (Chemical Engineering Pass), created by ECEEN, (European Chemical Engineering Education Network).The new integrated Committee will meet in April 2009 in Montpellier FR.
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EChemTest General Chemistry 1&2 databases translation status:
- German: technical settings required before official release
- Spanish: will soon be released
- Greek: thanks to the work done by our Greek colleagues, translation started in Greek; the test will be used at entry of new enrolled students to evaluate the chemistry knowledge
- Flemish / Dutch: a project of translation was agreed, we now need to setup the technical organization.
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FI - Helsinki:
- coordinated from Helsinki, General Chemistry 2 EChemTest sessions has been organized for the Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg (Germany).FR - Lyon :
- coordinated from Lyon, 2 ChemEPass evaluations has been run end of November 2009 (Toulouse FR and Laapparenta FI).
- A new session for our 150+ students will be organized early January 2010 with ChemEPass.GR - Thessaloniki:
- following the Summer School on Conservation Sciences held last July in Thessaloniki, European Chemistry Certificates were issued to officially recognized the EChemTest score for the attendees. Great thanks to the local team for his investment.
Working Groups ... (EC2E2N Work Package): call for participation |
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Antonio Lagana, Perugia IT - November 27, 2009: Emphasis of Europe on virtual campuses is growing. The EC gives high priority to virtual campus projects which are demonstrably embedded in a global strategy for the effective integration of ICT in higher education institutions and are aiming at developing, disseminating and making sustainable at European level initiatives providing open educational resources, easy to access shareable contents covering a complete cycle of (...).
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Anne-Marie Billet, Toulouse FR, December 1, 2009:
Dear Colleagues, dear Members of ECTN and EC2E2N,
Work Package 10 of EC2E2N Network is dedicated to the creation of a database of educational programmes in higher education of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. This ambitious project will step from the template established for Chem. Eng. by the ChemEPass project. The template used to describe the programmes allows in one table to get an overview of the contents, learning outcomes, teaching methods and administrative details (as ECTS credits). This template is based on the reference framework of the European federation of Chemical Engineering and EurACE.
This database is now to be extended to programmes in the Chemistry field, making use of the reference frameworks of the Eurobachelor and Euromaster Labels developed by ECTN.
WP10 working group will design the new template and test it through members of the network. The two databases (Chem Eng and Chemistry) will be disseminated as a CE2E database, with a particular focus on programmes that have been intensively developed at the interface of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in the last decade.
WP10 is lead by INPT-ENSIACET (Toulouse, France) and starts for 24 months.
Participation to the WP10 ‘Transparency’ working group is now open! Please ...
Dr BILLET Anne-Marie
INPT-ENSIACET, 4 allée Emile Monso, BP 44362, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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There are many activities to improve the public image of chemistry and chemical engineering throughout Europe. These activities require a substantial amount of work on the part of many, usually very enthusiastic, people. It is not clear however, how effective these activities are in conveying a positive yet durable message. The objective of this workpackage is to collect and organise into different categories, information on successful initiatives from all member countries. An evaluation procedure will be developed, possibly using questionnaires designed for this purpose.
Would you have interest in joining us, please contact the leaders as soon as possible as the group activity just started.
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Ilkka Turunen, Helsinki FI - November 16, 2009: The working group will produce a book on Quality Recommendations for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Higher Education. The background material for this task is a booklet produced in CHEMEPASS project, presenting good practices and quality recommendations in higher education chemical engineering. Chemical engineering material in this booklet will be reviewed and finalized, and new material will be added, concerning chemistry programmes and programmes at the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering. In the application the following partners are listed as participants of this workpackage: LUT, CPE Lyon, Fresenius, ENSIACET, Leiden, Jagiellonian and Porto. Please confirm your participation by e-mail. Other partners who like to participate in this working group are also asked to send e-mail to the address above. The participants of this working group will be later invited to a meeting to be arranged in February 2010.
Best regards
Ilkka Turunen
LUT
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Sanjiv Prashar, Madrid ES - November 26, 2009: As reported recently (Chemistry World, January 2009), the differences between chemists and chemical engineers are driven by Higher Education systems and often communication between the two disciplines is difficult. Thus one of the aims of the European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Education Network is to remove the artificial frontier between chemists, chemical technologists and chemical engineers. The work package “the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering” forms part of the new network project and will directly address issues concerning this problem.
This work package aims to produce a report on best practices in linking chemistry and chemical engineering at first and second cycle level, extending the work of the previous project (ECTN 4) on the inclusion of chemical technology in first cycle chemistry degree programmes.
A survey will be made and analysed concerning the chemistry content in chemical engineering programmes across Europe. It will be compared to a similar survey carried out to analyse the chemical engineering/technology content of chemistry programmes. In addition, programmes specifically developed at the interface of the two disciplines will be surveyed.
A workshop will be held at the annual plenary meeting of the network to present and discuss the interface between chemistry and chemical engineering in higher education. This workshop will be targeted at chemists and chemical engineers in academia and industry. The results of this workshop should lead to recommendations concerning best practice in producing chemistry and chemical engineering graduates with the competences that allow them to interact effectively, as is required by the chemical industry.
The workshop will also consider the setting up of joint chemistry/chemical engineering projects in areas such as green chemistry, energy, biotechnology, sustainability, and safety. Such projects should not only consider educational issues but also other aspects that have an impact on European chemistry/chemical engineering and society in general.
In addition the working group will set up (in coordination with the EChemTest group) data bases of questions related to different areas related to the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering (e.g. catalysis). This group will also work closely with the Employability Group and our industrial partners, with the aim of putting forward proposals to enhance the formation of chemistry graduates in order to give them the necessary technical aptitudes that the Chemical Industry presently demands.
Calling chemists, chemical technologists and chemical engineers, please contact Sanjiv Prashar if you are interested in participating in “the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering” work package of the European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education project.
Dr. Sanjiv Prashar
Dr Sanjiv PRASHAR
Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Analítica, E.S.C.E.T., Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
28933 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain.
Tel: +34 914887186
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A.F.M. Fahmy, Ain Shams EG, November 13, 2009:
Dear Prof. Pascal Mimero
Please announce the last [Nov.] update of the SATL-Website to your colleagues via [echemtest.net].
You will find in the update a systemic problem solvent materials.
Best personal regards.
Prof. Fahmy A.F.M.
Chemistry Department
Faculty of Science,Ain Shams University, Egypt
website: www.satlcentral.com
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Ponnadurai Ramasami, Mauritius MU, December 2, 2009:
Dear All
Greetings from Mauritius
The Book of Proceedings of the 20th ICCE is now available.
Kindly inform your friends and Librarians.
Enjoy reading.
Kind regards
Ponnadurai Ramasami
BoP Front Matter (445 Kb) and Order Form (1.1Mb)
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Pascal Mimero, Lyon FR:
"SCF - Société Chimique de France": since November 13, 2009, the new elected Board is composed of:
- President: Olivier Homolle
- Vice-Presidents: Edmond Amouyal, Jean-Claude Bernier, Gérard Férey, Marc Taillefer
- General Secretary: Igor Tkatchenko
- Treasurer: Régis Poisson
- L'Actualité Chimique, editor in chief: Paul Rigny
- Operation managers: Mireille Defranceschi and Jean-Claude Rayez
SCF has also launched its new website:
JIREC 2009: A comprehensive article of the 2009 edition was published in L'Actualité Chimique (November 2009).
JIREC 2010: The next 2010 edition will be organized by the ENSC Montpellier and held in La Grande Motte, FR, on June 4-6, 2010.
- Thema / Thématique: "Nuclear Chemistry - Energy, Environment"
- Conference Language / Langue de la conférence: French
- Provisional programme: several plenary sessions dedicated to Energy issues (world survey, solar energy trends, storage issues) and a survey of nuclear uses and applications (geology dating, medicine, life cycle "from cradle to tomb", regulations, containment)
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Pascal Mimero, Lyon FR, July 26, 2009: Following the decision to invit a Guest Editor, on behalf of the Network and Association members, I would like to greatly thank Prof. Kristiina Wähälä for the first issue. We now welcome Prof. Leo Gros, Idstein, DE, the second Guest editor for this issue.
According to the EC2E2N communication schedule, we will provide a 5 issues service per year covering the period 2010-2013. Each of the readers can contribute to the NewsLetter by providing information, articles, call/seek for project / academic / post-doc positions, etc ... for any requests please contact us.
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Kristiina Wähälä, Helsinki FI - October 10, 2009:
The first-ever international Millennium Youth Camp (MY Camp) will be organized in Helsinki 6-13 June 2010. This is the week when the Winner of the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize will be announced.
MY Camp is targeted at young people (16-19 years) from all parts of the world whose interests lie in mathematics, the natural sciences, information technology and other technologies. There will be 30 participants (15 girls and 15 boys), 10 from Finland, and all the educational activities, travel, accommodation and food will be provided free of charge. Participants will be selected on the basis of individual applications using a two-stage process. The application period began on 9 October and the first stage will end on 30 November 2009. The names of the successful applicants will be announced by 15 March 2010.
The multi-faceted MY Camp programme is based on three fundamental pillars - science, technology and nature - and includes lectures, workshops, visits to companies and universities and time for enjoyable social activities. The main themes are Environmental Science and Technology (climate change, renewable natural resources, renewable energy, water), Information and Communication Technology and digitalisation, and Applied Mathematics.
One of the high points in the programme will be the opportunity for MY Camp participants to attend the Millennium Technology Prize Award Ceremony, during which the winning innovation will receive an award of one million euros.
Application forms and the preliminary programme are available at: www.technologyacademy.fi/millennium-youth-camp-fi.html
Organisations responsible for arranging the camp are the Technology Academy Finland, Finland’s LUMA Centre, the Ministry of Education and the Centre for School Clubs.
Cooperation partners include the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Finnish National Board of Education, the Academy of Finland, universities (University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology), the Economic Information Office (TAT), the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, the Association of Biology and Geography Teachers (BMOL), the Finnish Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Informatics (MAOL), the Finnish Science Centre Heureka, the Museum of Technology and Finnish companies Kemira, Nokia, UPM and Vaisala.
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Hilke Schaubitzer, Bonn DE - November 26, 2009: Review of the Conference "Defining Quality - The Relevance of Field Specific Approaches to Quality Assurance in Higher Education” hosted by ASIIN, ECTNA and other networks.
An international conference organised by the German Accreditation Agency for Degree Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (ASIIN) and jointly co-hosted by the European Chemistry Thematic Network Association (ECTNA) and other European field-specific networks took place in Bonn on November 2nd and 3rd. More than a hundred participants from Quality Assurance Agencies and Higher Education Institutions from all over the world took part in the conference. The European Networks in the field of Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Geology and Music presented the results of their work over the past years, especially their achievements in the elaboration of pan-European learning outcomes and competence profiles for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in their respective discipline. The event was organised in view of the “Leuven Communiqué” published at the end of April 2009 by the European Ministers of Education who have identified the development of disciplinary learning outcomes, competence profiles and qualification frameworks as an essential prerequisite for academic and professional mobility within the European Higher Education Area and on a global scale. The conference was opened by a key note speech by the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission and closed by a panel discussion with the Presidents of ENQA, ECA and ENAEE as well as a high level representative of the European University Association. During a special session on the ECTN(A) and the Eurolabels in Chemistry, the quality labels, the EC2E2N project, the EChemTest as well as quality aspects in mobility and employability in European Chemistry studies were presented. The session was chaired by Prof Pavel Drasar (Chair of the ECTNA Label Committee) and included contributions by Prof Anthony Smith (Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, Co-ordinator of the ECTN Network), Dr Pascal Mimero (EChemTest and Société Chimique de France), and Prof Leo Gros (Hochschule Fresenius, Idstein – Germany).
The presentations shown during the conference are available (password protected)
- please type "defining" as Benutzername / Login
- and the Passwort / Password "quality"
to access at :
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Reiner Salzer, Dresden, DE & Terry Mitchell, Dortmund, DE - September 29, 2009: The conference "Chemistry and the Bologna process – current status and further needs" summarized the achievements of the European Chemistry Thematic Network and looks ahead to the Bologna era after 2010. The ECTN4 Final Conference took place at the Technische Universität in Dresden (Germany) from September 8th to 10th. It was evaluated by Dr. Tony Ashmore, a consultant from the UK, at the request of ECTN. His report can be found with the other conference presentations made available by the speakers, and can be found by using the following:
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Ponnadurai Ramasami, Mauritius, MU - December 2, 2009:
Want to learn from leaders in their fields? Come to ICPAC 2010
Please forward to those who may be interested
Call for Paper (deadline 15th March 2010) and Workshop/Symposium (deadline 31st December 2009).
International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC 2010) will be held on July 26-30, 2010, in Mauritius.
The Organising Committee has adopted the theme “Chemistry for Sustainable Development”.
The Organising Committee would like to invite all academics and researchers to attend this International meeting.
The program will feature a wide variety of plenary and contributed lectures, as well as poster sessions.
Participants can submit abstracts either in English or French. This conference will provide a platform for participants to disseminate latest findings of their research.
It will also be an opportunity for participants to visit the island of Mauritius, famous for its Sun, Sea and Sand.
Highlight of ICPAC 2010
- Renowned Plenary Speakers including Prof Aaron Ciechanover the 2004 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Workshops/Symposia will be conducted by experts
- All aspects of Chemistry will be considered
- Full papers will be published by Springer after peer reviewing
- Programme include Welcome reception, Banquet, One day tour and Entertainment evening
- Local and Post Conference tours are available
We look forward to welcoming you at this conference.
Organising Committee
Henri Li Kam Wah, President
Ponnadurai Ramasami, Chairman
Minu Gupta Bhowon and Sabina Jhaumeer-Laulloo, Secretaries
Website: www.uom.ac.mu/icpac/
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ECTN Annual Meeting 2010 Montpellier FR, April 15-17, 2010 |
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20th Symposium on Chemical and
Science Education Bremen DE, May 27-29, 2010 |
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www.chemiedidaktik.uni-bremen.de/symp2010/
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ICCS - 5th
Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Application Amsterdam NL, May 30 - June 2, 2010 |
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JIREC 2010 La Grande Motte FR, June 1-4, 2010 |
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ICASE 2010 Tartu EE, June 28 - July 2, 2010 |
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http://icase2010.org/
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ESOF 2010
Euroscience Open Forum Torino IT, July 2-7, 2010 |
Website:
www.esof2010.org
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10th
ECRICE Pedagogical University Krakow PL, July 4-9, 2010 |
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http://ecrice2010.ap.krakow.pl
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ICPCA Chemistry for Sustainable Development Mauritius, July 26-30, 2010 |
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www.uom.ac.mu/icpac/
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21th
BCCE Denton TX USA, August 1-5, 2010 |
Website:
http://chemed.tamu.edu/bcce2010
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21th
ICCE Taipeh TW, August 8-13, 2010 |
Website:
http://icce2010.gise.ntnu.edu.tw/
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3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Conference - The Creative
Force Nuremberg DE, August 29 - September 2, 2010 |
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www.euchems-congress2010.org
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43rd IUPAC San Juan PR, July 30 - August 7, 2011 |
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www.iupac2011.org/
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22nd
ICCE Rome IT, August 2012 |
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4th EuCheMS Chemistry Conference Prague CZ, August 26-30, 2012 |
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www.euchems-prague2012.cz
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