On 11th June 2025, the SSbD4CheM project hosted a stakeholder outreach webinar titled “Practical Application and Case Studies in Industrial Safe and Sustainable by Design”. The webinar brought together researchers and industry experts for the project to explore the practical implementation of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, with a strong focus on real-world industrial applications.
On 11th June 2025, the SSbD4CheM project hosted a stakeholder outreach webinar titled “Practical Application and Case Studies in Industrial Safe and Sustainable by Design”. The webinar brought together researchers and industry experts for the project to explore the practical implementation of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, with a strong focus on real-world industrial applications.
EUIndTech2025 is the new EU flagship event, in which the two cyclical events, “Conference on Industrial Technologies” and “EuroNanoForum” are merged. This year it was done during the Polish presidency of the EU Council in Krakow, Poland.
From 11-15 May 2025 took place the SETAC 2025, the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Europe, at the Austria Center in Vienna.
On 11 June 2025 from 15:00 to 16:30h CEST, SSbD4CheM is organising its first webinar for external stakeholders on the “Practical Application and Case Studies in Industrial Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)”.
On 21 May 2025, during the second day of our General Assembly in M17 in Valencia (Spain), the colleagues of NovaMechanics and Entelos (Panagiotis Kolokathis and Tassos Papadiamantis), gave an internal training to the whole consortium (approx. 25 participants) on the ChemoInformatics tools that they develop, to learn how to use them for data analysis and machine learning, run exposure scenarios, calculate atomistic desriptors, run already developed machine learning model and understanding their output (e.g. applicability domain).
During the session entitled “Investigation of Chemicals and Materials Safety through the Isalos, Enalos and Eos Cloud Platform tools and functionalities”, participants learned to use computational tools powered by the Enalos Cloud Platform, Eos Cloud Platform, and the functionalities/workflows of Isalos Analytics Platform, to predict the properties of a range of chemicals and materials for a range of case studies. Additionally, all partners discussed ideas about the applicability of these tools within the project.
Experts, researchers, and regulators came together for the Safe and Sustainable Product Design Workshop, hosted by SaferWorldbyDesign in Basel and online on 6th November 2024. The event, attended by around 50 participants (11 onsite and 40 online) from Swiss regulatory bodies, academia, and industry, focused on methods for embedding human safety, environmental protection, and sustainability in the early stages of product development.
The morning programme featured a series of lectures exploring state-of-the-art approaches and best practices, while the afternoon offered hands-on workshops where participants interacted directly with tools and data relevant to product safety and sustainability.
The SSbD4CheM project had a prominent presence throughout the day. Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect (EwC)) opened the event and moderated all throught the day. Project Coordinator Milica Velimirovic (VITO) opened the lecture session with an overview of the project’s Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework. She highlighted its “learning-by-doing” approach, aimed at integrating safety and sustainability from the outset of innovation.
Indre Piragyte-Langa Oliva (EwC) delivered a lecture on Hazard Characterisation using New Approach Methods (NAMs). She emphasized the role of NAMs in moving away from traditional, animal-based testing toward more ethical, data-driven, and predictive tools. Her talk showcased how SSbD frameworks, supported by NAMs and digital workflows, can help identify harmful chemicals early, speeding up regulatory processes while ensuring safer outcomes for both humans and the environment.
Thomas Arblaster (Leiden University) introduced participants to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a quantitative method to evaluate environmental impacts throughout a product’s life cycle. His session explained how tiered LCA within the SSbD framework helps guide R&D by pinpointing key sustainability questions—even when data is limited.
In the afternoon, the workshop offered a deep dive into practical applications. Indre Piragyte-Langa Oliva (EwC) led participants through a case study on hazard characterisation for cosmetic ingredients, guiding them in using public databases and prediction tools to assess and score alternative compounds.
Barry Hardy (EwC) led participants in the examination of the properties of a formulation including selecting alternatives to ingredients for a substitution. Using EwC’s risk assessment software extended to SSbD, the group was able to score each ingredient in a formulation for environmental impact to narrow down options for best selections.
Thomas Arblaster (Leiden University) conducted a hands-on session on LCA using the openLCA tool, with a case study focused on plastic bottles. Participants learned to navigate databases, set up systems, and evaluate product sustainability using real-world scenarios.
The workshop not only provided valuable training but also underlined the importance of integrating advanced tools and data from the earliest stages of product design. By combining SSbD principles with innovative methods like NAMs and LCA, the event highlighted a path forward for creating safer, more sustainable chemicals and materials.
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The 11th International Conference on NanoToxicology – NanoTox 2024 – took place from September 23 to 25, 2024, in the historic centre of Venice at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli. The conference attracted more than 230 participants from research and academic institutions, as well as from industry, governmental agencies, and experts from 30 countries around the world.
On Friday, 27 September 2024 BNN joined researchers across Europe for simultaneous public science events in dozens of European cities. In Graz we joined European Researchers’ Night 2024 – Life is Science at the University of Graz RESOWI center – a dynamic venue on the campus of the main university of Graz.
The 1st edition of Nanochemistry Camp, organised jointly by the I.S.E.O. Institute and the University of Brescia, was an international residential summer school aimed at master’s and doctoral students in chemistry and allied fields, where nanochemistry played a key role.