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Chemistry International
Vol. 23, No.3
May 2001

Workshop Announcement

IUPAC Workshop on Green Chemistry Education, 12-14 September 2001, Venice, Italy

The IUPAC Division of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (III) has recently constituted the Committee on Green Chemistry. The aim of this committee is to develop actions devoted to the cause of green chemistry for its wider benefit to the future of chemistry and society as a whole. The first formal activity of the Committee on Green Chemistry will be to conduct this Workshop on Green Chemistry Education, which is to be held in Venice during the Summer School on Green Chemistry

The workshop is being organized in collaboration with the Interuniversity Consortium "Chimica per l' Ambiente" (INCA). Experts from academia and industry, national chemical societies, industrial organizations, government, environmental groups, and the media will be involved in the workshop. Representatives from countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and from the OECD Issue Team on Sustainable Chemistry will be invited to participate, and results of the workshop will be provided to the OECD Program on Sustainable Chemistry.

For further information, contact Prof. Pietro Tundo, Department of Environmental Sciences, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dorsoduro 2137, 30123 Venice, Italy; E-mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +39 041 2578642; Fax: +39 041 2578620; Web site: http://www.unive.it/inca.