Blueprint for the Development and Sustainability of National Nanosafety CentersShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: NanoEthics, ISSN 1871-4757, E-ISSN 1871-4765, Vol. 14, p. 169-183Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This work presents a blueprint or set of guidelines for the planning and development of sustainable national centers dealing with the safety of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies toward public health and environment. The blueprint was developed following a methodological approach of EU-wide online survey and workshop with several stakeholders. The purpose was to identify the key elements and challenges in the development and sustainability of a national nanosafety center. The responses were received from representatives of 16 national nanosafety centers across Europe and 44 people from 18 EU member states who represented the stakeholder groups of researchers, academics, industry, regulators, civil society, and consultants. By providing an overview of the organizational design of existing national nanosafety centers across EU and converging demands in the field of nanosafety, the blueprint principally benefits those EU member states who do not have a national nanosafety center, but intend to develop an entity to manage the human health, environmental, ethical, and social concerns/risks toward the growing nationwide activities on engineered nanomaterials, e.g., their production, use or disposal, at national level. © 2020, The Author(s).
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer , 2020. Vol. 14, p. 169-183
Keywords [en]
Engineered nanomaterials, Nanosafety center, Organizational design, Stakeholder concerns, Sustainability
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-44722DOI: 10.1007/s11569-020-00364-6Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85082856951OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-44722DiVA, id: diva2:1424939
Note
Funding details: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020, 723623; Funding text 1: The work carried out in this article was supported by the funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme for the EC4SafeNano project under the Grant Agreement No 723623.
2020-04-202020-04-202021-01-13Bibliographically approved