NSC Update 10/2026

Among many other news, we have relevant updates from:

• The NSC community is joining forces to develop a SSbD Children’s book, initiated and coordinated by Laura Trullemans from the RADAR project. Please directly contact Laura (laura.trullemans@kuleuven.be), if you or your project are interested in joining and supporting this joint initiative.
• Summary on the latest NSC Steering Group meeting
• Selected sessions from SETAC 2027, recomended by the NSC WG chairs
• DPP4EU 2026 Post-Conference summary
• “Question of the month” in the PARCopedia SSbD user community
• Interview with Milica Velimirovic, coordinator of the SSbD4CheM project
• Collaboration opportunity: PARC project encourages NSC projects to share their SSbD training materials via their open-access repository on learning and educational material

Read also through the latest newsletters from IAM-I, pinfa, and the iLCA4SSbD project.

Several updates of the WGs:

• WG Education, Training & Communication:
  • Call-to-action for the Venice School 2027 (07-11.2026, Venice, Italy) – if your project is interested in co-organising, please contact Susanne Resch before 15 Nov. 2026
  • Delphi consultation on Harmonization of SSbD terminology, based on the PLANETS SSbD Wordbook
• WG SSbD, Innoation & Regulation:
  • Call-to-action to the NSC Task Force on “SSbD tools, integrative systems & platforms” (deadline extended to 31 October)

Also, of course, there are many upcoming events that you might want to attend!

We are looking forward to meeting you in one of the next NSC events!

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