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Converging Technologies - NBIC
Environmental opportunities and risks
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Nanotechnology, Biotechnology,
Information technology and Cognitive
sciences environmental opportunities and risks
of converging
technologies
Converging Technologies For / with
Environment
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NBIC environmental opportunities and risks
of converging
technologies
CT for the European Knowledge Society - CTEKS
Unrestrained Expansion of Potential Combinations
Food and agriculture
Health Body mind
energy
Language
Water Air purification
culture
International Risk Governance Council -
2007 White Paper, Nanotechnology Risk Governance
What's in the pipeline and how can we ensure that
they are not misused? Kathleen M. Wong , Annals
of the NY academy of sciences - May 2007
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NBIC environmental opportunities and risks
of converging
technologies
Assessing the potential Impacts of Converging
Technologies upon the Environment - Bruce E.
Tonn, Political Science University of
Tennessee Anita Street, MPH U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
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Converging Technologies For / With
Environment
Relate to the whole human body Its
Environment as 1
Does a treatment taken in Paris / Helsinki have
the same effect ?
Why are the registered drugs effective only by
30-40 ?
Environmental policy? Social
acceptance?
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New Developments
Expanding Human Cognition and Communication
Attention must be paid to the roles of alignment,
frames of reference, and scale or resolution
(asymmetries of distance, orientation error
or location inaccuracy)

which produce information not always
consistent with metric geometries and
logically based algebra
Perhaps a new
subjective mathematics is needed to interpret
our cognitive maps.

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Converging Technology
Concept
Bio physics
WiCC - Widening the Circles of Convergence Anthro-
Philo-Geo-Eco-Urbo-Orbo-Macro-Micro
engineer
ethics
Medical doctor
behaviorist
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Right Time for
Science, research, application and
Industry - Transforming and Combining tools
Know how to solve major questions / problems
- Utilize benefit developments in more than
one area / application - Better Exploitation
of knowledge Towards, for example
An intellectual breakthrough in understanding how
complex systems interact with the environment and
produces coherent behavior
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Expose your research tovarious area / tools/
experience
Philosophical society
Creative interaction
bio physics
Ethics
engineer
Reduce barriers
behaviorist
Medical staff
Shorten lead time
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Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture
(SMTC) The Union of Engineering Liberal Arts
Converging technologies and the environment
This is a significant new research area,
exploring the IT and computing (ITC) industrys
impact on the environment. Professor
Colin Pattinson Leeds Metropolitan University

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Better Exploitation of knowledge
We need integrated monitoring and focused
measurement of sensitive parameter. This
monitoring must be supplemented with
comprehensive assessments and other integrative
methods for decision making to facilitate
improved governance.

Ingavar Andersson - Strategic Knowledge and
innovation programme, EEA
Mine the data bank extract the hard fact from
rumor
WizWhy - revealing the underlying rules behind
specific phenomena All IF-THEN rules All
IF-THEN-NOT optimal IF-AND-ONLY-IF UNEXPECTED
rules.
Global Public Goods democracies climate change
policy?
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Nano2Life1st European Network of Excellence

• Merge the existing European expertise and
  knowledge in the field of nanobiotech
• Improve European scientific excellence and
  industrial competitiveness in nanobiotech

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Areas of activities of N2L

• Shared Resources
• IPR and Knowledge Management
• Gender issues
• Ethics
• Foresight and Strategy
• Industrial Cooperation
• Joint research Program
• Education and Training
• Communication and Dissemination
• Management

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Strategic Research Program - Concept
Nano electrodes Yosi Shacham
Task Force
Intersection
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NBIC Converging Technologies
Towards SOLUTION based application
in Neurodegenerative Medicine
RD procedures Tools, Technologies,
Know-how Covering all aspects Cognition,
behavior Socio-economics, Ethics, Environmental..
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• Projects proposals
• ReNaChip Rehabilitation of Cerebellar
  Functionality by
• Nano-Interfaced
  Model-Chip
• (TAU, Tyndall, TP21, ETH Zurich, Antwerp,
  CNRS-ENST,..)
• Optic Nerve degeneration and regeneration.
• Early detection of Alzheimers, Parkinsons
  diseases

New Projects Creative ideas Interested partners
Looking for.
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• Chance favorsonly the prepared mind.
• - Louis Pasteur

Thank You !!!
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23 partners from 12 countries

• MIC - Denmark
• JRC - Europe
• CEA - France
• CNRS - France
• INSERM - France
• Bioanalytic-Muenster - Germany
• CeNTech - Germany
• Fraunhofer IBMT - Germany
• NanoBioNet Germany
• Univ. Kaiserlauten Germany
• Univ. Mainz Germany

• Univ. Munster Germany
• Univ. Saarland Germany
• Demokritos Greece
• FORTH Greece
• NMRC Ireland
• Tel Aviv University Israel
• Mesa - Netherlands
• PCB Spain
• Univ. Lund Sweden
• EPFL Switzerland
• FSRM - Switzerland
• INSAT United Kingdom

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20 Associate Companies
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NBIC Converging Technologies

• Understanding unity of nature.
• Integrating science and technology at nano
  scale.
• Developing transforming tools at confluence of
  disciplines.

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Nano2Life goals

• Generate Research Funding for Nano2Life
• members via joint European projects
• Promote integration and collaboration between
• research institutions
• Translate NanoBiotech science into economic
• benefits
• Educate society about Nanobiotech

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Tongue brain-machine interface
Navy Seals to See with Their
Tongues, Paul
Bach-y-Rita, M.D. Rehabilitation Medicine UW
Hospitals and Clinics Medical Science Center.
P. Bach-y-Rita, M. Tyler, K. Kaczmarek. Seeing
with the brain. Internation journal of
human-computer interaction, 15(2)285-295, 2003.
P. Bach-y-Rita, K. Kaczmarek, M. Tyler, J
Garcia-Lara. Form perception with a 49-point
electrotactile stimulus array on the tongue.
Journal of Rehabilitation Research Development,
35427-430, 1998.
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