NSC @ BNN Quarterly (Mar 2025)
NSC was included in the latest BNN QUARTERLY 01/2025 entitled “Collaborate to innovate: Success Stories from Scientific Cooperation”, with one article introducing the NSC (pages 8-9). Read now
Open position on AdMa – SSbD at the JRC (Ispra)
Dear colleagues, members and supporters of the Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC), I would like to inform you that we have an open position on Advanced Materials – Safety and Sustainability by Design at the JRC in Ispra. The position is for 3+3 years and to be filled as soon as possible.…
Invitation to Contribute to Discover Nano Journal – Special Issue ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design Antimicrobial Nanocoatings’
Dear NSC colleagues, We would like to share an exciting opportunity with you and the Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC) partners. Discover Nano, a leading journal in nanotechnology, has launched a special issue on Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Antimicrobial Nanocoatings, with Prof. Zhenyu Jason Zhang as the…
Welcome statement from Irini Furxhi as new co-chair of the WG “Research Output management, FAIRness & sharing”
Dear colleagues, Beginning in February 2025, I am honored to co-chair the NSC Working Group on ‘Research Output management, FAIRness & sharing’. My journey started in a molecular lab, gloves at hand, conducting experiments, mixing solutions, performing steps, uncovering patients with leukemia. Then, I leaped into the digital world, where instead of a biological…
3rd ELIXIR Toxicology Community workshop on 26-27 March 2025
Dear NSC members: We are delighted to announce the third ELIXIR Toxicology Community Workshop on “Making toxicology tools more accessible and interoperable”. It will take place on 26-27 March at the SciLifeLab in Uppsala (Sweden). 📢 Are you a toxicologist, bioinformatician or data manager working in computational toxicology and interested in learning more about computational…
Welcome statement from Lya Hernandez as new co-chair of the WG “SSbD, Innovation & Regulation”
Hello everyone, Starting February 2025, I have the privilege to co-chair the Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC) Working Group (WG) ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), Innovation & Regulation’. I would like to thank the NSC Steering Group for nominating me to this new role. With my OECD, regulatory,…
Mapping of toxicological capacities in Europe
Have your say on the future of (Eco)Toxicological Research in Europe. A survey is now open for all Toxicology/Ecotoxicology research experts in Europe. It is coordinated by the EU co-funded „Partnership on Assessment of Risks of Chemicals“ PARC in synergy with many other (eco)toxicological research initiatives in Europe. The mapping concerns CAPACITIES AND RESOURCES…
NSC Updates 2024
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 NSC Updates published in 2024. 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,…
Postdoctoral position available at UNIMIB (INTEGRANO)
On behalf of the INTEGRANO project: Postdoctoral position available at The University of Milano-Bicocca under the supervision of the INTEGRANO coordinator Paride Mantecca. The position will contribute to the EU Horizon Europe project INTEGRANO (https://www.integrano.eu/) through the research topic “New Integrated Methodological Approaches for the Assessment of the Safety and Environmental Sustainability of Advanced…
NSC Task Force on Pillar 2/ FP10
Dear NSC community, Task Force on Pillar 2/ FP10 You will have seen that the NSC has established a Task Force being led by Sean Kelly of the Nanotechnology Industry Association (NIA), to prepare a policy statement that can be used to argue the case for the European Commission to continue to support projects…