Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nanoporous and redox-active hoops and macrocycles as organic electrode materials for batteries (NanOBatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Next-generation energy storage solutions are needed to satisfy the increasing demand for electrically powered devices. Organic electrode materials (OEMs) are promising candidates, constituted of widely available elements, accessible in processes with low CO2 footprint and easily recycled. However, existing OEMs suffer from a lack of porosity, which inhibits counter ion diffusion to the electroactive sites or renders redox processes irreversible, severely limiting their performance. NanOBatt explores a fundamentally new concept for OEMs in order to significantly improve their intrinsic porosity and provide pathways for efficient counter ion diffusion. In NanOBatt I and my team will investigate redox-active conjugated nanohoops and macrocycles with intrinsic porosity as OEMs in next-generation batteries: Redox-active groups can be installed with the desired properties, their extended conjugation and aromaticity stabilize charges, and their rigid 3D shapes and nanometer-sized cavities lead to nanoporous structures, ideally suited to enable fast counter ion diffusion. In spite of these outstanding properties, conjugated nanohoops have not been explored as OEMs, and even macrocycles have received only little attention as such. The aims of NanOBatt are to develop synthetic strategies and design guidelines for redox-active conjugated nanohoops and macrocycles as OEMs, elucidate the role of conjugation and porosity on charge stabilization and ion diffusion in their charge/discharge processes and investigate their application as OEMs in alternative battery cell configurations, namely Na, Al, Mg and all-organic batteries. NanOBatt uniquely bridges the gap between fundamental research on organic materials and their application in next-generation charge storage devices. With NanOBatt I will initiate a new research field with ground-breaking impact, both in the scientific community as well as for the future direction of my own research.

Keywords: nanohoops,macrocycles,organic batteries,multivalent batteries,organic electrode materials
European Communities of Facilitators focused on Co-creation training, Networking and Hands-on learning (EU.FFICIENT)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Germany,Italy,Sweden,Netherlands,Austria,Ireland,France,Slovenia,Portugal,Lithuania
Call: Piloting communities of expert facilitators to improve industry-academia-public sector co-creation (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2208172.86
EU funding (EUR): 1999536.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Expert Facilitators lead and guide co-creation processes among stakeholders, enhancing creativity and mutual understanding and ensuring effective outcomes. To excel in their work, facilitators need a diverse set of skills, incl. technical expertise and soft skills like conflict resolution and active listening. Keeping up with the latest co-creation trends/practices (incl. the incorporation of SSH aspects) can be challenging. Although there are many initiatives offering resources to upgrade co-creation skills, they are frequently fragmented and scattered through hundreds of platforms and websites. EU·FFICIENT will create a dedicated platform and methodology to provide facilitators with personalized access to best-in-class co-creation resources, as well as training and networking opportunities. The platform will allow users to self-assess their training needs in co-creation before they access a Customised Training Program comprising easy-to-digest audio-visual material, online and f2f events. Upon completion of the training modules, Expert Facilitators will receive a "Certification of Completion" aligned with EC's vision for lifelong learning and micro-credentials. The project will pilot four Communities of Expert Facilitators (CEFs): Advanced Manufacturing, HealthTech, Mobility, and AI/Digital, facilitating cross-fertilization and cross-comparison. EU·FFICIENT targets over 2,000 facilitators through the four CEFs, with at least 500 actively participating in training – an activity coordinated by UIIN network, the EU leader in university-industry training. The partnership brings representatives from academia (incl. 6 HEIs), industry and the public sector, as well as dedicated experts on co-creation, training, community building, online platform development and policy briefing. The highly complementary consortium is formed by partners from many different backgrounds and geographies (incl. Widening and Associated countries), enabling an agile kick-start of the piloting.

Keywords: industry academia public sector co creation community expert facilitator research innovation co creation higher education institutions university business cooperation
Mechanisms of liver regeneration and disease across scales; from molecules to cells and tissue (REG_ORGatSCALE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and R egeneration
Panel description: For all organisms : Structure and function of the cell, cell -cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999980.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999980.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite recent advances, the principles that regulate liver regeneration and how their deregulation leads to disease remain largely unknown. The main goal of this application is to uncover molecular and cellular principles that govern liver regeneration and disease and exploit this knowledge to develop more complex multicellular organoid systems capable of reconstructing liver tissue in a dish. We will adopt a multi-scale (from molecule to tissue), and multidisciplinary approach, addressing the interplay between cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic mechanisms in damage paradigms that result in repair vs disease. In Aim 1 we will identify the genomic loci (e.g. Transcription factors, signalling pathways or epigenetic regulators) involved in regeneration and disease, to gain a systems-level understanding of the gene regulatory mechanisms driving liver regeneration and disease. In Aim 2 we will investigate the biochemical signals mediated through cell-cell interactions between ductal cells and mesenchymal, to gain mechanistic understanding on how epithelial – mesenchymal cellular interactions regulate regeneration and their role in disease, particularly fibrosis. In Aim 3 we will build complex multicellular organoids to reconstruct the liver lobule cellular interactions and architecture. An in-depth understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving tissue regeneration and their deregulation in disease holds the potential to uncover new principles of liver biology. The generation of complex multicellular organoids that recapitulate liver cellular interactions and architecture will provide valuable tools for future mechanistic studies aiming at investigating molecular and cellular principles of tissue maintenance, repair and disease. Transferring these to human tissues will facilitate future studies addressing the long-standing question as to which principles of repair are conserved in humans and which are human specific.

Keywords: organoids,liver,regeneration,disease,mechanisms,
Harnessing the Catalytic Potential of Nitrogenases (GOFIXIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2963906.0
EU funding (EUR): 2963906.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biological nitrogen fixation is nature’s alternative to the industrial Haber-Bosch process that currently feeds at least half of the human world population through the provision of nitrogen fertilizers. In addition to its high energy demand, the process increasingly leads to various ecological problems, as its annual output steadily grows with demand. Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesis leads to the release of the greenhouse gases CO2 and N2O and to eutrophication of waters and aquifers because a substantial portion of nitrogen is lost to competing chemical and biological processes. One solution for this is to transfer the enzyme directly into food crops. GOFIXIT will establish the recombinant production of a complete nitrogenase enzyme system in a heterologous host and make a link to central metabolism, effectively converting the host into a functional diazotroph. Nitrogenase is a two-component metalloenzyme that is uniquely able to reduce chemically inert, atmospheric N2 into its bioavailable form, ammonium. It occurs only in prokaryotes, is highly sensitive to O2, and it requires large amounts of metabolic energy in form of ATP and a strong reduct-ant for catalysis. To obtain a functional production system, all these points must be addressed in parallel. Based on our long record of research on nitrogenases, we are ideally positioned to succeed, focusing on our unique competence in preparative protein biochemistry and analysis. We have produced, isolated, and structurally characterized all three nitrogenase isoforms, and developed the spectroscopic and structural tools for a detailed analysis of their intricate metal cofactors. GOFIXIT focuses on the production of the enzyme components, and based on their analysis chooses, tunes, and applies the required accessory machineries for the synthesis, maturation, transfer, and insertion of the catalytic metal centres that are unique to this class of enzymes.

Keywords: biological nitrogen fixation,enzyme refactoring,anoxic protein biochemistry,metabolic engineering
Multimodal Sensory-Motorized Material Systems (MULTIMODAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998760.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

WHAT: MULTIMODAL will develop sensory-motorized material systems that perceive several coupled environmental stimuli and respond to a combination of these via controlled motor functions, shape-change or locomotion. The sensory-motorized materials will be “trained” to strengthen upon repetitive action, they can “heal” upon injury, and mechanically adapt to different environments. They will be utilized in the design of soft robots with autonomous and interactive functions. HOW: We will utilize shape-changing liquid crystal networks (LCNs) that undergo controlled untethered motions in response to photochemical, (photo)thermal, and humidity-triggered activation. Coupling between these stimuli will allow for gated control strategies over the shape changes. I expect that the gated control strategies, in combination with stimuli-induced diffusion from surface to bulk of the LCN, will enable advanced robotic functionalities. The diffusion process will be used for supramolecular crosslinking and formation of interpenetrated dynamic polymer networks with the LCN, to allow for trainable gaiting for versatile locomotion control. We will also make mechanically adaptable amphibious grippers for autonomous object recognition. WHY: Technological disruptions are often due to new materials and fabrication technologies. Paradigm changes on how materials are perceived have profound effects on our society, well-being, and the ways we see the world. Here, we strive for a paradigm change in robotic materials. By taking inspiration from biological sensory-motor interactions, we will develop MULTIMODAL materials with autonomous and interactive features. These features go far beyond the capabilities of conventional stimuli-responsive materials, allowing us to take inanimate, shape-changing materials one ambitious step closer to motor functions of living species.

Keywords: life like materials liquid crystal networks photoactuation azobenzene soft robotics
Students’ understanding and appropriation of Global Citizenship education (STUDACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1887500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1887500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is a key target to be achieved by 2030 as part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It is claimed to have the potential to transform education systems, empowering learners to build more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure societies, while fostering mutual understanding, especially in interactions between indigenous and migrant populations. Many education systems now expect students to appropriate GCE in their day-to-day. Extant research has addressed challenges in developing GCE, examining capacity building (teachers’ readiness to teach GCE) or mapping inconsistencies in theoretical approaches. However, with no systematic baseline research to show how GCE is understood and appropriated by students, there is little hope of real progress by 2030. STUDACT starts afresh, hypothesising that students are not mere passive recipients of learning – they differ in their desire to engage with GCE, based on personal traits or context. It will explore and contextualise how students receive, understand and appropriate GCE, treating them as core partners and agentic participants. Data will be collected in Russia, the US, Italy, Australia, Germany, and the UK – all countries with a high migrant influx. Four work packages give students a voice to develop meaningful GCE, using group discussions, photovoice activism, and social media analysis. Policies and curricula on GCE at various levels of governance will be analysed. STUDACT will answer four questions to ensure a strong foundation for GCE to deliver on its promise of educating the next generation: (1) how do students of different backgrounds understand GCE? (2) how do students appropriate GCE? (3) how do understandings differ within and between countries, curricula, contexts, student characteristics, and education systems? (4) how are student attitudes aligned with those inferred by international organisations, teacher training programmes, curricula developers, or teachers?

Keywords: global citizenship education students agency
Modular Industrial Large-scaLE quaNtum computing with trapped IONs, phase 1 (Millenion-SGA1)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Cluster 4 other
Destination: Other Digital, Industry and Space destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,France,Spain,Poland,Germany,Netherlands
Call: HORIZON-CL4-QUANTUM-01-SGA - Developing the first large-scale quantum computers (SGA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-QUANTUM-01-SGA, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19980553.75
EU funding (EUR): 19980553.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The MILLENION project focuses on modular scalability and accessibility aspects of trapped-ion quantum computers (QCs), tackling the transition from current laboratory-based experiments to industry-grade quantum computing technologies with technology readiness level above 8. The envisaged platform, which builds on top of the rack-mounted 50-qubit QC demonstrator realised in the flagship project AQTION, will offer a quantum advantage for various use-cases in a fully automated 100-qubit ion-trap QC. Our consortium will aggressively pursue disruptive development goals: (a) changing from one-dimensional strings of ions to two-dimensional arrays will allow us to support up to100 qubits; (b) consistently encoding quantum information in the electronic ground state of ion qubits enables error rates smaller than 10-3 per gate operation compatible with fault-tolerant error correction; and (c) implementing parallel gate operations will enable larger algorithmic depth. The new demonstrator devices will be equipped with a hardware-optimised firmware suite and will be integrated in a high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to realise a QC/HPC solution, supporting standardised interfaces to various quantum software development kits with cloud accessibility. Finally, we will pave the way to scalable quantum computing by introducing long-range connectivity between quantum processors. We will combine these quantum information techniques with trap fabrication and packaging technologies which integrate optical and electronic components to achieve stable long-term operation in an industrial environment. These scientific and technological advances will provide a powerful hardware platform that can be exploited by partnering quantum software Within this project, the ion-trap quantum computing platform will be extended to push towards 100 qubits, realize fault-tolerant performance levels, and pursue the demonstration of a European quantum advantage.

Keywords: quantum computing,quantum information processing,
Accelerating geometrically exact metamaterial modelling (AGE2M)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The magnetically induced movement of a soft elastic material which contains magnetic particles includes rotations of said particles. In other words, the particles apply torque on their surroundings. Since the material is soft, large deformations take place, in part due to these rotations of the magnetic particles. The current coupled magneto-mechanical theory does not account for this phenomenon and is thus poorly suited for its description. At the same time, magnetically induced rotations are desired in robotics in order to allow for complex movement, which motivates the need for a better model. Another major problem are the long computational times, or in general, the large computational cost of simulating the complex materials which are used in soft robotics. These materials, otherwise called metamaterials, are endowed with an artificially designed micro-geometry, which allows the designer to control certain material properties. As a result, simulation tools must be able to correctly capture that geometry, which often entails openings or re-entrant corners. The reining approach of using standard finite element technology for that purpose yields a very high computational cost, since a vast amount of elements is required in the computation. This motivates the necessity of a new finite element framework with a significantly reduced computational cost. The solutions of this proposal consist in introducing novel theoretical and numerical frameworks for the design and computation of metamaterials with applications to soft robotics. The new theoretical framework will couple the theory of electromagentism by Maxwell with the micropolar continuum theory of Cosserat, thus allowing for micro-rotations and non-symmetrical stress tensors. The novel numerical framework will introduce new NUBRS-enhanced finite elements for Hilbert space complexes, allowing for computationally efficient and robust simulations.

Keywords: electromagnestism,micropolar continua,finite elements,nurbs,metamaterials no plasmonics,numerical analysis,hilbert space complexes,electroelasticity,magnetoelasticity,elastomers