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A lot has happened in the organisation of the 6th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress which will take place in Seville (Spain) on 11 to 15 September 2016.
Themes and topics
Organisers and the scientific committee announced eight congress themes and 29 topics that cover a comprehensive range of chemistry aspects (see next page). <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-themes" target="_blank">http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-themes</a></ext-link>
Exhibition
The exhibition floor plan is available on the website. Both sponsors and exhibitors are quickly reserving spaces so organisers recommend early booking. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="http://euchems-seville2016.eu/exhibition-booking-form" target="_blank">http://euchems-seville2016.eu/exhibition-booking-form</a></ext-link>
Plenary speakers
Outstanding speakers have already confirmed their attendance. Five Nobel Laureates and Avelino Corma, Spain's most awarded chemist, will serve as plenary speakers. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-plenary-speakers" target="_blank">http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-plenary-speakers</a></ext-link>
Sponsors support the congress
Some major chemical and engineering companies as well as one of Europe's major chemistry societies have already confirmed their support of the EuCheMS Chemistry Congress. The Compañia Española de Petróleos (Cepsa), the Royal Society of Chemistry, Repsol, Dow Chemical and Técnicas Reunidas have all declared their sponsorship. All sponsors are highlighted on the congress website and in communication materials.
Promotion
The congress organisers and the chair of the scientific committee have visited some of the major chemical societies to engage their commitment and support for the congress. Last June the organisers also attended Achema 2015 in Frankfurt (Germany) to advertise the congress to the 166,000 participants and 3,813 exhibitors of the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry. In July the congress was also featured at the XXXV Biannual Congress of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in A Coruña (Spain).
 Congress newsletter
Up to now two issues of the EuCheMS Congress newsletter have been prepared and distributed among major stakeholders, preregistered attendees and the chemical community in general. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-" target="_blank">http://euchems-seville2016.eu/euchems-</a> latest-newsletters</ext-link>
Press room
Interviews with congress organisers and major chemical societies' leaders are published on an exclusive basis on the congress website's press room. Among others David Cole-Hamilton, EuCheMS president, and Peter G. Edwards, chair of the scientific committee, share their vision about the EuCheMS congresses, chemistry, education and scientific communication as well as other issues like the present and future of chemistry societies in Europe. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="http://euchems-seville2016.eu/portfolio_" target="_blank">http://euchems-seville2016.eu/portfolio_</a> category/press-room</ext-link>
Ángela López Berrocal
<a href="mailto:alopez@ma3comunicacion.com">alopez@ma3comunicacion.com</a>


Five years ago, the European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN) and the Younger Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society (YCC-ACS) created the Young Chemists Crossing Borders (YCCB) programme. Every second year, YCC-ACS invites six European students and a delegation from the Jungchemikerforum (JCF) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) to ACS conferences. In return, EYCN brings six American students to a EuCheMS event.
Last year, six young Americans visited the EuCheMS Congress in Istanbul. In August this year, the YCCB 2015 awardees Sophie Carenco (France), Grégory Chatel (France), Thomas McGlone (UK), Madeline Kavanagh (UK), Sebastian Sobottka (Germany) and Bart Verbraeken (Belgium) enjoyed the 250th ACS Meeting and Exposition in Boston. YCCB students participated in symposia and presented their work in poster sessions and oral communications. In addition (and thanks to the organisers at YCC-ACS and the North-Eastern Section of ACS) the students visited MIT, Harvard, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and industries such as Genzyme. Moreover, a variety of social events were organised. EuCheMS president David Cole-Hamilton hosted a traditional New England Clambake, sponsored by EuCheMS, RSC and GDCh.
The organisers also invited Fernando Gomollón Bel (EYCN chair) and Fréderique Backaert (EYCN current past chair) to participate in the exchange programme. They presented their most recent activities to their American colleagues, establishing the foundations for YCCB 2016, which will bring six YCC-ACS students to the EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2016 in Spain.
Fernando Gomollón Bel, <a href="mailto:chair@eycn.eu">chair@eycn.eu</a>

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A lot has happened in the organisation of the 6th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress which will take place in Seville (Spain) on 11 to 15 September 2016. Themes and topics Organisers and the scientific committee announced eight congress themes and 29 topics that cover a comprehensive range of chemistry a...

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<h2>EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2016: Themes and topics</h2>
The EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2016 will take place in Seville (Spain) on 11 to 15 September 2016. The congress themes and topics are as follows:
Theme A: Education and society 
Chair: Evangelia Varella, Greece
Topic A1: Chemistry education
Topic A2: Chemistry, society and public engagement
Topic A3: Benefits: Wealth creation and society 
Theme B: The environment, energy and sustainability
Chair: Inmaculada Ortiz, Spain
Topic B1: Sustainable energy and air quality
Topic B2: Environment and natural resources management
Topic B3: Sustainable chemistry
Topic B4: Food chemistry
Theme C: New chemical compounds: Synthesis, methods and industrial processes
Chair: Sylviane Sabo-Etienne, France
Topic C1: Synthesis and reactivity in metal based compounds
Topic C2: Synthesis and reactivity in carbon based compounds
Topic C3: Methods and mechanisms
Topic C4: Catalysis in solution
Theme D: Catalysis, industry and applications
Chair: Bob Tooze, UK
Topic D1: Chemistry in industry
Topic D2: Industrial processes for the 21st century
Topic D3: Catalysis at interfaces
Theme E: Materials, devices and nanochemistry
Chair: Luisa De Cola, France
Topic E1: Materials chemistry
Topic E2: Nanomaterials, devices, technology and applications
Topic E3: Analytical techniques, characterisation and properties
Topic E4: Carbon based nanochemistry
Theme F: Properties of matter
Chair: Angela Agostiano, Italy
Topic F1: States of matter
Topic F2: Properties of materials
Topic F3: Polymers
Topic F4: Innovative computational environments for molecular science
Theme G: Physical, analytical and experimental methods in chemistry
Chair: Günther Gauglitz, Germany
Topic G1: Analytical and physical methods
Topic G2: Determination of structure and physical properties
Topic G3: Chemical dynamics
Theme H: Chemistry in the life sciences
Chair: Péter Mátyus, Hungary
Topic H1: Drug discovery and chemical biology
Topic H2: Bio-macrocolecules
Topic H3: Methods and applications
Topic H4: In-silico methods in life sciences


<h2>Organometallic chemistry: 21st EuCOMC in Bratislava</h2>
A series of successful European Conferences on Organometallic Chemistry (EuCOMC) continued with the 21st event in Bratislava, 5 to 9 July. The conference was organised by Slovak and Czech Chemical Societies under the umbrella of EuCheMS. More than 220 participants from 38 countries of five continents gathered in the capital of Slovakia to listen to 56 speakers and to discuss 134 posters in topics ranging from fundamental organometallic chemistry via catalysis and materials to environmental and bio-aspects of organometallic compounds.
Distinguished Plenary Lectures were presented by Alois Fürstner (Germany), Ian Manners (UK), Masakatsu Shibasaki (Japan), Georg Süss-Fink (Switzerland) and Maria Christina White (USA) whereas Young Plenary Lectures were given by Thibault Cantat (France), Oleg Filippov (Russia), Peter Fristrup (Denmark), Giuliano Giambastiani (Italy) and Roman Šebesta (Slovakia) who substituted for Franziska Schoenebeck (Germany) being unable to come.
For the first time in this series the participants witnessed the ceremony of the European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry 2015. The Award Lecture was delivered by Malcolm L. H. Green (UK, see the details in the EuCheMS Newsletter of September 2015).
Two poster prizes sponsored by the RSC journal Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers documented the effort of the organisers to encourage and support the youngest generation of European organometallic chemists.
Jan Cermák, <a href="mailto:cermak@icpf.cas.cz">cermak@icpf.cas.cz</a>

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