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"Anti-microbial, self-cleaning copper composite coatings applied in metallic objects against infections transmission"

Coordinatore	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS    more  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Pahlitzanaki Email: send email Telefono: 302421000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	1˙472˙462 €
EC contributo	1˙111˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-12-01   -   2015-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Pahlitzanaki Email: send email Telefono: 302421000000	EL (THERMI THESSALONIKI)	coordinator	54˙000.00
2	TECNOCHIMICA SRL  Organization address address: VIA DELLA LIBERAZIONE 29 AB city: SAN GIULIANO MILANESE MI postcode: 20098 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Valerio Cognome: Criscuolo Email: send email Telefono: 390298000000	IT (SAN GIULIANO MILANESE MI)	participant	248˙581.05
3	AXON ENGINEERING SA  Organization address address: INOFYTA VIOTIA city: INOFYTA VIOTIA postcode: 32011 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Nikolaos Cognome: Halkoussis Email: send email Telefono: 302262000000	EL (INOFYTA VIOTIA)	participant	248˙223.70
4	Ceramic Powder Technology AS  Organization address city: Trondheim postcode: 7491 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Arve Cognome: Solheim Email: send email Telefono: 4798283966 Fax: 4772605722	NO (Trondheim)	participant	245˙839.80
5	ELECTROLITICOS LOFRAN SA  Organization address address: CALLE YESOS SECTOR 5 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL LA TORRECILLA 1 city: YELES TOLEDO postcode: 45220 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Lorenzo Cognome: Cruz Jimenez Email: send email Telefono: 34925510120 Fax: 34925510120	ES (YELES TOLEDO)	participant	241˙990.44
6	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Hari-Babu Cognome: Nadendla Email: send email Telefono: 441895000000	UK (UXBRIDGE)	participant	24˙824.00
7	FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION  Organization address address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON PASEO MIKELETEGI 2 city: DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN postcode: 20009 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pablo Cognome: Benguria Email: send email Telefono: +34 946430850 Fax: +34 946460900	ES (DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN)	participant	24˙501.02
8	METROPOLITIKO THERAPEFTIRIO PERSEYSYGEIONOMIKIS MERIMNAS  Organization address address: ETHN. MAKARIOU 9 & EL. VENIZELOU 1 city: ATHINA postcode: 18547 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Sergios Cognome: Stamboulos Email: send email Telefono: 302105000000	EL (ATHINA)	participant	23˙040.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Infection prevention measures aim to ensure the protection of people who might be vulnerable to acquiring an infection both in the general community and while receiving care due to health problems. The basic principle of infection prevention and control is hygiene. Hygiene could be divided in personal hygiene (e.g. hand washing) and inanimate object disinfection (e.g. use of chemicals for cleaning and sanitizing). However, hygiene practices is not enough to fight against infections. Indeed, the estimated annual cost of medical care for treating infectious diseases in Europe is about €120 billion while HealthCare Acquired Infections are directly responsible for approximately 37,000 deaths annually and contribute to a further 110,000 across the EU. This is because, every person comes in contact several times per day with bacteria via touching inanimate objects such as handrails, shopping carts, door knobs etc and thus, the hazard of infections is more than evident. In order to overcome this important social problem, the SMEs participants propose a novel solution to be used against diseases transmission: The application of new copper based coatings in metallic objects with photo-catalytic imposed anti-microbial and self cleaning activity. These new composite coatings will consist of a copper matrix and chemically modified TiO2 nano-particles as reinforcing mean, and will present enhanced photo-catalytic activity under visible light irradiation. They will be applied in various metallic objects such as handles, door knobs or rails, which can potentially be reservoirs of communicable viruses, and thus will lead to a decrease of the risk of getting infected by a factor of >50%.'