VCW Annual Event 2025: "Artificial Intelligence in the Chemical Industry"'
Fri, 14 Nov 2025, Industriepark Höchst, Frankfurt am Main - more

Symposium "Challenges and Solutions of the Energy Transition for the German Chemical Industry" (GDCh-Science Forum Chemistry 2025) - with FG Chemistry & Energy and FG Electrochemistry - Tue, 30 September 2025, 09:30 am, Karlsruhe - more

VCW Annual Event 2024: "Future-oriented investments in Germany as a chemical location: The contribution of politics, industry and science.",
Fri, 15 November 2024, Münster - more - Follow-up report CHEManager

Symposium "Strategies for a sustainable green chemical industry - Linking ecological solutions with economics and chemistry"
Thu, 13 Jun 2024, 10:00 - 17:00, Frankfurt a. M, ACHEMA (Hall 4.C, Room Alliance) more - Report CHEManager

Online lecture series "BusinessXChemistry: Current developments in business chemistry from an academic perspective" organised by the VCW Business Chemistry Working Group from the universities - 16 April - 28 May - Tuesdays 17:00 - 18:30 - more

VCW Annual Event 2023: "What does the energy transition mean for the chemical industry?"
19 - 20 October 2023, Oberhausen (Fraunhofer UMSICHT) - more - Follow-up report CHEManager

Lecture series "Industrial Phosphorus Chemistry", WS 2023/2024 - more

Symposium "Rethinking Chemistry: Safe and Sustainable by Design" (GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2023) 06 September, Leipzig - more

VCW Annual Event 2022: "Global readjustment of material and value flows"
18 October 2022, Ludwigshafen (BASF) - more - Follow-up report CHEManager

Conference "Strategies to a circular economy in plastics: the role of European diversity"
24 August 2022, Frankfurt (ACHEMA)

Event "Chemistry & Recycling" 2022
How can politics, industrial companies and the VCW work together to make chemical recycling a success alongside mechanical recycling
04 April 2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge "Founder Network and Platform" (Hackathon)
25 April, 17 June, 8 July, Online - more

VCW Challenge "Sustainability | ESG Goals" (Hackathon)
21 March, 20 May, 10 June 2022, Online - more

VCW Challenge "The laboratory of tomorrow - the laboratory as a new process control system" (Hackathon)
21 February, 21 March, 8 April 2022, Online - more

VCW Annual Event 2021: "Available and Affordable: Supply in the BioPharmaceutical Industries - Interaction of Economics and Politics in the Speed of Change"
22 - 23 November 2021, Online - more

Event "Kreislaufwirtschaft aktuell - Chemie, Technologie und Ökonomie" 2021
25 March 2021, Online - more - Follow-up report CHEManager

VCW Annual Event 2020: "The CO₂-neutral chemical industry 2050: Proactively shaping the transformation path" incl. General Assembly 2020 -
09 - 10 November, 2020, Online
more - Follow-up report CHEManager I - Report CHEmanager II - Report Chemistry+Technology - Report CHEManager III

Workshop "Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Property" - Cooperation event with the Division of Patent Law
12 November 2019, Darmstadt
more - Follow-up report of the GDCh Division of Patent Law

Tanker or Speedboat? Agile Management in the Chemical Industry
15 October 2019, Essen
more - Press release CHEManager - Follow-up report CHEManager

Circular Economy - Idealistic vision, regulatory nightmare or your next big opportunity?
07 November 2018, Leverkusen
more - Report NCh 02/19

Value creation in transition - Chemistry between innovations and new business models
26 January 2018, Kronberg
more - Report CHEManager 05/18

Brexit - What Does This Mean for the Chemical Industry in Germany
17 May 2017, Frankfurt am Main
more

Internet of things Industry 4.0 - Role of the chemical industry
01 September 2016, Darmstadt

Innovation engine chemistry - Taking off with chemistry: researchers become founders - become entrepreneurs, as a partner of the VCI
08 March 2016, Frankfurt
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Internationalisation of R&D and Innovation: A Decade Later - Time for a Review
26 November 2015, Essen

Chemistry as a driver of innovation: researchers, founders, entrepreneurs - from idea to product
9 October 2014, Frankfurt am Main

Influence of shale gas on the European chemical industry
22 May 2014, Ludwigshafen

Social media in the chemical industry
7 November 2013, Frankfurt am Main

From megatrends to strategic growth areas
28 February 2013, Frankfurt am Main

Perspectives for the chemical industry in 2025
10 October 2012, Essen

Supply of strategic raw materials for high-tech applications
20 October 2011, Hanau