Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Upcycled BioSURFACTants: time to ACT! (SurfACT)

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: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2025 (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

AmphiStar (Est. 2021), an innovative spin-off from Ghent University and Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, represents a pivotal entity for the transition towards sustainable and bio-based surfactants. AmphiStar leverages its know-how in synthetic biology, industrial biotechnology, and green chemistry to develop upcycled biosurfactants (BS) through microbial fermentation of waste feedstocks (second-generation or 2G). This innovation addresses urgent environmental challenges, such as deforestation, GHG emissions, biodiversity loss and resource depletion, by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and palm oil for surfactant production. The company has secured over €12m Euro in funding through EU-CBE projects (Waste2Func, SurfsUP), regional grants (VLAIO, SPRIN-D), and VC funds (ECBF, Qbic, FFTF), hence has solidified its position as emerging leader in the sector. AmphiStar’s patented technology platform utilizes a.o. the yeast Starmerella bombicola to produce fully biodegradable, mild and non- (eco)toxic BS from 2G feedstocks such as industrial waste- and side streams. These products cater to the growing needs of personal care, home care, and agrochemical sectors. The technology enables efficient production (titers >200 g/L and productivities of >2 g/L.h) and the production of novel BS with unique features, including stability, mildness, foaming, gelling, emulsification and exceptional degreasing efficiency. With a TAM of 69bn Euro and a SAM of 4.6bn Euro, of which AmphiStar's technology could capture 5% through the operation of commercial production plants in co-location with waste producers/collectors. Using 2G feedstocks, AmphiStar reduces CO2 emissions from surfactant production over 70%, contributing to the targets of the European Green Deal and to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 6, 8, 9 ,12, 13 and 15. AmphiStar is set to transform the surfactant industry, promoting a circular, sustainable economy with its eco-friendly, mild and costeffective solutions.

Keywords: biosurfactants,sustainable surfactants,industrial biotechnology,production,biochemical,circular economy
Industrial Selective PLAting for Solar Heterojunction (iSPLASH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3499200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2449440.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite the boom in the photovoltaics industry, there are still barriers to solar cell deployment. Costly and cumbersome manufacturing processes emitting high levels of GHG are a major hindrance. A key step in cell manufacture is metallisation, representing over 30% of the cost of manufacture. Currently, heterojunction (HJT) cell metallisation utilises silver paste, which has major disadvantages in terms of cost, efficiency and environmental impact. Alternative metals, such as copper, can overcome these challenges; however, efficient process technology has not yet been brought to market. The iSPLASH project will cause a paradigm shift in HJT cell metallisation. Our technology will be the only processing technology on the market to cost effectively exploit the low price of copper and facilitate the reliable and precise, fine line deposition of copper onto HJT cells, completely eliminating the use of silver. iSPLASH technology will reduce metallisation costs by 90% and carbon emissions.

Keywords: green deal,emission reduction,copper,silver,solar cell,heterojunction,plating,metallisation
GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science (GraspOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Netherlands,Türkiye,Czechia,Romania,Serbia,Finland,France,Belgium
Call: Services and tools to underpin a research assessment system that incentivises open science practices (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2985441.0
EU funding (EUR): 2985441.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

GraspOS aims to build and operate a data infrastructure to support the policy reforms and pave the way towards a responsible research assessment system that embeds OS practices and accelerates its adoption in Europe. GraspOS will focus on extending the EOSC ecosystem with tools and services that will facilitate monitoring the use and uptake of various types of research services and outputs (publications, datasets, software) and will catalyse the implementation of policy-level rewards to foster OS practices. These tools and services will build upon multiple sources of metric data (e.g., OpenCitations, Scholexplorer) including capabilities offered by the EOSC Core, that will be federated in the context of the project, and will take into consideration both contemporary guidelines for Responsible Research Assessment (RRA), like those provided by initiatives like DORA and the Leiden Manifesto, and the suggestions from a diversity of relevant stakeholders. GraspOS will also incorporate piloting activities to co-design, showcase, validate, and evaluate GraspOS’s key results considering domain-specific aspects and different levels of OS-aware RRA, such as the researcher (individual/group), institution, and national level.

Keywords: open science,responsible research assessment,eosc
The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation (NAVIGATOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Denmark,Belgium,Netherlands,South Africa,Italy,Germany,Israel,Estonia,Canada,Japan
Call: Global governance for a world in transition: Norms, institutions, actors (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2992512.5
EU funding (EUR): 2992512.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? And what factors should be emphasized when considering which institutions to strengthen, which to reform, and which to by-pass when revitalising multilateralism? NAVIGATOR’s main objective is to answer these questions and deliver a ready-to-use “search mechanism” and associated pathways of action that the EU and its member states can use as it seeks to strengthen a rules-based international order. To achieve this, NAVIGATOR comprises a strong, global and inter-disciplinary team of researchers who explores institutional variation on six policy issues – climate change, digitalisation, finance/tax, health, migration and security – to identify what institutional mixes that enables the EU to have optimal impact in a given policy issue. We explore variation in formality (formal to informal), accessibility (open to closed), and normativity (expressed purpose is technical to openly normative). Drawing on these data and complementing these with content analysis, social network analysis, semi-structured interviews and European and global surveys, NAVIGATOR develops a “search mechanism” that allows the EU and member states to compare strengths and weaknesses of existing multilateral organizations, determine which can be reformed and which are too costly to reform, identify and assess alternatives, and, on this basis, develop action strategies to reform multilateralism. NAVIGATOR will be very relevant to the work programme, as it will assess the effectiveness of multilateral institutions and arrangements; identify the optimal pathways of action of EU support to multilateral, minilateral, private and public-private initiatives to further global governance in a given policy domain, and provide recommendations for EU engagement strategies in the context of the war in Ukraine, threats of nationalism and anti-EU populism.

Keywords: actors,eu,climate change,digitalisation,finance and tax,geopolitics,global governance,health,institutions,migration,multilateral cooperation mechanisms,security,transnational democracy
Adaptive functions of visual systems (AdaptiveVision)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999613.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999613.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The processing of visual information allows humans, animals, and computer-vision based machines to navigate the world. All visual systems face common challenges when the world rapidly changes. Such changes are often generated by an animal’s own movement. Self-motion for example causes fast changes in illumination and generates global motion patterns on the eye, due to the movement of the world relative to the observer. Diverse visual systems face these common challenges but must also deal with important differences. First, animals experience different environments. Second, animals show different types of behavior, such as walking or flying, and behavior will alter the visual cues that the animal encounters. The goal of AdaptiveVision is to first understand common principles of visual system function, and to then work out how diverse visual systems adapt to specific environmental and behavioral constraints. To achieve this, AdaptiveVision will study two essential visual computations, the robust estimation of contrast in dynamically changing environments, and the encoding of global motion cues generated by self-motion. For both topics, AdaptiveVision will follow a common approach: We will first study the mechanisms of visual computation in D.melanogaster. This model organism allows to identify molecular, biophysical, and circuit mechanisms of visual system function and link these back to behavior, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of visual computation. Second, a comparative approach will answer how diverse visual systems adapt to the individual constraints brought about by the environments and by the animal’s own behavior. Developing different Drosophila species as genetic models or applying transcriptomic techniques in different Diptera will allow us to obtain molecular signatures of homologous cell types and lead toward an understanding of the molecular basis of the evolution of visual computation.

Keywords: neuroethology,neuroevolution,visual processing,neural computation
Artcast4D: Unleashing creativity! (Artcast4D)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,Greece,Spain,Switzerland
Call: Cultural and creative industries as a driver of innovation and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3347118.75
EU funding (EUR): 3347118.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Advances in immersive technology are an important driver of the experience economy, enhancing the breadth, depth and intensity of the visiting experience at arts and cultural institutions. Yet, they usually are neither readily available nor broadly accessible. First, they require specific developments that can hardly be carried out by most institutions. Second, the inherent affordance of immersive propositions is questioned by the currently evolving world health situation. The objective of the Artcast4D project is to develop a technological framework and tools that will unleash the potential of EU CCIs for designing and developing cost-effective, non-invasive, immersive and interactive users experiences. Using both academic and industrial approaches, it relies on theoretical and experimental research, open source software and hardware development together with challenging case studies and onsite beta testing implementations. The innovation lies in the ability to create immersive environments in open spaces, with minimally intrusive projection technology, on the capability to design interactive applications with crowd movement and sensing capabilities, and on the open source availability and ability to extend the solutions. Artcast4D will technically and financially promote the implementation of the technology outside the cultural institutions, implementing 4 pilots in cities around the world (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hounslow, Valencia, Athens), each one with different artistic topics and experiences, and bringing together creative actors and industrial partners with the civil society. All pilots will include training workshops, and open training modules will be designed for developers and artists. The projects outcomes will also help to derive policy guidelines on how to strengthen the competitiveness and innovation potential of CCIs on national level and EU-level.

Keywords: cci,immersivity ivr,non intrusive,opera spaces,
Understanding 3D Foam Plasticity: An Integrated Approach (FOAM 3D)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Liquid foams possess distinct structural and mechanical properties, making them essential to various industries ranging from food production to ore flotation. When subjected to shear, foams exhibit complex rheological behaviors: responding elastically to small deformations, plastically to larger ones, and flow with a shear-rate-dependent viscosity once their yield stress is exceeded. These behaviors are governed by local plastic rearrangements of bubbles. Although much is known about local rearrangements in 2D foams, the understanding of 3D foams remains limited. This knowledge gap hinders accurate predictions of dynamical heterogeneities in plastic rearrangements, often leading to trial-and-error approaches when engineering foam properties for applications. This project aims to bridge that gap by combining X-ray tomographic microscopy with numerical simulations and advanced AI techniques. I will begin by analyzing data from fast X-ray tomographic microscopy experiments combined with rheological measurements, which simultaneously capture the macroscopic response of 3D foams and the detection of plastic rearrangements at the bubble scale. However, the limited temporal resolution of X-ray tomography necessitates the development of experimentally informed numerical simulations to further explore foam dynamics. Predicting the occurrence of plastic rearrangements remains a significant challenge. To address this, I will develop graph neural networks (GNNs) capable of predicting the spatiotemporal occurrence of plastic events in foams during a secondment at a company specialized in AI. GNNs have already proven effective in predicting plastic events in glasses, making them an ideal tool for this task. Since foams are an athermal analog of amorphous solids, insights from this research will be applicable to other yield-stress materials, where the interaction of localized plastic rearrangements is crucial for predicting fracture and flow.

Keywords: foams,amorphous solids,yield stress fluids,computational modelling,rheology,artificial intelligence
The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity (TEARS)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-02
End date: 2026-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Gender and racial discrimination are critical and pervasive problems in academic institutions world-wide. Apart from being underrepresented in some fields – such as STEM and Philosophy — gender and racial minorities are disproportionately vulnerable to sexual and racial harassment in Higher Education. In 2021, a report on universities in the UK determined that “women were nearly two-and-a-half times as likely to experience sexual violence as men, while staff on insecure contracts, those with disabilities, LGBTQ+, or black, Asian or minority ethnic were also at greater risk”. Academic institutions have sometimes sought to remedy to these exclusions by implementing diversity policies aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented groups among staff and students. However, and more problematically, even when diversity policies and measures to fight against sexual and other forms of harassment are in place, academic institutions tend to be more concerned with protecting the institution from reputational damage than with the safety and well-being of the victims. Reports that document the extent of these harms in universities point out that a change of culture is needed. If we do not address the cultural environment that feeds these violent forms of exclusion, diversity and anti-harassment policies will be insufficient. However, as long as we do not understand what makes this culture so persistent, we will lack the appropriate concepts and tools to change it. My contention is that, while sexual and racial harassment are among the most harmful and violent manifestations of oppression, they are rooted in an ecosystem of cognitive and emotional habits that sediment in exclusionary practices against minorities. My research project will be especially concerned with addressing these emotional conditions, by asking how oppressed and oppressors need to engage with their emotions in order to resist against oppression and build more cooperative ways of living together.

Keywords: oppression resistance emotions sexism racism emancipation self transformation narrativity
Gas biomarker-based solution for fast and accurate pathogen identification (GAS-BIOM-FAST-ID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Zynnon’s IVD solution provides rapid and accurate pathogen detection and identification by measuring gas biomarkers during growth phase and analyzing them with ML models. This proposal includes system refinement, clinical validation, and industrialization to propel our solution into the market. The Need: Sepsis claims 11 million lives annually. Current pathogen identification using culture methods takes 24-72 hours, while Sepsis can cause death in as little as 12 hours. The rising threat of antimicrobial resistance, projected to result in 10 million deaths yearly by 2050, is exacerbated by delays in timely diagnosis. Our Innovation: Zynnon AG's in vitro diagnostic (IVD) solution accelerates pathogen detection by measuring bacterial gas biomarkers (VOCs) during growth and analyzing them via machine learning, reducing the time-to-result to under 4 hours. This novel approach, which directly measures VOCs in the 'headspace' of cultures, simplifies the workflow and minimizes contamination risk. Our company: Zynnon AG was founded in 2019 with the ambition of improving people's health and the healthcare ecosystem by leveraging the high performance and cost effectiveness of Internet of Medical Things. We have a highly accomplished management team with combined 60+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, cooperate finance, and clinical trials. We are backed by a vastly experienced board of medical advisors from renounced institutions across Europe. Next Milestones: - Expand the VOC database by measuring 24 priority pathogens. - Train machine learning models, integrating them into our hardware to build an MVP. - Achieve clinical validation through a multi-country pilot study. - Sequentially enter the industrial and clinical microbiology markets. Impact: Our solution will enable timely, accurate treatment, empowering doctors to improve patient care, and reducing healthcare costs through better monitoring and shorter hospital stays.

Keywords: infectious diseases,sepsis,microbiology,pathogens,bacteria,gas biomarkers