The Paris-Saclay team on the podium of the French Chemists' Tournament

The French Chemists' Tournament TFChim

The tournament is divided into sessions of scientific debates called "meetings".

The encounters deal with a variety of chemistry topics, all related to societal and environmental issues.
Each meeting consists of two challenges, during which two members of two teams debate according to pre-established roles, the speaker and the opponent:

• The speaker presents and defends his or her proposed solution to the TFChim problem on which he or she has been challenged. This solution has been developed by his/her team during the year and is the result of the application of the scientific approach used to solve the problem in question.  This approach may include experimental work carried out by the students.
   
• The challenger presents a constructive criticism of the speaker's presentation. He/she should identify and discuss both its strengths and weaknesses. He/she should also present what he/she considers to be the main ways of improving the problem. The discussion stage should lead to an improvement of the solution proposed by the speaker.

Each team is evaluated by a jury composed of academics and industrialists.

10 schools - 9 teams

• Chimie ParisTech - PSL
• Ecole Polytechnique
• ENS de Lyon
• ENS Paris Saclay/Université Paris-Saclay avec Bryan Boulenger, Elsa Brudy, Carla Dubois, Axel Eisenbeth, Théophile Langloÿs et Timothée Petitjean
• ENS Ulm - PSL
• ESPCI Paris – PSL / Université de Sheerbrooke
• Université de Montpellier.
• Université Paris-Cité
• Sorbonne Université

This year, the tournament was organised and held at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Jonathan Piard and Léo Barreau and the DER Chemistry technical team, Clément Doré, Sandrine Martin and Pushpa Mourougayane, accompanied the students of ENS Paris-Saclay and Université Paris-Saclay.