Imagine trying to build a new product but not knowing if the materials will be banned in five years or if they harm the planet. This project creates a digital guidebook and app that checks a material's safety and cost from start to finish. It's like a health check for new materials before a company spends millions on mass production.
Companies developing advanced materials often face high costs and risks because they discover safety or sustainability flaws too late in the production cycle. There is currently no unified way to balance health, environmental, and economic trade-offs during the design phase.
A 3-tiered impact assessment methodology and a user-friendly open web application including a database for material safety and sustainability data.
If you are a specialty chemical producer dealing with unpredictable regulatory hurdles for new molecules — this project developed a 3-tiered assessment tool that predicts health and environmental impacts early. This allows you to pivot designs before expensive failures occur.
If you are an advanced materials SME dealing with limited budgets for safety testing — this project developed New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that generate robust input data more efficiently. This reduces the cost of proving your material is safe for the market.
If you are a packaging developer dealing with the trade-off between biodegradability and cost — this project developed a web application for Life Cycle Costing and circularity analysis. This helps you prove the economic and environmental value of your product to buyers.
Based on available project data, the IIAA will be delivered as an open web application, suggesting it may be accessible without a direct purchase price, though implementation costs are not specified.
Yes, the tool is designed to support decision making along entire supply chains and is being tested in industrially relevant case studies provided by 8 industry partners.
The project aims to deliver the results as an Open & FAIR web platform, indicating a focus on open access rather than restrictive licensing.
The tool is fully aligned with the EC-JRC SSbD framework and provides data to help regulators and policy makers implement chemicals and materials policies.
The project period runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31, meaning the final version will be ready by the end of 2027.
The consortium is highly balanced for commercial adoption, featuring a 38% industry ratio with 8 industrial partners and 10 SMEs. With 21 partners across 12 countries, the project combines academic research from 7 universities and 6 research institutes with real-world industrial application, ensuring the resulting tool is practical for business use rather than just theoretical.
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