SusChemSys

SusChemSys is an interdisciplinary network between chemistry and process engineering promoting the exchange of industry representatives with PIs and doctoral students from various universities and non-university research institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and enabling cross-disciplinary meetings. The programme complements the education of doctoral students in chemistry and process engineering with aspects of sustainability by coordinating activities such as excursions to industrial partners and soft skill workshops. Doctoral students can be proposed for the programme by the participating PIs. A management board, consisting of representatives of all partners, decides on the admission of the applicants to the programme. The projects within the framework of SusChemSys come from the fields of chemistry and process engineering. The focus is on sustainable developments in syntheses and processes. Possible subject areas include: • Chemical catalysis, electrochemical synthesis, photochemistry • Novel strategies / methods for synthesis and process management, holistic process analysis • Circular economy, recycling and upcycling, waste as raw material, CO2 activation and use • Use of renewable raw materials, taking into account the sustainability of the cultivation SusChemSys is coordinated by the Center for Molecular Transformations of RWTH Aachen University.