Objective The European Council Directive 96/62/EC about ambient air quality assessment and management, requires to States the periodical availability of information about air quality within their territories. Nevertheless, the available methods are expensive, which prevents they can be used in a large scale. Thus, at present it is necessary to have inexpensive and robust tools for monitoring air quality across Europe. The use of mosses, due to its high efficiency in the load of both particulate and gaseous forms of organic pollutants, inorganic and radioactive, may be an optimal choice. Until now they are used as biomonitors of air quality, but recently several investigators have realized the benefits of using devitalized mosses, because it allows disposing transplants in well defined initial conditions. This really leaves the field of biomonitoring, as the material is used dead, and approximates to the setup of a new biotechnological tool. Actually biotechnological techniques allow cultivating mosses in bioreactors, so it is possible to isolate a moss clone, to cultivate it and to produce a standard material (potentially patentable) which would be comparable to the use of resins or polymers for atmospheric quality control -mosses behave as pollutant exchange resins and their use as filters has been considered for decades. For these reasons we propose the implementation of a project having as main contents: 1) selection and culture of a moss clone; 2) characterization -molecular, physical, physical-chemical and multi-elemental- of the cultivated clone; 3) large-scale production of moss-bags for transplants; 4) comparison between the data collected using moss-bags and traditional techniques (i.e. bulk deposition collectors, particles samplers and gaseous samplers) to allow tool validation; 5) to do a methodological standardization to develop a protocol for using moss-bags; and 6) to develop ta method for identification of pollution focus. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactorsnatural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2011.3.1.9-1 - Eco-innovation! Call for proposal FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-TwoStage See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Address Colexio de san xerome praza do obradoiro s/n 15782 Santiago de compostela Spain See on map Region Noroeste Galicia A Coruña Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Martin Cacheiro Martinez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG Germany EU contribution € 486 016,40 Address Fahnenbergplatz 79098 Freiburg See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ralf Reski (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data AMRA - ANALISI E MONITORAGGIO DEL RISCHIO AMBIENTALE SCARL Italy EU contribution € 863 618,80 Address Via nuova agnano 11 80125 Napoli See on map Region Sud Campania Napoli Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Simonetta Giordano (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA Spain EU contribution € 362 096,00 Address Calle de la maestranza 9 15001 La coruna See on map Region Noroeste Galicia A Coruña Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Angel Fernández Castro (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 172 968,00 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Patrick Mounaud (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data BIOVIA CONSULTOR AMBIENTAL SL Spain EU contribution € 621 160,40 Address Calle doctor teixeiro 7/7 15701 Santiago de compostela See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ana Rey-Asensio (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data ORION SRL Italy EU contribution € 326 451,60 Address Via volta 25b 35030 Veggiano See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Silvia Zanella (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TECNO AMBIENTE SL Spain EU contribution € 30 314,16 Address Calle industria 550-552 08918 Badalona barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Francisco Leis Vidal (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data T.E. 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