At the invitation of the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), the 7th Chemical Sciences and Society Symposium (CS3) took place from September 5th to 8th, 2017 in Dalian/China. Around 40 scientists and representatives of chemical societies and funding organizations from the participating countries China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and the USA discussed what contributions chemistry can make to this year's conference topic “Solar Energy for a Sustainable Future”. The German CS3 delegation was led by Professor Ferdi Schüth (MPI Mülheim).

The results of the symposium were summarized in a white paper and presented at a press conference on March 19, 2018 as part of the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans/USA.

ACS press conference

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The aim of the second Chemical Sciences and Society Symposium from 7.-10. September 2010 in London was to promote international cooperation in materials chemistry and to discuss possible contributions of materials chemistry for a sustainable global society. After the GDCh had organized the first symposium of the CS3 series in Germany in 2009, the RSC was in charge this time. The symposium was designed together with the chemical societies from China, Great Britain, Japan and the USA. The funding was provided by the research funding organizations of the five participating countries.
30 internationally renowned scientists accepted the invitation to London and discussed the most important research goals for sustainable materials chemistry for two and a half days.

As a result of the symposium, the scientists were unanimous: material chemistry will play a central role in solving many future questions, from energy conversion and storage to the preservation of rare raw materials. The scientists summarized the results of the London meeting in the white paper "Chemistry for a sustainable global society" in the following points:

• New materials for energy conversion and storage
• CO2 activation, storage and use
• Substitutes for fossil fuels and chemical raw materials
• Preservation of rare natural raw materials
• Sustainable materials and processes

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From July 23rd to 25th, 2009 the first CS3 Chemical Sciences and Society Symposium on the topic "Using the sunlight to address the energy issues - sunlight to power the world" took place at Seeon Abbey (Bavaria).

The German Chemical Society (GDCh) was in charge of the organization. The symposium was prepared jointly with the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

The funding was taken over by the research funding organizations of the five participating nations: German Research Foundation (DFG), US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Science Foundation of China, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

30 leading scientists identified the most important research goals related to the use of solar energy. Chemistry will definitely play an important role in converting and storing solar energy. The results of the discussions at the Seeon conference were summarized in the final plenary and adopted by consensus among all scientists present.
The message from the first Chemical Sciences and Society Symposium is given in the paper "Powering the World with Sunlight".

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