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
Dear NSC community, It is our main objective to keep you continuously up-to-date with any NSC-related activities. Here you find a list of all the previous NSC Updates. Feel free to share the information with your colleagues and invite them to directly join the community by signing up to the NSC mailing list. Sincerely, NSC…
We are happy to share with you the redesigned NSC logo and the NSC brand guideline. The colour of the logo is web-optimised, the font is cleaned and lost its serif-style, and the icon is also optimised following graphic standards. You can download the logo from our website in different formats (pdf, svg, png): Download…
NanoHarmony OECD TG/GD Process Mentor; Help to bring your science forward as harmonised test methods NanoHarmony, a European Horizon 2020 funded project, is today releasing the NanoHarmony OECD TG/GD Process Mentor. The Process Mentor is an interactive web-based tool to guide stakeholders through the development process of OECD Test Guidelines (TGs) and Guidance Documents (GDs).…
This survey aims to gather insights on the current practices and challenges of implementing nanosafety in workplaces. Your valuable feedback will help shape recommendations for future safety guidelines and protocols. We kindly request your participation, which will take approximately 15-20 minutes. Link to survey
The ELIXIR Toxicology Community held their first face-to-face meeting in Brussels (Belgium) on 20 September 2023 at the Maastricht University’s “Campus Brussels”. The meeting was aligned with a PARC WP7 meeting and multiple PARC participants were among the 10 in person and 13 online people. The Toxicology Community Implementation Study plan was discussed, aligning solutions…
Press Release The Horizon 2020 funded NanoHarmony project published a White Paper on OECD Test Guideline development From Science to Regulation. International agreement on methodologies to test and characterise chemicals and advanced (nano)materials is essential to protect human health and the environment. The OECD Test Guidelines Programme helps to develop harmonised agreed methods that can…
INISS-Nano webinar „Reflections on precautionary principle“ 9 October 2023, online In collaboration with ANSOLE, INISS-Nano and the EU Nanosafety Cluster (NSC), Ineke Malsch organized a webinar to discuss and reflect on the precautinary principle. As key-note speaker, Guillermo Foladori, professor at the Academic Unit of Development Studies of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas in Mexico,…