GENERAL NEWS

Welcome newcomer: FreeMe

We welcome the Horizon Europe project FreeMe to the NSC community. Under the name "Toxic Free metallization process for plastic surfaces", the project aims revolutionize Plating on Plastics (PoP) by incorporating Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) methods and protocols to eliminate toxic or expensive materials from the PoP process, like hexavalent Chromium (Cr6+) and Palladium (Pd), implementing innovative surface metallization technologies that involve less hazardous etching systems or spraying of bio-based epoxy resins (instead of Cr6+) and use of nickel salts instead of Pd as activation sites.

Read more here.

AlChemiSSts project flyer is out now!

AlChemiSSts just released the project flyer highlighting our SSbD-driven innovations across key chemical value chains.

Check it out here!

Factsheet on the HARMLESS DSS for SSbD of AdMa

Discover how HARMLESS supports the practical implementation of the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) approach in industrial innovation involving advanced materials (AdMa) in our brand-new factsheet on the HARMLESS Decision Support System (DSS)!

Read it here.

SSbD4CheM External Stakeholder Webinar

SSbD4CheM is organising its first External Stakeholder Webinar on 11th June at 15:00h CEST!

The session will present a number of SSbD topics with regards to its framework implementation on the project supporting industrial case studies.

Additionally, the implementation of integrated computational and experimental methods to industrial application will be illustrated using examples of their cosmetics case study.

Register here now.

Next meeting of WG Education, Training & Communication!

The WG Education, Training & Communication would like to invite anyone interested to our second 2025 WG Meeting, taking place on 27 June 2025 at 13:00h CEST. We will discuss joint activities and next steps. If you want to join the meeting and get updates about the WG, get in touch with Martin Himly or Judith Friesl.

4th INTOXICOM Workshop: Making Toxicology Educational Resources more FAIR

Dear members of the NSC WG on Education, Training, Communication,

The NSC jointly with colleagues from PARC, INTOXICOM and the ELIXIR toxicology community plan a 1h webinar (Jun 6) and a 2-days Workshop (Jun 24+25, onsite and online) to FAIRify toxicology curricula.

Please, register here and bring your expertise to the table for the synthesis of learning paths:

Kind regards,

Martin Himly

Chair NSC WG Edu

Register now for the NSC-PLANETS workshop on SSbD scenarios!

The NSC workshop on “SSbD scenarios for advanced and incremental innovations” will take place on 23 June 2025 (12:00-15:00h CEST, online) as a collaboration effort among several EU-funded projects, led by EU funded project PLANETS!

Not all innovation scenarios in SMEs and industry are the same. Current JRC SSbD guidance and also PSA / Cefic concepts leave room for tailoring the SSbD approach within a tiered framework. Scenarios support the tailoring, such that SSbD is not just another burden, but increases overall competitiveness.

But ... How should one describe a scenario? Come to the workshop and learn about it!

Registration and more information here.

Welcome message from Vladimir Lobaskin as new co-chair of this WG!

We are pleased to welcome Vladimir Lobaskin as new co-chair of the Working Group “Research Output management, FAIRness & sharing”.

Read his welcome words to the NSC community here!

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