The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) “New Organic Reactions and Methodologies for Green Production” is a high-level teaching activity where the subject of Green Chemistry is treated in depth by lecturers of international standing, and new advances are reported in tutorial form.
The NATO ASI is intended to be a short course contributing to the dissemination of knowledge and the formation of international scientific contacts. The teaching is aimed at scientists at the postdoctoral level or senior PhD students and young researchers in industry with an appropriate scientific background who wish to learn of recent developments in the fields of Green Chemistry.
The ASI has a duration of 10 working days in order to give adequate time for the development of a topic and allow for sufficient interaction between the scientists. The presentation of contributed papers from applicants is limited to the submission of posters.
The course will be split in two subsequent weeks and will take place in two different locations. The first week will be held in the city of Lecce (southern Italy) in a 19th century neo-Reinassance theatre surrounded by the Baroque old city centre. For the second week students and teachers will move about 30 km south-east in the city of Otranto, a splendid location on the Adriatic sea. Weather in November is usually foretold to be dry and still reasonably warm in this region.
Lectures are scheduled as morning sessions from 9:30 AM to 12:30 AM and afternoon sessions from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Breakfast at 9:30 and lunch at 12:30 will be shared by all participants and instructors. It is expected that in this environment students and instructors will find an informal and relaxed atmosphere, which will stimulate discussions, questions, a profitable exchange of ideas, and the beginning of new scientific collaborations.
ASI students must come only from NATO countries or Partner countries (eligible and non-eligible) or Mediterranean Dialogue countries, with the limit for any one country of 25% of total number of students. The objective is to have a balanced participation between students from eligible Partner or Mediterranean Dialogue countries on the one hand, and students from NATO countries on the other.
Students from Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden or Switzerland – known as ‘non-eligible' Partner countries – may participate, within the limit of 25% from any one country, but their related costs cannot be paid from available scholarships awarded by the committee.