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Innovation for a Sustainable Agriculture & Food System

On May 23-24, 2023, Re-Imagine Europa organised the Global Conference on Sustainability in Agriculture & Food Systems: Innovation, Indicators and Implementation together with partners ALLEA (European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities), European Food Forum, European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing (EU-SAGE), and the Institute of Agroecology, supported by the conference’s main sponsor Organisation for Economic Read more…

By AcumenIST, 4 months26/05/2023 ago

Publications

The Story of Responsible Research & Innovation in 36 Chapters

[…] the ongoing but gradually changing discussions concerning both the virus and the measures to prevent its spread gives me the benefit of hindsight when stress-testing the concepts and practices of responsible research and innovation described in the handbook against how they actually fared in the case of a pandemic. Read more…

By AcumenIST, 2 years30/08/2021 ago

Press

Common Challenges & Opportunities in sustainable Nanofabrication

A new report by the NanoFabNet finds that – even if a lot of work had been done at an international level during the last 30 years in the nanofabrication field – a lot of challenges were still to be met. The authors found that the challenges belonged to two Read more…

By AcumenIST, 2 years03/08/2021 ago

Presentations

Concepts of Sustainable Nanofabrication

The 10th edition of the NanoSafety Training School, held as a virtual event from the 21st to the 25th June 2021 kicked off with two key note lectures on the Monday afternoon: Georgios Katalagarianakis (former EU Commission) talked about “Let’s celebrate: Eleven years of the Venice Training School, sixteen years Read more…

By AcumenIST, 2 years26/06/2021 ago

Press

International Network Initiative on Safe & Sustainable Nanotechnology

The EU-Asia Dialogue on NanoSafety, which commenced in 2017 as a series of annual conferences organised by members of the EU NanoSafety Cluster and the Asia Nano Forum, published concept paper for the creation and activities of a new International Network Initiative on Safe & Sustainable Nanotechnology (INISS-nano) (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5004929). INISS-nano Read more…

By AcumenIST, 2 years22/06/2021 ago

Publications

NanoFabNet publishes ‘Concepts & Disciplines of Sustainability in Nanotechnology & Nanofabrication’

The NanoFabNet, a new network for sustainable, industrial-scale nanofabrication, supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation, published a report entitled ‘Concepts & Disciplines of Sustainability in Nanotechnology & Nanofabrication’. This report is devoted to a review of the concepts and disciplines of Sustainability in Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication. Read more…

By AcumenIST, 3 years13/10/2020 ago

Presentations

Nanotechnology & the Insurance Industry – Waving, not Drowning

‘There are still open questions [surrounding nanotechnology], but that applies to many emerging risks from new technologies‘ reads one of the main conclusions of a report about ‘The Information Needs of the (Re-)Insurance Industry’ concerning the risks posed by nanotechnologies; the quote was one of the concluding remarks given by Read more…

By AcumenIST, 3 years23/09/2020 ago

Panel Discussions

Dual Use of Nanobiotechnology Delivery Technologies

‘Science-Fiction versus Science-Fact – Nanobiotechnology Applications for Delivery’ was the title of Dr Steffi Friedrichs’ presentation at the 2020 UNIDIR Innovation Dialogues – Life Sciences, International Security & Disarmament Conference, held online on the 20.-21. August 2020. Presentation by Dr Steffi Friedrichs at the 2020 UNIDIR Innovation Dialogues from Steffi Read more…

By AcumenIST, 3 years22/08/2020 ago

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The Regulatory Landscape of Genome Editing

During the 8th Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress: Europe, held on the 4th and 5th March 2020 in Rotterdam, a panel of experts explored end discussed ‘The Regulatory Landscape’ of Genome Editing: Chair: Huw Jones, Professor of Translational Genomics for Plant Breeding, Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Read more…

By AcumenIST, 4 years05/03/2020 ago

Policy Assessment

Regulatory Approaches to Genome Editing in Agriculture

The organisers of the ‘OECD Conference on Genome Editing: Applications in Agriculture – Implications for Health, Environment and Regulation’ published ‘An overview of regulatory approaches to genome editing in agriculture’. The article summarises the OECD Conference session on ‘Regulatory Aspects of Genome Editing’, during which government representatives from six different Read more…

By AcumenIST, 4 years27/07/2019 ago

Technology Assessment

Policy Assessment

Innovation for a Sustainable Agriculture & Food System

Publications

The Story of Responsible Research & Innovation in 36 Chapters

Press

Common Challenges & Opportunities in sustainable Nanofabrication

Presentations

Concepts of Sustainable Nanofabrication

Press

International Network Initiative on Safe & Sustainable Nanotechnology

Publications

NanoFabNet publishes ‘Concepts & Disciplines of Sustainability in Nanotechnology & Nanofabrication’

Presentations

Nanotechnology & the Insurance Industry – Waving, not Drowning

Panel Discussions

Dual Use of Nanobiotechnology Delivery Technologies

Panel Discussions

The Regulatory Landscape of Genome Editing

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Regulatory Approaches to Genome Editing in Agriculture

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