NANOPLASTICS research is an emerging and critically important area of environmental science, focusing on sources, distribution, and ecological impacts, while also developing more sensitive detection methods, and assessing the toxicity. This multidisciplinary field involves chemists, biologists, ecologists, engineers, and policy makers.
For this reason, several Slovenian organisations and institutes (Institut Josef Stefan, Palatinus, LUI, and CHEMASS) organised on 16 May 2024 the first Slovenian Nanoplastics Research Symposium in Ljubljana and hybrid, entitled “Microplastics for Breakfast – From Micro to Nano”, to discuss, inform and learn all about nanoplastics research in Slovenia and beyond.
23 interested participants from research/scientific communities and local (healthcare) institutions attended the event.
The SSbD4CheM project was invited to participate as it presented an unique opportunity to spread information about the project among local researchers working in similar areas. Our colleague Ondrej Panak, from NIC, gave a presentation pitch on the SSbD4CheM project with its objectives, expected outcomes and impact, raising interest in the SSbD framework as planned to be demonstrated on the case studies.
More details about the event are available here.

Foto credits @ Andreja Palatinus