Award Description: Beyond Benign's Community Grant Awards are designed to build educator and / or student capacity for green chemistry teaching and learning. We welcome all educators and students in K-12 and Higher Education settings from around to globe to submit a proposal for activities or projects between $250 and $1,000.
This free, virtual workshop is designed to help educators effectively adapt and implement a new case study that examines the various considerations and factors driving greener innovations in the metal plating industry. One of the primary chemicals used in this sector is PFAS, which acts as a fume suppressant to control chromic acid mist during the chrome plating process. While PFAS reduces exposure to the known health hazard of hexavalent chromium, its health and environmental impacts raise significant concerns, underscoring the need for greener alternatives.
The UN SDG: Learn platform provides a variety of courses and resources based on each sustainable development goal (SDG), the 2030 Agenda, and related topics. It features self-paced e-learning courses, microlearning modules, and many materials, including documents, webinars, interactive learning packages, and training tools, to empower learners to increase their understanding of sustainable development.
We are delighted to invite you to a special online event, which will take place on 17 December 2024, at 17:00 CET, to discover the exciting opportunities offered by Leuphana University's innovative postgraduate programmes in the field of Sustainable Chemistry.
Why should you participate?
These Green Chemistry Education awards for K-12 educators are designed to support the integration of green chemistry into educational settings. Beyond Benign hopes to empower and support K-12 educators to prepare their students with the skills to innovate for a sustainable future through these grants.
Chemists from around the world convened at the American Chemical Society headquarters in Washington, DC, and virtually on Dec. 7 and 8, 2023, for the second annual ACS Sustainability Summit: Reimagining Chemistry Education. The meeting was held as part of the ACS Campaign for a Sustainable Future, in partnership with the ACS Division of Education and Beyond Benign Green Chemistry Education.
