Current and Recently Finished Third-Party Funded Projects
EU Project (
7th Framework) MODERN 2013-2015
Theme: "Modeling the environmental and human health effects of nanomaterials".
7 Partners. Coordinator: Prof. Francesc Giralt (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, BioCenit Research Lab, Tarragona, Spanien). UFZ principal investigator:
G. Schüürmann.
Further information: MODERN homepage.
EU Coordination Action (7th Framework) HEROIC 2011-2014
Theme: "Health and Environmental Risks: Organisation, Integration and Crossfertilisation of Scientific Knowledge".
9 Partners. Coordinator: Dr. Martin Wilks (University of Basel, Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, Switzerland). UFZ principal investigator:
G. Schüürmann.
Further information: HEROIC homepage.
AiF Project FORMULA 2011-2014
Theme: "Development of a software based method to ecotoxicologically optimize recipes for chemical products and plastics".
Cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology, Oberhausen, Germany (FhG UMSICHT), Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Müller. UFZ principal investigator:
G. Schüürmann.
UBA Project on Biomagnification 2011-2014
Theme: "Advancements of the criteria for bioaccumulation under REACH".
3 Partners. UFZ is sub-contractor of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Schmallenberg, Germany (FhG IME). Principal investigator: Dr. Christian Schlechtriem (FhG IME). UFZ principal investigator: G. Schüürmann.
UBA Project on Bioaccumulation 2011-2014
Theme: "Investigation of non-lipid based bioaccumulation behaviour of compounds".
4 Partners. UFZ is sub-contractor of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Schmallenberg, Germany (FhG IME). Principal investigators: Dr. Christian Schlechtriem (FhG IME) and Dr. Monika Nendza (Analytisches Laboratorium für Umweltuntersuchungen und Auftragsforschung, Luhnstedt, Germany). UFZ principal investigator: G. Schüürmann.
CEFIC-LRI Project Inhalation 2010-2012
Theme: "Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) for inhalation exposure: Improvement of the TTC concept for inhalation exposure and derivation of thresholds with the database RepDose".
2 Partners. UFZ is sub-contractor of the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany (FhG ITEM). Principal investigator: Dr. Sylvia Escher (FhG ITEM). UFZ principal investigator: G. Schüürmann.
Further information: Project description at CEFIC-LRI.
EU Integrated Project (6th Framework) OSIRIS 2007-2011
Theme: "Optimized Strategies for Risk Assessment of Industrial Chemicals through Integration of Non-Test and Test Information".
31 Partners: Coordinator and UFZ principal investigator:
G. Schüürmann.
Further information: OSIRIS homepage.
EU Project of the 6th Framework 2-FUN 2007-2011
Theme: "Full-chain and Uncertainty Approaches for Assessing Health Risks in Future Environmental Scenarios".
13 Partners. Coordinator: Dr. Frederic Bois (INERIS, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France). UFZ principal investigator:
G. Schüürmann.
Further information: 2-FUN homepage.
UBA-Projekt Passivsammler 2009-2011
Theme: "Testing and validation of the suitability of new passive sampling devices for monitoring of priority pollutants under WFD, MSRL, and within the frame of HELCOM and OSPAR".
UFZ is sub-contractor of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH). Responsible: A. Paschke".
UFZ is sub-contractor of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH), Hamburg, Germany. Responsible: A. Paschke.
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