Dear NSC community, Task Force on Pillar 2/ FP10 You will have seen that the NSC has established a Task Force being led by Sean Kelly of the Nanotechnology Industry Association (NIA), to prepare a policy statement that can be used to argue the case for the European Commission to continue to support projects…
Hi everyone, Starting December 2024, I am co-chair of the EU NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) Working Group ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), Innovation & Regulation’! Thank you to the NSC Steering Group for offering to integrate me in this new role. Using my experiences in BASF’s corporate research, in internal and external projects, I intend…
You are warmly invited to join the NSC-IRISS Interactive Workshop, which will take place on Tuesday, 12th December, from 13:00 to 15:00 CET via our usual NSC Zoom Meeting Room: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86847238354 Meeting Objectives: The primary goal of this workshop is to: Share information about the IRISS services that will support the implementation of Safe…
RES-21/22/23/24 Virtual Networking Meeting 29. November 2024, 10:00-12:00 CET ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88573207936?pwd=o9r0cbqhJqMyR6jO6KdaVH1bM5Ja4E.1 Meeting ID: 885 7320 7936 ♦ Passcode: 72717 Draft agenda More information available here. Agenda 10:00 – 10:05 1. Welcome 10:05 – 10:25 2. Introduction of the support team for future networking Danail Hristozov (Chair NSC WG on SSbD) Martin Himly (Chair…
Dear NSC Community, After being the Co-Chair of the ‘Research output management, FAIRness & sharing’ (ROMFS) Working Group for quite some time, I am now falling up the ladder. It will be almost impossible to replace Egon in the role of Chair of this group, but I will take the challenge since these are exciting…
The 8th INISS-nano webmeeting will take place on 18 December 2024 from 10:00-12:00 CET. Agenda: Welcome and general update [Alexander Pogany/BMK, Andreas Falk/BNN] “Commercialization of nanofertilizers in India, exporting to other countries, and challenges” [Pushplata Singh/TERI] “The OECD concept and experiences of the Mutual acceptance of data (MAD)-system” [Eeva Leinala/OECD] Update on progress of actions…
For the past four years, the EU-funded Horizon 2020 NMBP-16 projects DIAGONAL, HARMLESS and SUNSHINE addressing the call topic “Safe by design, from science to regulation: multi-component nanomaterials”, worked closely together on the challenges related to safe and sustainable multicomponent nanomaterials. As they are coming to an end, the three sister projects organised their Public Final Event on Wednesday, 25 September 2024,…
The 11th International Conference on NanoToxicology – NanoTox 2024 – took place from September 23 to 25, 2024, in the historic centre of Venice at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli. The conference attracted more than 230 participants from research and academic institutions, as well as from industry, governmental agencies, and experts from 30 countries around…
Great opportunity to present your work in different sessions at SETAC Europe 2025 (11-15 May 2025, Vienna, Austria) Session 6.04 – “Methods and Tools Enabling Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Strategies” Session Chairs: Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect), Bernd Nowack (Empa), Maja Halling (IVL), Zhanyun Wang (Empa) Information about the session: https://setac.secure-platform.com/vienna2025/solicitations/102006/sessiongallery/94215 Contributions that…
NovaMechanics Ltd is conducting a survey on the state of the art of the detection and quantification of carbon-based nanomaterials in environmental and biological matrices on behalf of the EU Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). The aim of the study is to collect and analyze information on the state of…