The ANALYST project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement No 101138548
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Jun 9, 2026
On 21 May, the ANALYST project had the opportunity to present its work at the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting, showcasing a poster on ontology-driven support for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) decision-making in the plastic value chain.
The poster, titled “A First-of-Its-Kind Ontology Supporting Safe and Sustainable by Design Decision-Making in the Plastic Value Chain,” introduced ongoing work led by IDENER Research & Development within the ANALYST project. A special thanks goes to Arturo Hernandez Morales from IDENER.AI for presenting the work and representing the collaboration during the poster session.
As SSbD implementation requires the integration of complex and heterogeneous data across the plastic value chain, the poster highlighted how ontologies can support a more structured, transparent and reproducible approach to sustainability assessment. By defining key concepts and relationships between substances, processes, assessment scopes and decision-making criteria, the proposed ontology provides a semantic backbone to connect data across safety, environmental, economic and social dimensions.
This approach is particularly relevant for the ANALYST project, which aims to strengthen holistic impact assessment methodologies for the plastic value chain. The ontology supports the organisation of information related to chemicals, plastics, product roles, emissions, process context, technology readiness levels and assessment dimensions. It also contributes to the development of future decision-support systems by helping translate complex data into structured knowledge that can guide safer and more sustainable choices.
The poster session offered a valuable opportunity to connect with other projects and researchers applying data-driven and digital approaches to sustainability challenges across different sectors. The exchanges provided useful insights into how digital tools, semantic modelling and interoperable data structures can support the implementation of SSbD principles in practice.
Looking ahead, ANALYST will continue developing and refining its integrated approach to support safer and more sustainable materials, processes and products across the plastic value chain.
See the full poster here: https://zenodo.org/records/20506786