Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
From Human Capital to Intelligence Management: Data-driven Economy and Brain-Computer Interfaces (IMR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499058.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499058.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Along with artificial general intelligence (AGI), the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is heralded as the new frontier for the data-driven economy. It stands at the forefront of an arms race involving the world’s most valuable companies and powerful states. However, social science scholarship on neurotechnology has largely overlooked core socioeconomic aspects of non-medical applications of BCI, such as their impact on productivity, labour processes, business models, and data extraction schemes. Socioeconomics and critical data studies, on the other hand, have not yet addressed BCI. This research innovates by approaching neurotechnology as a new frontier for data accumulation and exploring how its application in training and work environments connects to a broader societal change wrought by the digital economy: the crisis of the human capital paradigm. It proposes that the demise of human capital is giving way to an emerging alternative paradigm for governing the workforce, defining it as the ‘Intelligence Management Regime (IMR)’ – a new (datafied) ecology of competencies and practices driven by explorations in neuro-enhancement and novel complementarities between humans and machines. At the crux of these developments is a thorough revision of the socially dominant definition of (human) intelligence, which our research will explore. IMR will employ documentary and fieldwork research with major global computational neuroscientific projects, leading neurotech companies, as well as businesses, consumers, and workers using these artefacts in daily activities. In a globalised economy, the investigation requires a comparison of distinct geoeconomic realities where neurotech diffusion is more advanced: the US, Europe, and China. By advancing a new understanding of what are deemed subjective and objective dimensions in human interactions with technical objects in labour settings, the project prompts path-changing conceptual developments in social theory.

Keywords: bci neurotechnology labour intelligence human capital brain,datafication governmentality
nEXT gEneration of multifuNctional, moDular and scalablE soliD state batteries system (EXTENDED)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,North Macedonia,Germany,France,Spain,Türkiye,Portugal,Lithuania,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Next generation technologies for High-performance and safe-by-design battery systems for transport and mobile applications (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4994173.75
EU funding (EUR): 4994173.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The EXTENDED overall objective is to design, develop and validate the next-generation battery pack systems that will be an answer to the unmet need for mass-market take-up of electrical vehicles and applications by developing efficient, lightweight, eco-designed and multi-life battery pack systems with substantially reduced charging times, passenger car ranges beyond 500 km under normal driving conditions with an optimized energy storage capacity, a lifetime of at least 300,000 km and being monitored with an advanced Battery Management System developed for 1st and 2nd life. The developed technologies and solutions will be optimized for applications such as stationary and aeronautics. The battery system will be developed based on semi-solid-state battery technology with almost double energy density compared to conventional lithium ion batteries. This will be the first time that a large semi solid state battery cell (35Ah) will be implemented in EU research projects. A set of 6 Specific Research objectives (SROs) are defined below, which support the overall objective of the project, to develop the next generation battery pack system from its innovative elements and parts to a next generation battery pack system validated under real life conditions. The overall objective is besides specific research objectives also supported by a set of dissemination and exploitation objectives (DEOs, see section 2.2) and communication objectives (COs, see section 2.2.1). To achieve those challenging and innovative targets, the EXTENDED project is composed of 19 partners from 10 EU countries. The geographical distribution, expertise complementarity, positioning within the technology value chain, academic versus industrial profiles and recognizable completeness of this consortium.

Keywords: solid state battery technology,advanced modeling,robust state functions,lightweight materials,testing,validationhigh performance batteries wireless bms batteries second life batteries safety g
Just Carbon Transitions (JUSTCARBON)

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: Norway,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

As carbon taxes are set to extend in depth and scope it will be critical to follow them from policymaking to implementation. Just Carbon Transitions (JUSTCARBON) spotlights the role of legal expertise in translating carbon taxation ideals into action. Tax systems and national legal jurisdictions present significant challenges for policy makers intent on tackling both environmental concerns and redistributive goals through taxation. There is an urgent need to investigate the role of legal tax professional structure, authority, and expertise to draw out how competition and cooperation among experts shapes the effectiveness of taxes in bringing about just transitions. These experts are crucial to study because the justness of (carbon) tax policies extend beyond ‘the letter of the law’, to the enforcement and control systems that make them effective - systems designed and populated by tax professionals. The study draws on an interdisciplinary research agenda shared between scholars of public administration and the sociology of professions and expertise. Through a comparative study of tax professionals and policy processes in three European countries – Denmark, Norway, and France – the study will give new insights into the implementation and operation of these systems, and how they are part of changing national legal orders on tax. Overall, the project will tell us where tax professionals are positioned in national policy advisory systems, what ‘legal expertise’ means in practice to these experts and which norms guide their work. The project is designed to expand this interdisciplinary agenda by bridging sociological and political science communities. During the project I will train with leading scholars in international comparative research on expertise and public administration, from sociological and political science perspectives. My goals are to develop a more complete research profile and my potential to be a future research leader in these fields.

Keywords: sociology of professions,sociology of expertise,public administration,carbon taxation,green transition,socio legal studies
Innovating iN Smart Programmable IntegRatEd photonics (INSPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Transition Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONOPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2453292.5
EU funding (EUR): 2453292.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

iPronics has pioneered Field Programmable Photonic Gate Arrays (FPPGA), an entirely new class of powerful, flexible photonic processors for computing applications in the optical sphere. Unlike electronic FPGAs, they use optical interference to perform very high-speed analog operations. This delivers major increases in system performance and reduced power consumption. Our project INSPIRE (Innovating iN Smart Programmable IntegRatEd photonics) will make FPPGA programmable photonics available in form of TRL5/6 demonstrators for the first time. INSPIRE will advance our current technology readiness by increasing the number of programmable unit cells per chip and improving key performance characteristics including power consumption, space requirements and chip coupling losses. This new optical layer design is then produced in a pilot batch ready for functional tests, validation and demonstration. We will concurrently develop the complementary electronics and software needed to drive, monitor and program this newly developed field-programmable photonic gate arrays (FPPGAs) and involve early adopters to ensure our target specification meet market requirements. We will validate the potential of programmable photonics in form of three prototypes ready for demonstration: 1) a general-purpose starter kit suitable for education, R&D and simple applications, 2) a RF-Photonics demonstrator designed to accelerate waveform processing in mobile communication networks, and 3) a Photonic Computing demonstrator that will speed up data centre operations. We will advance beyond the current TRL4/BRL3 to at least TRL6/BRL5 by validating and demonstrating the newly developed solution with pilot users from selected verticals. The results will be used to update our business case, refine our business model and prepare for scale-up and market entry in a follow-on project.

Keywords: programmable photonic circuits prototyping novel optical functionalities accelerated optical computations for datacom applications,quantum information processing,neuromorphic computing and ai
In vitro & biodistribution analysis of morphology-controlled polymeric gene delivery nanocarriers (POLYMORPH) (POLYMORPH)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Gene therapy holds the potential to be an enabling technology to truly cure (rare) diseases by directly correcting errors in the patient’s genetic database underlying the disorder. For these corrections therapeutic nucleic acids (NAs) are typically used. However, the precise and efficient delivery of these NAs remains a critical bottleneck, hindering the full-scale clinical implementation of gene therapy. NAs are large, highly charged and unstable molecules, hampering transport and passing (intra)cellular barriers after administration. To mitigate this, NAs are typically packaged into nanocarriers, where lipid-based systems (LNPs) are the current state-of-the-art. Although an effective strategy to protect NAs, selective tissue targeting remains a tremendous challenge. Nanoparticles (NPs), including LNPs, tend to preferentially accumulate in the liver, limiting treatment of any disorder affecting other tissues and organs. The ERC PoC POLYMORPH project builds on the promising results of the original ERC Starting Grant project and aims to validate the use of nanoparticle (NP) morphology to redirect nanocarrier accumulation away from the liver. Morphological control of NA-loaded NPs is uniquely facilitated by a novel formulation strategy recently developed in the ERC Starting project. This novel approach has the potential to provide a superior alternative to the current, yet suboptimal, LNPs. POLYMORPH will achieve this validation through comprehensive in vitro studies and preliminary in vivo experiments, laying the groundwork for future clinical applications. The project is further strengthened by the active involvement of multiple stakeholders, including academic researchers, the pharmaceutical industry, medical centers, regulatory science experts, and a knowledge transfer organization. This broad engagement maximizes the potential for clinical, commercial and societal impact, ensuring a strong pathway towards real-world implementation.
Practice and Science Broiler Production Innovation Network (BROILERNET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,France,Italy,Germany,Spain,Greece,Finland,Portugal,Poland,Slovenia,Ireland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2598987.5
EU funding (EUR): 2598986.25
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

BROILERNET will create twelve national level innovation networks and three EU level networks of broiler farmers, advisors, supply chain integrator companies, farmers' organisations, researchers and veterinarians to address the upcoming challenges faced by broiler farmers. The project will be designed around three main fields of concern: (1) environmental sustainability; (2) animal welfare; and (3) animal health management. Through a multi-actor approach, the most urgent needs of broiler farmers will be identified and the network will collect and evaluate good practices that are able to meet these needs. BROILERNET will also engage with existing and new broiler-focused EIP-AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) and enhance their impact. The selected best practices will be spread through a variety of communication and dissemination activities to reach the vast majority of broiler farmers in the countries of the participating consortium partners, but also to all broiler farmers across Europe. Numerous multi-language flyers, videos and national roadshows are just some of the dissemination methods that will be foreseen among the activities dedicated to communication and dissemination.

Keywords: broiler farming animal welfare environmental sustainability animal health participatory process eip agri operational groups
Disentangling the relationship between autoimmunity, cancer treatment, and risk of subsequent breast cancer (Immuno-SBC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499732.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499732.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Approximately 1 in 5 newly diagnosed cancers is a second or subsequent cancer related to treatment for a first cancer. Second breast cancers (SBCs) are the most commonly diagnosed. Those who develop SBCs have reduced treatment options and worse outcomes than comparable individuals with first primary breast cancers. There are over 12 million female cancer survivors in the EU, of whom at least 15% will develop an SBC. A better understanding of the etiology and risk factors for SBC is therefore essential. There is an intriguing and poorly understood negative association between systemic autoimmune diseases and breast cancer, repeatedly documented in distinct populations. My preliminary data further suggests that systemic autoimmune disease interacts with chemotherapy receipt to modify the risk of SBCs. However, no research groups have interrogated the interaction among autoimmunity, cancer treatment, and SBC risk. I propose to address this gap by bringing together population-based studies, multi-omic tools, and innovative statistical modelling. I have proposed three complementary Scientific Aims to understand the epidemiological and biological relevance of autoimmune disease in SBC. In Aim 1, I will use a novel approach to link large cohorts of cancer survivors with medical data to capture the course of autoimmune disease after cancer and its relationship with SBC risk. In Aim 2, I will use germline genotyping data to define "autoimmune states" reflecting the true range of sub-clinical autoimmune phenotypes. In Aim 3, I will test the association between autoimmune state and SBC risk, and the interaction with chemotherapy. This project thus introduces a novel paradigm for understanding of the etiology of treatment-associated cancers. Given the fundamental importance of immune state in cancer outcomes, and the number of people at risk of SBC, this project will have a profound impact on cancer survivorship research.

Keywords: breast cancer autoimmunity chemotherapy radiotherapy genetics statistical modelling late effects cancer survivorship
Launch of a universal sublimation technology for molecular transfer on SUBstrates (smolSUB)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SmolSUB is a key tool in the progress of organic electronic devices (OEs). SmolSUB promotes the creation/discovery of new OEs, basic skeletons in organic field-effect transistors, (bio)sensors, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic solar cells (OSCs), soft-robotics, among others. SmolSUB presents a new, greener, and low-cost vision (in terms of materials, waste and energy required) in the testing of organic electronic materials on substrates of interest, using a simple methodology, applicable at different scales (basic laboratories and industry), inclusive with other existing ones and of fast execution, projecting a profound change in how to create, analyse and apply new OEs (from the combination of materials to their applications). SmolSUB is based on strategically designed sublimation devices, which under mild and eco-friendly conditions, allow the direct deposition of useful organic molecules on substrates of all kinds. The project foresees its usefulness in the creation of wearable electronics, imperceptible electronics, and smart packaging, among other applications, and will enhance the creation of new devices with flexibility and stretchability properties, born from the molecule+substrate synergy. SmolSUB seeks the validation of this methodology and the launch and real projection of commercialisation of the products presented here (through spin-offs or agreements with companies).
Novel ApameR-Based Rapid Test Technology for Virus Detection (NARRATE)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Rapid care tests and patient-oriented bedsite testing, termed as point of care (POC) testing, have proven unanticipated relevance for the fast detection and containment of the pathogen in the course of the corona pandemic. We have developed RNA aptamer based sensors as a basis for a novel rapid care test. The sensor will give a florescent signal once the target molecule attaches to its aptameric site. The sensor as the main component of a novel POC test will be produced by a cheap and scalable biotechnological synthesis. The unique selling points of our invention are the cheap and scalable production of the sensor molecule and the high flexibility in terms of analytes that can be covered by aptamers. To proof our concept and to demonstrate the applicability of our aptamer sensors we will choose the avian influenza virus as an use case, based on the high relevance of this disease in veterinary medicine and its perception as a high risk disease for the next human pandemic. Our test will comply with the ASSURED criteria of the WHO: affordability, sensitivity, specificity, user friendliness, rapid and robust, equipment-free and deliverable to end-users Our aim is to establish a RNA aptamer based sensor as a basis for a cheap single-use test according to the ASSURED criteria. In this action, we will establish the applicability of our highly sensitive and selective RNA based sensor. We will devolop a prototype of a POC test and test the novel sensor principle under laboratory and environmental conditions. In addition, we will analyse the market and patent situation and the stepstones to be taken for an approval by the European authorities. We will finally establish our own IPR position as a basis for the further road-to-the-market.