Report on state of the art of nanotechnology communication including best practice examples and content recommendations

This deliverable comes out of Task 1.2. [Lead:ZSI, Support: NIA+EWG, Tomato, AEESTI/Ecsite + 3rd prts, BfR, PlayGen, StudioHB, UnivLeeds, DPF] Previous FP 7 projects on nanotechnology communication (e.g. TimeforNano, NanoYou, NanOpinion) will be analysed and evaluated with regard to the results and learnings about the factors / criteria / conditions for successful implementation of nanotechnology communication activities. Additionally, also visualization examples from other fields will be identified by WP2, scrutinized and evaluated with regard to question, if and to what extent these visualizations can be adopted for nanotechnology contents. In addition to the analysis and evaluation of available information (e.g. project reports) expert interviews with project partners who were involved in such activities und could give more detailed information (especially when reports are not available) will be conducted. Also short mail-query with experienced persons in the field (found in the review and named by experts) will support the inventory study. The outcome of this task will be a best practice compilation, recommendations for target group and gender specific contents (based on given examples), and an understanding which content is most suitable for visualization and which aspects have to be considered (what works, what does not work?). Additional input into this task will be provided by WP2 (Task 2.1), which in the course of looking at available communication and visualisation technologies and tools, will find examples of good (and bad) practices on nanotechnologies (or general complex scientific content visualisation) and share this with Task 1.2.