Description du projet
Un institut de recherche slovène à la pointe de l’innovation en matière d’interactions microbes-surface
Comprendre les interactions à l’interface entre deux matériaux différents est une composante clé de la conception des matériaux dans des domaines allant de l’aérospatial à la biomédecine. Que le matériau interagisse avec un solide, un liquide ou un gaz, ou encore avec des systèmes biologiques tels que des microbes ou des tissus, la compréhension et le contrôle des interactions de surface sont cruciales en matière de performances, de sécurité et de fiabilité. L’Institut Jožef Stefan, un institut de recherche scientifique de premier plan en Slovénie, entend créer un centre d’innovation pour étudier les interactions microbes-surface, avec le soutien du projet SurfBio financé par l’UE. Grâce à des méthodologies et à un équipement de haute technologie, les chercheurs prévoient de soutenir les concepteurs de matériaux, les chercheurs en biotechnologie, les institutions universitaires, l’industrie ainsi que les décideurs politiques en leur apportant des services et des évaluations de recherche visant à optimiser les matériaux innovants pour un large éventail d’applications.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
1000 Ljubljana
Slovénie