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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 36 Issue 4

It is a real treat to introduce a new series called “Youth Views on Sustainability” on page 10. The idea came about last summer during the GA in Istanbul, when I met Nuno Bacharel. Nuno, the community manager for www.yourformula.eu, attended the World Chemistry Leadership Meeting with the intent to cover the event in the YourFormula blog. The WCLM 2013 was special as it involved a forum of young chemists assembled to debate IUPAC’s future and global issues. Nuno’s post on the WCLM 2013 is available at www.yourformula.eu/internalposts/the-future-of-chemistry-by-the-young-observers-wclm13-conclusions; another report, prepared by Michael Droescher, is published in the CI Jan-Feb 2014 issue, page 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ci.2014.36.1.24.

Nuno and I quickly bounced ideas and agreed that both his blog “YourFormula” and the news magazine Chemistry International could mutually benefit from cross coverage: his bloggers will gain a different audience and CI readers will be enticed to further review the blog content. We also concurred on the desire to sustain the participation of the young chemists who attended the WCLM and to provide a broader and complementary audience including the YourFormula blog and the more traditional channel offered through CI. A plan was quickly devised that will highlight the views of younger generations on sustainability matters, and feature blog posts from the YourFormula community in issues of Chemistry International.

In the first account, presented in this issue, David Dupont, a graduate student from the University of Leuven in Belgium, reviews how urban mining counts significantly towards recycling e-waste. His short write-up here in CI derives from his earlier blog post which awaits your comments at www.yourformula.eu/internalposts/lets-not-waste-our-e-waste.

A second feature of international relevance and certainly of great interest to all younger and senior scientists, is the account on page 5 of the activities of IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Research Funding (CCRF). CCRF initiatives are to facilitate international research projects by working with several national funding agencies to coordinate a joint submission and evaluation process. As the second call initiated back in 2012 has recently announced seven funded projects, Markus Behnke et al. take a step back and review the short but successful accomplishment of this program and allude to its future.

Comments, suggestions, and ideas, on past and future CI content are welcome and appreciated.

Fabienne Meyers

PS: Several surveys are being drafted by various IUPAC task groups, covering a wide range of topics, including the definition of the mole, the use of iupac.org, the ins and outs of the Company Associates program, and strategic issues. Please be on the lookout for these, and thanks in advance for your feedback.

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  2. From the Editor
  3. Contents
  4. Officer’s Column
  5. Quo vadis—“Whither thou goest?”
  6. Features
  7. Collaborative Research Funding
  8. An Experience in the Digital Age
  9. Youth Views on Sustainability
  10. IUPAC Wire
  11. Increasing IUPAC’s Footprint in Latin America
  12. Jan-Willem Toering Appointed Director of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
  13. Future Earth Launches New Website
  14. The 2014 Thieme-IUPAC Prize Goes to Martin Burke
  15. The Project Place
  16. Recommended Methods for the Structural Identification of Biologically Active Compounds in Food and Flavor Chemistry
  17. Terminology for Separation of Macromolecules
  18. Methods for the SI Value Assignment of the Purity of Organic Compounds for use as Primary Reference Materials and Calibrators
  19. Glossary on Renewable Chemistry
  20. Successful Drug Discoveries
  21. Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results in Chemistry: basic concepts required for intercontinental communication of results
  22. Great Lakes Regional Workshop
  23. Making an imPACt
  24. Alcohols + Hydrocarbons + Water
  25. ICTAC nomenclature of thermal analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2014)
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