European Chemistry Partnering

Chemistry makes the World go around.

This refers to those products that bring us our prosperity and health. After all, 97 percent of all products are influenced by chemical production. But now our world is changing; the United Nations has provided a new framework for action with its 17 sustainability goals. With a view to future generations, we are all challenged to use the earth’s resources more wisely and to ensure that ecology, economy and social concerns such as job security and a better life for broad sections of society are safeguarded.

When it comes to financing and moving away from a disposable economy towards a circular economy, the time has come to ask ourselves some searching questions:

What influence do these changes have on the allocation of capital, towards a more sustainable governance of our planet? 

Are the appropriate levels of innovation being applied with regard to all three segments of sustainability?

Are the sustainability goals of the United Nations the non-plus-ultra, can or must there even be exceptions in the triad of sustainability? 

Are our financial systems and financing mechanisms suitable for a reorientation of the goals and for survival in the third millennium, when climate change and population growth confront us with hitherto unique human tasks?

Do we only need to rethink? Or do we also have to adapt?

Who wants change and who wants to change? 

Expectations and opportunities of the dominant trend of our times.

By defining the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations has clearly set the direction for new business models for the next decades. No poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being e.g, can only be achieved when we stop wasting resources, climate change and economic exploitation. Thus, anyone who is running or wants to start a business today will soon be expected to think and operate in a sustainable manner. Tomorrows consumers are already pushing hard for established industries to change. The Fridays for Future movement demands to “unite behind the science”. To overcome idealism and cynicism and to start acting, now!.

To solve the challenges we need more sustainable innovation than ever, fast. 

Since chemistry is part of the problem and simultaneously part of the solution, we are called to change. For this, digitalization is said to be the dominant game changer. However, what role does digitalization play in the physical world of chemistry? Will reactor and computer ever merge? Is digitalization just another buzz or are we looking at a tsunami? Is the chemical industry an active innovator or a driven dinosaur on the brink of extinction?

Do we want to change or will we be changed?

ipOcean global is a start-up founded in 2019. The idea of the start-up and the collaboration partners was found at the ECP Summer Summit in 2018. 

The foundation of the start-up is the hard proof that the concept of the European Chemistry Partnering works.

For the second time BCNP Consulting organized the ECP Summer Summit in Düsseldorf Germany held at the factory site of global market brand henkel

Industrial, academic and institutional partners use ECP Summer Summit for company and showcase presentations in the exhibition. Participants from various disciplines catch up insides on featured products and Services. Right after show opening various dialogs were enabled creating new business opportunities.

An impressive number of around 500 partnering meetings were scheduled using the ECP´s Website Collaboration tool. This is the heart of the event bringing market reps together.

Venture Capital represantatives actively search for investments options.

In their opening tandem keynote Henkel Head of Corporate Venturing for Adhesive Technolgies Paolo Bavaj was joined by Miguel Galvez of NBD Nanotechnolgies talking about their collaborative success.

Panel discussion “New Plastics Economy”

Panel:

– Friedrich Barth, Managing Director, ISC3 – International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre

– Fernando J. Gómez, Ph.D., Head of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Industries, World Economic Forum

– Professor Magnus Nydén, Global Chief Scientist, Nouryon Chemicals Holding B.V.

– Daniella Russo, CEO, Think Beyond Plastics, Inc.

Moderator: Professor Stephan Haubold, Hochschule Fresenius - University of Applied Science