2016

What is responsibility in relation to nanotechnology in your experience? Six participants in an interactive workshop organised by NANO2ALL @ The S.NET discussed practical answers to this question. While most attendants mentioned examples from earlier projects on responsible nanotechnology research, two were not familiar with the concept. We will therefore need to explain what we mean by “Responsible Research and Innovation” before engaging citizens and stakeholders in the dialogue on nanotechnology organised in NANO2ALL, www.nano2all.eu.

The second consortium meeting for Nano2All was successfully held in the beautiful Thessaloniki, Greece between May 10-11! We excitedly exchanged ideas and information on progress and development according to the Work Plan, including how to better reach out to our stakeholder groups, how to improve our project platform and social media platforms (Work Package 1), how to design pre-training questions to understand needs of different types of stakeholders, in order to maximise the results of the training (Work Package 2), what is the scenario game / how to play it, how to organise the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD) at national and European level (Work Package 3), and how all these tasks will feed into the roadmap that will be developed towards the end of the project (WP4).

Our next project meeting, back-to-back with training to science centres to prepare them for training to citizens, will be held in December in Amsterdam! See you all there!

Representatives of NANO2ALL are at NanoIsrael 2016. The conference & exhibition takes place on 22-23 February 2016 in Tel Aviv (Israel). This bi-annual event brings together local and multinational businesses, investors, university and corporate research scientists and government representatives from around the world.

Read more about NanoIsrael 2016 here.