CORDIS · 266033 · FP7
SPECIAL Sponge Enzymes and Cells for Innovative AppLications
Coordinator: UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO (PT)
The SPECIAL project aims at delivering breakthrough technologies for the biotechnological production of cellular metabolites and extracellular biomaterials from marine sponges. These include a platform technology to produce secondary metabolites from a wide range of sponge species, a novel in vitro method for the production of biosilica and recombinant technology for the production of marine collagen.Research on cellular metabolites will be based upon our recent finding that non-growing sponges continuously release large amounts of cellular material. Production of biosilica will be realized t…
About Seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013)
The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) ran from 2007 to 2013 and was the EU's main research-funding instrument of that period. It mobilised roughly €50 billion across cooperation projects, ERC frontier grants, Marie Curie fellowships, capacity-building actions and Euratom research. FP7 closed to new calls in 2013 but its projects continued for years after under their original grant agreements.
Co-funding: the European Union contributes €3.0M toward a total project budget of €3.9M — a funding rate of 77%, with the remainder covered by the consortium partners. The project runs over approximately 3 years from 2010-12-01 to 2013-11-30.
Full record on CORDIS — partners, deliverables, publications, news.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who funds this research project?
- This project is funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013) programme, under the CP-FP funding scheme.
- What is the EU contribution?
- The European Commission contributes €3.0M toward a total project budget of €3.9M.
- Which EU programme funds it?
- The project is funded under Seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013).
- Who coordinates the project?
- The project is coordinated by UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO (PT).
- What is the project timeline?
- The project runs from 2010-12-01 to 2013-11-30 — approximately 3 years.
- Where can I find the full project record?
- The complete record — partners, deliverables, publications and news — is published on CORDIS under project ID 266033.