15 Apr 2024
This report is a deliverable of Task 18.2 dedicated to the outreach to industrial community as part of WP18 “Bridging academic and industrial research”. This report proposes a follow up of the activities that have been carried out in the framework of WP from M19 to M36. It follows a marketing and dissemination campaign that has started in April 2022, just after the outreach strategy report (D18.2) have been issued at M13 and the publication of the first outreach report at M36. It also follows This report includes the main objectives of the outreach activities, the activities that have been implemented so far and some guidelines about how to improve the future campaign and foster innovation. It will cover the different topics: - THE CONTEXT, OBJECTIVES, CURRENT KPI AND THE ONGOING MARKETING STRATEGY - THE FOLLOW UP ABOUT MARKETING, OUTREACH AND DISSEMINATION - GOOD PRACTISES AND NEXT STEPS FOR UPGRADED OUTREACH CAMPAIGN31 Mar 2024
This deliverable presents the second set of Virtual Access (VA) services integrated into the NEP infrastructure. These online services, all running on a virtual machine (4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB SDD, OS: Debian 11, SSL via Apache reverse proxy) hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), were developed within the Work Package (WP) 16 and were designed to improve the data FAIRness and to facilitate the user experience on (meta)data generation, postprocessing or exploration. The services are authenticated upon the NEP Single Sign-On (SSO) system via Keycloak [14]. The usage is monitored by aggregating the Units of Access (UoA), which are established to be every single action made by a logged-in user on one of the services, and monitored: whenever a loggedin user performs an action, the service backend sends a REST request to the NEP backend including the service ID and increases the usage counter by 1 UoA. No information about the users is handled or stored by the services. The Keycloak token, used by the Single Sign-On, is the only piece of information needed to grant access to the service. The document consists of three sections describing one VA service each. For completeness, each section explicitly mentions the corresponding WP16 task in which the service was framed and the deliverable in which it was described, if applicable.12 Mar 2024
This report is a deliverable of Task 2.6 dedicated to the harmonisation of nanosafety procedures as part of WP2 “Pilot scheme for the management of a distributed research infrastructure offering harmonised, interoperable and integrated services”. The primary motivation within the context of NEP for the investigation of nanosafety procedures is the practical consideration that, when providing users with access to the facilities operated by the NEP beneficiaries, the staff of those beneficiaries routinely have to handle nanomaterials provided by the users. And while the users may have some information about the materials that they are providing, e.g., from their work on producing or modifying those materials, in many cases NEP is asked to perform the types of analytical measurements (e.g., of particle sizes, morphology, or composition) that ultimately can be part of the basis for evaluating the potential hazards posed by the (nano)material in question. In other words, until the measurements requested by the users have been performed via access provided by NEP, information about the (nano)materials being handled may be limited. The challenge of making decisions about the potential hazards posed by (nano)materials based on limited information, of course, is not unique to NEP but rather is encountered by other entities that routinely handle materials provided by third parties. This challenge is also related to the framework for evaluating the safety or potential hazards of nanomaterials that is under development in the European Union and worldwide, due to the proliferation of nanomaterials— both incidental and deliberately engineered—encountered in industry/commerce and environment. Accordingly, the work in this task focused on collecting information and analysing resources that have been created by previous and ongoing dedicated nanosafety efforts by expert communities (both from NEP beneficiaries and external entities), rather than independently developing nanosafety procedures. The results from this task are considered in the context of NEP and interactions with the expert community, with conclusions and recommendations provided in the final section of this report.
