EU Workshop on „Sustainable Chemistry –
Implementation of a Scientific Concept in Policy and Economy“
1st Day, Tuesday, 15.05.2007
09.00
Registration at Bundespressezentrum
10.00
Opening
Reiner Arndt, Head of Department Chemical Safety
(Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety, Germany)
Session 1: Sustainable Chemistry and its Instruments
Chair: Petra Greiner (Federal Environment Agency, Germany)
10.15
"Sustainable chemicals in the product chain"
Klaus Günter Steinhäuser (Federal Environment Agency, Germany)
10.45
"Sustainable Development? - Not without Chemistry!"
Wolfram Koch (German Chemical Society, Germany)
11.15
Coffee/Tea Break and Informal Networking
11.45
"Chemical Leasing - Selling services instead of barrels"
Thomas Jakl (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and
Water Management, Austria)
12.15
"Green Chemistry: Locating the Concept"
Ken Geiser (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
12.45
"Clean reagents, green catalysis and new reaction
conditions"
Pietro Tundo (University of Venice, Italy)
13.15
Lunch
Session 2: Technologies and Applications in Sustainable Chemistry
Chair: Klaus Günter Steinhäuser (Federal Environment
Agency, Germany)
14.30
"Chemicals with Low Persistence and Spatial Range - A Contribution
to Sustainable Chemistry"
Martin Scheringer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich)
15.00
"Application-Proof Chemical Agents for a New Quality of Work"
Rolf Packroff (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, Germany)
15.30
"Innovating for a Better Future - Putting
Sustainable Chemistry into Action"
Rüdiger Iden (BASF, Germany)
16.00
Coffee/Tea Break and Informal Networking
16.30
"Innovative approaches to screen for human health hazard"
Ursula Gundert-Remy (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany)
17.00
"Technology Forum"
Claudia Brasse (Degussa, Germany)
17.30
Proceedings of OECD-activities and Summary 1. Day
Henrik Harjula (OECD)
18.00
Canapé Reception
at BPA
2nd Day, Wednesday, 16.05.2007
09.00
Opening and Introduction
to Session 3: Workshops
Steffi Richter (Federal Environment Agency, Germany)
09.30
WORKSHOPS
• "Substitution of Hazardous Substances"
Introduction by Arnim von Gleich (Dept. Production
Engineering, University Bremen)
• "Networking"
Introduction by Malcolm Wilkinson (Institution of Chemical
Engineers, UK)
• "Pulling up Talents"
Introduction by Ilka Parchmann (Institut für Reine und Angewandte
Chemie, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
and Müfit
Bahadir (Braunschweig University of Technology, Institute
of Ecological Chemistry and Waste Analysis)
11.30
Coffee/Tea Break
12.00
Final Plenary Discussion
Chair: Klaus Günter Steinhäuser (Federal Environment
Agency, Germany)
Conclusions of the Conference
13.00
End of Conference