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A modern trend to carbon dioxide neutral production processes is based on renewable raw materials derived from sugars. Herein, an overview on modern approaches to fine chemicals for the nutritional industry is presented. In comparison to the traditional fossil-fuel-based processes the development of sustainable alternative transformations is necessary to enable the full potential of the new sustainable feedstocks.

This perspective seeks to provide an overarching vision of the current state of chemical synthesis methodology using machinery as enabling tools. It highlights current capabilities and limitations in this highly digitallyconnected world and suggests areas where new opportunities may arise in the future by going well beyond our present levels of innovation and automation. There is a new need for improved downstream processing tools, advanced reactor design, computational predictive algorithms and integration of robotic systems to maximise the human resource to facilitate a new era in the assembly of our functional materials.

Nursing professional practice requires continuous knowledge updating, which makes essential “Management of information” competency and its inclusion in undergraduate curricula. That requires knowing and measuring the undergraduate nursing student’s information needs and their satisfaction with learning process related to information competency training. An observational, descriptive and transversal quantitative study was carried out. A structured questionnaire was administered to nursing students from 21 University centers. Interest in informational competences integration in successive courses was shown by 73% of the participants. Almost three quarters of this percentage considered a subject on information skills as necessary. Some authors recommend information literacy (IL) to be integrated mostly into the first year of the program. Others think that each faculty must examine its curricula in order to determine the best placement for information literacy content and experiences. In all blocks analyzed, results show a positive impact of information competencies trainings on the students.

This article provides an overview of activities in the fields of continuous processes, flow chemistry and microreactors at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.