What do people really think about the growing use of nanotechnology, and its future potential? A new EC-funded project will give the best idea yet of how opinion on this new generation of technology is shaped, and how to inform public debate.
Nanopinion, which launched on May 1, 2012, is a €2 million, 30 month project bringing together 17 partners from 11 countries. Together, they will monitor opinions on nanotechnology, build an online portal for information and debate, and produce new content with media partners in four countries.
Investigation of opinion will use an innovative multi-stranded approach, focusing on dialogue. It will include surveys, social media, street labs, and events in public spaces such as science centres and shopping streets. It will draw together and synthesize the results of past EC projects in this area, and the web portal will provide access to new materials on the risks and benefits of nanotechnologies and to the best existing text, video, animation and sound items that relate to debate about nanotechnology.
The partners will also work with schools and teachers, and develop education materials which will be offered as a lasting resource on the web. In addition, the project will distil recommendations for policy-makers on future engagement with nanotechnologies.
Project Coordinator: Zentrum Für Soziale Innovation, AUSTRIA
Project Partners:
- Ort Israel, ISRAEL
- EUN Partnership AISBL, BELGIUM
- The British Council, UNITED KINGDOM
- The European Network of Science Centres and Museums, BELGIUM
- Aarhus Universitet, DENMARK
- Fundacio Privada Parc Cientific De Barcelona, SPAIN
- Filosoficky Ustav AV CR, CZECH REPUBLIC
- Bundesinstitut Für Risikobewertung, GERMANY
- Lietuvos Mokiniu Informavimo ir Technines Kurybos Centras, LITHUANIA
- Guardian News and Media Ltd., UNITED KINGDOM
- Unidad Editorial Informacion General, SPAIN
- Courrier International, FRANCE
- Ticonuno SRL, ITALY
- IL Sole 24 Ore Spa, ITALY
- Brightman Almagor Zohar, ISRAEL
- Jonathan William Turney, UNITED KINGDOM
This would be a remarkable effort if this issue will be resolve in a systematic manner. In fact many people who are direct consumers of nano tech products , don’t even know the advantages they are having other then previous generation,similarly they don’t know about the harmful effect they could face,if not handle these products properly.
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