Support network
Related projects & initiatives
To increase the impact of PLANETS, the project and its partners engage with relevant projects, networks, clusters, platforms, and international initiatives, building strong partnerships and exchanging knowledge with ongoing projects to avoid duplication, harness synergies, integrate the latest findings, and widely share our own results.
We collaborate with key projects funded under the call topic “Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives” (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01-24). These RESILIENCE-24 sister projects are (AlChemiSSts, BIOSAFIRE, DESIDERATA, PLANETS, RADAR). The five projects develop new chemical substances and materials that are designed from the outset to be safe and sustainable (following the SSbD framework), reduce environmental and climate impacts, and are suitable for real-world industrial applications, targeting areas with critical needs for substitution. Similarly, they work on identifying and overcoming barriers to substitution, address challenges in adapting existing production lines and communicate benefits (of SSbD materials) clearly to citizens and stakeholders.
Moreover, a good collaboration with the cousins projects RESILIENCE-21 (CheMatSustain, CHIASMA, SSbD4CheM, TOXBOX), RESILENCE-22 (ANALYST, INSIGHT, INTEGRANO, SUNRISE), and RESILENCE-23 (AI-TranspWood, M2DESCO, PINK, SiToLub) is ensured via the NSC activities.
As an overarching collaboration between the EU-funded projects under the HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01 call topic, the Collab4Resilience (C4R) initiative aims to foster stronger partnerships by harnessing the transformative potential of nanotechnology and promoting Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approaches to support a climate-neutral, circular economy. Under the motto “Stronger Together in Science and Sustainability“, the initiative joins Communication & Dissemination forces in the advanced materials and nanoscience topics to maximise the collective impact of EU-funded projects and support the EU objectives towards a greener, more sustainable and resilient Europe.
Additionally, we establish connections with key projects focused on specific topics relevant to PLANETS. For Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) several projects are relevant: First IRISS, which established an international SSbD network (PLANETS is being part of this SSbD platform within the NSC space), second the PARC partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals, striving to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment methods for human health and environmental protection, and also other projects like SURPASS, Chem-X, etc. In addition, we also collaborate with projects dealing with the Digital Product Passport (DPP) such as DigiPass, CIRPASS-2, etc.
Furthermore, we actively collaborate with related initiatives, clusters, networks and platforms, like the Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC, former EU Nanosafety Cluster), IAM4EU, IAM-I, Cefic, PINFA, SusChem, SusChem-AT, etc.
