Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Debris Detection Using Star Trackers (DeDUST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Customer-driven, innovative space technologies and services (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1827800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1279460.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project develops a star tracker that is capable of detecting and tracking space debris in orbit and sets up a system that gathers data coming from multiple star trackers. A star tracker is an optical sensor on board of a satellite that takes and processes star images to determine the spacecraft orientation. Because the star tracker is optimized to detect bright dots, it is also very well suited to detect space debris that reflects light. Typically, non-star data is discarded in a star tracker, but in this project, algorithms are developed that process non-star signals to verify if they correspond to space debris. Once detected, the star tracker characterizes the orbit and size of the debris. This functionality is added to the star tracker, which retains its primary function of determining the attitude. A database system will be set up to collect data from the different star trackers in orbit, and process it such that it can be fed into SSA databases of partnering organizations.
Valorisation and Eco-Design of Post-Consumer Wood Waste into Sustainable Bio-Based Products (WoodVALOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,France,Belgium,Finland,Sweden
Call: Valorisation of polluted/contaminated wood from industrial and post-consumer waste streams (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3515430.0
EU funding (EUR): 3515430.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

WoodVALOR adopts a circular approach by using contaminated wood as a sustainable feedstock to produce paints, coatings, and biochar, showcasing innovative waste valorization. The process converts low-value material into high-performance products while contributing to environmental restoration. The project compares advanced decontamination and fractionation methods with traditional pulping processes. Acrylic acid is produced from the wood's cellulose fraction through the lactic acid route, while fatty acids are obtained via yeast fermentation, ensuring resource efficiency and aligning with circular economy principles. The hemicellulose fraction is transformed into bio-based binders for coatings, reducing reliance on petroleum-derived alternatives. These binders are made more hydrophobic and durable by grafting acrylic acid and fatty acids onto the hemicellulose, enhancing water resistance and longevity. Lignin, often considered a byproduct, is repurposed to produce phenolics, which are grafted onto hemicellulose to further improve the coatings' properties. These coatings are then applied to wood surfaces, creating a closed-loop system where contaminated wood becomes protective material for other wood products. Biochar, produced from process residues, serves two functions. It is used for bioremediation of contaminated soils and in mineral recovery from contaminated wood. The recovered minerals can be reintegrated into coatings, closing another resource loop. By converting contaminated wood into materials that protect wood surfaces and treat soils, WoodVALOR highlights circularity. This approach minimizes waste, promotes resource recovery, and supports environmental health and material efficiency, contributing to a more sustainable EU industry and addressing the major challenges associated with contaminated wood waste.

Keywords: decontamination,metal recovery,hydrothermal treatment,biosynthesis,pigments,paints and coatings,biochar
A Social History of Red Internationalism in post-1967 Arab world (SoHRI67)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States,Lebanon,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 396991.08
EU funding (EUR): 396991.08
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

SoHRI67 retrieves the unexplored social history of Red Internationalism (i.e.: internationalism informed by Marxism-Leninism and Third-Worldism) in the Arab Region during the long-1960s. It approaches internationalism as both ideological framing for action and militant political practice, to explore the transformative power of the new normative commitment to socialism and anti-imperialism matured by a new generation of Arab radicals in the wake of the Arab defeat of the 1967 war against Israel (the so-called Naksa). It focuses on the inter-Arab dimension of internationalism, to overcome – in the words of Bardawil – «the colonial divide assigning the Global South as locus of “concrete facts” and the North the manufacturer of “abstract theory», and re-cognize the South as site of original militant theorization. It specifically centers on the Lebanese-Gulf trajectory, to challenge the canonical historiographical representation of the Naksa as the inexorable end of the Arab revolutionary hopes unleashed by independence and decolonization, and retrieve, instead, its underexplored generative impact on the grammars, practices, and agendas of emancipatory political action. It adopts the vantage point of social history to move away from de-materialized, diffusionist, top-down approaches to the study of political theory and practice and relocate the latter’s genealogies, developments, and articulations in the lived experiences, contingent urgencies, and aspirations of the people who elaborated and embodied it. In so doing, it breaks new ground to: a) expand the knowledge of the Arab secular radical political traditions, b) further scale up the historical rethinking of the Naksa; c) further enlarge the understanding and recognition of the role of subaltern actors as agents of change in the Arab region; d) provide new empirical and theoretical-methodological instruments for the study of popular politics; e) add-up to the entangled, revolutionary geographies of the Global 1960s

Keywords: arab lefts lebanon gulf global 1960s
Sustainable Management models and valUe chains foR small Forests (SMURF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,France,Portugal,Denmark,Lithuania,Poland,Viet Nam,Estonia
Call: Optimising the sustainable production of wood and non-wood products in small forest properties and development of new forest-based value chains (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5423471.25
EU funding (EUR): 5423471.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The intensification of natural (extreme weather events and other climate change consequences, biological invasions) and anthropogenic (atmospheric pollution, climate change, change of land use such as the expansion of urban areas, loss of forest management practices, fragmentation of forest properties, etc.) environmental pressures still represent important threats to forests ecosystems; which have resulted in land and forest fragmentation (over 16 million owners in Europe), lack of forest sanitation, loss of forest habitat and reduction of the ecosystem services (including carbon sequestration, timber production, recreation, and biodiversity conservation)2, . The SMURF project, in line with EU’s Forest Strategy, will help promoting sustainable forest management and conserving Europe's forests, by developing a set of solutions focussing on small forest properties: (1) new tailored organizational and business models, based on Closer to Nature Sylviculture practices (CNS), promoting new ecosystem services (carbon farming and biodiversity) and the valorisation of wood/non-wood forest products (2) training, digital tools and other support structures/instruments and (3) guidelines to support policy-makers establishing regional, national and European standardized policies and retribution systems by creating a harmonized European Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) system. With a translational, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach, thanks to its complementary and polyvalent consortium members composed of private, academia and public stakeholders, and taking into account sociocultural and geodemographic factors sometimes neglected, SMURF will provide sustainability solutions for the entire forest-based value chain.

Keywords: pes,carbon credits,closer to nature,cns,forest owners,bioeconomy,nwfp,timber,wood,green deal,damaged wood,social innovation,biodiversity,forest restoration,forest management,co creation
Preventing Therapy Resistance in Esophageal Cancer Using Advanced Models and Molecular Signatures (PRESSURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,France,Sweden,Italy,Czechia,Denmark,Netherlands,Croatia,Belgium
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2958280.46
EU funding (EUR): 2717755.2
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

In 2035, cancer will have become the leading cause of death in the EU. In line with the Horizon Europe Plan to Beat Cancer, one of the five Horizon Missions, the PRESSURE network sets out to train 10 future experts who will push the development and clinical implementation of effective treatments and policies against therapy resistance in cancer. This innovative project will specifically focus on esophageal adenocarcinoma as one of the most complex cancer types in terms of resistance, and most urgently in need of novel solutions. Prominent factors that contribute to the poor outcome of esophageal cancer are a high degree of acquired resistance, and heterogeneous responses to the available therapies. Despite this knowledge, there are currently no consensus treatments for this disease in the EU, and there is insufficient awareness of the need for a unified low-risk treatment strategy. Numerous different regimens are currently given across the continent, and as a result highly divergent outcomes of EAC are observed. This adds to Cancer Inequalities in Europe. To address this, PRESSURE researchers will receive exhaustive intersectoral training, and deliver high-quality knowledge, across the entire value chain: Epidemiology, imaging, patient-derived model systems, resistance mechanisms, diagnostics, patient-centricity, valorization, and treatment. By receiving this diverse training, the ESRs will become next generation thinkers and problem-solvers, and will be able to deliver creative contributions to all fields involved in the combatting of cancer with unique solutions applicable in the clinic and society. This combination of complementary research expertise and rich training is not currently offered in an EU network.

Keywords: therapy resistance,esophageal adenocarcinoma,profiling,lineage tracing,epidemiology,imaging
Sustainable On-site and Innovative Technologies for Advanced Transport BioFuels from MιcroalGae (FuelGae)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Finland,Austria,Ireland,Romania
Call: Development of algal and renewable fuels of non-biological origin (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5486082.74
EU funding (EUR): 4990123.81
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

TThe FuelGae project aims to develop a novel model of advanced liquid fuels (ALF) production from different CO2 emissions streams of two industrial sectors (biorefinery and energy intensive industries) through a microalgae pilot plant integrated into their infrastructure. The performance of the selected microalgae strains will be improved by adapting them to each industrial case study. The ALF production will be addressed developing different technologies: i) selective production of microalgae to obtain polysaccharides or lipids, ii) alternative microalgal biomass treatments, iii) innovative catalytic upgrading systems from biocrude., iv) online microalgae sensor. Additionally, to the previously innovative technologies, FuelGae concept uses modelling techniques integrated into Process Analytical Techniques to develop a global Digital Twin (DT). Furthermore, the C-economy of FuelGae approach will be significantly improved through hydrothermal liquefaction and, biogas processes. The biochar produced will be tested in agricultural uses creating synergies with energy and biocrude generation. All technologies will be upscaled to TRL5 in the two case study sites; the microalgae pilot plant will be transported and validated in the two industrial sites in Romania (steel plant) and Spain (2G-bioethanol). FuelGae technologies will be further evaluated through life cycle assessment (LCA/LCC) to confirm their lower environmental impact, use of resources, or GHG emissions, and a first approach of economical sustainability. DT will be coupled with LCA-LCC to provide a global and dynamic assessment of the FuelGae concept. FuelGae will contribute to advancing the European scientific basis and global technological leadership in the area of renewable fuels, increase their technology competitiveness and role in transforming the energy system on a fossil-free basis by 2050, in particular in the sectors like aviation and shipping, while supporting the EU goals for energy independence.

Keywords: microalgae,advanced liquid biofuel,htl,catalytic upgrading,ccu
Development finalization and optimization of Argo Semi Active Antenna Catalyst to revolutionize sub-6GHz 5G wireless systems (Argo Active Antenna)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3552677.14
EU funding (EUR): 2486874.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The advent of 5G has completely transformed the telecommunications landscape, elevating the wireless experience to unprecedented heights. However, the key challenge associated with 5G deployment is the substantial increase in the number of required radios which translates to high CAPEX & OPEX. The transition from the passive to active antenna concept, packing tenths of radios in a Radio Unit, is contributing to both increased intricacy & expenses. The Argo Active Antenna Catalyst enables a single board RU, which represents a groundbreaking integration of RF Integrated Circuit (RFIC) with Ultra Slim Printed Antenna Array. Our path reduction RFIC leads to increased flexibility in network deployment which can be leveraged to enhance cost-effectiveness, reduce power consumption, and expand coverage. With EIC support, we intend to finalize the optimization, manufacturing & validation of our RFIC, commercialize ‘Argo Active Antenna Catalyst’ as a comprehensive solution & scale-up globally.

Keywords: antenna,active antenna,rfic,massive mimo,radio unit,5g,printed antenna
HYdroxide Salt Energy Storage Innovation (HYSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Energy storage (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3798250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hyme is a Danish SME established in 2021, dedicated to revolutionizing large-scale energy storage by developing a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system that stores energy in the form of high-temperature heat in molten salt. This solution can contribute to the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries (EII) and cogeneration utility companies – Combined Heat and Power plants (CHP), producing heat and electricity from a single energy source with a TES system that is affordable, Compact, Scalable, and Sustainable. The Hyme TES system is based on a known and +20 year-proven design from the concentrated solar power (CSP) industry, which allows us to work with established suppliers, uses mainly readily available system components, and avoids critical raw materials and harmful substances. While CSP traditionally relies on nitrates as the storage medium, HYME is pioneering the use of hydroxide salts, which have superior thermophysical properties and higher chemical stability at elevated temperatures, creating a novel TES relevant to many EIIs and CHP utility plants, hard-to-abate sectors where the penetration of green power is limited by the lack of solutions to control for the intermittent nature of renewable power. Sodium hydroxide’s high energy density brings additional advantages in terms of plant footprint (MWh/m2) and low total installed cost (TIC), and its excellent heat transfer properties enable it to be used effectively in high charge and discharge capacity settings. The TES system is built around our core technology – a patented method for adjusting oxoacidity and its implementation limiting and controlling the corrosion of hydroxide salts on structural materials in contact with the molten salt. Hyme was created as a spin-off from the Danish 4th generation nuclear startup Seaborg ApS. Our team comprises 35 FTEs (34% of women) representing a dozen nationalities.

Keywords: thermal energy storage,energy systems,long duration energy storage,chemistry control,molten salts
Establishment of clinical manufacturing for aVaxziPen's novel enhanced thermostability solid dose vaccines (AVP SDV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

aVaxziPen Limited are a biotech based in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, who have developed a novel needle-free solid dose vaccine delivery technology. The technology utilises a reusable pen to deliver unit solid dose vaccines (SDVs) and offers numerous benefits over alternatives, including high thermal stability, needle-free administration, extended product shelf life, reduction or elimination of the cold chain and simple error-free dosing. The technology is equally applicable to seasonal, pandemic or personalised vaccination programmes, and has been demonstrated to be compatible with a wide range of vaccine constructs including proteins, live attenuated, mRNA and conjugate vaccines. aVaxziPen are ready to move into the next phase of product development as we move into human clinical trials with vaccines. This is an important proof of concept and value inflection point for the company that will allow us to raise sufficient capital to take SDVs through later stage trials and build the commercial scale manufacturing capacity that we will need to launch our transformative technology onto the market. In order to conduct a Phase 1 Clinical study, Solid Dose Vaccines need to be produced on a GMP line and, since the vaccines in consideration cannot be terminally sterilised, this needs to be done aseptically. aVaxziPen are therefore seeking grant funding to support the construction of a Solid Dose Vaccine GMP manufacturing line, to enable Phase 1 clinical studies to be undertaken (the delivery device development is already clinically-ready and therefore no additional work is currently needed on the device elements of the technology).

Keywords: needle free,thermostability,innovation,novel,vaccine delivery,solid dose,
COST: Europe's most empowering research programme - Strengthening science and innovation through research networking (COST- FPA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Destination: European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Action type: Framework Partnership Agreement
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Framework Partnership Agreement with COST (European Co-operation in Science and Technology) (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-COST-FPA, 2021)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

For 50 years, COST has offered European researchers and innovators straightforward and flexible access to the best science and technology networks in Europe and beyond. COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. COST implements its mission by funding bottom-up, excellence-driven, interdisciplinary, open and pan-European networks (COST Actions) in all areas of science and technology. These activities have had a significant impact on closing the innovation divides and stimulating brain circulation in Europe. Looking into Horizon Europe, COST will aim to further enhance its position as the leading networking instrument in the ERA, enabling (young) researchers and innovators to prepare and empower themselves with more self-confidence and motivation to stay in Europe for their next career steps in research and innovation. This Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) outlines an action plan for the full duration of Horizon Europe describing the strategic objectives and key milestones for the implementation of COST. To this end, this FPA aims to align, as much as possible, COST activities with the Commission’s priorities for the next 7 years.

Keywords: networks,researchers,inter disciplinarity,excellence,bottom up,openness,capacity building,pan european,global,career development,brain circulation,training opportunities