Descripción del proyecto
Un instituto de investigación esloveno se convierte en una fuerza innovadora en el estudio de las interacciones entre microbios y superficies
Comprender las interacciones que acontecen en la interfaz de dos materiales diferentes tiene una gran importancia para diseñar materiales en múltiples sectores, desde el aeroespacial hasta la biomedicina. Tanto si el material interactúa con un sólido, un líquido o un gas como si interactúa con sistemas biológicos como microbios o tejidos, comprender y controlar las interacciones superficiales es primordial para la fiabilidad, el rendimiento y la seguridad. El Instituto Jožef Stefan, el principal instituto de investigación científica de Eslovenia, está creando un centro de innovación para estudiar las interacciones entre microbios y superficies con el apoyo del proyecto SurfBio, financiado con fondos europeos. Gracias al empleo de metodologías y equipos de alta tecnología, los investigadores quieren respaldar a diseñadores de materiales, investigadores de biotecnología, instituciones académicas, industria y responsables políticos con servicios de investigación y evaluaciones para optimizar materiales novedosos para multitud de aplicaciones.
Objetivo
Novel material’s design is a geopolitical challenge to provide safe, sustainable and cost-efficient industrial products; once in the environment, they face their (intended or not) exposure to biotic factors as microbial cells, which can cause high economic burdens.
Research in the cell-surface interaction field is being addressed from either a biological or a materials science perspective, usually with limited outputs due to the complexity of this topic. The application of both, state of the art spectroscopy and microscopy analytic technologies, microbiology and systems biology tools to study microbial-surface interactions can lead to a better understanding the processes occurring at their interface, which will contribute to provide ad-hoc solutions for materials design with enhanced properties, such as more durable materials (reducing losses), improved antimicrobial surfaces (health sector) or better microbial supports to increase the productivity of bioprocesses (pharma, food, agriculture).
The JSI’s excellent track in basic and applied multidisciplinary research areas, particularly in the combination of physical, chemical and biological processes influencing the environment and human affairs. SurfBio research package (spectrometry, imaging, smart biocarriers, nanoparticles characterization, microbiology, systems biology and bioinformatics), will reinforce JSI to successfully address the interdisciplinary of the topic.
Thus, JSI will lead an emerging discipline, coordinating expert institutions in synergistic fields, finally launching an Innovation Hub to provide research services and assessment to material designers and biotechnology researchers, academy, industry or policy makers. Twinning call matches the needs of the Slovenian research to boost their potential and visibility National and Internationally. Expertise of partners in promotion, funding search and project management and their wide network will support the JSI upgrade balanced and responsively.
Ámbito científico
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural sciencesphysical sciencescondensed matter physicssoft matter physics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
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Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
Tema(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5
Régimen de financiación
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinador
1000 Ljubljana
Eslovenia