From 11-15 May 2025  SETAC 2025, the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Europe, took place at the Austria Center in Vienna. 

Under the overarching theme “Innovation for Tomorrow: Progress in Safe and Sustainable Concepts”, the conference emphasized the need for integration of cutting-edge innovations with safety and sustainability considerations, through implementation and expansion of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) thinking, as well as it application beyond the development of new molecules and products (e.g., also to cities, land use and landscapes). The conference attracted roughly 3000 people to the capital of Austria, from many various stakeholder groups, i.e., academia, industry, innovators, EU institutions, national authorities, etc. 

From DIAGONAL, partners BNN, BRIMATECH and OCSiAl participated in the conference and spread the word about DIAGONAL outcomes in two posters including one poster pitch, and an oral presentation. 

On Tuesday, May 13th, Gunther van Kerchove of OCSiAl presented a poster “Exposure Assessment Along the Life Cycle of Nanocomposites”, depicting outcomes of 2 case studies to test possible release of single-wall carbon nanotubes from polymer nanocomposites. These case studies were performed in DIAGONAL as well as the project SUNSHINE.