NSC Update 09/2026

Among many other news, we have relevant updates from:

• “Question of the month” in the PARCopedia SSbD user community
• Newcomers to the PLANETS‘ training materials (DPP, MCDA, Safety dimension)
• Collaboration opportunity: PARC project encourages NSC projects to share their SSbD training materials via their open-access repository on learning and educational material
• Recommendations towards OECD Test Guidelines and Standards for AdMa from the MACRAMÉ project

 

Read also through the latest newsletters from pinfa, and BNN QUARTERLY (with updates of several NSC projects (iLCA4SSbD, PLANETS, SUNRISE, etc.).

 

Several updates of the WGs:

• WG Education, Training & Communication:
  • Next WP meeting on 7th October 2026, 10:00-11:30h CEST – Write an email to Judith Friesl to get an invitation.
  • SAVE-THE-DATE for the Venice Training School (07-11.2026, Venice, Italy) as collaboration effort of the NSC Working Groups ETC and SSbD
  • 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 October 31st)

 

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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Read NSC Update #09/2026