In order to streamline the risk assessment process, the main goal of GRACIOUS is to generate a highly innovative science-based Framework to enable practical application of grouping, leading to read-across and classification of nanomaterials (NMs)/nanoforms (NFs).
Objectives:
- Integrate key stakeholder needs with state-of-the-art thinking on grouping and read-across of NMs/NFs in order to design, develop and refine a sustainable Framework.
- Develop knowledge and generate data as the basis to derive hypotheses, criteria and guiding principles for grouping, leading to classification and read-across, as building blocks for the GRACIOUS Framework.
- Refine and integrate tools to build the GRACIOUS Framework, Guidance Document and software module.
Expected Results
The Framework and its Intelligent Testing Strategies (ITSs) will be delivered as:
- E-tool fit-for-purpose for various key stakeholders (regulatory and industrial)
- Guidance Document
Both the E-tool and the Guidance document will be designed for practical application to:
- Help industries and regulators assess environmental and human health risks of existing NMs/NFs cost-effectively
- Facilitate business decisions concerned with developing new nano-enabled products (NEPs)
- To inform Safety-by-Design (SbD) practices
1 January 2018 – 30 September 2021
Contact
- Project Coordinator: Vicki Stone – Heriot-Watt University
- Project website: https://www.h2020gracious.eu/
- E-mail: info@h2020gracious.eu