Italian Chemical Society / Societa Chimica Italiana (SCI)
The Italian Chemical Society , founded in 1909 and established as a non-profit organization with RD n. 480/1926, is a scientific association that has over three thousand five hundred members. Members carry out their activities in universities and research institutions, schools, industries, public and private research and control laboratories, in the free profession. They are united not only by their interest in chemical science, but also by the desire to contribute to the cultural and economic growth of the national community, to the improvement of the quality of human life and to the protection of the environment.
The Italian Chemical Society aims to promote the study and progress of Chemistry and its applications and in particular:
• to favor and increase scientific research in all fields of Chemistry;
• to disseminate the knowledge of Chemistry and the importance of its applications in the context of the progress and well-being of humanity;
• promote and encourage the study of chemistry in universities and in all schools of all levels;
• to promote the development of science in every field.
To achieve these purposes, and with the exclusion of profit, the Italian Chemical Society promotes, also through its Peripheral Bodies (Sections, Divisions, Interdivisional Groups), publications, studies, surveys, events.