Opendata, web and dolomites

VATOREX

ECO-FRIENDLY AND BREAKTHROUGH MITE TREATMENT FOR HONEY BEES

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 VATOREX project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the VATOREX project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "VATOREX" about.

committed    treatments    mite    41    policy    themselves    39    commercial    country    causes    enemy    mortality    view    ordm    solutions    hive    chemicals    beehive    treatment    decades    parasite    provides    ag    tolerances    coil    association    strategy    started    inside    saving    aligned    largely    decline    survive    42    small    survival    kill    efficiency    unharmed    currently    alternatives    heats    entails    protection    honeybee    biodiversity    hives    honey    acts    protect    hours    95    health    highest    thanks    2015    chemical    66    deg    male    18    beekeepers    natural    approximately    sanitary    business    almost    methodology    proven    eco    dies    600    solution    habitat    depending    bees    total    evil    greatest    alternative    researched    floor    directive    mites    lower    heating    30    swiss    contrast    hyperthermia    nymphs       principles    combs    17    population    off    heat    company    threat    rates    varroa    vatorex    until    pollinator    brood    displace    die    million   

Project "VATOREX" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
VATOREX AG 

Organization address
address: ATTIKERSTRASSE 10
city: WIESENDANGEN
postcode: 8542
website: n.a.

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Switzerland [CH]
 Project website https://www.vatorex.ch
 Total cost 71˙429 €
 EC max contribution 50˙000 € (70%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges)
2. H2020-EU.2.3. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs)
3. H2020-EU.2.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies)
 Code Call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
 Funding Scheme SME-1
 Starting year 2019
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2019-02-01   to  2019-05-31

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    VATOREX AG CH (WIESENDANGEN) coordinator 50˙000.00

Map

 Project objective

Currently, honeybee mortality rates range from 5% to almost 30% depending on the country and the year, being some of the main causes the Varroa mite. This parasite is currently treated with chemicals, which are considered a necessary evil by a population of beekeepers that considers chemical treatments largely as a threat because themselves are a cause for the bees’ population decline. In view of these problems, other alternatives have been researched for decades, being the hyperthermia the methodology with highest potential to displace the use of chemicals. However, until now the current commercial solutions based on hyperthermia principles are not an alternative to chemical products due to a lower efficiency. Vatorex AG is a small Swiss company committed to improve the bees’ health. The new business has started off as an association in 2015 and provides beekeepers with an eco-friendly solution to protect their hives from their greatest enemy: the Varroa mite. We have developed an eco-friendly solution to kill the Varroa mites by using a natural principle of different heat tolerances of bees and varroa. In a range between 39°C - 42°C the parasite dies while the bees survive unharmed. In contrast to other hyperthermia systems, Vatorex-System heats the brood combs directly from the inside thanks to a heating coil that acts like a floor-heating. Vatorex-System has proven to be an effective treatment directly in the beehive (95% of male mites and nymphs die at 41ºC within 2 hours of treatment). The Vatorex-System means a reduction of sanitary cost of 66% per hive and a 18% in total cost of honey production that entails a total saving impact for the approximately 600,000 European beekeepers and their 17 million of hives. Vatorex is fully aligned with the European policy initiatives in biodiversity and pollinator protection such as European long-term survival strategy or the objectives of the EU Habitat directive.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "VATOREX" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "VATOREX" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.3.;H2020-EU.2.3.;H2020-EU.2.1.)

Savesight (2020)

Contact lens embedded sensor for ocular hypertension and glaucoma monitoring

Read More  

Proteus 25 (2018)

Developing the world’s first food wrapping machine with organic film

Read More  

Preemie (2019)

Personalised nutrition of low-birth-weight infants

Read More