During the 27th Annual meeting of SETAC Europe that took place in Brussels from 7-11 May, Richard Cross from the University of Exeter, received the award for the best talk. His speech focused on the GUIDEnano project to which he made significant contributions. The conference concentrated on environmental quality through transdisciplinary collaboration. Congratulations!

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The week of 6-9^th February saw the European nanosafety community converge in Malaga for the “New Tools and approaches for nanosafety assessment” conference, jointly organised by 5 of the large FP7 projects ending around now.  The 5 projects were: the sister projects NanoSolutions and NanoMILE, who were investigating mechanisms of toxicity of nanomaterials and developing mechanistic-based classification and grouping approaches, the sister projects GUIDEnano and SUN focussing on development of tools for risk evaluation and mitigation and decision support tools to support industry and regulators, and the data and ontology project eNanoMapper.

The conference showcased the outputs from 4 years of research from these 5 projects, via keynote presentations and short highlight presentations, as well as featuring short presentations from experts across Europe and beyond selected from the submitted abstracts.  Overall, there were 75 short presentations, 2 posters sessions (close to 100 posters) and 2 panel discussions, one focussing on “Stakeholder engagement – lessons learned and the path forward for H2020 projects – multi-stakeholder perspectives” and  the other addressing “Ensuring the legacy of EU-funded project outputs: strategies and supports needed” featuring panellists from the USA, Brazil, EU and spanning industry, industry organisations, funding agencies, standardisation bodies, international organisations, large enterprise and regulatory and policy organisations.  A report on the stakeholder discussions is in preparation and will be shared with the community in due course.  However, the key message was that a huge body of data has now been generated, and the quality of the data presented across the 3 days was complemented, but there is now a real need to integrate this dataset into clear, consistent key messages for use by industry, regulators and policy makers.

A best poster award, sponsored by RSC journal Environmental Science: Nano was presented to Susan Dekkers from RIVM for her poster entitled “The influence of redox activity of inhaled nano-sized cerium dioxide on respiratory, immune and cardiovascular effects in multiple mouse models”.  This was selected by a panel of roving judges who assessed the posters over the 2 days.

The 220 participants came from all 27 EU countries, as well as South Africa, USA, China, South Korea and beyond.  For those that couldn’t be present, the entire conference has been recorded, and will be made available online via a dedicated landing page hosted by Inclusive Digital as well as via the individual project websites and with links from the EU Nanosafety cluster webpage.  Several short movies are also being prepared, featuring interviews with the various project coordinators, members of the stakeholder panels and more.  Tweets were tagged with #nmsa2017.

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From the 29th of November to the 1st of December, the joint scientific conference of ProSafe & OECD will take place at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris. During 3 days, researchers coordinating large European projects in the field of nanosafety and regulatory authorities such as the European Commission and the OECD will meet and present their work done and their vision in the field. Dr. Socorro Vázquez-Campos, as an invited talk, will present GUIDEnano tool during the first day. Her presentation is entitled “GUIDEnano: A Tool for risk assessment of nano-enabled products”.

Sessions include topics such as MN Identification and characterization as basic information requirements for an appropriate regulation, MN Hazard: Results of regulatory relevance, MN Exposure and Fate: Results of regulatory relevance, and MN Tiered testing and Tools for Risk Assessment: Results of regulatory relevance.

Click here to download the agenda.

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From the 7th to the 10th of November, the fifth International conference nanoSAFE took place in Grenoble hosted by the CEA in the MINATEC. GUIDEnano had a strong presence to present its results but especially its interactive online tool for risk assessment of nano-enabled products. GUIDEnano had a stand in the exhibition area, presented 2 posters and 6 oral presentations. On top of that, on the 10th in the morning, the project organised and entire stakeholder workshop inviting industrial and scientific partners to present for the first time the online tool.

During the stakeholder workshop, participants were quite impressed by the capacities of the tool and the fact that it is already available online and fully functioning. After an in-depth presentation about its rationale and structure, two case studies were presented showing the risk assessment capacities of the tool for the environment and for humans. At the end of the workshop, a discussion was launched to get feedback from industrial participants and to have a better insight about their priorities in the field of  nanosafety. This helped the project team to plan better the future of the tool and its capacities to be adopted.

The GUIDEnano project team is now in its final period for finishing the tool until the end of the project in April 2017. If you would like to learn more about this tool, you will have the occasion to see it at the NMSA conference in Malaga, 7-9 February 2017. Registrations are open!

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On the 29th of November 2016 in the OECD headquarters in Paris, Dr. Socorro Vázquez-Campos will present the GUIDEnano Tool to various stakeholders. This will take place in the framework of a joint scientific conference of ProSafe project & NanoREG (Science  based support for regulation of Manufactured Nanomaterials).

ProSafe aims to coordinate and strengthen existing and new initiatives in the field of nanosafety with emphasis on the regulatory context.

OECD's Programme on Manufactured Nanomaterials (MNM) is focused on policy and regulatory aspects related to human health and environmental safety, which amongst other things means the development of instruments for safety assessment.

The ProSafe-NanoREG conference will discuss the results from European funded projects on nanosafety, as well as the results from the OECD's activities on nanosafety and their regulatory relevance.

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The Call for Abstracts for the New Tools and Approaches for Nanomaterial Safety Assessment: A joint conference organized by NANOSOLUTIONS, SUN, NanoMILE, GUIDEnano and eNanoMapper has been extended, and now closes on Friday, 21 October 2016.

Conference topics
Jointly organized by five major FP7 projects NANOSOLUTIONS, SUN, NanoMILE, GUIDEnano and eNanoMapper, the conference aims at presenting the main results achieved in the course of the projects fostering a discussion about their impact in the nanosafety field and possibilities for future research programmes. The conference welcomes consortium partners from the organizing projects, as well as representatives from other EU projects, industry, government, civil society and media. Accordingly, topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Hazard assessment along the life cycle of nano-enabled products
• Exposure assessment along the life cycle of nano-enabled products
• Risk assessment & management
• Systems biology approaches in nanosafety
• Categorization & grouping of nanomaterials
• Nanosafety infrastructure
• Safe by design

Conference highlights

• 10 Scientific Sessions
• 5 Keynote presentations
• Stakeholders workshop
• Over 300 attendees

Stakeholders workshop
The conference will be wrapped up with a stakeholder workshop which will provide a platform for an open discussion with interested stakeholders that could ultimately guide the research needs that should be addressed in future projects.

Further information
For more information please visit: www.nmsaconference.eu
Please feel free to distribute the conference flyer to your colleagues!

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On Thursday 10th of November 2016, GUIDEnano will organise a Stakeholder workshop during the 5th Nanosafe International Conference in Grenoble, France, from 8h-12h in the morning. Nanosafe 2016

The workshop will take place in the same building as the Nanosafe 2016 conference, being the Minatec. If you wish to only attend this workshop, please register here. You will be able to attend the workshop without participating into the conference.

GUIDEnano project’s main objective is to develop a web-based guidance Tool that helps the nano-enabled product developers and users to design and apply the most appropriate risk assessment and mitigation strategies for the safety assessment of these products. The tool guides the user through the entire life cycle of the nano-enabled product to provide the most precise insight that can be reached today on the potential risks entailed by nano-enabled products.

This workshop will focus on the presentation of GUIDEnano Tool v2 to stakeholders: showing all the parameters, modules and data sources as the basis for evaluating risks associated to nano-enabled products along their life cycle. The workshop is especially relevant for industrials working with nano-enabled products interested in a risk-assessment tool to assess the risks associated with their products, including proposals for their mitigation (risk mitigation strategies).

GUIDEnano, a project funded from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the grant agreement nº 604387.

If you will attend the Nanosafe conference, please indicate in the registration form that you will join the GUIDEnano Satellite meeting.

The International Conference is titled ‘Health and Safety Issues Related to Nanomaterials for a Socially Responsible Approach’ and will be held on 7th to 10th November. The conference programme is set to include a combination of invited plenary lectures, panel discussions and poster sessions among others.

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New Tools and Approaches for Nanomaterial Safety Assessment
A joint conference organized by NANOSOLUTIONS, SUN, NanoMILE,
GUIDEnano and eNanoMapper

Hotel Barceló Málaga, Spain
Tuesday 7th – Thursday 9th February 2017

About the conference
Jointly organized by five major FP7 projects NANOSOLUTIONS, SUN, NanoMILE, GUIDEnano and eNanoMapper, the conference aims at presenting the main results achieved in the course of the projects fostering a discussion about their impact in the nanosafety field and possibilities for future research programmes.

Who?
The conference welcomes consortium partners from the organizing projects, as well as representatives from other EU projects, industry, government, civil society and media.

Conference highlights

• 10 Scientific Sessions
• 5 Keynote presentations
• Stakeholders workshop
• Over 300 attendees

Conference topics

• Hazard assessment along the life cycle of nano-enabled products
• Exposure assessment along the life cycle of nano-enabled products
• Risk assessment & management
• Systems biology approaches in nanosafety
• Categorization & grouping of nanomaterials
• Nanosafety infrastructure
• Safe by design

Stakeholders workshop
The conference will be wrapped up with a stakeholder workshop which will provide a platform for an open discussion with interested stakeholders that could ultimately guide the research needs that should be addressed in future projects.

Save the date 7th – 9th February 2017 on your calendar!

For more information please visit: www.nmsaconference.eu

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Dr Socorro Vázquez-Campos, GUIDEnano scientific coordinator, participated in a European stakeholder workshop that was organized in Brussels 21 June by the European Commission. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and exchange views on interim findings of a study which will provide support for the upcoming third regulatory review on nanomaterials and environment legislation. The outcomes and conclusions from the workshop will be used to finalize the study and help regulators to take into account various stakeholder perspectives.

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The International Nanotoxicology Conference is one of the most important at global level in the field of nanotoxicology. The 2016 edition was the 8th in a continuing series of international meetings and was held in Boston, USA from June 1-4 2016. The title of this edition was A Decade of Nanotoxicology: Impact on Human Health and Environment.

Julia Catalán from FIOH, Margriet Park from RIVM, and Joan Cabellos from LEITAT attended the meeting and presented scientific results resulting from the research made in the framework of the GUIDEnano project.

Julia Catalán gave a talk about Genotoxicity of Metal Nanoparticles – possible Nanoespecific Effects, Margriet Park presented one poster entitled Hazard evaluation in GUIDEnano: a web-based guidance tool for risk assessment and mitigation of nano-enabled products, and Joan Cabellos presented two posters with the titles Coating hydrophobicity modulates the intestinal absorption of nanomaterials and Influence of different experimental variables in the prediction of nanomaterial intestinal absorption.

The objective of this conference is to bring together scientists from academia, industry, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to present current research findings, focus their respective talents and expertise, and initiate new collaborations in an effort to ensure the safe implementation of nanotechnology. The Advisory Board is working now to develop the scientific program for this conference, which will include plenary lectures, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and dedicated time for presentations by young scientists.

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JOIN WORKSHOP ON RISK ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES APPLIED TO NANOMATERIALS

The technological centre ITENE is organising a joint workshop on risk assessment and risk management strategies applied to nanomaterials. The workshop includes results from the projects on nanomaterials and nanosafety such as SIRENA, REACHnano, ECOTEXnano and GUIDEnano. It will take place on the 2nd of December in Madrid. To register, click here. To see the programme of the workshop, click here.

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GUIDEnano is involved in organizing the Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015 which will be held in Venice (Italy) on 9-11 March 2015. Find more details here.

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12-Month Meeting in Madrid (11/2014)

Over 50 researchers attended the 12 month meeting that took place at the facilities of INIA in Madrid the 27th and 28th of November. More than half of the meeting was dedicated to break-out sessions were inter-WP and intra-WP discussions took place

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The first Scientific Committee (09/2014)

The first Scientific Committee (SC) meeting was held in Leiden, The Netherlands on the 16th of September. The SC, which consists of WP leaders, met to discuss the progress of the project after one year and monitor the activities of each WP. The Advisory Board (AB) meeting was held on the following day where the SC met with the members of the AB including BASF and NIA. The project technical advisor, Richard Moore (PTA) was also present. The AB was briefed on the progress of the project to date and discussions about what is expected from the project. Moreover, the coordinators from FP7 projects NANoREG and SUN were invited to the meeting to establish official interactions between the 3 projects.

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6-Month Meeting in Utrecht (05/2014)

6 Month Meeting was hosted by TNO on the 26-28th of May 2014 at the University of Utrecht. The project was held over the first two days where updates from each work package were presented by the WP leaders. The partner then split into groups for WP interactions. The plans were laid for the next 6 months of the project. The third day of the meeting was dedicated to the Exploitation Seminar Strategy (ESS) where an expert coached the consortium on potential results to be exploited from GUIDEnano. Based on previous partner contributions, there were several potential results identified.

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Kick-Off meeting in Barcelona (12/2013)

GUIDEnano Kick-Off Meeting was held in December 2013 in Barcelona hosted by the coordinator LEITAT. The majority of the partners were present at the meeting where the project objectives were confirmed and plan of the first 6 months were laid.

Leaflet 2017

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Newsletter №.2 September 2016

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Newsletter №.1 July 2015

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Project Leaflet

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News

Software Tools are under development in several Nanosafety projects for the risk/hazard/exposure assessment of nano-enabled products. Tools are mainly focused on guiding the user (nanomaterial producers, manufacturers, consumers, workers, insurance companies, regulators, policy makers) to assess the risks associated with nano-enabled products at all the stages of their life cycle, including recommendations to implement the most appropriate risk mitigation strategies ensuring human health and environmental safety. Several European research projects in the field of nanosafety put together some efforts to harmonise nanosafety-related Tools (RA Tools, Nanodefinition Tool, Hazard Tools, Exposure Tools). More information here.