Objective BIOBRUSH is a 6-partner consortium of European scientists, industrialists and conservators formed to study the feasibility of using bioremediation to restore stone buildings in European cities. This innovative approach will select appropriate microorganisms and delivery systems so that treatment combinations can be tested in the laboratory and then on buildings where performance and risk will be assessed under the different climatic conditions of Northern and Southern Europe. The 7 work packages require full collaboration between scientific partners and the end-user conservators and industries. Outcomes will be disseminated by WWW, monographs, reports and research papers. A culture collection for conservation use will be lodged in existing European microbial collections and a new treatment process based on bioremediation will help to arrest damage to the European cultural heritage caused by urban pollution. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.4.-4. - Key action City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH EU contribution No data Address King Henry I Street PO1 2DY PORTSMOUTH United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FOUNDATION INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL SCIENCES Germany EU contribution No data Address Paul-Feller-Strasse 1 28199 BREMEN See on map Total cost No data NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution No data Address 42,Heroon Polytechniou Street 9 157 80 ATHENS See on map Total cost No data RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Latvia EU contribution No data Address Azenes 14/24 1048 RIGA See on map Total cost No data SYREMONT SPA - SISTEMI PER LA CONSERVAZIONE ED IL RESTAURO Italy EU contribution No data Address viale Lombardia 20 20021 BARANZATE DI BOLLATE See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF MILANO Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Celoria 2 20133 MILANO See on map Total cost No data
