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Green Chemistry for Professionals
greenCHEM Further Education · Green Chemistry for Professionals
For professionals across sustainability, procurement, risk, and operations who want a clear, accessible introduction to green chemistry.
From core concepts to real-world cases — understand what matters and how to act on it.
A compact, practice-oriented course for industry professionals who make decisions involving materials, sustainability, procurement, risk, or innovation — without needing a chemistry background. The course takes part in 2 sessions:
Getting familiar with the principles of green chemistry and practice oriented session to understand its relevance in realworld cases (June 1, 10-12 am, online)
Getting into specific principles of green chemistry and deeper insights into realword cases and related processes (June 8, 10-12 am, online)
Across industries, green chemistry increasingly shapes regulation, procurement criteria, product development, customer expectations, and risk management. Yet many professionals outside of R&D or technical teams are rarely offered accessible training that explains the fundamentals behind these trends.
This compact online course gives non-chemists in industry a clear, non-technical introduction to green chemistry and its relevance for daily decision-making. Whether you work in operations, procurement, sustainability, product management, compliance, innovation, or engineering, this course helps you recognise where green chemistry affects your business — and how greener decisions can reduce risks and costs while supporting competitive advantage.
Through short expert input, industry-relevant cases, and interactive group exercises, participants build the vocabulary and confidence to assess greener options, ask better questions, and connect chemical concepts to real-world challenges. Each participant leaves with 1–2 concrete follow-up ideas or questions tailored to their own role and organisational context.
Key Benefits
- Understand essential green chemistry concepts in clear, non-technical language.
- Learn structured methods to analyse and frame complex technical, regulatory, market, or ESG-driven problems.
- Connect green chemistry to business performance in industrial settings.
- Ask sharper, more informed questions about materials, hazards, alternatives, or supplier claims.
- Collaborate more effectively with technical teams, R&D, suppliers, and sustainability functions.
- Identify where greener decisions could reduce risk or create value in your products, processes, or policies.
- Upskill quickly: a 2–3 hour online format designed for busy schedules across all industry sectors.
- Leave with actionable takeaways directly applicable to your organisation.
Program
10:00-11:20: Expert-Led Foundations Session
A non-technical introduction to green chemistry and essential chemical concepts.
How chemistry links to regulation, product safety, supply-chain risk, and competitiveness.
Simple visuals and structured explanations to build confidence and shared understanding.
11:20-11:50: Interactive Perspective Exchange
Share and discuss perspectives about real-world cases and challenges in green chemistry.
Identify high-impact opportunities for greener materials or processes.
Compare conventional vs. greener alternatives using simple business-relevant criteria.
reflect on insights and identify 1–2 concrete actions relevant to your company, products, or processes. Expert feedback reinforces transfer into daily practice.
11:50-12:00: Wrap-Up Session
Short insight into next course session.
Who should register?
This course is designed for industry professionals of all seniority levels who influence decisions related to sustainability, procurement, safety, risk, product development, or operations — with no chemistry background required.
Ideal for:
Sustainability & ESG roles, Procurement & supply chain professionals, Product managers & product development teams, Operations, engineering, and quality management, Regulatory affairs & compliance nnovation managers and project leads
New employees needing a foundational introduction to green chemistry
Industrial firms without in-house R&D, looking to understand greener options more confidently
Participants come from industries such as manufacturing, automotive, electronics, FMCG, textiles, packaging, logistics, machinery, and beyond.
This basic course can be taken as a stand-alone offering; however, for the best learning outcomes, we recommend also attending the second part of course that follows. The advanced course builds directly on the fundamentals covered here and will take place on June 8. More information can be found here.
Questions?
Contact our Futher Education Manager Irina
See also the information on our Further Education Program!