TOXBOX joins ANTHOS’26 as co-organising project

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TOXBOX will participate as co-organising project to ANTHOS’26 – Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies: From Needs to Solutions. Building on the success of ANTHOS’24 (March 2024), this second edition brings together European initiatives working to make advanced materials and chemicals safer and more sustainable.

Bringing people, needs, and solutions together

ANTHOS’26 welcomes research organisations, companies (SMEs and large industry), consultancies, regulators, and other interested stakeholders. Its main goal is to connect real‑world needs with practical scientific and technological solutions.

Under the theme “From Needs to Solutions”, the conference programme is designed to:

  • Give stakeholders a platform to express their needs and challenges related to the safety and sustainability of advanced materials
  • Present innovative tools, methods, and technologies developed in European research projects
  • Encourage dialogue that leads to concrete actions and future directions for research, regulation, and implementation

The outcomes of the conference will be documented and followed up at ANTHOS’27 to assess progress and next steps.

A strong European collaboration

ANTHOS’26 is initiated and led by BNN as part of the Network for Safety and sustainability of Chemicals and materials (NSC) community and is supported by 11 EU‑funded projects:

AI‑TranspWood, AlchemiSSts, BIOSAFIRE, CheMatSustain, InnoMatSyn, INTEGRANO, PINK, PLANETS, SSbD4CheM, SUNRISE, and TOXBOX, as well as the Austrian national project ATIMA.

All supporting projects jointly shape the conference programme.

TOXBOX’s role at ANTHOS’26

As a co‑organising project, TOXBOX will actively contribute to the scientific programme, with a focus on how new testing approaches can support Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD).

TOXBOX will be part of Solutions Session 4: Project solutions to the needs of (scientific) implementors, which will be co‑chaired by the project’s scientific coordinator, Dr. Nihal Engin Vrana. This session will explore how different assessment approaches can be combined to better support decision‑making for safer materials.

Topics addressed in the session include:

  • In silico tools and data pipelines that support early safety assessment
  • Ways to connect computer‑based models with laboratory tests, including in chemico and in vitro methods
  • Approaches for integrating safety and sustainability information into practical workflows

Through its modular platform combining in vitro and in silico testing, TOXBOX contributes to reducing reliance on animal testing and making toxicological assessment more accessible and efficient.

Speakers and contributions

The session will feature expert presentations and short poster pitches, including:

  • An Integrated Data‑Driven Framework for Predictive Safety and Sustainability Assessment – Haralambos Sarimveis (NTUA)
  • Poster pitch: AI‑powered matching tool for the Advanced Materials ecosystem – Nikolaj Zangenberg (DTI)
  • Bridging in silico, in chemico, and in vitro assessments for SSbD‑driven innovation – Yvonne Kohl (Fraunhofer IBMT)
  • Poster pitch: Methods and tools for the safety assessment of advanced nanomaterials – Vincenc Pomar‑Portillo (Empa)
  • Integrating safety and sustainability towards an operational SSbD decision support system – Neeraj Shandilya (TNO)

Event location

ANTHOS’26 will take place at the TWELVE Conference Center in Vienna, Austria:

TWELVE Conference Center
Hertha‑Firnberg‑Straße 8 (corner Maria‑Kuhn‑Gasse, entrance Südfoyer, 1st floor)
1100 Vienna, Austria