report
9.2 Relevant ongoing and finished projects in Europe

Relevant ongoing and finished projects in Europe

 

Ineke Malsch, version 21 March 2012, postbus@malsch.demon.nl

 

European level

 

Nanoethics and ELSA:
Ongoing:

European Group on Ethics: opinions on synthetic biology, nanomedicine and ICT implants etc http://ec.europa.eu/european_group_ethics/index_en.htm

EST-FRAME (2012-2014) Integrated Framework for measuring societal impacts of emerging S&T including nano in food,  http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/100425_en.html

 

Finished:

EGAIS (2009-2012):  http://www.egais-project.eu/

DEEPEN: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/projects/deepen
SIAMPI (2009-2011): http://www.siampi.eu/Pages/SIA/12/625.bGFuZz1FTkc.html

 

Communication about Nanotechnology:
Nanochannels (2011-2013): analyses nano-public engagement projects: http://www.nanochannels.eu/

Nano-TV http://www.nano.org.uk/news/feb2009/latest1786.htm, http://www.youris.com/Nano/Nanotechnologies.kl

http://www.youris.com/Nano/NANOTV

NanoYou http://www.nanoyou.eu/

Time for Nano http://www.timefornano.eu/

NanoToTouch http://www.nanototouch.eu/

 

Dialogue / codes of conduct about Nanotechnology:

Ongoing:

PERARES: Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society, 01-05-2010 – 30-04-2014  http://www.livingknowledge.org/livingknowledge/perares

ETUI Nanotechnology activity (Trade Unions): http://www.etui.org/Topics/Health-Safety/Nanotechnologies

EEB Nanotechnology activity (Environmental movement): http://www.eeb.org/index.cfm/activities/industry-health/nanotechnology/

CEFIC stakeholder dialogue (chemical industry): http://www.cefic.org/Policy-Centre/Environment--health/Nanomaterials/
iNTeg-Risk: http://www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu/

CONSIDER (Civil Society Organisations in Designing Research Governance, 2012-2015) http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/101821_en.html

 

Finished:

MATTER: http://www.matterforall.org/, http://www.nanoandme.org/home/  (Follow-up of Responsible Nano Forum)
Nanoplat: http://www.nanoplat.org/
EC code of conduct responsible nanotechnology & Nanocode project:  http://www.nanocode.eu/

Nanomed Round Table: http://www.nanomedroundtable.org/
Nanologue: www.nanologue.net
DECIDE: http://www.playdecide.eu/
Framing Nano: www.framingnano.eu

Nanocap: www.nanocap.eu

NANOETHICS 2011, Conference on 20-21 October 2011 on the EC Code of Conduct for Nanotechnology, and dissemination of results, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw http://www.nanoethics2011.pan.pl/

 

ICT / Security:
Ongoing:

PRACTIS: Privacy-Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics, 2010-2012, http://www.practis.org/

PRESCIENT: Privacy and Emerging Sciences and Technologies 2010-2012, http://www.prescient-project.eu/ 

SETICS (Security Ethics in new I&C Technologies) Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), JRC, EC http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/530/0/

SURCIT (Surveillance Systems and the Citizen), IPSC, http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=552 (2011-…)

 

Finished:

RISE: Rising Pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics 2009-2012, http://riseproject.eu/

HIDE: Homeland Security, Biometric Identification and Personal Detection Ethics 2008-2011 http://www.hideproject.org/

DETECTER: Detection Technologies, Counter-Terrorism Ethics and Human Rights 2008-2011, http://www.detecter.bham.ac.uk/

CPSI (Changing Perceptions of Security and Interventions, 2007-10) http://cpsi-fp7.eu/

FESTOS: Foresight of Evolving Security Threats Posed by Emerging Technologies, 2009-2011, http://www.festos.org/

ETICA: Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, 2009-2011, http://ethics.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/etica

PRISM: Privacy-Aware Secure Monitoring: http://www.fp7-prism.eu/

TECHNOLIFE: Social and Ethical Implications of 3 technologies including body modification and enhancement (nano, bio, cogno): www.technolife.no

ICTethics: http://www.ictethics.eu/

PRISE (Privacy Enhancing Shaping of Security Research in Europe, until 2008): http://www.prise.oeaw.ac.at/

 

International cooperation:
Ongoing:

GEST (Global Ethics in Science and Technology, 2011-2014), http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/96890_en.html http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/school_of_health/research_projects/gest.php

ICPC NanoNet (2008-2012): www.icpc-nanonet.org and www.nanoarchive.org
EICOON (2009-2012): http://www.eicoon.eu/

Eulasur: http://www.icmab.es/eulasur/

NanoLINEN (cooperation in EHS and ELSA between Europe and India, 2011-2012), http://www.nanolinen.org/

 

Finished:

NanoforumEULA (finished): www.nanoforumeula.eu
NanoRucer (2009-2011): http://nanorucer.de/nanorucer/inhalte/start.php

Nanoroadmap: http://nanoroadmap-cyted.com/

 

Nanobioethics / converging technologies:
Ongoing:

ETHENTECH (Ethics of Enhancement Technology, 2009-2012): http://www.kth.se/abe/om_skolan/organisation/inst/philhist/phil/research/bioethics/projects/ethentech-1.64802

Sybhel (Synthetic Biology for Human Health: Ethical and Legal Issues, 2009-2012) http://sybhel.org/

HEALTHGOVMATTERS (2009-2012):

http://www.healthgovmatters.eu/

SYNTH-ETHICS (2009-2012):

http://synthethics.eu/

EPOCH (Human Enhancement, 2010-2012):

http://epochproject.com/

P4L (Photonics for Life), including Task Force on Ethics (2010-): www.photonics4life.eu

NanoDiaRA Development of Novel Nanotechnology Based Diagnostic Systems for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis (includes ELSA 2010-2014) http://www.nanodiara.eu/

HIGHTECH EUROPE (1^st European Food Processing Network of Excellence, includes nano and ELSA aspects) http://hightecheurope.com/ (2009-2013)

ARTIVASC 3D Artificial Vascularised Scaffolds for 3D-Tissue Regeneration, includes alternatives for animal testing (2011-2015) http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/101209_en.html

INLIVETOX Intestinal, liver and vascular nanoparticle toxicity development and evaluation of a novel tool for high-throughput data generation (include alternative for animal testing (2009-2012), http://www.inlivetox.eu/

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

 

Finished:

Results of earlier STOA 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/

Nanomed Roundtable (2009-2010): http://www.nanomedroundtable.org/

Euronanobio (European scale infrastructure in Nanobiotechnology, 2009-2010) http://www.euronanobio.eu/

EforTT (Ethical Framework for Telecare Technologies for older people at home, 2008-2011) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/efortt/index.html

 

Nano in consumer products:

NANOBARRIER (Extended shelf life biopolymers for sustainable and multifunctional food packaging solutions, 2012-2016) http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/102276_en.html

NANOSUSTAIN (Development of sustainable solutions for nanotechnology based products based on hazards characterisation and LCA, 2010-2013) http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/94362_en.html

 

General nanotechnology:
European Commission nanotechnology pages:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/index_en.html  

http://ec.europa.eu/nanotechnology/index_en.html and http://cordis.europa.eu/nanotechnology/

Ongoing:

Nanofutures: http://www.nanofutures.eu/

NanoCom: http://www.nanocom-eu.org/NanoCom/Homepage.html

ProNano: http://www.pronano.eu/

JRC Inst Health & Consumer Protection project Nanotechnology: http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_activities/nanotechnology  (2011-)

HIERARCHY (Hierarchical Assembly in controllable matrices, training network in nanosciences including ELSA, 2008-2012) http://www.hierarchyweb.org/

 

Finished:

Nanoforum: www.nanoforum.org
EuroNanoforum: http://www.euronanoforum2011.eu/

http://www.euronanoforum2009.eu/
Nanoroad SME:
(nano)Photonicroad SME: http://www.photonicroad.eu/

STOA/ETAG project Nanosafety (2010-2011): http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/etag.php

 

Austria:

Nanotrust: http://nanotrust.ac.at/ ; http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/ebene4/e2-2c21.htm

ITA – OEAW also runs other projects including “Privacy Reloaded” (2009-2011): http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/

 

Belgium:

NanoSoc: http://www.nanosoc.be/

 

Denmark:

Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics (in Danish): http://www.teo.au.dk/cfb/enhed/praesent

Danish Council of Ethics Website on Man and Machine: www.homoartefakt.dk (translated in English since August 2010) www.etiskraad.dk

Danish Board of Technology www.tekno.dk projects 2011 include “Privacy protection in the ‘things’ internet”, “responsible innovation” and “harmful chemicals”

 

France:

Vivagora citizens alliance on nanotechnology (ACEN): www.vivagora.org
Vivagora - CNAM Nanoforum, Vivagora project COEXNano on nanosilver and TiO2 in coatings

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

FMSH, project Security – Technology – Society, http://www.msh-paris.fr/en/research/thematics/security-technology-society/?taillepolice=2%2Fincludes%2Ferrors.php%3Ferror%3D%2Ferrors.php%3Ferror%3D..%2F

 

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-beim-bundestag.de/en/research/current-research.html
Nano Office (Technical University Darmstadt) project on nano regulation: http://www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/nanobuero/nanobuero/ueberuns/Index.de.jsp

Fraunhofer ISI: Convergence of Nano- Bio- Information Technology and Cognitive Sciences, http://isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-en/t/projekte/bb-fri-converging-strat.php

NanoKommission (stakeholder dialogue on nanotechnology) 2006-2008, 2009-2011 and 2012: http://www.bmu.de/chemikalien/nanotechnologie/aktuell/37643.php

Information platform Nanosafety: http://www.nano-sicherheit.de/

Netherlands:

TA NanoNed (2005-2010): http://www.nanoned.nl/ta.html

NanonextNL RATA (2011-2015): http://www.nanonextnl.nl/
Rathenau Instituut: http://www.rathenau.nl/nanodialoog 
Government nanotechnology pages (in Dutch): http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/nanotechnologie

Nanopodium (national nanodialogue, including 35 projects by civil society and companies in 2010): www.nanopodium.nl

Nanosociety: (secondary education project 2010-2013): www.nanosociety.nl

New technologies as Social Experiments… 3TU Centre for Ethics, 2011-…

http://homepages.ipact.nl/~ibovdpoel/cv/summaryvdpoelvici.pdf

Integrating social and ethical reflection in nanobiotechnological practice, 3TU Centre for Ethics, 2007-2011, http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/research/projects/nanobiotechnological_practice/

 

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/default1.aspx?m=116

NTNU, NANOTRUST project 2007-2011, Nanoethos project, 2009-2010 http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/bjorn.myskja  http://www.springerlink.com/content/x0267q0m4t5l6456/

 

Switzerland:

TA-Swiss project Nanotechnology and Environment, 1-4-2011 – 1-12-2012,

Finished project nanotechnologies: http://www.ta-swiss.ch/en/projects/nanotechnologies/

current projects http://www.ta-swiss.ch/

Risiko Dialog, nanotechnology activities: http://www.risiko-dialog.ch/Themen/nanotechnologien

Swiss Nano Cube, platform for nanotechnology knowledge and education: http://www.swissnanocube.ch/en/home/

Innovationsgesellschaft, nanosafety projects including NanoRisk Check, CENARIOS, 360 degree risk monitoring: http://www.innovationsgesellschaft.ch/index.php

 

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/

Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study on nanoscience and nanotechnology (2004): http://www.nanotec.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://sites.merid.org/nano/
ReLANS Latin American network on Nanotechnology and Society: http://www.relans.org/inicio.html
Woodrow Wilson Institute, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies: http://www.nanotechproject.org/

Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology, Canada, update of report on nanotechnology and agrifood (2012): http://www.ethique.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=24&lang=en

Friends of the Earth nanotechnology campaign: http://www.foe.org/