Skip to main content
European Commission logo
français français
CORDIS - Résultats de la recherche de l’UE
CORDIS
CORDIS Web 30th anniversary CORDIS Web 30th anniversary

DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIMICROBIAL, ANTIVIRAL, AND ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATINGS FOR EVERYDAY SURFACES

Description du projet

Nanorevêtements antimicrobiens

Le risque de contracter des infections virales et bactériennes dans certains environnements, comme les hôpitaux, est élevé et exige la prise de mesures spécifiques et urgentes. Le projet MIRIA, financé par l’UE, entend relever ce défi en mettant au point des revêtements antimicrobiens intégrant des nanotechnologies qui sont capables de recouvrir des surfaces diverses, y compris les équipements médicaux, dans des milieux à haut risque de contagion. Les nanorevêtements ainsi créés seront testés en termes d’efficacité contre un large éventail de micro-organismes, notamment des bactéries, des champignons et des virus. Les candidats les plus efficaces seront mis sur le marché afin d’améliorer la santé dans l’UE. Les résultats livrables du projet revêtent une importance particulière dans la lutte contre la propagation du SARS-CoV-2.

Objectif

Since the end of 2019, the spread of COVID has deeply changed our lifestyle, resulting in historical events and decisions, such as the EU block of non-essential travel among countries (COMM (2020) 499), affecting the whole EU society economically and psychologically. However, as reported in the HERA target priorities, the persistence of the emergency status requires daily actions that tackle the spread of COVID.
In this economical, societal and clinical context, the project MIRIA aims to develop wide-range-antimicrobial nanocoatings to be used in hospitals and other environments where cross-contamination and contagion risk are significant issues.
In the wake of the covid outbreak, there has been large concern about infection spread of pathogens (i.e. bacteria, fungi, virus, and specifically SARS-CoV-2) via high traffic surfaces (i.e. medical equipment). State of the art and commercial products coating solutions that both target a range of mixed pathogens and different surfaces (e.g. glass, metal, textile) are unfortunately scant. MIRIA solutions aim to fill this void, impacting on EU health, both directly (by creating public safe environments) and indirectly (by reducing COVID spreading and decreasing ill-related work absences and psychological pathologies). A reduction of the work absence of at least 5% with respect to the 2020 value (15M in EU) is expected.
MIRIA main challenging ambition is to develop nanocoatings with a 99.99% effectiveness against a wide range of pathogens, especially SARS-CoV-2. This will be based on a four pieces puzzle: the knowledge in anti-microbial materials, nanopowders, nanocoating and pilot plant conduction. These nanocoatings will be brought to pilot scale (TRL6) and, within 3 years after the end of the project, they are foreseen to enter the market (TRL9). The exploitation of MIRIA outputs deeply involves SMEs and the dissemination plan will follow a spill-over strategy in order to involve public and private stakeholders.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

Vous devez vous identifier ou vous inscrire pour utiliser cette fonction

Coordinateur

RINA CONSULTING - CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 175 000,00
Adresse
VIA DI CASTEL ROMANO 100
00128 Roma
Italie

Voir sur la carte

Région
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Type d’activité
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 175 000,00

Participants (14)