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A Novel Filtration Technology Targeted at Enhancing the European Healthcare System´s Efforts in Restraining the Spread of the Hospital Infection. (HAIFREE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,France,Spain,France,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1280781.35
EU funding (EUR): 1013697.3
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

At healthcare facilities, there is a strong demand for a new advanced air cleaning technology to prevent infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI). The system would avoid the high costs related to healthcare and legal matters which increase every year and are a burden to the fixed costs of maintaining sanitary systems in Europe and USA. The integrated machine is intended for the air purification of hospitals, surgery rooms, ICU’s, isolation rooms, laboratories, drug manufacturing units, and storage facilities. Also, the air sterilizing device from the project would be applied in the construction and renovation activities that occur in or around healthcare facilities. The project is directed to a design of a new method and device for purification of indoor pollutants (VOCs - volatile organix compounds, microbes, spores, and fungi). The purification unit will be able to sterilize airborne biological agents contained in a moving air stream at high airflow rates. The device will also include a first pre-treatment purification unit capable of retaining and destroying Particulate Matters contained in the air prior to the sterilizing unit. The idea is to design a stage prior to the plasma filter using combined electrostatic precipitators (ESP) which are internally coated with a photocatalytic compound in order to kill the precipitated microorganisms. In this device, a combination of different effects such an ionizing atmosphere, ozone and biocide elements will destroy the microorganisms with about 99.9% efficiency. After this ESP filter, a new ozone filter system will be placed in order to prevent the presence of ozone that was generated in the ESP system.

Keywords: pathogen,airborne,air cleaning,electrostatic precipitation,titanium dioxide,plasma generation.
Promoting African – European Research Infrastructure Partnerships (PAERIP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: South Africa,United Kingdom,France,Greece,Kenya,Belgium,Egypt
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 605156.0
EU funding (EUR): 450000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The project will create a dedicated initiative to promote research infrastructure partnerships between Europe and Africa. There is currently significant political attention on promoting science and technology partnerships between the European Union and Africa. The Joint Africa-European Union (EU) Strategy, adopted by Heads of Government at the December 2007 Lisbon Summit, notably includes a dedicated Science, Information Society and Space initiative. Several collaborative efforts are currently being implemented under this Partnership, with the support of the African Union Commission, the European Commission and African and European Union Member States. None of these initiatives are, however, specifically addressing research infrastructures. The “Promoting African European Research Infrastructure Partnerships” (PAERIP) proposal is specifically focused on addressing this void notably by undertaking a series of relevant studies, which will inform the organisation of policy dialogue and cooperation promotion events.

Keywords: research infrastructure,partnerships,policy dialogue,cooperation promotion
REPROduction protocols and molecular tools for mass spawning and communal rearing based SELective breeding schemes applied to multiple-spawning marine fish (REPROSEL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Norway,Greece,Italy,Spain,Spain,Israel,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-15
End date: 2012-10-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1535397.2
EU funding (EUR): 1180089.02
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Selective breeding schemes are widely recognized as efficient means to improve aquaculture production. Compared to the individual selection, family-based selection allows a better control of inbreeding and represents the only alternative to improve disease resistance and slaughter traits. However, fish farmers are reluctant to invest in such programs due to the high requirements for space, labour and maintenance. In addition, the sib groups produced may result inadequate when the artificial fertilisation is not fully mastered. This is a limitation for the emergence of breeding programs for multiple-spawning species. However, molecular markers are presented as valid tools to enhance breeding programs, in particular for parentage inference of selection candidates reared in communal tanks. Microsatellite are the mostly used markers and the assignment of progeny is achieved with specific software. But the genotyping costs, combined with the too low assignment rate of progeny to a single parental pair, restrict their use in selection. Relying on mass spawning to implement selective breeding schemes is the challenge this project proposes to tackle. The European seabass and the gilthead seabream are the target species that will be the subject of the following research objectives: understand the spawning kinetics and propose hormonal therapies to develop mass spawning protocols allowing equalised parental contribution; develop highly informative STRs multiplexes and SNPs microchips and optimise an allocation software to maximise the rate of single match at the lower cost; optimise selection models adapted to new mating designs to get the best genetic response while controlling the rate of inbreeding. Based on the projects results, a business plan will be prepared, accompanied by a cost-effectiveness analysis of the proposed strategy. It will result in the reinforcement of existing breeding programs and the emergence of new breeding initiatives.

Keywords: hormonal induction spawning kinetics multiplex snp microsatellite inbreeding genetic progress
Temperature Sensor Coatings for Smart Machining Tools (TURNCOAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Belgium,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1724081.0
EU funding (EUR): 1314213.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

We are seeking FP7 funding for the design and development of a machining tool with a wear-resistant ceramic thin film temperature sensor, for in-situ, continuous wireless monitoring of the temperature during a machining operation. The main benefits are • machining process optimalisation • Optimal use of the tools within their temperature range resulting in increased lifetime of the tool • Detection of end-of-life of the tool: changing tools just in time and minimal scrap production • Optional integration in a Tool Condition Monitoring System for full automated production

Keywords: temperature sensors in pvd coatings
Corline Heparin Technology - Enabling Regenerative Medicine (CORLINE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1465000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1135500.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Regenerative Medicine (use of cells and tissue to replace or heal impaired functions in the body, RM) is one of the fastest growing areas in today’s medicine, and has the potential to offer treatment to patients with diseases that are currently untreatable. In many new areas of RM there is however a need to improve the outcome of RM concepts and technologies for it to become a viable option to traditional medicine, or even to motivate the risk of clinical trials and treatments. One of the main problems in several RM areas is that a large portion of the cell and tissue material is lost or made dysfunctional during and shortly after transplantation and that the transplant does not connect to the host tissue as a functional new graft. The specific scientific objective of this project is twofold: 1) to clinically test and prove that Corline Heparin Surfaces (CHS) can be used to protect donated human insulin producing cells that are transplanted to severe cases of Diabetes Type 1 patients, and 2) to broaden the application of the technology and show that the CHS technology can function as a protective and revascularization promoting technology for other Regenerative Medicine areas. The goal is to show CHS’s further applicability to Liver Cell therapy, Xeno transplantation of Islet of Langerhans and to Tissue Engineering In addition to the detailed scientific objective, this project has a specific technological objective. The technological objective of this project is to, in partnerships with the participating SMEs, improve European top grade clinical Regenerative Medicine products by combining them with the CHS technology, transferring the application knowledge and integrating the CHS technology into the partners’ cell and tissue production processes, and to set up a reliable sourcing chain with supply and production of reagents and tissue products to end-user.

Keywords: regenerative medicine,heparin,diabetes type 1,liver cell therapy,xeno transplantation of islet of langerhans,tissue engineering
SEA Kinetic Energy Recovery System (SEAKERS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,France,Norway,United Kingdom,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1143082.0
EU funding (EUR): 880704.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

SEAKERS originates from a joint initiative of top level SMEs and players of the marine yachting sector, aiming at introducing a high impact potential innovation, which it is expected to provide a valuable market and economic return; the SMEPs partnered together in order to develop a research and industrial action plan. SEAKERS intends to make available an innovative device, both in is concept and in its functions, consisting in a kinetic energy recovery system for yachts, exploiting undesired boat body movements caused by the sea, performing the simultaneous function of electricity generator and inertial dumper, improving onboard comfort. The expectations of the SMEPS is to impact current yachting technology and lead to the market a special boat concept, characterised by a strong distinctive character, easily recognised and appreciated by yacht customers.

Keywords: renewable energy energy recovery power electronics wave energy conversion
Nutritional and shelf stable milk by novel microwave processing (MICROMILK)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Norway,Germany,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1315422.0
EU funding (EUR): 960522.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

We are a consortium of European SMEs that has identified a promising low energy, time efficient and easy to clean microwave milk processing system that can improve nutritional value and taste of milk and milk products due to shorter heating times required to reach the holding temperatures during heating. Microwave heating will enhance the advantages of UHT (Ultra High Temperature) milk by improving the nutritional and organoleptic quality, comparable to “fresh” HTST (High Temperature Short Time) pasteurised and ESL (Extended shelf life) conventionally-treated milks. The novel system will also increase the shelf life of microwave-treated HTST and ESL milks by reducing the risk of contamination via equipment. Currently most used technology is heating by plate heat exchangers, which requires a cleaning in place system to be used quite often because of milk layers burning at the surfaces of the equipments, leading to increased shut down time. The milk industry aims at reducing the cleaning time of milk processing plants to increase the production time. Therefore, one of the major advantages of the MicroMilk system is the rapid achievement of retention temperature by direct interaction of milk with microwaves; resulting in easier cleanability with subsequent reduction of cleaning time and the minimisation of contamination sources via equipment. Objectives: Create an electro-thermal model of microwave cavity to enable controlled and uniform heating; Design, simulate, optimize and develop a demo-system at 60 l/h; Enhance the microbiological, nutritional and organoleptic quality and the shelf life of milk; Reduce the cleaning time and minimise the contamination sources of milk via equipment; Full HACCP and GMP compliance; Decrease cost of milk treatment from €1,200/tonne with state of the art systems to less than €1,000/tonne, leading the SME participants to &gt; €18million in shared profit within five years after the end of this project.

Keywords: understanding of rapid and controled milk heating with reference to quality
Solvent purification and recycling in the process industry using innovative membrane technology (SOLVER)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Portugal,Netherlands,Ireland,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-02
End date: 2012-12-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 959038.62
EU funding (EUR): 658734.62
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Solvents are widely used in process industries such as chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, biotechnology and microelectronics. The recovery of spent solvents containing all types of impurities presents a vast market, targeting thousands of small to medium sized companies in Europe that are generating highly as well as marginally polluted solvent streams. Many current solvent purification and manufacturing practices utilise a traditional, energy-intensive distillation-based technology in the production and/or recovery of liquid chemicals. This method of processing is costly, inefficient and produces a significant volume of hazardous waste. This project, SOLVER, proposes to debottleneck the heating step as well as the thermal chemical reactions involved, and replace them with membrane separation techniques working at room temperatures and able to achieve separations at the molecular level, i.e. pervaporation (PV) and organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN). Such chemical process intensification in solvent recovery and purification is expected to lead to significant improvements in product cost, materials usage, energy and waste reduction, as well as a decrease in risk and hazards. Thanks to the interdisciplinary and complementary skills of the consortium members, SOLVER aims at demonstrating the potential of OSN/PV technology in solvent manufacturing through lab-scale and pilot testing, but also at more fundamentally understanding the processes and the behavior of the membranes during filtration. The latter will be pursued by advanced characterization and on-line process monitoring tools. SOLVER joins two types of innovative SME end-users building out new business lines to stay ahead of competition. Two SMEs are active in solvent recycling/manufacturing, the other two in OSN/PV membrane production. The SME partners form a strategic supply chain and are expected to continue to leverage on the technological head-start after the project, take the results of the RTD work directly to the market, find new applications for their products, and be the market leaders in their respective sectors.

Keywords: ceramic membrane,polymeric membrane,nanofiltration,ultrafiltration,pervapouration,membrane module,organic solvent,solvent recovery
International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Sweden,Sweden,Denmark,Greenland,Norway,United Kingdom,Iceland,Russian Federation,Germany,United States,Greece,Canada,Faroe Islands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9507984.8
EU funding (EUR): 7300000.0
Participants: 33
Project status: CLOSED

Environmental change and particularly amplified global climate change are accelerating in the Arctic. These changes already affect local residents and feedback from the Arctic’s land surface to the climate system, will have global implications. However, climate change and its impacts are variable throughout the wide environmental and land use envelopes of the Arctic. Unfortunately, the Arctic is generally remote, sparsely populated and research and monitoring activities are more restricted in time and space than elsewhere. This limitation comes when there is a rapidly expanding need for knowledge as well as increasing technological opportunities to make data collection in the field and accessibility more efficient. INTERACT is a network under the auspices of SCANNET, a circumarctic network of terrestrial field bases. INTERACT specifically seeks to build capacity for research and monitoring in the European Arctic and beyond. Partnerships will be established between Station Managers and researchers within Joint Research Activities that will develop more efficient networks of sensors to measure changing environmental conditions and make data storage and accessibility more efficient through a single portal. New communities of researchers will be offered access to Arctic terrestrial infrastructures while local stakeholders as well as major international organisations will be involved in interactions with the infrastructures. This will lead to increased public awareness of environmental change and methods to adapt to them, increased access to information for education at all levels, and input to major international research and assessment programmes.The whole consortium will form a coherent and integrated unit working within a concept of a wide environmental and land use envelopes in which local conditions determine the directions and magnitudes of environmental change whereas the balance and synergies of processes integrated across the whole region have global impacts.

Keywords: arctic terrestrial research stations,sensors,feedbacks,geo-tagged data,environmental monitoring
Human Rights versus Democracy? Towards a conceptual genealogy of skepticism about human rights in contemporary Political Thought (RESIST)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 793998.93
EU funding (EUR): 793998.93
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this research project is to outline a conceptual genealogy and a critical typology of the theoretical arguments that have been advanced, in the name of democracy, against the dominant human rights discourse of contemporary societies. In light of the prolific literature on human rights in general, we might expect the counter arguments made since the Declarations of 1776 and 1789 to have been widely explored as an area of interest. This is not, however, the case. Whereas the reactionary critique of human rights dates far back and is well known, its modern equivalent which often draws in important ways from the liberal tradition is far less familiar terrain to political theorists. However, the central hypothesis running through this project is that challenges to human rights discourse must not be confused with antiliberal or antidemocratic stances. The main types of critique will be outlined, with an emphasis on their complexity and diverse nature, thus resisting the temptation to generalise them as part of a tradition of opposition to legal-political modernity. This typology will then be supplemented with historical contextualisation. Contemporary examples of the democratic critique of the primacy of human rights will be compared with historical examples of thinkers who criticised human rights as such, notably Bentham, Burke, Marx, De Maistre, Comte and Schmitt. The key research question is whether a common critical aim can be articulated from different intellectual starting points that are otherwise far apart; and whether or not the structure of the arguments that run through these approaches significantly changes the type of critique advanced.

Keywords: political theory,human rights,democracy,liberalism,communitarianism,republicanism,atomism