Our partnerships & support network
We actively engage with international initiatives, fostering strong partnerships and knowledge exchange with existing projects to prevent redundancy, leverage synergies, and ensure incorporation of the latest findings while disseminating our own results. Among the key projects we collaborate with are the sister projects (CheMatSustain, CHIASMA and TOXBOX). The four EU-funded Horizon Europe projects addressed under the call topic “Innovative methods for safety and sustainability assessments of chemicals and materials” (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-21) collaborate on the challenges related to development of alternative methods for safety assessment (e.g., in vitro models, computational simulations, and high-throughput screening techniques) without animal models and development of absolute sustainability methods identifying synergies and points in common to increase collaboration and avoiding duplication of work.
Moreover, a good collaboration with the cousins projects (RESILENCE-22 (INTEGRANO, ANALYST, SUNRISE, INSIGHT), RESILENCE-23 (PINK, SiToLub, M2DESCO, AI-TranspWood) and RESILENCE-24 (Alchemissts, BIOSAFIRE, DESIDERATA, PLANETS, RADAR) is ensured via the NSC activities.
As an overaching collaboration between the EU-funded projects under the under HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01 call topic, the Collab4Resilience (C4R) iniciative aims to foster stronger partnerships by harnessing the transformative potential of nanotechnology and promoting Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approaches to support a climate-neutral, circular economy. Under the motto “Stronger Together in Science and Sustainability“, the initialive joins Communication & Dissemination forces in the advanced materials and nanoscience topics to maximase the collective impact of EU-funded projects and support the EU objectives towards a greener, more sustainable and resilient Europe.
Additionally, we establish connections with key projects focused on Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD), such as the IRISS project, which aims to establish an international SSbD network (being SSbD4CheM part of its platform within the NSC space), and the PARC partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals, striving to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment methods for human health and environmental protection. Furthermore, we actively participate in various other projects and initiatives, including those under the NSC (Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials) and the Malta initiative. Similarly, the project collaborates actively with the SaferWorldbyDesign platform, as an enabler of integrated product design and risk assessment. It offers comprehensive approaches to toxicological and regulatory advice to prioritize product design, safety and sustainability goals. The platform includes integrated solution provision, collaboration with partners on solution development and operations, and a strong supporting NAMs knowledge infrastructure for FAIR data management, risk assessment, SSbD, tools and workflows, documentation and reporting, and AI-based agent and resource assistance of workflows. SaferWorldbyDesign provides a commercial platform for operational delivery of SSbD solutions developed under the SSbD4CheM project.
In addition to the internal case studies being developed by SSbD4CheM, the project will also collaborate on the external ones. One such collaboration is with the Horizon Europe project BIO-SUSHY to establish a new case study in which SSbD4CheM project will test novel cosmetic products as developed in SSbD4CheM being packed into glass packaging coated by PFAS free sol-gel coatings developed in BIO-SUSHY. This cooperation also promotes joint efforts of SSbD4CheM and BIO-SUSHY to deliver safer and sustainable solutions to consumers and environment covering not only cosmetic products but also packaging as well.
We welcome collaboration inquiries and encourage you to reach out to explore potential partnerships.
