PROCOTEX

Products of coated textiles

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITEIT GENT    more  Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Nathalie Cognome: Vandepitte Email: send email Telefono: +32 9 2643029 Fax: +32 9 2643583
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Belgium [BE]
Totale costo	291˙600 €
EC contributo	291˙600 €
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-2009-IRSES
Funding Scheme	MC-IRSES
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-08-01   -   2012-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT GENT  Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Nathalie Cognome: Vandepitte Email: send email Telefono: +32 9 2643029 Fax: +32 9 2643583	BE (GENT)	coordinator	151˙200.00
2	Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus  Organization address address: P. Ralli and Thivon avenue 250 city: Egaleo postcode: 12244 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Georgios Cognome: Priniotakis Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 5381335 Fax: +30 210 5381203	EL (Egaleo)	participant	140˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In our world today we require the ability deal fairly with global challenges. This can be achieved by opening up of research systems and a free movement of researchers and technologies to accelerate collaboration and to build up strong partnerships. These requirements are also the aim of the 2 years lasting PROCOTEX project. By building up and strengthening an international research network in smart textiles, innovative products based on the consortium´s common technology platform will be developed. Above that PROCOTEX targets on the valorization of these products. Within the consortium, which is made up by 3 partners coming from Belgium, Greece and South Africa, different surface modification technologies as well as expertise in electrospinning are available. These technologies will be spread among the partners by defining 3 different teams of researchers. Each team consists of 4 researchers, 2 being from South Africa, 2 being from the European countries. The available technologies build the basis for the development of 3 prototype products, on each one a team will focus: (1) textile fibre with transistor properties as on-off switch for textile sensors (2) sensor for nitric oxide (NO) detection (3) air filter for dedicated filtration of NOx. In order to be successful the work plan foresees a coherent set of actions within the different workpackages which is mutually transferred by research trainings, courses and workshops. Knowledge and research skills available within the consortium are complimentary and ensure the contribution of each partner to the joint development of the products.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers joined their expertise to work towards developing a number of smart textile prototypes as a basis for international capacity building in the field.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The EU-funded 'Products of coated textiles' (PROCOTEX) project brought researchers together to share knowledge and techniques for smart textile manufacture. Ghent University (Belgium), the Technological Education Institute of Piraeus (Greece) and Rhodes University (South Africa) participated in the project.

Each laboratory offered specific expertise and labs were established at the different partner institutions to allow access to one another's technologies. This enabled research towards three new smart textile prototype technologies: a textile fibre that could function as an on/off switch, a nanofibre nitric oxide sensor and a nanofibre nitric oxide filter. The collaborations and development of these prototypes were used as a framework to train students, as well as early-stage and experienced researchers.

PROCOTEX has resulted in 12 direct and 6 indirect publications in high-impact factor international journals, as well as patent applications. As such, the project not only succeeded in improving research capacities and infrastructure, but also in producing tangible scientific outputs.