Events

VCW annual event 2023: “What does the energy transition mean for the chemical industry?”
October 19 - 20, 2023, Oberhausen (Fraunhofer UMSICHT) - more

Lecture series "Industrial Phosphorus Chemistry", winter semester 2023 - more

Symposium "Rethinking Chemistry: Safe and Sustainable by Design" (GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2023) September 6th, Leipzig - more

VCW annual event 2022: “Global readjustment of material and value flows”
October 18, 2022, Ludwigshafen (BASF) - more - follow-up report CHEManager

Conference “Strategies to a circular economy in plastics: the role of European diversity”
August 24, 2022, Frankfurt (ACHEMA)

“Chemistry & Recycling” event 2022
How can politics, industrial companies and the VCW work together to make chemical recycling successful alongside mechanical recycling?
April 4, 2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge “Start-up Network and Platform” (Hackathon)
April 25th, June 17th, July 8th, Online - more

VCW Challenge "Sustainability | ESG Goals" (Hackathon)
March 21st, May 20th, June 10th, 2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge "The laboratory of tomorrow - the laboratory as a new process control system" (Hackathon)
February 21st, March 21st, April 8th, 2022, Online - more

VCW annual event 2021: "Available and Affordable: Supply in the BioPharmaceutical Industries - Interaction of Economics and Politics in the Speed ​​of Change"
November 22nd - 23rd, 2021, Online - more

Event “Current circular economy – chemistry, technology and economics” 2021
March 25, 2021, Online - more - follow-up report CHEManager

VCW annual event 2020: "The CO ₂ -neutral chemical industry in 2050: Proactively shaping the transformation path" incl. General Assembly 2020 -
November 9th - 10th, 2020, Online
more - Follow-up report CHEManager I - Follow-up report CHEmanager II - Follow-up report Chemistry+Technology - Follow-up report CHEManager III

Workshop “Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Property” - cooperation event with the industrial property protection Division
November 12, 2019, Darmstadt
more - Follow-up report from the FG patent law

Tanker or speedboat? Agile Management in the Chemical Industry
October 15, 2019, Essen
more - Press release CHEManager - Follow-up report CHEManager

Circular Economy - Idealistic vision, regulatory nightmare or your next big opportunity?
November 7, 2018, Leverkusen
more - follow-up report NCh 02/19

Value creation in transition - chemistry between innovations and new business models?
January 26, 2018, Kronberg
more - Follow-up report CHEManager 05/18

Brexit – What Does This Mean for the Chemical Industry in Germany?
May 17, 2017, Frankfurt am Main
more

Internet of things Industry 4.0 – Role of the chemical industry
September 1, 2016, Darmstadt

Innovation engine chemistry - getting started with chemistry: researchers become founders - become entrepreneurs, as a partner of the VCI
March 8, 2016, Frankfurt
more

Internationalization of R&D and Innovation: A Decade Later - Time for a Review
November 26, 2015, Essen

Innovation engine chemistry: researchers, founders, entrepreneurs - from the idea to the product
October 9, 2014, Frankfurt am Main

Impact of shale gas on the European chemical industry
May 22, 2014, Ludwigshafen

Social media in the chemical industry
November 7, 2013, Frankfurt am Main

From megatrends to strategic growth areas
February 28, 2013, Frankfurt am Main

Prospects for the chemical industry in 2025
October 10, 2012, Essen

Supply of strategic raw materials for high-tech applications
October 20, 2011, Hanau