During the exciting “Week of the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC)“, a series of fascinating science-related events for the general public, our NIC colleagues hosted the workshop Skrivnosti Plastike (Secrets of plastics) workshop on 6 June 2024, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event aimed to enlighten the younger generation about plastic pollution, explore potential solutions, and highlight the relevance of the SSbD4CheM project’s cosmetics case study in tackling this issue.

From 5 to 7 June 2024 took place in Würzburg (Germany) the 1st International Conference of the Würzburg Initiative 3R (WI3R).

The Würzburg 3R Initiative bundles Bavarian 3R activities from academia, regulatory authorities and industry and networks with existing 3R centres in Germany, Europe and worldwide. The conference provided a platform for discussion and exchange between research and industry on biofabrication and 3D printing, human iPSC and organoids, emerging technologies, NAMs, disease modelling, and regulatory acceptance. About 200 people, mainly from research and scientific community joint the event!

The 23rd edition of the International Symposium on Field- and Flow-based Separations (iSFFF 2024) took place on 3-6 June 2024 in Nantes, France. The symposium offered an ideal opportunity to discuss recent technical and scientific developments in Field-Flow Fractionation and related techniques, and to take a look at all the fields of application: human health, environment, polymer sciences…

SSbD4CheM attended the INDTech 2024 (Industrial Technologies) conference in Namur, Belgium in June 2024.

Colleagues from KORTEKS attended the TechTextil exhibition in Frankfurt

“Die Lange Nacht der Forschung” (The Long Night of Research) is a biannual event, that takes throughout Austria, offering free access to experience science and research first-hand in all nine federal provinces. You can engage in discussions with researchers, uncover hidden and intriguing aspects of science, and be amazed by what is revealed. It is pitched at the general public and aims to get people more interested in science, inform them about interesting projects happening in their city and also educate them on subjects. It is aimed at all ages with some events specially for children.

NANOPLASTICS research is an emerging and critically important area of environmental science, focusing on sources, distribution, and ecological impacts, while also developing more sensitive detection methods, and assessing the toxicity. This multidisciplinary field involves chemists, biologists, ecologists, engineers, and policy makers.

For this reason, several Slovenian organisations and institutes (Institut Josef Stefan, Palatinus, LUI, and CHEMASS) organised on 16 May 2024 the first Slovenian Nanoplastics Research Symposium in Ljubljana and hybrid, entitled “Microplastics fro Breakfast – From Micro to Nano”, to discuss, inform and learn all about nanoplastics research in Slovenia and beyond.

With the objective of give some insight into plastic pollution, solutions, and good practice examples regarding biodiversity (especially water) and how to effectively communicate information among different stakeholders, our colleagues of NIC organised the event “Scientific and business approaches for effective communication on microplastics and biodiversity” on 7 June 2024 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and hybrid.

The 23rd edition of the International Symposium on Field- and Flow-based Separations (iSFFF 2024) took place on 3-6 June 2024 in Nantes, France. The symposium offered an ideal opportunity to discuss recent technical and scientific developments in Field-Flow Fractionation and related techniques, and to take a look at all the fields of application: human health, environment, polymer sciences…