Our work

To help fulfil Our Goals we concentrate on three areas of work:

Honest Broker - bringing stakeholders together to explore key issues and consider solutions

Responsible development
Understand & promote good governance and responsible development

Public involvement - to involve the public directly in discussions and stimulater others to do likewise

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What’s new

Multi-stakeholder Food Forum

MATTER welcomed the findings of the recent House of Lords inquiry into Nanotechnologies and Food and agrees with its recommendations. See here for our statement in response.

In response to Recommendation 32 of the report we have convened a multi-stakeholder forum to discuss stakeholder action in response to the report. The output of this meeting of this Forum will be available here shortly.

Coming up

Nanotechnology issues for investors - April 19. This event explores the issues around nanotechnologies for investors and is a joint initiative with UKSIF, (the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association)

Nanotechnology and Corporate Responsibility - May 20. It explores the expectations and responsibilities of companies who are using nanomaterials or processes in their products. This is a joint initiative with Cardiff University’s Centre for Business Relationships Accountability Sustainability and Society (BRASS) and Freshfields.