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Pre-commercial lines for production of surface nanostructured antimicrobial and anti-biofilm textiles, medical devices and water treatment membranes (PROTECT)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,
PROTECT aims to introduce to the market One step antimicrobial finish processes for polymeric materials used in i) specialty textiles for public areas and hospitals, ii) water treatment membranes, and iii) implantable medical devices. Compared to main existing manufacturing routes, the proposed one-step coating technologies are simple, fast, and reproducible. For this, PROTECT uses as a starting p...
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Smart Clothing Gamification to promote Energy-related Behaviours among Adolescents (SmartLife)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,
Energy-related behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour) are main modifiable determinants of several non-communicable health conditions, e.g. diabetes type 2, overweight and obesity, and track into adulthood. Promoting these behaviours among youngsters can have great health and societal gains. Meeting recommended levels for these behaviours is especially low among adolescents, girls and ...
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Open Educational Resources for development of an innovative MOOC on advanced textile quality control
Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,
LEARNINGTEX MOOC aims to support textile companies through employees training and skills updating. A need on the sector has been detected and textile companies demand more experienced and trained workers on topics like woven fabrics and quality control of defects. In this sense, during this project more than 70 OER will be created which will be shaped into a MOOC about woven fabrics and defect det...
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Air pollution treatment in European urban environments by means of photocatalytic textiles (LIFE PHOTOCITYTEX)
Date du début: 1 juil. 2014, Date de fin: 30 juin 2017,
Background
Air pollution from traffic is a growing problem, especially in urban areas. In recent years the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) based photocatalytic self-cleaning and de-polluting materials has been considered to remove these pollutants. TiO2 is now commercially available and used in construction material or paints for environmental purposes. Fu...
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Demonstration of new natural dyes from algae as substitution of synthetic dyes actually used by textile industries (LIFE SEACOLORS)
Date du début: 1 juil. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,
Background
Textile industries use vast volumes of different mostly synthetic dyes. Synthetic dyes can pose many environmental problems, due to the abundance of hazardous chemicals (alkalis, acids, solvents, etc.) that are associated with these dyes. Large volumes of hazardous waste and wastewater are produced from many textile processes that use synthetic...
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Demonstration of natural coagulant use advantages in physical & chemical treatments in industry and urban waste water (LIFE ADNATUR)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
Background
The industrial sectors of ceramics and textiles consume large quantities of water, generating significant amounts of contaminated wastewater. This wastewater has to be treated before being returned to the natural environment in order to avoid pollution of surface waters.
The most important treatments in the primary phase are coagulation and fl...
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ALFRED - Personal Interactive Assistant for Independent Living and Active Ageing (ALFRED)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
Description
ALFRED’s objective is to develop a mobile, personalized assistant for elderly people, which helps them stay independent, coordinate with carers and foster their social contacts. ALFRED is a mobile, personalized Butler, created using cutting edge technologies such as advanced speech interaction, so you can talk directly to him. AL...
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BIO-MOnitoring and Automatic MIcrobiological Contamination Control System of Industrial Hydraulic Circuits (BIOMOMI)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,
Background
The maintenance and supervision of cooling towers and air-conditioning systems cause significant environmental impact through excessive use of chlorine and other biocides. Users and managers of cooling towers and air-conditioning systems apply biocides to the circulating cooling water to control growth of microorganisms, biofilms and algae. The...
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Demonstration of cyclodextrin techniques in treatment of waste water in textil industry to recover and reuse textil dyes (LIFE DYES4EVER)
Date du début: 1 juil. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,
Background
Textile industries commonly create wastewater containing potentially hazardous contaminants for the environment. Dye compounds are one of the wastewater contaminants that often need special treatment. T
he percentages of unfixed dyes remaining in wastewater can range from approximately 1% in pigments to as much as 50% for reactives. The reacti...
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Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing (FITMAN)
Date du début: 1 avr. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,
According to the 2010 EC Competitiveness Report, Manufacturing is still the driving force of Europe's economy, contributing over € 6553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. It covers more than 25 different industrial sectors, largely dominated by SMEs, and generates annually over € 1535 billion (42%) worth of value added services.The mission of the FITMAN (Future Internet Techno...
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Validation and commercialization of improved solutions for rest systems from ALL4REST project (ALL4RESTgo2MARKET) (ALL4RESTgo2MARKET)
Date du début: 1 août 2013, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2015,
The integrated solutions developed in previous project ALL4REST (focused to achieve tactile/thermal comfort improvement establishing quantitative/qualitative evaluation of comfort or sleep quality) were mainly based in research and use of new biofibres and integration of thermoregulating systems, but also in use of new hotmelt adhesives, heatable textiles and microencapsulated scents for aromather...
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MELT SPUN FIBRES BASED ON COMPOSTABLE BIOPOLYMERS FOR APPLICATION IN AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS (BIOFIBROCAR)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 30 juin 2015,
"The main objective of the research project is to manufacture textile substrates (woven or non-woven) for vehicle interiors from renewable resource-based synthetic fibres from Polylactic Acid derivatives that can be used as a substitute for the polyester fibres that are currently used. These biofibres must fulfil the same requirements that the fibres used at the moment including thermal resistance...
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Revalorization of coastal algae wastes in textile nonwoven industry with applications in building noise isolation (SEA-MATTER)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2012, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2015,
Background
Algae and seaweed accumulations on beaches and along coasts are an environmental nuisance. City Councils in coastal areas are required to remove them if they want to preserve their Blue Flag Beach category and maintain favourable conditions for tourism. In addition to the time and resources devoted to their collection, sand is also removed with...
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Textiles techniques de chanvre pour l'utilisation dans divers secteurs d'activités au sein du Sud-ouest Européen (FIBNATEX 2)
Date du début: 30 juin 2012, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2014,
A travers l'expérience du projet FIBNATEX (approuvé dans le cadre du premier appel à projets) et de ses résultats et retombées industrielles positifs, l'objectif de ce nouveau projet est d'élargir les domaines d'utilisation des fibres de chanvre, y compris leur mise en oeuvre, dans des textiles techniques à haute valeur ajoutée.Le projet FIBNATEX 2 se centrera sur trois axes. Le premier consiste e...
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A pilot line of antibacterial and antifungal medical textiles based on a sonochemical process (SONO)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2009, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2013,
Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections are a major financial issue in the European healthcare system. The financial impact of these infections counteract medical advances and expensive medical treatments by increasing the length of hospital stay by at least 8 days on average per affected patient, hence adding more than 10 millions patient days in hospitals in Europe per year. The statistics on...
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Integrated Solutions for Improve the quality of the rest (ALL4REST)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,
"The present project, ALL4REST, is focused on the development of comfort-improved rest systems, using non-obstrusive technologies that promote deeper, more restorative sleep and prevent nocturnal awakenings. The successful solutions will reduce awakenings and/or reduce time to sleep after an awakening and reduce sleep onset latency. Within the global comfort improvement, physical and thermal param...
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Unobtrusive wearable human to machine wireless interface (Wear-a-BAN)
Date du début: 1 juin 2010, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2012,
The objective of Wear-a-BAN is to investigate and demonstrate ultra low-power wireless body-area-network (WBAN) technologies for enabling unobtrusive human to machine interfaces (HMI) into SME-driven market segments of smart fabrics / interactive textiles (SFIT), robotics for augmented reality assistance and rehabilitation, and natural interfacing devices for video gaming. The proposed research wi...
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Legionellosis: risk reduction to public health from environmental sources using biotechnology in the textile sector. (TEXLEGIO)
Date du début: 1 avr. 2009, Date de fin: 1 janv. 2012,
Background
Legionella bacteria â the cause of Legionnaires' disease â are classified as a public health risk of environmental origin. The bacteria are found in natural aquatic environments and is most common in warm countries such as those of the Mediterranean. Some of these waters are used as a source for drinking water in cities, which means that th...
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Development of ECOlogical friendly and flexible production processes for textile COATings based on innovative polyolefine polymer formulations (DECOCOAT)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2011,
"The European textile industry is confronted with a constant increase of ecological awareness. For instance, soft PVC is coming under ecological pressure. The polymer not only has high halogen content, but also requires the use of plasticisers. Some of these (e.g. specific phthalates) are toxic and can alter the expression of gender characteristics and are leading to a lowered fertility. Some of ...
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Alternatives for waste volume reduction in the textile sector through the application of minimisation measures in the process and in the consumption. (RESITEX)
Date du début: 1 déc. 2005, Date de fin: 1 déc. 2007,
Background
Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are well positioned to serve niche markets and can react flexibly to changing styles in fashion. However, though they play a central role in Europeâs textile-finishing industry, they lag behind in their environmental performance. For instance, over 70% of Spanish enterprises have no waste-reduction pla...
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AQUATEX
Date du début: 31 déc. 1999, Date de fin: 29 juin 2007,
Le projet a comme objectif spécifique: la réalisation et le transfert interrégional d'études, analyse et contrôle sur le procédé de recyclage d'eaux usées de l'industrie textile et urbaines, leur application dans des environnements insulaires ou en procès de désertification; le transfert de résultats aux administrations publiques compétentes et entreprises industrielles. ...
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Water Purification Tertiary Treatment using Photo-oxidation at semi-industrial scale (FOTOTEX) (FOTOTEX)
Date du début: 1 août 2003, Date de fin: 1 août 2005,
Background
The textile sector has high levels of water consumption and generates significant pollution. Much progress has been made in water treatment. However, the organic compounds in wastewater generated by dyeing are barely treated by conventional wastewater systems. Existing research on photo oxidation treatment suggests that application to textile o...
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Interactive Mobile Assisted system and Guidance learnING for RFID technology (iMAGING), uses a new teaching and learning methodology about the application of new technologies for product identification and traceability like RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) in the business world. The creation and transfer of knowledge through this new methodology is reflected in the subsequent development of a...
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The main goal of mobileManager - Mobile Learning for Implementation of Integrated Management System, was to create a mobile application with training contents that support managers, technicians, unemployed people with high degree education and also students to learn how to implement an Integrated Management System in SMEs. This was achieved by transferring the results of Game4Manager (serious game...
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In recent years important developments were observed in the textile fibres area, with new fibres with special characteristics having been introduced in the market. The project main idea is to offer e-learning training courses on textile fibres, both at national and international level, for the textile and clothes industries. It covers horizontally all the sub sectors of the textile and clothing ch...
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Multi-media gives new dimensions to textile training : A new interactive training structure has been developed for the textiles industry, giving students the opportunity to solve real-life production problems through computer simulations and a wealth of practical information. The package can be adapted to a wide range of users from students through to managers. This project started in 2000 and las...
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The ADVOTEX network will create an active interface between the European textile and clothing industry and universities, institutes of higher education and training centres, with a view to providing the industry with the new skills and competencies needed to adapt its manufacturing processes to meet the challenge of globalisation. To achieve this, the training needs of the sector, especially SMEs...
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