Wendel Wohlleben (BASF, and co-chair of the NSC WG on SSbD) presented the concept of the SSbD scenarios, setting the basis for the rest of the workshop, which continued with an introduction by Lya Soeteman-Hernández (RIVM, and co-chair of the NSC WG on SSbD) of the Case Studies break-out groups joined by the participants, where the methodology used in the different case studies was explained and discussed: 

• AlChemiSSts case study: Cauchos Ruiz Alejos (represented by Mónica Martínez, from AVANZARE), on firefighter soles using safe alternatives to hazardous flame retardant additives 

• DESIDERATA case study: Anastasia Moschovi, from MONOLITHOS, on geopolymers originating from mining waste as replacement of Aluminum in construction 

• PLANETS case study: Stefan Haid, from WACKER, on binders for paint (where the surfactant used during synthesis chemical needs to be tailored to avoid byproducts) 

• SUNRISE case study: Laurentia Technologies (represented by María Rivero García, from ITENE) on post-harvest fruit treatment based on safer microencapsulated oil 

After a short break, Martin Himly (PLUS, and chair of the NSC WG on Training) moderated the joint reporting session of the different breakouts, where feedback was collected for redefining the questions. 

The workshop concluded with Wendel Wohlleben and Carla Caldeira (SYENSQO) summarising the feedback collected and setting the next actions on: 

• how to use the scenario described by information from SSbD scoping and from the business case collected in the workshop for better tailoring the SSbD assessment; 

• the need of further work in the clarity of some of the questions used to describe a scenario, based on feedback during the workshop; 

• the need of involving industrial organisations (beyond those involved in EU-funded projects) in testing the SSbD tailoring via SSbD scenarios; 

• the need of developing incentives for making industry implement SSbD in their processes; 

Two main activities are planned as follow-ups of this workshop: A second workshop, in Autumn 2025, distilling “archetypical SSbD scenarios” & their tailored SSbD approaches, and finally, a joint NSC publication on the demonstration by case studies by the involved projects, their SME innovators, industry innovators and SSbD experts. 

Workshop materials:

Workshop materials are publicly available in Zenodo, under DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15756155.

The recording of the workshop is available in the NSC YouTube channel.

Some impressions of the workshop: