Anthony Smith, Lyon FR, October 10, 2008: The ECTN held a management committee meeting on 20 September 2008 in Turin, Italy at the Lingotto Conference Centre where the 2nd EUCheMS Chemistry Congress was being held. Some important points to come from this meeting and not mentioned in other parts of this newsletter are the following: The Tuning Chemistry brochure has now been ...

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Antonio Lagana, Perugia IT, October 9, 2008: The ECTNA administrative council (AC) is in the process of implementing the investment plan decided in Helsinki (May 2007) aimed at producing services (from now on let us call them products) for the associated Institutions. The investment plan, as already mentioned in the ...

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The next ECTNA Administrative Council meeting and ECTN Management Committee meeting will take place on February 6-7, 2009 in Thessaloniki GR.

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Committee News

- Technical update: Migration to the new QuestionMark Perception software version 4 completed; 9 development sites are now in operation in different countries according to each working groups needs.

Working Groups News

- Chemistry and Cultural Heritage group, conducted by Prof. Evangelia Varella (Thessaloniki GR), the first demo version at Master level was publicly unveiled at the Chemistry and Conservation Science Summer School held in Palermo IT on July 21-27, 2008. The full DB will soon be in use at the University for the students training.
- Synthetic Chemistry 4, we thank Prof. Hans-Guenther Schmalz who has conducted this group for 2 years before retiring from the Leader position; Prof. Oldrich Paleta from Prague CZ, accepted to take the lead of this group. We welcome him.

Tests

Testing Centres

- University of Helsinki FI, run a large session early September of 112 entering first year students (108 with General Chemistry 2 in Finnish and 4 in English);
- CPE Lyon FR, run a large session of 158 first year fresh students entering the Engineering School mid-September; a 2 hours tests involving the French versions of: the full General Chemistry 2 and the 15 easy questions of Organic and Analytical Chemistry 3.
- University of Oulu FI, run a first session of test (General Chemistry 2 in Finish) early October with the supervision of Nina Aremo from the Helsinki Testing Centre.

Reiner Salzer, Dresden DE, October 6, 2008: We cordially invite you to participate in the Conference

Chemistry and the Bologna process – current status and further needs

which will be held from September 08 - 10, 2009, at the Technische Universität Dresden / Germany. The conference will be organized by ECTN together with TU Dresden, the German Rector’s Conference and the German Chemical Society. It will be supported by German chemical companies. This conference summarizes the achievements of the European Chemistry Thematic Network and looks ahead to the Bologna era after 2010. (...)

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Reiner Salzer, Dresden DE, October 6, 2008: Globalized markets and the proper implementation of EU legislation are dependent on reliable measurements in laboratories worldwide. The importance of appropriate education in this area was acknowledged in 2005 and led to an initiative of Prof. Philip Taylor of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Institute for (...)

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Evelyne Garnier-Zarli, Créteil FR, September 18, 2008: Appel d'offre AUF, Bourses Doctorat et Post-Doctorat 2009-2010
 

Please find below the link to get all information about the international contract solicitation of the AUF Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Francophonia University Agency), for Doctorate and post-Doctorate fund covering the 2009-2010 period.

http://www.auf.org/communication-information/appels-offres/appel-international-a-candidatures-2009-2010-bourses-de-doctorat-bourses-de-post-doctorat.html

Deadline for application: December 22, 2008.

Pr. Evelyne Garnier-Zarli
President of the CIRUISEF (Conférence Internationale des Responsables des Universités et Instituts Scientifiques d'Expression Française), Institutional Network of AUF.
Doyen honoraire de la Faculté des Sciences et Technologie de l'Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne
UMR - IRD n°137 BIOSOL, Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, 61, av du Général de Gaulle - 94 000 Créteil - FRANCE
tél : 00 (33)1 45 17 14 70 ; fax : 00 33(1) 45 17 19 99

 

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Anthony Smith, Lyon FR, October 10, 2008: PhD thesis in Lyon in the laboratory of surface organometallic chemistry (Director J.M. BASSET)

This thesis is immediately available as a Pierre and Marie Curie fellowship and the student has to spend at least 1 month/year in another laboratory of the “Nanohost” network partners. The salary is very attractive and at a level decided by the European Training Networks regulations.

 

The objective of this network is related to Green chemistry:
“Homogeneous supported catalyst technologies, development of a sustainable approach to highly selective fine chemicals production”.

 

The particular subject of this thesis (supervisor F. Lefebvre) is the grafting and full characterization of heteropolyacids on various porous supports and their catalytic properties towards oxidation of paraffins.

The laboratory is working with many industrial companies (Europeans and Americans) and the students find easily a job after their thesis.

The training will occur within both:
- The laboratory ( highly sophisticated NMR, IR, TPD, Catalytic tests under pressure,… )
- Inside the nano-host network (12 participants from all over Europe and 3 companies) and
- Inside the IDECAT network (40 laboratories, 20 companies ).

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