Events

VCW Annual Event 2025: "Artificial Intelligence in the Chemical Industry"
Fri, 14.11.2025, Industriepark Höchst, Frankfurt am Main - further information to follow

Symposium "Challenges and Solutions of the Energy Transition for the German Chemical Industry" (GDCh-Science Forum Chemistry 2025) - with the Chemistry & Energy and Electrochemistry Departments - Tue, 30 September 2025, 9:30 a.m., Karlsruhe - more

VCW Annual Event 2024: "Forward-looking investments in Germany as a chemical industry: The contribution of politics, industry and science."
Fri, 15.11.2024, Münster - more - CHEManager report

Symposium "Strategies for a Sustainable Green Chemical Industry - Linking Ecological Solutions with Economics and Chemistry"
Thu, 13 June 2024, 10:00 - 17:00, Frankfurt am Main, ACHEMA (Hall 4.C, Room Alliance) more - CHEManager report

Online lecture series "BusinessXChemistry: Current Developments in Business Chemistry from an Academic Perspective" of the VCW-AK Business Chemistry from the Universities - 16 April - 28 May - Tuesdays, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM - more

VCW Annual Event 2023: "What does the energy transition mean for the chemical industry?"
October 19-20, 2023, Oberhausen (Fraunhofer UMSICHT) - more - CHEManager report

Lecture series "Industrial Phosphorus Chemistry", winter semester 2023/2024 - more

Symposium "Rethinking Chemistry: Safe and Sustainable by Design" (GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2023) 06.09., Leipzig - more

VCW Annual Event 2022: "Global Readjustment of Material and Value Flows"
October 18, 2022, Ludwigshafen (BASF) - more - CHEManager report

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

Event "Chemistry & Recycling" 2022
How can politicians, industrial companies and the VCW work together to make chemical recycling a success alongside mechanical recycling?
April 4, 2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge "Founder Network and Platform" (Hackathon)
25.04., 17.06., 08.07., Online - more

VCW Challenge "Sustainability | ESG Goals" (Hackathon)
21.03., 20.05.,10.06.2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge "The Laboratory of Tomorrow - the Laboratory as a New Process Control System" (Hackathon)
21.02., 21.03., 08.04.2022, 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 22-23, 2021, Online - more

Event "Circular Economy Today - Chemistry, Technology and Economics" 2021
25 March 2021, Online - more - CHEManager follow-up report

VCW Annual Event 2020: "The CO ₂ -neutral chemical industry 2050: Proactively shaping the transformation path" including the 2020 General Assembly -
November 9th - 10th, 2020, Online
more - Report on CHEManager I - Report on CHEmanager II - Report on Chemistry+Technology - Report on 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 of the patent law Committee

Tanker or speedboat? Agile Management in the Chemical Industry
15 October 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
1 September 2016, Darmstadt

Chemistry as an innovation engine - Get 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

Chemistry as an innovation engine: researchers, founders, entrepreneurs – from idea to 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

Perspectives of the chemical industry 2025
October 10, 2012, Essen

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