Safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) chemicals and materials are crucial to address the challenges of modern society. However, lack of stakeholders’ coordination, limited access to relevant data, and absence of standardised methods have thus far hampered the emergence of a comprehensive approach to SSbD. INSIGHT will overcome these challenges by developing an innovative framework for mechanistic impact assessment of chemicals/materials. The INSIGHT framework will consist of a multi-layered approach that integrates data, models, and impact outcome pathway (IOP) graphs. INSIGHT will also provide curated and user-friendly FAIR data and computational models/workflows. INSIGHT aims to foster a paradigm shift in the assessment of sustainability and safety of chemicals and materials, from a fragmented situation to a holistic and integrated approach. INSIGHT will provide decision maps as a part of its integrated framework to guide users through the decision-making process, aiding them in evaluating the social, economic, health and environmental impacts of chemicals/materials in a more efficient and comprehensive manner. The INSIGHT project is fully aligned with the EU principles of safety and sustainability and the European Green Deal. INSIGHT will support the development of policies in the areas of neutrality, biodiversity protection, public health, and circular economy, thus aiding the development of a dynamic economy respecting planet Earth as a whole, avoiding harm to humans and the environment. By democratising the use of cutting-edge AI methods to SSbD, INSIGHT will drive innovation towards a digital, circular, climateneutral and sustainable economy. INSIGHT will help the industry to optimise development and production of chemicals/materials and derived products, support regulators and policymakers in informed decision-making towards safer and more sustainable society, and pave the way for a comprehensive approach to SSbD.
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It is good to have overlap in the partners across our extended family projects MACRAMÉ Project, CHIASMA Project and INSIGHT SSbD since this helps in the alignment of the approaches and cross-fertilisation. And this is just one, almost random example 😊.
Meet our partners from the National Technical University of Athens! Professor Haralambos Sarimveis and Dr. Philip Doganis are contributing with their extensive experience in data integration, computational models, and AI. The final aim is to have more safe and sustainable materials and chemicals ⚗ #INSIGHT #INSIGHTers #EU #project #work #NTUA
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The four sister projects SUNRISE, ANALYST Project, Integrano and INSIGHT SSbD met at the Empa SSbD conference in Monte Veritá to discuss some exciting opportunities for clustering and collaborations to generate strong 💪 impact together!! EU NanoSafety Cluster Danail Hristozov Ana E. Massimo Perucca Paride Mantecca Dario Greco
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PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. At present, postdoctoral researcher in CML - Universiteit Leiden thanks to postdoctoral fellow from Galician Government (ED481B-2023-072).
Yesterday, at the SSbD24 conference in Monte Verità (Switzerland), I had the pleasure of showing part of the research work developed at Universiteit Leiden: a new composite indicator for assessing the Safe and Sustainable by Design and circularity framework. This work has been funded by the European Union Project INSIGHT (Integrated Models for the Development and Assessment of High Impact Chemicals and Materials) INSIGHT SSbD project. As you can see in the picture, we have considered all the dimensions of sustainability, as well as the dimensions of hazards and circularity, with the aim of providing a single score value by applying a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to aggregate all the indicators used to analyze each of the dimensions (a total of 26 indicators, 24 quantitative and 2 qualitative). If you want to know more about the methodology and its application to 3 bio-based case studies, the research article has already been published in the Sustainable Production and Consumption journal: https://lnkd.in/dX3STTQq I also take the opportunity to thank, once again, Marco Cinelli and Stefano Cucurachi for helping me to develop this nice first approach for the analysis of the SSbD framework. I would also like to thank IRISS – International SSbD network, Eawag, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, ETH Zürich, Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) and #CongressiStefanoFranscini for organizing this wonderful multidisciplinary congress on SSbD framework, and for letting me be a part of it with an oral presentation.
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A warm welcome to Alexandra Schaffert! She joined us from Medizinische Universität Innsbruck after work on the H2020 Project ALTERNATIVE 📚 Tampere University Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology #fhaive #fhaivers #team #tampere #finland #austria #AOP #network
November is a busy month for the #INSIGHTers! 👨🏫 🗺 We will be on the road to presenting almost a full year of research in Switzerland, the US, Portugal, and the UAE! Come say hi, and let's discuss science! See you there! #INSIGHT #INSIGHTers #project #work #eu #conference #presentation #science #SSbD #LCA #chemicalassessment #FAIR #data
Meet Martin, Alexandra and Ishita from Medizinische Universität Innsbruck and read their thoughts about the INSIGHT! #INSIGHT #INSIGHTers #project #work #eu #toxicology #AOPs #SSbD #chemicalsafety
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PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. At present, postdoctoral researcher in CML - Universiteit Leiden thanks to postdoctoral fellow from Galician Government (ED481B-2023-072).
🔊 New article published in Sustainable Production and Consumption in collaboration with Prof. Stefano Cucurachi and Prof. Marco Cinelli from Universiteit Leiden. This article delves into the development of a new composite indicator (CI-SSbDC) based on the European Commission SSbD (EC-SSbD) framework guidelines. CI-SSbDC assesses safety, sustainability and circularity, and can be applied to bio-based and fossil-based products and technologies. The CI-SSbDC indicator ranges from 0.01 to 1, where “0.01” indicates the least promising option and “1” the most promising one. To examine how different levels of compensation influence the composite indicator value, several aggregation methods were used, including additive, geometric and harmonic means. The composite indicator was applied to three production variants for the same product, to demonstrate its effectiveness and potential, including also sensitivity analysis to test the influence of the assumptions made in the methodology. Despite the ongoing development of the EC-SSbD framework, the proposed composite indicator serves as a practical initial approach to put it into practice, integrating the critical circularity pillar essential for the bioeconomy and aligning with waste management strategies and life cycle analysis methodologies. Also, it could serve as a first guide to highlight where to focus efforts on for an effective implementation of SSbD and circularity frameworks. #SSbD #sustainability #circularity #MCDA This article has been developed thanks to the support of INSIGHT SSbD project. I would like to express my sincere thanks to both Prof. Stefano Cucurachi and Prof. Marco Cinelli for their involvement in this work and for teaching me a new evaluation framework, the MCDA linked with the SSbD. More information could be found in the link below: https://lnkd.in/dX3STTQq
At the La Trobe University, we are closely collaborating with Professor Dave Winkler, from Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS). Read more about his plans about INSIGHT below! #insight #INSIGHTers #latrobeuniversity #molecularscience #project #EU