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Coordination Team: focus and responsibilities

The NSC Coordination Team (CT) is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the NSC, including the execution and materialisation of the decisions taken by the Steering Group (SG) and liaise with stakeholders. The NSC Coordinator and Coordination Team members are elected from the SG for a period of 2 years and can only be re-elected for a second term in a row and convenes, normally, on a monthly basis.

The team, along with their respective liaison, is currently composed by:

Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones (NSC Coordinator, University of Birmingham, UK), liaison General Overview and Organisation
Andreas Falk (Coordination Team Member, BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria), liaison Industrial Affairs
Monique Groenewold (Coordination Team Member, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Netherlands)

The main tasks and functions of the Coordinator and the Coordination Team are:

To arrange and Chair Steering Group meetings
To chair meetings of the NSC and plenary meetings of the NSC
The coordinator is the main contact point for representatives of the European Commission (e.g. EU DG R&I)
The CT communicates with the Steering Group via the coordinator.
Responsibilities will be split between the CT to optimise the functionality of the NSC (e.g. Working Groups, Task Forces and/or Dissemination Group support, website hosting and development, industrial and regulatory issues)
Organisation of the biannual NSC plenary meetings
Preparation of the minutes from the Steering group and NSC plenary meetings
Facilitating the communication between the Steering Group and/or Dissemination Group with respective NSC actions (e.g. Task Forces, EU-US Communities of Research)
Conducting special tasks such as publishing document of the NSC

The NSC secretariat is led by Cris Rocca, University of Birmingham (UoB) and supported by BNN.

Meet the team

Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones

Éva Valsami-Jones is Chair of Environmental Nanoscience at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Birmingham. She is the Coordinator of the NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) and is responsible for the overseeing and organisation of the day to day NSC activities.

Andreas Falk

Andreas Falk is PI for BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH and member of the NSC Coordination team responsible for Industrial Affairs and leading the international cooperation and the INISS-Nano initiative.

Monique Groenewold

Monique Groenewold is currently coordinator of the Knowledge and Information Center for Risk Nanotechnology (KIR-Nano) at RIVM (since 2012) and coordinator of the H2020 project Gov4Nano. KIR knowledge and information point risks of nanotechnology -nano signals risks of nanotechnology and developments for people and the environment. This organization connects different research fields within RIVM and (inter) nationally and translates this into policy.