MACRAMÉ Partner Spotlight: National Institute of Public Health & the Environment (RIVM)

RIVM works towards a healthy population in a sustainable, safe and healthy living environment. To that end, we are a trusted advisor to the government, professionals and private citizens. Within the MACRAMÉ project, RIVM contributes to benchmarking and demonstration of cell-line-based in vitro assays for initial screening of inhalable materials. Read more…

Maximum Project Impact – MACRAMÉ looks back at 18 Months of successful Stakeholder Involvement & Knowledge Transfer

In its Report on Stakeholder Involvement & Knowledge Transfer in the first 18 Months, the MACRAMÉ Project provides an overview of the stakeholder engagement and knowledge transfer on harmonisation and standardisation (H&S) activities for advanced materials undertaken in the first 18 months. The Project organised and conducted a number of Read more…

MACRAMÉ Researchers co-author ‘Roadmap towards safe and sustainable advanced and innovative materials’

The new publication entitled ‘Roadmap towards safe and sustainable advanced and innovative materials. (Outlook for 2024-2030)’ has been co-authored by a team of researchers from the MACRAMÉ Project Partners AcumenIST, Seven Past Nine GmbH, Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, and TEMAS Solutions GmbH. The publication Read more…

MACRAMÉ Harmonisation & Standardisation Roadmap – a Summary Report of five important Destinations

The MACRAMÉ Project just published an important milestone report: the ‘MACRAMÉ Harmonisation & Standardisation Roadmap Summary Report for MACRAMÉ Methods and Models‘-report combines and summarises the Project’s activities in the field of ‘Development and Advancement of Characterisation- & Test-Methods &-Protocols’ (Project work package 2) with the activities pertaining to the Read more…

Announcement: 2nd joint online Workshop on ‘Harmonisation & Standardisation of Test Methods for Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials’

Continuing the NanoHarmony NANOMET journey: Harmonisation & Standardisation of Test Methodsfor Nanomaterials and Advanced MaterialsTwo day workshop focused on NAMs, imaging and testing of complex samples along the material lifecycle *** ONLINE *** 18th & 19th November 2024 Internationally harmonised and standardised test methods are a prerequisite for safety and sustainability assessments Read more…

Instance Maps as organising Concepts for complex experimental Workflows

MACRAMÉ Partner have spearheaded the publication of a new proof-of-concept paper entitled ‘Instance maps as an organising concept for complex experimental workflows as demonstrated for (nano)material safety research’ (Beilstein Arch. 2024, 202426. https://doi.org/10.3762/bxiv.2024.26.v1). The paper describes the development of ‘Instance Maps’ to visualise experimental nanosafety workflows and to bridge the gap Read more…

MACRAMÉ Webinar Recording – AOPs: A Tool to include NAMs into regulatory Testing?

The 2nd webinar in the series of MACRAMÉ Webinars on Harmonisation, Standardisation & Validation of Test- and Characterisation Methods focussed on the question ‘AOPs: A tool to include NAMs into regulatory testing?’. The webinar was jointly organised by the MACRAMÉ and nanoPASS projects, and attracted over 70 international experts. The Read more…