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CheMatSustain - IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS OF CHEMICALS AND MATERIALS PARTICULARLY AT NANO LEVEL IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Horizon Europe

Areas: Innovation management Measurement for sustainability Strategy, networks, and entrepreneurship
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Funding program: Horizon Europe

Funding Agency: EUROPEAN HEALTH AND DIGITAL EXECUTIVE AGENCY

Grant Agrement Number: 101137990

The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) has been adopted, which aims to tackle the challenge of producing and using chemicals to address societal needs while respecting the planetary boundaries and safeguarding people and ecosystems, by dealing with pollution from all sources (EC, 2019 or COM(2019)640final, COM(2020)667 final, JRC report).

This CSS challenge gets operationalised through the development/implementation of two key R&I actions: 1) the Strategic Research and Innovation Plan (SRIP), and 2) the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework.

Consistent with the aims of the Call HORIZON-CL4-2023- RESILIENCE-01-21 and bearing in the mind the pressing need to develop new methods or improve current ones, to support the improvement of safety and sustainability assessments of chemicals, the project “IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS OF CHEMICALS AND MATERIALS PARTICULARLY AT NANO LEVEL IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (CheMatSustain)” will not only study the quantum effects from a fundamental point-of-view (by DFT means) but also by identifying and measuring them through experimental techniques (high-resolution analysis, XPS and UPS), and determining the specific molecular recognition through their interaction with the environment, which is a quantum mechanical effect (invitro, microfluidic in-vitro, and in-vivo models and proteomics and transcriptomics and methods).

The obtained information on these descriptors will then be integrated for the development of novel in silico models for prediction (eco)toxicity properties of advanced materials. Finally, in-silico model prediction results will be combined to develop a new methodology for the complementary use of Risk Assessment and LCA to improve criteria for the SSbD implementation framework.

The work has been divided in eight work packages and the duration of the project is 48 months.

Project Partners:

  • HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN HAMDE Coordinator (Germany)
  • Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Department of Management (DISA) in collaboration with the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering (DICAM),
  • Uniwersytet Lodzki (Poland)
  • Eurskem B.V (the Netherlands)
  • Politechnika Lodzka ( Poland)
  • Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)
  • ProtoQSAR 2000 SL (Spain)
  • Universita' degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy)
  • IVL Svenska Miljoeinstitutet (Sweden)
  • Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung (Germany)
  • The Manchester Metropolitan University, associated partner (United Kingdom)

DiSA Team Leader: Angelo Paletta

DISA Team members: Eleonora Foschi,  Genc Alimehmeti, Leonardo Corbo,  Luca Mazzara, Mario Miozza and Laura Toschi (member of the project Advisory Board).

Total contribution: 4.924.128,5 €

Start date: 01/01/2024 - End date: 31/12/2027

Project website: https://www.nanosafetycluster.eu/nsc-overview/nsc-structure/ongoing-projects/chematsustain/

Funding Agency

The project CheMatSustain under No. 101137990 has received funding from the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme.