Employability of chemists

A workshop on the employability of chemists took place on 12 December 2014 in Brussels. Reiner Salzer presented a first look at the European survey on the employability of chemists. His presentation was complemented by talks of EuCheMS President David Cole-Hamilton about how good chemists can get good jobs and Francesco De Angelis, President of the European Chemistry Thematic Network, on European higher education aspects. Sophie Wilmet from the European Chemical Industry Council CEFIC presented the perspective of the chemical industry.

The workshop was chaired by Philip Taylor, European Commission's Joint Research Centre, and followed by the graduation ceremony of the Euromaster programme ”Measurement Science in Chemistry”, given by a consortium of nine universities. Since 2008 about 280 students have graduated. A summer school is the core of this programme. The 2015 summer school will take place in Puławy, Poland, and is open for students from universities of the consortium and others interested in learning how to run a laboratory according to ISO/EN 17025.

Nineta H. Majcen, nineta@euchems.eu

Expo 2015 will take place

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