PLANETS @ANTHOS’26 (09-11.03.2026, Vienna)
Across three days, the summit created a collaborative platform to exchange knowledge and showcase tools, methodologies, and case studies; discussions highlighted key challenges for SSbD implementation, including limited awareness—particularly among SMEs—data gaps, methodological complexity, and unclear economic incentives. Stakeholders emphasized the need for pragmatic, user-friendly tools, improved data sharing, and stronger links between research, regulation, and industry.
Sessions and roundtables addressed the perspectives of initiators, legislators, regulators, and implementors. A recurring message was the importance of shifting from reactive compliance to proactive, design-led innovation. Solutions presented by EU projects demonstrated how digital tools, AI, tiered assessment strategies, and life-cycle thinking can support early-stage decision-making and reduce risks and costs.
The summit also underlined the importance of regulatory preparedness, trusted environments, and cross-sector collaboration. Concepts such as regulatory sandboxes, standardized data formats, and the role of SSbD ambassadors emerged as key enablers for wider adoption.
ANTHOS’26 concluded with a forward-looking discussion stressing the need for incentives, education, and coordinated action to scale SSbD. The event successfully strengthened collaboration across the community and set the stage for future innovation in safe and sustainable materials.
PLANETS had a very active role in the conference:
- Several partners were involved in the Organising Committee (Andreas Falk, Beatriz Alfaro (BNN), Sébastien Artous (CEA), Martin Himly (PLUS)),
- and in the Scientific Committee (Andreas Falk, Sébastien Artous, Martin Himly).
- Andreas Falk, Sébastien Artous, Martin Himly reviewed the poster abstracts.
- BNN (Andreas Falk) was the main moderator of the conference.
- Andreas Falk was speaker and panellist in in the Solutions Session 2 (Legislators) representing the NSC. Martin Himly was also panellist in the same round table – He promoted the PLANETS SSbD Wordbook.
- Sébastien Artous was Co-chair of the Solutions Session 5 (Corporate Implementators).
- The project roll up was exposed all throught the conference in the projects area.
- Pierre Emmanuel Dufils (SYENSQO) was panellists in the Needs Round Table, as representative of industry.
- Oral presentations:
- Sébastien Artous, on behalf of Joséphine Steck (CEA), presented the project in the BioNanoNet Networking event
- Neeraj Shandilya (TNO) gave an oral presentation in the Solitions Session 4 (Scientific Implementors) entitled “Integration of Safety and Sustainability Dimensions Towards an Operational Safe and Sustainable by Design Decision Support System“
- Posters:
- Neeraj Shandilya (TNO) had a poster entitled “Integration of Safety and Sustainability Dimensions Towards an Operational Safe and Sustainable by Design Decision Support System“. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19370553
- Joséphine Steck (CEA) prepared a poster dealing with the PLANETS SSbD workflow, and entitled “Operationalising Safe and Sustainable by Design for Industry: Mapping, Coordinating, and Structuring Chemical and Material Innovation with the PLANETS Workflow“. The poster was presented by Sébastien Artous. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18997704
- Joint poster of the RES-24 projects, prepared by Beatriz Alfaro and Joséphine Steck, publicly available in Zenodo under DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19064881
