In the past months, the PINK Partners have presented their ambitious research plans and interim results through posters, talks and panel discussions at various events:
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… DigiPass Workshop “Data Standardisation for Digital Passports“, 27 March 2025, online event:
- Thomas E. Exner from 7P9 gave a presentation (“How far did we get in supporting Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design and regulation ?”) at this conference.
… DigSustain2: Workshop on Digital Data Standards Sustainability in the Chemical Sciences, 3-5 April 2025, Delitzsch (Germany)
- Thomas E. Exner from 7P9 gave a talk (‘XInChI – From chemicals to nano to advanced materials’) at this Joint workshop with the Beilstein Institute, InChI Trust, the IUPAC WorldFAIR Chemistry Project, and NFDI4Chem.
... EMMC2025 Conference, 8-10 April 2025, Vienna (Austria)
- Philip Doganis from NTUA presented a poster (‘Jaqpot: A computational cloud platform supporting the design of safe and sustainable chemicals and materials’) and also Francesca L. Bleken from partner SINTEF presented a poster (‘Modular workflow components by FAIR input and output’).
- Martin Himly from PLUS gave an invited talk: ‘Computational model integration across SSbD dimensions on advanced materials and chemicals: development driven by industry and innovators needs’.
- Both Steffi Friedrichs, AcumenIST, and Thomas E. Exner, 7P9, chaired a session (‘Sustainability as innovation driver for a zero-pollution and climate-neutral future‘) and Steffi moderated a panel discussion (‘Sustainability through the Materials Modelling and Data Ecosystem of the Future’) where also Eva Schillinger from PINK partner IAM-I was a panelist.
… PARC Task Meeting, 16 April 2025, virtual event:
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) gave an overview of the PINK project in a Task 6.1.3 meeting of PARC.
… SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting, 11-15 May 2025, Vienna (Austria)
- Antonino Mervuglia (LIST) contributed with a talk (‘In-silico screening of new chemicals for SSbD: coupling data-driven approaches and LCA’).
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) presented a poster: ‘Interoperability for bridging SSbD dimensions, value chains and
material life cycle stages’. - Iseult Lynch from PINK partner UoB and Martin Himly (PLUS) presented posters about their PINK related results (IL: ‘Interoperability to bridge SSbD dimensions, value chains and material life cycle stages’) and MH: ‘Integrating computational models and balancing SSbD dimensions to satisfy the industry needs for responsible innovation on advanced materials and chemicals’).
… EU IndTech Conference, 2-4 June 2025, Kraków (Poland)
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) explained conference participants about Horizon Europe’s project cluster on SSbD – and among them the PINK project – at a booth.
- Martin Himly (PLUS) participated in a panel discussion (‘NSC Session “Designing Safe and Sustainable Materials and Chemicals – SSbD Implementation and Digitalisation”‘) during the conference and presented results from the PINK project.
- Thomas E. Exner additionally chaired the session ‘Global Challenges and Solutions in Advanced Materials Environmental Health and Safety’ in this conference.
… SKIG Meeting, 15 May 2025, virtual event
- Penny Nymark (KI) and Thomas E. Exner gave a presentation (‘AOPs for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Approaches‘).
… EHLC AOP Standards Workshop, 4-5 June, virtual event
- Penny Nymark from PINK partner Karolinska Institute (KI) gave a presentation with the title ‘Why Adverse Outcome Pathways Need to be FAIR: Experience of Implementation in the EU‘.
… 13th Venice Summer School, 9-13 June 2025, Venice (Italy)
- Martin Himly, Ben Punz (both from partner PLUS), Philip Doganis, Haralambos Sarimveis (both from NTUA) Nico Watzek, Karin Wiench (both from BASF) gave a Hands-on-training on the SSbD step 1 workflow during the Summer School.
- Benjamin Punz also presented results from the PINK project in a talk and the following case study.
... AI TranspWood Workshop, 13 June 2025, Torino (Italy)
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) gave a talk during this workshop: ‘SSbD approach in materials science’ highlighting also results from the PINK project.
… DPP4EU 2025 Conference, 16-18 June 2025, Brussels (Belgium)
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) gave a presentation at the conference (‘Can Digital Material Passport support implementation of Safe-and-Sustainability-by-Design along the value chain ?’) including insights from the PINK project.
… WATOC 2025, 22-27 June 2025, Oslo (Norway)
- Francesca Bleken from PINK partner SINTEF presented approaches from the PINK project in her poster contribution to this conference (‘Possible mechanisms for organic carbonates from CO2 capture’).
... ELIXIR Intoxicom Workshop 4, 25-26 June 2025, Birmingham (UK)
- Iseult Lynch from partner UoB and Martin Himly from PLUS contributed and supported the conference in the Scientific Committee and with contributions throughout the workshop (i.e. joint talk ‘Making toxicology educational resources more FAIR’)
... LCM25, 9-12 September 2025, Palermo (Italy)
- Marc Majó from PINK partner EMPA gave a presentation with the title ‘Towards a Generalized Framework for Scaling-Up in Prospective Life Cycle Assessment’.
- His colleagues from our partner LIST, Gustavo Larrea-Gallegos and Antonino Marvuglia presented talks at the same event (G.L-G.: ‘Integrating Large Language Models into the In-Silico environmental assessment of new chemicals and materials for SSbD’ and A.M.: ‘Applications of artificial intelligence algorithms and approaches in the life cycle sustainability assessment field: a topic modelling investigation based on large language models‘)
… INFRAMES Fall Meeting 2025, 16 October 2025, Rennes (France)
- On this conference Thomas E. Exner (7P9) spoke about ‘Materials Safe (and Sustainable)
by Design – How can Informatics Support a Holistic Life Cycle View ?‘.
… SSbD2025 Conference, 10-12 November 2025, Zuerich (Switzerland)
- Marc Majó from PINK consortial partner EMPA presented a poster at this conference hosted by IRISS (‘Towards a Generalized Framework for Scaling-Up in Prospective Life Cycle Assessment’).
... IAM-I Symposium 2025, 11-12 December 2025, Brussels (Belgium)
- Thomas E. Exner (7P9) and Christian Seitz (AIST) presented PINK related insights during their presentation for the Working Group 2 (Materials Digitalisation Along the Value Chains) and Task Force 2 (Standards and Norms).
… OpenTox Virtual Conference 2025, 5 December 2025, online event
- Grigorios Megariotis from PINK partner NTUA gave a presentation about his research topics during this conference (‘Cyclodextrins as Protective Hosts for Chemical UV Filters’).





