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Turkey will host the 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress between 31 August and 4 September 2014. Chemists and scientists from related disciplines will meet in the heart of Istanbul at the best season of the city. The scientific programme is now completed:
Theme A: Resources and environment
A1 Environmental contaminants of emerging concern
A2 Water quality and food production 
A3 Natural resources and mining
A4 Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
A5 Air quality
Theme B: Chemistry and society
B1 Chemistry in the cultural context — safeguarding the past with responsibility for the future
B2 Chemistry in the multinational European environment — education and communication
B3 EYCN workshops
Theme C: Materials
C1 Properties, structure and synthesis of materials
C2 Nanochemistry
C3 Functional materials
C4 Energy materials
C5 Soft solids and polymers
Theme D: Synthesis and catalysis
D1 New horizons in catalysis
D2 Advances in inorganic synthesis
D3 Synthesis of functional compounds for bioimaging and related applications
D4 Advances in organic synthesis
Theme E: Chemistry for and in life sciences
E1 Imaging in the life sciences
E2 Chemical biology and drug discovery
E3 Advances in the chemistry of biomacromolecules
Theme F: Understanding matter and reactions
F1 From biomics to metabolomics to functionomics: progress in analytical methodology
F2 Bioanalytics for life sciences
F3 Nanostructured natural and man-made materials
F4 Advances in analytical methods
In addition to the scientific programme the organisers also have planned a very rich social programme including a Bosphorus boat trip and a social dinner.
We hope that you will include the 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in your 2014 calendar and are looking forward to welcoming you in Istanbul.
Helena Grennberg
Chair of the scientific commitee
<a href="mailto:helena.grennberg@kemi.uu.se">helena.grennberg@kemi.uu.se</a>


<h2>The committee for Istanbul</h2>
The EuCheMS Newsletter introduces the scientific commitee of the 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Istanbul. This issue goes on with Nick Westwood and Maria-Cristina Todasca.
Nick Westwood is professor of chemistry and chemical biology at the University of St Andrews, UK. He carried out his early studies at Oxford completing his PhD with Chris Schofield in 1988. He took up a Nato post-doctoral fellowship in the lab of Philip D. Magnus at the University of Texas in Austin. He then moved to the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard where he worked with Matthew Shair and Tim Mitchison. In 2001, he returned to the UK as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. The main aim of his research is to apply high level methods in organic synthesis to problems in both chemistry and at the chemistry-biology interface. He was promoted to full professor in 2013. With respect to the EuCheMS Congress he is responsible for Theme E (Chemistry for and in the life sciences).
Maria-Cristina Todasca lectures in food chemistry at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science of the University Politehnica in Bucharest. She studied food chemistry in Bucharest and finished her PhD in 2006. She has been a member of the Faculty Teachers Board since 2012, participating in decision-making regarding all educational aspects, and part of the Faculty Commission of Quality Assurance. She was president of the Romanian Young Chemists Division of the Romanian Chemical Society (2007 to 2013) and has been active in EuCheMS as communication officer in the first steering committee of the European Young Chemists Network (EYCN, 2007 to 2009), as secretary of EYCN (2011 to 2012) and as chair of EYCN (2012 to 2013). With respect to the EuCheMS Congress she is the convener of the Career Days, organised by EYCN and GDCh Career Services. KS

Themes of the EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2014

Turkey will host the 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress between 31 August and 4 September 2014. Chemists and scientists from related disciplines will meet in the heart of Istanbul at the best season of the city. The scientific programme is now completed: Theme A: Resources and environment A1 Environm...

The 3rd Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry (TFOC) Symposium was organised in common by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). GDCh hosted the symposium in the Bavarian countryside at Kloster Seeon, Germany, on 8 to 11 August.
More than 60 invited young scientists from US, UK, Germany and — for the first time — from a guest country (Brazil) discussed their latest research and possible future trans-disciplinary and trans-national co-operation. The attendance of ACS President Marinda Wu, RSC CEO Robert Parker, and GDCh Vice President Eckhard Ottow showed the extraordinary importance of the symposium for the common international activities of the organising chemical societies. ”In the future without any doubt chemistry with all its different disciplines will strongly contribute to global solutions for the global challenges,” encouraged Ottow the young scientists to overcome borders between the disciplines. Parker pointed out that there is a need for new tools in chemistry, which is getting more and more multidisciplinary. ”A diverse group of young scientists with research interests that span so many disciplines play critical roles in addressing the many problems that confront our world today,” added Wu.
Furthermore, representatives from German funding organisations, from chemical industry and publishers as well as students from the RISE and Fulbright programmes contributed to the symposium. All invited young scientists gave a lecture and presented a poster. The symposium consisted of nine thematic sessions, a poster session, breakout sessions on basic research, industry co-operation, organisation of one's own research group and an excursion to the Alps. A really pleasing feature of the symposium was the trans-disciplinary interaction between all participants. A scientific conference report will be published in Chemistry — A European Journal soon.
Hans-Georg Weinig, <a href="mailto:h.weinig@gdch.de">h.weinig@gdch.de</a>
Ruth Neale, <a href="mailto:nealer@rsc.org">nealer@rsc.org</a>


<h2>EuCheMS with new premises in Brussels' European quarter</h2>
We are pleased to report that the headquarters of the EuCheMS Brussels office have recently been moved to a venue where EuCheMS can benefit from the strategic position just around the corner from the European Parliament and many European Commission buildings as well as the Council of the EU. This will certainly be an asset not only in liaising with various institutions in Brussels but also to serve as a convenient meeting point for all representatives of EuCheMS member associations.
The new premises include a variety of meeting rooms at our disposal, of which the biggest can host meetings, seminars or workshops for up to 100 participants. All meeting rooms are supported by newest technologies, allowing for an efficient as well as enjoyable working environment. To date, two events have been held at the new EuCheMS location: a meeting on artificial photosynthesis and a workshop on green chemistry.
Our member societies as well as any interested party can from now onwards contact us here: Rue du Trône 62, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, Telephone: +32 (0) 2289 26 90.
Nineta Majcen
<a href="mailto:nineta.majcen@euchems.eu">nineta.majcen@euchems.eu</a>


<h2>More mobility: Electronic professional card on its way</h2>
The Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications is intended to support professionals to work in another Member State. However, the level of professional mobility has remained low due to a lack of simple and clear rules governing the recognition of professional qualifications.
Therefore, in 2011 the European Commission proposed a revision of the existing procedure with two main changes: First, an electronic European professional card will replace the existing time-consuming declaration procedures concerning the professional's qualifications. The second main change refers to new possibilities for automatic recognition through common training frameworks and tests based on more transparency on continuous professional development. In June 2013 the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on a provisional text to be formally approved by the Council Committee of Permanent Representatives and Parliament Internal Market Committee before the plenary vote in October.
EuCheMS was actively involved in the consolidated version of Directive 2005/36/EC and in September 2011 submitted its contribution on the modernisation of the Professional Qualification Directive to the EU. In 2012 a delegation met the corresponding responsible party of the Internal Market Directorate for the presentation of the decision of the Consiglio Nazionale dei Chimici (CNC) of Italy to adopt a preliminary professional card for the chemical profession. This card was transformed into an electronic international version and connected to the Internal Market Information System (IMI) of the Commission.
During 2013 the CNC produced a first version of the electronic professional card. In July the Executive Board of EuCheMS suggested to set up an ad hoc committee for approaching other interested countries. The committee introduced the final version of the electronic card at the EuCheMS General Assembly in Budapest in October 2013.
Sergio Facetti
<a href="mailto:s.facchetti@chimici.it">s.facchetti@chimici.it</a>

Themes of the EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2014

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