The project application "Laboratory course 2.0: Future-oriented teacher training with digital tools" is supported by the Fund of the Chemical Industry within the framework of the special support for teaching in the field of "Introduction of digital methods and current topics on digitization in industry and teaching into teacher training at universities and study seminars". Members of the project are Manuel Wejner and Timm Wilke. We would like to thank the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for the financial support of the project!

On 29 October Prof. Timm Wilke was appointed to the "Junge Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft" (Young Brunswick Scientific Society, JBWG).

The BWG is a scientific society. Its task is to promote the sciences, especially the interaction of natural sciences, technical sciences and humanities, through its own activities and in cooperation with other scientific institutions in Germany and abroad. The Young BWG is an initiative of the "Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft" to promote young scientists in Lower Saxony

In the coming winter semester, Prof. Wilke will take on a guest professorship for chemistry education at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz/Austria in addition to the ongoing projects in Brunswick. The stays in Austria are financially supported by an ERASMUS⁺ scholarship of the European Union.

The Technische Universität Braunschweig is again successful in the third funding phase of the federal programme "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" - starting in March 2020, the project "DiBS - Digital Skills for Teacher Education at the FSU Jena" will be funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for almost 4 years. Part of this joint initiative is also the project Experimenting, "Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools (ExeLL)", which is headed by Prof. Wilke.

Within the framework of the second funding phase of the Federal Programme "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung", the project TU4Teachers will continue to be funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with a sum of 3.2 million € until 31 December 2023. A part of this joint initiative is the project Pro-SciencE, which is headed by Prof. Oliver Bodensiek, Cornelia Borchert and Prof. Wilke.

Invited by the GDCh local association we welcome Prof. Martyn Poliakoff (University of Nottingham) on 03.12.2018 at the TU Braunschweig. Beyond his research, Prof. Poliakoff is especially known for his Periodic Videos, in which he introduces the elements of the periodic table. With about 190 million hits, the site is one of the world's most visited websites related to chemistry.

Prof. Poliakoff will lecture this evening at 17:15 at Hagenring 30 on the topic "From Test Tube to Youtube" - we hope for lively interest!

From cellulose to PET bottles, from plastic bags to antimicrobial implant coatings - polymers of natural and human origin play a key role in our everyday life as well as in current research for the production of new materials. In our project nanocomposites made to measure we investigate how (1) these materials can be made more functional by adding nanoadditives and (2) more sustainable by using bio-based or biodegradable polymers.
Members of the project are Dr. Reza Saadat (Institute for Particle Technology) and Dr. Henning Storz (Thünen-Institute). We thank the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for the financial support of the project!

For the poster entitled "Teach Chemistry Forward: An innovative course concept combines subject science and subject didactics" the poster prize was awarded by the GDCh Division of Chemistry Education. We thank the GDCh for the award and the publisher Wiley-VCH for sponsoring the prize!

For the GDCh top poster with the title "Recycling of Raw Materials from Electronic Scrap: Vividly Recovering Gold and Copper" (together with Klaus Ruppersberg, IPN Kiel) the GDCh Division of Chemistry Education additionally awarded the Poster Prize. We would like to thank the GDCh for the award and the publisher Wiley-VCH for sponsoring the prize!