Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Unveiling the complexity of radio foregrounds for the detectability of the CMB polarization B-mode (RadioForegroundsPlus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,France
Call: Scientific exploitation of space data (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1256706.25
EU funding (EUR): 1128831.25
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

One of the main challenges in Cosmology is the detection of the primordial B-mode of CMB polarization, which would constitute a confirmation of the inflationary period of the Universe. However, the presence of different contaminants, mainly coming from the emissions of our own Galaxy, constitutes one of the major limiting factors to constrain reliably the existence of the B-modes. Indeed, the success of future CMB polarization experiments lies in the improved understanding and removal capability of foreground emissions. RadioForegrounds+ will provide a state-of-the art description of the highly complex properties of the polarised radio emission from our Galaxy, in particular the synchrotron and the anomalous microwave emissions, as well as of the population of radio sources. It will also provide an unprecedentedly thorough description of the intensity signal. This goal can only be achieved by combining the ESA’s Planck satellite maps (30-857GHz) with the unique low frequency experiments considered in this proposal: QUIJOTE (10-40 GHz), C-BASS (5 GHz) and S-PASS (2.3 GHz), by counting within the consortium with experts on the previous data sets (including the teams responsible for QUIJOTE and C-BASS) and by using the most advanced analysis techniques. The combination of these datasets will provide high-level data products, that will range from more complete radio catalogues, including fainter sources and additional frequency coverage, to new component separated maps in wider regions of the sky. These new data products and models will be made available to the scientific community through widely-used platforms, increasing the scientific return and the impact of the project. We will also provide forecasts of the impact of radio foregrounds on the detectability of the B-mode of polarization for future CMB experiments. The resulting analyses will play a key role in preparing and supporting future international CMB missions as LiteBIRD or ground-based efforts as CMB-S4.

Keywords: cosmology,cmb polarization,low frequency observations,synchrotron,ame,radiosources,magnetic field,galaxy,forecasts for cmb b mode,planck mission,inflation,machine learning
Supporting the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance and Declaration (OKEANO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Portugal,Germany,Spain,France,Belgium,Cabo Verde,Brazil,Morocco,Norway,South Africa,Argentina
Call: Supporting the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance and Declaration (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4102043.07
EU funding (EUR): 3999629.65
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

OKEANO will provide support to the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA), enabling delivery on the goals of the All-Atlantic Declaration and empowering an All-Atlantic Ocean community to sustainably manage the Atlantic Ocean. With objectives that reflect the Alliance motto ‘Connecting-Cooperating-Acting’, OKEANO will serve to scale and transition the Alliance to a long-term, sustainable and highly impactful international partnership, capable of delivering transformative science and innovation, and concrete benefits for Atlantic communities. It will provide professional support to the core activities of the AAORIA as well as advice on effective long-term governance frameworks and legacy, consolidate and strengthen existing initiatives aligned with the priorities of the All-Atlantic Declaration, facilitate structured dialogue and coordination between the AAORIA and All-Atlantic stakeholders at national, regional and international levels, design and carry out inclusive capacity development initiatives for Atlantic communities, develop an All-Atlantic Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda to support the coordination of marine and maritime research and innovation activities with All-Atlantic stakeholders, and maximise the impact of the project through effective and engaging dissemination, exploitation and communication activities. OKEANO will also support to the organisation, monitoring, communication, and outreach activities of three All-Atlantic Fora. The consortium comprises 15 organisations, ensuring a comprehensive geographical coverage along and across the Atlantic Ocean of countries that endorse the All-Atlantic Declaration. Furthermore, the consortium represents a balanced mixture of unique capabilities, knowledge and access to relevant stakeholder and citizen networks needed to pursue the objectives of the project.

Keywords: all atlantic declaration and governance atlantic and polar communities early career ocean professionals,strategic research and innovation agenda all atlantic fora international ocean policy
Circular biobased technical textiles with innovative bio-inspired non-toxic functionalisation (BioFibreLoop)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,Finland,Denmark,Austria,Belgium,Spain,Czechia
Call: Bioinspired and biomimetic materials for sustainable textiles (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6980361.63
EU funding (EUR): 6467343.86
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

EU’s industry is pushed by EC‘s green deal to convert into a net-zero industry, accelerate the transEU’s industry is pushed by EC‘s green deal to convert into a net-zero industry, accelerate the transition to climate neutrality and drive its resilience. As an important part of the EU manufacturing industry, the EU’s textile sector is thus called to action and to reach the next level of disruptive innovations in sustainable textiles. BioFibreLoop is a business-driven consortium of 12 partners from small to large industry and scientific institutes and will meet these challenges by deploying a new generation of renewable, recyclable, bio-inspired materials made of lignin, cellulosic and polylactic acid at TRL 7 by 2027. The innovation addresses the outdoor/active/workwear industry and will result in circular, technical textiles made from biopolymers with innovative bio-inspired non-toxic functionalisation. BioFibreLoop will demonstrate breakthrough technologies and pave the way for market entry: (i) near to zero waste biomimetic functionalization through circularity, (ii) zero use of hazardous chemicals, (iii) satisfied consumer needs through smart functionality for hydrophobicity, oil repellency, self-cleaning, and antibacteriality. In 3 industrial demo sites (IT, DE, AT) biomimetic functionalisation and recycling of the bio-based materials will be proven at large at TRL7. These are based on processes owned by partners and brought in at TRL4 e.g. lignin-based thermoplastic coating, laser-based technology for surface structures in bio-based textiles, thermomechanical recycling of PLA and lignin-based textile materials to serve as valuable secondary raw materials. At the project’s end, a patented circular, sustainable and safe process will be validated and demonstrated at a large scale to generate brand-new renewable, recyclable and functionalised materials. By 2035, 20% of the textile industry will adopt our solution boosting ~ 950 Mio. € additional revenues.

Keywords: laser based textile functionalisation,biomimetic,bio based textiles,textile industry,digital twins,safe and sustainable by design framework,circular process,zero hazardous chemicals
HAPTIC TABLET FOR THE ACCESSIBILITY OF DIGITAL CONTENT TO THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED (ABILITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Sweden,Germany,Lithuania,United Kingdom
Call: eXtended Reality for All – Haptics (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3741382.25
EU funding (EUR): 3741382.25
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Digital technologies have become pervasive in our daily lives and have fundamentally changed the ways we communicate and interact with information and with each other. We now have access to digital content anytime, anywhere and in a palette of formats, ranging from images, videos, text, speech to virtual and augmented reality experiences. Typically, this has made smartphones, and similar mobile devices, an invaluable source of information and a mean of connection to the world and to others. Yet, by relying almost exclusively on visual and auditory feedbacks, these devices pose evident accessibility issues. Current smartphones and tablets provide accessibility features, but mostly in the form of text-to-speech, which can be impractical and affect literacy, and through connectivity to refreshable Braille displays, which involve an additional peripheral, often bulky and expensive or when small too limited. These devices still prevent the visually impaired access to graphical content and complex notations. A solution would be to develop a specific tablet for the visually impaired, but few of them exist and currently tackle all these challenges. In ABILITY, this will be achieved by proposing a novel cost-effective actuation mechanism for multiline Braille display, relying on fewer and remote actuators able to control independently the Braille cells, and a tablet with innovative multitouch vibrotactile localised feedbacks. This device will provide multisensory interactions and feedback, leveraging AI algorithms for device adaptability to the users’ needs and behaviour for image analysis and predictive writing. The goal is to provide a multisensory device covering the wide range of visual disabilities and needs of the visually impaired population, through combinations of tactile, visual and auditory feedbacks. For this, ABILITY will adopt a user-centred design approach throughout the project to involve the users iteratively in the different design and evaluation stages.

Keywords: braille display,localised surface haptic feedback,haptic tablet,visually impaired user centred design,ai for image translation,ai for predictive writing
How EXPectation and ATtention shape visual information processing in the human brain (EXPAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999815.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999815.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Our behaviours and conscious experiences are profoundly shaped by what we see. Therefore, it is not surprising that unravelling the neural mechanisms of vision ranks among the top priorities of neuroscience. This poses the challenge of unravelling how our brain creates seamless and comprehensible visual experiences from the dizzying onslaught of visual information bombarding our retinae. Previous research suggests that expectation and attention play a central role in coordinating this information extraction process. However, at present, deep insights into how these two top-down processes shape information processing in the human visual system remain elusive. EXPAT will address this outstanding knowledge gap by revealing how expectation and attention change natural image information encoding in the human brain across visual features, across brain areas and across time. To this end, EXPAT sets itself the following three objectives: 1) revealing how expectation and attention change the specificity and efficiency of information encoding in the human visual cortex, 2) measuring the impact of expectation and attention on image information encoding across cortical brain areas and between-area information transfer and 3) obtaining insights into how expectation and attention change the chronology of visual information processing. Moreover, EXPAT will address the open question of whether or not attention and expectation effects in the visual cortex are mediated by the same or by different feedback mechanisms. These objectives will be realised by using several advanced methods, including various multivariate analyses of fMRI and EEG data, a deep convolutional network-based approach for creating ‘feature-reduced’ natural images, a multivariate brain connectivity measure and a psychophysical technique for measuring the informativeness of image features.
Our Science 2022-23 (Our Science 2022-23)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226300.0
EU funding (EUR): 226300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The impact of researchers' work on society and citizens has never been more apparent than now. Global challenges such as climate change and unprecedented health pandemic, calls for science to react -and the role of researchers is crucial. At the same time, there is an impending risk of loosing citizens' trust in science, due to increased amount of misinformation about science and research. Therefore, it is important to promote the key role that researchers have for development and growth of our societies in a national and international context, and for keeping the public informed about critical challenges and scientific discoveries that have an impact on our daily lives. In Iceland, science has a crucial role to play in a society that relies on nature and responsible use of natural resources, from renewable energy and sustainable blue growth to societal and cultural implications of living at the edge of the Arctic. In order to ensure and facilitate interaction with the public and society at large, the project Our Science aims to organise European Researchers Night in Iceland 2022 and 2023, inviting researchers to engage with the public to communicate their work, their passion and findings, to increase awareness of research and innovation activities. The objective is to enhance a positive public perception of researchers by facilitiating open and active dialogue between researchers and citizens of all ages, especially focusing on children and young people that could consider a career in research. In addition to higlighting the importance of researchers work, the initiative provides a rare opportunity for researchers to communicate directly with the public at all ages, meeting children in school visits, and even involving citizens in the road to scientific discoveries, thus contributing to the transparency of their work and enhancing the attractiveness of scientific careers, which is instrumental in encouraging young people to embark on a career in science.

Keywords: researchers,science communication,innovation,science career,citizen engagement,global challenges,european researchers night,public awareness,missions,sustainability
Industrial Manufacturing As a sErvice STRategies and models for flexible, resilient, and reconfigurable value networks through Trusted and Transparent Operations. (M4ESTRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Greece,Spain,Luxembourg,Portugal,Finland,Switzerland
Call: Achieving resiliency in value networks through modelling and Manufacturing as a Service (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5998540.0
EU funding (EUR): 5998540.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Manufacturing industry faces the challenges of driving competitiveness, resilience, sustainability and circularity in the context of a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous environment. A VUCA world calls for new capabilities on the manufacturing systems demanding HUMANufacturing systems to evolve from industrial automation towards industrial autonomy. MaaS technologies still lack a solid foundation for more active resilience mechanisms that can respond with increased agility to more volatile and uncertainty scenarios. M4ESTRO envisions to create an end-to-end trustworthy and transparent platform for Manufacturing as a Service offering active and predictive resilience and timely preparedness to disruptive events. M4ESTRO will foster an interactive, collaborative, and dynamic ecosystem where these stakeholders will operate in a hyper-distributed way to manufacture products by providing and receiving services in a secure and trusted manner. It will offer response actions to foreseen risk based on the intrinsic network’s flexibility while offer preparedness to unforeseen risks based on the documented resilience to switch action plans To do so, M4ESTRO will focus on four (4) pillars, offering HW and SW components: Pillar 1: Resilient, transparent and flexible manufacturing processes in value chains. Pillar 2: Resilient equipment, AI and trusted data for adaptive manufacturing. Pillar 3: Resilient Simulations to the Industrial Metaverse for responsive manufacturing. Pillar 4: Human centred Manufacturing Resilience and Sustainability. The impact of M4ESTRO for the European Manufacturing industry, but also the society itself, can be summarised in the following (with a horizon of 4 years after project ends): (i) Process ramp-up time (>26%); (ii) OEE (>14%); (iii) Yield & CpK (>11% & >24%); (iv) Product cost reduction (>9%); (v) Cost per piece (>38%); (vi) Energy consumption (>26%); (vii) about 305 new jobs created and (viii) over 42.89 MEUR ROI for the consortium.

Keywords: resilience,value networks,flexibility,manufacturing as a service,smart manufacturing,supply chain resilience,scoreboards,simulations,self adaptation,sustainability,external events
Novel Effect biomarkers for MEtabolic disruptorS: evidence on health Impacts to answer science and policy needS (NEMESIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Portugal,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Greece,Cyprus,Spain
Call: Health impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: bridging science-policy gaps by addressing persistent scientific uncertainties (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7965638.75
EU funding (EUR): 7881685.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) disturb lipid and glucose metabolism in several metabolically active organs such as liver and pancreas besides being able to interfere with many aspects of hormonal action. There is accumulating evidence linking EDCs or their mixtures with an increased incidence of obesity, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes. Developmental exposure to EDCs can exert life-long, even transgenerational effects and affects the susceptibility to many diseases. However, the metabolic effects of EDCs are still poorly understood and the lack of mechanistic data and predictive models of adverse metabolic outcomes of EDCs hinders their risk assessment. The “Novel Effect biomarkers for MEtabolic disruptorS: evidence on health Impacts to science and policy needS” (NEMESIS) consortium brings together experts in toxicology, medicine, risk assessment, and social sciences and humanities to respond to the unmet regulatory needs of EDCs within silico, in vitro, in vivo, epidemiological and systems biology data on EDC-mediated metabolic effects in multifactorial models. We will assess mechanistic data on metabolic disruption in liver and pancreas and how EDCs or their mixtures affect the microbiota, enhanced with data on dose-response relationships and the causality of these actions. In addition, NEMESIS will provide human exposure data of EDCs and explore effect biomarkers for metabolic disruption. NEMESIS’ results will improve assessment of metabolic endpoints in testing guidelines and adopt alternative models to animal testing. Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP)s and Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) approaches will be developed to assess adverse metabolic effects of EDCs and improve the risk assessment towards a more holistic approach. Citizens are engaged from the beginning of the project to develop effective risk communication practices on EDCs and to maximize the science-to-policy impact of NEMESIS together with relevant stakeholders.

Keywords: adverse metabolic health effects,biomarker,citizen engagement,endocrine disruptor,exposure,liver,mixture effect,pancreas,risk assessment,science to policy,systems biology,vulnerable groups