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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)