The European Nanotechnology

Community Informatics Platform:

Bridging data and disciplinary gaps for
industry and regulators (NanoCommons)
Fact Sheet

Project Information

NanoCommons Funded under

H2020-EU.1.4.1.2.
Grant agreement ID: 731032 H2020-EU.1.4.

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Overall budget
€ 5 586 000,46
Start date End date
1 January 2018 30 June 2022 EU contribution
€ 5 400 000

Coordinated by
THE UNIVERSITY OF
BIRMINGHAM
  United Kingdom

Objective
Nanotechnologies and the resulting novel and emerging materials (NEMs) represent
major areas of investment and growth for the European economy. Recent advances
have enabled confidence in the understanding of what constitutes toxicity of NEMs in
relation to health and environmental hazards. However, the nanotechnology and
nanosafety communities remain disparate and unconnected, whilst knowledge and
data remain fragmented and inaccessible, such that from a data integrating and
mining perspective it is clearly a “starting community”. The field, and indeed the
European open knowledge economy, requires conversion of these scientific
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discoveries into legislative frameworks and industrial applications, which can only be
achieved through concerted efforts to integrate, consolidate, annotate and facilitate
access to the disparate datasets. NanoCommons brings together academia, industry
and regulators to facilitate pooling and harmonising of methods and data for
modelling, safe-by-design product development and regulatory approval purposes,
thereby driving best practice and ensuring maximum access to data and tools.
Networking Activities span community needs assessment through development of
demonstration case studies (e.g. exemplar regulatory dossiers). Joint Research
Activities will integrate existing resources and organise efficient curation,
preservation and facilitate access to data/models. Transnational Access will focus on
standardisation of data generation workflows across the disparate communities and
establishment of a common access procedure for transnational and/or virtual access
to the data, and modelling and risk prediction/management tools developed and
integrated. Given the extremely rapid pace of development of nanoinformatics,
NanoCommons’s detailed workplan will be prescribed for the first 18 months, beyond
which it will be co-developed with stakeholders on a rolling call basis to ensure
maximum responsiveness to community needs.

Fields of science

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Programme(s)

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

H2020-INFRAIA-2017-1-two-stage

Funding Scheme

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

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Address Activity type EU contribution
€ 895 024,74

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 Edgbaston Higher or Secondary
B15 2TT Birmingham Education Establishments
  United Kingdom

Website  Contact the organisation 

Participants (15)

EDELWEISS CONNECT GMBH

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  Switzerland
EU contribution
€ 552 968,75

Address Activity type

Hochbergerstrasse 60C Private for-profit entities
4057 Basel (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 

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  United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 61 225,20

Address Activity type

Polaris House North Star Research Organisations
Avenue
SN2 1FL Swindon

Contact the organisation 

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA

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  Greece
EU contribution
€ 488 000

Address Activity type

Heroon Polytechniou 9 Higher or Secondary
Zographou Campus Education Establishments
15780 Athina

Website  Contact the organisation 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND

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 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND,
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DUBLIN
  Ireland
EU contribution
€ 431 619,90

Address Activity type

Belfield Higher or Secondary
4 Dublin Education Establishments

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ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION

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  Spain
EU contribution
€ 275 875

Address Activity type

Carrer De La Innovacio 2 Research Organisations
08225 Terrassa

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BUNDESINSTITUT FUER RISIKOBEWERTUNG

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  Germany
EU contribution
€ 340 030,41

Address Activity type

Max Dohrn Strasse 8-10 Research Organisations
10589 Berlin

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BIONANONET FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH

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  Austria
EU contribution
€ 404 130

Address Activity type

Steyrergasse 17 Research Organisations
8010 Graz

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PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG
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  Austria

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 EU contribution
€ 261 601,25

Address Activity type

Kapitelgasse 4-6 Higher or Secondary
5020 Salzburg Education Establishments

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NOVAMECHANICS LIMITED
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  Cyprus
EU contribution
€ 337 500

Address Activity type

Digeni Akrita 51 Private for-profit entities
1070 Nicosia (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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BIOMAX INFORMATICS AG
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  Germany
EU contribution
€ 296 500

Address Activity type

Robert Koch Strasse 2 Private for-profit entities
82152 Planegg (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
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  Netherlands
EU contribution
€ 291 250

Address Activity type

Minderbroedersberg 4 Higher or Secondary
6200 MD Maastricht Education Establishments

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DUKE UNIVERSITY
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  United States
EU contribution
€0

Address Activity type

Allen Building 207 Higher or Secondary
27708 Durham Nc Education Establishments

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UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY

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  United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 402 399,75

Address Activity type

Maclean Building Benson Research Organisations
Lane
OX10 8BB Oxford

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SEVEN PAST NINE D.O.O.

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  Slovenia
EU contribution
€ 231 562,50

Address Activity type

Hribljane 10 Private for-profit entities
1380 Cerknica (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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SEVEN PAST NINE GMBH

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  Germany
EU contribution
€ 130 312,50

Address Activity type

Rebacher 68 Private for-profit entities
79650 Schopfheim (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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Last update: 20 September 2021
Record number: 212586

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