Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Launching call for the submission of proposals for STSMs, 2 per year.

A structured framework for issuing two calls per year for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs), enabling researchers’ mobility and collaboration across the network.  

Deliverable 2: Report of individual Working Groups (WGs) Activities on a yearly basis.

Summary of activities, outputs, collaborations, and progress achieved within each Working Group.  

Deliverable 3: Definition of research infrastructure accessibility and eventually proposal for new specific facilities.

Assessment of available research infrastructures across the network and identification of potential needs for new or upgraded facilities.  

Deliverable 4: Establishment of cross-sectional subgroups to build multi-disciplinary and flexible Working Group activities.

Creation and coordination of multidisciplinary subgroups operating within and across WGs to support flexible, integrated activities.  

Deliverable 5: State of the Art definition about nano- and microplastics (NMPs) environmental pollution.

Comprehensive community-based synthesis of scientific knowledge, challenges, and emerging research directions on NMP environmental pollution.  

Deliverable 6: Report of connections with liasoning bodies, such as standardization entities (ISO, CEN, and corresponding National standardization bodies), regulation entities (European Commission), pre-normative research networks (VAMAS), metrology institutes and stakeholders. 

Documentation of interactions with ISO, CEN, national standardization bodies, VAMAS, metrology institutes, and regulatory agencies to support harmonization and pre-normative research.

Deliverable 7: Report on impacts and risks analysis with corrective actions and mitigation strategies proposed.

Evaluation of environmental and human health risks associated with MNPs, including mitigation strategies and corrective actions.  

Deliverable 8: Draft of approaches to MPs remediation and recovery strategies.  

Draft overview of current and emerging strategies for MPs remediation, recovery, and sustainable alternatives.

Deliverable 9: Draft preparation of standard documents (inputs to standardization) in collaboration with expert participants in all the WGs, on a yearly basis starting from the second year. 

Input supporting international standardization efforts, developed with expert contributions from all WGs.  

Deliverable 10: Report on the development of datasets and benchmarking data.  

Review and consolidation of datasets generated within PRIORITY and identification of benchmarking opportunities for analytical and monitoring activities.  

Deliverable 11: Report on the Involvement of stakeholders, including private and public laboratories, equipment manufacturers, environmental protection agencies, NGOs, food producers and consumers associations, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, national and international standardization bodies and metrological institutes, European RTDs, the overall scientific community and decision-makers. 

Analysis of engagement with laboratories, industry, agencies, NGOs, standardization bodies, metrology institutes, research infrastructures, and policy-makers.  

Deliverable 12: Layman’s report of WG activities and the know-how shared among the experts at conclusion of the Action.  

A clear, accessible summary of WG activities and knowledge shared within PRIORITY, prepared for non-expert audiences at the end of the Action.