| Project Title | Nanoreg II |
| Year Start | 2015 |
| Year End | 2019 |
| Consortium members | EUROPEAN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT EU VRI EWIV NANOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION TEMAS AG TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES BUNDESINSTITUT FUER RISIKOBEWERTUNG RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU DET NATIONALE FORSKNINGSCENTER FORARBEJDSMILJO FUNDACION GAIKER ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT UNIWERSYTET GDANSKI INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER NEUE MATERIALIEN GEMEINNUETZIGE GMBH JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION NORDIC QUANTUM COMPUTING GROUP AS NORSK INSTITUTT FOR LUFTFORSKNING STIFTELSE VENETO NANOTECH SOCIETA CONSORTILEPER AZIONI CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS INSTITUTUL DE CHIMIE FIZICA ILIE MURGULESCU ROUMEN TSANEV INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS AVANZARE INNOVACION TECNOLOGICA SL INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA AGRARIA Y ALIMENTARIA OA MP KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE DE NORMALISATION HIQ-NANO SRL GRUPO ANTOLIN-INGENIERIA SA ASSOCIATION SAINT YVES NANOGAP SUB-NM-POWDER SA IDEACONSULT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY PINEXT BV DSM CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY R & D BV DSM MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER BV NANOTECH PARTNER SRO NANOMAKERS FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS ECAMRICERT SRL EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT UNIVERSITAT BASEL HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE SUISSE OCCIDENTALE |
| Description | One of the greatest challenges facing regulators in the ever changing landscape of novel nano-materials is how to design and implement a regulatory process which is robust enough to deal with a rapidly diversifying system of manufactured nanomaterials (MNM) over time. Not only does the complexity of the MNM present a problem for regulators, the validity of data decreases with time, so that the well-known principle of the half-life of facts (Samuel Arbesman, 2012) means that what is an accepted truth now is no longer valid in 20 or 30 years time. The challenge is to build a regulatory system which is flexible enough to be able to deal with new targets and requirements in the future, and this can be helped by the development and introduction of Safe by Design (SbD) principles. The credibility of such a regulatory system, underpinned by the implementation of SbD, is essential for industry, who while accepting the need for regulation demand it is done in a cost effective and rapid manner. The NanoReg2 project, built around the challenge of coupling SbD to the regulatory process, will demonstrate and establish new principles and ideas based on data from value chain implementation studies to establish SbD as a fundamental pillar in the validation of a novel MNM. It is widely recognized by industries as well as by regulatory agencies that grouping strategies for NM are urgently needed. ECETOC has formed a task force on NM grouping and also within the OECD WPMN a group works on NM categorisation. However, so far no reliable and regulatory accepted grouping concepts could be established. Grouping concepts developed by NanoReg2 can be regarded as a major innovation therefore as guidance documents on NM grouping will not only support industries or regulatory agencies but would also strongly support commercial launch of a new NM. |
| Core Technology | Atomic Quantum Clusters |
| Industry of application | Nanosafe |
| Call | H2020 |
| Funding info | This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 646221 |
