On October 3rd, 2023, Danielle Nicholson of Pintail Limited met online with seven officials in the Uganda Society of Professional Chemists (USPC, https://www.uspc.or.ug/), including its President, Mwanga Julius and Sophia Oine, to explore ways to share relevant news amongst our networks, promote the 2024 FlowPhotoChem Exploitation Workshop (when the details become available) and the monthly USPC webinars, and help advance EU-Africa collaborations in chemistry.
The USPC was established in January 2010 by ten founding members with a common mission and vision- to advance the chemical sciences in Africa and the world. Headquartered in Kampala, the Uganda Society of Professional Chemists (USPC) is a non-profit organization that aims to unite chemists and professionals from related fields to improve people's lives through the advancement of chemical sciences. Membership in the Society has grown in recent years to its current enrollment of more than 200 registered members. The Society publishes a USPC journal and hosts an annual conference.
Assembling practitioners, students, researchers, and chemistry enthusiasts in Uganda, the USPC’s main objective is to advance the chemistry profession. The fully registered Society operates according to an official constitution and members adhere to a code of professional conduct. The Society promotes the involvement of women in education, research and the practice of chemical sciences, advocates for the utilization of technological advances to address global challenges, and strives to harness the power of the chemical sciences to transform livelihood right from the fundamental principles of chemical investigation. We look forward to the collaboration!

Dr Justas Masa
FlowPhotoChem PI Dr Justus Masa of Kyambogo University comments: "The world needs science and innovation to tackle the most pressing challenges that we collectively face including climate change, delivering clean energy, countering emerging diseases and vectors and environmental pollution, among others, and chemistry has an important role to play in all this. With over 200 registered members, UPSC provides an excellent platform to reach out to the broad spectrum of chemical practitioners in Uganda, from students, researchers and industrial professionals, to rally their engagement on these common global challenges. FlowPhotoChem is pleased to associate with USPC to share information on our activities in Uganda, explore opportunities to strengthen and expand our collaboration and exchange information on the opportunities that we can collectively exploit in the framework of the EU-African partnership."