Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region 3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Session 2. Science and Society - Identifying Priorities and New Technologies Challenges

1. Greening Chemistry
The Mediterranean Green Chemistry
Network, MEGREC
Pietro Tundo
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

2. Mediterranean Basin UNITWIN Network for Green Chemistry
MEGREC UNITWIN Network 731
University Twinning and Networking
70 UNITWIN Networks

3. List of UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in
the field of Chemistry:
• Angola
UNESCO Chair in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (2) - Agostinho Neto University, within
the framework of the Santander Group - established in 1994.
• China
UNESCO/SHELL Chair in Coal Gasification (620) - Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Taiyuan, Sahanxi - established in 2003.
• France
UNESCO Chair in Applied Membrane Sciences for Environment (660)- Ecole Nationale Supérieure
de Chimie de Montpellier, Institut Européen des Membranes, Montpellier - established in 2004.
• Germany
UNESCO Chair in Macromolecular Characterization (645) - University of Technology and
German Institute for Polymers, Darmstadt - established in 2004.
• Italy
Mediterranean Basin UNITWIN Network for Green Chemistry (MEGREC UNITWIN Network)
(731), Ca’ Foscari, Venice - established in 2006.
• Uzbekistan
UNESCO Chair in Green Chemistry (627) - Uzbekistan National University - established in 2003.

4. Mediterranean Basin UNITWIN Network for Green Chemistry
MEGREC UNITWIN Network 731
Established in 2006. Host Institution, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

5. Mediterranean Basin UNITWIN Network for Green Chemistry
MEGREC Host Institution, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• ALGERIA - Université Mentouri-Costantine and Université Djillali
Liabes
• EGYPT - Suez Canal University, Ismailia
• GREECE - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• ITALY - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
• MOROCCO - Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah de Fez
• SERBIA - Belgrade University
• SPAIN - Universidad De Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• TUNISIA - Universitè de Gabès

6. Mediterranean Basin UNITWIN Network for Green Chemistry
MEGREC
Objectives
-To increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the research process,
teaching and training activities in green chemistry
-To promote technology transfer and capacity building
-To promote awareness of green chemistry and raise awareness of policy-
makers through presentation of local case studies and development of
appropriate training material
-To promote establishment of new centres of excellence and laboratories in
green chemistry
-To elaborate guidelines for green chemistry development in all
Mediterranean countries
- To promote the application of green chemistry principles

7. New Paradigma
From the study and mitigation of undesired
effects, to new green technologies
From environmental protection, life cycle
analysis, clean energy,climate change study, to
inherently safe processes and products

8. New Paradigma for Cooperation
• Clean processes and products: impact on
Environment (air, ozone layer, climate
change,…) and on Human Health
(Dioxines, POPs, ...)
• Intrinsically safe products: no POPs,
dioxins, and easily recyclabe materials.

9. Opportunities for Cooperation
Technology transfer on Clean Productions
and Energy generation (industrial processes)
Inherently safe products (dioxin and POPs
free, easily recyclable materials,
decontamination)

10. Nowadays the globalization pushes the chemistry
community to adopt ethical issues. In this prospect
Green Chemistry can achieve the approval of the
society by teaching students to be confident in
science and by convincing people that it is possible
to achieve an inherently safe technological
development.
In order to achieve these objectives it is important
that education and fundamental research are strictly
connected, so that democracy and development can
also grow and progress side by side.

11. Green Chemistry or Sustainable Chemistry?
• GREEN CHEMISTRY: focus on new reaction
pathways. It is innovation at molecular level.
• SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY: focus on designing
alternatives pathways for industrial products and
processes. It meets social needs and economical
feasibility.

13. TEMPUS PROJECT: SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT: A
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT JEP-30031-2002 (S.E.D.C.)
Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italy); Leiden University (Netherlands); Institut Univ Cienca i
Tecnologia (IUTC, Barcellona, Spain); Suez Canal University (Egypt)

14. VIII Summer School on Green Chemistry (with UNESCO support)
S. Servolo Island, Venice 2005

15. IX NATO - ASI SUMMER SCHOOL ON GREEN CHEMISTRY
Co-Chairs:
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

16. 2012 TEMPUS PROJECT:
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDITERRANEAN AREA (SUSMEDI)
EU Partners
1. Ca' Foscari University of Venice 2. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. ULPGC
3. University of Athens (Greece) 4. University Jaume I (Valencia, Spain)
South Mediterranean Partners
5. Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco) 6. HASSAN 1er UNIVERSITY (Morocco)
7. Université Djillali Liabès (Algeria) 8. Universite Mentouri Constantine (Algeria)
9. University of Gabès (Tunisia) 10. GAFSA UNIVERSITY (Tunisia)
11. AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY (Egypt) 12. Kafrelsheikh University (Egypt)

17. 2012 TEMPUS PROJECT, Curricula Reform:
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
MEDITERRANEAN AREA (SUSMEDI)
Objectives of SUSMEDI project are:
 to provide adequately trained students by upgrading a number of high quality
courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels,
to disseminate and benefit from the Bologna Process, in fields such as:
• Prevention/Green Chemistry
• Remediation
• Monitoring
• Renewable Energy
• Complimentary Environmental issues.

18. SUSMEDI Project
Establishing Centers of Excellence in the Fields of:
- Green chemistry and catalysis, Université de Fez, Morocco
- Decontamination, Université de Gabes, Tunisia
- Environmental analysis, Université «Djillali Liabes», Algeria
- Energy, University of Cairo, Egypt