The NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) has secured a booth at the Industrial Technologies 2024 (Conference – INDTech (indtech2024.eu)) event in Belgium on 3-5 June. This is a good opportunity for projects to promote themselves to relevant stakeholders including staff from the European Commission, industry and scientists. All NSC projects can take advantage of this opportunity, being…
The 11th International Conference on NanoToxicology – NanoTox 2024 – will take place in the historic centre of Venice at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli on 23-25 September 2024. NanoTox is a forum aimed at personnel from research and academic institutions as well as from industry, governmental agencies, and other relevant organisations interested in: (Eco)Toxicity…
Dear member of the NSC-Community, We hope this message finds you well. In the past year, several changes have occurred in the NSC-community, which we wanted to summarize and signpost in this note. As a starting point, we completely updated all the communication activities, with now having monthly “NSC Update”-mails that replace the newsletter from…
The first summit of its kind, ANTHOS’24 – “Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies: science, research & innovation for safety and sustainability” – took place from 4 to 7 March 2024 at the TWELVE Conference Center in Vienna and was accompanied by satellite events before and after the core program. The exciting summit attracted 163 people from…
What is the Malta Initiative Priority List? Since 2017 the Mata Initiative has been working to update OECD Test Guidelines (TG) and Guidance Documents (GD) to ensure that they are applicable to nanomaterials and (other) advanced materials. OECD TGs are essential for industry and regulatory authorities involved in the testing and evaluation of chemicals and…
Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies: Science, Research & Innovation for Safety and Sustainability The “Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies: science, research & innovation for safety and sustainability” Summit 2024 (ANTHOS 2024) will take place from 4 – 7 March 2024 in Vienna, Austria and promotes the advancements in technological innovation & research…
Egon Willighagen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10533126 A lot is written about the FAIR principles for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (just search for FAIR “NanoSafety Cluster” in Google Scholar). But the NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) is putting these things into practice. This document describes a few solutions adopted by the NSC that can be used…
Egon Willighagen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10551071 The ELIXIR Toxicology Community whitepaper, released as a preprint in 2021, was revised and accepted last year1, reflecting the further development of the community, which was formally accepted late 2022. The Toxicology Community is interfacing between ELIXIR and the toxicology field, and that is meant to include the EU…
SbD4Nano organized a webinar: “A Deep Dive into the SbD4Nano Tools and e-Infrastructure through a Real Case Study” on the 5th of December 2023, online. Watch the recording of the webinar. Contact for Press Besa Maliqi Syla: b.maliqisyla@yordasgroup.com
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