Project description
Managing nanotechnology risks
Nanotechnology is an increasingly growing field of scientific innovation offering societal benefits. However, nanotechnology poses significant challenges to risk governance structures and processes. The EU-funded Gov4Nano project will design and create a self-sustained Nano Risk Governance Council (NRGC) to implement the Risk Governance Framework for managing nanotechnology risks relevant to social, environmental and economic benefits. The team will develop an operational transdisciplinary Nano Risk Governance Model for nanotechnologies lying on a framework developed by the International Risk Governance Council. The NRGC will engage and coordinate stakeholders to overcome the fragmentation of existing knowledge and information, prepare its transfer, and establish a self-sustainable Nanosafety Governance Portal for dialogues between stakeholders.
Objective
Gov4Nano will design and establish a well-positioned and broadly supported Nano Risk Governance Council (NRGC). Organizing, connecting and engaging are key activities in Gov4Nano and its creation of a sustainable NRGC. Gov4Nano will develop an operational trans disciplinary Nano Risk Governance Model (NRGM) for nanotechnologies, building on an established governance framework developed by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). Engaging stakeholders (including regulators) to proactively address nano-specific safety and seek dialogue for joint activities. NRGC and its precursor project Gov4Nano will engage, in order to support these activities, with the broad variety of stakeholders across all relevant nano-disciplines (chemical, biocides, food and feed, pharma and medical devices and materials development) and draft a review on our knowledge progress over the last decade whilst initiating dialog. To boost the quality of the dialog it will create a platform for dialogues between stakeholders in a “trusted environment” inclusive of civil society.
The NRGC core business is to coordinate, guide and harmonize in order to overcome the fragmentation of current knowledge, information and needs over various sectors and disciplines (workers, consumers/patients, environmental safety) and to prepare the transfer of this knowledge.
To that end, the NRGC will be equipped with a self-sustainable NanoSafety Governance Portal (NSGP) consolidating state-of-the-art and progressive nanosafety governance tools including ones for dialogues and measuring risk perception. Major efforts will be towards requirements for data harmonization and data curation to be defined and laid down in guidance on obtaining harmonized and standardized quality-scored data collections promoting a big data approach for nano-toxicology. Research activities will be initiated for regulatory sound knowledge in support of harmonized (OECD) guidance for characterization and testing of nanomaterials.
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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2500 EX Den Haag
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44149 Dortmund
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8010 Graz
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2100 Kobenhavn
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EH14 4AP Edinburgh
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1150 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3071 LL Rotterdam
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8152 Opfikon
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10589 Berlin
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00161 Roma
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00198 Roma
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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36030 Monte Di Malo
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08225 Terrassa
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28006 Madrid
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28040 MADRID
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17177 Stockholm
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60550 Verneuil En Halatte
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1010 Wien
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1799 Sofia
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75794 Paris
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2131 Sandringham
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1000 Sofia
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8600 Dubendorf
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3003 Bern
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1214 Vernier
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1120 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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27708 Durham Nc
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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305-340 DAEJEON
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305606 DAEJEON
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04763 SEOUL
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16229 SUWON-SI, GYEONGGI-DO
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5212 Hausen
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2531 Potchefstroom
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