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IUPAC Postgraduate Summer School on Green Chemistry 12-19 May 2019 – Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 42 Issue 3

The IUPAC Postgraduate Summer School on Green Chemistry took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 12-19 May 2019. Dar es Salaam is the commercial center of Tanzania and one of the biggest cities in East Africa, nestled along a natural harbour on the Indian Ocean.

The present edition of the Summer School was the first IUPAC Summer School on Green Chemistry to be held in Africa managed by IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD).

The event was proposed by its Chairman, Pietro Tundo from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Member of the IUPAC Bureau and Chair of ICGCSD, in collaboration with the late Egid Mubofu of Tanzania. The event was therefore, initially managed under the organization of the late Mubofu as the chairperson of the Organizing Committee in Tanzania and later on the chairmanship was given to Charles Kihampa after the death of Mubofu. Kihampa managed the event with a team composed of Esther H. J. Lugwisha, Kessy F. Kilulya, Clarence A. Mgina, Joan J. E. Munissi from the University of Dar es Salaam, Rehema Nyamoga from the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) and Mr. Elias Mlima from the Government Chemist Laboratory Authority in Tanzania. The event was endorsed by the Tanzanian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology.

The School was Hosted by the Chemistry Department of the University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the Tanzania Chemical Society (TCS), TBS, the University of Dodoma (UDOM) and the Government Chemist Laboratory Authority (GCLA), and sponsored by IUPAC, PhosAgro, the Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW), UNEP, IUCEA, ISC3 and NEMC.

Main topics of the Summer School were:

  1. Exploitation of Natural Resources,

  2. Green Methodologies Chemistry,

  3. Green Analysis,

  4. Green Synthesis of materials,

  5. Green Technologies and

  6. Recycling

The choice of Tanzania as the host country for the first IUPAC Postgraduate Summer School in Africa has offered the opportunity to more collaboration for African chemists, chemical institutions, universities and chemical societies.

85 Selected post-graduated attendees and 16 resource persons coming from 22 different countries participated in the Summer School in Dar es Salaam. In total, 143 applications were received, and 51 paying students were considered eligible to attend the school after a thorough selection by the Organizing Committee based on their CVs and list of publications. 53 Scholarship applications were received by 28 February 2019 from students coming from developing countries. A Scientific Committee composed of 8 IUPAC members selected a first list of 36 applications on merit bases out of the 53 received scholarship applications. The first 34 students of the list were awarded with a scholarship to attend the school from IUPAC, UNEP, PhosAgro and IUCEA.

Group Picture after the opening ceremony of the IUAPC Summer School on Green Chemistry: Monday 13 May 2019, Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

Group Picture after the opening ceremony of the IUAPC Summer School on Green Chemistry: Monday 13 May 2019, Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

The Organizing Committee expectations were completely met for the quality of resource persons, student,s and the diversity of participants in terms of their geographical origin and also on their professional affiliations. During the event all of the young academicians could contribute their thoughts and ideas on relevant issues of green chemistry and sustainability. All students had an opportunity to have a flash presentation of their posters at a session which provided them the chance to exchange their scientific knowledge and establish important links with other participants and professors for fruitful joint projects and research activities. This was a real success for this summer school.

2019 PROGRAMME

DAY 1

Arrival of participants

DAY 2

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony started with welcoming remarks from Charles Kihampa, Chairman of the Organizing Committee.

Followed by Qi-Feng Zhou, IUPAC President, then Pietro Tundo, Chairman ICGCSD, W. Anangisye, VC UDSM. Guest of Honor: Edwin Mhede; Deputy Permanent Secretary on behalf of the Minister for Industries, Trade and Investments and lastly was the vote of thanks delivered by Charles Kihampa , Chairperson of TCS.

Session I Chair: C.A. Mgina

The First Session after opening ceremony had three presentations;

  1. Q.A. Mgani: Tribute to Egid Mubofu—this was a special session to commemorate the late Mubofu who was the first chairman of the summer school local organizing committee in Tanzania.

  2. Siroj Loikov, Deputy Director General for International Projects, PhosAgro: Promotion of green and sustainable chemistry by PhosAgro

  3. Peter Licence: Ionic Liquids in vacuo—Suck it and see!

The first session continued after the lunch break with two presentations:

  1. Pietro Tundo: What is green chemistry— Principles

  2. Christopher Brett: Green Materials and Electrochemistry

Poster Session

The first session continued after tea break where students had the opportunity to display their posters.

DAY 3

SESSION II: Chair: Prof. Obuzor

  1. Neil Coville: Carbon nanomaterials from propylene waste

  2. Darkwa: Catalysis driven conversion of substrates in chemical production: selected examples.

  3. Kasozi: Environmental sustainability utilizing renewable feed-stock, chemical waste and recycling

Poster Short Presentations

After lunch students were given five minutes to give brief descriptions of their posters. The poster session then continued with visiting posters after the afternoon tea break.

DAY 4: Excursion

This was an excursion day where participants had opportunities to visit the Zanzibar Island, the old city the ancient city of Bagamoyo, and the Dar es Salaam city itself.

DAY 5

Session III Chair: Kasozi

The session started with one presentation until tea beak.

  1. Nannake-Abasi Offiong: Exploitation of Natural Resources: “Surfactants for Groundwater Remediation from Green and Renewable Feedstocks

The rest of the day was for lectures from UNEP officials about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals followed by Poster short presentations and visits.

DAY 6

Session IV Chair: Prof. Coville

The session started with short poster presentations followed by lectures

  1. Tundo: The Chemistry of Dimethyl Carbonate

  2. Mammino: The design of environmentally-Benign substances: Interfaces between green chemistry and computational chemistry

  3. Urassa: Global Networking for Professional Training and Development in the Chemical Sciences: ACS Model

  4. John Ryan: Green Chemistry and Pyrolysis

At the end of the session the name of the five best posters were announced.

DAY 7

Session V: Chair: Dr. Kasozi

The session had two lectures and was followed by oral presentations from the best five posters before the closing ceremony

Lectures

  1. Xuefeng Jiang: Green Organosulfur Chemistry

  2. Gloria Obuzor: Nature the Chemists’ Untapped Warehouse

Best Posters Presentations

  1. Florence Masese, University of Nairobi, Kenya: Photocatalytic Activity of Coupled Semiconductor Oxide, TiO2-WO3 Nanocomposite Material under Visible Light Irradiation

  2. Camila Renson, University of Dar es Salaam: Application of Entomopathogenic Fungi as Bio-Pesticide against Tuta absoluta

  3. Emmanuel C. Ohaekenyem, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria: Tetraaza Macrocycles: Reaction Mechanism, Synthesis and Elucidation of Cobalt (IV) Complex of Novel Ethano and Dihydroxy Ethano Bridged 1,10-Phenthroline Based Macrocyclic Ligands

  4. Jemilugba Olufunto Tolulope, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Antimicrobial Activities of Silver Nanoparticles synthesized using Combretum erythrophyllum’s Extracts, Endophytes and Secondary Metabolites

  5. Catherine Peake, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom: High Energy Density Electrolytes for Symmetric Redox Flow Batteries.

Closing Ceremony

The guest of honor during the closing ceremony was Yusuph Ngenya, the Director General of TBS. In the ceremony the five best poster presenters were given certificates by the guest of honour and books by Tundo, the chairman of the ICGCSD.

Online erschienen: 2020-07-16
Erschienen im Druck: 2020-07-01

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