European medical device material thematic network

MEDEVMATNET

Project timeline

Start:
March 2001

Duration:
36 months

End:
February 2004

General Information

EU innovation in the development and testing of materials for biomedical use is predominantly supported through the GROWTH Programme, but also through the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Programmes. Fifteen projects in this area, assessed as already matching EU policy and Programme objectives and currently under various stages of completion, are being presented 'ex-ante' by the establishment of this MEDEVMATNET thematic network. Other projects presently under evaluation will be incorporated 'ex-post'. GKSS participation is through the project TESTMEM

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP5-GROWTH-2000, RTD actions of a generic nature, Materials and their technologies for production and transformation
Project Type	Thematic Network
Contract Number	G5RT-CT-2000-05011
Co-ordinator	LGC - Laboratory of the Government Chemist Ltd. (UK)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
530.000	1.000

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Laura Schwabe, Research Funding Department, phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1670
E-mail contact

Worldwide Europe

Participants

Centro Tecnologie del Vuoto (IT), Baxter R&D Europe (BE), Fidia Advanced Biopolymers (IT), Isotis B.V. (NL), LGC - Laboratory of the Government Chemist Ltd. (UK), Queen Mary and Westfield College - University of London (UK), Straumann (DE), Teknologisk Institut (DK), The University of Sheffield (UK), Thessaloniki University (GR), Universita degli Studi di Pisa (IT), Universität Ulm (DE), Université Louis Pasteur (FR), Vigo University (ES)

(completed February 2004)

Last Update: 10. January 2022