This is your space to learn more about the role civil society organisations’ (CSOs’) play in the NANO2ALL project, develop or deepen your knowledge of the advances and concerns in regard of nanotechnology development and read about selected recommendations elaborated in the NANO2ALL project.
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CSOs and NANO2ALL
Several civil society organisations have engaged with NANO2ALL and participated in its activities. Their contributions help the project identify the needs, values and concerns of society that matter when it comes to new nanotechnology developments. Integrating these into the Research and Innovation process is an essential part of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach that NANO2ALL promotes.
Connect with the project on social media for live debates and online discussions, and we will make sure to bring your needs and concerns to the relevant policy makers, researchers and other groups.
Nanotechnology advances and concernsSelect resources according to your interest.
Nanotech advances
- Nanotechnology in Medicine: Breakthrough Advances in Cancer Detection and Treatment
- Nano Textile says it can make any fabric antibacterial
- Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscale
- Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users With Quadriplegia Control Tablets With Their Minds
- Nanotechnology breakthrough: How cell-sized robots could target bacteria to fight diseases
- A reimagined future for sustainable nanomaterials
- Nano-machines’ win European trio chemistry Nobel prize
- From super-pills to second skin: meet the Willy Wonka revolutionising medicine
- How nanotechnology research could cure cancer and other diseases
- The innovators: nanoscale devices making big strides in surgery
- Remote control of brain activity with heated nanoparticles
Nanotech concerns
- Is it safe to use cosmetics containing nanoform silica?
- Potentially Toxic Magnetic Nanoparticle Pollution Found in Human Brains
- Are silver nanoparticles safe? Implications for health, the environment and microbial resistance (European Commission, Fact sheet)
- Sunscreens with titanium dioxide as nanoparticles Health risks? (European Commission, Fact sheet)
- Civil society demands action, not words, on nanotechnology (Joint press release, 2016)
- “Nanotechnologies: can they solve the world’s current problems?” Vlachogianni T, Broekhuizen P (MIO-ECSDE, 2013)
- ANEC urges EU transparency about nanomaterials (ANEC Press Release, 2012)
- Nano – Very small and everywhere (ANEC/BEUC Brochure, 2012)
- Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials; Recommendations to safeguard their sustainable and responsive governance (MIO-ECSDE Position Paper, 2012)
- The European Commission needs to define what nanomaterials are in order to offer consumers effective protection (ANEC Statement, 2011)
- Nanomaterials: a very small step on the long and bumpy road to consumer safety (ANEC Statement, 2011)
- How much nano do we buy? (Joint ANEC/BEUC leaflet, 2010)
- Nanotechnology: Small is beautiful but is it safe? (Joint ANEC/BEUC leaflet, 2009)
- Positions and perspectives Positions and perspectives of Environmental NGOs of Environmental NGOs on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials (NanoCap, 2009)
- EEB position paper on nanotechnologies and nanomaterials (EEB position paper, 2009)
- Nano Supermarket
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