Suchergebnisse

The project "Thematic Conferences on Advanced Materials" aimed at supporting the German Authorities in structuring the field of advanced materials and identifying work priorities related to chemical safety. In the first part of the project, information on advanced materials was gathered via an extensive literature review, an online expert survey and expert interviews. In a second part, three international conferences were organised, of which one was separated into two online events, to invite stakeholders in the field to reflect on the research outcomes and involve in a discussion about chemical safety of advanced materials. Overall, the project initiated discussions about advanced materials at global, EU and national level and promoted an active reflection on the potential safety challenges and sustainability, amongst others due to lack of data, methods and coverage of advanced materials in current regulation. The report provides an overview of the work process and summarises the main discussion issues at the conferences.

The project activities described in this report comprise a literature review, expert interviews, an online survey, desk research on relevance criteria and the organisation of the first of three thematic conferences that will take place in the context of this project. Based on the gathered information and experiences, advanced materials were clustered into different groups. Each group was characterised in form of factsheets. At the first conference, clustering approaches were discussed as well as the need to "define" advanced materials and aspects of including safety considerations into material design. A number of advanced material types were identified that could be of relevance with regard to chemical safety. This could, for example, be due to indications of hazards and risks that might require adequate risk management or due to insufficient regulatory coverage or missing risk assessment methods and tools. This report summarises the results of the project's first work package. It is discussion input to two further thematic conferences of the project as well as to discussions on approaches to cluster, describe and prioritize advanced materials in other contexts.