An international, collaborative call to identify emerging issues in science, innovation and policy for the biofilm field. To date, there has not been an international and community-wide synthesis of key questions and priority research or innovation areas for the biofilm field. Such exercises can play a critical role in bridging the gap between the data generated by researchers, and the information needed by policymakers to make
AMiCI Final Conference – summary
Final AMiCI Conference placed in Kraków on February 18-20 is already history. The main target of the conference was to summarize the AMiCI action with the view to formulate the official statement of antimicrobial coatings addressed to EU. Final days that took place in Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry brought the expected results. The program and selected presentations are presented in order of appearance. AMiCI
COST action AMiCI final conference to be held in Krakow 18-20.2.2020
Final conference of COST Action AMiCi will take place in February in Krakow. The three days event will encompass the Core Group and Management Committee meetings and two-day conference. The conference will aim to summarize the AMiCI action with the view to formulate the official statement of antimicrobial coatings addressed to EU, as well as discuss achievements of working groups and ways forward. 18th February
Webinar – Roadmap for Action on Antimicrobial Resistance: 5 key strategies and targets to tackle this global health threat
We invite you to join the webinar that will be hosted by The EU Health Policy Platform. Webinar starts on Monday 13 January 2020, 14h30-16h CET Brussels time. Agenda of the webinar 14.30–14.35 Introduction and welcome Ann Marie Borg, European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) 14.35–15.10 Presentation of the Roadmap for Action on AMRby members of the AMR Stakeholder Network European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) Federation
Training school on assessment of effectivity of antimicrobial coatings
CA15114 COST AMiCI welcomes, especially early career investigators to apply for “Training school on assessment of effectivity of antimicrobial coatings (AMCs)”, Wednesday to Friday 29th to 31st of January 2020 University of Latvia, Jelgavas str. 1, Riga, Latvia. The training school is led by COST AMiCI WG4 leader Dr. Martina Modic and WG2 vice leader Dr. Patrick Cosemans. Travel costs are reimbursed according to COST
Thessaloniki Ready to Welcome Participants of AMiCI meeting! (September 26-27th)
The workshop combines three AMiCI working groups: WG1 – Safe by design, WG2- Performance assessment and WG3- Adverse effects. The concept is to have introductive presentations, a Word Café session, and then a discussion forum on how to improve antimicrobial coatings and its efficacy testing. The objective is to deliver an official statement on the use of antimicrobial coatings in a health care setting. The
Funds available for Short Term Scientific Missions and ICT Conference Grants to be finalised by the end of April!
Purpose of a Short-Term Scientific Missions STSM facilitates Researchers from COST Countries participating in COST Action [CA 15114] to go to an institution, organization or research center in another participating COST Country to foster collaboration and to perform empirical research. Participation of “Early Career Investigators” (ECI) in STSM is particularly encouraged. An applicant can be considered as being an ECI when the time that has
Training School on “Antimicrobial Coatings”
5-day Training School on Antimicrobial Coatings at Amsterdam UMC at the University of Amsterdam, April 8-12, 2019 The COST action CA15114 “AMiCI” organize a 5-day Training School on “Antimicrobial Coatings”. The objective of this training school is to provide Early Stage Researchers with scientific background as well as practical expertise in testing antimicrobial coatings and surfaces, trained by renowned material and infectious disease scientists. This training school
Environmental and Experimental Factors Affecting Efficacy Testing of Nonporous Plastic Antimicrobial Surfaces
Test methods for efficacy assessment of antimicrobial coatings are not modelled on a hospital environment, and instead use high humidity (>90%) high temperature (37 °C), and no airflow. Therefore, an inoculum will not dry, resulting in an antimicrobial surface exhibiting prolonged antimicrobial activity, as moisture is critical to activity. Liquids will dry quicker in a hospital ward, resulting in a reduced antimicrobial efficacy compared to
Antimicrobial Coatings applied in healthcare settings – Implications for cleaning procedures.
Program AMiCI WG1&WG4 workshop, Jožef Stefan Institute, LjubljanaTuesday, 20th of March 8:30 Registration 9:00 Welcome by representative St Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubliana 9:15 What have we learnt from living lab studies with AMCs in Healthcare? Francy Crijns, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) 9:30 Science meets industry – why are many innovative coating technologies never entering the market? Simone Schulte, Evonik (Germany)