Project description DEENESFRITPL Research training program for natural and artificial joints specialists The EU-funded BioTrib program is dedicated to training early-stage researchers with the technical and innovation skills to develop advances in the performance of natural and artificial joints. The new program's focus is on biotribology, which includes friction, lubrication and wear in these interventions. The researchers will gain the necessary interdisciplinary skills demanded by industry to deliver timely and cost-effective solutions to some of the most intractable European healthcare problems in arthritis. The training goals will be achieved by a combination of hands-on research in leading research centers together with industrial partners and workshops covering technical and transferable skills. The career opportunities for trainees will include regulatory, management and policy affairs, commercial R&D and academia. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The programme of research training will deliver early stage researchers (ESRs) with the necessary technical and innovation training/experience to provide the much needed advances in the performance of both natural and artificial joints with a focus on biotribology, that is, friction, lubrication and wear in these interventions. These researchers will gain the necessary interdisciplinary skills, intersectoral knowledge and the wider innovation abilities demanded by industry with which to deliver timely and cost-effective solutions to some of Europe’s most intractable healthcare problems in arthritis. These aims will be achieved by a unique combination of hands on research in leading research centres, industry secondments and wide-ranging workshops covering technical and transferable skills. Importantly the ESRs will form a network of highly trained innovators and research leaders that are well placed to be employed in Europe's foremost companies and SMEs. The career options for these ESRs are wide ranging including regulatory affairs, commercial R&D, management and policy advisors, as well as academia, all of which comprise a leadership and innovation component. Issues of biotribology are truly a global phenomenon with the deleterious wear related failure of artificial joints running at record levels and predicted to get higher. The highly significant economic and patient issues around early failure in metal-on-metal total hip and resurfacing replacements have been brought sharply into focus, recently. The media have defined this as a significant public health issue and substantial issues persist with very recent reports of inadequate devices. This is a truly European problem with, for instance, new devices manufactured in the UK being first implanted, unsuccessfully, in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Technically BioTrib will deliver new test methodologies, as well as new bearings, for the meaningful assessment of these innovations. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringtribologylubricationmedical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthmedical and health sciencesclinical medicinerheumatologysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management Keywords Wear Lubrication Friction Debris Artificial Joints Joint Longevity Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.1. - Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers Topic(s) MSCA-ITN-2020 - Innovative Training Networks Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Net EU contribution € 909 517,68 Address Woodhouse lane LS2 9JT Leeds United Kingdom See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber West Yorkshire Leeds Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 909 517,68 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Sweden Net EU contribution € 1 127 931,84 Address Von kraemers alle 4 751 05 Uppsala See on map Region Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 127 931,84 EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Switzerland Net EU contribution € 1 125 106,56 Address Raemistrasse 101 8092 Zuerich See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 125 106,56 IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 606 345,12 Address South kensington campus exhibition road SW7 2AZ London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 606 345,12 LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET Sweden Net EU contribution € 563 965,92 Address Universitetsomradet porson 971 87 Lulea See on map Region Norra Sverige Övre Norrland Norrbottens län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 563 965,92