13th Venice Training School

Innovating with Purpose: A Hands-on Journey into Functional, Safe and Sustainable Advanced Materials

Registrations will open soon!

📅 9–13 June 2025 | 📍 Auditorium Santa Margherita, Venice, Italy (map)

This edition is dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) for advanced materials. The school brings together experts, researchers, and industry professionals to explore cutting-edge methodologies for ensuring the safety, functionality, and sustainability of innovative materials.

This immersive, hands-on training is co-organised by 15 leading EU-funded projects and provides a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between theory and real-world applications. Participants will engage with a variety of state-of-the-art topics , equipping them with the skills needed to drive responsible innovation.

Topics

• Setting the scene: SSbD policy context in the EU

• Environmental, health and safety assessment (Steps 1-3 of EC-SSbD framework), including:

• Intrinsic hazard properties

• New Approach Methodologies

• Relevance of in vivo studies (invertebrate and vertebrate models)

• Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (ILCSA) (Steps 4-5 of the EC-JRC SSbD framework), including: 

• Environmental Life cycle assessment (LCA)

• Social LCA

• Lifecycle Costing 

• Integrating functionality considerations into SSbD workflows: the role of material characterization and the assessment of functional performance

• Addressing the complexity of advanced materials and their interactions: Multiscale modelling and multidimensional analysis 

• Enhancing the uptake of SSbD by industry, especially SMEs: user-friendly decision support tools

Who should attend?

Academia & Research

• PhD Students & Postdoctoral Researchers – Early-career researchers deepening their expertise

• Senior Researchers – Scientists advancing research in material science, safety and sustainability

Industry & Innovation

• Industry Professionals – Engineers, scientists and practitioners working with advanced materials

• Start-ups & Entrepreneurs – Innovators developing new materials and sustainable solutions

Government & Regulation

• Regulators & Policy Makers – Professionals shaping policies and safety standards

• Public Sector Scientists & Government Agencies – Researchers in national labs and public institutions

Civil Society Representatives & NGOs

• Organisations promoting ethical and responsible innovation

General Interest

• Anyone passionate about safe & sustainable advanced materials

If you are interested in the future of advanced materials and their impact on society, we invite you to join us!

Benefits of Attending

• Gain in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of key topics pertaining to the safety and sustainability of advanced materials

• Engage in a dialogue with peers and key experts

• Benefit from a variety of additional networking opportunities

School Certificates

Each participant will receive a Certificate of Attendance upon successful completion of the School. 

Contacts

Scientific enquiries:

• Danail Hristozov, GreenDecision (Venice, IT) | danail.hristozov@greendecision.eu

• Susanne Resch, BioNanoNet (Graz, AT) | susanne.resch@bnn.at

Organisation, logistics, local support and administration:

• Registration
  Beatriz Alfaro Serrano, BioNanoNet (Graz, AT) | beatriz.alfaro@bnn.at
  Susanne Resch, BioNanoNet (Graz, AT) | susanne.resch@bnn.at

• Local logistics
  Paola Basso, GreenDecision (Venice, IT) | management@greendecision.eu

  Marilena Uliana, GreenDecision (Venice, IT) | management@greendecision.eu
  

School Committees

Organising Committee (in alphabetical order)

• Agnese Amati, Warrant Hub SpA (Corregio, IT)

• Amaia Garcia, GAIKER (Zamudio, ES)

• Andrea Brunelli, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, IT)

• Andrea Lorenzoni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Bologna, IT)

• Beatriz Alfaro Serrano, BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Graz, AT)

• Danail Hristozov, GreenDecision (Venice, IT)

• Davide Don, Fraunhofer Italia (Bolzano, IT)

• Elena Badetti, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, IT)

• Francesco Mercuri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Bologna, IT)

• Giulia Mora, Warrant Hub SpA (Corregio, IT)

• Hildegard Luhmann, European Research Services (Münster, DE)

• Judith Friesl, Yordas Group (Forchheim, DE)

• Martin Himly, Paris Lodron University Salzburg (Salzburg, AT)

• Panos Isigonis, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Esch-sur-Alzette, LU)

• Paola Basso, GreenDecision (Venice, IT)

• Sebastien Noel, CEA liten (Grenoble, FR)

• Stefania Melandri, Warrant Hub SpA (Corregio, IT)

• Steffi Friedrichs, AcumenIST (Brussels, BE)

• Susanne Resch, BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Graz, AT)

• Thomas Exner, Seven Past Nine (Cerknica, SI)

• Yasemin Ertugrul, Yordas Group (Forchheim, DE)

Scientific Committee (in alphabetical order)

• Agnese Amati, Warrant Hub SpA (Correggio, IT)​

• Alberto Katsumiti, GAIKER Technology Centre (Zamudio, ES)​

• Andrea Brunelli, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, IT)​

• Andrea Lorenzoni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Bologna, IT)​

• Antonio Marcomini, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, IT)​

• Benjamin Murray, PROJECT SAS DI MASSIMO PERUCCA (Turin, IT)​

• Carlos Fito, Instituto Tecnológico del Embalaje Transporte y Logística (Valencia, ES)​

• Christian Seitz, AcumenIST (Brussels, BE)​

• Danail Hristozov, GreenDecision (Venice, IT)​

• Elena Badetti, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, IT)​

• Emma Stromberg, Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Stockholm, SE)​

• Eugenia (Eva) Valsami Jones, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, GB)​

• Fabio Ugolini, INNOVA S.r.l. (Rome, IT)​

• Francesco Mercuri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Bologna, IT)​

• Francesco Pagano, Fundación Tekniker (Eibar, ES)​

• Giulia Mora, Warrant Hub SpA (Correggio, IT)​

• Jelena Barbir, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Hamburg, DE)​

• Jonas Hoffmann, GreenDelta (Berlin, DE)​

• Josephine Steck, CEA Liten (Grenoble, FR)​

• Lisa Pizzol, GreenDecision (Venice, IT)​

• Luisa Diomede, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri (Milan, IT)​

• Martin Himly, Paris Lodron University Salzburg (Salzburg, AT)​

• Massimo Perucca, PROJECT SAS DI MASSIMO PERUCCA (Turin, IT)​

• Matiss Reinfelds, BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Graz, AT)​

• Milica Velimirovic Fanfani, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Mol, BE)​

• Panos Isigonis, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Esch-sur-Alzette, LU)​

• Paolo Bigini, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri (Milan, IT)​

• Paride Mantecca, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, IT)​

• Stefania Melandri, Warrant Hub SpA (Correggio, IT)​

• Steffi Friedrichs, AcumenIST (Brussels, BE)​

• Susanne Resch, BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Graz, AT)​

• Thomas Exner, Seven Past Nine (Cerknica, SI)​

• Yvonne Kohl, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT (St. Ingbert, DE)