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EUROPEAN MICROKELVIN COLLABORATION (MICROKELVIN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Finland,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Slovakia,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5396177.4
EU funding (EUR): 4199988.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

It is an unfortunate truth that the current electronics is facing a brick wall in a decade or so when Moore's law has finally run its course and no further miniaturization is possible. We need something new. Coherent electron circuitry may provide that entirely new alternative. In nanocircuits the electrons can behave coherently over the circuit dimension and thus follow the rules of wave motion rather than Ohm's law. To achieve coherence, however, electron scattering lengths must be larger than the sample size. That demands high purity to limit impurity scattering, but even limiting thermal scattering, by working at millikelvin temperature, we are still confined to circuits on the nanoscale. This provides the motivation for this application: there is an implicit imperative in nanoscience that there are enormous advantages to be gained at much lower temperatures. Despite the clear demand, nanoscience in general is inhibited from advancing beyond the millikelvin regime by a lack of appropriate expertise and facilities. However, in Europe we already have the greatest concentration of microkelvin infrastructure and espertise in the world, developed by our quantum-fluids community. By integration and rationalization MICROKELVIN aims to put this existing infrastructure at the disposal of the wider community and together develope new techniques and materials to bring corerent structures into the completely new regime. Our ultimate aim is the creation of a virtual European microkelvin "laboratory without walls" operating as a single entity. Integration will also allow us to pool our existing expertise and project it outword by greating new stand-alone machines able to access this temperature range anywhere. Such activity will also encourage European commercial interest in this opportunity. This advance is inevitable in the long term, but the European lead in the microkelvin field gives us the opportunity now to be the first with this new development. The infrastructure is there. The need is manifest. We simply have to bring the two together.

Keywords: ultra low temperature physics,quantum phenomena,cryoengineering,refrigeration,nanophysics
Integration of emerging soft nanotechnology into the functionalisation of textiles (NANOBOND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Hungary,France,United Kingdom,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2212845.68
EU funding (EUR): 1678871.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

One key area of the European textile industry is the technical development of products and processes for reducing contamination and the removal of stains of all kinds from manufactured articles, including textiles. To a large part this is necessary for keeping up performance and function, often for health reasons, although sometimes this is for purely aesthetic effects. Thus, easy-to-clean, soil release and antimicrobial properties are linked aspects that are of great importance such: health and avoidance of cross-contamination in medical textiles; improvement in comfort and freshness in consumer apparel; reduction of spoilage or wastage during storage and transport; increase useful lifetime of articles. These benefits further contribute to the overall goal of sustainable product development, to save energy and to protect our water resources. As alternative to commonly used biocidal chemicals, we propose a new surface modification concept that can control surface microbial contamination, particularly the development of bacterial colonies and biofilms. Taking into account the needs of customers and environmental protection, the NanoBond Project aims to develop a new antimicrobial “soft nanotechnology” that comprises: •Adaptability to a wide range of consumer and industrial applications. •A responsive technology that adapts to the particular requirement for anti-microbial effect without “swamping” the environment with the un-restrained release of chemical antimicrobial agents, which is typical of other antimicrobial technologies. •Highly-tailored solutions by altering the characteristics of the polymeric nano-film. The NanoBond Project will exploit the “soft nanotechnology” to create nano-structured and functional surfaces that can impart multiple beneficial properties, or can act as a scaffold for the further incorporation of other performance finishes. •Durability and effectiveness for the life of the goods. •Easy application and low application levels.

Keywords: functional textile-antimicrobial-nanocoating-surface activation-soft nanotechnology
Erwin Schroedinger Fellowships (SCHROEDINGER FELLOWS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-3-COFUND, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5959452.0
EU funding (EUR): 2383780.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With this proposal the FWF applies for COFUND of the Erwin Schrödinger Programm the largest Outgoing-Program in Austria for basic research at postdoc level open to all disciplines and destinations. According to the objectives of the COFUND-action the programm aims to support researchers to work abroad at leading research institutions and on leading research programmes to open up new areas of knowledge, new scientific approaches, methods and techniques. In this way it helps the fellows broadening and deepening their competence and establishing long lasting international cooperations. The very high impact on career development of the Schrödinger fellows has been shown in the program evaluation. By improving the program with the possibilty to apply also for a reintegration-phase, the FWF wants to facilitate the critical return phase for the fellows and on a long turn counter the brain drain from Austria and consequently from the ERA.

Keywords: health sciences,humanities,natural sciences,physical sciences,social sciences,technological sciences
Thermal management with carbon nanotube architectures (THEMA-CNT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Spain,Belgium,Hungary,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3465764.13
EU funding (EUR): 2530750.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

To overcome the difficulties in the contemporary thermal management of Si components and packages made of ceramics and organic laminates, in this project we propose novel and scaleable cooling technologies that utilize carbon nanotubes and their architectures integrated on various electrical components to achieve cooling efficiency of 100 W/m2 on large area Si chips, 10 W/cm2 on ceramics/polymer packages and 1 kW/cm2 on micro hot spots. Our efforts in the project are focused on generating specifically tailored nanostructured carbon based materials that are crucial for the successful development of new thermal management technologies in current and future electronics. The technologies we are developing will enable direct integration of carbon nanotube architectures in electrical components and make a feasible protocol for upscaling for industrial use. As carbon nanotubes will be directly grown (and in some cases post-mounted) on Si chips/wafers and ceramic/plastic packages the process will be made compatible with conventional Si fabrication and micromodule packaging technologies, i.e. the technology would provide a ready protocol for large scale production of such components. Because of the compatibility with current technologies, the nanotube based cooling devices and production technologies will be cost effective and easy to commercialize. Since thermal management is the most crucial issue in today’s high performance electrical devices (processors, power transistors) the market potential of our innovation is enormous exceeding several billion € total sales every year.

Keywords: nanotechnology,cooling,electronics,carbon nanotubes,upscaling,integration
Forest biorefineries: Added-value from chemicals and polymers by new integrated separation, fractionation and upgrading technologies (AFORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Portugal,Germany,Austria,Greece,Norway,Romania,Sweden,Austria,United States,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10746919.07
EU funding (EUR): 7600000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The approach of AFORE project is to develop novel, industrially adaptable and techno-economically viable bio-based solutions for the separation, fractionation, and primary upgrading of green chemicals from forest residues, wood chips, and chemical pulping liquors to be used as starting materials for current and novel value-added applications. It is targeted that by this means European forest and pulping industry can substantially increase its profitability and overall income within 10 years with positive impact on the waste formation and sustainability of the process. The project will focus on two paths, namely upgrading the current kraft pulping process into a multi-product biorefinery concept and development of entirely new wood-based biorefinery concepts, in which the wood cellulose is exploited in value-added applications with simultaneous production of a multitude of novel non-cellulosic products. The success of the technological developments will be evaluated using different modelling and assessment tools and by pilot and mill scale demonstrations. The techno-economical evaluations will also include a thorough investigation of how the new side-stream -based value chains will affect the current end-uses (mainly energy) as well as the environmental footprint of production. The multidisciplinary project consortium consists of research and industrial partners covering the whole value chain from wood to end products. The expertises of the partners include wood and pulp and paper processing, physical, chemical and biotechnical biomaterial processing, component isolation and upgrading, sophisticated biomaterial analysis, environmental and techno-economical modelling and assessment of processes, products and business scenarios related thereof.

Keywords: wood and pulping side-streams,novel pulping methods,separation,fractionation,upgrading,bioprocessing,cellulose,hemicellulose,lignin,low mm compounds,demonstration,lca,business assessment
Researchers in Cyprus Care About the Environment (RECARE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2008-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 101198.01
EU funding (EUR): 70000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The Research Promotion Foundation has been organising the Researchers’ Night events in Cyprus since 2006. The main objective of the proposed RE-CARE project taking place on the 26 September 2008 is to attract a large number of people from various age groups, giving them the opportunity to meet with the researchers in person, to understand what researchers do for their living and how their "job" affects our lives. This year’s event organised will be dedicated to the Environment and it will aim at highlighting the importance of environmentally related research and the main actors behind it – the Cypriot researchers from various scientific backgrounds. The geographical position, the morphology and the history of the island of Cyprus underline the importance of the environmentally related research that is currently conducted by various research organisations, both in the private and in the public sector. The project will be coordinated by the Research Promotion Foundation and it will involve the participation of researchers from a number of interested public authorities as well as universities and research centres covering the areas of environment, energy, water resources, fisheries and sea, forestry, etc. The activities taking place during the night will focus on the interaction between researchers and the wider public in a pleasant environment and will include the following: (1) Research Exhibition – Hands on Experiments, (2) Award Ceremony, (3) Photo Competition “Portrait of a Researcher” Exhibition, (4) European Corner, (5) Music Entertainment (DJ and Live Music Concert of the Tat- Tnabar Group, (6) Stars Observation Unit, (7) “Fotinos Pantognostis” Game and (8) Technology and Innovation in Education Competition Exhibition. The success of the proposed project will be assisted by a sound awareness campaign and by the commitment of both the people and the organisations that will be involved in order to ensure the European visibility of Researchers' Night events.

Keywords: researchers' night,cyprus
Intestinal, Liver and Endothelial Nanoparticle Toxicity Development and evaluation of a novel tool for high-throughput data generation. (INLIVETOX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,United States,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3420762.33
EU funding (EUR): 2399989.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The InLiveTox project will form an interdisciplinary consortium at the European level, together with a key American research group to develop an improved in vitro model for the study of nanoparticle (NP) uptake, transport and cellular interaction, thus advancing our understanding of NP toxicity. Rather than repeat what has, or is being done in the field of aerosol NP and lung toxicology, InLiveTox will focus on the impact of NP exposure via ingestion, in the healthy and diseased gastrointestinal (GI) tract, vascular endothelium and liver. The key questions in this study are: (i) How do these tissues individually respond to NPs? (ii) How do the interactions between the different tissues modulate their responses? (iii) How does inflammation affect the toxicity of NPs and their ability cross the intestinal barrier? (iv) Which physico-chemical characteristics of NPs influence their uptake by intestinal epithelial cells and their subsequent interactions with endothelial and liver cells? The objective of InLiveTox will be to develop a novel modular microfluidics-based in vitro test system modelling the response of cells and tissues to the ingestion of NPs. Cell culture modules of target tissues such as the GI tract, the liver and the endothelium will be connected via a microfluidics system so that knock-on and cross talk effects between organs and tissues can be monitored. A major innovative aspect of the InLiveTox project pertains to the implementation of biological tissue models in a microfabricated compartmental cell culture system that allows multiple cell types to be addressed and investigated in combination. This system will be much easier, more convenient and ethically less questionable than animal testing, as well as more relevant than the in vitro single cell /co-culture models currently used. For this study, applications of the model will focus on NP toxicology, but the system could also be widely used in various applications of toxicology and pharmacology.

Keywords: nanoparticle,toxicology,in vitro testing,microfluidics,multiple-tissue model,ingestion
Researchers' Web In Society (RE.WEB.I.S.)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 60580.0
EU funding (EUR): 60580.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Hellenic Oceanographers’ Association and the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development aim to undertake ‘Researchers’ Night 2008’, the network trying to raise researchers’ public recognition on Friday 26th September 2008 across Europe. Thus, the consortium intends to hold an outdoor event called ‘Researchers’ Web In Society’ (Re.Web.I.S.) in one of the most central locations of Athens, on Propylaia Square. ‘Re.Web.I.S.’ will be presented in the form of an interdisciplinary ‘web’ woven by the three partners where scientists of biology, chemistry, geology and physics will try to communicate to the public their work in relation to the natural world, as well as their involvement in the climate change and greenhouse effect research. The researchers will try to raise the alarm concerning the new global changes in a comprehensible, lay yet scientific, and at the same time festive way highlighting that science is the means for the achievement of a better life and future. On the entertainment aspect, there will be three-dimensional simulations to give attendees the chance to experience certain phenomena, light-hearted games and performances. Therefore, ‘Re.Web.I.S.’ hopes to constitute a central massive event addressing audiences of all age categories, backgrounds and interests mingling them with researchers, giving them the chance to interact with scientists in a relaxed atmosphere.

Keywords: researcher,interdisciplinary,climate change,propylaia,research,society,athens.
Researchers' Night 2008 in Iceland (VISINDAVAKA 2008)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 137590.26
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The 2008 Researchers' night in Iceland, VISINDAVAKA 2008, aims at modifying the public’s perception of scientists by gathering people together at Researchers’ Night in Iceland and giving them a chance to meet with researchers and get acquainted with their activities in an informal and lively manner. An intensive awareness campaign will precede the event, as to mobilise the largest possible audience and make aware of the Researchers 'night and its purposes the largest possible part of the population. To do so, all the communication means addressing the large public as such will be mobilised. A lot of activities will be offered during the event itself, from lectures, presentations demonstrations, hands-on experiments, etc., all organsied in an interactive way and allowing a direct contact between researchers and participants. Some purely festive activities are also planned, in order to offer the public an opportunity to meet with researchers on equal terms and share fun with them. The project will be organsied around the four following work packages: •Awareness Campaign •Activities during the Researchers’ Night •Impact Assessment •Management The impact of the event will be accurately assessed through questionnaires, interviews and enquiries towards participants and researchers themselves. Particular attention will be paid to the public perception of researchers and its possible evolution compared to previous similar events.

Keywords: scientists,people,science,public,children,young people,promotion,competitions
A pilot line of antibacterial and antifungal medical textiles based on a sonochemical process (SONO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,Italy,Spain,Romania,Russian Federation,Poland,Romania,Italy,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12038142.6
EU funding (EUR): 8300000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections are a major financial issue in the European healthcare system. The financial impact of these infections counteract medical advances and expensive medical treatments by increasing the length of hospital stay by at least 8 days on average per affected patient, hence adding more than 10 millions patient days in hospitals in Europe per year. The statistics on patient safety in the EU show alarming tendencies : - 1 in 10 patients are affected by hospital-acquired infections - 3 million deaths are caused by hospital-acquired infections An active infection control program of patients and personnel and hygiene measures, have proven to significantly reduce both the number of infections and hospitalisation costs . The SONO project directly addresses the above problems by developing a pilot line for the production of medical antibacterial textiles. The pilot line will be based on the scale-up of a sonochemical process developed and patented at BIU laboratories. The pilot line will use a sonochemical technique to produce and deposit inorganic, antimicrobial nanoparticles on medical textiles, e.g. hospital sheets, medical coats and bandages. Sonicators are used industrially for heavy and light duty cleaning, for water disinfection and for sewage treatment. It is also used in the food industry for emulsification and drying. The proposed concept based on one step sonochemical process to produce nanoparticles and impregnate them as antibacterial factors on textile is novel and does not exist on an industrial scale. The concept has already been proven (and patented ) on a lab scale where sonochemistry was applied to impregnate nanoparticles in a single-step process. It was demonstrated that due to the special properties of the sonochemical method the antibacterial nanoparticles are adsorbed permanently on the fibres even after 70 “laundry cycles”. The sonochemical impregnation process is a one-step procedure in which the nanopa

Keywords: infection control,healthcare,pilot line,sonochemical,reactor,biocidal textiles,antibacterial,nanoparticles,metrologically