The public relations working group seeks contact with the media, wants to encourage specific projects and help realise them. Currently active projects are:
- SEC Internet pages. The SEC Internet pages provide information about the activities of the Senior Expert Chemists. They encourage participation and structure the information about these activities: www.gdch.de/sec.
- Columns for daily newspapers. The members write columns on individual chemical substances. The texts are aimed at an audience with no prior scientific training and familiarise readers with chemistry through easy-to-understand and stimulating texts. So far, 34 columns have been published. Most of them have also been prepared for the GDCh website "Fascination Chemistry" in the section "Chemistry everywhere". more...
- Pro-and-contra reports. The working group Public Relations intensively promotes the professional discussion of scientific topics related to the public. Through pro-and-con reports, the working group provides factual information on the current status of politically relevant chemical issues. more...
- Current topics. The working group intensively discusses current chemistry topics of importance to society and comments on them. Examples include: Glyphosate, plastic waste in the sea, energy transition, NOx limit value, or hydrogen economy. On the topic of glyphosate, the SEC sent an open letter to the EU Commission on 16 June 2020. In the case of the Energiewende, the working group organised a major symposium "Energiewende, yes - but how" (Frankfurt, DECHEMA-Haus, 30 Oct. 2019).
- SEC Lecturer. SEC Lecturers are experts who can give understandable and entertaining lectures on their specialist knowledge. They enrich the GDCh colloquia in the local sections. more...
- Conference reports. Reports on specialist conferences with topics of general interest are presented in a timely manner, e.g. report on the 7th SEC Annual Meeting, Nachr. Chem. 2018, 66, 921.
