Andreas Gavrielides - NextGEM

FORTH co-hosted NextGEM’s 4th and CLUE-H’s 2nd meetings in October 2023

Andreas Gavrielides — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:01:52 +0000

Fifteen months after the kick-off meeting of NextGEM, FORTH welcomed all project members again to the premises at Heraklion, Crete, Greece on October 10th – 12th, 2023.

During the first two days, representatives of research institutions, universities, public and government organizations, small and medium enterprises, and industrial partners from 10 different countries shared their developments toward the NextGEM project’s main goal “to ensure EU citizens’ safety when employing existing and future Electromagnetic field (EMF) based telecommunication technologies.”

The NextGEM plenary meeting started with a brief introduction to project management activities followed by the corresponding presentations from partners in charge of each work package. Significant progress was made within them, and some are approaching their completion such as the identification of the stakeholders’ needs and concerns in an ever-changing telecommunication environment, determining past and present EMF exposure patterns and characteristics, and designing the architecture of the NextGEM platform to support the complete lifecycle of generated EMF data inclusively and openly.

A contribution worth mentioning is the development of ERMES, a computer software aiming to model the EMF distribution on organisms with different body shapes and predict EMF incidence on superficial and deep layers of the body. In parallel, significant advances were made in the design of wearable sensors to monitor the EMF intensity absorbed by the end-users during everyday activities in real-time.

The radiofrequency exposure systems used at the partners’ premises and the first results involving exposure of protein solutions to EMF were presented regarding the biological experiments. Additionally, preliminary measurements were described to set up the experiments with human cells and C. elegans. Experiments with human volunteers are in earlier phases since the necessary ethical approval is still in progress.

The need to homogenize experimental conditions among partners to achieve a better harmonization of results was pointed out, allowing the development of optimal hazard and risk assessments.

Partners working on designing and implementing the NextGEM Innovation & Knowledge Hub (NIKH) shared their progress. NIKH is an online tool devoted to storing the innovations and research outputs produced within the project, including external scientific knowledge obtained from past research or synergies, and offering a network to EMF stakeholders. A brief discussion was held regarding the different case studies’ planned activities and strategies designed to maximize the impact of NEXTGEM through partners’ and stakeholders’ engagement and awareness activities.

On the third day, the 2^nd CLUE-H Annual meeting was held. NextGEM, together with the other Horizon Europe projects SEAWave, ETAIN, and GOLIAT, which were selected for funding under the call HORIZON- HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-01 “Exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health”, form the European Cluster EMF and Health (CLUE-H). CLUE-H aims to optimize collaborations, establish common strategies, avoid overlaps, and increase the impact of individual projects.

During this meeting, the Coordinators and representatives briefly presented the different projects constituting the Cluster and the activities carried out within the cluster working groups. Some results were also presented by young research scientists involved in the projects, which activated a stimulating discussion. Finally from the 1^st of November 2023, the leadership of the CLUE-H is given from SEAWave to NextGEM for the next 14 Months.

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Meet our partner – Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

Andreas Gavrielides — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:47:04 +0000

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) (link) works towards a healthy population living in a sustainable, safe and healthy environment. RIVM pursues those goals based on independent scientific research. Working with our commissioning clients, we identify the research that is needed and conduct studies accordingly. We provide advice to the government, to professionals and to members of the public, and share our knowledge. RIVM works on preventing and controlling infectious diseases, good healthcare and a healthy lifestyle, and living in a safe, clean environment. Within this last task, we monitor radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) and are active in the RF-EMF exposure field of research. Even though RIVM is owned by the Dutch government, we are independent in the performance of its commissioned projects.

Among the research-specific groups in NextGEM, RIVM has more experience with communicating with stakeholders outside of science, such as authorities and citizens. In the Netherlands (and many other places across the world), 5G is a topic that generates a wide range of opinions. In the Netherlands, RIVM is active in the knowledge platform for electromagnetic fields (link), which informs the population about pressing questions and the current state of research. RIVM will use this expertise to help generate practical guidelines for citizens and authorities based on the research done in NextGEM. Additionally, RIVM is a knowledge and research institute working on many work packages in NextGEM, such as developing new measurement devices for 5G, experiments on biological and health-related effects of EMFs, and case studies assessing the risks and impacts of 5G.

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NextGEM featured in Revista Española de Salud Pública

Andreas Gavrielides — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:35:10 +0000

Our project has been featured in a review in the Revista Española de Salud Pública on Synthesis of the Report Trends in the incidence of brain cancer in Spain between 1985 and 2015 and its possible relationship with the use of mobile phones.

Spanish:

https://www.sanidad.gob.es/biblioPublic/publicaciones/recursos_propios/resp/revista_cdrom/VOL97/RESENAS_BIBLUOGRAFICAS/RS97C_202303026es.pdf

English:

https://www.sanidad.gob.es/biblioPublic/publicaciones/recursos_propios/resp/revista_cdrom/VOL97/RESENAS_BIBLUOGRAFICAS/RS97C_202303026.pdf

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NextGEM supports the International Conference in the field of BioElectromagnetics (BioEM2024)

Andreas Gavrielides — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:12:23 +0000

The International Conference in the field of BioElectromagnetics (BioEM2024) will be held in Chania, Crete, between the 16th – 21st of June 2024. The NextGEM project Coordinator, Nikolaos Petroulakis, PhD, will be the chair of the local organizing committee, supported by the NextGEM project and ICS-FORTH.

We look forward to welcoming you all!

More information at https://lnkd.in/eVBRX2gZ.

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Participation of NextGEM at the upcoming BioEM 2023 conference

Andreas Gavrielides — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:38:45 +0000

The NextGEM project will participate in BioEM, the world’s largest and most significant bioelectromagnetics conference attracting academic and industrial participants at all career stages from all over the world.

It is a great opportunity for the project to be part of the forum for the exchange of scientific achievements, demonstrating state-of-the-art research, identifying gaps in science and establishing and strengthening our liaison with professional networks.

The conference will take place between the 18th and 2rd of June 2023 at Oxford, UK.

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Presentation of the directions of NextGEM regarding Exposure Assessment during the European Cluster of EMF and Health meeting

Andreas Gavrielides — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:06:13 +0000

Prof Fulvio Schettino from the University of Cassino, Italy, presented the directions of NextGEM regarding Exposure Assessment during the European Cluster of EMF and Health meeting on the 12th of January 2023.

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Presentation of the directions of NextGEM regarding Risk Perception and Communication during the CLUE-H meeting

Andreas Gavrielides — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:54:54 +0000

On the 10th of January 2023, Dr Francisco Vargas-Marcos from the Ministry of Health, Spain, presented the directions of NextGEM regarding Risk Perception and Communication during the European Cluster of EMF and Health meeting.

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Presentation of the experimental directions of NextGEM during the Experimental Studies Meeting of the European Cluster of EMF and Health (CLUE-H)

Andreas Gavrielides — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:46:53 +0000

On the 9th of January 2023, Dr Olga Zeni (CNR) presented the experimental directions of NextGEM during the Experimental Studies Meeting of the European Cluster of EMF and Health (CLUE-H).

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the NextGEM consortium

Andreas Gavrielides — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:41:42 +0000

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Presentation of the paper “Designing NIKH: the NextGEM Innovation and Knowledge Hub to Access Next Generation Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure and Health Data” in the IEEE CSCN 2022

Andreas Gavrielides — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:03:08 +0000

The paper “Designing NIKH: the NextGEM Innovation and Knowledge Hub to Access Next Generation Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure and Health Data” was presented by the Coordinator of the NextGEM project, Nikolaos Petroulakis (ICS-FORTH) in the IEEE CSCN 2022 at Thessaloniki, on the 28th of November 2022.

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