MACRO-CLEAN

Macroclean - developing novel gel-based technologies for water clean-up

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON 

 Organization address address: "Lewes Road, Mithras House"
city: BRIGHTON
postcode: BN2 4AT

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Andrew
Cognome: Cundy
Email: send email
Telefono: + 44 1273 642270
Fax: +44 1273 642285

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 171˙091 €
 EC contributo 171˙091 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-04-18   -   2011-04-17

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

 Organization address address: "Lewes Road, Mithras House"
city: BRIGHTON
postcode: BN2 4AT

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Andrew
Cognome: Cundy
Email: send email
Telefono: + 44 1273 642270
Fax: +44 1273 642285

UK (BRIGHTON) coordinator 0.00

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environmental    skills    directive    clean    groundwater    recent    waters    researcher    area    technologies    surface    innovative    materials    contaminated    science    water    ground    remediation   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The management of contaminated groundwater, surface waters and drinking water is a major issue both in the EU and globally, where recent (and historical) industrial, urban and commercial activities have led to the presence of elevated concentrations of a wide range of contaminants in surface- and ground-waters, adversely affecting the health of millions of people. This has been recognised in a number of recent directives (e.g. the Water Framework Directive, the Groundwater Directive) aimed at protecting ground and surface water resources within the EU. However, despite much progress, groundwater and surface water quality is still highly variable across Europe, and there is an urgent need to develop and fully implement forward-looking technologies to clean-up water and keep it free from pollution. In this project we intend to combine innovative biomaterial / gel technologies with nanotechnologies to develop and commercialize innovative products for the remediation or clean-up of contaminated ground and surface waters. A range of permeable composite gels in which nanoparticles will be embedded will be produced and tested for application as water clean-up devices. Achieving the objectives of the project will benefit to all European citizens, economy, agriculture and industry and will place Europe in a leading position in the area of polymer-based remediation devices and technologies. This is an inter- and multidisciplinary proposal, which will offer a top class young researcher great opportunities to develop her existing skills, acquire new skills in the area of materials, environmental science and nanotechnology and, more specifically, in the area of technologies for remediation and clean-up devices, generate new knowledge and obtain training in transferable skills and thus develop a successful career as an independent researcher in the field of environmental science and materials for remediation.'

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