membership

Benefits of membership

With a network of approximately 1900 members, the chemical education Division offers a wide range of activities and information to improve the quality and effectiveness of chemistry teaching. These include, for example...

     

  • Reduced participation fee for the annual meeting of the Division , which offers a platform for future-oriented chemical education through numerous experimental and discussion lectures, workshops and posters as well as the General Assembly .
  • Subscription to the journals CHEMKON and Chemie in unserer Zeit at a preferential price (must be taken out separately)

Associate member of the GDCh and member of the specialist group FG CU

Annual fee: 40 euros

Interested chemistry teachers from Germany and abroad can choose associate membership as an alternative to full GDCh membership if they do not have a degree in chemistry, biochemistry or food chemistry .

Associate members of the GDCh can also be people from Germany and abroad who do not have a background in chemistry or related fields and are interested in collaborating in the chemical education Division .

Associate membership in the GDCh (German Chemical Society) is linked to membership in a specialist group. Members receive all the benefits of the Division for chemical education, but not the benefits of the GDCh as a whole. Voting rights are limited to active voting within the Division .

Free trial membership for study of assistant -referendare in the Division of chemical education

Study of assistant -referendare can get to know the benefits of membership in the Division for chemical education of the German Chemical Society for a year now.

All student trainees who decide to become associated membership are made free of charge in the first year of their membership. This offer is only valid for new admissions. From the second year of the annual contribution of 40 euros for associate membership of the German Chemical Society and the Section membership in the Division of chemical education is then due. The benefits of this membership can be found in the section "Associate member of the GDCh and specialist group membership in the FG CU" or the application form.

Please print out the application form, fill it in and send it to the German Chemical Society, Memberservice, Postfach 90 04 40, 60444 Frankfurt am Main.

Full member of the GDCh and specialist group membership in the FG CU

Annual fee: 120 euros (GDCh membership) + 25 euros (specialist group membership)

Ordinary members can be all persons at home and abroad who are interested in chemical education and who are full members of the society according to the statutes of the German Chemical Society . In addition to the services of the Division , full members receive the Nachrichten aus der Chemie and have an active right to vote in the GDCh. You can find out more about GDCh membership here.

Associated membership for chemistry teaching students

Annual fee: 40.00 EURO In order to make it easier for students studying chemistry to join the Division , a special arrangement for associated membership applies to this group of students. Students in teaching chemistry to the application for associate membership before graduating - connected with the application for membership in the Division of chemical education - ask questions and be treated as associated members.

Student members and other members in training

Annual fee: 30.00 euros plus 25.00 euros FG

Student members and other members in training can be students of chemistry and other natural sciences, as well as other individuals interested in chemical and molecular sciences who are in vocational or academic training. They receive both the journal "Nachrichten der Chemie" and "Chemkon" and have active voting rights in the GDCh and the FGCU.

Supporting members

Supporting members can be legal persons, societies, companies, corporations and institutions under public law, associations, interest groups and authorities.

Further information and documents on membership can be obtained from the member service of the GDCh Office.

Contact

Education, Career and Science Department Tel: +49 69 7917-326
Email: ab@gdch.de

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