Shaping the Future of Sustainable Laboratory Ecosystems

EGNATON e.V. is Europe’s collaborative platform for future-ready laboratory environments — where sustainability, digitalization, and operational excellence are addressed together, not in isolation.

Scientific infrastructure is facing unprecedented challenges: ambitious climate targets, rising life-cycle costs, talent shortages, increasing regulatory pressure, and rapidly evolving technologies. Real solutions cannot be achieved by focusing on single parameters alone. Sustainable laboratories require balance.

At EGNATON, sustainability is understood as the dynamic balance of three equally important pillars:

• Ecology – reducing environmental impact, energy consumption, and resource use
• Economy – ensuring cost efficiency, long-term value, and investment security across the full life cycle
• People & socio-technical systems – enabling safe, efficient, and attractive working environments that support human performance, knowledge transfer, and collaboration

Only when these three pillars are aligned can laboratory environments remain resilient, competitive, and truly sustainable.

EGNATON brings together manufacturers, planners, operators, researchers, and institutions to translate this balanced sustainability approach into practice — through open dialogue, harmonized standards, shared knowledge, and joint initiatives across Europe.

As a neutral and independent association, we actively contribute to:

• the development of practical standards and evaluation frameworks,
• the exchange of best practices across disciplines and borders,
• and the creation of transparent, comparable, and future-proof solutions for laboratory infrastructure and equipment.

EGNATON is not only a network — it is a working community for those who want to shape the next generation of laboratories responsibly, collaboratively, and with measurable impact.

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