SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Green Chemistry is an inventive science, since it is not necessarily connected to the profit, but it involves fundamental aspects and does not aim automatically to an industrial process. There is a great need to create a new type of chemistry focused on a new production system, in order to prepare the younger generation to get to a greener future. Nowadays the globalization, induced by many factors, pushes the chemistry community to adopt ethical issues. In this prospect Green Chemistry can achieve the approval of the society by teaching students to be confident in science and at the same time by convincing people that it is now possible, thanks to technological improvement, to attain technological development respecting and having care of the environment in which we live. In this respect it is important that education and fundamental research are strictly connected, so that democracy and development can also grow and progress side by side.

The School will provide the unique opportunity to bring together a number of experts in the field of Green Chemistry and young researchers interested in this topic, this synergy of competencies will certainly be a valuable occasion to promote diffusion of the knowledge in this emerging field. The number of participants will be limited to 60 post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from all over the world. The age limit for attendees is 35 years. We are confident that a very good student to teacher ratio (4/1), the setting, the type of accommodation, and the informal atmosphere will make the school particularly suitable for a profitable and continuous exchange of ideas and information, and for the establishment of long lasting scientific relationships.

The teaching will be focused on two themes: • Safer and Innovative Solvents • Renewable-based chemicals and products. Each year the School will pose particular attention on the description of existing Industrial Processes, on case histories and on examples of clean organic processes. In addition, topics related to current research in Green Chemistry will be addressed with the aim to familiarize the students with the strategies behind the planning and designing of efficient and "greener" synthetic routes.