The Chemistry Department successfully implemented the project “Support for the early involvement of students to act according to the principles of green chemistry” financed by the Organization for European Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The project’s main goals were successfully accomplished through the early involvement of students in the implementation of professional practice, whereby the OSCE provided the laboratory equipment, and chemicals necessary to increase the efficiency of research focused on the analysis of organic pollutants in the environment in our research group.
As part of the project, numerous research activities were carried out, from the selection of the sampling sites to the analysis and processing of the results, shown in a short amateur video designed, recorded, and arranged by the students and assistants of the Chemistry Department.
This short video material accentuates the importance of analytical chemistry in environmental protection, as well as the use of modern instrumental techniques for the origin determination of polluting substances, including pollutants of petroleum origin, bisphenol A, and others.
In addition to the video material, during the project students had the opportunity, under the auspices of the OSCE, to promote their activities through radio shows, as another way to point out the importance of “green chemistry” in preserving the environment and the role of chemists as an important profession in 21st century.
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