Objective The demand for healthy live and habitation and innovative natural building materials has increased substantially during the last 10 years. Architects promote green building design and sustainable architecture, people ask for materials that are not damaging to health. Due to the EU White Paper on the Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy (2001), many of the currently toxic building materials including common plaster material with toxic additives will no longer be acceptable. The use of unhealthy cement, lime or gypsum based plasters can be substituted through earth plasters reinforced with cattail fibres, exceeding all technical performances of conventional plasters. True earth plaster has very positive effects on indoor climate, health and the positive charisma of a building, and is produced in a complete sustainable manner. It regulates air-moisture and temperature, absorbs pollutants, prevents mould, is renewable, recyclable, energy efficient and durable. Despite of the high potential market and the unbeatable positive effects of earth plaster, most earth plaster producers nowadays are not able to serve profitable a national or international market.Main reasons are (a) missing professional technology able to produce high quantities of high quality earth plaster in an efficient way, competitive to the conventional plasters and (b) unsatisfying quality of existing earth plasters: large cracks during drying process, fungus grow due to wrong processed additives, relatively rough wall surfaces. The aims of the proposed project are (1) to develop, to test and to optimize a high quality innovative and cost effective healthy indoor earth plaster reinforced with cattail fibre, (2) to develop and to test a highly technical automated prototype plant with minimum maintenance, which dramatically improves the production process of common earth plasters, in order (3) to improve the competitiveness of earth plaster products on the national and international plaster market. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologymycologyengineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationcompostsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentengineering and technologycivil engineeringarchitecture engineeringsustainable architecturesustainable building Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2004-SME-COOP See other projects for this call Funding Scheme COOPERATIVE - Coordinator NATUR AND LEHM LEHMBAUSTOFFE GMBH EU contribution No data Address Oberwaltersdorferstrasse 2c TATTENDORF Austria See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CLAY PROCESSING SERVICES OU Estonia EU contribution No data Address Naeituse 22-21 TARTU See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SEECON INTERNATIONAL GMBH Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Bahnhofstrasse 2 WOLHUSEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BIOAZUL S.L. Spain EU contribution No data Address Avenida Juan Lopez Penalver, 21 CAMPANILLAS (MALAGA) See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LAMMIN PAJA KY. Finland EU contribution No data Address Mutastentie 1 LAMMI See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BAUUNTERNEHMEN WEIXLBAUM GESMBH Austria EU contribution No data Address Loderleiten 25 ERNSTHOFEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET KASSEL Germany EU contribution No data Address Moenchebergstrasse 19 KASSEL See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TAMPEREEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO Finland EU contribution No data Address Korkeakoulunkatu 10 pl 527 TAMPERE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STATNI ZDRAVOTNI USTAV Czechia EU contribution No data Address Srobarova 48 PRAHA 10 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VEREIN ZUR FÖRDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V. Germany EU contribution No data Address An der Karlstadt 10 BREMERHAVEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data