Now we have the three winners!

The first prize of 500 euros goes to "A dog and its chip" by Cytronne (France).

The second prize of 250 euros goes to "Blooming NanoTech" by Mey (Romania).

And the third prize of 150 euros goes to "Tech's risks" by Liutic (Italy).

You can have a look at all the pictures that participated by visiting the picture gallery.

The three winners will be announced on the 7th July. If you want to see the pictures entered in the contest you can visit the competition gallery here.

Some of the pictures will also be used in the exhibition that NANOYOU is preparing.

Select a language to download the tools available:

Newsletter December 2009

Pictures from the contest will be selected to be part of the travelling exhibition that NANOYOU is preparing.

Help us create the NANOYOU exhibition and let us know what you think!

Click here to visit the picture gallery.

On the 5-6 December 2009 six teams of youngsters took part in the NANOYOU video contest and spent a weekend working on the production of short videos on `Living a 2.0 city´. Now you can watch the finalist videos and enjoy the results of that creative weekend!

Also in the context of NANOYOU, students from ENSAG (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble) took part in the workshop "Big Scale, Small Objects," where they produced videos on the theme of the communication networks in the city. You can also watch them on-line!

In their website you will find information about the science centres that offer this opportunity.

The “report on the analysis of survey responses” that can be downloaded below is the outcome of a comprehensive survey on young people’s knowledge, interests and attitudes about nanotechnologies carried out within the NANOYOU project by the Austrian institute Centre for Social Innovation.

In general, results show that there is a high interest for nanotechnologies among young people and a wish for more profound knowledge in the future. However, the interest for NT is bigger than the knowledge, and young people would like to know more about it in the future.

NT is already part of future education and professional career considerations. Nevertheless young people are also very aware about risks and societal impact. Although they widely believe in positive developments in the future, they remain sceptical and critical against major issues as privacy, consumer protections, environment and health.

Concerning gender there is a gap concerning interest and knowledge. But seemingly there are potentials. In general, young people think that NT will improve our lives in future. They are mostly optimistic up to euphoric, but at the same time believe in risks and are aware of negative impact as well. For further developments and applications young people ask for independent regulation and control agencies. School, TV and radio, movies and internet are the most important sources for information about NT for young people.

Young people also wish to learn more at science centres and museums, at events and in seminars, courses and workshops, more than they do up to now. Seemingly, they want to gain more thorough information about NT.

Help us create the NANOYOU exhibition: let us know what you think!

Click here to visit the picture gallery.

For more information contact us at: contact@ccsti-grenoble.org

The NANOYOU interactive debate is part of the events that are taking place within the e-Skills Week, an initiative of the European Commission's DG Entreprise and Industry.

In the artists' words, "to establish a contact with that parallele, invisible and for most of us unknown world means, for art, to discover surprising and powerful technologies and revolutionary ways of expression that promote the development of new asthetic approaches, alternative points of view, different interpretations of the world.

"The collision – or to better say the meeting – of art with nanotechnology brings to the creation of artworks most of the times unaccessible to human eyes, that represents a concrete aesthetic paradox: an invisible visual art."

Public authorities and ICT companies as well as schools and students are working together to organise a range of exciting events, training sessions, school visits, competitions and more, to underline the importance of ICT skills in today's society, and to demonstrate the wide range of job opportunities in the field. The campaign ultimately aims to increase ICT skills among professionals and to encourage more young people to take up ICT studies and careers.

The European e-Skills week is expected to involve 300,000 participants in more than 100 activities. The events will take place across Europe with more than 20 participating countries.
Some of the NANOYOU activities, such as the picture contest, will also participate in the European e-Skills Week. This means that the winners of the picture contest could also be selected to take part in the e-Skills Week competition.

The European e-Skills Week is the culmination of a campaign funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry and coordinated by DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet with the aim to promote e-skills whilst building bridges between the different stakeholders.

For up to date information, please visit http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/

The property you will analyse is the superhydrophobic effect found in some leaves, such as the lotus leaf. The effect is due to interplay of surface chemistry and surface topography at the micro- and nano-level. Download the documents below to carry out the experiment.

Please note that the experiments described in the following training kit use chemicals which need to be used according to MSDS specifications and specific school safety rules. Personal protection must be taken as indicated. As with all chemicals, use precautions. Solids should not be inhaled and contact with skin, eyes, or clothing should be avoided. Wash hands thoroughly after handling. Dispose as indicated. All experiments must be conducted in the presence of an educator trained for science teaching. All experiments will be carried out at your own risk. Aarhus University (iNANO) and the entire NANOYOU consortium assume no liability for damage or consequential losses sustained as a result of the carrying out of the experiments described.

In this experiment you will investigate nanoparticles of gold or nano-gold! The properties of nano-gold are very different and it all has to do with the size of the nanoparticles. Download the documents below to lear more about this experiment.

If you want to know more about the properties of milk and gelatine do the experiment that NANOYOU proposes you. You will find the information you need in the documents below.

There are also educator guides with all the resources that relate to a particular issues and suggestions on how to use them.

Amongst the nanotechnology related resources you will find Nanotechnology Takes Off -a video introducing nanotechnologies- and Macro Concerns in a Nano World-a video that tackles ethical and safety issues related to NT. 

You can download them below.

You can download them below.

Click on the images below to select your age. 

AGES 11 - 13	AGES 14 - 18

You can download Podcast and iPod/iPhone versions of the video below.

In their website you will find many documents related to NT ELSA aspects.

The film may be viewed and downloaded from the EC audiovisual service or purchased in DVD format in 20 EU languages, free of charge, from the European Commission Cordis website on nanotechnology.

The pilot schools will have a coordination and management tool at their disposal (https://europeanschoolnet.basecamphq.com/login) in order to communicate with each other, share useful documents and files, leave messages, ask questions and be in contact with the project administrators.

Pilot schools will be the first group to try out activities in class. Thereafter, they will be invited to post their results and impressions on the website. By sharing their experiences with other teachers, they will offer support for other schools interested in taking part in NANOYOU.

Non pilot schools interested in NANOYOU will be able to use the implemented NANOYOU materials in their class at a later stage. They will then benefit from advice, help and support from pilot schools that ran the activities beforehand.


For further information please contact nanoyou@eun.org

List of selected pilot schools:

Austria
BRG/BG Klusemann (Graz)
Borg 3 (Vienna)

Belgium
Institut Don Bosco (Brussels)

Cyprus
St.Theodoros Gymnasium (Pafos)

Denmark
Aabenraa Statsskole (Billund)

Germany
Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium (Augsburg)      
Tannenbusch-Gymnasium (Bonn)

Greece
4th Lyceum Stavroupolis (Thessaloniki)

Italy
Istituto Istruzione Superiore G.Carducci (Ferrara)      
ISISS "Piana di Lucca" - Liceo Scientifico "E. Majorana" (Capannori)     
ITIS Marconi (Verona)

Latvia
Riga Purvciems Secondary School (Riga)

Lithuania
"Ausra" Secondary School (Birzai)

Portugal
Escola Secundária com 3º Ciclo Madeira Torres (Torres Vedras)      
Agrupamento de Escolas Eugenio de Andrade (Porto)

Romania
Dimitrie Ghica School (Comanesti Bacau)      
"Dimitrie Anghel"School       
COLEGIUL NATIONAL NICOLAE TITULESCU (Pucioasa)

UK
The Glasgow Academy (Glasgow)      
Smithycroft Secondary School (Glasgow)

Slovakia
Secondary Technical School Of Transport Kosice (Kosice)

Spain
I.E.S. Manuel de Falla (Cadiz)      
Colegio Pedro Poveda (Jaén)

At the end of the weekend four videos were nominated and their creators were invited to present their videos at NANOYOU's public debate at the Cité des sciences et de l’ industrie in Paris, on April 8, 2010.

The group was very diverse, with participants coming from different backgrounds such as design, engineering, art history, communication or video technique, and a multidisciplinary jury with engineers, a social scientist specializing in story boarding techniques, an architect, a science educator, a decorative art teacher and an interaction designer.

Have a look at a short video summarizing this fun weekend!

Barcelona Science Park and Cambridge Nanoscience Centre have been collaborating to develop virtual experiments and a short film on nanotechnologies.

Two research projects are currently available as online virtual experiments. The first is a project based on an electronic nose, developed by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at Barcelona Science Park, and the other is a project developed by Cambridge Nanoscience Centre about a nanoscale transistor as a key component in a future computer device. 
For the development of the film, an audiovisual production team from Cambridge visited UCAM’s and PCB’s installations to interview some of the scientists working with nanotechnologies.

 You can view all the pictures that participated in the picture gallery.

 The jury has selected 3 winners amongst the total of 67 pictures that participated in the contest.

 The selection was done according to the following criteria:

• The relevance with which the theme was addressed, the originality and the lucidity of the mise-en-scène of the intelligent environment
• The consideration of scientific and technological trends
• The consideration of ethical, social and legal risks and opportunities  associated with the use of intelligent environments and which influence daily life directly
• The artistic and creative quality

The first prize (500 euros) has been awarded to “A dog and its chip” by Cytronne (France)

Title: A dog and its chip…
Keywords: RFID chip
Location: Belledone (French Alps)
Visible/invisible: A litte chip, a smart card…
Advantages: Traceability. In case you loose your dog or if it gets stolen… Not at all cumbersome ...
Risks: Traceability. A smart chip on a living being which permits to track its trail, with all the excesses that may lead to ...
Ctrl/Esc: It is us, human being, that "chip" our animals! But is also an obligation…

The second prize (250 euros) has been awarded to “Blooming nanoTech” by Mey (Romania)

Title: Blooming nanoTech
Keywords: music pixels nano
Location: Cismigiu Parc, Bucuresti, Romania
Date: 2001-03-20
Visible/invisible: the iPod in the wild/the hard work and delicate pieces that went into the building process of such a nano music player
Advantages: Nature embracing technology, with nanotech nature has room to expand. Less materials, smaller devices and greener tech, can really make an impact.
Risks: We must not forget that nanotechnology is still not 100% green. Nature cannot biodegradate man-made items. It is also quite expensive and not anyone can afford it.
Ctrl/Esc: People can control the music and videos played on the iPod or they could just be carried away on the wings of natures own music and color.

And the third prize (150 euros) has been awarded to Liutic (Italy).

You can read all the details on the participation in the rules below (pdf).

Following this interaction, participants will be asked to produce a short video on “Living in a 2.0 City”. The winners will take part in a public debate on nanotechnologies, which will take place in Paris at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in March 2010.

The meeting was also an opportunity to visit Cambridge’s Nanoscience Centre and its nanotechnology labs to learn about some of the research projects being carried out there. Professor Mark Welland coordinated a discussion with young scientists who shared their thoughts on how nanotechnologies should be communicated to the public.

Is it right to sell antibacterial socks containing silver nanoparticles while is is not known yet if they are entirely safe for the environment? Should nanosensors be used to diagnose medical conditions in the early stages when there are still no definite restrictions in place to protect patients' privacy? Is it ethically acceptable to use technologies developed for specific medical treatments for other scopes like improving human capabilities? ...

Become a stakeholder in one of the NT dilemmas that NANOYOU is presenting to you and represent and defend your interests while trying to get to an agreement with other stakeholders.

Discover the secrets of the Nanoscale!

In this month's newsletter discover what the Virtual Lab will be, get informed on how to become a pilot school and browse through the different nanotechnology links NANOYOU is recommending.

Newsletter September 2009

On the 5-6 December 2009 six teams of youngsters took part in the NANOYOU video contest and spent a weekend working on the production of short videos on `Living a 2.0 city´. Now you can watch the finalist videos and enjoy the results of that creative weekend!

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Participants worked day and night to transform their innovative storyboards into 3 minute videos on ‘Living a 2.0 city’. The youngsters were challenged to participate with interactive experiments, providing real-life experience with sensors and chips: `What does it feel like to be tracked in real time?´ `What does it feel like to interact with a computer, using a motion pod instead of a mouse?´

The group was very diverse, with participants coming from different backgrounds such as design, engineering, art history, communication or video technique, and a multidisciplinary jury with engineers, a social scientist specializing in story boarding techniques, an architect, a science educator, a decorative arts teacher and an interaction designer.

At the end of the weekend four videos were nominated and their creators were invited to present their videos at the NANOYOU public debate which took place at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris, on April 8, 2010.  "Nadim et Suzanne" by Sophie Bessette, Louise Dubois and Aurélie Ponsin was voted by the audience as the winner of the contest.

In the context of NANOYOU, students from ENSAG (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble) took part in the workshop "Big Scale, Small Objects", where they produced videos on the theme of the communication networks in the city. You can watch them now online!

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This is a project on cutlery which is programmable to the specific needs its user(s) to fight against allergies, nutritional deficiencies, overweight, etc.

The smart plaster is a functional system using nanotechnology which performs tests on blood samples that are essential to medical diagnosis. The advantage is its simple graphical display, which sets it apart from the usual blood test reports. It provides an overall, clear and fast report, on a device which is attached to the patient. Test results can therefore not be confused amongst patients.

This is a project on an index for the environmental impact of importing fruit: the Fruit Miles Index. The information needed to create this index would be gathered through RFID technology. This would be integrated into the crates used to transport the fruit from the producers to the point of sale.

The Time for Nano Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits and risks related to nanoscale research, engineering and technology, through specific informal education products.

Science centers in Italy, UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Poland and Turkey will organize “Nanodays”, events with demonstrations, experiments, games, meetings and discussions about nanotechnology.

Students from high schools can participate in the Time for Nano video contest, a competition to produce the most creative, scientifically sound, though provoking video on the dilemmas posed by nanotechnology.

Through this series of three programs, Ball explains the nature of nanotechnology by interviewing scientists on issues related to ethics and society, as well as exploring recent applications. 

You can listen to these programs online.