PS: FP7 KBBE – Plant ingredients for use in the industry for cosmetics and personal care
BBS Ref: 12 DK 20B7 3PP1
ABSTRACT
A centre for chemistry and biotechnology at a Danish technological institute wishes to coordinate and manage a project proposal under the topic KBBE.2013.3.1-01: Plant High Value Products – from discovery to final product. Based on wild plants the project will investigate the opportunity for exploiting the useful effects of the plant ingredients for use in the industry for cosmetics and personal care. The institute is looking for SMEs and R&D partners for various project tasks as described below
DESCRIPTION
Plants and flowers have for centuries been the base source of dyes and natural medicine in different religions and nature tribes due to anti-microbial and therapeutic effects. This knowledge is about to be forgotten as the world is becoming more and more civilized.
In the project proposal plants containing interesting oils, waxes, dyes, fatty acids etc., which have the potential for being grown in large scale and refined, will be identified. By extraction of the interesting ingredient innovation of new cosmetic products is possible. In general attention is paid to natural ingredients that can add extra value to existing products or substitute ingredients based on raw materials from synthetic/fossil resources. This also applies in the pharma industry where e.g. natural ingredients with wound healing or anti-microbial effects are of interest.
Apart from coordinating and managing the project the institute can deliver the following parts:
Analysis of chemical compounds with e.g. HPLC, GC, GC-MS and microbial studies.
Characterisation of antioxidant compounds and effects hereof.
Tests of plant extracts in model systems and products with sensory and functional property evaluation.
Experience and skills with encapsulation technologies for e.g. protecting natural colors.
Legislation knowledge within cosmetics.
Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2013-7 ? single stage.
Topic: KBBE.2013.3.1-01: Plant High Value Products – from discovery to final product.
Date of publication: 10 July 2012.
Deadline: 05 February 2013 at 17.00, Brussels local time.
Indicative budget: EUR 341.35 million.
Proposal under development.
Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (large-scale integrating project targeted to SMEs).
The topic aims at financing a limited number of large collaborative projects within an overall maximum budget of EUR 20 000 000.
Additional eligibility criterion:
The estimated EU contribution going to SMEs shall be at least 25% of the total requested EU contribution. This will be assessed at the end of the negotiation, before the signature of the Grant Agreement.
ORGANISATION:
Agro Business Park A/S
COUNTRY: Denmark
DEADLINE: 01/01/2013
LIST OF KEYWORDS
TECHNOLOGY
Chemistry, Extraction, Pharmaceutical Products / Drugs, Biology / Biotechnology
MARKET
COLLABORATION
Joint further development
Comments :
- Type of partner sought: SMEs. Research organisations.
- Specific area of activity of the partner:
SMEs with knowledge of plants containing interesting, unexploited components for possible use in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
SMEs with knowledge of cultivation strategies for selected plant species or ecotypes, metabolic engineering of the selected biochemical pathways to improving the productivity.
SMEs which trade plant extracts for cosmetics and pharmaceutical use.
SMEs with knowledge and existing distribution network for commercializing products within cosmetics and pharma industry.
SMEs and R&D partners with knowledge of extracting a broad range of plant components e.g. fatty acids, wax, and oil.
- Task to be performed by the partner sought:
Various tasks in various project WPs within the partners’ respective areas of expertise according to description above.
Contact Details:
Name : Anders Skeem
Tel : 0045 40309637
Fax : 0045 40309637
Email : as@agropark.dk as@agropark.dk
Agro Business Park A/S
