The caLIBRAte (www.nanocalibrate.eu) project has been working during the first half of 2018 on testing a number of risk governance models with stakeholders and getting feedback on them. As one of its main goals, caLIBRAte is looking to establish a risk governance framework to allow people to assess and manage human and environmental risks of…
The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualised with Scholia At a recent hackathon organized by the European Research Council, GeneWiki, and others, a group of 25 researchers came together in Berlin to work on ontologically modelling research grants in Wikidata. During this meeting the EU NanoSafety Cluster was used as use case study, resulting…
PATROLS action at Chemspec Europe The PATROLS project was in action at the Chemspec Europe, the international exhibition for speciality chemicals, hosted in Cologne on June 20-21. The Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) represented the project as the first stakeholder activity of the project, with the intention to engage industry stakeholders and understand their needs…
OECD joint meeting with NanoReg2 and Gracious to Host Scientific workshop on Grouping of Nanomaterials. The Nanosafety Cluster projects NanoReg2 and Gracious, focused on grouping, have come together with the OECD Working Party for Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) to host a prestigious conference in Paris in September. The workshop immediately follows the a WPMN meeting on…