Nanoparticles technology for mucosal delivery of vaccines received a growing interest in the last decades. Intranasal administration owns great advantages for immune system stimulation, such as local and systemic protection against infectious diseases. However delivery systems and adjuvants are often required to efficiently trigger mucosal and systemic immune responses. In this thesis, nanoparticles (NP) have been evaluated as delivery system for a nasal universal influenza vaccine in a People Program of the European Union Seventh Framework Program FP7 called UniVacFlu. The aim of the UniVacFlu network is to develop a universal influenza vaccine administered through the mucosal route. We used porous maltodextrin nanoparticles with a lipidic...