The CHIASMA Project was one of the supporting projects of the Workshop on SSbD Project Legacy, organised by the PINK Project and held in Brussels on 3 – 4 November 2026; the workshop was run as a satellite event to the Feedback-to-Policy (F2P) Workshop organised by DG RTD and HaDEA. Together with PINK, the event was supported by the Horizon Europe projects CHIASMA, BIO-SUSHY, PLANETS, SUNRISE and INTEGRANO.
Over the past years, Horizon Europe projects have built up a broad portfolio of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) knowledge, assessment methods, digital tools, FAIR data infrastructures, demonstrators and stakeholder networks. Many of the first-generation SSbD projects will end by 2027. The workshop therefore looked at one central question: how can project results remain available, connected and useful after funding ends? Rather than showcasing individual results, participants took a collective view of the legacy of SSbD projects, using 45 Project Legacy Cards submitted by 16 projects as the starting point for the discussions.
Representatives of CHIASMA attended the workshop and contributed actively to its breakout sessions and outcomes. The workshop followed three steps, MAP, CONNECT and SUSTAIN, and led to six priorities:
- Make the legacy visible: maintain a shared, structured map of contributions;
- Build on existing collaboration: validate complementarity before proposing joint deployment;
- Start with industrial needs: translate available results into practical, demand-led offerings;
- Connect routes to uptake: e.g. via SSbD Hubs, MaterialsCommons, the Digital Product Passport ecosystem and the Advanced Materials Academy;
- Sustain the shared foundation: match governance, hosting and resources to diverse community needs;
- Move from mapping to continuation: agree evidence-based next steps, responsibilities and dependencies.
The take-home message of the workshop was: Preserve the foundation – Connect the contributions – Enable uptake.
Only a few days later, PINK and CHIASMA presented the outcomes of the workshop to the wider SSbD community at the SSbD26 Conference, the third annual SSbD conference, organised by the IRISS International SSbD Community in Stockholm, Sweden, on 9 – 11 November 2026. Steffi Friedrichs from CHIASMA Partner AcumenIST presented the poster entitled ‘Beyond project lifetimes – Connecting Safe and Sustainable by Design results for lasting industrial uptake’, highlighting the SSbD Legacy workshop report given by Thomas Exner of CHIASMA Partner Seven Past Nine, who coordinates the PINK Project.
The poster gave SSbD26 participants an overview of the workshop approach and its six priorities. It also started conversations about how SSbD methods, data, tools and training can stay in use beyond individual projects.
CHIASMA thanks the PINK Project for organising the workshop, and the supporting projects and all participants for their contributions. We look forward to helping turn the Legacy Roadmap into concrete next steps.
