Task Force: (nano) TiO2safety communicationFinal ReportOverview The goal of the (nano) TiO2 safety communication Task Force (TF) of the EU NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) was to provide scientific input to ongoing classification of titanium dioxide. The TF on TiO2 safety communication ran from January 2018 to January 2019, and this is the summary report.The TF members…
Nanosafety Training School: From Basic Science To Risk Governance Event Date: 20 June 2021 – 25 June 2021 San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy About This year the Venice Nano Training School celebrates its 10th anniversary. The event will take place in San Servolo (Venice, Italy) on 22nd – 27th March 2020. The School will feature…
The event on Fostering EU-US Cooperation in Nanosafety took place in the context of the BILAT USA 4.0 project which was funded by the European Union, and initiated on 1 February 2016. This initiative aims at enhancing and developing science, technology, and innovation (STI) partnerships between the U.S. and Europe. A particular focus of the project activities is on…
3rd EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety 18th of March, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand On 18th of March, 2019, the 3rd edition of the “EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety” took place in Bangkok, Thailand. NANOTEC organized the event during the ASEAN Next 2019 conference held at Pullman Hotel (Soi Rangnam) in Bangkok. Over 70 participants from 16 nations attended to this dialogue. The…
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 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…
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…