Work Package 5
Third Joint Call
The SKEP network are currently discussing the third call, due to be launched 1 January 2009. We will be taking the lessons learned from our first two pilot calls that trialled two different types of funding method and using this to feed into our third call discussions. A routemap has been designed to show the stages to implement the Third Joint Call.
For further information on the Main joint call, please contact the secretariat@skep-era.net
Call workshop - 29/30 April
We held a third call workshop at the Radisson SAS hotel Stansted airport on 29/ 30 April for all SKEP participants and observers.
Call Topic
The call will be structured according to four pillars, which would each consider a different aspect to the impacts of emerging technologies. These will be:
- I. Reflecting the regulatory landscape
- II. Sustainability of legal frameworks
- III. Response management
- IV. Communication and public engagement
3rd International Conference on the
Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
University of Birmingham, Mon 15th- Tues 16th September 2008.
Engineered nanoparticles and nanomaterials offer many potential socio – economic, health and environmental benefits as a result of novel properties and behaviour that materials can exhibit when manufactured at the nanoscale. While the production of nanomaterials is undergoing exponential growth, their biological effects and environmental fate and behaviour are relatively unknown. This meeting is the third international meeting on this topic following the success of the 2nd meeting held in London last year. The venue for 2008 will be the University of Birmingham.
Nanotechnology and the law, Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December, 2008
Hosted by the Institute of Environmental and Energy Law,
KU Leuven and Monash Law School, this conference
will review the legal framework for nanotechnology in the
European Union in detail. The conference will be chaired by Professor Geert van Calster and Dr Diana Bowman at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven
Conference registration fee: c100 per person
For further information please contact ann.groffils@law.kuleuven.be
Final program details are forthcoming, and will be available on the following websites:
www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/imer and www.law.monash.edu.au/regstudies