The transition to safer and more sustainable chemicals and materials requires more than good intentions — it needs accessible knowledge, practical tools, and shared understanding across disciplines. This is exactly the main aim of the EU-funded project SSbD4CheM project. The project is developing the SSbD4CheM Knowledge Sharing Platform, a centralized, web-based infrastructure that offers tools, data, guidance, and training to support the implementation of the SSbD framework for chemicals and AdMa, as elaborated by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC), and help stakeholders (researchers, industry, policymakers, etc.) translate the SSbD principles into real-world decision-making throughout their innovation processes.
The platform brings together a wide range of tools, data resources, methodologies, and guidance materials relevant to SSbD. Instead of navigating multiple disconnected sources, users can access structured information that supports safety and sustainability considerations from the earliest design stages through to assessment and evaluation. One of the platform’s key functions is to enable structured SSbD assessment workflows. Users can explore digital tools that support hazard screening, sustainability evaluation, and life-cycle thinking, helping them document and compare design choices in a transparent and reproducible way.
Beyond tools and data, the Knowledge Sharing Platform also serves as a learning environment. It provides access to training materials, guidance documents, and explanatory resources that help users understand SSbD concepts, methodologies, and regulatory contexts — supporting capacity building across sectors and disciplines.
In line with EU best practices, the platform promotes FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), ensuring that data and resources hosted or linked through the platform can be more easily discovered, reused, and integrated into other tools, projects, and innovation processes.
Through the platform, users can access different tools that allow them to perform risk assessment, SSbD scoring, generate reports, and use knowledge infrastructure and databases for integrated, safer, and sustainable-by-design workflows. By the beginning of January 2026, the platform contains following resources:
- Risk Assessment Report – Case Study: This report is generated by the SSbD4CheM integrated assessment tool designed to support safe and sustainable innovation across sectors such as cosmetics, textiles, and automotive.
- SmartSafety – Chemical Risk Calculation Tool: Software that streamlines safety assessments by integrating product data and supporting health and environmental evaluations.
- ASPA-assist: Web-based graphical interface which guides users through the steps and decisions involved in applying the SSbD process.
- ToxTemp: Web-based tool and database designed to document methods by supporting various readiness levels to ensure method evaluation and transparency.
- ACCORDs KI: Platform for accessing and submitting research protocols, experimental data, and images, offering standardised upload templates and a materials characterisation toolbox.
- SDS collector/extractor: Tool that allows users to search, download, and extract structured data from SDS using CAS numbers or IUPAC names, exporting the information in CSV format.
- PubMed ChemInsight: To accelerate literature discovery on chemicals and biological targets with smart search, synonym expansion, and automated result delivery.
- PubChemPal: Interactive, user-friendly application that enables scientists, researchers, and regulatory professionals to retrieve, clean, and explore structured PubChem compound data using CAS numbers or PubChem CIDs.
- ECHA database and notebooks: Provides access to chemical safety data and organized documentation (e.g. Chemical similarity search on RDT studies from REACH database, Repeated dose toxicity studies from reach database, EdelweissData dataset for CLP classifications, EdelweissData dataset for ecotoxicological endpoints)
- Protocols area – guidance and database: Database of in silico and in vitro protocols used throughout the project, providing standardized methods and guidance.
- Data area – guidance and access: Guidance page for information on data management
SSbD4CheM Protocol Database with uploaded protocols
The SSbD4CheM Knowledge Sharing Platform is designed as a collaborative space. By connecting tools, knowledge, and stakeholders, it supports dialogue and exchange between scientists, innovators, regulators, and sustainability experts working toward the same goal: chemicals and materials that are safe and sustainable by design. It is a practical enabler for embedding SSbD thinking into chemical and material innovation, helping turn policy ambitions into actionable, science-based practice.
Explore now the SSbD4CheM Knowledge Sharing Platform here.
