Chemistry dissemination and assessment using ECTN EChemtest®

Abstract

During the last General Assembly (GA) of the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) held in Krakow (http://ectn.eu/about-us/what-is-ectn/) on April 12 one of us (AL) discussed with Prof. Izabela Nowak (President of the Polish Chemical Society (PCS)), Prof. Artur Michalak (Vice President of PCS and representative of the Krakow Jagiellonian University at ECTN) and Nineta Hrastelj (General secretary of EuChems and ECTN) on the possibility of extending EChemtest® etests to EuChemS members. The discussion focused on the Prosumer (Producer-Consumer) [1] model developed by the ECTN Virtual Education Community (VEC) committee to the end of equipping Higher Education Institutions (HEI)s with Test Centres (TC)s suited to run EChemtest® Self Evaluation Sessions (SES)s for carrying out their Academic activities (such as inter University mobility, students’ admission to Bachelor and Master studies and Thesis, students’ dispersion reduction, thesis subject selection). In particular, it was pointed out how such model could be used
by EuChemS member societies for improving the Image of Chemistry, disseminating Chemistry competences and issuing Individual Proficiency Certificates (IPC)s. [...]