EACH 2024 Winter School Started!
On Jan 30, 2024, the eighth Winter School of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme started in Åbo (Turku, Finland). Altogether 33 students from 15 countries (Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, Costa Rica, Brazil, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Estonia, India, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Nepal, Ukraine, Colombia) participate (Group photo above).
This year’s Winter school is strongly focused on career prospects of EACH graduates and chemical analysis in industry. There are several sessions with EACH alumni and several sessions with industry practitioners. But it involves also all other typical Winter school activities – sightseeing, teamwork, etc.
Traditionally an important activity in the Winter school is selecting first year students to study tracks. In order to give one more piece of information what the study tracks are about, there was a session of presentations on the first day by second-year students on their master thesis topics (on the left, Lyon students explaining the life and studies in Lyon). In the evening there were additional discussions between first- and second-year students and professors over the dinner.
And of course, the Winter School is the place where the 2nd year students meet again their coursemates who have chosen different study tracks (On the photo on the right: some 2nd year students from different study tracks).