Scientific cooperation between Italy and Indonesia got a boost from two seminars curated by Prof. Nicoletta Maria Ravasio at the Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the University of Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia. The first was entitled “The role of catalysis in the roadmap to Bioeconomy: the case of oleochemicals”, and the second “Mono e bifunctional processes in terpenes and essential oils transformation”. The seminars were organised in collaboration with the National Research Council and the Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies with the support of the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Jakarta. Read more, in Italian.