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Prague will symbolically celebrate this important
anniversary by organizing the World Chemical Congress of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), which will take place in the Czech
capital in 2029.
Prague won the opportunity to host the prestigious
international event, which is, every two years, attended by several
thousand experts in the field of chemistry. Its importance is accentuated by
the meeting of the IUPAC General Assembly and the IUPAC Council
as the highest body of the Union. In the Hague, the Netherlands,
representatives of the Czech and Slovak Chemical Society and the Prague
Convention Bureau, the umbrella organization for the Prague meetings industry,
presented he proposal that received the strongest support in a secret ballot of
delegates of all national organizations of IUPAC member states. "We ran for
the World Chemical Congress two years ago already, unfortunately
unsuccessfully. I am very pleased that we successfully presented the winning
proposal this year, beating the competing destinations, which were the
Asian cities of Chengdu and Taipei, and Düsseldorf in Germany. I believe
that in 2029 we will present an interesting congress program, the main topic of
which should be "Frontiers in Chemistry: For the Harmony of Civilization
with Nature", and which will build on the long and famous scientific
research tradition of Czech and Slovak chemistry," says prof. Dr. RNDr.
Pavel Matějka, Chairman of the congress and Rector of the University
of Chemistry and Technology in Prague.
"The main topic and title of the congress point
to the fact that today's civilization cannot exist without the products of
chemical production. However, for the sake of sustainability,
it is necessary to diminish the negative effects that production and
its outputs have on nature and on the natural processes," adds prof. Jiří
Vohlídal from Charles University, currently the Chairman of the Czech
Chemical Society, adding: "In addition to this focus, the proposal
includes a special symposium on electrochemistry to celebrate symbolically
the 70th anniversary of prof. Jaroslav Heyrovský’s Nobel Prize as
part of the congress."
However, the Prague edition of the congress, which
will take place at the Prague Congress Centre, will not only be exceptional for
its connection to important personalities of Czech science. For the first
time in the history of this event, the winning proposal for organizing the
congress was submitted jointly by two national chemical societies –
the Czech and the Slovak. "The joint candidacy of the Czech and
Slovak Chemical Societies was one of the strengths of the proposal. This
uniqueness resulted from the common history and tradition of chemistry in the
once unified country. Cooperation between the two countries has been maintained
to this day, at various levels, from informal collaboration and national
support of joint projects to regular joint conferences in individual fields of
chemistry, through organizing umbrella chemistry congresses and, last but
not least, organizing such important events as the International Chemistry
Olympiad. That is why I am extremely pleased that thanks to winning this
prestigious congress, we have the opportunity to jointly present the strong
position of chemistry in our countries," adds prof. Igor Lacík
from the Institute of Polymers of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in
Bratislava, Vice-Chairman of the Congress and representative of the Slovak
Chemical Society. Professor Lacík has been engaged at IUPAC for a long time and
will be President of the Union's Polymer Division from 2024 to 2027, and a
member of the IUPAC Scientific Council between 2024 and 2025.
The organization of this congress will bring the Czech
and the international chemical professional public the opportunity to present
their recent discoveries, but also to discuss the latest trends in the
field. This way, the event will contribute to the further development
of chemical research in our country, the results of which will
subsequently benefit the public. "At the same time, chemical processes are
one of the strategic fields that the City of Prague focuses on in its Regional
Innovation Strategy – RIS 3. It identifies sectors in which Prague has a
comparative advantage over other destinations and in which it produces results
with high added value. Obtaining this congress means not only an immediate
economic benefit for Prague in the form of the stay of 4,000 delegates for
the entire week of the congress, but especially an influx of global
know-how in the field, which in the long term will help
to the strategic direction and future development of the metropolis.
All this contributes to the internationalization of Czech and Slovak
science and the application of research results in practice, which
subsequently benefits the general public," adds Ing. Michaela Smetanová,
Senior Manager - Business Events at Prague Convention Bureau, who participated
in presenting the congress offer of Prague and the overall implementation
and organizational aspects of the proposal as part of the candidacy.
The candidacy for the World Chemical Congress was
carried out with the support of the City of Prague, the CzechTourism
/ Czech Convention Bureau and C-IN, which, among other things, created a
video clip for the candidacy inviting world personalities of chemistry to
Prague for the World Chemical Congress in 2029.
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Credit: © Prague Convention Bureau
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