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Integrated Biotechnological Solutions for Combating Marine Oil Spills (Kill●Spill)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Kill●Spill delivers innovative (bio)technologies, which can be integrated to the real sequences of state-of-the-art actions used currently to cleanup oil spills. The catalogue of Kill●Spill products & technologies is based on a review of technology & knowledge gaps in approaches of oil spill disasters and brings appropriate tools for 1st response, follow-up, and longer-term actions, specifically t ...
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Renewable energy production through microalgae cultivation: Closing material cycles (ALGAENET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Combination of anaerobic digestion and microalgae growth can be used for the development of closed loop systems, where carbon and nutrients are recycled. Microalgae biomass produced can be fed to an anaerobic bioreactor, where it is converted to biogas. Subsequently, biogas can be used for energy production. CO2 released can be used for microalgae production, as well as the nutrients released duri ...
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Advanced Biological Waste-to-Energy Technologies (BIOWET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The concern of the international community in utilizing renewable energy sources is ever rising. The reasons are both economical (rising oil/gas/coal prices) and ecological (greenhouse gas emission mitigation). Biological methods for energy production such as anaerobic digestion or microbial fuel cells have a great potential to substitute fossil fuels. Moreover, these biological methods often util ...
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Control and Real-Time Optimisation of Intensive Polymerisation Processes (COOPOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Transition of processing industries towards a more sustainable model of manufacturing is one of key priority topics for European Research Area. This transition requires adoption of novel reactor technologies, greener reactions and the increase in the use of intelligent systems in processing industries. The latter means improving processes through use of real-time information and ability to affect ...
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"Development of active, intelligent and sustainable food PACKaging using PolybutyleneSUCCInate" (SUCCIPACK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"SUCCIPACK aims to support European industry efforts to introduce biobased polybutylene succinate (PBS) as a new material on the food packaging market. Its main advantage is that it has complementary properties compared to other biobased polymers like polylactic acid. PBS is synthesized by polycondensation of succinic acid and butanediol, both identified as key “building blocks” from renewable res ...
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Quality and Safety of Feeds and Food for Europe (QSAFFE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"The rearing of healthy European livestock is highly dependent on the provision of high quality and safe feeds. This in turn has a major impact on the safety of the entire animal based food chain. The concept of Q-SAFFE is to deliver better, faster and economically viable means of ensuring the quality and safety of animal feeds in Europe. The Q-SAFFE consortium is composed of academics and governm ...
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Smart INks as a standard TEsting tool for self Cleaning surfaces (INTEC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"This action will explore the utilisation of photocatalyst indicator inks in a CEN standard for the rapid testing of the activities of various different self-cleaning surfaces, including: glass, tiles, paints, fabrics and concrete. The formulations of all the inks will be given in the standard and so freely available. To date, no rapid screening method for assessing photocatalyst activity exists ...
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Safe Food for Europe – Coordination of research activities and Dissemination of research results of EC funded research on food safety (FOODSEG)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"The proposed Coordination and support actions (Coordinating, CSA) has the overall objective to disseminate state-of-the-art research results in food safety and quality topics through a series of symposia, expert working group meetings, an online platform with best practise examples and coordination of cooperation and a plan for the preparation of future activities. In addition to the aim of disse ...
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PROcess contaminants: Mitigation and Elimination Techniques for High food quality and their Evaluation Using Sensors & Simulation (PROMETHEUS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"The PROMETHEUS project will help the European food industry reduce consumer exposure to food processing contaminants without affecting food quality or microbiological safety. PROMETHEUS builds on the previous EU projects HEATOX and ICARE. Its aims are (1) to understand the dynamics of formation of major Processing Contaminants, (2) to provide on-line real time methods to monitor reactions leading ...
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"Microorganism and enzyme Immobilization: NOvel Techniques and Approaches for Upgraded Remediation of Underground-, wastewater and Soil" (MINOTAURUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"MINOTAURUS will deliver innovative bio-processes (bioaugmentation, enzyme technology, rhizoremediation with halophytes, and bioelectrochemical remediation), which are all based on the concept of IMMOBILIZATION OF BIOCATALYSTS (microorganisms and enzymes), to eliminate emerging and classic organic pollutants. The immobilization-based technologies will be applied to engineered (ex-situ) and natural ...
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Nanoparticles in Food: Analytical methods for detection and characterisation (NanoLyse)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The NanoLyse project will focus on the development of validated methods and reference materials for the analysis of engineered nano-particles (ENP) in food and beverages. The developed methods will cover all relevant classes of ENP with reported or expected food and food contact material applications, i.e. metal, metal oxide/silicate, surface functionalised and organic encapsulate (colloidal/micel ...
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BIOFILMS IN BIOREACTORS FOR ADVANCED NITROGEN REMOVAL FROM WASTEWATER (BIONIT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"For both economic and environmental reasons, maximal use of resources present in wastewater is becoming a very important issue. From this perspective, wastewater is not seen as waste that must be disposed off, but as resource that should be utilized. For energy recovery, anaerobic wastewater treatment is an ideal option, but further research and further developments on the application of combined ...
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Chemical Processing by Swarm Robotics (CHOBOTIX)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of the project is to develop chemical processing systems based on the principle of swarm robotics. The inspiration for swarm robotics comes from the behaviour of collective organisms – such as bees or ants – that can perform complex tasks by the combined actions of a large number of relatively simple, identical agents. The main scientific challenge of the project will be the design and syn ...
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Carbohydrate Multivalent Systems as tools to study Pathogen interaction with DC-SIGN (CARMUSYS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The importance of glycosciences in the development of biology and medicine and the central role played by chemistry in this process have recently been pointed out by ESF. However, it appears that exposure of young scientists in their training phase to the chemical biology of carbohydrates is still lacking. This multidisciplinary project intends to approach the design and synthesis of carbohydrate ...
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CONtaminants in Food and Feed: Inexpensive DEtectioN for Control of Exposure (CONffIDENCE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

RASFF alerts show that monitoring of chemical contaminants in food and feed is very relevant in European food safety. Also consumers placed chemical contaminants on top of the “worry-scale” of food-related risks. According to the General Food Law, food and feed industries are responsible for the safety of their products. Often expensive instrumental single-analyte methods are being applied by regu ...
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PERFluorinated Organics in Our Diet (PERFOOD)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Proposal summary Anthropogenic perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have recently gained socio-economic and scientific interest. PFCs constitute a newly emanating group of environmental contaminants, with physico-chemical as well as toxicological properties different from those of other halogenated compounds. PFCs are generally persistent in the environment, and can be found over a broad concentration ...
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Protection of cultural heritage by real-time corrosion monitoring (MUSECORR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"There are many factors affecting air corrosivity, but it is only the temperature and sometimes the relative humidity that are controlled and monitored in indoor premises where valuable and culturally significant objects are stored or displayed. Additional anti-corrosion measures are usually applied only when often-irreplaceable historical objects have already been affected. Information on the act ...
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Nanocomposite and Nanostructured Polymeric Membranes for Gas and Vapour Separations (DoubleNanoMem)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

The main scope of the DoubleNanoMem project is the development of nanostructured membranes based on the most appropriate combination of nanofillers with well-defined size and porosity, dispersed in advanced high free volume polymers with inherent nanoporosity for application in specific gas and vapour separations. This approach is driven by the main requirement for successful replacement of tradit ...
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Preventing community and nosocomial spread and infection with MRSA ST 398 - instruments for accelerated control and integrated risk management of antimicrobial resistance (PILGRIM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are of increasing concern both as community- and hospital-acquired pathogens. Since 2005, a specific clone, MRSA ST398 is spreading both in livestock populations and occupationally-exposed people resulting in human infection and disease in several EU Member States. The key objective of the PILGRIM project is to provide a range of novel control m ...
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The Millimeter Wave Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Powerful Tool for the Exploration of Molecules (PRAMICIDIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"By one of very important key for understanding biological processes is knowledge of structure of bio-macromolecules. These molecules have optical activity asymmetry which is connected with macromolecule structure and they absorb across the millimeter wave part of the spectrum due to collective vibrational modes. It is supposed that there will also be significant circular dichroism - differential ...
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Water Electrolysis at Elevated Temperatures (WELTEMP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Hydrogen has the potential to provide a reliable, secure, and clean source of power. The barrier is the challenge of getting hydrogen economically to the point of use. Water electrolyser offers a practical way of hydrogen production in association with renewable energy sources. Compared to the conventional alkaline electrolyte electrolyser, the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser can o ...
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