SUNRISE

We warmly welcome Wendel Wohlleben as new co-chair of the EU NanoSafety Cluster Working Group “Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), Innovation & Regulation”! He will work on building bridges between research and implementation towards a safer and more sustainable future! Together with the WG chair, Danail Hristozov, they will lead the efforts of the #SSbD WG! Read his welcome message here: https://lnkd.in/dpHmPaAs #eu_nsc #SSbD #innovation #regulation

Starting December 2024, I am co-chair of the NSC Working Group ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), Innovation & Regulation’. Thank you to the NSC Steering Group for offering to integrate me in this new role. Using my experiences in BASF’s corporate research, in internal and external projects, I intend to use this role to build bridges between research and implementation. For two decades I lived the often-cited StageGate process, and saw projects initiated and stopped for all sorts of reasons – including safety and sustainability. Here, effective and defendable SSbD screenings create a clear incentive for companies if their customers see a value in the improved balance of all SSbD dimensions. Working in NSC projects, but also with BASF corporate sustainability and operating divisions, I sense that the implementation of more stringent SSbD practices differs a lot between actors of the same value chain and between global regions. On the other hand, the market pull for SSbD practices differs between sectors and applications. Bridges are required both to the industrial practices of sustainability segmentation and to the JRC Guidance and soon-to-be-revised Framework. The projects of the NSC contribute cases, methods and tools that are instrumental in this endeavour – and most importantly, the NSC creates a community and platform. New challenges include the broadened scope of projects in the NSC, reflected in the rebranded name „Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC)”. I am looking forward to addressing those topics within and beyond our NSC community.

Co-creation in action!! I am really proud to share our latest article on 'A Conceptual Framework for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design to Support Sustainable Business Model Innovation and New Product Development'. A special thanks to Stella Stoycheva for driving with me the completion of this article. In order to reach a sustainable future and meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), business model innovation (BMI) needs to explore theoretical and practical intersections of the traditional innovation management (IM) and new product development (NPD) processes with sustainability considerations. New environmental and health policy ambitions such as those presented in the European Green Deal and the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) challenge traditional IM theories on BMI and NPD processes. The Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) concept is a central element of the CSS and demands a novel approach that integrates innovation with safety, sustainability and circularity of materials, products and processes without compromising their functionality or their technical and/or commercial viability. Importantly, adopting such a concept can prevent regrettable substitutions, future liability and brand image issues for companies. To achieve this, companies must design products with minimal environmental impact, adopt circular economy principles, and ensure social responsibility throughout the value chain, whilst economic viable. By doing so, companies contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In this perspective, a conceptual framework is proposed on how to achieve sustainable BMI and NPD by integrating traditional IM tools with SSbD using life cycle thinking principles considering external and internal drivers.

✨ Happy Holidays from the SUNRISE project! Thank you for being part of our work towards a safer and more sustainable future this year. 🌿🌻 Here's to an even sunnier 2025! 🌍💛 #HappyHolidays #Sustainability #SSbD

We’re happy to spotlight Dr Lisa Pizzol, CEO of GreenDecision, who is driving forward the mission of the SUNRISE project: integrating safety and #sustainability by design (#SSbD) into the realm of #advancedmaterials. Dr Pizzol leads the development of the Integrated Impacts Assessment Approach (IIAA), a cutting-edge #methodology that evaluates the safety, environmental, #social, and economic impacts of materials across multiple tiers of assessment. In this interview, she shares her journey and her vital contributions to the SUNRISE project. 👉 Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/d7PN29Pq

🎉 Fresh News to End the Year! 🎉 Mark your calendars for the 13th Venice Training School: 🗓️ 09–13 June 2025 📍 Auditorium Santa Margherita, Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, Italy This year’s theme: “Innovating with Purpose: A Hands-on Journey into Functional, Safe, and Sustainable Advanced Materials”. Continuing a proud tradition, the 13th edition of this prestigious event will be co-organized by several EU-funded projects and will be a must-attend for anyone passionate about Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD). From theory to practice, we’ll explore its application across all stages of innovation. 💡🔬 Stay tuned for more updates early next year, and get ready to join us in Venice for an inspiring week of learning and collaboration! #SaveTheDate #SSbD #Sustainability #Innovation #VeniceTrainingSchool

🌟 Hi, dear #SSbD community! Our partner Centro Tecnológico Lurederra is leading the way in creating effective coatings that contribute to a safer and more #sustainable future. 🛡️🌍 https://lnkd.in/dDGDyCQU 🔗 Visit our website to explore more about Lurederra and other partners: https://lnkd.in/dUuhiyMx 🔗 Our case studies: https://lnkd.in/dGeKiMx8

🤝 SUNSHINE & INFRAMES Collaboration 🌍 h2020 SUNSHINE and INFRAMES have a long-standing partnership, initiated within the International Collaboration Work Package (WP). Led by Dr. Lang Tran and Dr. Danail Hristozov, this collaboration has enabled overseas staff exchanges and knowledge transfer, and opened doors to other EU-funded projects focused on safety and the sustainability of advanced materials in line with the INISS-Nano Initiative of the EU NanoSafety Cluster (https://lnkd.in/dpATPWdv). Read SUNSHINE International Collaboration Activities now from h2020 SUNSHINE website: https://lnkd.in/dD28B__u Read insights from the INFRAMES Meeting in Venice: https://lnkd.in/dibWYEjc #Collaboration #SUNSHINE #INFRAMES #NanoSafety #Sustainability Lang Tran Danail Hristozov Mark Wiesner Staff exchanged: Andrea Brunelli Angela Saccardo Arianna Livieri Marco Monopoli

Last week, the SSbD24 (Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design) Conference occurred at the Congressi Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Switzerland. This event brought together experts from various relevant fields and sectors who have started to work on specific methods, tools, and criteria to enable the actual use of the SSbD framework. 📽 If you spot yourself in the video, do not hesitate to tag yourself! For more information about next year's SSbD conference, follow this page. #riskassessment #LCA #circulareconomy #ssbd

On our way to a green and clean Europe 💚 This week's workshop reaffirmed the transformative potential of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework to drive innovation. Over the past two years, SSbD has evolved from a disruptive proposal to a key component in the innovation process. We are determined to advance with a strong and active stakeholder community as we prepare for the 2025 framework revision.