With a network of around 1900 members, the specialist group for chemistry teaching offers a wide range of activities and information to improve the quality and performance of chemistry teaching. These include, for example

• Discounted participation fee for the annual conference of the specialist group, at which a platform for sustainable chemistry teaching is offered in numerous experimental and discussion lectures, workshops and posters as well as the general meeting.
• Subscription to the journals CHEMKON and Chemie in unserer Zeit at a preferential price (must be taken out separately)

Annual membership fee: 40 euros

Interested chemistry teachers from Germany and abroad can choose associate membership as an alternative to full GDCh membership if they do not have a degree in chemistry, biochemistry or food chemistry.

Associate members of the GDCh can also be persons from Germany and abroad who have an education not in chemistry or related fields and are interested in working in the Chemistry Education Section.

Associate membership of the GDCh is linked to membership of a specialist group. You receive all the benefits of the Division of Chemistry Education, but not the benefits of the GDCh. The right to vote is limited to the active right to vote in the Division.

Study trainees can familiarise themselves with the benefits of membership in the Chemistry Education Section of the German Chemical Society free of charge for one year.

All student trainees who opt for associate membership will be exempt from membership fees for the first year of their membership. This offer only applies to new members. From the second year onwards, the annual membership fee of 40 euros for associate membership of the GDCh and specialist group membership of the Chemistry Education Section will be payable. Please refer to the section "Associate member of the GDCh and specialist group membership in the FG CU" or the application form for the benefits of this membership.

Please print out the application form fill it out, sign it and send it to the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Mitgliederservice, Postfach 90 04 40, 60444 Frankfurt am Main.

Annual fee: 120 euros (GDCh membership) + 25 euros (specialist group membership)

All persons in Germany and abroad who are interested in chemistry education and who are full members of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker in accordance with its statutes can become ordinary members. In addition to the services of the specialist group, ordinary members receive the chemistry news and have an active right to vote in the GDCh. You can find out more about GDCh membership here.

Annual membership fee: 40.00 EURO In order to make it easier for students in the chemistry teaching degree programme to join the specialist group, a special regulation of associate membership applies to this group of students. Students in the chemistry teaching degree programme can apply for associate membership - together with the application for membership of the Chemistry Teaching specialist group - before they graduate and are treated in the same way as associate members.

Annual membership fee: 30.00 euros plus 25.00 euros FG

Student members and other members in training can become students of chemistry and other natural science subjects as well as other persons interested in the chemical and molecular sciences who are in vocational or academic training. They receive both Chemistry News and Chemkon and have an active right to vote in the GDCh and the FGCU.

Supporting members can be legal entities, companies, firms, public corporations and institutions, associations, interest groups and authorities.

Further information and documents on membership can be obtained from Member Service the GDCh office.