January 2024 Connections Part 2/2
“Jens Krol and Juanita Halblaub will present products the ISC3 is developing and are looking forward to getting as much feedback as possible! ISC3 stands for “International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Center” and is a center based in Bonn, Germany, funded by the German government, that promotes sustainable chemistry across sectors and actors. An important area of intervention of the center are academic and non-academic education.
Jens is from the Netherlands, has a master’s in biotechnology and has worked as a chemistry teacher in the Netherlands and in Afghanistan through a special program of the German government. He currently manages the educational activities of ISC3. He loves Chemistry education and is therefore very happy to be part of this Green Chemistry Connection.
Juanita holds an MBA in international business and works at the ISC3 on the topic of sustainable chemistry innovation. She currently works on a publication that discusses examples of Sustainable Chemistry and is excited to share some of those examples with you.”
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Video Table of Contents:
0:00 Introductions
1:37 Juanita and Jens’s Presentation
29:49 Updates from the Beyond Benign Higher Ed Team
So our next presentation will be from Yen croll and Juanita HBL um Yen and Juanita will present products that the isc3 is developing and are looking forward to getting as much feedback from you guys as possible um the isc3 stands for international sustainable chemistry Collective Center chemistry collaborative Center sorry and
Is a center based in Bond Germany funded by the German government that promotes sustainable chemistry across sectors and actors an important area of intervention of the center is academic and non-ac academic education so just to introduce the two speakers yens is from the Netherlands has a masters of biotechn
Biotechnology and has worked as a GRE as a chemistry teacher in the Netherland in the Netherlands and in Afghanistan through a special program of the German government he currently manages the educational activities of the isc3 he loves chemistry education is therefore very very happy to be a part of this
Green chemistry connection next um Wanita holds an MBA in international business and works at the isc3 in on the topic of sustainable chemistry Innovation she currently works on a publication that discusses examples of sustainable chemistry and is excited to share some of those examples with you
Today so you got um want you I think you’re the one sharing um so go for it thank you very much Jasmine for the nice introduction I am going to share my screen with you um I think is it working yeah present is in presentation mode yeah ah yes not in presentation oh
There we go there perfect thank you very much so hello everyone as jasine mentioned my name is Juanita and I work at the ic3 the international sustainable chemistry collaborative Center so there are a lot of pleas there so just I3 for you guys um today we’re here because we
Want to present and talk about a paper that I’m working that it’s called easing the access to the concept of sustainable chemistry through practical examples but before that I just want you to introduce you to the I3 what we do what we are because I’m guessing not all of you know
Us so we are International Center that and we’re fostering the transition of the chemical and chemical rate related sectors toward sustainable Chemistry by promoting a circular economy and striving to implement um different aspects of sustainability at every step of the life cycle it can be products and also changing the stakeholder behavior
And I mean to change the chemical and chemical related sectors is a very big task so we the I3 have all fields of of actions to do so and three different partner organizations yens and me were’re working at the jet which is the German develop development agencies we are international uh agency
We are in over 120 countries and we’re focusing in policy and stakeholder dialogue also research and knowledge and of course in education and we also double in Innovation deima our other partner it’s the German Society of bio technology and chemistry and there together with their experts we help entrepreneurs and startups grow their
Business ideas in the topic of sustainable chemistry and then our third partner is the Lana University which is a university in Northern Germany in unorg and they have a master in sustainable chemistry and NBA in sustainable chemistry so as you can see we have these different fields of
Actions and we’re trying just to Advocate sustainable chemistry in all of the different directions and cooperate with different organizations and stakeholders to achieve this change and you know we have a lot of projects and we do a lot of things and I would love to sit here and tell you
Everything what we do and what yans do but I am going just to talk about sustainable chemistry for a bit and about the paper because it’s the main thing for today and I would love later on in the breakout room to sit with you guys together together and discuss one
Example and I want you to tell me is it sustainable or not so let’s keep going as many might know the discussion about green and sustainable chemistry is not exactly a new discussion this is something that it has been going on over the past decades and many organizations
Have published um about green and sustainable chemistry what it means to them and of course this is something that have been developed over time because what we deem sustainable in the past we not we we don’t deem it sustainable right now and things that we might have been sustainable right now
Might not be sustainable in the future so this has been a whole process of a development of the definition and as you heard from uh colen he is working in the manuals and they also have um different things on how to follow to implement sustainable and green chemistry
And we also publish a paper with our 10 key characteristic of sustainable chemistry and I just wanted to show you them to you as you can see here in number nine green chemistry it’s part of sustainable chemistry green chemistry is the basis of sustainable chemistry but we add other key components as for
Example number four the ethical and social responsibility we think that the products that are being produced has to have a Social and ethical responsibility to communities human rights have to be respected while producing these products vulnerable groups have to be taken into account fair fair salaries have to be
Paid sustainable chemistry we also for example number five we Foster collaboration on transparency meaning that we want everyone to exchange knowledge collaborate together and come together and discuss about if this sustainable or not if this product chemical sustainable or not so as you can see in the T characteristics there are other things
That you know and might be very similar to Green chemistry like the life cycle is the number 10 eight is circularity and we have a whole paper in this so if you are interested in learning more about key characteristics we can sit down together and you can take a read
And then we can have a call and sit them together and go through them but these key characteristics is something that we publish and still it’s not a definition of sustainable chemistry so we are trying as the ic3 to move forward and see like how can we create a shared understanding meaning
How can we have people coming together and all knowing sustainable chemistry as something that is giv that when we are talking about chemistry that is something sustainable as you know there is like the sustainability aspects and here we have the three sustainability um considerations the first one of Call Of
Course the ecology then we have the economy and then the socially and when we talk about sustainability we have to talk of this model and we need to meet all of the three without compromising one of them otherwise it’s not being sustainable and even thought we have this knowledge it’s
In the name of sustainable chemistry nevertheless still we have an approach or we haven’t created this common understanding then there is also um the fbgs which are also part of sustainable chemistry and here you can see a wedding cake presentation as proposed as by the stocko resilience
Center and here with the pick in the bottom one you can see the biosphere then we have the sdgs that we see as a society and then the top ones are the one that we see the economic economic in economy meaning that all of these are together and we cannot
Have the three dimensions or the three tis be look at it alone it emphasizes the idea that a healthy biosphere is a foundation for social well-being and ultimately for Prosperity or economy um yes and we think and we believe that if we achieve sustainable chemistry we can achieve most of all of the
Goals but if we know all of this and we have many Publications about this but still there is no common understanding and still no one is applying this and sometimes even some of our stakeholders for example our startup entrepreneurs they are not sure if they are ideas are fitting in sustainable
Chemistry then something is wrong right we have to create and we have to advocate for everyone to understand that sustainability is something that we all need in all sectors especially in chemistry we’re trying to do this now by this new publication that I am that we together are
Creating called eing the access to the concept of sustainable chemistry through practical examples because we’re hoping that through to exchange with different stakeholders and having examples where people can look at them and see oh this might fit in my sector or I might be when I use this idea to create something
Similar we can help have a Shar understanding of what is being sustainable in the chemistry and chemistry related sectors for that we had many is3 stakeholders sent us their case studies we had and about 75 different ones and from the 75 we chose 10 different they are from different
Sectors primary secondary and tertiary sector we also have different uh countries in there a wide range of different Industries as well as different stakeholders like some examples are from Academia some examples are from entrepreneurs and from these examples we had a number of experts looking through them and evaluating the examples and
Discussing and from this we’re creating the paper right now so for example one of the examples that we had is bio Leasing and detergent and yen is actually an expert about that maybe Yen you would like to say something about it thanks hanita um yeah I’m I’m just
Going to say a little bit about one of the examples which is bioside leasing the many of you might be familiar with a business model chemical leasing chemical leasing is um an innovative business model where um you know in the in the conventional model the more chemicals
You sell the more you earn but in chemical leasing um we want to change the tonage so the amount of chemicals by um uh by the knowledge and by um the the performance that the the chemicals actually uh give so U we want to to switch uh that the more chemicals you
Sell the more you earn rather change it for the less you sell but the better they perform the more you earn so in the in the end this uh the the the the business model of chemical leasing should result in a lower production of chemicals and by this rather than um uh
Sharing chemicals chemical companies should share the knowledge and and um uh uh um yeah and apply the chemicals in the best way and I will give you an example now with biocides because we think that biocides are a possible application for chemical leasing for example in hospitals now if right now a
Hospital wants to disinfect the hospital they might spray as much chemical as possible just to make make sure that all the germs are killed but in a chemical leasing model a company would for example sell okay I can disinfect effects 200 hospital beds for you and
They would do it in the most efficient uh way in a way that uh both the effect uh like the the the service the performance is delivered uh but at the same time um as little chemicals as possible are are used so if you apply bio chemical leasing to biocides you
Have a bioid leasing model and this is a bit it’s a bit complicated there are many aspects to this like what makes it sustainable what maybe doesn’t make it sustainable so we had a workshop about that and we discussed um who is included here a few of the notes that people uh
Left uh left us on this topic and um ultimately we want to gather um as much feedback on this topic as possible and H is now Gathering all those things all those um comments by the experts and trying to um um yeah um bundle them in a in a
Publication yes thank you very much and important to say as well is that the 10 examples that we have chosen there are not perfect examples but this is something that it’s what I love to discuss what can we do to make this more sustainable so in our breakout sessions
I want you to be the experts and I want to go with you through one of the example and discuss and just exchange opinions of why the example is sustainable or not and I’m super excited to hear from you and to learn from you um we are going to be
Talking about example number five Earth brick Philippines but I will explain everything to you in the breakout rooms um I will share with you also a Myro board where we we can work together and yeah I’m very excited of your feedback thank you very much and I think now Yen would like to
Talk to you about his learning module thanks Janita um yeah I’m going to talk about something that is different but also connected to this um but I think important to know like maybe you have a lot of questions already for Juanita and um but we’re also a little
Bit short in the time so I’m just going to do my presentation but you can send F all your questions directly now or you can join her in the breakout room later and um then you can talk more about it with her and if something coms up later
You can also send her an email maybe we can put our email addresses in the in the chat later on at the end of the session I’m going to talk about two uh uh e-learning um uh products that we are developing uh one about Plastics and Sustainable Building it’s already there
That one is already finished and I’m going to give us a short reflection on what we learned there and then I’m going to the main part is is going to be about a new training about sustainable chemistry and um there I’m really looking forward to get a as much
Feedback from you guys as possible like especially about use cases because we already started developing a lots of the materials based on all the things that that Juanita has been working on and a lot of things that we already have in the isc3 but we kind of forgot about
Some of the leading questions that that Colin spoke about when he talked about the um education manual uh which is basically about what is a target audience who is going to use those materials and what kind of skills want we do we want people to develop or what
Kind of results do we want to get out of this uh this training material so since we’re with a lot of Education experts I’m looking forward to get your opinion maybe you think like oh that’s super interesting I want to work on this and I want to use it in this and this
Situation like I’m happy to work with anyone because um right now I’m just I’m working on this but I’m still looking a little bit for a target audience but let’s get started um so first I’m going to talk about an old training that we did like
Uh the previous uh uh or our pre one of our Focus topics was Plastics and Sustainable Building and um we did a lot of stakeholder workshops about this topic and bundled all this knowledge in a very big report um which consisted in the end about four subtopics
An introduction then uh a part about urbanization affordable housing and resilience uh human health aspects of plastics and environment aspects of plastics and resource demand and recycling so this topic of plastics and construction is it’s actually very important uh topic because out of all the Plastics that we produce um most of
Them go into packaging but the construction sector is the second sector with more or less 20% of all the Plastics produced and we all know examples like uh PVC that is are used very abundantly but Plastics are also used in in different ways and they have implications for for example our human
Health because we mix in plasticizers fire um uh um I don’t know like uh the word is just gone but like or for example um uh um yeah uh we mixing all kinds of stuff in in the Plastics and that leads to um that leads to um yeah to many problems
With regards to recyclability and our human health but also there are some positive aspects that you can think of um many the world population is growing very quickly and uh in many especially African countries affordable housing is really a big problem I’m not I don’t know also in European countries
Affordable housing is just a problem worldwide and it can help us um um solve that so we have a huge publication about this you can find everything on our website but we also changed this into an e-learning and for that we use the AI platform aeni is an e-learning platform based on
Moodle it’s um AI is a an e-learning platform that is owned by the German government and it’s being used by uh um yeah by especially by development cooporation related projects and we published all our materials right there and we put the link already in the chat
So you can uh register for this now and go through everything you don’t have to complete everything because I will later in my Reflections tell you that it’s a very long um process it will take you about 10 hours to go through everything but you can just register and look at
The things that we developed um it looks like this uh there are many tiles you can click on them and um then you will see short videos you will read some texts and there are some assessment exercises for example this question um after reading about which region
Produces the most Plastics uh you get an A a question that asks you what region it is maybe you know maybe you don’t I I know the answer but I’m I’m not going to tell you maybe you can uh put your answer in the chat and we can at the end
Of the session I can tell you what the actual answer was and we also ask our students to um write an essay which is afterwards being graded um for example sometimes we enter into cooperations with an educational Institution for example in December we work together with um lch university which is a
University from Nigeria where students went through this whole um e-learning they had to write essays and lectures from lch graded the um the entries of of their students um and at the end people receive a certificate which is uh for some people an incentive to do this uh
Learning so what did I learn from from that um well first of all there’s a big demand to learn more about construction chemicals we get many questions about that um construction chemicals are an important topic I don’t know I don’t remember if colen mentioned it but and I
Know that unep is currently also work has worked a lot on this topic published many uh Publications about um the effect of construction chemicals my learning about or e-learning is that it was it’s B tedious it was very long uh and it’s very much content focused and it’s especially because we developed the
Report and from that we developed e-learning materials but we didn’t really look at the target audience and that’s something that I want to change in our uh new um oh I’m going through all of them quickly in our new uh course I I really want to make it better
By uh looking at skills or uh the outcomes and the target group that we want to work with um so what we already already developed is basically two parts part one is about the concept of sustainable chemistry it’s more or less what Hita just explained to you and part
Two is about assessing case studies that’s the other part that need to explain to you so first of all we talk about what is sustainable chemistry we look at for example green chemistry and other Frameworks um and then the second part people assess case studies for example the bio sites leasing that I
Just mentioned another example is the example of um I forgot the name the bricks from uh the the the H maybe you can help me you’re going to talk about bricks in Earth bricks Earth bricks in which country was it Philippines in the Philippines right so that’s another
Example that people will assess um and I’m going to explain if there is time another example to you soon um so I want you all to think about as possible you use case for those materials what could be a target audience what are the result resulting what could be resulting
Resulting impacts from this course learning outcomes for students and um if you’re interested in working with us just leave your email address here so we can go through this in the breakout room session uh later but maybe you you don’t want to talk with me about
This because you want to talk to Hita or you want to talk with the um GCC team or with Beyond B9 so if you can’t join uh you can answer any of those questions right now in a direct message to me here in uh in uh in
Zoom um also if you just you can also just leave your email address and I can reach out to you we can have a quick call together and see how we can work on this um I want to go quickly through this course so that you have an idea
What it’s about um it’s um right now it’s it’s already too long like to go through everything it cost you a few hours and I want to break it up into smaller bits and pieces so that people can use it um where they think it’s a
Smart point to use it for example if you’re a professor you might want like you might want to use one of the examples but maybe not go through everything about green chemistry because your students already know what it is but if you are a high school teacher and
You’re just you only want to talk about green chemistry you might just select that part um who has already explained to you um so I work for the I3 we talk about sustainable chemistry sustainable the core of sustainable chemistry is green chemistry but it’s also more uh for
Example some social aspects which is uh are all things that you learn about in this uh course for example um how are women disadvantaged in the chemical sectors um the which is a social aspect an example of a social aspect that also is also explained in this uh course but
We developed a lot of things about green chemistry as well so much that we can even start a separate course only about green chemistry just using all those materials so I have to order those things a little bit and see uh um yeah what we can do for example um yeah we
Have uh questions about all the 12 principles and um for to develop all this which I did together with one with a colleague of mine we um uh used lots of Mater the materials that we found on the Beyond B9 websites and um yeah the the resources that Beyond B9 has is are
Just amazing and they really helped us in developing most of those things um however just presented our own key characteristics um which are also introduced in this course then the second part is about the assessment of the case studies and here I’m going to try to actually go into the e-learning system
Now so that um so that I can show it you how do I do this in the best possible way um okay it is yeah am I still sharing no right I’m still sharing okay perfect so um this is the aeni system and here are the tiles and I’m
Not going to show you everything I’m just going to show you the assessments because I think it’s the most interesting part um I just explained you something about chemical leasing which is here explained in a bit more detail just a small text we want to do
This for all the all of the examples but we’re still working on this and then you go into the assessments parts and you get 10 questions based on the uh key characteristics for example we have our precautionary principle where you want to avoid transfer of problems and costs into other uh domains
Spheres and regions at the outset preventing future legacies and taking care of the legacies of past of the past including linked responsibilities is um this principle fulfilled in the case of chemical using so I already answered the question I said no just to test the system and I
Said it’s incorrect well let’s guess something else oh I cannot try again that’s a Pity let’s just move to the next example and then we can uh see how it works um for example system thinking is system thinking fulfilled in case of chemical using I think so let’s say yes and let’s
Check and it says it’s correct now then uh we ask the Learners how or why is it fulfilled I really I’m under a lot of pressure now so I don’t really know how to answer this question so I’m going to say test answer and we will check and the system should give some
Feedback and people can Learners can compare their own answer with the feedback that is being given now I think it’s a little bit boring to to go through all this so I’m thinking I’m I’m really thinking of a way to make this more exciting so if you have ideas
Please share them with me um but otherwise I think we might yeah we might bring it down to for example not going through all the key characteristics or um yeah or or doing it in a bit of a different way anyway so this is this is the direction that we’re thinking it’s
Still really much in development so for this specific course you cannot register right now because it’s not published yet it’s not open I I’m just but if you really want to see it I can um add you to it and I’m always happy to discuss about it let’s just quickly finish my
Presentation here Um I have to present yes this is where I was but now I showed it in real life so I don’t have to talk about this and then yeah actually I’m already done with my presentation so this was everything so I just present presented the new e-learning that we are developing and
I’m really looking forward to get some feedback on that so if you want to help me out here join me in this next breakout room or send me a message or an email and um yeah thanks to be9 for giving me some time to present it thank
You one short thing that I want to mention is that the paper that I’m writing and Yen’s course are together so my part is the background and then with the results of the paper the course is going to be made and also if you want to teach your students about sustainable
Chemistry you think that this course might be cool for you you can be one of the better testers with your class I mean that would be great thank you connect with people um we’ll now go on to um some updates from the h team so I’ll hand it off to Juliana for thank
You so much gagan so our team has some updates for you and the first one is our green chemistry commitment info session so if you guys here in the call you’re not uh participants of the green chemistry commitment program if you want to know about what the green chemistry
Commitment program is so on it’s next Tuesday we’ll be there talking about um the event the program and all the benefits and also we’ll have nazarine from Texas Women’s University I’m giving a talk about her um and her commitment to Green chemistry in her tions so um I
Believe Chloe will drop the link on the chat for the people who would want to register thanks Chloe um so I’m looking forward to to seeing you all on January 23rd the next news that I have is that um we’re going to be organizing a workshop with the University of Toronto
And this Workshop is about GRE chemistry and ways you can apply on green chemistry in your research and your environment so this is going to happen on March 6 at 10:30 a am this Workshop is open to undergrad students graduate graduate students and postdocs if you’re around the University of Toronto you can
Be there in person if you’re not around the University of jonto if you’re on the other side of the world you can join us virtually and participate in those workshops so we’ll thrilled to host that with University of Toronto and we hope to see you
There uh the next news that I have is that you can find a beond b 19 next to you in all of these conferences that are happening this year so we’ll be at the ACs spring meeting in March uh we’re also going to be at the CSC which is the
Canadian conference in Winnipeg also at the biannual conference on chemical education and the green chemistry and Engineering conference in Atlanta in June we have a next slide yes and for the participants of our green canist commitment we started the planning our green chemistry commitment Summit so
We’re very excited to host all of you and and see all the amazing things you’re doing to implementing chemistry see how we can support you so be ready we’re going to come up with some news with some dates and everything soon to all of you but just just keep in mind
That our G chemistry commitment Summit is going to happen this year and it’s coming very soon so um our next event our next wi chemistry connections is happening on February 21st and same time we’ll be here and you’re going to learn more about green chemistry into lab modules
And Beyond so join us for another green chemistry connections if you’re registered for this one you’re also going to receive the invites for the next one but if you know someone that’s not registered please feel free to send us to send these people the information and I think this is it we
Would like to thank all of our sponsors um for the organization all the people involved at yomine I’d like to thank thank all of our speakers Colin Yen tonita you’re awesome I love the presentations we I did I had a wonderful time knowing all of the things so thank
You very much for that I hope you had a wonderful time too and all of the participants thank you for joining us thanks for thank you for being here and being the amazing people you are so thank you so much and uh if you need anything you know where we are so thank
You very much thank you bye thank you thanks everyone bye bye bye thank you bye thank you thank you very much Goodbye