ECTN 2025 General Assembly and Annual Meeting

ECTN 2025 General Assembly and Annual Meeting

ECTN 2025 ECTN General Assembly and Annual Meeting will be held on 29-31 MAY 2025 in Bologna, Italy.

Sessions for ECTN Working Groups and Standing Committees and plenary lectures will be organized. Participation of all ECTN members is welcomed.

Please visit and register on the meeting website.

5th STEM-CPD Summer School – registration is open

5th STEM-CPD Summer School – registration is open

The upcoming, already the 5th STEM-CPD Summer School, is an exceptional opportunity for university lecturers in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) who are committed to student-centered teaching and aim to promote continuous professional development (CPD) in teaching and learning to become CPD Ambassadors.

The 5th STEM-CPD Summer School will be organized in cooperation with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Toruń, with its UNESCO-listed Old Town, well-preserved Gothic architecture, and cultural landmarks, provides a fascinating setting for exploring the intersection of history, science, and culture.

See more information and registration here.

“Teaching and Learning in STEM” Summer School

“Teaching and Learning in STEM” Summer School

To support academic teachers and program directors in implementing active learning strategies or using digital technology in teaching and learning, the ECTN WG Eurolecturer Academy will organize 2.5-day Summer Schools on “Teaching and Learning in Higher Education STEM.” Each summer school explores a specific educational theme. The immersive program of these short summer schools, combined with vivid discussions within an international community of practitioners, will empower participants to enhance the quality of their teaching and curricula.

The first summer school in the series of “Teaching and Learning in STEM” Summer Schools is the “Question-Driven Learning in STEM” Summer School, organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, from June 29 to July 1. See more information and register at here.

EuroLabel® Coaching event in December 2024

EuroLabel® Coaching event in December 2024

Becoming a Chemistry Eurolabel® Expert is a good opportunity for university lecturers in Chemistry disciplines.

If your Institution belongs to the Bologna Process signatory countries, you can participate in the on-line Coaching Event, by sending an email to labels@ectn.eu by November 30th, 2024.

  • Organization of a Label-Committee Coaching event in December 2024 for Chemistry Eurolabel®
  • Application for Joining the Pool of Experts: deadline for application: November 30th 2024
  • Mandatory criteria for active university lecturers to be eligible as Chemistry Eurolabel® Experts is that your institution belongs to the Bologna Process signatory countries.
  • To participate in the online Coaching Event, you can submit your application by November 30th, 2024, by writing an email to labels@ectn.eu
  • Please insert a short CV description giving special emphasis to your Teaching Activity and the fields of gained teaching experience.
  • The online coaching takes around 4-5 hours altogether, over two days. The exact schedule will be fixed according to the availabilities of the participants and the Label Committee members.

The flyer is here available: ECTN – Label Coaching Event

EChemTest® Training Event on November 29th, 2024

EChemTest® Training Event on November 29th, 2024

EChemTest® is the electronic Self Evaluation Session (SES) test service run by the ECTN (www.ectn.eu) through its Virtual Education Community (VEC) committee.

EChemTest® SESs last up to one hour and consist of a set of 30 randomly selected Questions and Answers (Q&A)s run on the cloud by the local examiner using LibreEOL (https://echemtest.libreeol.org/). The large bank of Q&As covers the de facto standard contents of the ECTN Eurolabels grouped into Libraries of four different levels:

  • Pre-University (Level-1):a person at the end of compulsory education (General Chemistry 1 (GC1));
  • University Access (Level-2):a person at the beginning of Chemistry-related University studies (General Chemistry 2 (GC2));
  • University Bachelor (Level-3):a person at the end of the Core Chemistry Syllabus at the University Level as defined in the «Chemistry Eurobachelor®» (e.g. Analytical Chemistry 3 (AC3); Biological Chemistry 3 (BC3); Chemical Engineering 3 (CE3); Inorganic Chemistry 3 (IC3); Organic Chemistry 3 (OC3); Physical Chemistry 3 (PC3));
  • University Master (Level-4):a person at the end of a Master degree in one of the specialized chemistry areas in agreement with the «Chemistry Euromaster®» requirement (Computational Chemistry 4 (CC4); Conservation Science 4 (CS4); Advanced Organic Chemistry 4 (AOC4)).

The purpose of the training event is to show to the participants the EchemTest features and functionalities.

EchemTest is offered by ECTN for free to all member organizations.

Link for the participation: https://jitsi.iccsa.org/EchemTestTraining

The flyer is here available: InfoTrainingEvent