SUNRISE
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Standing for “Safe and Sustainable by Design: Integrated Approaches for Impact Assessment of Advanced Materials”, SUNRISE will develop an overarching Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (IIAF), based on life cycle thinking and designed to support Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) decision making along supply chains of advanced materials (AdMa) and their products.
A 3-tiered methodological approach
We employ a 3-tiered approach with each tier corresponding to an integrated methodology (supported by a toolbox) for health, environmental, social and economic impact assessment targeting different groups of users at different stages of the innovation process and requiring a different level of data and expertise.
In our approach, "Tier 1" employs qualitative methods, "Tier 2" adopts semi-quantitative methods, and "Tier 3" utilises quantitative methods.
These methodologies will be structured around foundational elements such as assessment criteria, indicators, thresholds, classifications, and toolkits. They will encompass considerations of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) aspects and sustainability, addressing functionality, impacts, and insights into stakeholders' decision-making trade-offs.
⟶ To develop the IIAF and deliver it as a user-friendly open web platform and a guidance document
⟶ To engage key stakeholders in an iterative cycle of developing and testing the IIAF
Project Objectives
⟶ To establish criteria, indicators and respective tools for environment, health and safety impact assessment of advanced materials to use as building blocks for the IIAF
⟶ To test and demonstrate the IIAF in case studies representing industrially relevant advanced material(s) of high societal relevance
⟶ To establish criteria, indicators and respective tools for sustainability (environmental, social, and economic) impact assessment of advanced materials to use as building blocks for the IIAF
⟶ To support public authorities and policy makers at the European Union and national levels in the implementation of SSbD policies through improved understanding of potential safety and sustainability trade-offs
Multiple stakeholders Co-creative process
We involve key actors along entire value chains in a co-creative process that balances the perspectives and interests of stakeholders from industry (including SMEs), regulation, policy, consultants (and CROs), academia, and the civil society for the definition and integration of environment, health, safety and sustainability criteria and indicators to support SSbD decision making.