As 2020 comes – slowly – to an end, it is clear humanity needs to work together to overcome global challenges. Aside from the pandemic, 2020 will be remembered as one of the warmest years on the books. The recently approved European Green Deal aims to build a sustainable growth strategy to reach climate neutrality […]

Over 80% of the world’s primary energy supply is currently provided by fossil fuels. Decarbonisation of humanities’ energy supply chain holds the key to our future wellbeing. The recently launched European project CONDOR, COmbined suN-Driven Oxidation and CO2 Reduction for renewable energy storage, aims at developing highly efficient solar-driven conversion of CO2 into fuels and […]

SOMMa, ASEICA and AseBio, entities that together account for almost ten thousand researchers across the public and private sector, dozens of research centres and nearly 300 leading Spanish companies in the biotechnology sector, join their voices to urge the political class to transform the country. More than 40 organisations supporting stronger support for science and […]

Scientific dissemination does not stop, not even during COVID times. This year 27th November is the official date for the European Researchers’ Night, a public event dedicated to showcasing research carried out in the territory, which is done simultaneously in more than 300 cities across Europe. This is the third year that the event has […]

Climate change and environmental degradation are threatening our future. To overcome these challenges, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal, an action plan to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and to restore biodiversity and cut pollution. This would mean achieving climate neutrality in the European Union […]

Dr. Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano has been appointed to the newly created Early Career Advisory Board of the journal Chemistry – A European Journal. Chemistry – A European Journal is the flagship journal of Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries. It publishes a family of 17 high-quality scholarly chemistry journals, […]

Jianing Xie, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Advancing Pd-catalyzed Stereoselective Allylic Substitution Reactions” (assigned to the Department of Analitical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 15th.   The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Cyril […]