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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>

Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium 2013 in Germany

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...

Which country pays its chemists and chemical engineers highest salaries? Where do I soonest find a new job? Which chemical sub-discipline offers most jobs? Reliable answers for these and other questions will be derived from the first European employment survey for chemists and chemical engineers, which has started this September on <a href="https://www.chemsurvey.eu" target="_blank">www.chemsurvey.eu</a>.
The questionnaire is available in 24 European languages. All responses to the questionnaire are saved anonymously, even though a valid e-mail address is required on the first page. The validity of this e-mail address is checked upon start in order to prevent misuse. Only if you want to receive the results of the survey (in particular about salaries) directly, your e-mail address is saved independently of your responses.
The questionnaire has six general pages (Personal — Education — Employment — Job — Training — Salary) which provide fields for free-text responses. Industry employees find special questions on an additional page. We hope for active participation of chemists from industry, since industry is less represented in some national societies. Participating societies nominated National Delegates. They may be contacted in case of queries via a link on the entry page.
Members of participating EuCheMS societies will soon receive an e-mail with the invitation to participate. All other European chemist and chemical engineers are invited to participate as well.
The survey is requested by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, supported by EuCheMS, the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) and the European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education Network (EC2E2N) and executed by the European Chemistry Thematic Network Association (ECTNA).
Reiner Salzer, <a href="mailto:reiner.salzer@tu-dresden.de">reiner.salzer@tu-dresden.de</a>


<h2>2014 IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry</h2>
The Iupac-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry prize is to be awarded to an internationally recognized scientist, whose activities have made an outstanding contribution in the field of flow chemistry in academia or industry. The prize is US-Dollar 7500. The award shall be presented at the 13th International Conference on MicroReaction Technology in June 2014 in Budapest. A contribution to travel expenses will be provided.
The Iupac-ThalesNano Prize will be awarded for the second time. It has been established by a generous gift from the Hungarian Technology company ThalesNano to acknowledge the key role that flow chemistry plays towards the improvement of chemical processes.
Applicants should be received by nomination only, with just one person needing to serve in that capacity, although a total of five individuals should be listed as referees overall. The package must be submitted electronically and should contain a complete résumé, a professional autobiography of not more than two pages and a one-page summary of what the individual considers to be his or her activities, accomplishments or publications that have had the most significant impact upon the field of flow chemistry. The material will be forwarded confidentially to an independent selection committee appointed by the Iupac Committee on Chemistry and Industry.
Nomination materials should be submitted by 31 January 2014 to the chair of the Iupac Committee on Chemistry and Industry, Michael Dröscher, by e-mail at <a href="mailto:m.droescher@t-online.de">m.droescher@t-online.de</a>. For more information please contact Michael Dröscher (Telephone: +49 2369 1383, Fax: +49 2369 248348).
Michael Dröscher, <a href="mailto:m.droescher@t-online.de">m.droescher@t-online.de</a>


<h2>DAC Tribute to Bo Karlberg and Adam Hulanicki</h2>
It was the privilege of the delegates and guests at the annual meeting of the EuCheMS Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) in Warsaw on 25 August to witness the DAC Tribute to Bo Karlberg and Adam Hulanicki.
Bo Karlberg from Stockholm University has recently completed two terms (2005 to 2010) as chair of DAC. He was on the steering committee for the conferences Euroanalysis 14 in Belgium and Euro-analysis 15 in Austria. He established the ”Who's Who in Analytical Chemistry” on the DAC website (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="https://www.anchem.su.se/euchems/countries.asp" target="_blank">www.anchem.su.se/euchems/countries.asp</a></ext-link>) and subsequently a task force on ”European Analytical Chemistry on the Web”. He has also been active as the DAC liaison person for joint activities with the EuCheMS Division of Food Chemistry and co-authored several of the ”European Analytical Column” articles in analytical chemistry journals (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri"><a href="https://www.dac-euchems.org/publications/eac/index.html" target="_blank">www.dac-euchems.org/publications/eac/index.html</a></ext-link>).
Adam Hulanicki's involvement with the Working Party on Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Society started soon after its creation in Heidelberg in 1972. Wiktor Kemula, president of the Polish Chemical Society and chair of the Committee on Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the time, proposed him as the Polish Analytical Chemistry representative. His active participation as a Polish delegate started in 1975 in Vienna and he was involved in early discussions on working procedures and practices. He was a member of the Working Party until 1997 and subsequently a member of DAC until 2006, including several years as a member of the steering committee. He took active part in all Euroanalysis conferences from the Budapest conference in 1975 to the Dortmund conference in 2002. In 1978 he was chair of Euro- analysis 5 which took place in Cracow, Poland.
Wolfgang Buchberger
Paul Worsfold
<a href="mailto:P.Worsfold@plymouth.ac.uk">P.Worsfold@plymouth.ac.uk</a>

Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium 2013 in Germany

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