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2013|14 Annual Report Fraunhofer IGB

33 FRAUNHOFER IGB INTERNATIONAL New EU-funded research projects With its specific programmes in the categories “Cooperation”, “Capacities”, “People” and “Ideas”, the EU’s 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) was the most important instru- ment of European research funding from 2007 to 2013. In 2014, the new framework programme “Horizon 2020” en- ters into force, which in turn promises exciting calls for the Fraunhofer IGB. At the end of the 7th Framework Programme the Fraunhofer IGB posted yet a number of major successes. New Cooperation Programme projects In the field of collaborative research, the Fraunhofer IGB is coordinating the EnReMilk project, which is being funded under the “Knowledge Based Bio-Economy – KBBE” subject area. Fifteen European partners are working together on opti- mizing novel water- and energy-saving technologies and inte- grating them into selected dairy processing lines, while main- taining the quality and safety of the corresponding products. All the process steps will be examined, and the potentials of a vast array of technologies will be analyzed using process modeling tools. Moreover, we are partners on eight other collaborative proj- ects under the research themes Health, Environment, NMP (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Produc- tion Technologies), as well as on the topic of “Knowledge Based Bio-Economy” under the Food, Agriculture and Fisher- ies, and Biotechnology research theme. The projects were invited by the European Commission (EC) to negotiations in 2013 and their respective contract periods commence at the end of 2013 / start of 2014. New Capacities Programme projects The Fraunhofer IGB is working in close collaboration with small and medium-sized European enterprises in ten new projects on the theme “Research for the benefit of SMEs and SME associa- tions” within the FP7 Capacities Programme. This type of proj- ect is aimed specifically at the innovation needs of European SMEs or SME associations. With the aid of financial project support from the EC, such SMEs or associations have the op- portunity to outsource research and demonstration activities to Research and Technological Development (RTD) performers, for the benefit of the SMEs or the SME association members. In the NovEED project, a novel energy-efficient electrodialysis cell is being developed for internal energy recovery, based on a new type of electrode. The electrodialysis cell is to be used for the recycling of acids and bases from industrial process waters. The OxFloc project is also concerned with water treatment, aiming to degrade and remove hazardous substances in an in- tegrated approach using a one-step oxidation-adsorptive pro- cess. In future, this will not only lower the operating costs of wastewater treatment, but also achieve far-reaching benefits for the environment. Whey resulting from cheese production contains valuable proteins that still often remain unused. By refining an elec- tromembrane process initially investigated at the University of Hohenheim, the Whey2Food project consortium is inves- tigating how to selectively obtain high-quality whey proteins fractions to enrich foods and enhance their nutritional or technological-functional properties. Compared with ultrafiltra- tion, the optimized technique fractionates and concentrates 1 1 + 2

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