Monday, August 30, 2010, 15.00 - 18.00 hrs

Conveners: Kathrin Winkler and Johanna Kowol-Santen

ERA-Chemistry is a European network of national funding agencies and is involved in the development and implementation of funding instruments for trans-national collaboration in chemistry. During the 3rd EuCheMS congress it will hold a symposium on funding mechanisms for trans-national collaboration in Europe. During the first two hours representatives of major funding bodies will present their programmes with special emphasis to chemical research. This event aims to receive a feedback by chemical scientists about the appropriateness of European (International) funding programmes and to unravel the requirements for chemical research in an international context. During a one-hour panel discussion the participants of the EuCheMS congress have the opportunity to comment on the programmes and concepts introduced and give suggestions to the funding agencies. The symposium will be guided along the following questions:

Are the available funding programmes useful for chemical research?
Are the programmes available to the chemists and are they reasonably conceived?
Which are the requirements for trans-national collaboration in chemistry?
Which additional programmes or improvements could be established?

The following speakers have confirmed their attendance:

Hans-Joachim Freund, MPI Berlin & ERC  
Priya Bondre-Beil, DFG     
Neil Williams, ESF     
Erwin Arzel, COST     
Zeev Rosenzweig, NSF    
Georg Bechtold, DFG 
Giovanni Natile, EuCheMS