MACRAMÉ presents its interim Research Results

MACRAMÉ Coordinator, Dr Steffi Friedrichs, presented the project’s interim results at the NanoTox 2024 conference, held 23. to 25. September in Venice (Italy).

In a presentation entitled ‘Interim Results of the MACRAMÉ R&I Approach – Ensuring regulatory Alignment in the Research & Innovation of five market-relevant Advanced Materials’, Dr Friedrichs initially outlined the process of setting up the MACRAMÉ R&I approach, with a specific view to ensuring regulatory alignment:

Choose your market-relevant Advanced Materials (AdMa)
- Conduct a gap-analysis
Set an R&I strategy (incl. benchmarks & workflow)
- Define possible LCA exposures (–> MACAMÉ Exposure Points)
- Agree on a language / terminology (or invent one)
Develop sampling approaches & methodologies (–> MACRAMÉ Sampling Protocols)
Set a reference (–> MACRAMÉ Control Material Library)
Develop a data collection method (–> MACRAMÉ Instance Map)
Write a roadmap (–> MACRAMÉ Harmonisation & Standardisation Roadmap)
… start working down the list above
… realise that there is no way you get everything done in three project years
… set up more projects to continue the work

^{Schematic illustration of the flow- of and value-add to data within the MACRAMÉ Project.}

To addres point (8.) and (9.) of the initial overview of her presentations, Dr Friedrichs introduced the three youngr sister projects of the MACRAMÉ Project: CHIASMA, INSIGHT and PINK (all funded by the European Commission, HorizonEurope Framework Programme).