Project description
Redefining industrial practices for a safer future
Today’s industrial landscape has led to a growth of innovation. Unfortunately, despite advancements, many products still put human health and the planet at risk. In this context, the EU-funded SSbD4CheM project unites industry, government, academia, and civil society to address this challenge. It aims to meet EU objectives for digital and emerging technologies through innovative, science-based approaches. SSbD4CheM crafts a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, targeting safer chemicals and advanced materials, efficient hazard screening, advanced LCA methods, and alternative exposure models, focusing on a variety of key sectors. The project also harmonises analytical methods for regulatory acceptance, while engaging stakeholders for training and dissemination, driving industrial innovation toward a safer, more sustainable future.
Objective
SSbD4ChEM brings together stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and civil society to develop and promote best practices for safe and sustainable product and process design, through demonstration in 3 case studies. SSbD4CheM aims to meet the EU's strategic objectives for digital, enabling, and emerging technologies, sectors, and value chains by developing a comprehensive Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework that uses new science-based approaches to identify and address potential hazards and risks, and innovative technologies to support the design of safer and more sustainable products and processes. SSbD4CheM objectives include: 1) SSbD framework to facilitate development of the next generation of chemicals and materials applicable to renewable composites in automotive value chain, PFAS-free coatings for textile and cellulose nanofibers as additive in cosmetics to replace plastic microbeads, 2) Development of efficient hazard screening tools for alternative assessment of next generation chemicals/materials/products combining in silico tools and multicriteria analysis, 3) Advanced explorative ex-ante LCA method supported by molecular and data-driven modelling to fill data gaps for (novel) materials and chemicals, 4) Integration of chemical/(nano-)material characterization methods to assess products’ environmental safety, quantify emissions to support occupational and consumer safety limits, 5) Development of alternative, in vitro models, as part of New Approach Methodologies for adequate exposure scenarios, 6) Harmonization and validation of analytical and toxicological methods for proposition to regulatory and standardization bodies to contribute to the development of new standards and facilitate market acceptance of SSbD4CheM project results, and 7) Enhance overall SSbD4CheM impact through stakeholder engagement, training, dissemination and exploitation and drive industrial innovation.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
2400 Mol
Belgium
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Participants (15)
4040 Linz
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80686 Munchen
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4362 Esch Sur Alzette
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46980 Paterna
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1000 Ljubljana
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65510 Idstein
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26580 Arnedo
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PIRAEUS
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8010 Graz
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86899 Landsberg Am Lech
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6059 LARNACA
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2311 EZ Leiden
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10043 Orbassano
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70150 Airport City
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16159 Bursa
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Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3645 THUN
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
4057 Basel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
LE11 3TU Loughborough
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