NanoCommons @ NSC Education Day, 16 Nov 2020: When is metadata complete? & Call for action on the Gracious Ontology-Wiki by Thomas Exner, EwC

NanoCommons has a strong presence during the EU NanoSafety Cluster Education Day, taking place as a satellite event to the NanoSafe 2020 Digital Conference on 16 Nov 2020. Thomas Exner from Edelweiss Connect will host two interactive sessions, the first at 11:10-11:35 h CET, on “When is a metadata set complete”. This session will include…

EU NanoSafety Cluster General Assembly, Nov 16, 2020, 13:00-14:30 h CET

EU NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) General Assembly @ NanoSAFE Digital Conference, 16 Nov 2020 The next EU NSC General Assembly will take place during the NanoSafe Digital Conference. Agenda 13:00-13:15 Welcome and Statement from the European Commission (Soren Bowadt) 13:15-13:40 Actions since last meeting 13:40-13:50 Pre-recorded statements from each WG 13:50-14:00 Progress of the Malta Initiative…

NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) Education Day @ NanoSAFE Digital Conference, 16 Nov 2020

NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) Education Day @ NanoSAFE, 16 Nov 2020 Intention: This day shall act as guidance for the entire NanoSafety community, including young researchers, to highlight how individual research projects fit as a puzzle piece into the wider picture. It shall be an orientation-giving and educational event depicting the overall strategy behind NanoSafe(ty). For…

Poster presentation: Expanding the eNanoMapper Ontology – ICBO2020

Laurent Winckers from the University of Maastricht, presented a poster on expanding the eNanoMapper ontology during 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies. Abstract The NanoCommons Knowledgebase, https://www.nanocommons.eu/nanocommonsknowedge-base/, is an essential component of nanoinformatics and based on an agreed ontology. NanoCommons has continued to expand and develop the eNanoMapper (ENM) ontology to aid toxicological data management…

Getting into using ELNs for experimental and computational workflows, 14 July 2020

On Tuesday, July 14th 2020, the NanoCommons team, in a joint initiative with the NanoSafety Cluster, is offering an interactive online workshop on implementing Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) for nanosafety assessment. Under the subtitle “Getting into using ELNs for experimental and computational workflows”, you will learn how to establish a workflow using Scinote-based electronic lab notebooks. This starts with an introduction…

EUvsVirus Hackathon

The European Commission, led by the European Innovation Council and in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges. Now is your chance to help tackle coronavirus! When? 24, 25 and 26…

JRC Workshop on Safe and Sustainable Smart Nanomaterials

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (RTD) will jointly organise a Workshop on Safe and Sustainable Smart Nanomaterials in Ispra (Italy) on 24-25 March 2020. The workshop is focused on smart (responsive, multi-functional) nanomaterials, as such or embedded in products, which are developed for application in industrial sectors such…

Final OpenRiskNet Workshop: Creating powerful workflows combining data and software services demonstrated on risk assessment case studies

The final OpenRiskNet workshop will take place on 23 – 24 October 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit. The OpenRiskNet project, developing and implementing an open e-infrastructure addressed to research and industrial communities performing risk assessment of consumer products like chemicals, cosmetics or drugs, is in its third and final…

NanoCommons at the 1st International Young Scientists Forum 2019, Salzburg, Austria

NanoCommons sponsored the 1st International Young Scientists Forum that took place, as a satellite event, during the 12th International Particle Toxicology Conference. NanoCommons coordinator Prof Iseult Lynch along with NanoCommons partners Albert Duschl, Martin Himly and Andrea Haase were part of the organising and scientific committees. Iseult gave a keynote presentation on “Naming of nanomaterials…