Acronym BYEFOULING
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Low-toxic cost-efficient environment-friendly antifouling materials Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Christian Simon Coordinator email christian.simon@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Algaenergy SA (Spain) ,
ABT Group - AquaBioTech Group Ltd (Malta) ,
NA - Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) ,
FhG - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany) ,
CIDETEC - Fundación CIDETEC (Spain) ,
NA - Jotun AS (Norway) ,
NA - Lonza Group AG (Switzerland) ,
NA - Materia Nova (Belgium) ,
NTUA - National Technical University of Athens (Greece) ,
OCAS - Onderzoekscentrum Voor Aanwending Van Staal Nv (Belgium) ,
PlasmaChem - PlasmaChem production and trade GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - SINTEF Ocean (Norway) ,
SMT - Smallmatek, Small Materials and Technologies, Lda. (Portugal) ,
TAU - Tel-Aviv University (Israel) ,
UNILIV - University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) ,
UMH - University of Mons-Hainaut (Belgium) ,
USC - University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) ,
NA - Zunibal SL (Spain) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2017 Funding (€) € 9,959,644 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/612717 Summary The BYEFOULING project will address high volume production of low toxic and environmentally friendly antifouling coatings for mobile and stationary maritime applications. The technology will fulfil the coating requirements as a result of the incorporation of novel antifouling agents and a new set of binders into coating formulations for maritime transportation and fishing vessels, floating devices and aquaculture. The main vision of BYEFOULING is to provide the means for industrial, cost-effective and robust manufacturing of antifouling coatings in Europe, where SMEs are both coating components developers and production technology providers. A set of procedures, guidelines and fabrication tools will be developed, enabling short time to market for new coating concepts. The main goal of BYEFOULING is to design, develop and upscale antifouling coatings with enhanced performance compared to current available products. The approach in BYEFOULING is to tackle the different stages of the biofouling process using innovative antifouling agents, covering surface-structured materials, protein adsorption inhibitors, quorum sensing inhibitors, natural biocides and microorganisms with antifouling properties. Encapsulation of the innovative compounds in smart nanostructured materials will be implemented to optimize coating performance and cost all along their life cycle. A proof-of-concept for the most promising candidates will be developed and demonstrators will be produced and tested on fields. BYEFOULING will combine a multidisciplinary leading research team from 11 European countries, which are already acting worldwide in the scientific community, with highly relevant and skilled technological partners, to build a consortium able to develop a full production line for antifouling coatings in Europe. Readily available low toxic and cost-effective antifouling coatings will increase the efficiency of maritime industry and be the enabling technology to realize new products.
Keywords
Antifouling;
Bioprospecting;
Biomaterial;
Marine Region
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