Two prestigious prizes will be awarded during the Congress:

• the "Paolo Chini Memorial Lecture" to a scientist, working in academic or industrial research centres, who has made particularly important scientific, innovative or applicative contributions in the fields of catalysis and metallorganic, inorganic and industrial chemistry;
• the “Piero Pino Medal” to a scientist, working in academic or industrial research centres, who has made particularly significant scientific, innovative or applied contributions in the fields of catalysis, macromolecular chemistry, organic chemistry, metallorganic chemistry and stereochemistry.