Final Report Summary - ETP-SC (A European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry) This project was intended to establish and support a 'European technology platform for sustainable chemistry' (ETP-SC), aimed at defining a European vision of sustainable chemistry, a Strategic Research Agenda for European collaborative public-private research in chemistry, and an implementation action plan for that research agenda to support and increase chemistry innovation in Europe for the benefit of the EU chemicals and associated industries and ultimately for EU society. ETP-SC is a multi-stakeholder activity that comprises involvement of relevant stakeholders from e.g. industry, academia, policy makers and regulators, the financial community, societal organisations; the SSA partnership was and remains uniquely positioned to communicate and engage with the whole relevant stakeholder community by means of partner organisations' members and networks. For the first time ever, all relevant stakeholders with an interest in research in sustainable chemistry have come together in a single platform. ETP-SC has achieved a broad stakeholder base with participants from academia, industry, national and regional governments and authorities, trade unions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the financial community, and the European Commission. Almost all European Member States are represented in ETP-SC. ETP-SC is widely recognised as a unique and valuable opportunity to increase European research efforts in sustainable chemistry. The Member States mirror group with nominees from 25 European countries is actively involved in the Technology Platform and helped in the drafting of its documents. It also carries the ETP-SC messages into the respective national governments and thus helps aligning European research efforts in this area. The Member States angle is furthermore addressed by several national platforms set up in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain. Furthermore, cooperation with the Chemistry Innovation KTN in the United Kingdom (UK), acting as the UK's sustainable chemistry link, was established. Thus, sustainable chemistry has been able to achieve a good position with national governments to make an impact on national research programmes. The commonly agreed vision, the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and the Implementation Action Plan (IAP) are the main outcomes of the platform activities. The vision describes how sustainable chemistry and the industry should look like in 20 years from now. The SRA contains all necessary research topics that need to be followed in order for Europe to be able to achieve the previously described vision. The IAP explains how the research priorities that were identified in the SRA can be implemented. For each research theme the IAP describes in detail the issues that need to be addressed to realise its respective potential. The IAP also illustrates activities required by sustainable chemistry, its stakeholders and other parties to facilitate the implementation process. While the SRA focused on topics and themes, the IAP focuses on activities and actions. Related documents Final Report - ETP-SC (A European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry)
