SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting - 2025

The tasks and schedule may be subject to change. All volunteers are expected to be available:

• Saturday, 10 May at 15:00 (meet-up at the venue)
• Sunday, 11 May to Wednesday, 8 May from 7:45 to 18:00
• Thursday, 15 May from 7:45 to 15:00. 

Volunteers can be assigned to various areas:

• Registration Desk: welcome meeting attendees, assist with badge printing, hand out delegate materials and answer questions. The desks are busiest on Sunday and Monday, but usually, you’ll have opportunities to attend sessions starting on Tuesday.
• Session Assistance: help session chairs and presenters with technical setup and liaise with floating technicians and SETAC Staff. Session volunteers will not be able to visit many meeting activities outside the assigned session room, however, there is some flexibility to choose the session blocks that are of interest to you.
• Speaker-Ready Room Assistance: assist presenters with uploading and updating their presentation slides and work closely with technicians. While the speaker-ready room must always be manned by one person during the opening hours, the two volunteers can arrange a rotation between themselves.  
• Exhibition/Events Services: welcome exhibitors and assist SETAC staff with various tasks, for example, social activities. The schedule is busy, especially on Sunday and Monday but allows for some flexibility.
• Best Presentation Award: assist with training courses on Sunday and assist SETAC staff with the judging forms and coordination of the Best Presentation Awards. The schedule is usually quite flexible with a peak on Sunday and Thursday.

SETAC is committed to its values and strives to create a welcoming environment for all participants. Please view SETAC’s Inclusion Strategy and Policies as well as our “Creating Intentional Inclusive Spaces” handouts.

Accessibility Services

SETAC Europe is committed to making its events accessible and inclusive for all participants, which is reflected in our choice of venue. The Austria Center Vienna provides detailed accessibility information and offers assistance for specific inquiries. You can reach them by calling +43 (0) 1 260 690 or by emailing office@acv.at.

Disabilities or Special Needs 

We are committed to addressing any specific questions or requests regarding accessibility. To ensure we can accommodate your needs, please provide advance notice. If you have a disability or special requirement that we should be aware of, or if you need any type of accommodation or have questions about physical access, please contact us by emailing europe-meeting@setac.org.

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The programme Committee of the SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting is committed to putting together a not-to-be-missed conference with an exciting scientific programme addressing the overarching theme “Innovation for Tomorrow: Progress in Safe and Sustainable Concepts.” 

This conference theme emphasizes the need for integration of cutting-edge innovations with safety and sustainability considerations, through implementation and expansion of the Safe and Sustainable (by Design) thinking. It should foster concepts of essential transition to Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) through innovation. Applying the concept of SSbD as a mindset is going beyond the development of new molecules and products, applying it for example also to cities, land use and landscapes 

Together, we will explore and aim to trigger explicit progress on how solutions- and applications oriented principles can be developed to prevent and limit chemical pollution, as well as on how methodological and technological advancements and innovative practices can address contemporary challenges in chemical and product safety up to environmental stewardship at the landscape level. 

The proposed theme supports to bridge the various topics and fields of expertise under the SETAC umbrella, integrate them consistently in SSbD approaches (chemical safety assessment, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), environmental quality assessment, chemicals management, exposure assessment, etc.) and effectively liaise safety and risk assessment approaches with LCA approaches. 

As fair data is key, this conference theme covers also work and research on advancing scientific methods in this context (early-Technological Readiness Level (TRL) data generation, supply chain data management and protection, assessment simplification, risk and sustainability integration, rapid-screening methods, absolute boundaries for both risk and sustainability, etc.) 

This theme aims to inspire and equip participants with the mindset, knowledge and tools needed to drive meaningful change, ensuring a safer and more sustainable future and provide new ideas for testing of the advancements in practical case studies across all stakeholder groups, to derive ‘lessons learned’ and showcase success stories. 

The scientific programme consists of 7 tracks for parallel sessions. Have a look at the online meeting platform or download the online programme book.

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