Past Activities
School seminar by Prof. Klaus Kummerer in TUT (16 February 2018)
School seminar by prof. Klaus Kummerer (Leuphana University; Luneburg, Germany) was organized 16 February 2018 by initiative of prof. Nicholas Gathergood, the head of ERA Chair of Green Chemistry TUT.
Title “Targeted design of chemicals and pharmaceuticals for biodegradation in the environment.”
Prof. Dr. Klaus Kümmerer is full Professor of Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources and director of the Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry at the public Leuphana University.
Klaus Kümmerer serves in many international committees including Global Chemical Outlook by UNEP, EU Technology Platform SusChem Europe, the Commission for Water Research of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Executive Board of the subdivision of Sustainable Chemistry in the German Chemical Society. He is also conference chair of the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference Series. He is founding editor in chief of the scientific journals Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, as well as associate editor of Chemosphere and Environmental Pollution.
His research and teaching is focused on Sustainable Chemistry, Sustainable Pharmacy, Material Resources, Aquatic Environmental Chemistry, and Time in Environmental and Sustainability Research.
Institute for Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry
www.leuphana.de/en/professorships/nachhaltige-chemie-und-ressourcen-englisch.html
International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3)
www.isc3.org
7th International Conference on Green Chemistry (IUPAC) in Moscow 2nd-5th October 2017
Prof. Gathergood presented a plenary lecture at the 7th International Conference on Green Chemistry (IUPAC) in Moscow 2nd-5th October 2017. Also in Moscow, Prof. Gathergood participated at the IUPAC
Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD) as the EuCheMS Division of Green and Sustainable Chemistry representative. The role is to foster links between IUPAC and EuCheMS green chemistry communities.
Invited lecturer at the Assessment for Planetary Boundaries for Chemical Pollution School for Young Scientists (1 October 2017)
Prof. N. Gathergood was an invited lecturer at the Assessment for Planetary Boundaries for Chemical Pollution School for Young Scientists. Talk title ‘The Design Of Safer Chemicals: Are Mineralisable Compounds an Achievable Goal?’
Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry for Sustainable Development (S3C) at Leuphana University, Germany on 25-29 September, 2017
PhD students Grete Raba and Estelle Silm along with Dr. Yevgen Karpichev have attended the Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry for Sustainable Development (S3C) at Leuphana University, Germany on 25-29 September, 2017. The participation in the event devoted to the latest developments of the concepts of sustainable chemistry and chemicals management as a part of the ERA Chair of Green Chemistry activities for student and staff training, participation in the UNESCO UNITWIN GREENOMIcS network, and continuous bilateral collaboration with Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry of Leuphana University.
3rd EuCheMS Congress on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (2017)
Prof. N.Gathergood have presented a plenary talk "Safer Chemicals: Reducing toxicity and improving biodegradation" at the 3rd EuCheMS Congress on Green and Sustainable Chemistry on the 3-6th Sept 2017. The list of plenary speakers includes Prof. J. Clark FRS, Prof. P. Anastas and Prof. B. Feringa (recipient of 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry).
https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/green/events/3eugsc/
COST CHAOS Training Summer School in TUT (2017)
Dr. Dzmitry Kananovich, Dr. Yevgen Karpichev and Prof. Nicholas Gathergood in cooperation with other TUTIC-Green members have organized a summer Training School in TUT. Training School was organised by ERA Chair on Green Chemistry in partnership with the COST Action CA15106 “C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis” (CHAOS) on August 22-25th 2017.
https://www.cost-chaos.org/training-schools
About COST Action CA15106: C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS):
https://www.cost-chaos.org
Prof. Nicholas Gathergood, Dr. Mohammed Hasan and Grete Raba were invited speakers and seminar trainers.
20th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2017)
Dr. Illia Kapitanov, Dr. Yurii Ermolovich, Dr. Dzmitry Kananovich and PhD student Estelle Silm have presented posters in 20th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2017; July 2 – 6, 2017) in Cologne, Germany (www.esoc.uni-koeln.de/)
The Bioeconomy in Transition Gela Workshop
An International Workshop on the future of Biorefineries in Europe
25-27 May 2017 , Gela, Sicily, Italy
Prof Nicholas Gathetgood is a member of the Scientific Committee
EPO workshop at TUT (16th May 2017)
EPO workshop at TUT was organised 16th May 2017.
Title: "ICT, computer-implemented inventions and climate change mitigation technologies"
TUTIC-GREEN Advisory Board Meeting in 28th March 2017
TUTIC-GREEN project Advisory Board convened at TUT to review the execution of the action plan and gave recommendations.
The 2017 Steering Committee meeting was organized in the Energy Centre, MEKTORY on the Tuesday 28th March. Confirmed external international experts from the UK, Prof. Peter Licence and Dr Janet Scott, and from Spain Prof. Miguel Delaguardia are attending.
Open Seminar (Wednesday, 22th March 2017, 10:00 am, room SCI-059)
POLYOXOTUNGSTATES: EQUILIBRIA IN SOLUTIONS, SYNTHESES, AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
Dr. Serhii Radio, Associate Professor Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University (in exile in Vinnytsia), UKRAINE
Polyoxometalates (POMs) are considered nowadays as one of the most growing fields of research. The present talk is devoted to the recent results in studying processes of polyoxometalate anions formation in an acidified aqueous and aqueous-organic solutions, and in the synthesis of pure inorganic isopoly tungstates of double-charged metal cations (Ca, Sr, Ba, Pb, Co, Ni), and heteropoly tungstates with Anderson and Peacock-Weakley types of anion. pH-potentiometric investigation of the state of polyoxometalate anions in aqueous solutions of M2WO4 – H+ – KNO3 – H2O/Solvent (M = Na, K; Solvent = dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide), Ln3+ – WO 42– – H+ – H2O (Ln = lanthanide, Y), Ni2+ – WO42– – H + – H2O, and mathematical modeling of equilibria processes in these systems will be discuss. The synthetic routes for successful salts syntheses with paratungstate B ([W12O40(OH)2]10–), decatunstate ([W10O32]4–), Anderson ([Ni(OH)6W6O18]4–), and Peacock-Weakley ([Ln(W 5O18)]9–) types of structures will be propose.
60th international Conference for Students of Physics and Natural Sciences "Open Readings-2017"
Visiting PhD students Oleskandra Mariichak and PhD students Gabor Zoltan Elek attended the 60th international Conference for Students of Physics and Natural Sciences "Open Readings-2017" which was held in Vilnius on March 14-17. They had an exciting opportunity to present their recent results in front of the top researchers as Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner of 2017 Prof. Ben L. Feringa (in photo).
MC meeting of COST Action CA15106 - C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS)
March 13-14, Dr. D. Kananovich and Dr. Ye. Karpichev have attended the MC meeting of COST Action CA15106 - C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS) in Sofia (Bulgaria).
"Functional materials and technologies” graduate school conference
March 7-8, 2017, PhD student Estelle Silm will attend the “Functional materials and technologies” graduate school conference in Tartu with a poster presentation.
Baltic Sea Future forum-2017 in Stockholm
March 6-7, 2017, Dr. Ye. Karpichev is to attend the Baltic Sea Future forum in Stockholm to discuss the partnership opportunities in the framework of the Baltic region sustainability projects.
International Solvay Institutes’ workshop “Ionic liquids: from fundamentals to applications” in Brussels
February 20-23, 2017, Grete Raba attended and had a poster presentation at the International Solvay Institutes’ workshop “Ionic liquids: from fundamentals to applications” in Brussels
(Bio)Pharma Europe high-level seminar in Brussels
February 28, 2017, Prof. N. Gathergood was an invited expert for (bio)Pharma Europe high-level seminar in Brussels . The seminar was developed around (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing of and for the future and the enabling policy environment it requires to deliver benefits to patients and innovation and contribute to EU’s competitiveness. The event was attended by high-level policy and decision-makers from the European Parliament, Commission, Council and representatives of the Member States. , Prof. Gathergood is contributing expert opinion to the white paper in preparation.
Prof. N. Gathergood have visited Imperial College London, London, UK (25th - 30th January 2017)
Professor Nicholas Gathergood have visited Imperial College London at the end of January. During the visit he have acted as the external examiner for a PhD student whose thesis includes the green and sustainable chemistry areas of ionic liquids, biomass processing and acid catalysis. A seminar providing an overview of his design and development of low toxicity and biodegradable ionic liquids and surfactants have performed.
EPO Workshop "PATENTING SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES" (2016)
Workshop on 30th November, 2016 by the European Patent Office on
PATENTING SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
The Chair of Law and Technology of Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), Innovation and Business Centre Mektory and ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, TUT are pleased to announce that Dr. Yannick Rouault, a patent expert from the European Patent Office (EPO) will be visiting Tallinn to participate in a workshop and to deliver public lectures in TUT on the policy of the patent offices and particularly the European Patent Office (EPO) ongreen patents; biofuel and biorenewable chemicals as case study; some examples of patent applications in this field; novelty and inventiveness of green patents: green doesn’t mean automatically novel and inventive, etc. The experience of the IP protection process from a research team’s perspective will also be presented by members of the Chair of Green Chemistry at TUT.
This workshop is being organized with the help of the European Patent Office and will be held on Wednesday 30th November 2016 in Mektory, Raja 15, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia.
The experts in this workshop are specialists in the field of Sustainable Technologies, Green Chemistry and Sensors. Their details are as follows:
Dr. Yannick Rouault, Examiner, EPO. He studied material science in Strasbourg (France) and Mainz University (Germany). He has a PhD in Polymer Science from Paris (Jussieu) and a Post Doc from the Max-Planck-Institut for Polymer Research (Germany). He has also worked for chemical companies in Belgium and Germany. He joined the EPO in the Polymer cluster in 1999.
Dr. Victor Borovkov, Senior Researcher, Chair of Green Chemistry (TUT). He studied at the Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, Russia. He worked in Japan for over twenty years, before joining TUT in 2015.
Prof. Nicholas Gathergood. Professor, Chair of Green Chemistry (TUT). He studied Chemistry at The University of Bath, UK and holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Southampton, UK. He joined TUT in 2015 after positions in Denmark, Australia and Ireland.
Agenda
- 10.00 - 10.20 Introductory speech on state of IP in Estonia, organised by Tallinn Law School
- 10.20 - 11.00 EPO speaker gives introductory presentation on the role, structure & processes of EPO
- 11.00 - 11.15 coffee/tea break
- 11.15 - 13.15 EPO speaker gives his topic presentation
- 13.15 - 13.45 Senior Chemistry Scientists (Professor Gathergood and Dr. Borovkov) give their presentation on IPR case studies and discuss patenting issues with the EPO expert
- 13.45 Final Q and A
TUT / Advion Ltd. Workshop with Practical Demonstrations
Direct Reaction Monitoring and Compound Identification by Mass Spectrometry
Workshop with Practical Demonstrations
jointly organized by Dr. Dzmitry Kananovich (Chair of Green Chemistry, TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY) and Advion Ltd.
Location: TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn,Estonia
- Room: SCI-059
- Date: 29th - 30th November 2016
- Time: 9:00 am - 16:00 am
Seminar "Ireland’s Pharma and Lifesciences sector" 29.09.2016
Neljapäeval, 29. septembril kell 14.00 algab Mektorys ingliskeelne seminar "Ireland’s Pharma and Lifesciences sector". Registreerimine on avatud 26. septembrini.
In Estonia, Ireland is well known as a similar centre of ICT excellence, however Ireland’s prominent role in the European pharma and lifesciences sector is less well known. This seminar aims to raise awareness about this sector in Ireland.
The event will be hosted by the Chair of Green Chemistry and the Tallinn Law School and take place in English only. We request that people register for this event. Registration to the event, by confirming participation at liina.saan@dfa.ie, is open until 26th September.
The Future of Food Waste: Challenges and Opportunities for Valorisation in Europe
Prof. Gathergood is a member of scientific advisory committee of the two-day event, entitled 'The Future of Food Waste: Challenges and Opportunities for Valorisation in Europe', will be held in Wageningen (NL) at Hotel de Wageningsche Berg, on 20th-21st September 2016.
http://costeubis.org/signup-wageningen-2016
Invited speaker at Annual meeting German Chemical Society
Prof. Gathergood is an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the working group on sustainable chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) that will take place in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Organic Chemistry, Germany from September 19 to 21 (2016). The title of his talk is ‘Atom Economy, Catalysis and Green Toxicology: Tools for the Delivery of Sustainable Chemistry based on Ionic Liquids’
TUTIC-GREEN advisory Board Member Sir Martyn Poliakoff gave lecture
TUT Honorary Doctor Sir Martyn Poliakoffi gave a public lecture „Continous Green Chemistry“ on Monday 19th of September at 10:00. TUT Building of Science
As part of Sir Martyn Poliakoff's visit to TUT he was hosted by the Chair of Green Chemistry on Saturday 17th Sept in SCI-120.
Sir Martyn gave an informal talk on Flow Chemistry followed by a Q and A session titled '25 years of Green Chemistry'.
6th EuCheMS 2016 Chemistry Congrass in Seville Spain 11th-15th September 2016
Prof. Gathergood, President of the EuCheMS Division of Green and Sustainable Chemistry, attended the EuCheMS General Assembly on the 10-11th September 2016 in Seville, Spain.
http://www.euchems.eu/about-us/general-assembly/2016-general-assembly-seville-spain/
Prof. Gathergood attended the EuCHeMS General Assembly in Seville on behalf of the Estonian Chemical Society and Division of Green and Sustainable Chemistry (DGSC). The DGSC held their annual meeting at the 6th EuCHeMS congress, http://euchems-seville2016.eu/, where Prof. Gathergood (DGSC Chairman) presented the new policy and practices guidelines for the Division. Also discussed were the Vice-Chair position, Steering Committee, DGSC conference in University of York in 2017, budget, links to the Division of Chemistry and the Environment and initiatives for 2017.
Prof. Gathergood also attended the EUCHeMS Chairs of Division meeting representing the DGSC. He also had the opportunity to promote and disseminate his groups research to congress delegates, exhibitors and publishing houses including the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley-VCH.
Scientific Session "Symmetry and Asymmetry Phenomena in Chemical, Green, and Related Sciences” at the Symmetry Festival - 2016
Prof. Nicholas Gathergood and Dr. Victor Borovkov are organizing the Scientific Session entitled "Symmetry and Asymmetry Phenomena in Chemical, Green, and Related Sciences” at the Symmetry Festival - 2016, which covers different aspects of symmetry and asymmetry phenomena in chemical, green, and related sciences, be held in Vienna, Austria on July 18-22, 2016.
http://festival.symmetry.hu/programs/symposia-sessions-workshops/
Scientific Symposia "18. Chirality and Spatially Pre-Organized Multi-Porphyrins with Induced Properties"
Dr. Victor Borovkov is co-organizing the Scientific Symposia entitled “18. Chirality and Spatially Pre-Organized Multi-Porphyrins with Induced Properties” for the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9) be held in Nanjing, China on July 3-8, 2016.
http://www.icpp-spp.org/general/symposia.php
Scientific Session "B08 Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines, and Supramolecular Assemblies” at the 229th Electrochemical Society Meeting
Dr. Victor Borovkov has been participating in the 229th ECS Meeting in San Diego, U.S.A. (May 29 to June 2, 2016) as a chairman of the scientific session "B08 Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines, and Supramolecular Assemblies” " by V.V.r m Group, Hydro Quebec, Mattson, Oxford Instrumentsd., Philips, Soitecand presented an invited talk entitled “Application of Ethane-Bridged Bis-Porphyrin Structural Motif for Effective Supramolecular Chirogenesis, Sensor Development, and Light Harvesting Systems”. This meeting was a forum for sharing the latest scientific and technical developments in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology. Scientists, engineers and industry leaders have come from around the world to attend the technical symposia, poster sessions, professional development workshops, networking opportunities and social events offered at the meetings. There were 2,233 total abstracts, including 561 keynote, invited, award winning, and oral presentations, as well as over 475 posters. The current trends in green and sustainable chemistry have been particularly highlighted in the scientific fields of low cost energy storage, efficient fuel cells, solar energy conversion, ionic liquid application as electrolytes, renewable fuels via artificial photosynthesis and electrolysis, sustainable materials and manufacturing, and others.
https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/229/webprogram/programs.html
Public lectures by the European Patent Office (19th May 2016)
The Chair of Law and Technology of Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) Innovation and Business Centre Mektory and ERA Chair of Green Chemistry are pleased to announce that patent experts from the European Patent Office will be visiting Tallinn to deliver public lectures in TUT.
The lectures are being organized with the help of the European Patent Office and will be held on Thursday 19th May 2016 in TUT.
Invited speaker at Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference
Prof. Gathergood is an invited speaker at the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference 3 - 6 April 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Berlin, Germany. The title of his talk is ’Atom Economy, Catalysis and Green Toxicology: Tools for the Delivery of Sustainable Chemistry based on Ionic Liquids’.
http://www.greensuschemconf.com/
http://www.greensuschemconf.com/bio-gathergood.asp
COST-EC Joint Exploratory Workshop 2016
Chair holder Professor Nicholas Gathergood and project coordinator Dr. Aivar Auväärt attended COST-EC Joint workshop in Brussels in May to strengthen the existing initiatives under the Widening Pillar of Horizon 2020 by gathering all relevant stakeholders, by creating a common understanding of the instruments and strategies in place, and by analysing the potential for increased interaction and collaboration.
TUTIC-GREEN Advisory Board Meeting in March 2016
TUTIC-GREEN project Advisory Board convened at TUT to review the execution of the action plan and gave recommendations.
ERA CHAIRS funding programme meeting in Brussels
Chair holder Professor Nicholas Gathergood and project coordinator Dr. Aivar Auväärt attended ERA CHAIRS funding programme meeting in Brussels in December to discuss the lessons learnt by FP7 ERA Chair project, share best practices and exchange with the new coordinators of the Horizon 2020 ERA Chair projects.
Invited talks at Conferences
Dr. Victor Borovkov has presented invited talks at South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan China December 27-28, 2015.
Dr. Victor Borovkov has presented invited talks and served as a member of the corresponding International Advisory Committees at The International Conference on Polymers and Advanced Materials (POLYMAT-2015), at Huatulco, Mexico, October 18-22, 2015, and New Horizons in Synthetic and Materials Chemistry (ICSMC-2015) at Mumbai, India, November 26-28
Green Chemistry Processing Workshop at TUT in September 2015
Green Chemical Processing of Food Supply Chain Waste:
"Green synthetic methodologies to transform Food Waste into Value added Chemicals"
COST ACTION TD1203 WG3 Workshop Meeting 8-9th September 2015, Tallinn, Estonia
Location: TUT, Tallinn, Estonia
Invited speakers from over 10 European countries and Brazil will present a wide range of topics including synthetic chemistry, biocatalysis, biomass valorisation, platform molecules and green chemistry relevant to food waste valorisation.
FP7 ITN REFINE Final update meeting to be held at TUT in September 2015
REFINE (REnewable FunctIoNal matErial ) aims to develop sustainable routes to functional materials (green routes) for various polymer/plastic applications. The network makes use of integrated approaches combining green raw materials, green synthesis (biotechnology) and green processing. This is complemented by critical life cycle analyses and end-user benchmarking.
Presentations by PhD students and postdocs to academic and industrial REFINE partners took place in TUT campus on the 7th and 8th Sept. 2015.
Invited talk at major Ionic Liquids conference COIL6
Prof. Nicholas Gathergood presented ‘Atom economy, catalysis and green toxicology: Tools for the delivery of sustainable chemistry based on ionic liquids’ as part of the ‘Organic Synthesis and Catalysis session at the 6th International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-6), 16-20.6.2015, Jeju City, South Korea. He also had the pleasure of chairing the session, in particular introducing the esteemed colleagues in the field including co-chair Prof. Cinzia Chiappe.