Blueprint for a self-sustained European Centre for service provision in safe and sustainable innovation for nanotechnology

Autor: Keld Alstrup Jensen, Petru Niga, Anthony Bochon, Marika Pilou, Ian Cotgreave, Vasile-Dan Hodoroaba, Jesús M. Lopez de Ipiña, Hilda Witters, Emeric Frejafon, Gareth Evans, Iseult Lynch, Martin Himly, Valeria Dulio, Jacques Bouillard, Valentin Kunz, Mark Geppert, Birgit van Duuren-Stuurman, Simona Scalbi, Delphine Bard, Wolfgang E. S. Unger, Olivier Aguerre-Chariol, Maria I. Gini, Albert Duschl, Alfonso Arevalillo, Neeraj Shandilya, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Bastien Caillard, Sven Vercauteren, Effie Marcoulaki, Anna Kaisa Viitanen, Karin Persson
Přispěvatelé: National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), University of Salzburg, University of Birmingham [Birmingham], The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Health & Safety Executive Science and Research Centre, The National Research Center for Work Environment [Copenhagen, Denmark], Finnish Institute of Occupational Health of Helsinki, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: NanoImpact
NanoImpact, Elsevier, 2021, 23, pp.100337. ⟨10.1016/j.impact.2021.100337⟩
ISSN: 2452-0748
Popis: International audience; The coming years are expected to bring rapid changes in the nanotechnology regulatory landscape, with the establishment of a new framework for nano-risk governance, in silico approaches for characterisation and risk assessment of nanomaterials, and novel procedures for the early identification and management of nanomaterial risks. In this context, Safe(r)-by-Design (SbD) emerges as a powerful preventive approach to support the development of safe and sustainable (SSbD) nanotechnology-based products and processes throughout the life cycle. This paper summarises the work undertaken to develop a blueprint for the deployment and operation of a permanent European Centre of collaborating laboratories and research organisations supporting safe innovation in nanotechnologies. The proposed entity, referred to as “the Centre”, will establish a ‘one-stop shop’ for nanosafety-related services and a central contact point for addressing stakeholder questions about nanosafety. Its operation will rely on significant business, legal and market knowledge, as well as other tools developed and acquired through the EU-funded EC4SafeNano project and subsequent ongoing activities. The proposed blueprint adopts a demand-driven service update scheme to allow the necessary vigilance and flexibility to identify opportunities and adjust its activities and services in the rapidly evolving regulatory and nano risk governance landscape. The proposed Centre will play a major role as a conduit to transfer scientific knowledge between the research and commercial laboratories or consultants able to provide high quality nanosafety services, and the end-users of such services (e.g., industry, SMEs, consultancy firms, and regulatory authorities). The Centre will harmonise service provision, and bring novel risk assessment and management approaches, e.g. in silico methodologies, closer to practice, notably through SbD/SSbD, and decisively support safe and sustainable innovation of industrial production in the nanotechnology industry according to the European Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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