Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Stent-based Sensing, Monitoring, And theRapy sysTem for Coronary Artery Diseases (SMART-CAD)

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: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-20
End date: 2027-10-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242116.8
EU funding (EUR): 242116.8
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In Europe, out of all types of cardiovascular diseases, coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of death (more than 40%). The leading cause of CAD is a blockage in the coronary artery due to plaque deposition. Balloon angioplasty and stenting are the two solutions used to treat CAD patients. However, in both treatments, restenosis (plaque re-deposition) occurs after a few months/years, and the only solution is to repeat the treatment to reopen the blocked artery. In the past, the scientific community has proposed many ways to monitor ISR; still, no research has suggested a feasibility study or stent-based treatment along with sensing and continuous monitoring. Motivated by the urgent need for new technological advancements to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to CAD (coronary artery disease), the proposed SMART-CAD project set out to develop a novel stent-based sensor for continuous sensing, monitoring and early treatment of the ISR (In-stent Restenosis). Here, a stent-based microwave sensor will be designed and implemented on the stent’s body to sense the development of the ISR, an RFID technology will assist in continuous monitoring of coronary artery health, and a microwave ablation will treat the plaque if ISR develops in the coronary artery. This will also help to boost the sustainable development goal target 3.4 (To reduce premature and preventable deaths in Europe due to cardiovascular diseases by 2030). The interdisciplinary nature of this project is strong, involving radiofrequency and microwave engineering, biomedical engineering, and biology. The results of this project will be helpful to the scientific community and medical device industry. This project will also strengthen the researcher’s academic profile and allow her to establish her own research group.

Keywords: antenna sensor,microwave ablation,radio frequency identification rfid,biotelemetry,coronary artery disease cad,coronary stents,in stent restenosis isr
EUROPEAN SPACE-GRADE OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS FOR HIGH SPEED INTRA-SATELLITE INTERCONNECTS AND FREE SPACE LASERCOM LINKS (SPACELINK)

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: France,Belgium,Germany,Greece
Call: Space technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL4-2024-SPACE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3963203.36
EU funding (EUR): 2999106.45
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

In the current booming satellite ecosystem, optical communications are now the champions of data handling. They are a must for super-capacity transmission systems, and they are a must for smaller and lighter payloads. The core enabling technology of these systems is the Optical Transceiver. In its most advanced versions, it is deployed either in the form of VCSEL-based or as integrated coherent lightwave modules. These complex products encompass diverse technologies such as lasers, electronic and photonic chips, micro-optics, optical and electrical interfaces, all in sophisticated miniature packaging. European sovereignty in producing such critical devices is of strategic importance, but to this date, a continental supply chain is missing. This is where SPACELINK come to play: SPACELINK is a natural evolution of H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS and SIPHODIAS – two successful EU funded projects, which have demonstrated optical transceiver circuits and modules to TRL >4, establishing the groundwork for the evolution and delivery of flight-ready hardware. SPACELINK is set-up to take the next step and through its manufacturing, assembly, integration and test campaign, will evolve the technology maturity and demonstrate flight-ready parts at TRL 7. SPACELINK aims to establish the first European supply chain of hi-rel optical transceivers, removing dependency barriers and securing Europe’s digital sovereignty. Leveraging high-end technologies in which Europe has and continues to invest, SPACELINK will deliver optical transceivers made in cost-effective wafer-scale fabrication. SPACELINK will deliver VCSEL-based and photonic integrated circuit systems that will challenge US-made solutions with drastic improvements in Size Weight and Power performance and manufacturability.

Keywords: optical transceiver,intra satellite optical interconnects,satellite laser communications
Nanofluidic Catalytic Reaction Imaging (NACAREI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
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): 2341250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2341250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How can we “see” a catalytic reaction on a single nanoparticle? While our eyes use visible light to create a vivid perception of our world, they are unable to resolve the nanoscale. Now imagine light yet allowing us to equally vividly see a chemical process and thereby enabling us to witness how structure or chemical composition of a single nanoparticle control the rate of a catalytic reaction on its surface. To date, the lack of a suitable technique prevents this ultimate level of insight at technically relevant conditions. At the same time, to gain such insight is the ultimate goal of catalysis science and a key enabler for the rational design of next-generation catalyst materials needed to address some of humanity’s grand challenges in the energy, environmental clean-up and health sectors. NACAREI therefore develops a nanoimaging method that realizes this ultimate goal. As the key ingredients for achieving the necessary unprecedented resolution, it relies on the combined nano-confinement of reaction products in, and the ultrahigh optical sensitivity of, nanofluidic structures. Particular focus will also be put on the development of methods to fabricate or trap size-, shape- and composition-controlled single sub-10 nm metal nanoparticles inside nanofluidic channels by combining key traits of top-down nanofabrication and colloidal synthesis. The developed nanoimaging platform will be applied to scientific case studies related to catalyst function with respect to the roles of particle structure, surface state, chemical composition and interaction with the support, and thereby uncover the next generation of catalyst design rules. In the long term, I envision the developed nanoscale imaging platform to enable the study of other nanoscale processes, for example in biochemistry, thereby enabling high impact also at other vibrant scientific frontiers.

Keywords: nanofluidics,nano optics,nanofabrication
Changing the Way the World Looks at Fermentation (FutureFerm)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Norway
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plaato Technologies (PLAATO) is an Oslo-based venture led by pioneers in the fermentation industry. The company is the result of significant R&D at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences prior to company formation in 2016. Recognitions to date include the “Ultimate Challenger” award by Food Tech Challengers in 2023. Today, PLAATO addresses breweries, cideries and distilleries with a ‘plug and play’ cutting-edge fermentation sensor and an innovative cloud solution, giving our customers real-time fermentation insights and decision support to take fermentation productivity, profitability and product quality to the next level. Since our commercial launch in 2022, the client base has grown to almost 300 customers in 34 countries. However, based on a broader ambition of building the infrastructure needed for the next generation of emerging industrial fermentation-based industrial processes, we seek the collaboration of the EIC. Applications include alternative protein production for food and feed, biofuel fermentation for transportation, and others. For these industries to succeed, we also need to develop the next generation of data capture, data analytics and automation technologies to operate efficiently. Technical and commercial objectives will be further elaborated in a stage 2 proposal. focusing on i) advanced data capture from new inline sensors to ensure access to real-time fermentation process parameters, and ii) turning this data into insights and information enabled by machine learning, where we can provide predictive analytics, process optimization and process automation. Collaboration is planned with one of the world’s largest brewers, Carlsberg, as well as national and international alternative protein producers.

Keywords: fermentation technology,industrial internet of things,sensors,ai ml
OPTICAL FIBER-TIP NANO SENSING (OPERAS) (OPERAS)

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: Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-05
End date: 2027-05-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Ultra-compact sensors that can detect single nanoscale objects are presently highly desirable. However, state-of-the-art sensors lack selectivity and the concurrent detection of multiple analytes. Thus, OPERAS seeks to build an enhanced class of highly selective and sensitive fiber-tip sensors based on nanophotonics and plasmonics that can be easily multiplexed. Its distinctiveness stems from the introduction of quantum perturbation method (QPM) for nanoparticles' susceptibilities, full vector beam propagation method (FVBPM) for fiber sensor optimization, and gold nanoparticles immobilization protocol on the end facet of an optical fiber to fabricate the sensing probe. These methods are not only reproducible but also allow real-time monitoring of the fabrication process, making batch sensor fabrication feasible. With the combination of optical phenomena at the nanoscale, optical fiber technology, and advanced simulation based on the QPM and FVBPM, OPERAS seeks to create synergistic nanospectroscopic sensors for uses in a variety of fields. The fabricated sensors will be tested for the detection of nanoplastics and heavy metals in water at concentrations as low as nanograms per liter. Other applications including disease diagnosis and environmental monitoring are also foreseen. Although the sensor has good selectivity and hypersensitivity due to the QPM and FVBPM, its implementation through the use of an optical fiber makes the sensor compact, safe to use, and easy to interrogate. This creative and well-organized project will undoubtedly yield numerous important research outputs that will further our understanding of the exposure of people to nano objects, highlight and support European research in this area, help establish an affordable sensing technology, and improve environmental and healthcare monitoring. Unquestionably, OPERAS is expected to bring a breakthrough in optical sensor technology and contribute to the development of new sensing technology in Europe.

Keywords: optical fibers,nanomaterial on fiber tip,quantum perturbation method,full vector beam propagation method,optical sensing
Bright High Spin Molecular Semiconductors (BRIGHTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499998.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BRIGHTS builds on the proposer’s discovery of high photoluminescence quantum efficiency, PLQE, from high spin states excitons (S = 1, 3/2, 2) in molecular semiconductors. This is underpinned by their recent development of spin doublet molecular semiconductors where bright spin doublet excitons support efficient OLED operation, particularly for red and near-IR. High spin molecular systems have previously been developed for their quantum properties but have been non-luminescent, preventing optical readout. The luminescent systems developed in BRIGHTS open up new spin-exciton science and new opportunities for optical writing, manipulation and reading of spin states. The core of the project is the development of new materials systems with high spin excitons that have high PLQE. These materials developments include: (a) high PLQE in spin doublet systems, with electron acceptor substitutions and designs for near-IR emitters, used to construct: (b) systems where photogeneration evolves from spin doublet to quartet, with optimisation of intersystem and reverse intersystem crossing via engineering of charge transfer states, and new designs using TADF emitters; (c) conjugatively coupled di- and poly-radicals. For diradicals this will focus on exploring the inter-radical coupling to engineer PL in both triplet and singlet manifolds. This builds on the proposer’s discovery of red-shifted singlet exciton PL from zwitteronic charge-transfer character singlet excitons. These materials systems will be explored for applications in: (d) spin-optical applications for sensing. Optical spin pumping and optically-detected magnetic resonance, ODMR, will be explored and developed for sensing, at high and low B fields, and for possible biomedical sensing; (e) spin-controlled charge transport. FETs to study transport in field-doped radical polymers in the ‘Mott-Hubbard insulator’ regime; (f) new designs for solar cell applications with spin radicals with high PLQE.

Keywords: organic semiconductors,spin optical properties,
Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-industrial Urban Europe (MITIME)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Belgium,Ireland,Türkiye,Spain,Greece,Austria,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4442144.4
EU funding (EUR): 4442144.4
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

MITIME (Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-industrial Urban Europe) is a pioneering interdisciplinary Doctoral Network that addresses critical challenges of migration, integration and societal change in post-industrial European cities. The primary objective is to support, train, and champion the next generation of migration scholars and practitioners to investigate, understand and ameliorate the temporal and socio-cultural inequalities of migration. Our ambition is to offer a critical lens of temporality to analyse, understand and combat social inequalities and promote social inclusion in specific urban settings. MITIME reaches beyond the idea of linear trajectories of migratory processes from departure to arrival to settlement as envisaged by conventional understandings in migration research and policy-making, towards more nuanced understandings of diversified mobilities and the complicated temporalities of migration. To this end, MITIME proposes a high-level, personalized and multidisciplinary training program of core and transferable skills designed to prepare 15 doctoral candidates for future impactful careers across scientific fields and societal institutions. It combines excellence in research training, novel methodological techniques, and ethical and reflexive approaches with the co-production of knowledge and active engagement with key stakeholders in civil society, policy and governance. Training includes effective communication and dissemination of research outcomes to raise public awareness and inform key actors in migration policy about solutions and envisioned alternatives. MITIME draws from the collaborative expertise of the European University of Cities in Post-Industrial Transition (UNIC) consortium, aligning seven leading universities for migration research with nine diverse societal Associated Partner institutions to train Europe’s future migration experts in innovative, cross-sectoral professional skills and critical know-how.

Keywords: migration,mobility,displacement,cities,time,temporality,inclusion,exclusion,inequality,integration,postindustrialism,engaged research,transdisciplinarity
BIM Integration, Life Cycle Cost Assessment and Extended Industry Dissemination for UniversalTimberSlab (UTS-Hop-on)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 658225.0
EU funding (EUR): 658225.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The UTS-Hop-on project proposal aims to expand the scope, adoption and outreach of the UniversalTimberSlab (UTS) project by integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) into the Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS), incorporating a comprehensive Life Cycle Cost (LCC) assessment in tandem with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and reinforcing the dissemination effort through Extended Industry Outreach (EIO) into European and non-European contexts. BIM integration into the project will foster UTS uptake by the AEC community by incorporating it within the increasingly mandatory and used BIM methodology and creating the necessary supporting materials and applications. It will further address interoperability challenges, as BIM can centralize diverse disciplinary information into a single model that can be easily exported to other software. BIM usage will also enhance the training of the surrogate models with real-world design data. An LCC approach will enable benchmarking by accounting for embodied, operational and end of life costs of different UTS design alternatives and conventional solutions. Cost data will be coupled with life cycle inventory so costs can be mapped along each life cycle stage, revealing economic hotspots, economic paybacks, and improvement opportunities. It will also assess indirect costs (environmental, social or others) that can support the adoption of more sustainable solutions. The planned EIO aims to expand dissemination activities by developing workshops with industry experts in various EU and non-EU countries with different climate, construction materials and techniques. EIO will explore target markets, aiming to present the UTS and test the developed BIM and LCC tools, collecting systematic feedback that will support the project’s development. In parallel, dissemination efforts will include the creation of a UTS-dedicated newsletter, events and Cluster integration to potentiate UTS outreach to construction sector stakeholders.

Keywords: bim,lcc
Super-resolution, ultrafast and deeply-learned contrast ultrasound imaging of the vascular tree. (Super-FALCON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our healthcare system is under unsustainable strain owing, largely, to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. For both, imaging vasculature and flow precisely is paramount to reduce costs while improving diagnosis and treatment. Specifically, the focus is on the multiscale aspects of shear, vorticity, pressure and capillary bed (10-200 μm vessels) structure and mechanics. However, this requires an imaging depth of ~10 cm with a resolution of ~50μm. Furthermore, velocities often exceed 1m/s, which requires a frame rate of ~1000 fps. Clinical imaging modalities have so far been hindered by insufficient spatiotemporal resolution and there is thus a dire need for new techniques. Plane-wave ultrasound enhanced with contrast microbubbles outperforms all modalities in safety, cost, and speed, and is thus the ideal candidate to address this need. The strategy I propose in Super-FALCON harnesses the nonlinear dynamics of monodisperse microbubbles. In WP1, I will use deep learning and GPU-accelerated acoustic simulations to recover super-resolved (1/20th of the wavelength) bubble clouds. In WP2, I will create a new model for confined bubbles, and use them as nonlinear sensors for capillary imaging. In WP3, I will disentangle attenuation and scattering using (physics-informed) deep learning and correct for wave distortion. This is needed to apply the strategies from WP1 and 2 in deep tissue. Finally, in WP4, I will use automatic segmentation to integrate the fundamental results of WP1, 2 and 3 into a technology that I will scientifically assess on vascularized ex vivo livers. With Super-FALCON, my ambition is to generate a long-term impact both scientifically and societally. I will produce new fundamental knowledge about confined bubble dynamics, inhomogeneous ultrasound propagation, and deconvolution strategies as well as new experimental methods for flow imaging and characterization. In healthcare, Super-FALCON could initiate a paradigm shift towards patient-specific treatment.

Keywords: ultrasound imaging,nonlinear microbubble physics,inhomogeneous wave propagation,deep learning