Welcome to the 2017 Edition of the Nanosafety Cluster compendium. This year’s edition is the first that is dominated by Horizon 2020 funded projects, with only a few still-running FP7 projects, as 5 Fp7 projects finished in the first half of 2017, marked by a jointly organised conference in Malaga in February 2017. Thus, the 2017 edition contains information on 17 H2020 projects (11 that have featured in the 2016 Edition and 5 brand new projects. The recently ended FP7 projects provide updates here, as well as the currently running ones. Thus, the 2017 compendium contains from 17 H2020 projects and 10 FP7 projects.

As always, the compendium documents the status of important EU-funded projects on nanomaterial toxicity and exposure assessment and risk management, with increasing focus on safety-by-design considerations for nanomaterials, predictive toxicology approaches and high throughput / Tox21 type approaches. 6 new H2020 projects are presented and updates from 11 running H2020 projects are included.

The compendium is not intended to be a guidance document for human health and environmental safety management of nanotechnologies, as such guidance documents already exist and are widely available. Neither is the compendium intended to be a medium for the publication of scientific data and research results, as this task is covered by scientific conferences and the peer reviewed press. Instead, the compendium aims to showcase the exciting and important European-wide collaborative research being undertaken to ensure the safe implementation of nanotechnologies, and to act as a one-stop-shop for all stakeholders interested in acquiring an overview of current research activities.

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