june 28, 2019
2019 celebrates the centenary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), founded in Paris in 1919. France, represented at IUPAC by the CNC (Comité national de la chimie), was chosen in 2013 at the Istanbul General Assembly to organize both the 47th World ChemistryCongress and the Union's centenary celebration, to be held from July 7 to 12, 2019.
These events will bring together a total of 30 symposia and around 3,000 participants. Three major themes will form the backbone of the Congress: chemistry and life, chemistry and energy, chemistry and the environment, to which will be added a series of symposia dealing with more specific or cross-disciplinary aspects of chemistry: chemistry and education, chemistry and society, history of chemistry, young chemists' symposium. Two industrial symposia will be offered: Sustainable chemistry, materials and resources for the city of the 2050s. Challenges and innovations for the chemical industry in the 2050s, and a third, the WCLM symposium, in which top executives from the world's leading chemical and chemical-using companies will present their visions, perspectives and challenges.
The most official actions and ceremonies in this series of events will take place at the Palais des Congrès, the Maison de la Chimie, the Sorbonne and the Mairie de Paris, under the patronage of the President of the Republic and the City of Paris.
Clément Sanchez, President of the Comité national de la chimie and Professor at the Collège de France, will chair the symposium, and Jean Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair in Chemistry of Molecular Interactions (1980-2010), will be Honorary President. The first symposium in 1919 was also chaired by a Professor from the Collège de France: Charles Moureu.
Later this month, Paris will celebrate the 51st International Chemistry Olympiad, to be held from July 21 to 30 , 2019. These initiatives are coordinated by Anne Szymczak, Inspectrice Générale de l'Éducation Nationale.
