Merck Young Chemists' Symposium 2025

We are glad to announce the 24th edition of the annual event of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) entirely dedicated to young researchers working in Chemistry, the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2025. This international conference is organized by the Young Group of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI Giovani) and the National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM [1]) with the financial support from Merck and several other sponsors.

The Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2025 will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of December in Rimini (Italy), on the Adriatic Riviera of Romagna, in one of the best-known seaside resorts in Northern Italy.

The symposium will be held in the Hotel Sporting & Hotel Ambasciatori, ensuring an elegant, comfortable, and top-level 4*-superior hospitality.

This symposium will cover all the disciplines of Chemistry and is fully oriented to young researchers, such as MSc and PhD students, scholarship holders and post-doc fellows, as well as young researchers working in companies and other non-academic research institutes. Thanks to the active commitment of SCI in the European framework (as a society member of EuChemS), the event will have international character: it will be open to researchers coming from all over the world, will guest international plenary speakers, and English will be the official language.

Symposium members will present the results of their scientific research in front of an international audience, which will also include representatives of chemical companies and invited renowned scientists.

The conference is organized to allow each participant to contribute with an oral presentation, a poster, or a poster + flash presentation. All the accepted scientific contributions within the event will be collected in a citable international volume with ISBN code.

The deadline for registration is July 18^th, 2025.

The deadline for abstract submission is August 31st, 2025.

Thanks to the significant financial support from Merck, which will contribute to the costs of accommodation and meals, the registration fees are particulary low (see the detailed list in the Registration form).

For all the details, please refer to the Registration form and the Abstract template [2] available below, or contact [3] the Organizing Committee.

FORMS

The symposium will start on Monday, December 1^st and will end on Wednesday, December 3rd accordingly with the Program (to be uploaded by the end October 2025).

All presentations must be in English and must contain both the logos of the Symposium and of SCI Giovani, provided in the acceptance notification e-mail.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Duration: 8 min + 2 min of question time.
• Allowed file formats: PPT/PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint) or PDF
• You will not be allowed to use your own personal computer

FLASH + POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Flash talk duration: 5 min
• Allowed file formats: PPT/PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint) or PDF
• Poster size: height 100 cm, width 70 cm (B1 format, portrait orientation)
• You will not be allowed to use your own personal computer

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Poster size: height 100 cm, width 70 cm (B1 format, portrait orientation).

REGISTRATION STATUS

Registration deadline: 18th July 2025

Maximum number of participants: 230.

Note that the first 100 applicants will pay a reduced registration fee. To check if you are one of the first 100, fill the Google Module you will find inside the Registration Form with your Name and Surname. Once saved, you will have 48 hours to complete the registration using the same form.
Important: If the registration is not completed within 48 hours, your name will be removed from the list.

DO NOT FILL THE FORM MORE THAN ONCE.

CANCELLATION POLICY AND FEES

50% REFUND WILL BE GIVEN FOR CANCELLATIONS BEFORE AUGUST 30^th.
NO REFUND WILL BE GIVEN AFTER AUGUST 30^th.

Member profile	First 100 registered	Over 100 registered
Under/Equal-35 SCI or INSTM Members	€ 250	€ 300
Under/Equal-35 Non-Members (+ 2-years SCI membership)	€ 330	€ 380
Over 35 SCI or INSTM Members	€ 350	€ 400
Over 35 Non-Members (+ 1-year SCI membership)	€ 430	€ 480
Retired	€ 360	€ 410
Accompanying person	€ 340	€ 390

PLENARY SPEAKERS