report
9.1 Work package 4: Ethical and societal impacts

Relevant ongoing and finished projects in Europe
 
Ineke Malsch, version 6 July 2010, postbus@malsch.demon.nl
 
European level
 
Nanoethics and ELSA:
DEEPEN: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/projects/deepen
European Group on Ethics: opinions on synthetic biology, nanomedicine and ICT implants etc http://ec.europa.eu/european_group_ethics/index_en.htm 
EGAIS (2009-2012):  http://www.egais-project.eu/
 
Communication about Nanotechnology:
Nano-TV http://www.nano.org.uk/news/feb2009/latest1786.htm 
http://www.youris.com/Nano/NANO-TV 
NanoYou http://www.nanoyou.eu/ 
Time for Nano http://www.timefornano.eu/ 
NanoToTouch http://www.ecsite.eu/?cat=12255 
 
Dialogue / codes of conduct about Nanotechnology:
Nanomed Round Table: http://www.nanomedroundtable.org/
CEFIC stakeholder dialogue: http://www.cefic.org/ > nanomaterials
MATTER: http://www.matterforall.org (Follow-up of ResponsibleNano code) 
Nanologue: www.nanologue.net
DECIDE: www.playdecide.org
Nanoplat: http://nanoplat.org/
Framing Nano: www.framingnano.eu
EC code of conduct responsible nanotechnology & Nanocode project:  http://www.nanocode.eu/ 
Nanocap: www.nanocap.eu 
 
ICT / Security:
HIDE: Homeland Security, Biometric Identification and Personal Detection Ethics 2008-2011 http://www.hideproject.org/ 
RISE: Rising Pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics 2009-2012, http://riseproject.eu/ 
DETECTER: Detection Technologies, Counter-Terrorism Ethics and Human Rights 2008-2011, http://www.detecter.bham.ac.uk/ 
INEX: Converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal / external security continuum in Europe 2008-2011, http://www.inexproject.eu/ 
CPSI (Changing Perceptions of Security and Interventions, 2007-10) http://cpsi-fp7.eu/ 
PRACTIS: Privacy-Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics, 2010-2012,  http://www.iccr-international.org/research/projects/practis.html
FESTOS: Foresight of Evolving Security Threats Posed by Emerging Technologies, 2009-2011, http://www.festos.org/
PRESCIENT: Privacy and Emerging Sciences and Technologies 2010-2012, http://www.prescient-project.eu/  
ETICA: Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, 2009-2011, http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk/index.jsp?page=10516 
PRISM: Privacy-Aware Secure Monitoring: http://www.fp7-prism.eu/ 
 
International cooperation:
ICPC NanoNet: www.icpc-nanonet.org and www.nanoarchive.org
NanoforumEULA: www.nanoforumeula.eu
EuroIndiaNet: http://www2.spi.pt/euroindianet/
 
Nanobioethics / converging technologies:
European Parliament, STOA projects on Human Enhancement and on Converging Technologies: 
An ongoing STOA project on “Making Perfect Life” coordinated by the Rathenau Institute http://www.rathenau.nl/themas/project/making-perfect-life.html 
Results of earlier projects: http://www.itas.fzk.de/eng/etag/document/2009/coua09a.pdf 
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/publications/studies/stoa183_en.pdf
NanobioRaise: http://nanobio-raise.org/
Knowledge NBIC: http://www.converging-technologies.org/
ETHENTECH (Ethics of Enhancement Technology, 2009-2012): http://www.kth.se/abe/inst/philhist/phil/forskning/ethentech
Nanomed Roundtable (2009-2010): http://www.nanomedroundtable.org/
Sybhel (Synthetic Biology for Human Health: Ethical and Legal Issues, 2009-2012) http://sybhel.org/
Euronanobio (European scale infrastructure in Nanobiotechnology, 2009-2010) http://www.euronanobio.eu/
HEALTHGOVMATTERS (2009-2012):
http://www.healthgovmatters.eu/
SYNTH-ETHICS (2009-2012):
http://synthethics.eu/
 
General nanotechnology:
European Commission nanotechnology pages: http://ec.europa.eu/nanotechnology/index_en.html and http://cordis.europa.eu/nanotechnology/
Nanoforum: www.nanoforum.org
EuroNanoforum: http://www.euronanoforum2009.eu/
Nanoroad SME: www.nanoroad.net
(nano)Photonicroad SME: http://www.photonicroad.eu/
STOA/ETAG project Nanosafety (2010-2011): http://www.itas.fzk.de/eng/etag/project.htm 
 
 
Austria:
Nanotrust: http://nanotrust.ac.at/ ; http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/ebene4/e2-2c21.htm
 
Belgium:
NanoSoc: http://www.nanosoc.be/
 
Denmark:
Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics (in Danish): http://www.teo.au.dk/cfb/enhed/praesent
 
France:
Vivagora citizens alliance on nanotechnology (ACEN): www.vivagora.org and http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/NanoAllianceOct08.pdf
Vivagora - CNAM Nanoforum: http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?rubrique56
CNDP, National Debate on Nanotechnology: http://www.debatpublic.fr/ and http://www.debatpublic-nano.org/ 
Ile de France Nanocitoyens: http://espaceprojets.iledefrance.fr/jahia/Jahia/bca/NanoCitoyens/site/projects
 
Germany:
TAB projects on Nanotechnology, on Converging Technologies and on Human Enhancement:
TAB is still working on the topic of enhancement, in an ongoing TA project http://www.tab.fzk.de/en/projekt/skizze/enhancement.htm
http://www.tab.fzk.de/en/projekt/zusammenfassung/hp16.htm
http://www.tab.fzk.de/de/projekt/skizze/enhancement.htm
Nano Office (Technical University Darmstadt) project on nano regulation:
http://www.zit.tu-darmstadt.de/cipp/tudzit/custom/pub/content,lang,1/oid,914/ticket,guest

Netherlands:
TA NanoNed: http://www.nanoned.nl/ta.html 
Rathenau Instituut: http://www.rathenau.nl/nanodialoog  
Ministry of Economic Affairs nanotechnology pages (in Dutch): http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/nanotechnologie 
Nanopodium (national nanodialogue: www.nanopodium.nl 
 
Norway:
NANOETHICS: Bergen Interdisciplinary Studies of Ethical and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology: http://nano.uib.no/NANOETHICS.php
Teknologiradet project Nanotechnology product register http://www.teknologiradet.no/FullStory.aspx?m=116 
 
Switzerland:
TA-Swiss project nanotechnologies: http://www.ta-swiss.ch/e/them_nano.html 
current projects http://www.ta-swiss.ch/e/them_aktu.html 
 
UK:
DEMOS, the Nanodialogues: http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/thenanodialogues 
Small Talk project: http://www.smalltalk.org.uk  
Nanojury: http://www.nanojury.org.uk/

International:
(International projects or non-European projects with international visibility)
OECD: Working Party on Nanotechnology WPN: www.oecd.org/sti/nano and Working Party on Nanomaterials WPNM: http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_37015404_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1373&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
International Risk Governance Council: http://www.irgc.org/-Nanotechnology-.html
International Nanotechnology and Society Network INSN: http://www.nanoandsociety.com/
Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies S-NET: www.theSNET.net
FONAI, stimulating nanotechnology in Africa and the Caribbean’s: http://www.fonai.org/
Nano Ethics Network: http://www.teo.au.dk/cfb/forskning/omraader/nanoethics
Nanobank: www.nanobank.org
Meridian Institute, Nano and the Poor: http://www.merid.org/nano/
NanoethicsBank: http://ethics.iit.edu/emerging/nano/nanoethicsbankintro.html
ReLANS Latin American network on Nanotechnology and Society: http://www.estudiosdeldesarrollo.net/relans/
Woodrow Wilson Institute, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies: http://www.nanotechproject.org/