ANTHOS'26 - BioNanoNet

ANTHOS’26 – Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies: From Needs to Solutions

ANTHOS’26 follows on from ANTHOS’24 (March 2024), and is the second edition of this event supported by EU-funded-projects.

The event is open to ALL research organizations, SMEs and large industries, consultancies, and other organizations active and interested in the safety and sustainability of advanced materials incl. nanomaterials, chemicals, and related products.

Entitled „Advanced (Nano)Materials and Technologies“ and subtitled „From Needs to Solutions“, the program is dedicated to bringing the specific needs of different stakeholders (i.e., initiators, legislators, regulators, implementors – „needs-session“ and 1^st round table) to the stage, and engaging the scientific community with their project-related development of methods and tools (e.g., in the „solutions sessions“ and „poster session“), to create specific impact for society.

The event will conclude with the derivation of action items (e.g., in the „conclusions session“ and the 2^nd round table) and give a future outlook, what needs to be pushed forward and how this implementation can be supported, e.g., by future funding programs, etc. The output will be published and approximately 18 months later at ANTHOS’27, the progress will be monitored.

Agenda:

9th March (starting at 13:00h CET)
- RESILIENCE-22 Co-creation workshop – Co-Creating Integrated Impact Assessment for SSbD SUNRISE IIAA Demonstration and Exchange with the RES-22 Sister Projects (Organised by SUNRISE, AlchemiSSts, INTEGRANO, and INSIGHT)
- BioNanoNet Networking event
- NSC Steering Group meeting
10th March – ANTHOS’26 day 1
- Needs session
- Needs round table: Implementors
- Poster Pitch Session
- Solutions session 1: Projects solutions to the needs of Initiators (EC)
- Solutions session 2: Projects solutions to the needs of Legislators (OECD)
11th March – ANTHOS’26 day 2 (ending around 17:30h CET)
- Solutions session 3: Projects solutions to the needs of Regulators (ECHA)
- Solutions session 4: Projects solutions to the needs of (scientific) Implementors
- Solutions session 5: Projects solutions to the needs of (corporate) Implementors
- Conclusions derived from Solutions sessions
- Round table: Future outlook

The ANTHOS’26 is initiated and led by BNN as an NSC-community activity. This impactful conference is supported by 11 EU-funded projects (AI-TranspWood, AlchemiSSts, BIOSAFIRE, CheMatSustain, InnoMatSyn, INTEGRANO, PINK, PLANETS, SSbD4CheM, SUNRISE, TOXBOX). It is also supported by the national (Austrian) project ATIMA. All projects are jointly developing the conference programme. Thanks to this joint effort of highly engaged and collaborative projects, we are able to offer free participation in the event, upon registration.

Abstract submission

If you are planning to submitt a Poster to the conference, you can find the template here. Please send your posters to info@bnn.at by 1 December 2025.

Update from 02.12.2025: We are not accepting any futher abstracts.

Location:

TWELVE Conference Center (Hertha-Firnberg-Straße 8, | Ecke Maria-Kuhn-Gasse, Eingang Südfoyer | 1. OG | 1100Vienna, Austria) (see TWELVE in google maps)

Hotel suggestions:

Clarion Hotel Vienna South (5 min on foot to event location)
PLAZA Premium Wien (5 min on foot to event location)
Campanile Vienna South (8 min on foot to event location)

Timeline:

Conference program available: Beginning of November 2025
Registration opening: Mid November 2025
Abstract submission deadline (for posters): 1 December 2025
Scientific review of abstracts: 2 December – 9 December 2025
Decision on posters acceptance: To be communicated by 12 December 2025
Registration closing: by 10 January 2026
End of “step-out-phase”: 31 January 2026 (see note on compensation fee below for more details)
The registration for virtual participation will open in January 2026

Seats are limited! Registration is possible for in-person participation and will be closed as soon as the maximum number of physical participants is reached.
The registration for virtual participation will open in January 2026.

Organising an event is very expensive. While this event is free of charge, a compensation fee of 450€ will be charged in case of no-show on short notice. Please, if you have registered for physical participation but you are unable to attend physically, inform the organisers at info@bnn.at by 31 January 2026. Otherwise you will be charged with the no-show/compensation fee.

Register now and stay tuned for more information soon!

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