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Nano-structured copper coatings, based on Vitolane technology, for antimicrobial applications (CUVITO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Mexico,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-EU-Mexico, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993334.28
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Antibacterial coatings represent a huge market in healthcare and food sectors.CuVito brings together Mexican mining products and European product development, to produce a state-of-the-art copper nano-structured coating. Bacteria in hospitals present a major health issue.The effectiveness of cleaning is considerably enhanced on smooth, scratch-free surfaces.Anti-bacterial silver coatings are available; however they are not used in hospitals due to cost, effectiveness and durability.Copper offers a low cost, effective and environmentally friendly solution that could be readily adopted. The challenge is to retain copper nano-particles in a structure that provides antibacterial functionality, but prevents leaching.The CuVito consortium believes that the silsesquioxane structure, formed using Vitolane technology is the answer. Silsesquioxanes have the formula RSiO1.5 (where R is an organic ligand), and form cage or ladder structures.They confer hardness and abrasion resistance to coatings and, by selecting appropriate R groups (e.g. acrylate, glycidoxy) can chemically bond to the organic resin in the formulation controlling cross-link density to enhance durability.Hence silsesquioxanes are inherently suited to use in coatings for surfaces which require regular cleaning.Silsesquioxanes have been available for some years but at a prohibitively high cost, due to the complexity of manufacture.Vitolane technology is an alternative, cost effective production route which has been patented and is currently being scaled up commercially.It has a unique processing feature in allowing simple selection of R groups and it is proposed to use this to bond directly to the copper nanoparticles, resolving the issue of leaching.The objectives of the project of the project are: 1.Develop a copper nano-particle production process 2.Functionalise silsesquioxanes with copper using Vitolane technology 3.Produce a commercially acceptable coating 4.Validate coating in a hospital environment

Keywords: antibacterial coatings,copper nano particles,vitolane
Isotope forensics meets biogeochemistry – linking sources and sinks of organic contaminants by compound specific isotope investigation (CSI:ENVIRONMENT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Netherlands,Spain,Poland,Czechia,European organisations area,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3985028.25
EU funding (EUR): 3985028.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The initial training network CSI: ENVIRONMENT aims at training 16 young scientists in the discipline of compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) for environmental and forensic investigations. Linking sources and sinks of organic contaminants is a major challenge in contemporary environmental science. Chemicals can be released to the environment when leaving their field of application, intended or accidentally. It is a challenge to relate the origin of spills, transport and subsequent distribution in the environment and to analyse potential sinks and elimination pathways at a local, regional and global scale. This network brings together international experts in the field of isotope chemistry and related fields for training the next generation of young scientists in the field of environmental forensics using stable isotope techniques. Isotope analysis offers a unique opportunity to obtain information of sources, transport, degradation pathways and sinks of contaminants in the environment which will be urgently needed in the future. Multi-element isotope fingerprinting of chemically complex substances can be used to elucidate transformation pathways making use of isotope fractionation processes altering the reactive position and to analyse the isotope composition of an organic molecule to track sources. Concepts and applications are available for the more simple organic contaminants such as BTEX, chlorinated ethenes and MTBE but not for more complex organic contaminants such as pesticides or brominated flame retardants. Thus, the aim of this ITN is to train young scientist in development of concepts for the application of isotope tools to assess the fate of organic chemicals in the environment. Young scientists will be educated in the field of isotope forensics, pushing forward the frontiers of current isotope techniques to develop new areas of isotope applications in both fundamental and applied environmental sciences.

Keywords: isotope fractionation,organic pollutants,compound specific isotope analysis,isotope forensics,transformation processes,biotic,abiotic
Understanding Transport for Concrete which is Eco friendly iNnovative and Durable (TRANSCEND)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom,Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,France,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4036120.0
EU funding (EUR): 4036120.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Cement is the primary binding phase of concrete. It is millennia old and ubiquitous worldwide. As a building material, it is unrivalled in terms of tonnage used, price per tonne, and CO2 production per tonne. Yet its very success means that cement production account for about 5% of global man-made CO2 emissions. The cement industry urgently requires more sustainable cement based products with equal or better “performance” to current materials over the life time of buildings and infra-structure (~100 years). Most of the CO2 associated with cement manufacture comes mainly from the breakdown of limestone into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. Therefore improvements must come from better materials with different chemistries. If the construction industry is to embrace new materials, then it must trust them. Water transport underpins almost all degradation. Degradation must be understood to ensure durability, which is the major obstacle to the introduction of new, more sustainable cementitious materials. Hence the industry is calling urgently for the researchers with the ability to predict water transport in concretes. Without this, there can be no confidence in the introduction and use of new materials; the status quo based on years of experience but relatively little scientific understanding will prevail for decades to come. Through the TRANSCEND Initial Training Network we will provide the trained personnel who can. (i) Enable the construction industry to predict water transport in cements and concretes and hence design appropriate tests to predict concrete degradation. (ii) Provide a basis for user confidence which enables the cement industry to introduce new more sustainable cements. The network will closely integrate the academic and private sectors. The later will directly employ 4 of the 15 fellows. The formal training programme will provide the basis for a European doctoral school in Cement and Concrete Science and technology.

Keywords: technological sciences
Metabolic Reprogramming by Induction of Transcription (MERIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2883270.0
EU funding (EUR): 2883270.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Plants continually monitor the environment to modify physiology and development at the molecular level to ensure maximal fitness. Central in the signaling network is the SnRK1 kinases (homologous to AMPK and SNF1 in mammals and yeast respectively). These kinases are vital to the energy balance of the organism and regulate primary metabolism by controlling transcription factors, which control the expression of genes encoding key enzymes. SnRK1 signaling and reprogrammed metabolism have turned out to be crucial for establishments of tolerance and sustained growth during stress. This proposal suggests a multilevel approach to signaling in which all levels of the signal transduction pathway are addressed. The proposal is truly interdisciplinary and a wide range of methodology will be deployed ranging from classical physiology to state-of-the-art mass spectrometry based protein and metabolite profiling, massive sequencing of immuno-precipitated chromatin and whole genome expression profiling. This will be further supported by bioinformatic approaches, phylogenetical as well as network based. The aim is to understand the mechanisms regulating energy balance in plants and their impact on plant performance under stress. Improved stress tolerance of plants is of strategic importance in a world with rising population and changing climate. This strategic importance as well as future recruitment possibilities motivates the high involvement of industrial partners in the proposed activities. The proposed training activities will coach future top-performers for professional career in the biotech industry as well as in the academia. The training program includes network-wide workshops (methodology, industry relevant skills and more) as well as structured local training in the host institutions. Important is a rich schedule of secondments in witch the young researchers will learn new technologies, widen their scientific horizons and establish their academic networks.

Keywords: plant,arabidopsis,crop development,signaling,stress,transcription factor,kinase,metabolomics,proteomics,bioinformatics and molecular interactions
Training Research and Applications Network to Support the Mitigation of Ionospheric Threats (TRANSMIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Poland,Germany,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Croatia,Germany,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3922842.4
EU funding (EUR): 3922842.4
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

TRANSMIT will provide a coordinated programme of academic and industrial training in an area of immediate interest to the European society. It focuses on atmospheric phenomena that can significantly impair a wide range of systems and applications that are at the core of several activities embedded in our daily life. TRANSMIT deals with the harmful effects of the ionosphere on these systems, which will become increasingly significant as we approach the next solar maximum, predicted for 2013. It will gather major European stakeholders in a large multi-site ITN to develop real time integrated state of the art tools to mitigate ionospheric threats to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and several related applications, such as civil aviation, marine navigation and land transportation. TRANSMIT will expand the European knowledge base and ensure its sustainability by preparing young researchers in a multidisciplinary, intersectorial, industry-led training programme. Its driving forces are the EC prediction of an annual global market for GNSS of €300bn by 2020 and the fact that Europe’s own GNSS, Galileo, will be fully operational by 2013, just when the impact of the ionosphere will be greatest. GNSS satellite signals and any others operating below 10 GHz, including communications (satellite and HF), remote sensing and Earth observation systems, are extremely vulnerable to ionospheric phenomena. This formidable fast growing community lacks robust counter-measures to deal with these threats. Advancement in this area has been limited by: • A shortage of human resources in relevant Engineering disciplines; • The lack of a multidisciplinary framework where the various specialist research groups can devise solutions of practical value to end users. TRANSMIT will overcome this by providing a concerted training programme including taught courses, research projects and secondments that will arm the researchers of tomorrow with the necessary skills and knowledge.

Keywords: global navigation satellite systems,galileo,gps,glonass,egnos,ionosphere,perturbation,scintillation,solar cycle,communications,civil aviation,safety critical,geodesy,mitigation
Academic-Industrial Initial Training Network on Innovative Biocompatible Titanium-base Structures for Orthopaedics (BIOTINET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,Austria,United Kingdom,Poland,Greece,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571711.82
EU funding (EUR): 3571711.82
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

BioTiNet ITN is an inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral and multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers who will help to improve the overall efficiency of metallic implants in orthopedic treatment by minimizing the stress shielding effect, and promote technical, biological and clinical developments at a pan-European level, for the benefit of all European inhabitants. BioTiNet ITN brings together 12 leading European research groups which possess state of the art expertise and excellent research infrastructures to provide opportunities for 18 young scientists to receive exceptional, high-level training in biomedical materials, with special emphasis on the development of novel low-rigidity Titanium-based structures for orthopaedic use. The project will screen and explore a wide structural spectrum with specific characteristics, balancing the advantages of a reduced Young’s modulus and the best resistance to deformation, which will help relieve problems with stress shielding. The novel Titanium-base structures will meet the end-user/customer requirements of biomechanical and biochemical functionality and also the material producers requirement of processing. The research program comprises four complementary research work packages, designed to deliver to the young researchers the most relevant state of the art knowledge and expertise in the biomaterials research field for a career development in line with the scientific, industrial and societal needs and challenges. Network-wide and local research training activities, training in complementary skills dedicated to biomaterials field (entrepreneurship, ethics, communication, innovation, IPR, project management etc.) and the cooperation with industrial partners will guarantee the complete training in this scientific field of a new generation of scientists, thus allowing them to become European professionals with excellent career perspectives.

Keywords: research training,biomaterials,titanium,nano-engineering,orthopaedic applications
Circuit and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (CCQED)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Austria,Germany,Hungary,France,Germany,Switzerland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3513617.44
EU funding (EUR): 3513617.44
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

This network will bridge two very active disciplines in physics, namely the quantum electrodynamics of atoms or ions strongly interacting with light in resonators, and the emerging field of solid-state superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamics. Advanced techniques will be developed jointly with industry partners for the manipulation of a deterministic number of particles - atoms, ions or artificial atoms - with electromagnetic fields covering the microwave and the optical frequency spectrum. The interdisciplinary training of a new generation of young researchers will strengthen the European expertise in those fields, and will allow for a new discipline to emerge that combines single-atom control methods with superconductor micro-chip fabrication. The use of high-quality resonators, whether superconducting transmission lines or highly-reflecting mirrors, coupled to a controlled number of particles will open novel avenues to explore quantum dynamics via hitherto inaccessible physical mechanisms. These new control scenarii will be strengthened by the development of potentially marketable technologies of great multidisciplinary interest. The network groups 10 research centres and 3 companies representing the cutting edge of research in the quantum electrodynamics of fundamental systems in Europe. The network will train 12 ESRs and 2 ERs, with focus on (i) establishing bonds between solid-state and quantum optics physics, (ii) strengthening the communication between theory and experiment, and, (iii) concretizing links between fundamental and applied research. Prominent scientists and industry leaders will contribute to the schools and workshops. Special attention will be given on developing complementary skills, such as communication, presentation, project planning and management.

Keywords: physical sciences,fundamental and applied,cavity,circuit,electrodynamics,atom,photon,quantum optics,superconductivity,technology,stable lasers,fast electronics
Postgraduate Research on Photonics as an Enabling Technology (PROPHET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,France,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Poland,Italy,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4797870.0
EU funding (EUR): 4797870.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Photonics is an important enabling technology for a wide range of applications in diverse areas. The photonics industry in Europe accounted for revenues of €49 billion in 2006, and is expected to soon exceed that of microelectronics. In the training network proposed here, a cohort of 14 early stage researchers and 5 young experienced researchers will be trained in the full gamut of skills required for a career in photonics, including materials growth, device fabrication, characterisation, design, theory, and commercialisation. A carefully-chosen, well-balanced consortium of 9 academic partners, 4 full industry partners and 2 associated partners are well placed to provide the training in these skills, with European and worldwide reputations as leaders in each field. These skills will be applied in four application areas; mode-locked lasers for Communications applications, solar cells for Energy applications, gas sensing for Environment applications, and fast tunable laser sources for OCT in Life Science applications. Each researcher will experience both academic and commercial environments thanks to the strong industrial involvement, resulting in multi-skilled, industry-focused graduates. PROPHET thus directly addresses the need for additional skilled photonics professionals, as identified by the European Technology Platform, Photonics21.

Keywords: photonics,semiconductor lasers,quantum dots,mems,gas sensing,oct,mode-locked lasers,photovoltaic cells
European Intersectorial and Multi-disciplinary Palliative Care Research Training (EURO IMPACT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Norway,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3985787.98
EU funding (EUR): 3985787.98
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

EURO IMPACT aims to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and intersectorial educational and research training network aimed at monitoring and improving palliative care in Europe. Palliative care is less than optimal in many developed countries and some patients suffer from severe symptoms. While international research on palliative care has begun to develop over the past decades, it has not kept pace with the growing demand for high quality care. The increase in elderly people, chronic diseases and health care costs, makes the provision of enhanced research training in palliative care one of the most urgent societal challenges at EU level. The training and research programme of EURO IMPACT are closely intertwined, involving 4 universities, 2 private companies and 3 socio-economic actors, and training 12 early stage and 4 experienced researchers. The partners are at the forefront of palliative research training and represent a wide spectrum of disciplines and professions. The research training involves researchers working together, with different methodologies and datasets gathered in different countries and from multiple perspectives. It will provide a broad overview on palliative care and its quality in Europe and identify tools to improve it. On-the-job training will be supplemented with structured courses concerning palliative care research and network-wide training on multi-disciplinary, ethics, cross-national research and societal dissemination. In order to influence policy and clinical practice in palliative care, all partners and researchers are involved in societal dissemination of the training results to a wider national and international audience. EURO IMPACT reduces current fragmentation of research training in palliative care and provides the new generation of European researchers with the necessary scientific and complementary skills to influence future palliative care at national and international level, and at practice and policy level.

Keywords: social sciences,social medicine,palliative care,end of life