This communication discusses the results of a student competition, an international funding call designed by national funding agencies to develop best practices for multional research programs, and noteworthy aspects of the educational Web site and summarizes one of the invited papers to the confchem online conference A Virtual colloquium to suntain and celebrate IYC 2011 initiatives in global chemical education, held from may 18 to june 29, 2012 and hosted by the ACS DivCHED committee on computers in chemical education(CCCE) and the IUPAC committee on chemistry education