Number: 2002-028-1-300
Title: South East Asian, and neighbouring countries,
Green Chemistry Network
Task Group Chairman: Janet
L. Scott
Members: Stephanie
G. Burton, Kin
Shing Chan, Fabian
M. Dayrit, Qing-Xiang
Guo, Chee-Cheong Ho,
Mazaahir Kidwai,
Sunggak Kim,
T.P. Loh, Christopher
R. Strauss, Supawan
Tantayanon, and Laurence
Weatherley
Completion Date: project abandoned
Objective:
To develop a South East Asia and Neighbouring Countries Green Chemistry
Network for the purposes of facilitating greater collaboration in
research and education in Green Chemistry throughout the region.
Description:
The 'S.E. Asia and Neighbouring Countries Green Chemistry Network'
would be a body designed to actively promote the development of
Green Chemistry, at both a research and educational level. The network,
which would be held together by strands of student exchange, would
be designed to foster the development of greater collaboration between
complementary research efforts in neighbouring countries, with the
goal of providing local industries with better access to developments
at the forefront of Green Chem research in the context of each nation's
current state of industrialisation.
The primary goal would be to facilitate the development
of truly collaborative research projects by: i) effecting dual supervision
of research students, and actual translocation to the partner's
laboratories, during the course of their postgraduate degrees. ii)
development of a database of researchers active in Green Chemistry
in the region (listing their affiliations, expertise, major research
areas and other pertinent information) to allow effective dissemination
of information and the building of teams of collaborating research
groups designed to provide task groups focused on specific research
problems which are either, unique to the region, or are of major
interest to industries in the region; iii) maintenance of an up-to-date
website where scientists and other interested parties access information
about activities of the network participants; iv) meetings at international
conferences or virtual meetings via electronic media; v) distribution
of newsletters and bulletins describing activities and opportunities
and providing a forum for exchange of information.
This network will serve to: a) promote high quality
collaborative research in Green Chemistry in the region; b) assist
chemistry related industry in its contributions to sustainable development
and wealth creation, thereby improving quality of life; c) facilitate
effective channels of communication in the regional, and the greater
international, chemistry community; d) assist in promoting the service
of chemistry to society in all participating nations; e) enhance
education in Green Chemistry by encouraging resource sharing and
exchange of ideas; f) aid in the career development of young chemists
by exposing them to a range of researchers with diverse but complimentary
areas of expertise across national boundaries; and g) encourage
information dissemination by both formal and informal means.
