Nano Rigo presentation at ANSES

WECF will present its work and work of scientific partners during a meeting at ANSES in Paris, on Friday June 17 at the ANSES head office.  The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) is a French government agency whose main mission is to assess health risks in food, the environment and work, with the aim of enlightening public policy-making.

NANORIGO is a project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. It is a collaboration between 27 partners and a coordinator from 14 different European countries and a global advisory board.  WECF France and partly WECF International are involved as Civil Society Partners within this consortium.

NANORIGO (NANOtechnology RIsk GOvernance) started on 1st January 2019. Coordinated by Aarhus University and involving 28 other partners from across Europe, the project will develop and implement a transparent, transdisciplinary and active Risk Governance Framework (RGF) and establish the basis of a related Council (RGC)for manufactured nanomaterials and nano-enabled products. The RGF will bedeveloped through engagement with stakeholders across research, industry, regulation and civilsociety, and will be based on high-quality scientific data and tools for the physicochemical characterization of nanomaterials, and the assessment of exposure, hazard and risk for humans and the environment.

The NANORIGO consortium will work closely with the two other risk governance projects that are addressing the same goal, to ultimately ensure a sustainable and equitable Risk Governance Framework for nanotechnology in Europe.