Preventing 10.000 European hospital deaths by securing efficient hand disinfection through an automatic, easy to use, environmentally friendly and verifiable disinfection process (CLEANHAND)

Project Information

CLEANHAND

Grant agreement ID: 508489

Start date 15 June 2004

End date 14 October 2006

Funded under

• Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 008 554,00

EU contribution € 521 537,00

Coordinated by

STIFTELSEN TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUTT
Norway

Objective

Each year 2,8 million patients are infected while receiving treatment in European hospitals, these are referred to as nosocomial infections. These nosocomial infections cause patients to incur other illnesses and making treatment more complex. To the patient, hospital infections means a prolonged stay and more suffering at the hospital, and may also lead to permanent health damage or death. While statistics indicate many major causes of death are now decreasing, hospital infection deaths have doubled in 40 years. It is estimated that at least 10.000 people die from hospital infections in EU annually. International studies show that high intensity surveillance and infection control program can reduce the prevalence of hospital infections. Hence; high intensity surveillance and infection control programme with high focus on hand sanitation represents a potential for a 30 % reduction in hospital infections. The Community Network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases, established by the European Parliament and Council Decision 2119/98/EC is an example of the EU focus on hospital infections. Our project also contributes to the basis for EU objectives and actions with respect to combating hospital infections (Article 152 -ex Article 129). Despite there are no commercial Automatic Hand Sanitizers the market is estimated the potential annual global market for sale of apparatus' and sanitizing liquids at + 1,6Bn giving an EU market of +783m pa. Assuming a modest market penetration of 3% in EU and 2% globally and also including the health care sector outside the Hospital market segment, the potential market for the AHS is +310m pa. The objective of this project is to develop an Automatic Hand Sanitizer (AHS) that disinfects hands of nurses, doctors, staff, patients and visitors in Hospitals within 5 seconds, cost efficiently ensuring repeatable, reliable and high-quality hand disinfection, independent of the users behavior, encoura

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology › radio frequency
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › control systems
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence › computer vision
• engineering and technology › nanotechnology

Keywords

• Desanitizing
• hand recognition
• low power

Programme(s)

• FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology)

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

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Coordinator

STIFTELSEN TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUTT

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Akersveien 24 C, St Hanshaugen ; 2608 OSLO ; Norway
• Total cost: No data

Participants (8)

ASCOR SPOLKA AKCYJNA

Poland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Mory 8 ; WARSAW
• Total cost: No data

CAPFLOW

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: rue Rene Descartes 1 boite 5 ; MONS
• Total cost: No data

MAINSANI AS

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Gaustadalleen 21 ; OSLO
• Total cost: No data

MEDATEC COMPUTER GES.M.B.H

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Lochbachstrasse 6 ; HARD
• Total cost: No data

MIKRON TUNSBERG AS

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Fjordgaten 2 ; TONSBERG
• Total cost: No data

PERA INNOVATION LIMITED

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PERA Innovation Park, Nottingham Road ; MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICESTERSHIRE
• Total cost: No data

SKIDATA AG

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Untersbergstrasse 40 ; GARTENAU
• Total cost: No data

SOLEMS SA

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 3, rue Leon Blum ; PALAISEAU
• Total cost: No data