It publishes a family of academic chemistry journals, covering a broad range of disciplines.

[1][2] Chemistry Europe was founded on the initiative of the German Chemical Society in 1995.

The Fellowship is awarded based on the recipients' support as authors, advisors, guest editors, referees as well as services to their national chemical societies.

The inaugural Chemistry Europe Award was awarded in 2023 to Bert Weckhuysen, Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, “for outstanding achievements and leadership in the field of sustainable chemistry and catalysis research”.

[7] The 16 participating European chemical societies are:[2] The journals are published by Wiley-VCH and include the titles: Chemistry: A European Journal, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry—Methods, Batteries & Supercaps, ChemBioChem, ChemCatChem, ChemElectroChem, ChemMedChem, ChemPhotoChem, ChemPhysChem, ChemPlusChem, ChemSusChem, ChemSystemsChem, ChemistrySelect, ChemistryOpen, as well as the ChemistryViews online science magazine.