2024年4月17-18日，本课题组举办了CatHex Seminar，主题为Catalytic Reaction Mechanisms and Reaction Kinetics。

来自挪威科学大学的陈德教授，加拿大多伦多大学. Yahuei Chin教授，南非柯普敦大学Michael Claeys教授，南非大学Prof. Patricia Kooyma教授，挪威科技大学博士研究生Youri van Valen，上海交通大学杨佳副教授等与本课题的青年教授和学生进行了深入交流。

CATHEX is a project supported by the Research Council of Norway under the International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research, and Innovation initiative. The theme of the project is "Advances in Heterogeneous Catalysis through Integrated Theoretical and Experimental Efforts."

The CATHEX project brings together world-class and well-recognized research groups in an INTPART projects that aims to advance education and innovation within heterogeneous catalysis to solve global challenges. CATHEX integrates theoretical andexperimental methodologies for specific selected challenges and utilizes the strengths and complementarities of the partners. CATHEX is initiated and managed by iCSI; a Centre for research-based innovation granted by the Research Council of Norway and hosted by Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU. CATHEX is well aligned with NTNU’s mission, internationalization targets and national role in developing the technological foundation for our future society. CATHEX is based on existing collaborations or established intentions to collaborate between the Norwegian partners NTNU and the University of Oslo, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), University of Madison-Wisconsin (USA), University of Cape Town (South Africa) and University of Toronto (Canada). The CATHEX network enables a multidisciplinary approach, using kinetic and isotopic techniques, spectroscopy, microscopy, and theoretical modelling to advance fundamental, molecular scale understanding of heterogeneous catalytic processes. The research conducted will be pre-commercial, but the industrial network of all partners - iCSI in particular - can participate and learn of and contribute to the advancements. The synergy and objective in CATHEX will be enabled through exchanges and workshops. Shorter and longer research exchange periods will be financed, both to and from Norway, and involving senior and junior professors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students. Supervision of students, teaching in NTNU and UiO PhD/MSc courses and guest lectures will be integrated with the exchange of senior researchers. Six workshops/schools will be organized, one at each partner node.