The EU project MACRAMÉ promotes the safe and sustainable use of advanced materials (AdMas). The aim is to better identify and assess the potential health and environmental risks of these materials throughout their entire life cycle. To this end, the project is developing and standardising modern methods for analysis, risk assessment and regulation, particularly for inhalable, carbon-based materials such as graphene and carbon nanofibres. With five industrial application examples and a central information centre, MACRAMÉ supports EU strategies for a toxic-free environment and lays the foundation for a uniform European assessment procedure.
The project’s outcomes – proposals for harmonisation and pre-standardisation – will contribute to a uniform European assessment framework, thereby strengthening the continent’s leading role in the development of safe and sustainable materials.
The project participants summarise this in an Innovation Report: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.03.032
MACRAMÉ has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101092686.
