Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
High efficiency, high power density, cost effective, scalable and modular power electronics and control solutions for electric vehicles (HighScape)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Italy,Germany,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Slovenia
Call: Nextgen EV components: Integration of advanced power electronics and associated controls (2ZERO) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4589292.5
EU funding (EUR): 4589291.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Focused on BEV architectures with distributed multiple wheel drives, and, specifically, in-wheel powertrains, HighScape will explore the feasibility of a family of highly efficient power electronics components and systems, and including integrated traction inverters, on-board chargers, DC/DC converters, and electric drives for auxiliaries and actuators. The proposed solutions will be assessed on test rigs and on two differently sized BEV prototypes. The project will result in: i) component integration with the incorporation of the WBG traction inverters within the in-wheel machines to achieve zero footprint of the electric powertrain on the sprung mass; the functional integration of the traction inverter with the on-board charger, and the incorporation of the latter and the DC/DC converters within the battery pack; and the implementation of multi-motor and fault-tolerant inverter solutions for the auxiliaries and chassis actuators; ii) novel solutions, including the implementation of reconfigurable winding topologies of the drive, as well as integrated and predictive thermal management at the vehicle level, with the adoption of phase changing materials within the power electronics components; iii) the achievement and demonstration of significantly higher levels of power density, specific power and energy efficiency for the resulting power electronics systems and related drives; iv) major cost reductions thanks to the dual use of parts, subsystem modularity, and model-based design to eliminate overengineering; and v) increased dependability and reliability of the power electronics systems, enabled by design and intelligent predictive health monitoring algorithms. Through HighScape, the participants will establish new knowledge and industrial leadership in key digital technologies, and, therefore, directly contribute to Europe’s Key Strategic Orientations as well as actively support the transformation towards zero tailpipe emission road mobility (2Zero).

Keywords: in wheel motor,advanced control strategies
Macroscopic active particles driven by light (PhotoActive)

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,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In the last years, there has been an outstanding growing interest in active matter. In these complex systems, a number of interacting agents consume and convert energy into mechanical motion, representing nice examples of out-of-equilibrium behavior. Such systems are important because they can be found in nature ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale, e.g. molecular motors, cells, bird flocks, or human crowds. Interestingly, and despite the obvious differences among the agents that compose these systems, common behavioral patterns have been identified such as collective motion, anomalous diffusion, segregation, or clogging in the flow through constrictions. Aiming for a better understanding of these complex active systems a reductionist strategy is necessary, and this is why the study of active granular matter (very simple self-propelled agents that interact uniquely by contacts) is widely acknowledged. Within active grains, we can distinguish between internally excited ones (such as Hexbugs) or externally forced ones. Certainly, the former have the advantage to closely resemble real active matter but, to date, also have the drawback of not allowing testing their response to external stimulus. My proposal, PhotoActive, aims to fill this gap by designing novel macroscopic self-propelled agents that are internally excited but can be driven by an external stimulus as it occurs with all natural systems. The idea is to develop and implement Hexbug-like particles whose source of energy comes from a photovoltaic cell. The great advantage of these novel agents concerns the versatility that provides using a fully controllable illumination panel with which we can impose spatial intensity gradients or temporally evolving patterns. In this way, and applying an interdisciplinary approach involving experiments, numerical modeling, and simulations, we ambition boosting the existing understanding of active matter systems.

Keywords: active matter,macroscopic active particles,granular matter,interacting robots,self propel,out of equilibrium,collective behavior,collective motion,light,excitation,experiment,dem simulation
Isomers in Odd-Odd Nuclei (ISOON)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-03
End date: 2026-06-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal delves into the science of nuclear isomers, complex quantum states with distinct energy levels and long lifetimes. Isomers hold untapped potential in nuclear physics and astrophysics, capable of revolutionizing energy production, impacting stellar evolution, enhancing timekeeping, and transforming medical imaging. Modelling isomers remains an ongoing challenge. With the global interest in isomer research growing, new models for the description of isomerism must be pursued. With this idea in mind, the proposal aims to develop an innovative theoretical framework unifying existing nuclear models, specifically, the algebraic interacting boson fermion-fermion model with constraints coming from shell model interactions, to bridge the theory gaps for resolving the mysteries of odd-odd isomers. This is in line with the mutual interests of the applicant and supervisor. Odd-odd nuclei are very rich in the number of isomers, but their quantitative understanding is still amiss. Their isomer data will be analyzed to search for the global similarities and differences in spectroscopic properties across the nuclear landscape. The main goal is to quantify the decay properties, lifetimes, and structure of odd-odd isomers, particularly in shape-transitional regions, where the isomeric structure gets very complex and is not yet properly understood. The new theoretical tool will be generic in nature and can be used to study other nuclear physics phenomena, having a longer-term influence on nuclear physics research even after the fellowship. Interdisciplinary and broad-range nuclear physics applications, including Bose-Einstein Condensate, superheavy nuclei, and isomer experiments will be established, benefiting from the expertise of senior experimental collaborators at GANIL, Surrey, and London. The plan envisions cross-fertilisations between theoretical insights and experimental data, boosting the applicant's career, and inspiring the scientific awareness of the public.

Keywords: nuclear isomers,nuclear theory,interacting boson fermion fermion model,odd odd nuclei,decay rates,lifetimes
SocBond – the mechanisms and behaviours that create friendship (SocBond)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2116997.0
EU funding (EUR): 2116997.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Friendship is a bidirectional affiliative bond that helps people live longer healthier lives, while loneliness is linked to poor physical and mental health. SocBond is a large-scale investigation of the brain, behavioural and cognitive mechanisms that build social connections. Studies of whether two people will become friends suggest that synchrony (moving together), homophily (similarity of culture and cognition), and task (opportunities to coordinate and share ideas) are the three strongest factors predicting affiliation. We bring these together in the SyncShareBond model where task and homophily create conditions that allow people to synchronise brain and behaviour when they meet and this synchrony builds affiliations. SocBond will test this with experimental studies of affiliation in small groups (4 people with fNIRS brain imaging) and large groups (10-30 people with motion and heart-rate sensors). Research Question 1 asks How does synchrony create affiliation? Multimodal recordings of brain, behavioural and physiological synchrony in small groups of participants doing a variety of tasks will reveal what causes affiliation and thus define the cognitive mechanisms of social bonding. RQ2 asks What methods best model synchrony? and will use cutting-edge analysis methods from different domains to answer our questions. RQ3 asks Do cognitive differences and homophily impact social bonding? Using large-group studies with measures of social skills in each person, we will test if some people find it hard to make friends and if being in a homophily-group can help. RQ4 asks How does friendship develop over time? Tracking synchrony in cohorts who meet regularly over 8 months with additional brain imaging will reveal the dynamics of friendship formation and the neural mechanisms that underlie this. Overall, SocBond is a novel detailed examination of the mechanisms of affiliation with broad implications for reducing loneliness and improving human wellbeing.

Keywords: human social cognitive neuroscience,social cognition,social brain,wearables,real world behaviour,prosocial,bonding,
Multi-purpose unmanned vehicle swarm patrol intelligence platform for port security and resilience. (COLOSSUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Strengthened Security Research and Innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Greece,Czechia
Call: Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovation (HORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2045748.47
EU funding (EUR): 1499418.93
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The COLOSSUS project presents an integrated solution for digital security, resilience, and maintenance of port infrastructures, providing real-time data access from autonomous vehicles and sensors. Developed in response to the increasing demand for maritime security, COLOSSUS aims to revolutionize the protection of EU maritime infrastructures, aligning with the updated EU Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS 2023). By bringing together Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from various Member States, the project leverages their innovation potential to tackle key challenges outlined in the EU’s Blue Growth strategy and the European Green Deal. The advanced COLOSSUS solutions will be demonstrated in an operational environment (integrated pilot system level) for iterative performance evaluation and validation. Starting with stress testing in a laboratory setting, the project will move towards real-world operational conditions in ports. Defined use cases will enable operational evaluation and validation across diverse scenarios at the Arsenal do Alfeite (AASA) naval base in Portugal. The Integrated Perimeter Surveillance for intrusion detection system will implement a layered approach to secure critical maritime and onshore infrastructure. This use case will test autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs – UOPV model provided by TV), Aerial Vehicles (UAVs – provided by TV and UNINOVA), and Ground Vehicles (UGVs) to establish a continuous perimeter defense across air, land, and water. These autonomous systems will patrol designated areas, providing live visual and sensor-based surveillance to detect and assess potential threats. This multifaceted surveillance approach will test the system's efficiency in detecting unauthorized activities, enhancing the port's overall security.

Keywords: port security,port maintenance,unmaned vehicles,swarm intellgence,3d modelling,ai
Advanced Technology for stationary Energy storage systems in NA-ion (ATENA+)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Belgium,Italy,France,Denmark
Call: Non-Li Sustainable Batteries with European Supply Chains for Stationary Storage (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8391305.78
EU funding (EUR): 6999684.64
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

ATENA+’s main objective is to contribute to improve the competitiveness of the European Battery industry by demonstrating a new generation of safe, sustainable-by-design, high-performance, cost-effective and fully Made-in-Europe Sodium-Ion Battery (SIB) technology at pre-industrial scale (TRL 7). By leveraging a multidisciplinary consortium of leading European research institutions and top-tier industrial players, ATENA+ will demonstrate the manufacturing of up to 80 Ah and >2,5kWh modules representative of BESS applications by: (i) optimizing cutting-edge active materials (i.e., stable Co-free layered oxides with minimal Ni content and improved energy density and processability; EU-sourced biobased hard carbon, made from sustainably managed forests, with enhanced capacity, efficiency and material density; customized advanced electrolytes with interphase-stabilizing characteristics, high-ionic conductivity and high electrochemical stability; (ii) developing environmentally-friendly processing techniques for high performance electrode production; (iii) improving cell and module architecture designs featuring high reparability-level, low maintenance requirement and enhanced safety performance and; (iv) integrating an advanced BMS with Battery Passport capabilities and fine-tuned SoC management to achieve optimal cell performance. All this, supported by iterative feedback loops with thorough electrochemical and safety testing, environmental, eco-design and recyclability criteria. Finally, the technology will be virtually upscaled to full BESS level to evaluate the system’s performance across 5 different real end-user operating conditions to accelerate post-project technology commercialization and ultimately contributing to the establishment of a competitive, resilient, and sustainable battery manufacturing industry in Europe.

Keywords: sodium ion batteries,battery energy storage systems,post lithium technology,european supply chain
Development of Smart PHBV films with microencapsulated spirulina as TUnable food contact MATerials (STUMAT)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-04
End date: 2028-05-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The substantial global food waste linked to plastic-based packaging highlights the urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Polyhydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV) is a promising eco-friendly option, but its use in the food industry is limited due to inadequate mechanical properties. Attempts to improve PHBV materials with existing additives have encountered issues like biodegradation challenges, poor dispersion, and undesired crystallization. However, novel bio-based ferulic acid derivatives are predicted to solve this problem by tuning PHBV’s properties through enhancing free volume between polymer chains while maintaining physical interactions. Additionally, transforming PHBV into smart materials for food contact applications remains unexplored. Encapsulation of Spirulina platensis extract (C-PS) could be a way forward due to its advantageous natural chemical composition (known for pH-responsive color-changing properties). However, conventional encapsulation methods often result in unstable microbeads. To overcome this, droplet millifluidics can be employed to achieve stable encapsulation of C-PS in alginate microbeads, enabling PHBV to become smart for the first time. The current project aims to create new additives to improve the mechanical properties of PHBV through green chemistry and modeling approaches, to encapsulate C-PS in alginate microbeads using droplet millifluidics during a secondment to produce smart materials through green manufacturing and test them for spoilage detection. Aligned with the EU’s "farm to fork" priority, STUMAT will allow me to combine interdisciplinary skills gained from both the host and secondment on the additive synthesis and microencapsulation respectively to integrate a new generation of bio-based additives and microencapsulated C-PS into PHBV to unlock its full potential which will act as a blueprint for future smart material development, positioning me as an independent researcher to establish my research group.

Keywords: food packaging food contact materials microencapsulation millifluidics bio based additives phbv molecular modelling
Towards an evidence-based model for big data policing: Evaluating the statistical-methodological, criminological and legal and ethical conditions (BIGDATPOL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1972500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1972500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Big data policing is an innovative strategy that uses historical data to forecast when and where there is a high risk of new crime events in order to use police resources more efficiently and proactively, and ultimately reduce crime rates. Big data policing models can consist of variables based on crime data available in police databases (e.g. previous crime events), socio-economic data (e.g. poverty index, residential mobility), opportunity characteristics (e.g. the presence of shops, distance to nearest highway), data from new technologies (e.g. intelligent cameras) and other known predictors of crime (e.g. police patrol intensity). However, there are several research gaps that need to be addressed. First, knowledge about and expertise in big data policing in Europe is currently fragmented. Second, there is a lack of interdisciplinarity with regard to big data policing studies, and yet the involvement of several disciplines is required when studying the issue. Third, there is a lack of scientific evaluations of big data policing models. The overarching objective of this ERC project is to unite and integrate the statistical-methodological, criminological, legal and ethical dimensions of big data policing in an evidence-based model that will be tested by different randomized controlled trials and built on the principles of an international (i.e. European) and interdisciplinary approach. The latter aim should be enabled by incorporating and conducting different PhD tracks focusing on these specific dimensions, which should allow better knowledge, insights and understanding of big data policing to be developed. This approach is innovative and radically different from the existing commercial and economic initiatives, which lack transparency on their predictive reliability and validity, effectiveness and legal and ethical safeguards.

Keywords: big data policing predictive policing spatiotemporal criminology crime statistics crime mapping governance law enforcement statistics methodology ethical responsibility randomized controlled trials intelligence led policing
Fluidic Lens Maker - disruptive approach to ophthalmic manufacturing (Fluidic Lens Maker)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In this PoC we propose to develop the Fluidic Lens Maker - a device which will enable rapid, wasteless, and automated end-to-end fabrication of ophthalmic lenses (i.e. vision correction eyeglasses), without relying on complex and expensive infrastructure or elaborate supply chains. The Fluidic Lens Maker will be based on a technology that we have developed as part of our ERC project ‘Fluidic Shaping’, which allows to shape curable liquids into high-quality optics by utilizing the surface tension of the liquid. The lenses are produced in minutes and have an outstanding surface quality without the need for any machining or post-processing. The method provides a reduction of >90% in material waste, which translates to major reductions in the overall cost of the lens. During this PoC we will: 1. Develop full automation of the fabrication steps, which are currently done manually, making the fabrication process independent of the environmental conditions or of the skill level of its operator, thus allowing to improve precision and consistency of the resulting lenses. 2. Explore new materials, both commercially available and specially designed, that are particularly well suited for ophthalmic applications and are compatible with our approach. 3. Test the quality of the resulting lenses using our in-house measuring equipment, and at our industrial partners’ facilities. 4. Connect with key players in developed and developing countries, map potential strategic partners, reach out to receive inputs from VC funds, define the features of an MVP, perform a market research, and develop a preliminary business model. The project, if successful, would pave the way to an entirely new approach for ophthalmic manufacturing that would reduce costs in the developed world and open up markets that have thus far been untapped – those of developing countries where there are currently over 1 billion people who suffer from uncorrected vision impairment and do not have access to eyewear.