GENERAL NEWS

NNI NanoEHS Research Strategy update

The 2024 update to the NNI NanoEHS Research Strategy has been released!

This document represents the U.S. government’s commitment to steer future research advancements in nanotechnology, aligning with the needs of the economy and society. It updates the 2011 NNI NanoEHS Research Strategy and assesses progress in six core research areas; describes cross-cutting themes in the environmental, health, and safety implications of nanotechnology; and identifies strategic actions that the NNI community should consider for the advancement of nanotechnology research.

HARMLESS Final Webinar

SAVE THE DATE for the final webinar of the EU H2020 project HARMLESS, on March 11th at 15:30-17:00h CET, with presentations of its key results (SSbD approach, Decision Support System, NAMs, Industry Case Studies, etc.).

Registration and more information coming soon – Stay tuned!!

DIAGONAL article at EUON ECHA Nanopinion
An article about the NanoTubeConstruct, a web tool for nanotube design and analysis, has just been published on the Nanopinion blog of the EUON/ECHA.

This article is based on the work developed in the EU projects DIAGONAL and CompSafeNano (DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.09.023).

Read the article here.

INTEGRANO - postdoctoral position available

Postdoctoral position available at The University of Milano-Bicocca under the supervision of the INTEGRANO coordinator Paride Mantecca.

Interested? All details here.

RIVM Newletters on Advanced Materials - December 2024

Read all news on AdMa published by the Netherland's National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) on their newsletter in December 2024.

Check them here.

Have your say on the future of (Eco)Toxicological Research in Europe
A survey is now open for all (eco)toxicology research experts in Europe. It is coordinated by the EU co-funded European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) in synergy with many other (eco)toxicological research initiatives in Europe.

Interested? All details here.

BNN QUARTERLY 04/2024

Read through the BNN QUARTERLY 04/2024 issue, focused on "Researchers on the Development in the BioNanoNet Community", with relevant updates on many NSC projects (NanoPAT, DIAGONAL, HARMLESS, SUNSHINE, IRISS, PLANETS, etc.), upcoming relevant events, as well as interesting interviews with early career researchers at several of BioNanoNet member organisations!

Enjoy reading it here.

Project PLANETS
We welcome the Horizon Europe project PLANETS to the NSC community.

The project aims to develop and manufacture new, more sustainable and safer materials using biobased functionalised additives based on lignin & tannins to improve fire resistance, by demonstrating the applicability of the SSbD framework while technically developing alternatives for 3 molecules in chemical industries (plasticizers, flame retardants and surfactants) at TRL 6 and their incorporation into broadly available consumer goods at TRL7.

Read more about it here.

DigiPass workshop on Nanomaterial Digital Pasport for Health & Safety

The DigiPass CSA project focuses on the development of Digital Materials and Products Passport (DMPP) to promote the digitisation of innovative advanced materials and to harmonise materials data sources and infrastructures. This workshop on 10 Feb. 2025 at 13:00 PM - 15:00h CET, will present the specific requirements and benefits of the DMPP in the area of nanosafety, covering information needs across nanomaterial value chains and analysing the benefits for nanosafety stakeholders.

Registration and more information here.

WORKING GROUPS UPDATES

Next meeting of WG Education, Training & Communication

The Working Group Education, Training & Communication would like to invite anyone interested to our first 2025 WG Meeting, taking place on 25 February 2025 at 2pm. We will discuss the goals of the group, joint activities and next steps. If you want to join the meeting and get updates about the WG, get in touch with Martin Himly (martin.himly@plus.ac.at) or Judith Friesl (j.friesl@yordasgroup.com).

Recap FAIRification Workshop

The projects INSIGHT, PINK and CHIASMA organised the public ChIPs Joint Workshop on FAIRification on 14 January 2025. It included sessions on data curation, semantic documentation for FAIR compliance, harmonizing model characterization templates, and addressing challenges related to in vitro model complexity.

The workshop presentations are available here. Recordings will be available there as well soon.

Recap NSC-IRISS Interactive Workshop

The NSC-IRISS Interactive Workshop took place on 12th December 2024. The primary goal of this workshop was to share information about the IRISS services that will support the implementation of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), to explore new avenues for collaboration with the NSC, especially the SSbD, Innovation & Regulation WG, and to discuss ways to enhance the impact and effectiveness of our collective efforts.

Recordings are available here.

New Task Force on Harmonisation for molecular modelling protocols

In the first quarter of 2025 a new task force on ‘Harmonisation for molecular modelling protocols’ will be formed in the SSbD, Innovation & Regulation WG’s pillar on 'Methods, tools and technologies for SSbD purposes’. This task force will be a joint action with the 'Research output management, FAIRness & sharing’ WG of the NSC (ROMFS). The intended outcome of this task force will be a consensus high-level paper charting the path forward in this area.

Feel free to share the information with your colleagues and invite them to directly join the nanosafety community by subscribing to the NSC mailing list.

Furthermore, we ask you to report your project related citable research output. Supported output includes journal articles, project deliverables, data, software releases, books and book chapters, and basically anything else with a DOI. You can get a DOI with online repositories like Zenodo (presentations, data, software, preprints, etc). This has the added benefit that you can link this research output via OpenAIRE to your EU grant in CORDIS. Get listed on the NSC website by sending us the citation of your publications to info@nanosafetycluster.eu.

If you would like to send us any news and events for the NSC website and the monthly NSC update, please send your news to info@nanosafetycluster.eu(including all your pictures in 1280x720 as attachment) by

20 February 2025, 12:00 p.m. CET at the latest.