We’re happy to share with you the SUNRISE 2nd Newsletter!
What's in this edition?
♦ Meet the SUNRISE experts at SSbD25 Conference being held on 10-12 Nov in Zurich
♦ Highlights from the SUNRISE Co-Creation Workshop
♦ Consortium Meeting in Sofia 2025
♦ SSbD Workshop Materials Now Available
♦Recordings and Teaching Materials from the 13th Venice Training School 2025
♦ Updates from Work Packages
♦ Publications and Events
🌍 SUNRISE at SSbD25 Conference in Zurich
Promoting Safe and Sustainable Innovation
Next week, on 10-12 Nov, SUNRISE partners will be contributing to the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD25) Conference in Zurich. Our consortium members will showcase a range of presentations and posters highlighting innovative approaches to safe and sustainable by design solutions. Just to mention a few (list is not final...)
Oral Contributions
Irantzu Garmendia Aguirre(JRC, European Commission) – Revised EU SSbD Framework Stella Stoycheva(Yordas Group) – A Conceptual Framework for Applying SSbD as a New Product Development Tool for environmentally Sustainable Innovations Arianna Livieri(GreenDecision) – Identification of relevant sustainability indicators to operationalize the SSbD framework: an early Assessment Developed with the SUNRISE Project Irantzu Garmendia Aguirre & Kathrin Schwirn(JRC & UBA) – The European Commission's SSbD Framework: Bridging Innovation and Legislation Fabio Rosada(GreenDecision) – SunRise e-Infrastructure for Advancing Safe and Sustainable Innovation
Danail Hristozov (EMERGE) will take part in the Panel Session (OECD / NSC / IRISS) – Global Perspectives on SSbD
Vicenç Pomar Portillo – A Decision Tree to Estimate release of Advanced Materials as basis for environmental exposure quantification in early-phase SSbD assessments
Posters
SSbD in the industrials Environment: Embedding SSbD in the manufacturing Value Chain
(by James Baker, Patricia Ares-Elejoste, Sarah Devecchi and colleagues)
The SUNRISE Integrated Impact Assessment Approach Supporting SSbD Decision-Making for advanced materials (by Lisa Pizzol, Arianna Livieri, Stella Stoycheva, Irantzu Garmendia Aguirre, et al.)
Simple and robust In Vitro Methods for Early Hazard Assessment of SSbD Biocides (by Itziar Polanco-Garriz, Alberto Katsumiti, Danail Hristozov, et al.)
Grouping of Nanomaterials Using Hierarchical Clustering and OWA-Based Similarity Matrix (by Alex Zabeo, Fabio Rosada, Lisa Pizzol, Danail Hristozov)
Meet and connect with us at SSbD25! Come and talk to our researchers and partners to learn more about how SUNRISE is driving Safe and Sustainable by Design Innovation across Europe.
SUNRISE Co-Creation Workshop: Advancing Safe and Sustainable Innovation
Experts and stakeholders joined forces to develop a groundbreaking framework for Safe and Sustainable innovation
On 26 February 2025, SUNRISE hosted its first workshop on the Integrated Impact Assessment Approach (IIAA), a method for evaluating the safety, environmental, and sustainability impacts of advanced materials. Researchers, policymakers, and industry representatives explored the framework, debated priorities, and shaped a roadmap balancing innovation with responsibility. Interactive sessions ensured all voices contributed, while emerging questions highlighted opportunities for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD). This workshop kicks off ongoing collaborative efforts, with surveys and interviews planned to capture broader stakeholder input.
The SUNRISE Consortium met in Sofia from 25 to 27 March to review progress, exchange expertise, and plan the next steps for implementing Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles. Key discussions focused on the Integrated Impact Assessment Approach (IIAA), stakeholder engagement, and the integration of sustainability and safety considerations across work packages.
The meeting reinforced cross-disciplinary collaboration and set the course for the next phase of research, strengthening SUNRISE’s commitment to delivering actionable solutions for industry, policy, and society.
Learn how to apply Safe and Sustainable by Design in advanced and incremental innovations
On 23 June 2025, the NSC Community Working Group hosted an online workshop bringing together experts from AlChemiSSts, DESIDERATA, PLANETS, and SUNRISE. Participants explored how to develop SSbD scenarios, considering early-stage innovation, contextual factors like company type or budget, and real-world case studies.
Missed the workshop?
All materials, the full report, and the recording are now available.
This year’s edition, held from 9–13 June in Venice, focused on “Innovating with Purpose: A Hands-on Journey into Functional, Safe and Sustainable Advanced Materials.”
Over four days, participants explored Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) approaches through lectures, case studies, and hands-on sessions delivered by leading experts from academia, industry, and EU-funded research initiatives.
All teaching materials are publicly available on Zenodo! The collection features more than 30 presentations from leading experts. Download the Teaching Materials now!
Our case studies provide a deeper insight into what our partners do to advance the Safe and Sustainable by Design approach in various industries.
Our project partners AmbrosiaLab, Laurentia and Lurederra eloborated on the benefits SUNRISE's Safe and Sustainable by Design approach could offer surrounding consumer products, food and feed industry, and marine and off-shore applications, using case studies. The leaflets we designed are available for download on our website.
SUNRISE partners share their WP-specific updates with you.
Work Package 4
SUNRISE Launches Stakeholder Panel and Co-creation Workshops to Define Safety-Sustainability Trade-offs
Within WP4 the stakeholder panel was built, which involved more than 30 stakeholders, spanning across industry, academia, government, and civil society, the four main axes of the quadruple helix. The first version of the Stakeholder Engagement plan was submitted in September 2024, setting the basis for the stakeholder engagement strategy. Two workshops took place in 2025: The 1st SUNRISE co-creation workshop held in M14 virtually in collaboration with WP1 and the OECD-Harmless-Sunshine/SUNRISE Co-creation workshop in collaboration with WP6 in M16. Currently, efforts are focused on eliciting safety vs sustainability trade-offs of stakeholders through a survey and upcoming interviews. Last but not least, a GDPR-compliant approach to host the SUNRISE Virtual Living Lab has been decided upon to ensure a safe and trusted environment for the stakeholders.
Work Package 5
Validation of Lipopeptide Approach to Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design TiO2​ Nanoparticles Accepted in Journal of Colloid & Interface Science
We are pleased to announce that the manuscript “Validation of a lipopeptide approach to a Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design strategy on TiO₂ nanoparticles UV filters”, authored by the University of Ferrara (UNIFE) in collaboration with Complife Italia srl, CNR-ISSMC, Lamberti S.p.A, University Grenoble Alpes, Itene, Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Application Center, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Colloid & Interface Science.
The study, developed within the SbD4Nano and SUNRISE projects, explores the functionalization of TiO2 nanoparticles with lipopeptides to enhance safety, biocompatibility, and environmental sustainability while maintaining UV protection performance—offering a promising Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design pathway for next-generation sunscreens.
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