About the project
SUNSHINE is an industry-oriented project, where leading research and technology organisations will cooperate with SMEs and large industries to develop and implement simple, robust, and cost-effective Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) strategies for materials and products incorporating advanced multi-component nanomaterials. To this end, the project will establish a user-friendly e-infrastructure to foster dialogue, collaboration, and information exchange between actors along entire product supply chains.
Safe Innovation Approach e-infrastructure
This e-infrastructure is a digital platform implementing the NanoReg 2 Safe Innovation Approach. It facilitates exchange of ideas and information between supply chain actors as well as between innovators and regulators to support the development and implementation of SSbD strategies for products enabled by advanced multicomponent nanomaterials.
Objectives
To successfully develop and test SSbD strategies for products enabled by advanced multicomponent nanomaterials, SUNSHINE will generate essential new knowledge, tools, and data to fill the gaps in our current understanding of the exposure, hazard, and functionality characteristics of these materials, especially those arising from their unique properties and interactions.
Expected impacts
We expect that SUNSHINE will have significant impact on informing the adaptation of standard guidelines and regulatory guidance for exposure and hazard assessment of advanced nanomaterials. SUNSHINE will generate knowledge, data and tools to support key policy ambitions as in The European Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan.
SUNSHINE Work Packages
The Consortium
The SUNSHINE Consortium involves first class scientists from large companies, SMEs, and academia from 12 European Member States and from USA, South Africa, South Korea and China. Our International Advisory Board includes representatives of industry, research, regulatory and standardisation bodies from United States, Canada and the European Union.
