Projet HumanIC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Over 4 million hospital patients acquire a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the EU each year. Moreover, the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance means that HAI is posing an increasing cost and risk of mortality. There is clear evidence that airflow controls the dispersion and exposure to airborne pathogens and determines the contamination of critical surfaces in the human-centric climate (HCC), which is defined as the microenvironment which surrounds and is close to a human body. This points to a significant need for innovation in healthcare indoor environments to tackle the challenge of infection control, while improving thermal comfort and energy efficiency in hospitals. To achieve this, we must both advance the fundamental understanding of how people are exposed to airborne pathogens and develop new tools and techniques to enable effective design and operation of healthcare environments. Specifically, there is a need to understand better the local influence of airflows on particles in HCC; quantify the transient behaviour of airflows and contaminants due to healthcare activities like surgery; develop methods for optimising and adapting ventilation systems to control for risks in different environments like operation rooms and isolation rooms; and develop tools to enable real-time interaction with environments during design and operational phases. Bringing together 8 leading academic teams, 4 healthcare facilities and 8 HVAC industry partners, the HumanIC network aims to build a new approach to hospital environmental design through the concept of HCC and the training of 15 Early Career Stage Researchers to address these needs. HumanIC will create and disseminate fundamental and applied science to improve the knowledge base and innovate new technologies for designing and operating hospital ventilation and thermal systems and for reducing infection risk by at least 30%, meanwhile satisfying requirements of thermal comfort, safety and energy.

Mots clés : hospital, patients, operating room, human centric climate, ventilation, airborne pathogen exposure, indoor air quality, modeling, smart tool, monitoring, thermal comfort, energy efficiency

Participants :
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 595497.6 €
- Hôpital universitaire de la Charité de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Granlund (Finland) (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique de Varsovie (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226512.0 €
- Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- KTH Institut royal de technologie (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 293709.6 €
- Université technique de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université Charles-III de Madrid (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251971.2 €
- Université Aalto (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286488.0 €
- Industria project sp. z o.o. (Pologne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243403.2 €
- Activtek medica sp. z o. o. (Pologne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Federatie van verenigingen voor verwarming en luchtbehandeling in europa rehva (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Avidicare ab (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Halton oy (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Drees & sommer advanced building technologies gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Hôpital universitaire St Olav (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 297748.8 €
- Fundacion para la investigacion biomedica del hospital gregorio maranon (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 251971.2 €