The objective of this WG is to provide a dynamic participatory space for experts from different disciplines related to safety, sustainability, innovation, and regulation to interact and exchange their views/ findings and ideas on how to facilitate the implementation of SSbD concept in the industrial innovation processes.
The complexity of the area covered by this WG lead the Chairs to suggest splitting of the WG into three main topics to make the meetings more manageable, productive, and targeted:
- Methods, tools and technologies for SSbD purposes
Under this topic area the idea is to involve all the people from the different SSbD initiatives/ projects working on methodologies for assess / evaluate safety and sustainability (including testing strategies, models and tools) at the design phase of material/ product development, including technologies with the purpose to apply them throughout material and product life-cycle.
- Demonstration of SSbD in Case Studies, and generalisation to SSbD scenarios
Under this topic area the idea is to put together the people involved in specific case studies from different value chains in the different projects and to exchange experiences and also challenges identified for each case.
- Supporting the implementation of SSbD in SME and industry
The challenges in the implementation of SSbD differ between actors of the same value chain, and between company profiles. On the other hand, the market pull for SSbD practices differs between sectors, applications, and global regions. Based on the SSbD scenarios, innovations with sustainability attributes can be launched via efficient and valid SSbD assessment.
Some of the specific objectives/ activities of the WG are:
- To put in common which areas are covered by each project/ participant and identify synergies and overlaps, so that some collaborations could be established or sharing of findings.
- To establish ways of collaboration in and across NSC WGs, e.g. Ambassador’s groups (as done by the NMBP-16 projects), Joint Stakeholders Engagement Activities (e.g., NMBP-15 & NMBP-16 projects, etc.), connecting sister projects in terms of SSbD-items, etc.
- To integrate findings into ongoing initiatives to move forward in the implementation of the SSbD concept by different stakeholder groups, e.g., industry: Bridges are required both to the industrial practice of portfolio sustainability analysis and to the JRC Guidance and Framework, for which science-based approaches from this WG may be essential and a continuous asset.
- To ensure the transferability and translation of the scientific knowledge generated on present case studies into e.g., new classes of Advanced Materials (links to IAM4EU, PARC), which need to be designed and assessed by SSbD principles, requiring tools that are fit for purpose.
- To develop and translate methods and tools relevant for the implementation of SSbD towards safer and more sustainable processing and manufacturing (links to Processes4Planet and Made-in-Europe, etc.).
- To collaborate with other WGs of the NSC to align common areas for the SSbD purposes.
Some outcomes on collaborative work:
- Organization of sessions in the Nanoweek 2021 conference
- Joint virtual Booth for NMBP15 projects in Braga EURONANOFORUM 2021
- Speed-dating session to present NMBP-15 & NMBP-16 platforms / frameworks / tools at NanoWeek 2022
- SSbD Workshop in Venice 2022 (BioCeramics32), including a joint paper on the outcomes of the workshop (DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00101B)
- Organization of sessions on conferences and programmes for training schools
- Organization of sessions in the following key conferences:
- NanoSafe 2021
- NanoWeek 2022 (20-24.06.2022, Limassol, Cyprus)
- nanoSAFE & NSC week 2023 (05-09.06.2024, Grenoble, France)
- ANTHOS’24 (04-07.03.2024, Vienna, Austria)
- MaterialsWeek 2024 (17-21.06.2024, Limassol, Cyprus)
- SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting (11-15.05.2025, Vienna, Austria)
- Organisation of Nanosafety Training School 2021: From Basic Science To Risk Governance (22-27.03.2020, Venice, Italy)
- Organisation of Nanosafety Training School 2022 (15-20.05.2022), Venice, Italy)
- Organisation of NanoSafety Training School 2023 (15-10.05.2023, Venice, Italy)
- Organisation of NanoTox24 conference (23-25.09.2024) in Venice, Italy, as the final dissemination event of the NMBP-16 projects DIAGONAL, HARMLESS and SUNSHINE
- Roadmap towards safe and sustainable advanced and innovative materials. (Outlook for 2024-2030). DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.05.018
- The perspective paper ‘Next Generation Risk Assessment approaches for advanced nanomaterials: Current status and future perspectives’ in the Legacy Special Issue of NanoImpact. DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2024.100523
- Organization of joint stakeholder engagement activities
- Support for clustering activities: e.g., NMBP-15, NMBP-16, Resilience-22 clusters, etc.
The present structure of this WG is the following:
- Chair: Danail Hristozov, Greendecision Srl.
- Co-Chair: Wendel Wohlleben, BASF
- Co-Chair: Lya Soeteman-Hernández, RIVM
- Ex – Co-Chairs: Andrew Nelson, Socorro Vázquez-Campos & Anna Costa
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