Mexico is eligible for participating in the EU in H2020 and FP9 programmes and this meeting is meant to get Mexicans and Europeans acquainted with what already has been achieved and where they can benefit from each other’s knowledge (needs) and infrastructures. The following key collaboration summaries have been identified: To formally invite some of…
The application of nanotechnology offers considerable advantages to consumer products and industrial processes in several sectors from medicine to construction, textile, transportation, information technology, energy, food safety and many more. Yet, predicting the risk posed by a product containing engineered nanomaterials (ENM) is still challenging, despite the considerable amount of data from experimental studies on…
The JRC Science for Policy report has been published: An overview of concepts and terms used in the European Commission’s definition of nanomaterial, followed by the related news https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/getting-specific-about-nanomaterials This report supports the implementation of the European Commission’s Recommendation on a definition of nanomaterial (2011/696/EU). It addresses its key concepts and terms and discusses them…
Nanosafety is becoming one of the main areas of concern among the civil society and the industry sector. It virtually affects all areas where nanomaterials are applied, including food, cosmetics, medical products, buildings and batteries, to name a few. Over the last decades, large amount of data has been collected on nanomaterials and many…
EU-US Nanoinformatics 2030 Roadmap The EU-US Roadmap: Nanoinformatics 2030 is now available to view, read and download for free from the EU NanoSafety Cluster website The EU NanoSafety Cluster is tremendously happy and proud to announce the completion and official release of the “EU-US Roadmap Nanoinformatics 2030 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1486012) edited by Prof Dr Andrea Haase and…
School Purpose The Training School, organised within the EU funded Horizon 2020 projects BIORIMA and GRACIOUS, will take place in the historic centre of Venice, Italy on 25-29 March 2019. The school aims to transfer State-of-the-Art knowledge on a variety of topics from key experts to the new generation of nano-environmental, health and safety, and biomedicine professionals, using interprofessional…
The e-infrastructure project OpenRiskNet developing a platform providing data and modelling tools for predictive toxicology and risk assessment, is entering its second stage, in which the platform is made accessible to everyone. In the first phase, we developed advanced concepts and implemented these into the first version of the platform including building and deploying of…
Data collection, methods optimisation and knowledge sharing The ACEnano knowledge warehouse (KW) supports the activities related to data collection and method optimisation in ACEnano (Horizon 2020 Project no. 720952) and aims to further disseminate this knowledge to the nanosafety community in a re-usable format. Overall, ACEnano aims to introduce confidence, adaptability and clarity into nanomaterial…
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…