New and Unconventional Strategies in Sustainable Chemistry Education at All Levels

Dear Colleagues,

The adjective “Sustainable” is now essential within all scientific disciplines, and especially so for Chemistry. Important measures have been taken at the international level to promote this new way of performing Chemistry and these have been adopted by many scientists. If Sustainable Chemistry is to have a positive impact on society, it is clearly very important to raise citizens’ awareness of this new way of doing Chemistry and the important role of Chemistry for both sustainable development and citizen’s well-being.

It is also important to change the societal perception of aspects such as critical raw materials and feature the necessity to exploit alternative and sustainable resources, for example, waste. The importance of Chemistry in remediating polluted environments, producing new functional materials, or helping with clean energy production and storage also needs to be highlighted.

Citizens of tomorrow, are the students of today. Therefore, the aim of this topical collection is to focus on new and unconventional learning paths and communication tools/modalities that can be used to successfully educate students at all levels on the value of Sustainable Chemistry, through student engagement.

All research-active chemists that have an educational role are invited to share their experience and knowledge on novel efforts to educate in Sustainable Chemistry in the form of an original article or review in this topical collection.

Contributors will be invited to specify the type of audience chosen for the featured activity and the specific targets aiming to contribute to one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals should be also highlighted. This topical collection intends to represent a collection of such efforts and serve as an inspiration for developing successful educational activities on Sustainable Chemistry from primary schools to University, and thus act as a stimulus for increasing their impact on society.

We welcome any topic of Chemistry Education that has a connection with Sustainability, and any contribution, either as an original manuscript or review, on the following and related topics:

• Proposals/examples of strategies and approaches by which chemistry education addresses some of the global challenges associated with the UN Sustainable Development Goals across all educational levels.
• Proposals/examples on the adaptation of existing pedagogical approaches for delivering Sustainable Chemistry education across all educational levels

Among the communication tools sought, the following are particularly welcome: well-described interactive hands-on experiments (with videos of the experiment in the supporting information recommended) and impactful ideas and associations between Sustainable Chemistry and everyday life.

The Sustainable Chemistry knowledge that is intended to be disseminated through the described activity should be clearly described and the measured impact of the technique highlighted.

Dr. Francesca Deganello
Prof. Dr. James A. Sullivan
Collection Editors

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