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SeeingNano: Developing and Enabling Nanotechnology Awareness-Building through the Creation and Exchange of enhanced Communication and Visualisation Tools and Guidance for ‘Seeing at the Nanoscale’
Project
Project code: BfR-RIKO-08-646141
Contract period: 01.01.2015
- 31.12.2016
Budget: 75,675 Euro
Purpose of research: Experimental development
SeeingNano is supported by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. SeeingNano creates visualisation tools for enhanced nanotechnology knowledge and awareness of risks and benefits of nanotechnological applications. Through a coordinated approach leading experts collaborate in the relevant fields: the target audiences are analysed by social scientists, who - in collaboration with information visualisation experts - elaborate on appropriate tools to address the respective audiences. The scientific and technical content is provided by experts on nano-phenomena in collaboration with experts on nanotoxicology and risk communication. The target audiences include diverse segments of European publics such as journalists, teachers, youngsters and retirees.
Over two years, the SeeingNano project has developed and piloted a set of visualisation tools that inform key audiences about nanotechnologies, stimulate their awareness, increase their understanding and enable them to develop an informed and balanced opinion. The SeeingNano project has developed two mobile device applications (on both IOS and Android platforms), a short movie, and three group activities to support nanotechnology awareness and help diverse audiences ‘see’ at the nanoscale. These novel tools were all developed under creative commons license and are hosted on the SeeingNano website (www.seeingnano.eu) where they can be freely downloaded, together with their explanation manuals. The tools are all available in the six European languages used in the piloting session. Users are free to make their own translations of the tools into further languages. The final toolset may be used by science educators and teachers as a stand-alone mini-exhibition about the nanoscale, its applications and implications. Equally they can be used by individuals in self-directed learning. In this setting, the visualisation tools of SeeingNano were piloted and launched in European science centres and museums, they were also presented at various conferences.
Section overview
Subjects
- Biotechnology
- Toxicology
