OREANDA-NEWS. It is the first time the Russia Chemistry Week is held in the framework of the Chemistry+2014 Exhibition. The Week is organized by one of the world's oldest and powerful scientific organizations - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

RSC holds themed chemistry weeks every two years in different countries to promote a positive image of chemistry and increase the public understanding of the importance of chemical science in our everyday lives.

"Russia Chemistry Week: Science Innovation" features events run as part of the Chemistry+2014 International Exhibition, aimed to support development of UK-Russia innovations, accomplishments, and collaboration in chemical innovation activity where RSC is world leading.

The key strands of the Russia Chemistry Week is cooperation between scientists and entrepreneurs, writing and publishing scientific articles, computer techniques applied to a range of problems in the field of chemical (cheminformatics) and allied industries.

The Russia Chemistry Week will introduce the Emerging Technologies competition aimed to promote new competitive technologies in Russia, including presentations from previous UK winners and high profile international companies that are involved in the competition.

Russian and UK academics and experts will discuss current innovations in publishing process, both from a Royal Society of Chemistry and Russian publishing perspective, and opportunities for collaboration in this field.

Representatives in academia and industry will showcase participants the latest developments and share expertise in cheminformatics.

The venue for the Russia Chemistry Week was not chosen by accident. The Khimia International Exhibition has run since 1965 and is one of the world's top tradeshows. Since 2012 Expocentre has held the International Chemical Industry - ICA 2014. Green Chemistry project, which has been promoted and developed by the RSC.

The Chemistry+2014 International Exhibition and the Russia Chemistry Week will run on 21-24 October 2014 at Expocentre Fairgrounds.