Horizon2020 calls - How to include standardization in your proposal

In Horizon2020 standardization has been recognized as a valuable tool to contribute to innovation and to demonstrate market scale up of research results. Anticipating the Horizon2020 calls, CEN and CENELEC are hosting a webinar to explain what role European standardization plays and how project proposers can address standardization in proposals. 

More on the CEN-CENELEC dedicated web page.

Regstrationi: to register your interest please email research@cencenelec.eu  - mentioning ‘Horizon2020’ in the subject line.

 

The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) organized an International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies - SENN2015, on 12- 15 April 2015, in Helsinki, Finland.

The goal of the Congress was to:

• examine and discuss safe practices in handling nanomaterials
• to promote nanosafety at work with an emphasis on detection methods, tools and safer production processess
• to improve the understanding of the biological basis of nanosafety

More information about the programme: www.ttl.fi/senn2015

 

Report of the European conference on standardization for nanotechnologies and nanomaterials

The presentations shown during the European conference on nanotechnology and nanomaterials: opportunities and challenges (December 16, 2014 – Brussels), the posters of the draft standards and the report are now available at the following webpage: http://international-events.afnor.org/20141216_openmeeting/presentations-and-posters/

6th NRW Nano-Conference

The NRW Nano-Conference will take place on December 1-2, 2014 in Dortmund, Germany. 

Guests from business, science and politics are welcome to participate an enriching and interdisciplinary dialogue about the opportunities, risks and potential of nanotechnology.

The NRW Nano-Conference in Dortmund offers two days of technical presentations about current trends in nanotechnology by top speakers from companies and research institutes. Furthermore, companies will present their latest technology developments and products at the accompanying exhibition. The organizers expect round about 600 international participants.

For the first time, this year the NRW Nano-Conference offers a "Call for Presentations". Interested persons who are enthusiastic about future technologies and new insights of nanotechnology, have the opportunity to present their projects and ideas at the event.

The NRW Nano-Conference is organized by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cluster NanoMicroMaterialsPhotonics.NRW and the Economic Development Agency.

Links:
Website
Call for Presentations
Topics
Agenda

Call for Presentations:
To submit your presentation/topic, please use this template within the online form Submit a presentation.

Application deadline: June 30, 2014

NANOSAFE 2014

The Fourth International Conference NANOSAFE 2014  will be held on November 18-20, 2014 in MINATEC, Grenoble, France .

Topics

• New applications of nanomaterials
• Exposure
• Detection and characterization
• Toxicology
• Environemental interactions of nanomaterials
• Nanomaterials release
• Industrial production and prevention
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Regulation and standardization
• Commercial equipment
• Risk management
• Nanoresponsible development

Programme:

• The three-day programme for this conference will include:
• Invited plenary lectures
• G. Oberdörster (U. ROCHESTER), D. Pui (U. MINNESOTA), D. Brouwer (TNO), D. Bernard (CEA, FR), L. Charlet (UJF, FR), E. Gaffet (CNRS, FR)
• Selected oral contributions
• Posters sessions
• Panel discussions: Responsible development/ Emergent risk management/Toxicology
• Exhibition of equipment related to safe production and use of nanomaterials
• Satellite meeting : for any information, please contact the organizers at: nanosafe2014@cea.fr

Call for papers
All accepted abstracts will be submitted online and published in a "Book of Abstract"
Papers will be presented in oral and poster sessions
Full paper will be published after their review in an open access journal.
Oral presentations will be available on the conference website

More information on the NANOSAFE website.

 

Safety and Risks of Engineered Nanomaterial (ENM)

NIVA Education will organize a course on "Safety and Risks of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENM)" on November 10-12, 2014, in Copenhagen.

The main goal of the course is to provide the participants with information that allows them to understand key-issues related to ENM. More specifically, the purpose is to introduce the current knowledge about the characteristics of ENM, exposure to the material and their health effects and also about the challenges of risk assessment and risk management concerning ENM at workplaces.

Event website: http://www.niva.org/start/view-54553-84?offset-54553=20

Nanosafety Forum for young scientists

The NanoSafety Cluster is hosting a “Nanosafety Forum for Young Scientists”. The event will take place in Syracuse, Sicily on October 8-9, 2014, complemented by opportunities to meet experts and senior scientists. Prior to the Forum for young scientists the NSC meeting will be held on Tuesday 7th.

Nanosafety Cluster and MODENA COST action jointly organize a scientific conference focusing on presentations of young scientists working in EU-funded nanosafety projects.

The event is an open Forum for scientists in the nanosafety research field including scientific sessions with oral presentations from the young scientists and forward looking keynotes from established senior investigators. The goal is to exchange scientific information and visions and to enable young and senior scientists to learn to know each other.

The presentations will be selected by the scientific programme committee from the submitted abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be presented in the plenary oral sessions. A brief abstract (max 250 words) should be sent to NSCForum@ttl.fi before 15 June 2014.

The number of the participants is limited to 100, on a first come, first served basis.

More information at: http://www.nanosafetycluster.eu/NSCForum2014

Survey of Tools for Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials under Development in EU and US Research Projects

The EU FP7 project MARINA (http://www.marina-fp7.eu/) seeks to review the state-of-art tools for risk assessment of nanotechnologies under development in EU and US research projects. These include exposure and hazard assessment methods and tools as well as specific "risk approaches".

The deadline for filling in the questionnaire is July 5, 2014. The responses will contribute to the development of a publically available review of tools, which can support the MARINA Strategy for Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials. All responses will be used anonymously, but the project will be acknowledged.  

The questionnaire can be filled in for one tool at the time. Multiple questionnaires can be filled in to accommodate more tools. You are also invited to share this link with researchers working with you.

As they develop their work in the coming months, MARINA consortium may contact you and/or your colleagues for additional information. The study will be conducted in accordance with relevant EU legislation and ethical guidelines including The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
If you have any questions regarding this questionnaire, please contact Vrishali Subramanian (vrishali.subramanian@unive.it) or Danail Hristozov (danail.hristozov@unive.it).

Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z21-j0_wE29DeQAS-toG8y6NKodMTcUkSUNiWTEFy6I/viewform

nanoSTAIR - Final Conference

The final conference of the nanoSTAIR project will take place on January 22, 2014, in Brussels.

During this event, nanoSTAIR will present a the nanoSTAIR check tool that helps researchers to disseminate and exploit the research results with standardization and the nanoSTAIR Practical Guideline.

The draft agenda is available here.

The final conference will be hosted by CEN-CENELEC.

Deadline for registration: January 16, 2014 (Registration link)

Call for paper: A specific opportunity is given to the partners of QNANO project and the affiliated to get the support from nanoSTAIR for standardization activities. In the afternoon of January 22 conference, QNANO partners in particular will have the possibility to present their intention for standardization and get a feedback from standardization experts or find complementary resources to start standardization activities. Thus, the nanoSTAIR consortium  invites researchers to submit a document that will be analyzed and, if agreed, commented during the final conference. Researchers will thus receive recommendations useful for the standardization strategy of their projects. We think that it is a didactic way to present the tool. If you are interested to participate in the nanoSTAIR check, you  are invited to visit the nanoSTAIR webpage “get support” to submit a scientific document (scientific article, paper presented in a conference, deliverable of a project..., min. 10 pages /  max. 100 pages). Time schedule: January 7, 2013: Deadline to submit a text January 22, 2013: Feedback provided during the final conference, in particular for QNANO partners.

If you have any question related to standardization and nano, send an email to nanoSTAIR@eu-vri.eu.  

EU Brokerage Event on KET (Key Enabling Technologies)
in Horizon 2020

The German and French National Contact Points (NCP) and Enterprise Europe Network Alsace with the Europe Alsace Network organise a brokerage event with he objectives to present the future framework program dor research and innovation "Horizon 2020 and the first calls for proposals to be publisched by the end of 2013, for submission in early 2014, and to give the opportunity to build project consortia.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet National Contact Point, others companies and laboratories to exchange during pre-arranged appointments that shall pave the way for future co-operations and European projects.

Focus
This Networking event will target a wide spectrum of companies, universities and researchers from whole Europe interested in sharing new project ideas and finding collaboration within the upcoming calls in Horizon 2020.

Main topics

• Nanotechnologies
• Advanced Materials
• Advanced Manufacturing and processing
• Efficient Energy in Building (PPP)
• Factories of the Future (PPP)
• Sustainable process industries (PPP SPIRE)

Societal Challenges addressed

• Personalising health care
• Smart cities and communities
• Low-carbon energy
• Waste as a resource
• Water innovation
  

Why to participate?

• to get the latest information from the European Commission about Horizon 2020 and next calls
• to facilitate the setup of project consortia
• to present, discuss and develop new project ideas at international level
• to initiate cross-border contacts

Agenda : 

- 9:00-10:20 : Plenary session with the participation of the European Commission
- 10:30-13:00 : Parallel workshops with speed participants presentation
- 14:00-17:00 : B2B meetings and exhibition

More details on the agenda: http://www.b2match.eu/kets2014/pages/agenda

Registration: Free of charge but registration is mandatory (registration link: http://www.b2match.eu/kets2014/participants/new
For registration and profile submission: November 7, 2013.
For meetings selection: November 8-20, 2013.

Event website: 

http://www.b2match.eu/kets2014/ 

 

NanoValid Training Workshop on Advanced Characterization of Nanomaterials

In the framework of the EU Project NanoValid (FP7), the University of Zaragoza and the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon are organizing a Training Workshop in Advanced Characterization of Nanomaterials, on September 16-20, 2013.

The workshop presents an introduction to Advanced Characterization Techniques of Nanomaterials, illustrating the necessary steps for the selection and application of different techniques for analyzing nano structured materials of diverse nature. Practical lectures with real devices are envisaged, including advanced microscopy methods and spectroscopic techniques as well as other related procedures in Nanotechnology. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the analysis methods currently in use in Materials Science, Engineering and Nanotechnology.

The workshop is dedicated to participants interested in nanotechnology and materials science:

• Pre-doctoral and post-doctoral researchers dealing with materials in the nanoscale.
• Technicians interested in general technical background which require a specific training in instrumental analysis.
• Students of master courses in materials sciences, chemical engineering or similar courses

Open poster and oral sessions are also foreseen. Participants are invited to submit their abstracts from April 1st 2013.

More information and registration in the following links: 
http://www.nanovalid.eu/index.php/events/46-nanovalid-training-workshop
http://www.qualitynano.eu/news/68/282/NanoValid-Training-Workshop.html

2nd Conference on Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing

The Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, and the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon kindly invite you to participate at the 2nd Conference on Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 26 to June 29, 2013.
The Conference aims to provide a major international forum for academics, researchers and industrial partners to exchange ideas in the field of sustainable intelligent manufacturing and related topics. The conference expects to foster networking and collaboration among participants to advance the knowledge and identify major trends in the field.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Computer-aided green manufacturing
• Eco-design and eco-innovation
• Design for climate change 
• Inclusive design
• e-Manufacturing
• Green manufacturing
• Sustainable construction for the built environment
• Green supply chain management
• Green transportation
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable power engineering and renewable energy technologies
• Reuse, remanufacturing, disassembly and recycling techniques
• Sustainable packaging solutions
• Smart manufacturing
• Reverse logistics and product recovery
• Smart and sustainable materials
• Life-cycle engineering and assessment
• Energy efficiency in manufacturing
• Smart design for sustainability
• Sustainable technology innovation
• Sustainable factory planning and scheduling
• Sustainable business models
• Zero-waste production
• Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings
• Resource Efficient Cities

SIM conference is being organized to be a high quality conference and an outstanding board of Scientific Committee members to ensure a high academic standard of published papers. 

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline	15 December 2012
Notification of Acceptance	7 January 2013
Full manuscript submission	18 February 2013
Camera ready paper	4 March 2013

Papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will be included in an ISBN conference proceedings book. Selected papers will also be published in special issues from journals.

Submission Procedure
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 200-500 words in one or more of the areas identified above, outlining the major content and conclusions. Accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers.

Please submit your abstract at:
http://sim.ipleiria.pt/callforabstracts/

If you need any further information, please visit the Conference website at http://sim.ipleiria.pt for detailed information.

 

EuroNanoForum 2013 

EuroNanoForum 2013 will take place 18-20 June 2013 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Ireland.

EuroNanoForum 2013 focuses on the commercialisation of nanotechnologies, exploiting its potential for new applications and taking them further from enabling technologies to end products. It will also introduce the industry to new innovations for growth opportunities.

With Horizon2020 beginning in 2014, the conference will also show how nanotechnologies fit into the new structure within Europe’s key priority areas of excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges.

Registration link: http://www.euronanoforum2013.eu/registration/

nanoSTAIR will be present through the participation of project partners, a poster, an overview leaflet and a leaflet on the semantic analysis tool.

 

CEN -CENNELC Newsletter

The nanoSTAIR consortium contributed to the newsletter of CEN-CENELEC.

Spring is a time to be optimistic and make plans for the future. CEN and CENELEC have shared ideas with all their members and stakeholders about the future of the European  Standardization System. The aim of this exercise is to agree, with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), on a common set of strategic objectives – as well as  specific ambitions for CEN and CENELEC leading up to 2020.

nanoSTAIR has contributed to this newsletter.

Link to CEN-CENELEC newsletters: http://www.cencenelec.eu/News/Newsletters/Pages/default.aspx

Liaison with CEN/TC 352

The nanoSTAIR consortium has recently established the official liaison with the CEN/TC 352.

More information about the CEN/TC 352 "nanotechnologies" can be found here.

International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies 

The NANODEVICE project partners and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health invite you to the "International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies" to be held on 28–31 October 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

The goal of the SENN2012 Congress is to:

• Summarize and share the latest knowledge on the safety of engineered nanomaterials and nano-related technologies

• Produce solutions to the safety challenges related to engineered nanomaterials and nanotechnologies
• Enable commercial opportunities for safe use of these materials and technologies. 

The Congress programme consists of further education lectures on 28 Oct, keynote presentations and free communications and an exhibition on 29 to 31 Oct.

See updated programme, all keynote speakers are now confirmed http://www.ttl.fi/senn2012

NANOfutures: Integrated Research and Industrial Roadmap for European Nanotechnology

 

The NANOfutures project has recently published the Integrated Research and Industrial Roadmap for European Nanotechnology.

The roadmap focuses on a 7 nano-enabled value chains and the set of target markets and final products. It includes actions to address industrial needs and research and innovation challenges for the successful development of safe and sustainable nano-enabled products aiming to:

- Deliver a focused implementation plan up to 2020 within a longer term horizon of actions (>2025);
- Address European cross-cutting key nodes in terms of cross-sectorial research, technology and innovation issues;
- Cover broad socio-economic challenges to the implementation and commercialisation of sustainable and safe nanotechnology enabled solutions;
- Have a market-driven value chain approach with a set of tech and non-tech actions along the identified value chains.

This roadmap represents an open working document, developed within the European Coordination and Support Action NANOfutures (contract number NMP4-CA-2010-266789). This document will be further developed with all NANOfutures Platform members and other stakeholders from the Nano related Community who would like to contribute. In this sense, an open on-line consultation will be opened soon.

Link for downloading the roadmap:
http://www.nanofutures.info/sites/default/files/NANOfutures_Roadmap%20july%202012_0.pdf

 NanoTrail: E2835 standard defining Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis

In the last NanoTrail, the good news that the American Society for Testing Materials, or ASTM, had published a new standard: E2834 - Standard Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) has been reported on.

The ASTM standard details the application of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to the measurement of particle size distributions for suspended particles from ~10nm to the onset of sedimentation.

The Standard is available from ASTM at http://www.astm.org/Standards/E2834.htm

Industrial Safety and Industrial Technologies 2012

The Industrial Technologies 2012 (19-21 June 2012, Aarhus) will take place on June 19-21, 2012, in Aarhus (Denmark). Industrial Technologies 2012, the largest event in the field of industrial technologies (nano, materials and production) will show how innovation can boost European growth and competitiveness.

Three days of insightful plenaries and conference sessions with over 100 speakers will reveal the impact of industrial technologies and promote solutions to improve the environment for innovation in Europe, including workshops, matchmaking, poster sessions and site visits to leading Danish companies. The highlight of this year’s event will be the Award Gala, where the winner of the Best Project Award will be nominated.

Further details about this event are available here.
To register, please click here (discount price till March 31st, 2012).

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Plenaries

Three conference plenaries will invite high profile international speakers from industry, government and research to discuss visions for European research and industry in 2020, how Europe can succeed in the face of global competition, and the form and impact of Horizon 2020.

Sessions

Over 70 speakers across 18 sessions will reveal the economic and technological impact of industrial technologies, with topics including low emission transportation, integrated systems, improving the environment, energy generation and storage, healthcare and construction. Sessions will also build on the recommendations of the High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies to promote practical solutions to improve the environment for industrial innovation in Europe.

Workshops

Workshops and break-out sessions will look at individual topics in more detail, reflecting the work of individual project clusters or networks and building commitment and momentum for future activities.
A workshop will be dedicated to the SafeFuture initiative.

The Best Project Award 2012

Over 900 projects in the field of Industrial Technologies have been launched under Framework Programmes 5, 6 & 7. Industrial Technologies 2012 will identify and celebrate the very best of these.
The Best Project Award will be given to the project which has had the greatest economic and societal impact, boosting European competitiveness by creating new products and processes.

The ten finalists will be invited to the Industrial Technologies 2012 congress, and will present their project at a prestigious ceremony at the Award Gala. The competition is a unique chance to gain media coverage and visibility for you and your innovation. To apply, please complete the short online application. Please note that the deadline for nominations is extended to 31st of March 2012.

For more information about best project award 2012: http://industrialtechnologies2012.eu/best-project-award
Apply Directly: http://www.kongreskompagniet.dk/abstract-it2012
Note: Please use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox to submit your application.

Exibition

Over 50 organizations have already confirmed their participation as exhibitor. Take the possibility to showcase and disseminate your project, network with potential project partners for future projects and utilize your booth to coordinate your activities at IndustryTech2012.  Also, you will get answers to how Europe’s funding landscape is changing as there will be MEP Da Graca Carvalho speaking, a key figure in Horizon 2020.

For More Information about exibition: http://industrialtechnologies2012.eu/application  
Reserve Directly: http://www.kongreskompagniet.dk/indtech2012_exhibitor

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 2012 edition of the Compendium

The 2012 edition of the Compendium is now available.

For several years now, the research community has responded by launching very valuable projects under the Sixth Framework Programme FP6 and Seventh Framework Programme FP7, marking significant technological progress both in the technology and in its safety management. About fifty projects are either completed or running and represent a total RTD investment of €137M, from the NMP and other programmes, under FP6 (13 projects, €31M) and FP7 (34 projects, €106M). These projects together with a significant number of projects supported by government resources in the EU member states and the FP7 associated states, and other projects addressing safety as side objective,represent the valuable efforts of the scientific and industrial research community for progress.

Please click on the link below to view the recently published European NanoSafety Cluster Compendium, which contains information on all running or recently completed projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme FP7. Information on older projects can be found in the previous editions.

European NanoSafety Cluster Compendium 2012

 

The previous edition (2011) of the compendium is available here.

For further information on FP6 and FP7 programmes please click here.

Following the approved liaison between ISO 31000 and EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk (see news entry), a discussion between the iNTeg-Risk Project Coordinator and the CEO of EU-VRi, A. Jovanovic, and the Moderator of the LinkedIn ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard Group, A. Dali, took place.

One of the main results, so far, would be the involvement of the EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk partners into the first global survey of ISO 31000–Risk Management Principle and Guidelines set to kick off on the 17th of October this year. The aim of the survey is to gauge how ISO 31000 is perceived by risk practitioners across all sectors and to provide input for the preparation of the ISO 31004 guide, due out in 2013.

Members of more than 70 risk management associations around the world are invited to participate in the study which is being run through an initiative by the LinkedIn discussion group on ISO 31000. Issued in November 2009, ISO 31000 provides principles and generic guidelines on risk management. It can be used by any public, private or community enterprise, association, group or individual and is not specific to any industry or sector. "This is the first time the global risk management community active across all fields, sectors, industries and services is being invited to participate in an international survey on ISO 31000. It is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and concerns about the ISO standard on risk management" said Alex Dali.

The survey will run from

Oct. 17, 2011 to Nov. 30, 2011. (extended deadline)

 

You will be encouraged to participate through EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk sites or the LinkedIn group. You can join the discussion forum preparing the survey at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=1834592.

We encourage your participation and will gladly support it.