Developing and implementing simple, robust, and cost-effective Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) strategies for materials and products incorporating advanced multi-component nanomaterials.

SUNSHINE is an industry-oriented project, where leading research and technology organisations will cooperate with SMEs and large industries to develop and implement simple, robust, and cost-effective Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) strategies for materials and products incorporating advanced multi-component nanomaterials. To this end, the project will establish a user-friendly e-infrastructure to foster dialogue, collaboration, and information exchange between actors along entire product supply chains.

RIVM role

RIVM is the leader of Workpackage 9 (WP9). In addition, RIVM will contribute to

• the development of the SIA e-infrastructure (WP1);
• environmental fate, in vitro human and environmental toxicity studies as well as in vivo human biodistribution studies in WP2;
• environmental fate modelling in WP3;
• the development and implementation of the similarity assessment, grouping and read-across approaches in WP4;
• Regulatory Preparedness by providing recommendations for adapting the existing regulatory guidance and standard guidelines for MCNMs (WP6);
• the international collaboration activities, especially with the USA (WP7);
• the stakeholder engagement, dissemination and exploitation activities of the project (WP8).

RIVM colleagues involved: Lya Hernandez and Agnes Oomen.

Funding

SUNSHINE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952924.