Nanotechnologies and ethics – Bibliography

• Training intended for occupational physicians, occupational risk prevention specialists (IPRP), company prevention specialists, prevention department staff from Carsat, Cramif and CGSS, institutional prevention specialists (Dreets, Dreal, MSA…).
• Organizer: French National institute of research and security (INRS)
• October 6 to 10, 2025
• Website: www.inrs.fr/…/formation/…JA1030_2025

• Brainstormings and exchanges on ways of engaging knowledge for the common good through actions for an ecological and inclusive transition.
• Organizers : NGOs involved in cooperation between research and social movements for the ecological and solidarity-based transition
  → Abecopol, Atécopol, Sciences citoyennes, Ecopolien, La Fabrique des Questions Simples, Coexiscience, Klask !, Ingénieurs sans frontières, La Myne,  Ingénieur.e.s Engagé.e.s Lyon, Rogue ESR, PiNG, Scientifiques en rébellion
• Website: www.mouvement-ser.org

• Training for prevention assistants, research support staff, docs, postdocs, researchers/teaching-researchers…
• Organizer: Centre national de compétences en Nanosciences du CNRS (C’Nano)
• Website: cnano.fr/…/formation-2024-…prevention-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux…laboratoire

• As part of the Fête de la science 2024, this workshop takes you on a journey to the heart of matter, with a visit to an Industry partner laboratory dedicated to the study of materials. Among the equipment on display: microscopy, laser granulometry, particle and nanoparticle analyzers, etc.
• Public: 18 years and over
• Organizer: Laboratoire Analyses et Surfaces
• Website: www.fetedelascience.fr/visite-du-laboratoire-analyses-et-surface

• As part of the Fête de la science 2024, this talk explores the science behind the magical curiosity of Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak.
• School sessions
• Dates: October 11 and 12, 2024
• Science Village at Indre IUT
• Organizers: IUT de l’Indre
• Website: www.fetedelascience.fr/la-cape-d-invisibilite-du-reve-la-realite

• As part of the Fête de la science 2024, this workshop features a number of experiments on nanoparticles, their uses in everyday life and their impact on the environment. You can explore the different properties of nanoparticles and confront the products that contain them.
• Target audience: schoolchildren aged 6 to 11
• Organizers: CEREGE
• Website: www.fetedelascience.fr/les-nanoparticules-petites-mais-puissantes-3

• As part of the Fête de la science 2024, this workshop will explore some of the surprising properties of nanoparticles through fun experiments, as well as the products in our environment that contain them. Animated videos from the “Did you know?” series will complete the tour.
• Organizers: CEREGE
• Website: www.fetedelascience.fr/atelier-3-0

• Second Harmonisation & Standardisation of Test Methods for Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials Workshop (Webinar)
• Organizers: Horizon Europe projects iCare, MACRAMÉ and nanoPASS, in collaboration with the Malta Initiative
• Dates: Nov 18 & 19, 2024
• Website: https://macrame-project.eu/macrame-meetings-workshops/#HS-Workshop2

• As part of the “unusual CNRS visits” program, “Dive into the invisible world of atoms: explore nanotechnologies” : discover how nano-objects are manufactured and analyzed, with control and ultimate spatio-temporal resolutions of around 1/10,000 meters, in spaces exceptionally open to the public.
• Organizer:  Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), a flagship laboratory for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology in France (CNRS)
• Site internet : https://visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/…

• Conference gathering experts talking about nanotoxicology, organ-on-a-chip, cheminformatics, public health and the environment
• From Nov. 6 to Nov 8
• Organizer: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)
• Website: www.sinfoniaproject.com/events

• As part of the “unusual CNRS visits” program, the Nano Bio-Spectroscopy team headed by Pr. Claire Mangeney will be presenting methods for developing nanoparticles and how to manipulate them.
• Organizers: Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques (LCBPT), CNRS
• Website: https: //visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/…

• Advanced Characterization Techniques in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology 
• 10^th European Congress on Advanced Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials
• Website: https://nanomaterialsconference.com

• First National Symposium for Nanoscience Research and Innovation
• Organizer: Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí
• Website: www.fc.uaslp.mx/simposiumnanociencias/…

• “Toxicology of nanomaterials, a review of regulatory developments”
• Presentation at the SFT annual congress “Evolutions, Innovations and New Trends in Toxicology”.
• Speaker: Jacques-Aurélien Sergent (Solvay)
• Organizer: French Society of Toxicology (SFT)
• Website: www.sftox.com/…/congres

• 17th meeting of the “nano and health” dialogue committee
• Organizer: ANSES

• 2nd day of the Anses “Research and Stakeholders Meeting” on undone sciences regarding nanomaterials.
• Participants: ANSES staff, researchers, NGOs, representatives of industry federations
• Organizer: ANSES
• Website: www.anses.fr/fr/content/journees-rencontre-recherche-parties-prenantes-anses-2024

• 1st day of the Anses “Research and Stakeholders Meeting” on undone sciences (plenary session) and, in sub-groups, on nanomaterials, radiofrequencies and biotechnologies.
• Participants: ANSES staff, researchers, NGOs, representatives of industry federations
• Organizer: ANSES
• Website: www.anses.fr/fr/content/journees-rencontre-recherche-parties-prenantes-anses-2024

• 4-day training :
  • the different routes by which toxic substances can enter the body
  • the importance of toxicokinetics in preventing the toxicity of substances,
  • the absorption, distribution, metabolisation and elimination of xenobiotics
  • the toxicity of nanoparticles
• Organizer : Association Toxicologie Chimie (ATC)
• Speakers :
  • Frédéric Gaidou (Chemical engineer specialising in Toxicology, ERAMET Group, Paris. President ATC Paris)
  • Nicole Proust (Research Engineer, Honorary Director of Research at the CNRS, Specialist in Nanotechnologies, Arsenic, Electromagnetic Waves, Palaiseau)
  • Jean-Dominique Puyt (Veterinary Doctor, Honorary Professor at the École Vétérinaire, Nantes)
  • Isabelle Malissin (Doctor, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris)
  • Claude Lesné (Doctor, Honorary Senior Research Engineer at the CNRS)
• Website : https://www.atctoxicologie.fr/notre-formation.html

• INRS Open Day
• Several nano-related events:
  • “cell analysis: endocrine disruptors, nanomaterials and occupational allergies”;
  • “particle identification by electron microscopy”;
  • “effectiveness of respiratory protection masks”;
  • “aerosols, nanoparticles and bioaerosols: why and how to measure them”.
• Organizer: National Institute for Research and Safety (INRS)
• Website: www.inrs.fr/footer/agenda/portes-ouvertes-2024.html

• World Summit and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• From May 20 to May 22, 2024
• Website: https://nano.synergiasummits.com

• Third EUt+ Workshop on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies
• From May 21st to May 22nd 2024
• Organizer: the Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the European University of Technology (EUTINN) 
• Website: www.univ-tech.eu/third-eut-workshop-on-nanomaterials-and-nanotechnologies

• International Conference on Nanotechnology and Smart Materials 
• From July 15 to July 17, 2024
• Website: www.smartnanoconference.com

• 8th edition of the International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials and Nanodevices 2024 (NANOMAT2024)
• From August 25 to August 28, 2024
• Organiser : European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA)
• Website: www.nanomat-conference.com

• 13th International Conference on Nanostructures, Nanomaterials and Nanoengineering (ICNNN 2024).
• From November 6 to 8, 2024 
• Organizer: The Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI)
• Website: https://icnnn.org

• 9th European Congress on Advanced Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (Nano 2024) 
• From June 24 to June 25, 2024
• Website: https://nanomaterialsconference.com

• MOOC from April 29 to June 14, 2023
• Public who has carried out two or more years of scientific studies at university, as well as professionals or the self-educated who want to discover, learn more or acquire specific knowledge in some area of nanoscience.
• Organizer: Paris Saclay University
• Website: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/understanding-nanosciences

• International summer school ESONN’2024
• From August 25 to September 7, 2024
• Organizers: University of Grenoble Alps & Grenoble-INP-UGA, CNRS & CEA
• Website: www.esonn.fr

• 27^th ETH Nanoparticles Conference
• Organizer: ETH Zurich
• From June 10 to June 14, 2024
• Website: https://npc24.scg.ch

• 3rd World Conference on Materials Science and Nanotechnology
• From July 19 to July 21, 2024
• Website: www.steconf.org/conference/world-conference-on-materials-science-and-nanotechnology

• 5^th International Conference on Materials Science & Nanotechnology
• Organizer: GED Biomedical Innovations AB
• Website: https://materialsconference.yuktan.com

• 11th International Conference on Nanotoxicology
• Forum aimed at personnel from research and academic institutions as well as from industry, governmental agencies, and other relevant organisations
• Organizers: the leading EU-funded H2020 Projects DIAGONAL, HARMLESS, and SUNSHINE
• 23 – 25 September 2024
• Site internet: https://www.nanotox2024.eu

• 16th meeting of the “nano and health” dialogue committee
• Organizer: ANSES

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Webinar
• Organizers: The Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions and The United Nations Institute for training and research ( (UNITAR)
• Website: https://www.basel.int/…

• AVICENN Annual General Meeting @VeilleNanos
• Reserved for members up to date with their 2024 membership fee
• Online membership link: https://veillenanos.fr/en/membership-donation
• More information by email

• On December 5, the European Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS) published its preliminary scientific opinion on TiO2 in cosmetics, available for comment until February 6, 2024.
• More information on our sheet “Towards the ban on titanium dioxide in cosmetics and medicines?“

• On November 30, the European Commission unveiled and put out to consultation its draft new definition of the term “engineered nanomaterial” in European food legislation. Only four weeks of consultation were initially planned and then extended to six weeks, for a subject that is extremely technical and, above all, highly controversial – and already rejected ten years ago because of its negative impact on public health.
• More on our article “Will Europe torpedo mandatory [nano] food labeling? ”

• Symposium from Sunday June 11 to Tuesday June 13
• The aim of this symposium is to take stock of the current situation and research prospects in various disciplines, including sociology, history and political science, chemistry, biomedical sciences, computer sciences and engineering sciences. The aim is to improve understanding of health-environment issues by bringing together research and civil society players.
• Organizers: The SHS Santé platform, jointly with the Triangle laboratory and MITI, and with the support of MSH Lyon Saint-Etienne.
• Speakers: ANSES, CNRS, Solidaires, Notre Affaire à tous, Le Monde, SciencePo Lyon, etc….)
• Access to the symposium is free for all, but registration is required before Monday, May 29, 2023.

• 3rd edition of the Global Webinar on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
• February 27 to 28, 2024
• Organizers: Global Scientific Guild
• Main theme: Insights and Innovations in Nanotechnology and Nano Science: Progressing to the future

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https: //instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness-raising aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizers: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https: //instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Journées annuelles du GDR NaMasTE 2023 : journées scientifiques à destination des chercheurs français travaillant sur les thématiques de toxicité, d’impact environnemental (écotoxicité) et des risques pour le développement maîtrisé des nanomatériaux.
• Organisateur : CNRS
• Intervenants et participants : CNRS, CEA, ANSES, INRS, INSERM, LNE, avec la participation d’AVICENN
• Site internet : https://namaste2023.sciencesconf.org

• Journées annuelles du GDR NaMasTE 2023: scientific days for French researchers working on toxicity, environmental impact (ecotoxicity) and risks to the controlled development of nanomaterials.
• Organizer: CNRS
• Speakers and participants: CNRS, CEA, ANSES, INRS, INSERM, LNE, with the participation of AVICENN
• Website: https: //namaste2023.sciencesconf.org

• 45-minute webinar on the contribution of direct-reading low cost particulate matter sensors for the NOAA exposure assessment in workplaces
• Organizers: LNE

• A symposium on the challenges of environmental health, covering topics such as environmental risk characterization, the levers for mobilizing citizens, and the necessary adaptation of our healthcare systems in the face of global changes that are already having an impact on health.
• Organizers: Inspection Générale des Affaires Sociales
• On the program:
  1 – Round Table 1: The exposome: from research to action
  2 – Round table 2: The need for global approaches
  3 – Round table 3: Environmental health and ecological transition
  4 – Round table 4: New approaches to environmental health

• 15th meeting of the “nanomaterials and health” dialogue committee
• Organizer: ANSES
• Website : www.anses.fr

• Participatory meeting on nanosciences
• Organizers : Chaire arts et sciences (École Polytechnique, École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso), original idea proposed by Giancarlo Rizza (CEA) in partnership with C’Nano and École Estienne (DSAA Design d’illustration scientifique and DSAA Design Création numérique)
• Project labelled “Année de la physique” – CNRS
• On the agenda :
  1 – Poster-goûter : environmental impact of nanotechnologies and nanosciences ; did you say quantum computer? ; micro-and nano-robots are among us
  2 – Nano Rumeurs : how to avoid bias in the interpretation of scientific speech?
• Location : Théâtre de la Ville Sarah Bernhardt
• Website: www.theatredelaville-paris.com/…/lagora-des-nanos

• Awareness training aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizer: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• Awareness training aimed at personnel in contact with nanomaterials during research, formulation, production, maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, etc., as well as safety coordinators or engineers, facility managers, heads of laboratories where nanoparticles are handled.
• Organizer: INSTN Grenoble (CEA)
• On the agenda: potential impact on health; metrology and protection; control of potential risks associated with nanomaterials; consideration of societal aspects.
• Website: https://instn.cea.fr/formation/maitrise-des-risques-lies-aux-nanomateriaux-sensibilisation

• This module is part of the training program “Interactions between toxic chemicals and the human organism”, open to anyone with a basic scientific education (bachelor’s degree or professional experience).
• Organizer: Association Toxicologie Chimie(ATC)
• Speaker : Chantal Fresnay, Hygienist Engineer, Thales, Palaiseau
• Website: www.atctoxicologie.fr

• This module is part of the training program “Interactions between toxic chemicals and the human organism”, open to anyone with a basic scientific education (bachelor’s degree or professional experience).
• Organizers: Association Toxicologie Chimie(ATC)
• Speaker : Nicole PROUST, Research Engineer, CNRS Honorary Research Director, Specialist in Nanotechnologies, Arsenic, Electromagnetic Waves, Palaiseau, France
• Website: www.atctoxicologie.fr/notre-formation.html

• Training intended for occupational physicians, occupational risk prevention specialists (IPRP), company prevention specialists, prevention department staff from Carsat, Cramif and CGSS, institutional prevention specialists (Dreets, Dreal, MSA…).
• Organizer: French National institute of research and security (INRS)
• October 7 to 11, 2024
• Website: www.inrs.fr/…/formation/…stages…JA1030_2024

• Congress on September 21 and 22, 2023 at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
• To register: https: //planeteplastique...
• Website: https: //planeteplastique.sciencesconf.org/

• Free lectures open to the public, organized as part of the“Sur les épaules des géants, l’événement scientifique” event.
• A round table on ” La pollution invisible des nanoplastiques ” at the Bibliothèque universitaire (B.U.) in Le Havre at 10:45 a.m.
• Carte blanche on nanoparticles at 139 (coworking space) at 12:30 pm
• Speaker: Julien Gigault, researcher in analytical chemistry and environmental science at Géosciences Rennes 1, specializing in the characterization of nanoparticles and their behavior in the environment; CNRS Bronze Medal (2020).
• Website: https://surlesepaulesdesgeants.fr

• Workshop on nanomedicines and medical devices based on nanomaterials
• On the agenda: sharing information on standardization initiatives, identifying regulatory needs, etc.
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• Website: https: //www.lne.fr/en/evenements/workshop-nanomedicine

• Exhibition by the Argentique photography club of the University of Technology of Troyes(UTT), taken in the clean rooms of the Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnology laboratory(L2n, CNRS).
• Location: Médiathèque Jacques Chirac, downtown Troyes
• Dates: September 22 to October 10, 2023
• Website: https: //mediatheque-jacques-chirac.fr/expo-…nanotechnologies

• Conférence internationale
• Organisateur : the European research CluSter to Understand the health impacts of micro- and nanoPlastics (CUSP)
• Site internet : https://cusp-research.eu/…

• International Conference
• Organizer: the European research CluSter to Understand the health impacts of micro- and nanoPlastics (CUSP)
• Website: https: //cusp-research.eu/…

• Training intended for occupational physicians, occupational risk prevention specialists (IPRP), company prevention specialists, prevention department staff from Carsat, Cramif and CGSS, institutional prevention specialists (Dreets, Dreal, MSA…).
• Organizer: French National institute of research and security (INRS)
• October 9 to 13, 2023
• Website: www.inrs.fr/…formation/…stages…JA1030_2023

• Conference organized as part of the 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5)
• Website: www.forumue.de/en/civil-society-conference-on-international-chemicals-management

• Technical day “What recognition of available methods and laboratories to produce the required data?”
• Organizers: LNE
• Speakers from the following institutions: OECD, ECHA, BAuA, government agencies, industry, LNE
• Website: www.lne.fr/fr/evenements/journee-technique-nanomateriaux-reach

• Training: Identify nanomaterials in the workplace and understand their health effects. Acquire a prevention approach.
• Speaker : Occupational physician and prevention consultant
• Organizers: Association du Service de Santé au Travail de la Vienne (ASSTV)
• Website: www.asstv86.fr/…

• ESONN’2023 – European school on nanosciences and nanotechnologies
• Organizers: Université Grenoble Alpes & Grenoble INP-UGA, in partnership with CNRS and CEA
• August 28 to September 9, 2023
• The program includes “Introduction to (nano) toxicology” and “Assessment of the toxicity of nanomaterials – A case study: TiO2” by Armelle BAEZA, Université Paris Cité.
• Website: www.esonn.fr

• Du 6 au 16 octobre en France métropolitaine et du 10 au 27 novembre à l’international et en Outre-mer
• Organisateur : Ministère de l’enseignement surpérieur et de la recherche
• Site internet : www.fetedelascience.fr

• From October 6 to 16 in mainland France and from November 10 to 27 in other countries and overseas territories.
• Organizers: Ministry of Higher Education and Research
• Website: www.fetedelascience.fr

• Scientific Conference
• Organizers: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory(INL) as part of the SBDToolbox Project
• On the program:
  • Nanomaterials regulatory framework: What’s new? What’s next?
  • New models and tools for nanomaterials hazard characterization: in silico, in vitro, organ-on-a-chip
  • Nanomaterials risk assessment in the context of ONE HEALTH: nanomaterials analysis in the food chain and environmental risk
• Website: www.events.inl.int/sbdtoolbox-conference

• MOOC from April 24 to June 14, 2023
• Public with 2 or 3 years’ higher education in science, and a wider public of professionals or the curious who want to discover, train or acquire specific knowledge in certain nanoscience fields.
• Organizers: Université Paris Saclay
• Website: www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/comprendre-les-nanosciences-understanding-nanosciences

• Episode 7 of the Health & Work web series
• Organizers: Association de santé et de médecine au travail(ASMT) des Hautes-Pyrénées
• Website: www.youtube.com/@santeautravail and www.linkedin.com/…

• 16th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials (ICEENN)
• Organizers: University of Plymouth
• Website: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/iceenn-2023

• Restitution to stakeholders of the ANSES opinion on the referral “Definition of nanomaterials: analysis, issues and controversies”.
• Organizer: ANSES
• Invitation only
• Website : www.anses.fr

• Citizen debate
• Organizer: Caf’ Conf’ de la Croix rousse
• Speaker: Frédéric Gaffiot (Institute of Nanotechnologies of Lyon(INL), Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
• Website: https: //www.facebook.com/CafConf/…

• Technical Day
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• On the agenda: identification of nanomaterials, recent technological innovations in terms of granulometric characterization, areas of progress to be considered
• Program
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• Organizer: ANSES
• Website : www.anses.fr

• Online workshop
• Organizers: POLYRISK and CUSP
• 2 sessions :
  • 1 – overview on existing approaches and frameworks for polymers and nanomaterials, which might be relevant for MNPs
  • 2 – discussions how the existing approaches and frameworks can be adapted for MNPs
• Website : https://polyrisk.science/…nanoplastics

• Hybrid event (face-to-face and online)
• Organizers: Environmental Coalition on Standards(ECOS), Friends of the Earth Germany(BUND)
• Intervenants :
  • Andrej Kobe, European Commission
  • Steffen Foss Hansen, Technical University of Denmark
  • Aída Ponce del Castillo, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
  • David Azoulay, CIEL
  • Rolf Buschmann, BUND
  • Mathilde Detcheverry, AVICENN
  • Gregory Van Lier, ECOS
• Website: https: //ecostandard.org/... (and report by OPP)

• Seminar “Health-environment: fifteen years of public policies
• Organizer: High Council for Public Health (HCSP)
• Program
• Website: https: //www.hcsp.fr/…

• From July 3 to 15, 2023 in São Paulo
• Organizer: FABESP
• Application from November 18 to February 05. Registration fees and travel expenses are covered.
• Speakers: see the complete program here.

• November 16, 17 and 18 from 9am to 6pm online and at the University of São Paulo
• Organizer: Renanosoma
• Speakers: see the complete program here.
• Also broadcast online on youtube: YOUTUBE.COM/NANOWEBTV

• Presentation of the results of the Nanocultures project, which aimed to assess and mitigate risks associated with the presence of manufactured nanomaterials in Atlantic aquaculture
• Organizers: AQUIMER
• Speakers: Céline Schmidt, national referent for environmental and industrial chemical contaminants at the DGAL and Marie Bruaut, project manager at the AQUIMER pole
• Registration: https: //www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-

• Webinar
• Organiser: OECD
• Registration link: https: //meetoecd1.zoom.us/…

• Symposium “20 years of the Regulation on food law and safety in the European Union
• Organizers: the Institute of Research in European, International and Comparative Law (IRDEIC), in partnership with Nantes University
• Speaker: Tristan Berger, researcher at the ISJPS (Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of the Sorbonne) and administrator of AVICENN
• Website: https: //irdeic.ut-capitole.fr/…

• Conference
• Topic: “future challenges in risk governance of nano- & advanced materials. This includes safe- and sustainable by design (SSbD) and harmonization and standardization”
• Organizers: NANORIGO, RiskGONE and Gov4Nano, in collaboration with the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials
• Website: http: //gov4nano.eu/...

• Workshop proposed in the framework of the Science Festival at Sorbonne University
• Organizer: University of Technology of Troyes
• Target audience: All audiences
• Website : https://www.fetedelascience.fr/visite-des-laboratoires-l2n-de-l-utt

• Training on the regulations governing nanomaterials and the assessment of occupational risks related to nanomaterials
• Organizer: SICADAE
• Speaker: Delphine Franco, Regulatory Project Manager & Associate at SICADAE
• Website: https: //www.sicadae.eu/…

• Workshop proposed in the framework of the Science Festival at Sorbonne University
• Organizers: Cerege and the Village des Sciences de l’Environnement de l’Arbois
• Target audience: 6-11 years old
• Website: https: //www.fetedelascience.fr/les-mysteres-du-nano-monde…

• Workshop proposed in the framework of the Science Festival at Sorbonne University
• Organizer: Institute of NanoSciences of Paris
• Target audience: 6-11 and 11-15 years old
• Website : https://www.fetedelascience.fr/nanoparticules-petites-mais-puissantes

• Workshop offered as part of the LNE’s open house during the Fête de la Science
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• On the program:
  • Introduction to microscopy and the operation of the atomic force microscope (AFM)
  • Nanoparticle characterization techniques
  • The problem of micro-plastic pollution in the oceans
  • Measuring nanoparticles with artificial intelligence: NanometrologIA platform

• website : www.lne.fr/…/fete-science-2022

• Training course from October 10 to 14, 2022
• Organizer: National Institute for Research and Safety (INRS)
• Speakers : INRS, DREETS, CEA, …
• Public: occupational physicians, occupational risk prevention specialists, company preventionists concerned by a professional activity related to nanomaterials (manufactured nanomaterials or ultrafine particles), agents from the prevention departments of Carsat, Cramif and CGSS, institutional preventionists(DREETS, DREAL, MSA…)
• website : www.inrs.fr/….formation/…

• International Conference from June 22 to 23, 2023
• Organizers: OECD, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection(BMUV)
• Website: https: //www.bmuv.de/…

• 8th International Conference on Health Issues for a Responsible Approach to Nanomaterials
• From June 5 to 9, 2023
• Organizer: French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission(CEA)
• Website: www.cea.fr/cea-tech/pns/nanosafe/…

• From September 26 to 29, 2022
• Four days of meetings and exchanges of the scientific community involved in nanosciences and nanotechnologies
• Organizers and partners: C’Nano PACA, Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies Institute of Aix-Marseille University, CNRS
• Website: http: //cnano-paca.fr/conf/mna2022...

• Thesis defense: Study of bioaccumulation, biotransformation of inorganic nanomaterials and persistence of their biological effects using in vitro cellular systems
• Doctoral student: Anaëlle Torres, Chemistry and Biology of Metals Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble(IRIG)
• Location: Amphi Coulomb, Batîment GreEn-ER, 21 avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble
• In person or by video
• Website: www.cea.fr/drf/irig/…

• Summer Days of Engaged and Connected Knowledge, open to all
• August 27 to 29, 2022
• Organizers: national collective of associations involved in cooperation between research and social movements for the ecological and solidarity transition (Atecopol, Coexiscience, Ecopolien, la Fabrique des Questions Simples, Ingénieur.e.s Sans Frontières, Ingénieur.e.s Engagé.e.s Lyon, Klask, La Myne, PiNG, RogueESR, Sciences Citoyennes)
• Website : www.mouvement-ser.org

• Conference organized as part of the Nanotech France 2022 event
• Speaker: Fernand Doridot, teacher-researcher in ethics and philosophy of science and technology at ICAM Lille, member of the NanoFabNet Hub for sustainable, industrial-scale Nanofabrication
• Website : www.setcor.org/conferences/nanotech-france-2022/…program

• General public interest conference bridging the gap between academic expertise and society organized as part of the NANOSUM international summer school in nanoscience and nanotechnology
• Organizers: the Universities of Aix-Marseille, Autonomous Madrid, Barcelona, Rome La Sapienza and Tübingen
• Speaker: Raquel Bertoldo, Lecturer in psychology, Social Psychology Laboratory, Aix-Marseille University
• Location: MUCEM auditorium
• Website: https: //nanosum.org/...

• 13th meeting of the “nano and health” dialogue committee
• Organizer: ANSES
• Speakers: ANSES, DGPR, NANORIGO, CEA

• Conference of popularization of science “Tech et Sciences en Partage
• Organizers: Research Department of the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT)
• Speaker: Christophe Couteau, Director of the laboratory L2n-CNRS-EMR7004: Light, Nanomaterials & Nanotechnologies, on nanotechnologies
• Website : https://my.weezevent.com/tech-et-sciences-en-partage-4

• “What prevention approaches to limit risks?”
• Health and Work Day on the impact of nanotechnologies on health
• Organizers: Federation of Chemicals and Energy (FCE) of the CFDT
• Stakeholders : FCE, INRS, AVICENN
• Website: www.fce.cfdt.fr/…

• Technical day
• Program: Nanomaterials and cosmetics: regulatory requirements, exposure assessment, characterization methods
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• Speakers:
  • Georges Favre, Valérie Godefert and François-Xavier Ouf (LNE)
  • Patrice Rouaix (DGPR, Ministry of Ecological Transition)
  • Ambroise Pascal (DGCCRF, Ministry of Economy)

• Website : www.lne.fr/fr/service/formation/journee-technique-nanomateriaux-cosmetiques

• Symposium on new knowledge, the link between land-based activities and water quality, including marine, and the avenues for public action as well as the levers necessary for the success of the ecological transition
• Organizers: theAdour-Garonne Water Agency and the French Office for Biodiversity(OFB)
• Partners: Bordeaux Metropole, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the Strategic Committee of the Water Sector
• Website: https: //eau-micropolluantsgrandsudouest.fr/...

• Web conference
• Presentation of the new voluntary standard XP ISO/TS 21357 published by AFNOR proposing a reference protocol to measure the dispersion, stability and size of nanoparticles
• Organizer: AFNOR
• Speakers:
  • Denis KOLTSOV, Chair of ISO/TC 229 “Nanotechnologies
  • Georges FAVRE, Co-chairman of the AFNOR Nanotechnologies Standardization Commission and Director of the LNE Nanotech Institute – LNE
  • Yoann Lefeuvre, Product Manager – Formulaction
• Website : www.afnor.org/evenement/caracteriser-nanoparticules-milieu-concentre-challenges-solutions

• Conference for the general public
• Organizer: Armor Science
• Speaker: Pierre Camille LACAZE, former director of the ITODYS laboratory and professor emeritus at the University of Paris
• Website : www.armorscience.org/le-stockage-de-lenergie-electrique
• To read on veillenanos.fr in connection with this subject: our Nano & Environment sheet

• Free webinar
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• Program: REACH regulatory developments specific to nanomaterials and the characterization means available to meet them
• Speaker: Valérie Godefert, Nanotechnologies Product Manager (LNE-Nanotech Institute)
• Website : www.lne.fr/fr/webinars/reach-nanomateriaux-faites-point

• Training for nanomaterial handlers (technicians, engineers, doctoral students, researchers, etc.) and prevention assistants
• Organizer: CNRS
• Website: https: //formation.ifsem.cnrs.fr/…

• Seminar for occupational health stakeholders
• 6 parts :
  • I. Definitions and occupational exposures
  • II. The regulatory context
  • III. Effects on health and medical follow-up
  • IV. The prevention process and the means of prevention in companies
  • V. What can your inter-company occupational health and prevention service (SPSTI) do for you?
  • VI. Case study: Titanium dioxide (TiO2)
• Organizer : Présanse Paca-Corse
• Speakers:
  • Nora Sikha, HSE engineer at AISMT 04
  • Valérie Spinelli, occupational physician at AISMT 13
  • Agnès Donat, Prevention Technician at Expertis
  • Myriam Ricaud, chemical engineer at INRS
• Website: www.presanse-pacacorse.org/…

• Workshop on nanomedicines and medical devices based on nanomaterials
• On the agenda: regulatory needs, industry expectations and structuring initiatives
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• Website : www.lne.fr/fr/evenements/workshop-nanomedecine

• MOOC (open online course on the internet)
• Public: students, professionals and the curious
• Organizer: Université Paris-Saclay
• Courses from May 9 to June 29, 2022, ~3 hours per week
• In French or English
• Website: fun-mooc.fr/…/understand-nanoscience…

• EcoBIM 2022 conference for French-speaking actors involved in bilateral collaborations in aquatic ecotoxicology
• On the program: nanomaterials (details to come)
• Website : https://ecobim2022.unamur.be

• Training for engineers, technicians, prevention assistants, and any researcher, permanent or not, handling nanomaterials
• Organizers: C’Nano, the CNRS unit dedicated to nanosciences, in partnership with theInstitut Lumière Matière (ILM, CNRS/University of Lyon1)
• Speakers:
  • Damien MONCOQ, CNRS project manager for the prevention of risks related to the handling of nanomaterials
  • Patricia COLLIGNON from RH Solutions
• Registrations until April 13, 2022
• Website: https: //cnano.fr/...

• Conference organized in the framework of the French Presidency of the European Union (FPEU) to promote the vision of “One Health” (one health for biodiversity, animals and humans)
• Audience: experts, scientists, policy makers, industry and civil society
• Organizer: Ministry of Ecological Transition
• Objective: to determine the main European guidelines for a better regulation of chemicals and to provide input for the negotiations of the texts that will be discussed during the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union
• Website : https://mte-produitschimiques-organisation-europe2022.fr/

• From 20th to 24th June 2022
• “Nano-week & NanoCommons Final conference
• Organizer: NanoCommons in collaboration with EU NanoSafety Cluster projects
• Until February 22: possibility to submit an abstract for an oral presentation
• Website: www.nanocommons.eu/…

• Training (paid)
• Public: beginners in the field of nanoparticle characterization but also more experienced people wishing to deepen the metrology aspect: calibration of instruments, establishment of the uncertainty balance, comparability of measurements, etc.
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• www.lne.fr/…

• Training
• Organizer: COSMED, association of SMEs in the cosmetics industry
• Audience: regulatory, R&D, safety assessor
• Website: www.cosmed.fr/…

• 2nd morning of the “Stakeholder workshop on small particles and nanoparticles in food
• Workshop for stakeholders and experts preparing dossiers on food and feed additives, food contact materials, novel foods and pesticides for EFSA and regulatory risk assessors
• Organizer: EFSA
• Website: www.efsa.europa.eu/…

• Event open to the public
• Context: 4th edition of the “Fabrique des chercheurs”, within the framework of the “Semaine de la recherche”.
• Speaker: Solenne Fleutot, Jean Lamour Institute
• Organizer: University of Lorraine
• Website: bu.univ-lorraine.fr

• IFSeM / CNRS training
• Public: nanomaterials handlers (technicians, engineers, doctoral students, researchers, etc.), prevention assistants
• Organizer: CNRS
• Website : https://formation.ifsem.cnrs.fr/training/620/1971

• Scientific Conference
• June 21 to 24, 2022
• Organizers: EFSA, ECHA, EEA, JRC, ECDC, EMA
• On the program:
  – Examining food and feed safety from a broader perspective of sustainability
  – Exploring possible developments in risk assessment science
  – Reflecting on future strategic goals and directions for regulatory science
  – Contributing to new policy targets such as the EU Green Deal
• Website: www.one2022.eu

• Organizer: Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Brittany
• Speaker: Emmanuel Flahaut, CNRS / CIRIMAT
• Website : www.bretagne.prse.fr

• Organizer: Agilent
  
• Nanoparticles and the agri-food sector: regulatory context and structuring initiatives underway on the analytical side, by Georges Favre, LNE Nanotech
  
• Characterization of metallic nanoparticles in cosmetic or food products by spICP-MS: a response to regulatory issues, by Mathieu Menta, UltraTrace Analyses Aquitaine (UT2A)

• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
  
• Program: Which technique to use? What measurand? What comparability of measurements?

• Symposium on scientific advances and major issues in these disciplines
• Organizer: Institut Universitaire de France, in partnership with the University of Strasbourg
• From October 19 to 21, 2021, as part of the 30th anniversary of the Institut Universitaire de France at the University of Strasbourg

• Organizers: JRC (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre)

• Organizers: EU-ToxRisk and PATROLS (European research programs)

• Organizer: C’nano (CNRS)

• School mainly dedicated to young CNRS entrants, researchers and engineers, PhD and post-doctoral students as well as researchers in nanosciences

• Organizer: Agilent
  
• Nanoparticles and the agri-food sector: regulatory context and structuring initiatives underway on the analytical side, by Georges Favre, LNE Nanotech
  
• Characterization of metallic nanoparticles in cosmetic or food products by spICP-MS: a response to regulatory issues, by Mathieu Menta, UltraTrace Analyses Aquitaine (UT2A)

• Interprofessional Education Training School & 4th NanoSafety Forum for Young Scientists

• Organizers: Biorima, Gov4Nano, Gracious, NanoInformatix, NanoRigo, Patrols, RiskGone

• Workshop on Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Nanosafety Data for Risk Assessment

• Organizer: GRACIOUS (Horizon Europe 2020)

• Audience: Data experts and risk assessors from industry, regulation and academia.
  

• Scientific meetings
• Organizer: ANSES, in partnership with ANR
  

• Organizer: Envirobat Grand Est

• Speaker : Myriam Ricaud, chemical engineer at INRS

• Scientific Colloquium N°25

• Organizer: European Food Safety Agency (EFSA)

• Organizers: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portuguese Innovation Agency (ANI), Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA)

• Organizer: NanoCanada

• Speakers: Djordje Vladisavljevic, Head of Nanotechnology Section at Health Canada (HC/SC); Alexandria Stanton, Chemist at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Kimberly Ong, Toxicologist, Vireo Advisors, LLC
  

• Organizer: Association interentreprises pour la santé au travail du Vaucluse (AIST 84)

• Partner: INRS

• Organized by the partners of the Nanoculture project in partnership with the Pôle Aquimer

• Organizer: Atout Chimie

• Organizer: IFSEN
  

• Speaker: Mathilde Detcheverry (AVICENN)
  
  

• Seminar: presentation of the applicable regulations, of the landscape of nanomaterials in medical devices and of the hypotheses on their possible presence; presentation of the methods of characterization of nanomaterials and of evaluation of the potential release of nanoparticles or nanofibers from DM

• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE) CNRS, in partnership with the University of Lorraine

• Speaker: Valérie Godefert, Nanotechnologies product manager / LNE-Nanotech Institute

• Research day (by videoconference)

• Organizer: Jointly organized by three major EU Horizon 2020 projects, BIORIMA, PATROLS and GRACIOUS
  

• International Symposium – New challenges for health risk governance in a changing world

• Organizer: Anses

• Conference University at any age
  
• Organizers: Gustave Eiffel University
  
• Speaker: Yamin Leprince, University Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Green Deal

• Annual International Meeting on Nanoscience

• Organizer: the French national center of competence in nanosciences of the CNRS, C’Nano

• The meeting will take place from November 23 to 25, 2021 at the Centre de Congré Pierre Baudis

• Journées francophones de nutrition, session “Emerging food contaminants: new risks, new health targets

• Organizers: French Society of Nutrition (SFN) and French-speaking Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SFNCM)
  
• Speakers: Muriel Mercier-Bonin, Bruno Lamas and Anne Couturier-Tarrade

• Speakers: Damien MONCOQ, CNRS national representative for risks related to nanomaterials and Patricia COLLIGNON, RH solutions company, specialist in risks related to nanomaterials
  

• Organizer: C’Nano, National Center of Competence in Nanosciences of the CNRS
  
• Registration is closed, the number of participants is limited to 25.

• Conferences for students of Master 1, teachers of ESCOM and the University of Technology of Compiègne, also open in person to interested people (limited places)

• Organizer: École Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale (ESCOM)

• Speakers from UTC/ESCOM, Sorbonne University – Paris, CEA Saclay, University Lyon 1, CNAM Paris, Ecole centrale de Lille, University Paris Saclay, University Paris Diderot, Poly-DTech – Strasbourg
  

• Seminar
• Organizer: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE)
• Speakers : François Gaie-Levrel and Georges Favre (LNE)

• Visit of the Jean Lamour Institute and its 70 meters long tunnel to which 28 machines are connected

• Organizer: CNRS, in partnership with the University of Lorraine

• Visit open to the public over 15 years old, upon application
  

Session of the “Safer chemicals” conference

Organizer: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

• Training for occupational physicians, IPRP, company preventionists concerned by a professional activity related to nanomaterials, agents of the prevention departments of Carsat, Cramif and CGSS, institutional preventionists (DIRECCTE, DREAL, MSA…)
• Organizer: INRS