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EMPIR Call 2018: Finalisation of evaluation process

Following the Review Conference held in November, where external independent referees evaluated and ranked the proposals, the EMPIR Committee agreed on a final list of selected projects to fund. The following project proposals have been selected and will be invited for contract negotiation:

Health

  • Standardisation of concentration measurements of extracellular vesicles for medical diagnoses
  • Measurements for mitigating adverse health effects from atmospheric particulate pollutants
  • Metrology to enable rapid and accurate clinical measurements in acute management of sepsis
  • Metrology for advanced radiotherapy using particle beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates
  • Quantitative MR-based imaging of physical biomarkers
  • Radiotherapy coupled with hyperthermia - adapting the biological equivalent dose concept
  • Metrology of automated data analysis for cardiac arrhythmia management
  • Metrology for drug delivery
  • Metrology and innovation for early diagnosis and accurate stratification of patients with neurodegenerative diseases
  • Providing the measurement infrastructure to allow quantitative diagnostic methods for biomarkers of coronary heart diseases

 

SI Broader Scope

  • Large-scale dimensional measurements for geodesy
  • Realising the redefined kelvin
  • New quantities for the measurement of appearance
  • Towards quantum-based realisations of the pascal
  • Optical clocks for the redefinition of the SI second
  • Advanced time/frequency comparison and dissemination through optical telecommunication networks
  • Graphene impedance quantum standard
  • Comprehensive traceability for force metrology services
  • Traceability for electrical measurements at millimetre-wave and terahertz frequencies for communications and electronics technologies
  • Self-calibrating photodiodes for the radiometric linkage to fundamental constants

 

Normative

  • Metrology for monitoring endocrine disrupting compounds under the Water Framework Directive
  • Primary standards and traceable measurement methods for X-ray emitting electronic brachytherapy devices
  • Calibration and accuracy of non-catching instruments to measure liquid/solid atmospheric precipitation
  • Determining new uncertainty requirements for increasingly stringent legislative HCl industrial emission limits
  • Grid measurements of 2 kHz - 150 kHz harmonics to support normative emission limits for mass-market electrical goods
  • Flow metering of non conventional gases (biogas, biomethane, hydrogen, syngas and mixtures with natural gas)
  • Measurement of the focal spot size on X-ray tubes with spot sizes down to 100 nm

 

Research Potential

  • Traceability for contact probes and stylus instruments measurements
  • Developing an infrastructure for improved and harmonised metrological checks of blood-pressure measurements in Europe
  • Traceable measurement capabilities for monitoring thermocouple performance

 

Support for Networks 

  • Support for a European Metrology Network for energy gases
  • Support for a European Metrology Network on traceability in laboratory medicine
  • Support for a European Metrology Network on smart electricity grids
  • Support for a European Metrology Network for climate and ocean observation
  • Support for a European Metrology Network for mathematics and statistics

 

Support for Impact

The previous EMPIR/EMRP JRP that each SIP is linked to is shown in brackets

  • An ISO Technical Report on Nanoparticle Concentration (14IND12)
  • Metrology for RF exposure from massive MIMO 5G base station: Impact on 5G network deployment (14IND10)
  • Improvement of the European quality infrastructure for the measurement of total silicon and sulphur content of biogas (ENG54)
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