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Introduction & Overview
Steffi Friedrichs, AcumenIST

The NanoFabNet Hub is a network of micro- & nanotechnology as well as sustainability
professionals, coming together to build a strong, sustainable high-tech sector ...
… by focussing on the following activity fields:
• Micro- & Nanotechnology Research & Innovation, Fabrication & Manufacturing
• Sustainability (incl. Life-Cycle Assessment & Ethics)
• Safety (incl. regulatory Risk Assessment)
• Technology Validation & Inter-Laboratory Studies
• Harmonisation & Standardisation & Pre-Standardisation
• Laboratory Infrastructures
• Education & Skills (incl. Training- & Career Opportunities)
• International Cooperations & Collaborations (incl. Collaborations Market Place)
The NanoFabNet – a *NEW* Community
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Overview of the NanoFabNet Launch
• The NanoFabNet Hub –Platform & Database (Clarissa Marquardt, KIT; Faith Blakemore, S2i)
• Harmonisation, Standardisation & Validation (Georges Favre, LNE)
• Safety & Sustainability in NanoFabrication (Elisa Moschini, LIST; Fernand Doridot, ICAM; Laurene
Chochois, LIST; Elorri Igos, LIST; Anne Umbach, COPT (UoC))
• Infrastructures (Michal Urbanek, CEITEC)
• EU-Project Collaboration & International Cooperation (Andreas Falk, BNN)
… your Questions & our Answers in between, please
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The NanoFabNet Hub –
Platform & Database
Clarissa Marquardt, KIT
Faith Blakemore, S2i

NanoFabNet Hub – Services
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New partners New clients Funding &
financing
Career
development
Research &
documentation
Infrastructure
& laboratories
Support
services
Events & news
Validation
services
…and more!
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Digitally available via the
NanoFabNet Hub!
nanofabnet.net

The NanoFabNet Hub- a digital platform for the community
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NanoFabNet Database & Repository
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NanoFabNet Database & Repository
• > 250 documents
• Nanotechnology &
Sustainability
• Standards, Guidelines,
SOPs
• Selected Scientific
Publications
• ISO, CEN, OECD, ASTM,…
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Events & Opportunities
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News & Archives
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News & Archives- NanoFabNet Digests
Find all NanoFabNet Reports here:
https://www.nanofabnet.net/news-and-archives/
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Media
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Harmonisation,
Standardisation &
Validation
Georges Favre, LNE

Harmonise OR Standardise: What is the difference?
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STANDARDISATION
Action carried out within a standardization organization
(NSB=National Standardisation Body, such as CEN, ISO, IEC,
ASTM…) + OECD/WPMN → WIDER RECOGNITION
HARMONISATION
Action carried out within a group of actors (most of the time
no recognition beyond that)
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Stakeholder Engagement: Lessons learned - 1
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A ‘normal’ person’s reaction to the world of
Standardisation of Nanotechnology
The Standardisation & Harmonisation Landscape
Stakeholder Engagement: Lessons learned - 2
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Standardisation & Harmonisation Landscape
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1 – Who does what?
2 – How to contribute?
3 – How does the
process work?
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Metrology /
Characterisation
Sustainability
Production /
Fabrication
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Training
Modelling
/
Simulation
NEEDS REGARDING
HARMONISATION/STANDARDISATION
Which documents are
available and where
to find them?
Stakeholder Engagement:
Lessons learned - 3
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INTER-LAB
COMPARISON
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MEASUREMENT
SKILLS VALIDATION
VALIDATION OF
SUSTAINABILITY
PROCESS
PROFICIENCY TESTING
MEASUREMENTS
METHODS
VALIDATION
LABEL ON
SUSTAINABILITY
Support Testing Lab accreditation
scheme according to ISO/IEC 17025
Standard
NEEDS
REGARDING
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Stakeholder Engagement:
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Full details of the analysis of needs
and challenges associated with
validation, harmonisation and
standardisation issues associated
to nanofabrication available in the
report
https://www.nanofabnet.net/news
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How do we get there?
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NanoFabNet –
Validation, Harmonisation & Standardisation Action Plan
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❑ 3 ACTIONS to address cross-cutting challenges on
standardisation issues
❑ 9 ACTIONS to address cross-cutting challenges on
harmonisation issues
❑ 4 ACTIONS to address cross-cutting challenges on
validation issues
A Major Consideration: The Topic of Characterisation,
Measurement & Metrology with 6 dedicated Actions
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NanoFabNet Hub – Standardisation Activities
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❑ Database of >250 relevant Standardisation &
Harmonisation Documents (regularly
updated) available on the NanoFabNet
website
❑ Regular reports to share standardisation and
OECD on-going activities
❑ Acting as Project Leader within CEN, ISO,
ASTM to contribute to the development of
standards with people experienced in
standardisation process issues
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NanoFabNet
Already an important achievement in structuring and
coordinating characterisation and metrology activities on
a European scale, with links to key players and
organisations at international level
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Characterisation & Metrology
identified as N°1 Hurdle
Sept. 2020 -
Dec. 2021
Launch: June 2021
European Metrology Network
(EMN) Advanced Manufacturing
- MoU signed between 18 National
Metrology Institutes
- NanoFabNet = Partner
Joint Network Proposal
AdvManuNet on Adv. Manufacturing
Consideration of
NanoFab &
Advanced Materials
Common Workshop
(in preparation)
❑ Mapping of National Metrology
Expertise & Capacities
❑ Strategic Research Agenda (SRA)
European Partnership on
Metrology research funding programme
(https://www.metpart.eu/)
Ongoing Discussion for
EURAMET or EMN to
represent the EC in
VAMAS SC
Several Exchanges to
find Synergies (official
Liaison mentioned)
EXPRESSION
OF
NEEDS
OECD/WPMN/SG AdMa
(Working Party on Manufactured
Nanomaterials/Steering Group Ad. Mat.)
VAMAS
(Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and
Standards)
Pre-standardization of characterization methods
(international inter-laboratory comparisons)
APMP TCMM
(Asia Pacific Metrology Programme Technical
Committee for Materials Metrology)
2019-2021

A central Place to support improved Quality Characterisation Data
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❑ Pre-standardisation activities through Focus
Groups
❑ Connection to key networks / initiatives
(European Metrology Network Advanced
Manufacturing, EURAMET, VAMAS, CEN, ISO,
ASTM…)
❑ Contribute to existing R&D&I funding
scheme (e.g. European Partnership on
Metrology…)
❑ Proficiency testing services
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Safety & Sustainability in
NanoFabrication
Elisa Moschini, LIST
Fernand Doridot, ICAM
Laurene Chochois, LIST
Elorri Igos, LIST
Anne Umbach, COPT (UoC)

Where we started …
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Results from our first meeting with “potential stakeholders”
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs”
Our Common Future
Report from Bruntland Commission
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NanoFabNet Hub
Sustainability in Nanofabrication
Environment,
Health
& Safety
Life Cycle
Sustainability
Ethics
& Governance
Joint effort to improve
and bringing/building
knowledge on specific
industrial sectors
Integrated tools and strategies for sustainability-informed decision-making processes
Three areas for Sustainability in Nanofabrication
REGULATION
REGULATION
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1. Environment, Health & Safety
“The new technology applications not only should
be safe themselves but should also offer substantial
improvements to human health and environment
protection while still remaining competitive1”
ENM identification
and classification
ENM exposure
and transformation
ENM potential toxicity
hazardous on HH and EH
Tools for RA and RM
Nanosafety
WHERE THEY GO
WHAT THEY ARE
WHAT THEY DO
WHAT WE DO
[1 Savolainen et al., 2013. Nanosafety in Europe 2015-2025: Towards
Safe and Sustainable Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Innovations]
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Standard concepts and emerging challenges
ENM identification
and classification
WHAT THEY ARE
ENM exposure
and transformation
WHERE THEY GO
Monitoring → new technology development
Discrimination from natural background → new technology development
Benchmarking
1 www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/gesund-leben/umwelt-und gesundheit/chemikalien/nanotechnologie.html,2 en.aist-riss.jp/research/assessment/,
3 www.nanoriskframework.com, 4 www.bmu.de/en/service/publications/downloads/details/artikel/responsible-use-of-nanotechnologies-1, 5 www.safenano.org,
6 Summary for Policy Makers. 2011. German advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), 7 ISO31000.
NanoCommission Assessment Tool6
SafeNano Scientific Services5
RM framework for new technologies7 … etc.
Tools for RA and RM
Precautionary Matrix for Synthetic Nanomaterials1
Nano Risk Framework3
RA of manufactured nanomaterials2
Precautionary Strategies for Managing Nanomaterials4
WHAT WE DO
ENM potential toxicity
hazardous on HH and EH
Dose-response → In vitro/in vivo ENM dosimetry
AOPs identification
IATAs - NAMs Benchmarking
WHAT THEY DO
nanoforms
Read-across
Grouping
1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th , generation NMs
Nanostructured materials

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2. Life Cycle Sustainability
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
Evaluate the environmental, economic and social impacts of a product
or process along its life cycle to support product development, policy
makers, marketing strategy, etc.
Raw
material
extraction
Material
process-
sing
Manufac-
turing
Assembly
Use
End of Life
Environmental
impacts
Social
impacts
Economic
impacts
LCA LCC
sLCA
LCSA
Application to nanofabrication
➢ Existing standards:
• CEN/TS 17276: Application of ISO 14044 to ENMs
• CEN/TC 352: Guidance towards the integration of
RA into LCA of nano-enabled application
➢ Main objectives LCSA application:
• Sustainable-by-design approach to support
design choices during technology development
• Benchmarking against conventional alternatives
(e.g., benefits thanks to lighter material but
higher energy for production)
➢ Further development needed:
• Fill data gaps (low TRL, confidentiality issue)
• Modelling of nanoparticles release and impact
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Information about Regulation
(regular Updates)
The challenge is to establish a comprehensive picture of regulations which enables the actors in the supply
chain of nanofabrication and nanotechnologies to identify and track their roles and responsibilities while
ensuring compliance.
➢ In legal context the terms nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing do not exist.
So far, nanoforms and (engineered) nanomaterials are the only terms legally defined.
➢ Nanomaterials are explicitly or implicitly covered by different pieces of horizontal and sector-
specific legislations of the EU's regulatory framework:
o Since a definition for a nanomaterial was adopted in 2011, several EU legislations were amended to
explicitly address NMs and include nanomaterial-specific information requirements (e. g. REACH,
veterinary medicals product regulations)
o Even if they are not explicitly mentioned, in principle, nanomaterials, and especially potential risks
associated with them, are covered by existing legislation (e. g. CLP, plant protection product regulations,
waste framework directive)
?
Commission Recommendation
on the definition of nanomaterial
C(2022) 3689 - final
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Sustainability – Identification of Indicators
DESCRIPTION EASINESS TECH. RELEVANCE
Category Methodology/guidance Indicator (example) Type Standards/guidance Level of standardization/harmonisation Effort required TRL
Safety
Adapted from
hard regulation
Internal dossier filing
Limits of exposure/emissions/
general thresholds more
ambitious compared to those
established by regulation
Measured/
Experimental/
Modelled/
Compliance
REACH, CLP,
(EC) N. 1272/2008.
(EC) N. 1223/2009,
(EC) N. 1169/2011,
(EC) N. 726/2004
High Medium/High High
LCA Eco-design
Qualitative principles:
- use of local materials
- avoiding formation of
“complex”nanostructures
Compliance ISO 14006
Green nano design principles
Low Low Low to High
Ethics&
Governance
Eco-design
Qualitative principles:
Respect of autonomy, fairness,
justice, collaboration,
inclusiveness…
Compliance Various High Low to high Low to High
Extract of Annex I – NFN D2.2
What is it measuring?
How?
Starting point?
Area
Are tools in place?
How long would it take?
Would it be easy?
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NanoFabNet Sustainability Roadmap
Short term Medium term Long term
time
Mulder et al. (2011)
“awareness of the
multitude of sustainable
development challenges
that play a role in
production, use, recycling
and end-of-life disposal of
designs”
CATEGORIES
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… where we are now
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We can help you in defining
your tailored path
towards Sustainability
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*** SPECIAL ***
Ethics & Governance
in
Safety & Sustainability in
NanoFabrication
Elisa Moschini, LIST
Fernand Doridot, ICAM
Laurene Chochois, LIST
Elorri Igos, LIST
Anne Umbach, COPT (UoC)

A first ethical Concern related to Nanotechnologies
A first ethical concern related to nanotechnologies is linked to the revolutionary
promises and the problematic social expectations associated to them since the early
stages of their development. (See for example the famous “Transhumanism-inspired”
report from Roco and Bainbridge in 2003 called Converging Technologies for Improving
Human Performances). The public identification of nanotechnologies with such
controversial societal projects has importantly shaped the public debate on
nanotechnologies, and even aroused a great mistrust and a strong social opposition to
them in some countries.
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Several ethical Concerns
More generally, due to the generic and enabling nature of nanotechnology and nanofabrication, the diversity of their applications and
of their possible impacts, they are de facto involved in a array of societal and ethical issues including as diverse concerns as privacy,
autonomy, social divide, environmental justice, human enhancement:
• The use of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials in consumer products and for industrial use raises ethical issues such as
transparency and responsibility.
• The energy and environmental applications of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials raise societal challenges and assessment of real
sustainability issues.
• The ICT applications enabled by nanotechnology raise ethical issues such as personal data protection, privacy, confidentiality,
traceability, discriminations, digital divide, dual use, man-machine interactions issues, etc.
• The military applications of nanotechnology and nanomaterials raise ethical issues such as loss of control, dual use such as
surveillance of civilian populations, breaking of the world nuclear deterrence, care for animals, etc.
• Nanomedicine raises itself numerous ethical issues such as informed consent, increased personal responsibility related to novel
diagnosis tools, intellectual property rights and patenting policy, emerging issues such as autonomous and making decisions
nanorobots inserted in the human body, special ethical issues related to non-therapeutic human enhancement, etc.
• The development of nanotechnology in emerging countries raises social and ethical issues such as EHS issues, technological divide,
distortion of the commodity markets (causing elimination of jobs), detraction of political will and resources from the needs of the
poor, new exploitation of the countries, etc.
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Example of a growing Concern: the Convergence of Smart Dust
with the Internet of Things
Increased ethical issues in terms of informed consent, autonomy, privacy,
information security, physical safety, trust, digital divide, dual use, etc.
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NanoFabNet Stakeholder Opinions
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Some ethical Issues concerning
Nanotechnologies & Nanofabrication
• Does the development of nanotechnology raise itself really new ethical issues ?
• Even if the problems are new, do they really require the consideration of new ethical
principles ?
• Is nanotechnology a morally neutral instrument, or does it convey an intrinsic (and
possibly problematic) morality ?
• Who should be responsible for identifying and resolving ethical issues related to
nanotechnology (ethicists, scientists, industrialists, lawmakers, politicians, religion
representatives, consumers, lay people, society in general, etc.) ?
• Which ethical methods are to be used (in particular are anticipatory ethics or ongoing
ethics the most adapted to the current innovation landscape) ?
• Are Value Sensitive Design and Ethical by design relevant instruments ?
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Services in Ethics & Governance offered by the NanoFabNet Hub
1. Ethics training sessions (webinars, etc.)
2. Personalized support in the discovery of the available tools in the field of ethics (hard
and soft regulation, reports, standards, etc.)
3. Collective building and access to a bank of concrete and real "ethical case studies"
related to nanotechnology and nanofabrication
4. Facilitated access to ethical networks and to services providers in the field of ethics
5. Access to a database listing the relevant actors and projects in the field of ethics of
nanotechnology and nanofabrication
6. Participation in multi-actors reflection sessions on the ethical questions raised by the
activities in nanotechnology and nanofabrication
7. Personalized support in obtaining a certification in the field of ethics
8. Participation in the development of new standards in the field of ethics of
nanotechnology and nanofabrication
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NanoFabNet Hub Advantages
For all, which concerns global Sustainability and its three working areas, the
NanoFabNet Hub can offer:
• Access to the NanoFabNet Hub database (actors, projects, documents,
literature, standards, etc.)
• Access to information webinars and networking events
• Access to training opportunities
• Access to the worldwide NanoFabNet stakeholders network
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Infrastructures
Michal Urbanek, CEITEC

Research Infrastructures - Where do they fit?
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nanofabrication
& research infrastructures
new class
of material
meta-lens
transistor
IC
system on a chip
iPhone
Modern technologies rely on
interlocked multidisciplinary research
SRC corp.:Decadal Plan for
Semiconductors 01/2021
Foundries
Industrial
infrastructures
Research
infrastructures
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Research Infrastructures - Where do they fit?
Research Infrastructures
facilities that provide resources and services for research communities to conduct research and foster innovation.
They can be used beyond research e.g. for education or public services and they may be single-sited, distributed,
or virtual.
Industrial infrastructures
facilities, equipment and support services that address innovation further down the value-chain;
public, semi-public, or private
they target mainly industry and provide access to technologies and services more oriented towards
commercialisation
they support industry to test/validate, upscale and bring new solutions to the market and to ensure feasibility
and regulatory compliance.
Foundries (production facilities)
fabricate final products based on customer specification
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Research Infrastructures & NanoFabNet Stakeholders
What did the NanoFabNet Stakeholders say?
@2nd Development Workshop
• 64% academia, 23% GOV, 13% industry & other
• Majority of them users or providers of RI
• Higher interest in research infrastructures than in industrial infrastructures (95% vs 60%)
• Interest in analysis & metrology (55%) higher than in nanofabrication (42%) and in synthesys (5%)
• They get to know about RI either from colleague's recommendation or professional networks
rather than from Google
• When they look for RI they look first at the instruments and second at know-how/services and
access policy
• 74% interested in Know-how and training, 52% in services and 40% in access to instruments
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Common language, why it is needed?
Why do we care?
Research infrastructure is the place where all these
people meet and must communicate!
Self-organization can be OK for a single cleanroom but
when you combine 40+ nanolabs as in EuroNanoLab the
problems in communication become unbearable
Also, when you start organizing a broad nanofabrication
community as NanoFabNet, the problem of different
languages possesses a problem
Multidisciplinary research
=> Different, field specific languages
• The terminology is historically rooted in Microelectronics/Electrical
engineering
• But nowadays every research & industry field has different view on
terminology
Plasma physicist: Inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching and
deposition system with heated electrode and He backside cooling
Biologist: Plasma etcher
• Companies make things more complicated
SEM-FIB (Tescan, Hitachi), DualBeam (FEI/TFS), CrossBeam (Zeiss)
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Research Infrastructures – Broader Integration
Profiling Stakeholders’ Infrastructures, Knowledge
& Skills
• Start with known partners
• Identify the needs that create an added value
and which can be solved on-line
• Use the know-how of NanoFabNet partners
• Set up a system which can be later adopted by
a broad nanofabrication community
Common taxonomy
Instruments and processes
• Unsolved problem in nanofabrication
• Essential when organizing large
networks
• Will result in higher quality of
collected data
Existing know-how
• Directly related to WP4
standardization
• Experience of US partners
Adoption
• Critical mass of EuroNanoLab +
NanoFabNet + NNCI (US)
stakeholders
• ISO standards
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Research Infrastructures - Broader Integration
CENTRAL
HUB
National Network
KNOWLEDGE
BASE
Step: 1 2 3
Interfaces
AHIGHLEVELOFINTEGRATIONismandatory
DEEPCHANGESINNODES’PROCEDURESAREREQUIRED
• Centralaccess: management + ENL technical analysis
• Joint database: common nomenclatures, standard representation of process
steps, etc.
• Common procedures: access, hosting, user interface software,
terms & conditions, …
SHARINGOFKNOWLEDGEonprocessstepsisMANDATORY
• INTEROPERABILITY:standardization,compatibilityspecs
• REPRODUCIBILITY&PORTABILITY:accuratedescriptionofprocessdata
ENLismuchmorethanamanagementstructure:atrueDISTRIBUTEDFABRICATION
SYSTEM(e.g.likeAirbus)
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Nanofabrication Processes or Equipment?
Many nanofabrication facilities focus on processes
• P
• If you want to present or advertise a know-how or
knowledge, you present a process.
• One process may need several pieces of equipment
or vice versa, one tool can run multiple processes
ISO standards for
nanofabrication
processes exist
Equipment is also important !
• If you want to develop something new, you look for
equipment
• If you want to dig deeper into processes (e.g.
organize process transfer between laboratories) you
need to go to the detail -> equipment type and
specification.
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NanoFabNet Taxonomy
• We analyzed 66 cleanroom nanofabrication facilities in Europe and US
• We have mapped the entire structure and naming conventions of these facilities
• Then we have tried to identify repeating patterns
• We found weak to no patterns
• We proposed a completely new concept of generic instrument names together
with categorisation based on the existing ISO standard
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NanoFabNet Taxonomy Implementation & Expansion
NanoFabNet taxonomy adoption by EuroNanoLab nodes
• Technical implementation
• Data collection
• Review and feedback
• Taxonomy update
Implementation of additional functionalities
• Implementation of open API and FAIR data policies
• Connecting the EuroNanoLab database to other databases
• Transfer to linked data formats
• FAIR data compliance
• Further expansion and sustainability
Promotion of the NanoFabNet taxonomy in a broad nanofabrication community
• Building an online tool for managing equipment in small labs/cleanrooms
• Entering into education and training process
• Stepping into the process of creation of new international standards
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EU-Project Collaboration &
International Cooperation
Andreas Falk, BNN

EU-Project Collaboration – Main Goal
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EU-Project Collaboration – Common Vision
The NanoFabNet Hub seeks the views of its stakeholders about challenges,
synergies and cross-fertilisation between the fields of nanotechnology and
sustainability with the aim of identifying opportunities for added value at the
level of EU-project collaboration, that will help on solving and overcoming
the barriers and challenges without unnecessary duplicity of efforts. By
doing so, the NanoFabNet Hub aims to make more effective use of current
resources and knowledge and create the best ecosystem for projects dealing
with sustainable nanofabrication.
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The boundaries used and considered to map the current landscape of EU-
Projects dealing with sustainable nanotechnology & nanofabrication are
based on NanoFabNet‘s own concept of sustainable nanofabrication, based
on three pillars:
a) Environment, Health & Safety
b) Life Cycle Sustainability,
c) Ethics & Governance
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EU-Project Collaboration – Mapping & Current Landscape
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EU-Project Collaboration – Mapping & Current Landscape
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• The mapping has brought together 54
EU-funded projects, most of them
funded under the past H2020 EU Work
Programme (2014-2020), and which are
currently still running and under
development. It is a non-exhaustive list
will, that is and will be expanded
including more projects studying
different aspects related to sustainable
nanofabrication to the mapping in the
coming months within the NanoFabNet
Hub
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EU-Project Collaboration – Opportunities & Actions
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Easy & fast access to specific
funding programs
Active involvement of all different type of
actors in the design of forthcoming funding
schemes (i.e. industry, civil society, academics,
government.
Access to high quality training
materials/webinars in topics
relevant for sustainable
nanofabrication
Bring together different experts communities
and EU-projects together, regularly, to
exchange actions/results/knowledge
Increase
productivity
Adequate financing
programs
Optimal
Collaboration
Enhance impact
of the outcomes
Access to top-
quality personnel
Easy & organized access to
EU-project information
Provide connection to
experts
Access to infrastructures
repository
Enhance awareness of the civil society about
the results of the projects
Knowledge transfer to the right target group
Connection to relevant industry to translate and
exploit the results of the projects
GOALS
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EU-Project Collaboration – Partnerships & Collaborations
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NanoSafety Cluster
It is a high-profile platform for the coordination of nanosafety research in Europe. It integrates
and synthesises current and emerging nanosafety knowledge to provide a consistent message
to stakeholders including academics, industry and civil society.
Risk Governance
Council
It is in its last phase of development by three H2020-funded research projects (Gov4Nano,
NANORIGO and RiskGone). The aim of the council is to support the translation of research
advances into regulation and industrial practice, and to integrate R&D&I processes in
nanotechnology in a holistic way
EuroNanoLab
It is a distributed research infrastructure consisting of over 40 state-of-the-art academic
nanofabrication centres across Europe. Its vision is to accelerate research in the micro- and
nanotechnology sector by enabling the transformation of a fragmented landscape of
nanofabrication facilities into an integrated knowledge base supporting scientific excellence
and providing researchers a fast-track to results.
EURAMET
It aims to develop and disseminate an integrated, cost effective and internationally
competitive measurement infrastructure for Europe, always taking into account the needs
of industry, business and governments
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International Cooperation
• Long-lasting collaborations between the EU, the US, and other
regions, such as Israel or Japan, China and Australia.
• The ambition to work towards further international cooperation may
be enacted according to the concept paper for the “International
Network Initiative on Safe and Sustainable Nanotechnologies” (INISS-
nano) that prepare the ecosystem for global collaboration in selected
fields of action (i.e. pillars called “Harmonisation”, “Support industrial
understanding”, “Sharing/ facilitate sharing of resources /
infrastructures”, and “Ethical aspects”), aiming to enable a
“collaboration without borders” through joint projects, joint funding
initiatives, and other methods of cooperation.
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International Cooperation - Mapping
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International Cooperation – Opportunities & Actions
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Access to updated information on sustainable
nanofabrication capabilities world-wide
Strengthen the EU-US collaboration (webinars
/workshops focused on sharing good practices and
state-of-the-art knowledge, organised by the NNCO
and NNCI
Easy & organized access to information about
the international landscape of sust. Nanof.
Strong integrated
EU community
Establish a global
community
Exchange knowledge
at international level
Mutual understanding
of challenges
Create a European community in
sustainable nanofabrication
Facilitate the creation of new partnerships
& creation of international projects
Enable knowledge transfer between
NanoFabNet and key international
organisations
To become an international support in setting
sustainable nanofabrication standards
worldwide
GOALS
Promotion & support of good practices in
collaboration between EU-US initiatives
Meeting point to share ideas & knowhow
Repository of infrastructures at international
level
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