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Another exciting and inspiring week for the BNN team! Last week, our colleagues were on the move across Europe — connecting, sharing, and shaping the future of sustainable materials and safety innovation. Here are some highlights: 🌍 Utrecht, Netherlands: Beatriz Alfaro Serrano and Katharina Hogrefe joined the M12 Consortium Meeting of the PLANETS SSbD project, co-hosted by TNO. They took part in fruitful discussions driving forward this collaborative hashtag #EUproject in a beautiful city. 🌍 Vienna, Austria: Andreas Falk and Katharina Hogrefe participated in the 16th #NanoTrust Conference. Andreas presented the progress of BNN’s work related to Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (#SSbD) implementation in the NABIHEAL project, the efforts on strengthening the link between SSbD and Advanced Materials (#AdMa) (e.g., in the InnoMatSyn project), as well as some aspects of the methodological evaluation of the „step 5“ of the SSbD framework (version 2022) in the national funded projects #SESAM and #PHASE5. The event was organised by Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW (#ITA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). Andreas also attended the SusChem-AT Meeting at Technische Universität Wien (#TUW), where the SusChem-AT-board met to prepare the next activities in Austria and internationally of the national sustainable chemistry communities — Stay tuned for the next event on 26 November 2025, spotlighting green chemistry start-ups in collaboration with hashtag #PlattformGrüneChemie (#PGC). 🌍 Maribor, Slovenia: Jenny Zeevi Dadov and Caitlin Ahern joined the M34 Consortium Meeting of the NABIHEAL project, recording interviews with partners collaborating to find more effective, safer, and more sustainable alternatives to current wound healing materials. They also enjoyed a lab tour of the University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering — videos coming soon! ✨ Huge thanks to all our partners and hosts for their collaboration and hospitality! Together, we’re advancing innovation, safety, and sustainability in Europe’s materials ecosystem. #Sustainability #Safety #Innovation #Research #eufunded ATIMA, NSC Community, SSbD4CheM, Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur (#BMIMI), European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)