Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Strong light-matter coupled ultra-fast and non-linear quantum semiconductor devices (SMART-QDEV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496206.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496206.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will combine for the first time strong light-matter coupling in quantum-confined electronic systems with the optical and electronic non-linearities of semiconductor heterostructures: we will develop device concepts with unique ultra-fast, non-linear and quantum functionalities. The key ingredient is an unconventional use of the strong light-matter coupling regime (SCR), a fascinating concept that is recently transitioning from basic physics to quantum devices. We will first address fundamental physics problems, then we’ll turn to device applications. A key conceptual building block is that the nature of optical non-linearities is radically modified when operating in the SCR. This has profound consequences. We will study few-photon non-linearities, in particular the ultimate case of devices that can “sense” virtual photons. This will lead us to device concepts whose behavior is enabled by vacuum-field photons, bringing us radically beyond the state of art. We will then move to the case of many photons. We will focus on absorption saturation, that explored only in the weak coupling regime, where it is difficult to engineer. We have discovered that in the SCR instead it becomes tailorable and previously unavailable functionalities can be envisioned. This has profound consequences: we will demonstrate semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM) for the mid-IR spectral range, a technology that revolutionized ultra-fast lasers in the near-IR, but is missing at longer wavelengths. We will apply them to fiber and interband cascade lasers, radically advancing the potential of those sources. These are ground-breaking demonstrations for mid-IR science and technology. SMART-QDEV is a project rooted in fundamental physics research, able to open up new horizons and research opportunities on longer-term and visionary topics. At the same time, SMART-QDEV has a clear vision for applications.

Keywords: strong light matter coupling semiconductor heterostructures mid infrared intersubband transitions ultra fast and non linear devices quantum cascade lasers interband cascade lasers fiber lasers
Organoids For Heartbreak (OrganoidsFHeartbreak)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project is a proof-of-concept study for organoid drug testing platform for disease modeling of cardiac fibrosis. I am going to develop a cardiac organoid on chip platform for disease modeling of cardiac fibrosis to identify the molecular mechanism of the pathologic interplay between endothelial cells, cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts, and its regulation by specific drug treatments. This model will be based on cardiac organoids previously developed at the host lab modified with endothelial cell component. Organoids with and without endothelial cells will be a tool for identification of endothelial contribution in cardiac fibrosis. Molecular mechanisms will be identified through selective interventions in known fibrotic pathways, with special focus on the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. In addition, validity of this tool for drug testing will be established by proof-of-effect of known medications on fibrotic molecular phenotype and cardiac function. The platform will be designed as medium through-put for patient treatment optimization (precision medicine) and drug testing. Collectively, it has the potential to replace animal models in mechanistic research and drug development. The host lab is the perfect fit for this project. It has been on the forefront of cardiac organoid research and their previous work is the cornerstone for the cardiac organoid model used here. They possess the latest equipment for on-chip organoid cultivation and have extensive experience with augmentation and optimization of biopolymer hardness to simulate fibrotic environment. Additionally, Prof. Sluijter’s professional network of contacts and cooperation with local university spin-off companies provides the opportunity to investigate the interest of the industry in application of this project by scale-up of our drug testing platform for high through-put organoid drug screening platform.

Keywords: human induced pluripotent stem cells,cardiomyocytes,cardiac fibroblasts,endothelial cells,angiotensin converting enzyme,tumor growth factor beta 1
Product Passport through Twinning of Circular Value Chains (Plooto)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Spain,Norway,Germany,Slovenia,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Romania
Call: Circular and low emission value chains through digitalisation (Processes4Planet Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7652750.0
EU funding (EUR): 7652750.0
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The constantly increasing demand of scarce resources and critical raw materials (CRMs), requires efficient usage of resources - reuse and recycling of materials- and responsible waste management and prevention. The circular economy’s model establishes a virtuous cycle where products and resources can be reused, repurposed and recycled to maximize productivity of resources, to reduce waste and by products that can become raw materials (RMs) entering in other industrial processes, thus reducing the depletion of natural resources and the overall environmental effects on climate change. Plooto aims to deliver a Circular and Resilient Information System (CRIS) to support manufacturers in their green, digital and circular transition. CRIS enables waste reduction and end-to-end traceability of Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) through interconnected digital services for real-time decision making, monitoring and certification of materials and products. Plooto delivers: a) a transformation framework based on traceability strategies for materials/products per business case, with reference processes for SRM use from waste deposit to new products, and governance models for circular value chains; b) ICT tools for modelling product, production processes and supply chains, as an aggregation of individual component Digital Twins with cognition capabilities (cognitive Digital Twins – CDTs); c) Data will feed RM-recovery and waste dataspaces allowing the provision of material certification and product passport; and d) A circular sustainability balanced scorecard (framework+toolkit) to assess impact of decision-making at CDT level based on various KPIs. The solution will be piloted in three different circular supply chains demonstrating waste reduction, reusability of scrap and production by-products, operational improvement.

Keywords: circular value chain traceability resilient production processes product passport secondary raw materials weee recycling lifelong learning digital twins
Converting Facilities Network for accelerating uptake of climate neutral materials in innovative products (Convert2Green)

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: Greece,Germany,Finland,Portugal,Spain,Italy,Czechia,Ireland,Luxembourg
Call: Climate Neutral and Circular Innovative Materials Technologies Open Innovation Test Beds (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12471935.0
EU funding (EUR): 11383136.63
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Convert2Green will establish an Open Innovation Test Beds (OITB) that enables material suppliers to integrate their innovative, circular and carbon neutral material solutions to the European Key Value Chains: Clean Autonomous Vehicles; Smart Health; Industrial IoT; Low Carbon Industry and Clean Energy. Thus, Convert2Green will provide innovative material suppliers new business opportunities in these value chains. Convert2Green will complement the European Open Innovation Ecosystem with services not present in other OITBs by now: (1) Complete Eco-Impact Analysis from Raw Material to Product as a service including LCA, LCC, Safety and Toxicity; (2) TRL4 to 7 Process Chains for Smart Textiles and Processing of Fiber based materials; (3) TRL4 to 7 Process Chain for Electronics on Plastic, Paper and Textiles; (4) Pilot Facilities for recovering critical raw materials from products; (5) Pilot Facilities for Processing of recycled plastics and composites, (6) Pilot facilities manufacturing of (nano)fibers and composites from bio-sources. Furthermore, Convert2Green will be the first OITB that establishes and provides to the OITB ecosystem: (1) procedures and contract models for licensing of joint IP through the Single Entry Point(s); (2) multilingual digital platform to integrate and jointly promote the service portfolio of all OITBs as well as to interconnect relevant stakeholders and to allow fully digital project and knowledge management and (3) novel financing models for SME combining a trust generating due-diligence structure with project based investment models and crowd-invest opportunities to accelerate market entry in all value chains given above. Convert2Green will integrate its services with the whole European Innovation Ecosystem and continues the series of OITB events started by Safe-n-MedTech and FlexFunction2Sustain OITBs to unite and jointly promote the (currently 25) OITBs as a whole to European SME, Industry, Policy Makersand other relevant stakeholders.

Keywords: circularity sustainability materials technology open innovation recycling plastic waste textile processing textile processing
Developing a new sensorimotor body representation for an additional robotic limb. (BodyPlus)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Adding an artificial body part could expand our motor abilities. But can our brain develop an integrated multisensory representation of an extra limb in addition to our own body? In BodyPlus, we will explore whether the brain can extend our body representation to incorporate an additional robotic thumb, known as the Third Thumb. We will compare participants’ behaviour and brain responses before and after a 4-day training period where they learn to control the Third Thumb. In Work Package 1 (WP1), we will use two behavioural paradigms to determine whether participants develop novel sensorimotor links through training. Specifically, we will examine whether participants learn to integrate touch location with posture, and sensory information with movement predictions. We will use computational modelling to identify behavioural biases indicative of optimal Bayesian integration. In WP2, we will scan participants using fMRI as they control the Third Thumb. We will compare conditions where the Thumb’s movement matches or doesn’t match the movements participants learned during training, allowing us to identify brain regions that integrate Third Thumb movement with sensory predictions. Furthermore, we will use brain decoding to determine if the newly acquired representation of the Third Thumb compares with the representation of participants' own right thumb, or of a familiar tool. In WP3, we will examine how participants behaviour changes when we remove key sensory inputs, which were available during motor training, or modify the expected movement of the Third Thumb. This will allow us to determine the resilience and generalisability of the newly formed Third Thumb representation. Overall, BodyPlus will identify the key components that the brain uses to develop a new body representation. This knowledge will guide us to design additional body parts that can seamlessly integrate with our movements and provide new ways to interact with the world.

Keywords: cognitive neuroscience,body representation,sensorimotor,touch,prosthetic devices,fmri,mvpa,artificial limbs,somatosensory,hand,perception,action,augmentation,motor control,movement
BATTERY 2030+ CSA3 large-scale research initiative: At the heart of a connected green society (B2030 CSA3)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Sweden,Belgium,France,Germany,Spain,Slovenia,Italy,Norway,Denmark,Poland,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Coordination of large-scale initiative on future battery technologies (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3102223.75
EU funding (EUR): 3102223.75
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

Collaborative, long-term research on future battery technologies has since 2019 been supported by the European Commission with the BATTERY 2030+ initiative. This project, BATTERY 2030+ CSA3, builds on earlier CSA efforts to coordinate and monitor research projects earmarked BATTERY 2030+ to work together towards the goals in the BATTERY 2030+ roadmap. Other HE R&I projects are invited as associated. The overall aim of the BATTERY 2030+ initiative, is to invent the batteries of the future by providing breakthrough technologies to the European battery industry across the full value chain; to strengthen long-term European leadership in both existing markets (road transport, stationary energy storage), and future emerging applications (aerospace, medical devices, internet of things). In this third phase Accelerated Materials Discovery, Battery Interfaces, Smart Functionalities, Manufacturing and Recycling are covered. BATTERY 2030+ CSA3 builds on, and extends beyond, the earlier achievements of the BATTERY 2030+ initiative with five objectives: - Obj 1: Implementation and monitoring of the research activities contributing to the BATTERY 2030+ initiative - Obj 2: Update and develop the BATTERY 2030+ roadmap, by mapping ongoing R&I activities and identifying emerging obstacles and research needs - Obj 3: Accelerate the research by identifying and making available best practices and guidelines for ontology development, data sharing, and standardizations - Obj 4: Contribute to European curricula in future battery technologies - Obj 5: Promote and communicate the objectives and the achievements of the BATTERY 2030+ initiative and strengthen collaboration with other EU R&I battery initiatives The CSA3 consortium consists of 19 leading European universities and research institutes (UU, AIT, CEA, CIC Energigune, CIDETEC, CNRS/LRCS, DTU, EMPA, ENEA, FRAUNHOFER, FZJ, KIT, WWU, NIC, POLITO, SINTEF, TU Delft, VUB, and WTU) and 3 Associations (Recharge, EASE, and VDI-VDE-T

Keywords: battery,ultrahigh performance,chemistry neutral,materials acceleration,smart battery cell,eu curricula,ipr,large scale research initiative,sustainable,disruptive,competitive edge,fair
Co-creativity And Learning: Interactive Opus generation for Piano Education (CALIOPE)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Learning to play a musical instrument such as a piano requires many hours of exercises, generally either suggested to the student by a teacher or taken from a “method” book. These books are collections of progressive exercises meant to teach specific techniques and address the commonest mistakes and difficulties that players face while learning. One downside of these books is that the exercises are not personalized to the students, and thus cannot address specific difficulties and characteristics of each learner. Teachers could potentially write or find exercises that are tailored to the different needs of their students, but this activity is very time-consuming, and given the number of students that many teachers have, it becomes prohibitive. Given the many recent advances in the field of music generation, we propose that it should be possible to generate exercises automatically to form a personalized method for each student. The teacher would describe the characteristics of the student and their strength and weaknesses to a software system, as well as the teaching goals that should be covered in the generated exercises. In return, the system would create a sequence of exercises that are specific to the needs of the student and to the concerns of the teacher. This “interactive opus” would allow for a more effective and engaging learning experience, since the learning difficulty curve would follow each student rather than enforcing a general curriculum. In CAL:IOPE, I propose to study both a theoretical model for the description of piano learning students, and a computational system to generate progressive exercises based on that model. Advancing knowledge in Computational Creativity and music generation to tackle long-term structure, this project will aim to create an entire set of musical exercises that are coherent in style and difficulty, leading research towards music generation that is useful to human musicians.

Keywords: computational creativity,music generation,computer supported education
TowArd demoCRatization Of ev-BAsed Therapies (ACROBAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Strategic Digital and Health Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2487651.25
EU funding (EUR): 1700000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EVerZom has developed a patented, fast, cost-effective, large-scale standardized extracellular vesicles (EV) production process to address the manufacturing issues that hamper EV translation towards clinic. EVerZom has performed a successful platform scale-up to 6L, meeting quantities needed for phase I trials, placing it at least 2 years ahead of known competitors. With numerous European biotechs poised to enter clinical phase, it’s timely to provide industrial players with EV large-scale capabilities. Hence, EVerZom intends to achieve key milestones during the next 2 years including the validation of platform GMP compliance at clinical phase I scale, the scale-up toward late-stage and commercial batch production as well as platform expansion usefulness towards different cell lines. The ACROBAT project will enable us to be aligned with industrial players roadmap, generate early revenues, and achieve our ambition to be a European pioneer and leader in the EV manufacturing market.

Keywords: regenerative medicine,platform industrialization,biomanufacturing,exosomes,extracellular vesicles,stem cell biology
Tensor modEliNg, geOmetRy and optimiSation (TENORS)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: France,Germany,Norway,Italy,Netherlands,Czechia,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4170736.8
EU funding (EUR): 4049582.4
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

TENORS aims to form the next generation of researchers and engineers in scientific computing and data analysis, disrupting the current paradigms of tensor calculus by exploiting cutting-edge research in geometry and optimisation. Tensors are nowadays ubiquitous in many domains of applied mathematics, computer science, signal processing, data processing, machine learning and in the emerging area of quantum computing. The demand for highly trained scientists with a deep understanding of tensor methods and with advanced knowledge in the geometry of tensor spaces, with skills on the design of efficient algorithms and software handling tensor computation and in the applications of high performance tensor computation is raising, in many fields including machine learning and quantum computation, which are nowadays expanding very quickly. TENORS contributes to satisfy this demand by fostering scientific and technological advances in the area of tensor sciences, stimulating interdisciplinary and intersectoriality knowledge exchange between algebraists, geometers, computer scientists, numerical analysts, data analysts, physicists, quantum scientists, and industrial actors facing real-life tensor-based problems, in a network of PhD students at its core. A unique strength of the network is to gather top-researchers of these different domains. TENORS will train young scientists in academy or industry in how to exploit the best of these techniques efficiently and disseminate this knowledge to industry. As a truly multidisciplinary network, TENORS will at the same time seek to apply these new techniques to real-life applications thanks to the industrial actors involved in the network.

Keywords: tensor,high performance computation,approximation,quantum science,data analysis