Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) advanced materials and chemicals (AdMas&Chems) are a central requirement for reaching the ambitious goal of making Europe the first digitally-enabled circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy. Such new AdMas&Chems need to provide the high functionality required for their advanced applications, whilst simultaneously exhibiting improved safety and sustainability performances that take into account the complete value chain and life cycle. To facilitate adoption by industry and, by doing so, foster the twin green and digital transition of Europe’s economy, PINK’s overarching aim is to produce innovative modelling software and integrated workflows for the development of AdMas&Chems. PINK takes a holistic approach addressing the needs of industry by solving a multi-objective optimisation problem to improve and balance the four requirement categories functionality, cost-efficiency, safety and sustainability. All five steps of the SSbD Framework (hazard assessment, human health and safety aspects in the production and processing phase, human health and environmental aspects in the final application phase, environmental sustainability assessment, and socio-economic sustainability assessment) are integrated into selection considerations at each stage of the AdMas&Chems development, starting with a limited set of evaluation criteria and rough estimates (low-tier methods) and moving to higher-tier methods in later stages. In this way, confidence in the predictions is continuously improved over multiple design cycles by producing new knowledge on a constantly reduced set of better performing candidates.

Accordingly, PINK’s central objectives can be summaries as:

• develop a toolbox of data resources, models and workflows (PINK Services), benefitting from the interoperability and synergy of integrated approaches and provide them as openly accessible software tools and web services;
• build a framework and toolset for technical and semantic interoperability (Interoperability Framework and Infrastructure), based on high FAIRness (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) standards essential for information transfer within PINK and enabling re-use by other SSbD workflows or platforms;
• integrate all data and modelling services into an industry-ready open innovation platform, the PINKISH platform, to facilitate data visualisation, analysis, and the implementation of a comprehensive AI-enabled SSbD decision support workflow; and
• showcase how the computational and digital approaches can boost the innovative capacity of industry and especially SMEs in Developmental Case Studies and Industrial Demonstrators providing real-world stress testing of the provided solutions.

1.January 2024 – 31.December 2027

Grant agreement nº 101137809

Contact

• Project Coordinator: Thomas Exner, Seven Past Nine, thomas.exner@sevenpastnine.com
• Deputy coordinator: Steffi Friedrichs, ACUMENIST, Steffi@AcumenIST.com
• C&D manager: Steffi Friedrichs, ACUMENIST, Steffi@AcumenIST.com
• Project website: www.pink-project.eu
• E-mail: Contact@PINK-Project.eu