• H2020
• Industrial Leadership

The 2016 compendium of projects in the European NanoSafety Cluster, containing entries from nine Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) projects and 11 H2020, projects has been released this month.

Providing state-of-the-art collaborative research details of projects occurring across Europe, the compendium has been edited by Professor Iseult Lynch of Birmingham University, UK, at the tipping point whereby the number of H2020 projects exceeds the number of FP7 projects still running.

The focus of investment and research continues to move towards predictive and high throughput approaches to nanosafety, including safety-by-design, bioinformatics, the utilisation of nano-characterisation and safety datasets to support regulation, and nanoproduct commercialisation. Updates from the NSC working groups are also covered within the 2016 compendium, including introductions from the two latest working groups ‘Safety by design’ (WG9) and the Industrial Innovation Liaison (WG10).

In her preface, Lynch writes: ‘This years’ compendium contains information on four … negotiated H2020 projects, seven running H2020 projects (including updates from NanoFASE, ProSafe and NanoReg II who were just in negotiation at the time of the 2015 compendium), nine running FP7 projects, and includes updates from seven FP7 projects who finished over the last couple of years. In addition, updates from several of the Nanosafety Cluster Working Groups (WGs) are included, including the new WGs Safety-by design (WG9) and Industrial Innovation Liaison (WGi2L) outlining their short, medium and long-term goals, and progress to date for those that have been running.’

Lynch’s compendium is a means of openly documenting the status of critical projects that are based upon nanomaterial toxicity, exposure assessment and risk management.

To access this year’s compendium, click here.