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Description
The academic community exhibits a growing interest in developing a strong partnership between education and the world of work and networking involving research, business institutions, companies, and other organizations from the green chemistry field of activity, as well.
GreenCAM project, implemented by the University of Bucharest UB and the Norwegian Technique and Science University NTNU (expertise in green chemistry), focuses on improving the Chemistry of Advanced Materials (CAM) strategic master direction of the Faculty of Chemistry and establishes the opportunity for CAM students and teachers to acquire professional knowledge and new skills from the area of Green Chemistry in the context of Advanced Materials.
The target groups of GreenCAM are CAM students and teachers.
Within GreenCAM, the donor partner expertise will be transferred to improve the curricula of CAM master study. Three courses dedicated to the master students, an e-book including the master theses with double supervision (NTNU-UB) are elaborated through partners’ cooperation. The Materials and Biomass intensive study programme (Norway) and the workshop "Contemporary solutions for advanced materials with high impact on society" (Romania) are organized to exchange partners knowledge and skills.;
The collaboration between UB and NTNU offers the opportunity for good practice exchange at education level. For research area, new knowledge and skills in the field of green advanced materials are expected to be generated in the framework of GreenCAM.
Summary of project results
Within the project, the Chemistry of Advanced Materials Master Curricula was improved and an e-support for the improved courses was developed with the support of the Norwegian partner (NTNU). A collection of six master thesis on renewable energy, biomass valorisation and cyclic economy in the context of advanced materials based on green chemistry was elaborated jointly with the Norwegian partner and published on the project website. The Summer School “Materials from biomass, BioMat”, which took place in Trondheim, brought together teachers and researchers of both partners (UB and NTNU) and also from the other university and industrial area with background and expertise in green advanced materials. The Summer School proceedings (collection of presentations made) were collected and disseminated on the project website. The joint activity generated the scientific article "Contemporary solution for advanced materials with high impact on society" and the scientific paper "An advanced approach for MgZnAl-LDH catalysts synthesis used in Claisen-Schmidt condensation" , were published in the open access Journal Catalysts. Two other scientific articles on the Green Chemistry were elaborated individually by the partners and published in the Molecule, respectively the Catalysts Journal. More than 100 staff and 2 students benefited of learning mobilities in Romania and Norway, provided by the project partners. The results of the project: the good practices in the teaching and learning academic activity, especially for master level, the modern approaches for the production of advanced materials, biomass as carbon renewable sources for advanced material preparation and also applications of advanced material for society benefits were disseminated to researchers in the field.
Summary of bilateral results
The Norwegian knowledge in the field of the Green Chemistry was shared with the faculty of Chemistry in Bucharest and by implementing the project activities