This is an INVITATION ONLY workshop.
The H2020 SUNSHINE project SIA (Safe Innovation Approach) E-infrastructure aims to foster dialogue, collaboration and information exchange between various stakeholders and provide the tools and data needed to develop Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) strategies for materials, products and processes focusing on multicomponent nanomaterials (MCNMs), though also applicable to non-nano AdMa.
An integral part of the E-infrastructure is the SUNSHINE Foresight Framework. To facilitate the development of SSbD strategies, a SUNSHINE stakeholder workshop has been prepared with as main goal to gather expert opinions and ideas on the SUNSHINE Foresight Framework. This comprehensive Framework will enable Regulators, Industry and other stakeholders to participate in a structured dialogue within a Trusted Environment to identify early warning signals of upcoming trends and challenges in industry as well as planned policy developments, in a beneficial symbiosis that will drive forwards responsible innovation as cornerstone to the Green Deal.
To achieve this, we need your support.
During the workshop, we would like to present our approach and collect your opinion on the draft Foresight Framework.
In this workshop you will learn and discuss:
The Regulatory Preparedness Concept
How the SUNSHINE Foresight Framework can help stakeholders needs for early warnings identification
How the Foresight Platform and the Trusted Environment are interrelated.
Who should attend?
National and regional regulators
Industry representatives in nanotechnologies and advanced materials
Policy makers
NGOs
Representatives of Standardization bodies
Agenda
14.30-14.40: Sunshine overview and position in the eco-system of nanomaterials (and AdMa)
Presentation: Danail Hristosov
14.40-14.50: Introduction to Regulatory Preparedness
Presentation: Lya Hernandez
14.50-15.20: The Foresight Framework: why, what it is and what it does
Presentation: James Baker and Cyrille Durand
15.20-15.50: Interactive session
Q&A and open discussion: James Baker and Cyrille Durand
15.50-16.00: Wrap-up
Danail Hristozov
The meeting link is here: https://meet.goto.com/950735845
For more information, please check out the SUNSHINE Brochure, our video and website!
Speakers
(in alphabetical order)
Cyrille Durand
Cyrille is a Sustainability lead, with strong international corporate experience in circular and sustainable products & materials.
Cyrille has over 20 years of solid experience in the consumer goods industry: Research and Innovation, Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, and Quality. Prior to joining TEMAS Solutions Cyrille was the lead of the Circular Plastics and Packaging project at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Cyrille has a Mechanical Engineer diploma from the Université de Compiegne, France, and a Master of Science in Polymers Engineering from Cranfield University, UK.
Danail Hristozov
Dr. Danail Hristozov is the Head of Research at Greendecision Srl, a spin-off company of University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in Italy and the East European Research and Innovation Enterprise (EMERGE) in Bulgaria. There he performs integrative research across the areas of risk assessment and management of bio and nanomaterials used in consumer products and medicine as part of the large-scale EU H2020 projects GRACIOUS, BIORIMA, REFINE, caLIBRAte, Gov4Nano, NanoInformaTIX and SAFE-N-MEDTECH.
Danail is also the Coordinator of the large H2020 research project SUNSHINE, which focuses on Safe and Sustainable by Design of multi-component advanced nanomaterials.
Danail has been a senior research scientist at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of the University of Venice, where he acted as the Principal Investigator of the large EU FP7 project SUN. Over the last years, Danail contributed to several EU projects, including MARINA, NANOforART, ENPRA, ITS-NANO, GLOCOM, ECONANOSOPRB and EPSEI, also as a research staff of the private sector companies Venice Research Consortium and Veneto Nanotech.
In his early years as a researcher, Danail was employed at the Chair of Industrial Sustainability of the Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany.
James Baker
James Baker is one of the group embedding a Foresight Framework in a Trusted Environment as a tool supporting the SunShine e-infrastructure. He has been working for more than 12 years on different aspects of manufactured nanomaterials, including fabrication, health and safety, and governance.
He was one of the key authors of the NANoREG, ProSafe, NanoReg2, NanoHarmony and Gov4Nano projects. Co-author of the ProSafe white paper with policy recommendations to the Commission for implementing OECD test guidelines. Previously author and participant in the FP7 industrial Flagship project ProMine, developing new nanomaterials from mining waste. 25 years’ experience as developer, writer and manager of more than 40 EU and other projects in Europe, Africa, NIS, Japan etc; Scientific background – production of nano-silica, geochemistry, mineral-water interactions, environmental assessment, mineral chemistry.
Lya Soeteman-Hernandez
Lya is a toxicologist by training (Queen’s University, Canada) and is currently an Expert in applying the Safe and Sustainable Innovation Approach (SSIA) for the development of safer and more sustainable materials, chemicals, products and processes. She is experienced in developing system approaches and translating them into operational tools. She is one of the main developers of SSIA which contains the concept of Regulatory Preparedness, Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design and Trusted Environment. These concepts originate from the awareness that new technologies like nanotechnology have uncovered the limits of present regulatory systems and demand more agile governance systems.
She is co-chair and Leading Expert at the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials SSIA Steering Group, where she assesses how the international community develop and apply innovative, pro-active, co-creative and inclusive approaches to improve nano risk governance. The main focus of her work is the operationalization of SSIA and safe- and-sustainable-by-design in the context of the recently published EC JRC framework and EC recommendation. This is reflected in her role as a work-package or task leader in many European projects working on the operationalization of safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SUNSHINE, IRISS, SURPASS, SAbyNA, PARC) for materials, chemicals, products and processes.