EACH 2024 Winter School Ended!
Thursday 01.02.2024 was the last working day of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Winter School 2024. The three days of the of the Winter School saw lots of interactions between 1st and 2nd year students, between students and alumni, between students and representatives of various industries, lots of group discussions and an interlaboratory comparison between student teams carried out with ion-selective electrodes and supervised by EACH alumni.
(Photo on top left: EACH alumnus Majid Ali Saad Al-Waeel giving explanations to students; Photo on the right: a student team preparing for presentation on the interlaboratory comparison results)
A key activity at the Winter School was selecting students to study tracks. This is literally a life-determining event for the students. Thus, we are very happy that it was possible to select all students to the study track of their first choice (Photo on the left: first and second year students of the Uppsala study track with prof. Bergquist).
A much-anticipated event was a video session with EACH alumni about their life and career after graduating from EACH. Altogether ten (!) alumni participated, from all three study tracks, most of them via Zoom, one in person (photo below). They gave numerous useful pieces of advice to the current EACH students about how to make most of their EACH studies, about visa/residence permit/etc issues, as well as how to make oneself more competitive in the job market or for PhD studies. Lots of questions were asked by the current students and comprehensive answers were given by alumni, so that the session went significantly over time. However, it was the last session of the day, so no problem at all (Photo on the right: Students discussing with alumni).
Students were alos able to have a tour in Turku/Åbo, as well as the brand-new chemistry facility “Aurum” of the Åbo Akademi (Photo on bottom left: EACH students in the Åbo Akademi “Aurum” building). As you can judge from photos – all activities were carried out with great enthusiasm! The 2025 Winter school will take place in Estonia.