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EU funding (€6,999,369): GRACIOUS: Grouping, Read-Across, CharacterIsation and classificatiOn framework for regUlatory risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials and Safer design of nano-enabled … Hor31 Oct 2017 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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GRACIOUS: Grouping, Read-Across, CharacterIsation and classificatiOn framework for regUlatory risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials and Safer design of nano-enabled products

Manufacturing and functionalising materials at the nanoscale leads to a whole array of nanomaterials (NMs) varying in e.g. size, morphology and surface characteristics. Apart from expected benefits, distinctive properties of NMs may also affect (environmental) health risks. Safety assessment requires sufficient information for each NM, but testing every unique NM for their potential adverse effects is virtually impossible. More efficient ways to obtain safety information are needed, which could be achieved by applying grouping and read-across approaches to NMs. On a conceptual level, regulatory accepted approaches for grouping and read-across for NMs already exist, but actual application remains difficult as the required knowledge is not systematically brought together, lacks data curation or is still missing. GRACIOUS will address this urgent need by developing a framework for grouping and read-across based on physicochemical, release, exposure, environmental fate, toxicokinetic and toxicological information. This framework will be delivered as a practical e-tool, fit-for-purpose for various key (regulatory and industrial) stakeholders, who will be engaged from the start of the project. To develop the framework, GRACIOUS will build upon currently available approaches by collating, curating and assimilating existing and new knowledge on intrinsic and extrinsic physicochemical properties in relation to their (environmental) health risk. The resulting framework will support safe innovation by enabling considerations of safety a.o. via grouping and read-across in industrial decision making at various stages of product development. For regulators and policy makers, GRACIOUS will facilitate actual application of grouping and read-across of NMs to enable risk analysis of NMs without extensive testing.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associacion €395,788
ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS €0.00
Athina-Erevnitiko Kentro Kainotomias Stis Technologies TIS Pliroforias, TON Epikoinonion Kai TIS Gnosis €148,469
BASF SE €695,869
BUNDESINSTITUT FUER RISIKOBEWERTUNG €416,955
DET Nationale Forskningscenter FOR Arbejdsmiljø €411,163
DUKE UNIVERSITY €0.00
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH €217,589
EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT €173,788
EUROPEAN RESEARCH SERVICES GmbH €301,538
Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia €217,503
Greendecision Srl €405,675
Heriot-Watt University €860,793
IDEACONSULT LLC €216,594
Institute of Occupational Medicine €314,975
JRC -Joint Research Centre- European Commission €323,948
Nouryon Pulp AND Performance Chemicals AB €99,975
RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU €531,969
THINKWORKS B.V. €249,344
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology €352,654
Unilever U.K. Central Resources Ltd. €9,451.25
United Kingdom Research and Innovation €97,134
Universitat Wien €309,038
YORDAS GmbH €132,163
Yordas Ltd. €117,000

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/760840

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