Outreach in coordinated individual events: the GCS format of CNR Italy
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Elisa Carignani
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Augusta Maria Paci
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Silvia Borsacchi
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Maurizio Peruzzini
Abstract
Global Conversation on Sustainability (GCS) 2023 was enthusiastically welcomed by researchers of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Highly committed to international organizations such as IUPAC and ISC, the promoters participated to the 2023 edition of the Global Conversation on Sustainability hosting a local in person event held in one of the major CNR institute for chemistry research. The format was a round-table discussion involving colleagues of different age, gender, experience, and area of expertise, who participated to an informal dialogue with the aim of reflecting and sharing aspects of the respective research activities contributing to sustainable development goals. From many chemistry research areas, it emerged a wide range of subjects, which stimulated an interesting and purpose-oriented discussion. Therefore, GCS 2023 at CNR prompted a reflection on how improving chemists’ impact on sustainability including laboratories’ practises and on considering communication becoming part of scientific process. Transformation requires continuous investment in research and innovation and evolving scientific activities, but also requires synergies, collaborations and policy making on cross-cutting issues that can make this successful. Global initiatives as GCS, in the framework of international scientific organizations, represent a key global vehicle for enhancing the big area of science communication. Overcoming time and spatial limitations, these initiatives enable to link global and locally tailored in person events.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Preface for the special issue ‘Activities and Actions Towards a Sustainable Future’ – a joint project by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN)
- Special topic papers
- One story as part of the Global Conversation on Sustainability: dye adsorption studies using a novel bio-derived calcite material
- The past is the future: from natural acid-base indicators to natural reagents in sustainable analytical chemistry
- Renewable carbon resource from biomass: building molecular architectures from furanic platforms
- Paths and synergies in accelerating the UN 17 SDGs through the lens of green chemistry: contributions from a Brazilian university and its Institute of Chemistry
- Outreach in coordinated individual events: the GCS format of CNR Italy
- Green chemistry for all: three principles of Inclusive Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education
- Molecular approach to semiconductors: a shift towards ecofriendly manufacturing and neuroinspired interfaces
