Aiming to establish if Romanian chemists are prepared properly to participate in the general effort to face enormous challenges of the future, an analysis performed by the Romanian Chemical Society (RChS) emphasized some peculiar aspects having as common origin weaknesses in chemical education at various levels. Among these: imperfections in communication of chemists with ordinary people due to both esoteric language of the scientists and modest chemical knowledge of general public; insufficient education of the chemists in basic knowledge and language of other sciences � physics, biology, mathematics � thus being detrimental to multidisciplinary collaboration; relatively low interest of young people to study and teach chemistry; the extinction of quantitative criteria for evaluation of scientific activity at the cost of creativity and applicability of scientific results.RChS has initiated specific activities designated to ameliorate the above mentioned weak points. For instance, in order to increase the attractiveness of chemistry for young people, local branches, Chemical Education and Young Chemists divisions of RChS in collaboration with universities organize interesting and challenging scientific contests for high school pupils. Titles like �Chemistry: a friend or an enemy?�, �How is made?�, �Experimentum�, �Science fair�, �Human, environment, pollution� are transparent for their content and expectations.

Chemical education: A key word in facing the challenges of the future

245th National Meeting (2013)

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