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New announcement: IOCD has launched the 2025 round of the essay competition, Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability, which is sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The theme of the 2024 competition is:
From waste to wealth: how chemical sciences can sustainably transform waste into valuable products

Find details of the Prizes and Competition Rules and download the Application Form here. Deadline: 31 March 2025.

News: The regional winners of the 2024 essay competition are:

Tales da Silva Daitx (Latin America and the Caribbean)
Sarah Geo (South Asia)
Faith Mwende Johnson (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Alexandre Jorge (Europe and Central Asia)
Govind Nanda (North America)
Amanda Tolentino (East Asia and Pacific)
Yana Walia (Middle East and North Africa)

More news are available here

IOCD call for volunteers

IOCD is currently seeking volunteers for a range of roles. Opportunities include in the areas of:

Working Groups: joining an existing Working Group or establishing a new one
Creating an activity on mentoring and professional development in the chemical sciences
Evaluating essays in the framework of the IOCD annual Essay Competition
Fundraising for the organization’s operations
Internal governance, organization and management work, communications and external relations.

➤ For more information about IOCD’s volunteering opportunities and how to apply, see here.

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Funded in 1981 in the UNESCO framework, IOCD's mission is to promote the pursuit and application of the chemical sciences for sustainable, equitable human development and economic growth.

It does so by repositioning chemistry as a science for the benefit of society and promoting the role of the chemical sciences in sustainable development.

IOCD has been involved, and still is, in eductaion programs for students in low-income countries where it has made donation of books, scientific journals, laboratory equipment and chemical products.

IOCD and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United nations: IOCD is committed to working in partnership with others to ensure that chemistry fulfils its potential of contributing to sustainable development. A new orientation, ‘One-World’ Chemistry has been proposed, which recognises the interconnectedness of human, animal and planetary health and embraces the need for chemistry to adopt systems thinking and cross-disciplinary working to tackle the planetary challenges.

IOCD’s action group —Chemists for Sustainability (C4S)— focuses on the roles of chemistry in sustainable development, see here for details. The group has published extensively on aspects of the role and future of the chemical sciences.

Innovation

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IOCD members are involved in scientific chairs, working groups and projects focused on renewable energies, sustainable electronics, responsible use of materials ... . Low-income countries are involved in these activities.
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Initiatives

Reflection about the role of chemical sciences in developement and in education has led IOCD members to propose new concepts that integrate many facets of the problems under investigation.
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Imagination

With the support of the Royal Society of Chemistry, IOCD organizes an essay competition entitled "Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability". The competition run globally, with seven winners selected each year on a regional basis.
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