2022-06-20 to 24 · Martin Himly from the Bio-Nano Group and Chair of the EU NanoSafety Cluster Working Group A on Education, Training and Communication co-organizes the NanoWeek in Limassol, Cyprus where >300 attendees, involved in the current EU projects on safety and sustainability of nano- and advanced materials, met for an entire week on presentations, discussions, trainings, pan-project interactions, collaboration within the EU-US Communities of Research, etc. The PLUS team organized interactive training in Decision Support Systems for Safety-and-Sustainability-by-Design, Read Across, Development of OECD Test Guidelines, Adverse Outcome Pathways, and Quality Assurance for Research Data. The PLUS researchers Litty Johnson won the best oral presentation award of track 1 (human hazard) and Sabine Hofer (below the 2nd from left) won the first data FAIRification Award.

2022-05-15 to 20 · Martin Himly from the Bio-Nano Group co-organizes the traditional Nano-Training School in Venice, IT where >150 attendees, many of them early in their career (PhD students, PostDocs), met in the grand old Auditorio Santa Margherita for an entire week to safety and sustainability issues of nano-sized and advanced materials provided by experts in the field. This included also nanomedical carriers, food ingredients and contact materials, so lots of discussions and interactive training on life cycle aspects in line with the EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and Green Deal was going on. From the PLUS team (besides Martin Himly also Sabine Hofer and Norbert Hofstätter were involved) sessions were organized into human hazard and exposure assessment & modelling, data FAIRness and risk governance.

2022-04-27 · The upcoming DSP Symposium is scheduled for July 4th and 5th, 2022, in the UNIPARK. It will be organized as the last joint symposium between the Doctoral College “Immunity in Cancer and Allergy” and the Doctoral School DSP “Biomolecules”. Please register for the Symposium as soon as possible, giving titles for presentations when applicable. Registration needs to be finished by 24 May 2022. Faculty members please also register, of course you do not need to give details for presentations.