Objective The project ULIXES aims to unravel, categorize, catalogue, exploit and manage the microbial diversity available in the Mediterranean Sea for addressing bioremediation of polluted marine sites. The idea behind ULIXES is that the multitude of diverse environmental niches of the Mediterranean Sea contains a huge range of microorganisms and their components (e.g. catabolic enzymes) or products (e.g. biosurfactant) that can be exploited in pollutant- and site-tailored bioremediation approaches. ULIXES intends to provide the proof of concept that it is possible to establish and exploit for bioremediation site-specific collections of microbial strains, mixed microbial cultures, enzymes, biosurfactants and other microbial products. These biotechnological resources will be mined by using approaches based on isolation of culturable microorganisms as well as by extensively applying advanced novel ‘meta-omics’ technologies recently developed by the project partners and exclusively available for ULIXES. Three pollutant classes recognized worldwide as environmental priorities will be considered: petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated compounds and heavy metals. A large set of polluted environmental matrices from sites located all over the Mediterranean Sea will be explored, including seashore sands, lagoon sediments, deep sea sediments polluted by heavy oil hydrocarbons at oil tanker shipwreck sites, hypersaline waters and sediments from polluted salty coastal lakes and natural deep hypersaline anoxic submarine basins and mud volcanoes where hydrocarbon seepages occur. The mined collections of microbial biotechnological products will be exploited for development of novel improved bioremediation processes whose effectiveness will be proved by ex situ and in situ field bioremediation trials. A careful dissemination action will be pursued to assure capillary information of the ULIXES results and products to stakeholders and SMEs operating in the sector of marine bioremediation. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbonsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyvolcanologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymes Programme(s) FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology Topic(s) KBBE.2010.3.5-03 - Approaches towards bioremediation of the Mediterranean Sea by exploring its microbial diversity – SICA (Mediterranean Partner Countries) - Call: FP7-KBBE-2010-4 Call for proposal FP7-KBBE-2010-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO EU contribution € 306 219,25 Address Via Festa Del Perdono 7 20122 Milano Italy See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Margherita Pasetti (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DE TUNIS EL MANAR Tunisia EU contribution € 239 700,00 Address CAMPUS TUNIS ROMMANA 1068 Tunis See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ameur Cherif (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data YARMOUK UNIVERSITY Jordan EU contribution € 174 900,00 Address Al Defa Al-Madani Street 21163 Irbid See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Hanan Malkawi (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 299 140,75 Address PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Michail Yakimov (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MUBARAK CITY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS Egypt EU contribution € 174 150,00 Address AHMED ZWEIL AVENUE UNIVERSITIES ALEXANDRIA See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Yasser Abdel-Fattah (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITE HASSAN II AIN CHOCK CASABLANCA Morocco EU contribution € 150 800,00 Address RUE TAREK IBN ZIAD 20000 CASABLANCA See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mohamed Blaghen (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BANGOR UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 294 420,00 Address COLLEGE ROAD LL57 2DG Bangor See on map Region Wales West Wales and The Valleys Gwynedd Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Christine Davey (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spain EU contribution € 294 880,00 Address CALLE SERRANO 117 28006 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Eusebio Jiménez Arroyo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE Greece EU contribution € 285 004,00 Address AGIOU MARKOU STR. 73132 CHANIA See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Argyro Vaidaki (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium EU contribution € 300 000,00 Address SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nathalie Vandepitte (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data EcoTechSystems Srl Italy EU contribution € 298 200,00 Address VIA CADUTI DEL LAVORO 27 60131 Ancona See on map Region Centro (IT) Marche Ancona Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Monica Armeni (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 176 398,00 Address VIA ZAMBONI 33 40126 Bologna See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Verdiana Bandini (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data