Closed Competitive calls

Project title: COMPETITIVE CALL FOR AN ADDITIONAL PROJECT PARTNERS

Project acronym: MYORES
Project contract number: 511978

Call announcement: MYORES, the first European project dedicated to Multi-organismic Approach to study Normal and Aberrant Muscle Development, Function and Repair, currently active in the Sixth Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2002-2006) requires the participation of new project partners.

MYORES has retained a specific budget dedicated to favour the integration of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in the project. The overall objective, as described in the MYORES Contract is the transfer of acquired data to biotech and clinical applications. MYORES has identified the following topics for maximising the socio-economic impact of the Network of Excellence.

Project title: COMPETITIVE CALL FOR AN ADDITIONAL PROJECT PARTNER

Project full name: Improving the quality of pork and pork products for the consumer: Development of innovative, integrated, and sustainable food production chains of high quality pork products matching consumer demands.

Project acronym:Q-PorkChains
Project contract number: FOOD-CT-2006-036245
Instrument type: Integrated Project

Call announcement: Q-PorkChains research and technology developments will be completed by applied research in pilot chains and demonstration activities. These are core elements in Q-PorkChains which focus on the involvement of the industry in testing and demonstrating innovations and new technologies. QPorkChains aims at setting up additional pilot and demonstration activities. New industry partners will be integrated via a competitive call in the first part of 2009 (March – May 2009) to test the most promising innovations deriving from the project.

Project title: COMPETITIVE CALL FOR ADDITIONAL PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

Project acronym:- InPro
Project contract number: IP 026716-2
Instrument type: Integrated project
Call announcement: The FP6 InPro project requires the participation of a new project partner to carry out research & development, demonstration and training activities. The successful candidate will become full partner in the consortium with main objectives in the following areas:

• Generate and implement an IFC based model server for research and demonstration
• Support application integration
• Support standardisation, training and dissemination activities

InPro defines a new way of collaborative working in the early design phase in construction. An advanced 3D BIM based Open Information Environment is essential to keep the competitive advantage of the European Construction Industry.

Project title: NanoMembranes against Global Warming

Project title: Integrated Health, Social and Economic Impacts of Extreme Events: Evidence, Methods and Tools

Project title:A multidisciplinary study to identify the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in the European Community

A new SME partner is sought to provide the Consortium with skills in the translation of GABRIEL genetic and genomic findings to the diagnosis and prognosis of clinical asthma. Ideally, the new SME partner will provide access to a tissue bank of asthmatic airway biopsies, lavage specimens, and other biological samples matched with appropriate detailed clinical and respiratory phenotypic information. The ability is sought to investigate these samples with antibodies raised against novel targets from the GABRIEL Intellectual Property and Know-how, with the aim of developing novel biomarkers and therapeutic entities. A track record of utilisation of biopsy material with diagnostic markers is essential

Project title: Call for Selecting New Potential Malaria Vaccine Candidates and the Developing Institutions to Enter into EMVDA

The purpose of the present call is to invite the scientific community to submit a proposal on the clinical testing of a malaria blood stage candidate vaccine. Institutions developing selected candidates will enter into the EMVDA programme, and be encouraged to enter the preclinical comparative platform. As part of the EMVDA programme institutions will be eligible to respond to an internal call for GMP production and phase 1 clinical trials.

Project title: MYORES, (Contract number 511978), European Network of Excellence project dedicated to Multi-organismic Approach to study Normal and Aberrant Muscle Development, Function and Repair.

MYORES has identified several topics in order to:

• develop new technology tools for the optimisation of biotechnology processes (in vitro, in vivo and in silico predictive models, screen tests, pharmacological tests, toxicity assays…) and the use of the generated genomic and post-genomic knowledge.
• The development of proof of concept, new therapeutic or diagnostic applications with a priority for health

MYORES seeks additional SME partners to enter its Joint Programme Activity on the following topics:

• Topic 1.Preparation of a genome-wide RNA interface screen on the mouse C2C12 myogenic cell line to identify novel genes implicated in myoblast fusion
• Topic 2.Development of an instrument to screen the main range of fluorescent tags (e.g. GFP, RFP…) without the need of UV light (suitable for the rapid screening of yeast, fly, worms, cell culture…)
• Topic 3.Development of ChEST (chip enriched in silico target) applications for basic research, functional studies, pharmacological target discovery and in vitro diagnostic.
• Topic 4.Development of an improved RNAi delivery system and optimised observation methods to follow effects and side-effects of RNAi in the chick embryo in vivo.
• Topic 5.Development of the C. Elegans model for screening putative therapeutic molecules and therapeutic applications in muscular diseases.

An applicant may participate/apply to several of these topics and not more than one partner will be accepted by topic. The applicant must aim at developing integration with the MYORES partners through the establishment of a research and development project based on a public/private or private/private partnership where at least one private partner is a SME. Sub-contracting of a service will not be eligible

Project title: New Technologies to Screen Multiple Chemical Contaminants in Foods

Project contract number FOOD-CT-2004-06988
Project acronym- BioCop
Instrument type -Integrated project

The BioCop initiative is a five year Integrated Project (IP), led by Professor Chris Elliott from the Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, Queens University Belfast and is aimed to solve the problems associated with the ability to monitor and prevent chemical contaminants in food products

Currently active in the Sixth Framework programme, BioCop wishes to recruit a new partner from a laboratory organisation to join the existing consortium at the beginning of year 4 and thereon for the remainder of the project. The participation of the new partner is required to carry out certain validation, training and demonstration activities within the project.

The new partner will play an important role in Work Packages 6, 8, 9 and 10 during years 4 and 5 in the testing, validation, training and demonstration of the new methods of analysis developed for heavy metal and mycotoxin contamination in foods, and pesticides and fluoroquinolone monitoring. They will also be required to play an important role in WP12 during year 5 with the demonstration of the new methods of analysis developed for a range of the target compounds included within the project.

The main objectives of BioCop are as follows:

• To develop innovative means of performing sample preparation based on aptamers, microwave and pressurised liquid extraction to permit the rapid co-extraction of multiple chemical contaminants from food matrices.
• To improve existing confirmatory methods to support the newly developed innovative multi-analyte screening procedures (where current chemical methods are known to be inadequate)
• To train scientists to use the newly developed analytical tools in the most effective manner.
• To disseminate project information to audiences ranging from scientists to consumers and regulators.
• To provide long-term training mechanisms for BioCop technologies through higher learning institutions and the development of a distance learning MSc course
• To bring the new tests to the marketplace through the inclusion of commercial partners.

Project title: ANNOUNCEMENT OF A COMPETITIVE CALL FOR ADDITIONAL BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS

The following project currently active in the Sixth Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2002-2006) requires the participation of new project partners to carry out certain tasks within the project, and/ or to extend the participation of current partners. Partners for these new Business Experiments will be both from the consortium and from outside it. . It is detailed in the BEinGRID contract that approximately 1/3 (33%) of the available funding for this open call will be assigned to partners already in the Consortium and 2/3 (66%) for entities outside the consortium.

Project contract number 034702
Project acronym BEinGRID
Project full name: Business Experiments in Grid
Instrument type -Integrated project
Summary of task(s) requested: BEinGRID needs to conduct the second wave of Business Experiments.

Project title: SIROCCO (Silencing RNAs: organisers and coordinators of complexity in eukaryotic organisms)

The Integrated Project SIROCCO is searching for new partners that can contribute to the characterisation of the full complement of small RNAs in animals and plants using bioinformatics, genomics, biochemistry, cell biology and genetics.

The main objectives of SIROCCO are the study of microRNA and short interfering RNA profiles that are associated with development, disease, and phenotypic divergence within populations. The deliverables of the project include databases of silencing RNA sequence and function in several organisms, new technologies for detection and manipulation of these RNAs, and information that will allow small RNA profiles to be used as molecular markers and diagnostic tools. SIROCCO will analyse the components of the small RNA silencing systems in order to identify potential targets for disease therapy and to improve the specificity with which therapeutic agents are used. The overall goal of SIROCCO is to improve human health and to stimulate biotechnology through the enhanced understanding of regulatory small RNAs in eukaryotes.

This call is aimed at identifying partners from EU Member States and Associated States that will carry out high-throughput sRNA cloning and sequencing projects using different animal and human tissues as RNA sources including human cells and human embryonic stem cells. In addition to identification of miRNAs by cloning, the new partner will validate miRNAs that were predicted by different bioinformatic approaches. In this case, they will do deep sequencing of libraries of sRNAs derived from human cells including embryonic stem cells.

The new partner will also carry out studies with a focus on the association and role of miRNAs in the major human solid tumours. Small RNAs will be profiled in different human tissues such as major human cancers (breast, lung, colon and prostate cancers) at different stages and during therapy. A range of techniques will be used for sRNA profiling including high throughput cloning, northern blotting, microarray and real-time RT-PCR.

Specific tasks, deliverables and milestones for the new partner include:

• Verification of 500 predicted human miRNAs that are not in miRBase (shared task)
• Cloning short RNAs from healthy human tissues
• Publish database of all human sRNAs obtained by cloning predicted miRNAs
• Detection of predicted miRNAs using appropriate assay(s)
• Database of miRNAs from human tissues

Project title: SESAME Integrated Project (Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem changes - GOCE 036949)

SESAME requires the participation of TWO new project partners under its Socio economic activities ?Connect ecosystem functions to human uses and value the impacts of changes on goods and services for human welfare?. The new partners shall work in the areas of the North ? Western Black Sea and Gulf of Lions respectively, for the following tasks:

• Design and implementation of stakeholder meetings
• Analysis of stakeholder perceptions/values
• Design and pretest of valuation exercises
• Main CVM survey and data analysis for Biodiversity (NW Black Sea only)
• Main CE surveys and data analysis for tourism.
• Design of integrated scenarios (storylines and policy choices)
• Second round of deliberation with stakeholders

The general scientific objectives of SESAME are to assess and predict changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems as well as changes in the ability of these ecosystems to provide goods and services. Mathematical models, validated and upgraded using existing and new observations, will be used to predict ecosystem responses to changes in climate and anthropogenic forcings during the next five decades. SESAME will also study the effect of the ecosystem variability on key goods and services with high societal importance like tourism, fisheries, ecosystem stability through conservation of biodiversity and mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration in water and sediments. The innovative character of SESAME is reflected in the close merging of economic and natural sciences to study the changes in the western and eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea within the period from 50 years in the past to 50 years in the future.

The overall objective of the Socio-economic work is to explore the possibility of transferring and/or adapting state-of-the-art analytical and policy tools to investigating the economic welfare implications of alternative development scenarios in the SES marine ecosystems.

Project title: Intermetallic Materials Processing in Relation to Earth and Space Solidification (IMPRESS)

Activity Area: Nanotechnologies, Materials and Processing (NMP)

In order to complement the work program of the IMPRESS Integrated Project, the partners invite a university-based organisation, with a demonstrated track-record in the field of TiAl recycling, to join the Consortium by submitting a proposal addressing the following 'demonstration' tasks:

• interact with existing academic and industrial partners, typically those involved in TiAl alloy development, industrial casting, thermodynamics and materials characterisation
• perform TiAl recycling and de-oxidation trials using established refining processes, as well as perform quality control following aerospace specifications
• support the techno-economic analysis of TiAl recycling and process up-scaling

Deadline: The call closes on 09 November 2007 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in the project: November 2007 - November 2009
Criteria for selection of the proposals by independent experts include: the scientific and technological excellence of the work proposed, the quality of the proposer and the mobilisation of resources.
Additional information: www.spaceflight.esa.int/impress (see vacancies webpage)

Project title: 'NovelQ' (Novel Processing Methods for the Production and Distribution of High-Quality and Safe Foods)

The Integrated Project 'NovelQ' is now searching for industrial partners interested in exploiting and demonstrating novel processing technologies in the food area. The new demonstration projects, to be funded in this call include (but are not limited to) prototype design, assembly and its testing for application, will be carried out within 'Development and demonstration of novel processing technologies' (Sub-project 4) of NovelQ.

The main objectives of NovelQ are to focus on incremental innovations in novel food processing and packaging and to formulate integrated strategic solutions for technical and basic research hurdles for complex, real food products. Enhancements to the state-of-the-art are required in novel processing technologies, specifically high pressure processing, pulsed electrical field, cold plasma, advanced heating technologies (such as microwave, radio frequency and ohmic heating) and related novel packaging concepts.

The key objective of the present competitive call is to promote the participation of industry and to achieve clear examples of innovation in the area of novel processing methods within the overall context of enhancing the competitiveness of the European Union via incremental innovations in the area of food manufacturing.

This call is aimed at identifying:

• Industrial partners from EU Member States and Associated States active in the areas of novel processing equipment and/or food manufacturing.
• In total, up to 12 new partners are sought to participate in six demonstration projects to be carried out within NovelQ. Preferably, one equipment supplier and one food manufacturer should be engaged within each demonstration project.

The following call criteria should be taken into consideration:

• The demonstration project should focus on one of the core technologies of NovelQ (high pressure, pulsed electric field, plasma or advanced heating) and be of added value to NovelQ.
• The demonstration project should focus on demonstration of novel processing technologies and/or related packaging technologies.
• The main 'hands-on' deliverable should be tangible, either a piece of equipment or a product (processed and packed using novel processing schemes).

The outcome(s) will be presented to the wider European audience (confidential information will not be shared).

Project title: SEA-NET Competitive call

HEALTHGRAIN seeks additional partners in two main areas: 1) to develop analytical tools that can be used to select for bioactive components in plant breeding programmes, and also to characterize samples used in nutritional intervention trials within the project, and 2) to develop and demonstrate dry and wet milling technologies, as well as processing based on enzymatic and microbial conversions, to enable production of new ingredients and consumer foods with improved nutritional quality combined with good sensory characteristics.

Especially SMEs partners are searched which have experience in the development and marketing of molecular and biochemical kits, or in use of spectroscopy in grain analysis. Also innovative and specialised small bakeries and milling companies are welcome. These SMEs should also assist in demonstrating some of the technologies developed in Modules 2 and 3.

Expected duration of participation in project: October 2007 to May 2010

• Research costs: 320 000 (to be supported by Commission funding of up to 50%)
• Demonstration costs: ?140000 (to be supported by Commission funding of up to 35%)
• Consortium management costs: ?10 000 (to be supported by Commission funding of up to 100%)
• Total Commission funding available: ?219 000

Project title: INDISPUTABLE KEY competitive call

The IST Integrated project SEA NET (www.sea-net.info) is looking for additional sub-projects / partners for the assessment of prototype equipment and novel enhancements to existing equipment, and their application to next generation semiconductor technologies and device architectures.

The main objective of the SEA-NET project is to validate emerging semiconductor manufacturing equipment for advanced process requirements for the 65 nm, 45 nm, 32 nm and 22 nm technology nodes, together with the necessary advances in equipment, materials and production control for both standard and new Nanoelectronic CMOS architectures.

The main themes applicable for becoming an assessment sub-project in SEA-NET include:

• Processing: Advanced Substrate Materials, Dopant /Control, Dielectric Isolation / Gate Structures, Barriers / Multilayer Interconnect.
• Metrology and analytics: with capability to accurately measure the key parameters of these layers/multilayers, particularly within automated production lines.
• Automated handling and cleaning equipment
• Methodologies that can impact the emergence of broader functionality integration using System on Chip (SoC) or System in Package (SiP).

The additional assessment sub-projects will be supported by joint R&D activities to foster a SEA-NET specific certification procedure for APC capabilities and to shorten yield learning cycles by predicting the yield of the currently processed wafers. Joint assessment metrics and a unified assessment approach are available.
The new sub-projects should consist at least of one equipment supplier, one user (semiconductor manufacturer) and one R&D organisation.

Project title: INDISPUTABLE KEY competitive call

The IST Integrated project INDISPUTABLE KEY seeks a forest machine manufacturer as a new partner in the project. The new partner shall integrate and demonstrate systems developed in the project for marking/reading log codes as well as associating data to log codes in the forest machine's on-board log database. Demonstrations will be carried through with Sweden's biggest forest owner company together with the other 27 project partners. This will put the new partner in the worldwide frontline of producing wood with optimal efficiency in the forestry-wood production chain.

The main objective of Indisputable key is to initiate and stimulate an industrial breakthrough in traceability systems for biological raw materials, specifically wood, leading to substantial economical and environmental improvements in the wood processing chain. This will initiate a new way of producing wood based on quality requirements passed on from final product to improve the selection and cutting of forest raw material. The first parts of the system - data from a log in the saw line to the data for the respective green centre boards - have been installed and demonstrated in Sweden's largest wood product company. In the next step connected data from a green board to the final board and further on to the end product, and data from a log in forest to the sawmill, will finalise the full forestry-wood-production-chain and open up wide new business opportunities.

Project title: AntiMal and MIM/TDR Institutional Capacity Building Grants for Antimalarial Drug Discovery Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

AntiMal is an EU-funded project devoted to the development of new drugs for the treatment of malaria (www.antimal.eu). The project comprises leading groups of malaria researchers from a consortium of 34 institutions from 10 European and 3 African countries (Kenya, Gabon and South Africa). It is a special programme aimed at fast-tracking antimalarial drug discovery and development. AntiMal has received earmarked funding from the EU to strengthen malaria drug research in malaria-endemic countries in Africa. AntiMal is collaborating with the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) and the WHO Tropical Disease Research programme (TDR) to identify and select additional African partners for integration into the project. The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) (www.mimalaria.org) is an international alliance of organizations facilitating establishment of strong malaria research capability in Africa. The MIM is coordinated by a secretariat currently based at The African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET), Dar es Salaam. The overarching goal of MIM is to strengthen and sustain, through collaborative research and training, the capability of malaria endemic countries in Africa to carry out research required to develop and improve tools for malaria control and to strengthen the research-control interface. TDR (www.who.int/tdr/) aims to foster a global effective research effort on infectious diseases of poverty, in which disease endemic countries play a pivotal role. Activities of MIM coordinated by TDR (MIM/TDR) represent a collaborative funding strategy to promote capacity building activities in the context of MIM

This call is addressed to African scientists who will contribute to strengthening the research capacities and infrastructure of the respective host African institutions through implementation of the selected projects. This will be achieved by developing an original and innovative line of research, establishing/improving the required infrastructure, and developing strong collaborative links with one or more European partner(s). The aim is to develop capacity which is clearly sustainable in the long term and which has demonstrable institutional support at the highest level. Up to a maximum of three projects at African sites will be selected. Proposals must be in areas that have direct application to drug discovery and development and can include tenure track appointments of key staff (with an emphasis on young scientists), and must address the issue of infrastructure upgrade. Interested candidates should submit a full proposal according to the guidelines listed below.

Deadline: The call closes on 15th July 2007
Additional information: Download (PDF)

Project title: IPCity competitive call The IST project IPCity "Integrated Project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments" is now looking for an additional partner with outstanding computer vision and augmented reality expertise, which is able to develop core technology in these directions. The required technologies are summarised as follows:

• Augmented paper maps for urban planning situations should be developed which combine both static information on physical maps and dynamical information using projector-based augmentation information.
• Handheld map tracking: similar to the augmented paper maps, a portable map tracking algorithm should be developed which allows augmentation on handheld devices rather than direct augmentation on physical maps.
• Model-based outdoor tracking: we are looking for robust model-based outdoor tracking algorithms which are complementary to GPS and INS tracking and which run on handheld devices (i.e. ultra-mobile PCs, smartphones).

Project title: Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighbouring States (SCENES)

Activity area: Global Change and Ecosystems
Call announcement: Call for an additional partner

SCENES is a 4-year project developing and analysing a set of comprehensive scenarios of Europe’s freshwater futures up to 2025, covering all of “Greater” Europe reaching to the Caucasus and Ural Mountains, and including the Mediter-ranean rim countries of north Africa and the near East. The project is seeking a new partner able to provide knowledge and expertise on possible water technology developments over the next 20 years. The new partner will provide data and undertake research in order to provide the SCENES project with the information on water utility and technology matters. Among the specific types of data and knowledge of interest to the project are:

• The location and characteristics of surface and groundwater abstraction facilities throughout Greater Europe.
• The location and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants throughout Greater Europe.
• Information on possible future water technology developments which might affect water utilisation over the next 20 years. For example, could desalination of brackish waters become increasingly common, or how likely is it that significant industrial changes throughout Europe will change regional water demands?
• Development of indicators to analyse the socio-economic, environmental and ecological impact of water availability scenarios on water services related to water utilities.

Expected duration of participation in project: from June 2007 to December 2010. Anticipated budget for the selected partner is 100.000 Euros.

Project title: Integrated Photonic mm-Wave Functions For Broadband Connectivity (IPHOBAC)

Activity area: Information Society Technologies
Call announcement: Call for an additional partner

The IST Integrated project IPHOBAC is searching for an industrial partner capable of exploiting and demonstrating the functionalities and applicability of new optoelectronic mm-wave generators, especially in the field of instrumentation. The key technical objective of this Call is to develop a new class of mm-wave synthesizers/-sources featuring a PLL and a broadband vectorial modulation capability by utilising the integrated optoelectronic mm-wave generators, modulators and transceivers developed in the IPHOBAC project. Besides the technical objectives, the new partner is expected to contribute to the specifications, demonstrations and exploitation of the functionalities and applicability of the integrated photonic mm-wave components developed in IPHOBAC.

Thus the call especially addresses leading European companies active in the field of fabricating ultra-wideband mm-wave synthesizers and analyzers as well as stable reference mm-wave sources. The new industrial partner is expected to have a significant market share in the area of instrumentation and will be required to be active not only in the RTD and demonstration activities of the IPHOBAC project but also in the exploitation and dissemination of results.

Project title: Genomics of Cardiomyocyte Signalling to Treat and Prevent Heart Failure (EUGeneHeart)

Activity area: Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for health
Call announcement: Call for participation of a new SME partner

The EUGeneHeart Integrated Project will develop new strategies to inhibit detrimental and promote beneficial hypertrophic signalling. This includes translational research on existing pharmacological interventions, proof of principle studies with molecules, already developed by the consortium as well as the development of new candidate molecules identified within the project. Significant gender differences in physiology and pathophysiology of adaptive and maladaptive myocardial hypertrophy will be investigated, expertise or at least the willingness to explore this field is mandatory.

The SME is expected to produce therapy targets curing hypertrophy and/or treat heart failure, develop potential drug targets, provide targets (newly generated molecules or molecules already available to the SME, specifically modulating the activity of cardiomyocyte signalling) to be tested by the consortium.

Favoured research experience:

1. Technology and /or know-how on drug discovery, experience in drug delivery
2. Ability to design and produce specific molecules
3. Access to small molecule libraries
4. Having small molecule screening platforms available
5. Access to automation technology would be a plus
6. Access to drug testing platforms would be an advantage
7. Provision of knowledge or technology to the consortium, based on promising candidate targets, candidate drugs, or therapeutic strategies, as well as strategies likely to increase the chances for development of a candidate drug based on the findings gained from EUGeneHeart Work Packages or knowledge from outside the consortium.

Expected duration of participation in project: from July 2007 to December 2010

Project title - Reprogramming the Immune System for the establishment of Tolerance (RISET)
Activity area: Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health.
Call announcement:

The RISET research consortium launches this call for new partners engaged in clinical trials aiming at minimization of immunosuppression on the basis of biomarkers and/or innovative therapies. Proposals should consist in prospective studies in any area of organ or cell transplantation. Investigators must agree:

1. to enter clinical data in the RISET database;
2. to provide blood samples from enrolled patients for analysis in reference laboratories of the RISET consortium and in accordance with the requirements specified in the list of tests that you will find on the "RISET web site: call for new partners" (see the link hereunder).

RISET contribution will cover costs related to data management and collection of samples according to standard operating procedures established within the consortium. Anticipated budget per project ranges from 100.000 to 150.000 Euros. Investigators are responsible to find out co-sponsoring. The selection of new partners will be performed by March 31st 2007. The research projects are expected to start in 2007.

Deadline: 30/01/2007; 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1)
Additional information:http://www.risetfp6.org/ - (section "partners")

Project title: GOODFOOD project

Activity area: Information society technologies
Call announcement: Call for additional partners

The IST project GoodFood has the objective of contributing to the new generation of analytical methods based on micro and nanotechnology solutions for the safety and quality assurance of the complete food chain. Demonstration activities are required for the final period of the project (Jan-June 2007) involve four specific technological implementations arising from the project's R&D work:

• Monitoring for the chilled/frozen fish logistic chain based on Flexible Tag Microlab (FTM) system
• Microsystem for the evaluation of fish freshness
• Flexible tag datalogger for wine quality control
• Ambient Intelligent Site for the vineyard

The project is looking for new partners, preferably from the SME sector, to implement these demonstrations.
Deadline:: The deadline for application is November 30th 2006, 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1)
Additional information:Contact

Project title - Intermetallic Materials Processing in Relation to Earth and Space Solidification (IMPRESS)
Activity area: Nanotechnologies, Materials and Processing (NMP)
Call announcement:

In order to complement the work program of the IMPRESS Integrated Project, the Consortium partners invite a large multi-national company in the field of catalytic powder production to join the Consortium by submitting a proposal addressing the following 'demonstration' tasks, inter alia:

• interact with existing academic and industrial partners, typically those involved in the gas atomisation process, vapour condensation/plasma processes, leaching/activation process, chemical testing, materials characterisation and numerical modelling;
• perform assessments of the catalytic performance of Raney-type powders, using typical reaction systems, in an attempt to elucidate the effects of powder structure, morphology, average particle size, size distribution, chemical composition etc.
• support the techno-economic analysis of the Raney-type powder supply chain from the raw material to the end-user.

Project title - Zero Order Dimension based Industrial components Applied to teleCommunications (ZODIAC)
Activity area: Information Society Technologies (IST)
Call announcement:

The IST Integrated project ZODIAC "Zero Order Dimension Based Industrial Components Applied to telecommunications" has opened a call for additional partners to join the consortium.

The ZODIAC project is focused on the exploitation of quantum dot (QD) based semiconductor materials technology in communications systems. The project seeks a new partner in each of the following areas;

• Topic A- Issues related to material optimisation and epitaxial growth,
• Topic B- Issues related to physical modelling and characterisation of the devices

To ensure the quality of deliverables and milestones, a significant background on the relevant topics is essential.

Project title - Novel approaches to pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases based on new insights into thymus- dependent self-tolerance.
Activity area: Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health
Call announcement:

TThe LIFESCIHEALTH Integrated project EURO-THYMAIDE has opened a call for an additional partner to join the consortium. The call applies to SME's only.
The EURO-THYMAIDE project aims at understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of autoimmune diseases, by exploring the major biological functions of the thymus. The project seeks a new SME partner for the following research programme:

1. Design of HLA-DQ8 and HLA-DQ2 allele multimers for analysis of type 1 diabetes-related effector and regulatory T cells specific for insulin/IGF-2, GAD and IA-2 derived antigens.
2. Discovery of new MHC class II-restricted antigens involved in other autoimmune diseases for the purpose of designing MHC-II multimers (especially for HLA-DQ8 and HLA-DQ2) incorporating such antigens and the use of such multimers for detecting T cells specific to such antigens.

Project title - Innovation and Sustainable Development in the Fibre Based Packaging Value Chain (SUSTAINPACK)
Call announcement: Sustainpack is focused on achieving demonstrators to show the usefulness of the research work and to trigger development in the forest based industrial sector. The objective of a demonstrator project is to prove the technical viability of a new packaging technology together with its possible economic advantages under realistic conditions. These demonstrators have to be tested and developed from manufacturing and converting up to, in some case, full market evaluations. We therefore seek SMEs ( see for definition) that have the ability to participate in the development of a Demonstrator.
Deadline:2006-06-23 17h00 Brussels time
Additional information:www.sustainpack.com or email: Project Co-ordinator

Project title Promoting Food Safety through a new Integrated Risk Analysis Approach for Foods (SAFE FOODS)
Activity area: Food quality and safety
Call announcement: The main object of SAFE FOODS is to improve the current risk analysis practices for foods produced by different breeding approaches and production practices deploying high and low input systems by changing the focus of decision making on food safety from single risks to considering foods as baskets of risks, benefits and costs that are associated with their production and consumption and taken into account the social context in which decisions are made. This call is aimed at identifying partners representing the new EU member states and/or SME's. Any organization from a new EU member state and SME from any EU member state are eligible and will be involved in research as defined in the tasks prepared by WP 2 members. The newly selected candidates will be involved in the following WP 2 deliveries:
2.7.1 Report on a review of indicators of emerging risks/ hazards
2.7.2 Report describing a working procedure to identify emerging risk in an early phase.
2.8.2 Implementation of the training course for risk assessors, risk managers and other interested stakeholders in identification and assessment strategies for emerging risks in food and feed production, including organization of the technical items by the selected contractor mentioned in the first deliverable and teachings by the authors of the course material or suitable experts replacing them.
2.8.3 Translated versions of the course materials developed in the first phase of the project.
2.10.1 Recognition of mycotoxin risk signals in high- and low-input and organic farming systems regarding production practices and environmental conditions
2.10.2 Survey on the occurrence of several mycotoxins in cereal samples from a field trial in high- and low-input and organic farming conditions
A description of the work foreseen can be found in the Work package description of Work package 2 of the period 13-30 (see annual report safe Foods; report year 1). A description of the work foreseen after month 30 can be found in the Description of Work (DoW) of the whole project.
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Deadline:Extended to 03/5/2006, 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1).
Additional information: http://www.safefoods.nl/default.aspx or mail hans.marvin@wur.nl

Project title Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS)
Activity area: IST
Call announcement: The Integrated project AXMEDIS - Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution - is seeking new partners to carry out take-up actions to promote the validation and early application of AXMEDIS technologies via demonstration activity.
AXMEDIS is providing a framework which includes technologies, methods and tools to speed up and optimise content production, protection and distribution, for leisure, entertainment and digital content valorisation and exploitation in general for multi-channel distribution, supporting interoperability of content and DRM. It aims to meet the challenges of digital-content market demand by: (i) reducing costs for content production and management by applying composition, parallel processing, optimisation techniques for content formatting and representation (format) and workflow control; (ii) reducing distribution and aggregation costs in order to increase accessibility with a Peer-to-Peer platform at Business-to-Business level, which can integrate content management systems and workflows; (iii) providing new methods and tools for innovative, flexible and interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM), including the exploitation of MPEG-21 and overcoming its limitations, and supporting different business and transactions models.
Take up projects should aim at developing real solutions (adoption of the AXMEDIS framework and technology in real-life scenarios) by exploiting AXMEDIS technologies. They should start real sustainable activities by taking advantage of the AXMEDIS framework services and derived tools.
Deadline:19/04/2006; 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1).
Additional information: http://www.axmedis.org/callfortakeup/call.html or mail Paolo Nesi: nesi@dsi.unifi.it (Project coordinator)

Project title Clean Hydrogen-rich Synthesis Gas (CHRISGAS)
Activity area: Energy
Call announcement: In order to complete the work program of the CHRISGAS project, the Consortium partners invite qualified entities to join the Consortium by submitting proposals to contribute to the project results by performing the tasks indicated below:
The role of the New Partner is to provide design studies on the synthesis, upgrading and storage of automotive fuels (with at least one or preferably more of the following products: DME, methanol, Fischer-Tropsch crude and hydrogen) from a synthesis gas derived from biomass. To ensure the quality of the deliverables, the new partner - a technology supplier, contractor, engineering company or similar - should demonstrate detailed knowledge of processes for the manufacture of automotive fuels and/or hydrogen recovery from relevant reference projects.
Criteria for selection of the proposals by independent experts include the quality of the proposed programme, detailed knowledge of the technical processes included in the tasks and added value to the Consortium.
Deadline:05/04/2006; 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1).
Additional information: www.chrisgas.com or mail sune.bengtsson@vxu.se (Project coordinator)

Project title Development of a novel approach in hazard and risk assessment or reproductive toxicity by a combination and application of in vitro, tissue and sensor technologies (ReProTect)
Activity area: Life science, genomics and biotechnology for health
Call announcement: ReProTect intends to explore strategies for reproductive toxicity testing. The project is aiming to develop and optimize various in vitro models for their potential to identify chemical hazard of reproductive and developmental toxicants. A research area of "implantantion" has been implemented in order to develop and optimize in vitro models that are able to identify chemicals that are interacting with the regular preparation of the uterus for the implantation of the embryo as well as to detect chemical interaction with the growing placenta. The in vitro models developed in the workarea of implantation will be optimized to meet requirements for the ECVAM modular approach on test validity. It is foreseen to define the individual tests by explaining their mechanistic basis, their scientific purpose and presenting relevant protocols and SOPs as well as by defining the toxicological endpoint/s and the data interpretation procedure.
The developed tests shall meet ECVAM's criteria of readiness to enter the ECVAM validation process.
Deadline:06/04/2006; 17h00 Brussels time (GMT+1).
Additional information: http://ecvam.jrc.it/index.htm News events and Meetings / ReProTect or mail reprotect@uni-tuebingen.de (Project coordinator)

Project title European Food information Resource Network of Excellence (EuroFIR)
Activity area: Food quality and safety
Call announcement: The objective of EuroFIR is to form a world-leading collaboration on the development and application of a unified, reliable and accessible European Food Information Resource by is to building and disseminating a durable integration in food composition databank systems for both nutrients and bioactive compounds with putative health effects. The project started on 1st January 2005, and the goal is that it will create structures and/or bodies that will remain active and influential after the end of its 5-year EC funding period. EuroFIR aims to achieve this goal by forming a network of national food composition database compilers, Food analytical laboratories, and representatives of user organisations (such as food industry, research, community, dieticians and public health professionals, consumer organisations and software developers) and communication centres.
This call is aimed at identifying:

1. Partners representing national compilers from countries not currently participating in EuroFIR, namely Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Romania, Switzerland, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro. Only up to one new participant per country will be selected.
2. 1 partner from Poland, Czech Republic or Hungary to expand our expertise in bioactive compounds (including assessment of data quality and bioactivity, and production of new data);
3. 1-2 partners to expand our contacts with key user communities, namely food industry/food trade associations and software developers (especially SMEs).

Project title Smart High-Integration Flex Technologies SHIFT
Activity area: IST
Call announcement: SHIFT "Smart High-Integration Flex Technologies" has opened a second call for an additional partner to join the project consortium. This partner should be an end-user which will apply the technologies for flexible electronic circuits currently being developed by the SHIFT project in a functional demonstrator. Preferably the end-user will be a company in the biomedical field, and the proposed demonstrator a device for biomedical applications.
Deadline:11th January 2006.
Additional information: SHIFT website

Project title Global System for Telematics (GST)
Activity area: IST- Information Society Technologies
Call announcement: The vision of the GST project is that all future vehicles will be equipped with various communication means to interact with each other and their environment based on a common architecture and standard interfaces. Drivers and occupants will be able to rely on their on-board, integrated telematics system to access a dynamic offer of on-line safety-, efficiency- and comfort-enhancing services wherever they drive in Europe. To realise this vision, GST is creating an open and standardised framework architecture for end-to-end telematics. The openness relates to the use of common mechanisms for the removal, updating and installation of new services and applications. Standards are necessary for the key interfaces allowing to hide the complexity and heterogeneousness of the supporting technologies.
The main thrust of GST is to realize open systems and to make it possible that a wide range of new services - including public services catering to a wide audience and specialist services serving small communities of users - will be offered on the market. To demonstrate this commitment, the GST consortium has decided to organize a service submission contest in the third year of the project for which a budget of 100 000 Euro has been foreseen.
The contest will seek to select the most promising service and support the contest-winning teams to develop and demonstrate their services in an integrated automotive environment at one of the GST test sites. Universities and SME's will be specifically targeted in the campaign. Expected duration of participation in project: from April 2006 to December 2006.
Deadline:15.12.2005, 17h Brussels time. Proposals should be submitted in English. Only paper submissions will be accepted and the postal address for submission is: ERTICO, Avenue Louise 326, 2nd floor, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Additional information: GST-Integrated Project - website

Project title: ATHENA
Call announcement: The IST project ATHENA is looking for new partners. The project, which focuses on information technologies for enterprise interoperability, requires the participation of new partners to carry out certain project tasks. The call concerns two sub-projects (one in the area of ?outbound logistics? and the other in the area of ?inventory visibility?) within an existing sub-project of ATHENA. The overall objective of the sub-project is the piloting, testing, transfer, and application of research results in industrial sectors. The call will be closing on 16 November. ATHENA aims to be the most comprehensive and systematic European research initiative in information technology to remove barriers to interoperability, to transfer and apply the research results in industrial sectors, and to foster a new networked business culture. Building on its vision statement "By 2010, enterprises will be able to seamlessly interoperate with others", ATHENA aims to enable interoperability by providing a comprehensive interoperability framework.
Deadline:17 November 2005
Additional information: ATHENA website

Project title: Akogrimo
Call announcement: The Integrated Project Akogrimo- Access to Knowledge Through the Grid in a Mobile World, part of the EU 6th Framework Programme under the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority, requires the participation of one or more project partners to carry out tasks related to validation through testbeds.
The Akogrimo Integrated Project is aiming at the integration of possibilities of modern mobile networks with advanced properties of so called 'Business Grids'. It is funded under the IST Strategic Objective "Grid for Complex Problem Solving" and is one of the major contributors to the definition of Next Generation Grids. The Akogrimo project will extend and adapt capabilities of beyond 3G networks for complex distributed applications based on Grid middleware and in the same way will extend existing Grid architectures solutions beyond current reference models such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA).
This Call concerns workpackages in the field of testbed definition, realisation, validation and also contribution to exploitation activities of the Akogrimo Integrated Project. The role of the existing two testbeds in the eHealth and eLearning domain is to drive through their requirements several activities within the project including business modelling and architecture definition. The realised testbeds will be a key element for the validation of the architecture and the developed middleware components. As the validation scenarios are expected to be one of the exploitable elements of the overall projects they will also contribute to the exploitation activities.
Estimated available funding from the European Commission for this part of the work is ? 250.000. For further information as well as the guidance of subproject call submission check the web site.
Deadline:03 August 2005
Additional information: Akogrimo website

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