H2020 Project HARMLESS
Published May 6, 2025 | Version v1
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Factsheet on the HARMLESS Decision Support System for SSbD of Advanced Materials

Creators

  • 1. EDMO icon TNO
  • 2. TEMAS Solutions
  • 3. BASF
  • 4. ROR icon Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
  • 5. ROR icon Chalmers Industriteknik
  • 6. ROR icon Helmholtz Zentrum München
  • 7. BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (BNN)

Description

The EU H2020 project HARMLESS (grant agreement number 953183) develops a novel, multifaceted Safe Innovation Approach to complex multi-component nanomaterials and High Aspect Ratio Nanoparticles (MCNM & HARNs) by integrating a toolbox of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), which can test key properties according to latest scientific insights into MCNM & HARNs.
To support the practical implementation of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach in industrial innovation involving advanced materials (AdMa), the HARMLESS project has developed a Decision Support System (DSS) tailored for MCNMs and HARNs. 
This factsheet gives an overview of the HARMLESS SSbD-DSS, with background information, explaining the online tools within the DSS, highlighting for whom it has been developed and which are the main benefits of using it for the decision making at different innovation stages in industrial processes.

More information on the project website: www.harmless-project.eu.

List of references:

  1. HARMLESS SSbD-DSS on TNO website: https://diamonds.tno.nl/projects/harmlesspublic
  2. Safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials – Framework for the definition of criteria and evaluation procedure for chemicals and materials: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/eb0a62f3-031b-11ed-acce-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
  3. Methodological guidance – Safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/f090ebab-1be3-11ef-a251-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
  4. AMEA tool: https://diamonds.tno.nl/projects/amea
  5. WASP tool: https://diamonds.tno.nl/projects/wasp
  6. ASDI tool: expected in spring 2025
  7. Susan Dekkers, Veronique Adam, Veronica De Battista, et al. Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Approach and Decision Support System for Advanced Materials. Authorea. February 28, 2025. Pre-print with DOI: 10.22541/au.174077018.85147151/v1
  8. Veronique Adam, Veronica Di Battista, Fabienne Testard, et al. Decision Support System for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Advanced Materials: Case study demonstration. Authorea. February 18, 2025. Pre-print with DOI: 22541/au.173991289.98651419/v1
  9. EU SSbD framework: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/industrial-research-and-innovation/chemicals-and-advanced-materials/safe-and-sustainable-design_en 

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Funding

European Commission
HARMLESS – Advanced High Aspect Ratio and Multicomponent materials: towards comprehensive intelLigent tEsting and Safe by design Strategies 953183

Dates

Created
2024-05-06