WP1

SUNSHINE SIA e-infrastructure

Objectives

To develop and implement the SUNSHINE SIA e-infrastructure to foster dialogue, collaboration and information exchange between actors along nanotechnology supply chains and provide them with the tools and data needed to develop and implement S&SbD strategies for materials, products and processes involving MCNMs.

Methodology

WP1 will adapt the NanoReg2 SIA for MCNMs in a multi-stakeholder (co-creative) process and will implement it as in the SIA e-infrastructure. Case studies will be used to gain experience, evaluate lessons learned and develop best practices. The e-infrastructure will be designed to facilitate dialogue and secure information exchange

between supply chain actors and other stakeholders (e.g. regulators) via an innovative blockchain technology. It will provide easy access to available data via the SUNSHINE Open & FAIR database, and guidance to relevant testing guidelines/protocols, modelling and grouping and read-across approaches (from WP2-4) to cost-efficiently acquire/generate additional data to develop S&SbD strategies and test their effectiveness. To enable early predictions of the probability of the S&SbD-modified materials/products to reach the market, the e-infrastructure will facilitate the assessment of their risk-benefit ratio at each Gate of the Agile Stage-Gate innovation cycle.

Key Outcomes

Fully functional SIA e-infrastructure, tested in case studies, integrating: (1) a blockchain technology for secure and controlled information exchange; (2) the Open & FAIR database; (3) IATA of experimental and modelling tools to generate data for the S&SbD strategies; (4) grouping scheme to enable read-across of information; and (5) a methodology for risk-benefit assessment.

Work Package Leader

EMERGE