Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bite's evolution: a biomechanical study of Pleistocene humans in Europe (BITE)

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: Spain,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 283433.76
EU funding (EUR): 283433.76
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

We are what we eat. Changes in diet triggered the progressive simplification of the cranio-dental system from our ancestors until the ultimate adaption of our species. Compared to ours, Neanderthals possessed a complex dental morphology interpreted as an adaption for mechanical loads. However, how morphometric dental traits evolved to adapt to diet or cultural habits as well as the pace of these changes throughout human evolution are unknown. BITE represents the first attempt to investigate complementary dental proxies (dental wear, morphology, and enamel thickness) in a constricted, phylogenetically related, and chronologically consecutive European Pleistocene sample, including the populations from the UNESCO-sites of Atapuerca (H. antecessor and Sima de los Huesos) and Neanderthals, for a comparison with a modern human sample, including modern hunter-gatherers, medieval and contemporaneous groups. BITE goes beyond the state of the art as it proposes an innovative, interdisciplinary, and holistic approach employing biological data, high-resolution and 3D image, and biomechanical tools, combined with pre-existing dietary information to provide unprecedented insight into how our ancestors adapted to dietary and/or behavioral demands. The Applicant is an ideal candidate to conduct this multidisciplinary project as she has knowledge in dental anthropology, palaeoanthropology, palaeopathology, and 3D medical imaging, and she will receive training-through-research in biomechanical tools to expand her expertise. This fellowship will position her as a dynamic and independent researcher, being one of the few experts in Biomechanics for the study of hominin evolution in Europe. BITE also represents an opportunity to make visible to the society and scientific community the excellence of Europe's science as a world reference for Human Evolution studies and enhance the collaboration with the private sector (e.g., dentistry) for the design of more resistant artificial crowns.

Keywords: dental palaeoanthropology,high resolution 3d imaging,biomechanics,diet,culture,environment,european pleistocene hominins,human evolution
Making I-CNS A Reality (MIAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Austria,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Romania,Czechia,Italy
Call: Industrial Research & Validation for Master Plan Phase C Connected and Automated ATM (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7411944.75
EU funding (EUR): 4623029.85
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years a lot of attention has gone into the concept of integrating Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) services. While no clear criteria exist for what exactly constitutes “integrated” CNS, a common interpretation is that a single radio technology will serve multiple purposes, potentially covering all three domains. This perspective is most attractive in the sense of spectrum efficiency, as each radio link will serve multiple domains simultaneously, instead of a single one. In addition to the multi-domain utility of L-band digital aeronautical communication system (LDACS), MIAR will also implement various Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technologies to concurrently provide a modular approach to navigation. The project aims to demonstrate that LDACS can support CNS services on an aircraft. The proposal is centered around flight experiments, which will use LDACS-based CNS services to provide optimized separation between aircraft in real time, thus making optimal use of the airspace while being spectrum efficient. In addition to multi-domain use of one technology, MIAR will also feature the ability to support NAV services from multiple, modularly interchangeable technologies. This aspect will be an important piece to the standardization of “Modular APNT”. A real-time, in-flight demonstration of separation controls will be the first of its kind using a single physical layer: LDACS. This fact, combined with the ambition of bringing all components to TRL-6, is a show of the potential for LDACS and other new technologies to support the future of aviation. MIAR will cover two crucial developments, which will be world-first: use of LDACS for integrated CNS and the use of multiple non-GNSS technologies to provide an integrated navigation solution. Neither of the two has ever been demonstrated in flight, so MIAR poses a unique opportunity to accomplish two world firsts in one project.

Keywords: ldacs,navigation,communication,surveillance
Rational design of hydrophobic MOFs for energy applications (HydroMOF)

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: Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 388940.52
EU funding (EUR): 388940.52
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of nanoporous materials that is propelling groundbreaking innovation in fields that include catalysis, gas capture and storage. The success of MOFs hinges on the possibility to tailor, based on technological demand, the properties of their cavities, with a versatility that results from the combinatorial variety of their modular, molecularly-precise structures. Recently hydrophobic MOFs are becoming increasingly popular in energy devices that exploit pressure cycles to force water to intrude and extrude the material’s cavities. Different MOFs display different Intrusion/Extrusion (IE) behaviors enabling a variety of applications that range from mechanical energy storage to vibration damping and impact absorption. IE of liquids, unlike gas adsorption, is a complex phenomenon associated to the cavity-by-cavity motion of a liquid front determined by the metastability of wet and dry cavities, a datum that is only accessible via expensive molecular simulations. This vast complexity has so far prevented a first-principle design of IE materials, with only a handful of MOFs currently being exploited for IE. Addressing these challenges HydroMOF sets to enable the rational design of IE MOFs. This is achieved first via the creation of WetNet, a physically-informed machine learning model able to predict the stability of water inside the cavities of database MOFs. Circumventing the need for case-by-case free energy simulations WetNet enables the screening of thousands of MOFs yielding designs tailored around specific applications. At a later stage molecular insight will inform original lattice models able to simulate actual IE cycles through realistic MOF cavity networks, unprecedentedly encompassing non-equilibrium, finite-size and disorder-related effects. Through these advances HydroMOF’s impact extends beyond IE, opening new avenues in the design of liquid+reticular material devices and in the study of nanoconfined water.

Keywords: nanofluidics,molecular simulation,wetting,confined water,molecular dynamics
Modelling transient granular flow (MOTRAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498551.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498551.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Granular materials are omnipresent in our daily life. The same granular material can behave like solid and fluid, which poses a formidable challenge to the constitutive models and numerical methods. Traditionally, constitutive models for the solid- and fluid-like behaviour have been developed for the respective flow regimes in different engineering/scientific disciplines with hardly any intersections. A single constitutive model capable of describing the transient behaviour during phase transitions in both solid-like and fluid-like regimes is a challenging task with enormous application potential. MOTRAN takes on this challenge with a simple yet efficient ansatz by decomposing the stress rate into a frictional and collisional part, which gives rise to an unconventional constitutive model with the 2nd order strain rate similar to the acceleration of motion. It serves as an excellent classifier for steady and transient motions. This constitutive model is then augmented to include a length scale in micropolar continuum for multiscale analysis. Based on the mixture theory, the field equations are established in rate form for the first time and discretised by a multi-layer SPH model. For polydisperse granular flow with individual large particles, the SPH model is coupled with own developed Surface Mesh Represented DEM to simulate particles of arbitrary shapes. Advanced solution techniques are developed based on multi-GPU acceleration for high fidelity simulation of large-scale problems. The constitutive model is calibrated by laboratory experiments on natural granular materials and their transparent surrogate. The numerical model is validated by scaled model tests under elevated acceleration in centrifuge as well as real-world cases of our database. MOTRAN is an exciting endeavour with the potential to create a new paradigm that will revolutionise the way how transient granular flow is to be modelled.

Keywords: dense granular flow phase transition sph multiscale modelling hypoplastic model
Medical Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducer (Med-IPUT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,France,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Advanced multi-sensing systems (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2541413.0
EU funding (EUR): 2541413.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The multi-sensing 'Medical Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducer' (MED-IPUT) project will develop a high-resolution, high-quality, recyclable medical imaging system based on a disruptive integrated photonic ultrasound transducer concept. We envisioned a 100x increase in sensitivity compared to conventional US. The IPUT-based sensing system, combines optical waveguides and micromechanical membranes with two optical read-out techniques (RR and MZI) to at least two US applications; medical ultrasound (US) and photoacoustics (PA). We will solve technical challenges such as increasing sensitivity, mass parallelization by optical multiplexing and hybrid integration of microelectronics in PIC, tuneable waveguides, fiber chip coupling manufacturability and packaging. These advances will lead to a higher production yield and increased insight in the processing solutions of hybrid integrated photonics. The IPUTs are based on easily accessible materials, don’t require lead to improve the performance and laser power can be reduced significantly. We will iteratively develop an effective SOI and SiN manufacturing process to realize very sensitive IPUT sensors and integrate them into US transducer arrays for medical imaging and PA for validation and demonstration on phantoms instead of tissue. The partners have the in-house capability to develop, manufacture, integrate and package the novel IPUT-based sensing systems into transducers, covering the full manufacturing value chain. The increase in sensitivity will enable: 1. An increase of the US image by a factor 2. 2. An increase of the penetration depth by a factor 2. 3. A 100x reduction of the peak pressures. 4. A 100x reduction of the required laser power for PA resulting in the use of low-cost lasers. MED-IPUT reinforces European industrial leadership in high-performance multi-sensing system development and manufacturing, particularly in the healthcare sector.

Keywords: medical integrated photonic ultrasound transducer photoacoustics optical waveguides manufacturability packaging imaging pic mems
The hydrocup: a hollow electrospun scaffold for in vivo cell-laden hydrogel delivery (HYDROCUP)

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 GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Secreted cytokines by transplanted cells can have positive effects such as immunomodulation, angiogenesis and tissue regeneration. However, transplanted cells are difficult to retain in a specific place to maximize the release of cytokines on site. Here, we developed a hollow electrospun scaffold with one open and one closed end for the in vivo delivery of cells as ?secretory factories? in a hydrogel, termed the hydrocup. Because of the closed end, a (cell-laden) hydrogel can easily be dispensed into the open end of the hydrocup, after which the open end is closed with sutures. As part of the ERC starting grant where this application stems from, we showed that adult stem cells encapsulated inside the hydrocups remained viable for 28 days in vitro and released functional cytokines similar to hMSCs in hydrogels alone. In addition, the hydrocups remained intact and fixed in place for 6 weeks after subcutaneous implantation in rats. In this ERC proof of concept proposal, we aim at further studying the hydrocup as a device for a wide variety of cell-based cytokine secretion or drug-laden hydrogel applications. We will further refine the device for applications in the cardiac regeneration market where stem cell based therapies suffer so far from low viability of cells after injection. We will make a market analysis study of competitors in the cell therapy field and propose an initial business plan for seeking further investments to create a spin-off company at the end of the grant.
Sustainable Transitions through Democratic Design (CoDesign4Transitions)

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: Denmark,Italy,United Kingdom,Hungary,Poland,Belgium,Netherlands,United States,Spain,Australia,Sweden
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2859800.91
EU funding (EUR): 2643825.6
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

CoDesign4Transitions will develop 10 transdisciplinary Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) at the intersection of co-design, design for sustainability, service and systems design, democratic innovation and climate transitions equipped to develop new approaches and validated prototypes for action. This is urgent to enable governments, businesses and civil society to deliver multi-level solutions required to achieve net zero targets committed to in the Paris Agreement. Design is central to achieving this because of its capacities for enabling experimentation through prototyping to reduce the risk of failure; synthesising ideas and evidence into material and visual forms for engaging stakeholders in co-creation; and facilitating innovative change. In contested sustainability transitions, design provides a connective tissue essential to engaging publics in democratic innovation towards net zero. CoDesign4Transition offers ESRs the possibility to develop crucial new approaches to democratic design for climate transitions in a cross-disciplinary, intersectoral environment. This will provide a unique training experience for each ESR, who will benefit from access to expert supervisors and mentors from academic and non-academic sectors. The network comprises 6 leading higher education beneficiaries and 13 Associate Partners from 9 countries, who will provide advanced training including transferable skills. 10 non-academic organisations will host secondments where ESRs will develop and test design approaches to transitions and critically assess how to build design capabilities. The 4-year research and training programme comprises research work-packages investigating prototyping, materialisation and visualisation, and facilitating practice-systems change in democratic climate transitions; one on training and researcher development. Two horizontal work-packages devoted to communication, dissemination and exploitation and project management underpin the network.

Keywords: design for climate transitions,service design,design for sustainability,democratic innovation,systems innovation,co design,prototyping,agonistic spaces,materialisation,visualisation
Earth Observation & Weather Data Federation with AI Embeddings (Embed2Scale)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Slovenia
Call: Large-scale Copernicus data uptake with AI and HPC (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2618047.5
EU funding (EUR): 2618047.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The full potential of the Copernicus Programme unfolds when fused with additional geo-information such as weather models or GNSS measurements. However, no single platform can host all the hundreds of petabytes of geospatial data. Currently, service suppliers download data from different archives, and the sheer volume to be transferred render many applications economically not viable. With Embed2Scale we strive to overcome these limitations enabling efficient exchange of data through AI-based data compression. We will explore the training of deep neural networks on HPC systems with self-supervised learning to transform raw geo-information into embeddings with up to 1000-fold compression. The main innovations will enable i) decentralized applications through substantial reduction of “data gravity”, ii) the portability of geospatial analytics by significantly lowering computational demand, iii) minimizing data labeling by few-shot learning, and iv) the near-real-time similarity search at petabyte scale of Earth observation and weather/climate data archives. The objectives of Embed2Scale target i) the exploration of ground-breaking AI-compressors enabling data federation to proliferate a MLOps reference implementation for embeddings in data centers, ii) to demonstrate data federation on real-world use-cases for the Copernicus Programme, and iii) to enable the Earth observation community by open-sourcing and standardization. Within Embed2Scale, we will benchmark the use of embeddings in four applications: i) maritime awareness, ii) aboveground biomass estimation, iii) climate and air pollution prediction, and iv) crop stress & early yield detection. Overall, Embed2Scale will enable near-real time quantitative assessments of geo-information at continental scale - we respond to challenge 2 of the call: “new, enabling, scalable, operational solutions and technologies to improve capabilities of the Copernicus value chain and supporting infrastructure”.

Keywords: self supervised learning,foundation models,data federation,data fusion,hpc,mlops,api standards,remote sensing,maritime monitoring,biomass estimation,climate modeling,agriculture monitoring
European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy (EDDIE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Italy,Austria,Spain,France,Belgium,Germany
Call: Establish the grounds for a common European energy data space (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8900168.77
EU funding (EUR): 7989333.01
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The Clean Energy Package establishes the rights to access energy data to customers and share it with eligible parties of their choice. This enables new energy data-based services within and beyond the energy sector. The main barrier for this development is the lack of large-scale and uniform procedures in the EU. Players are tied to national practices, which limits their interoperability and growth perspective. These constraints have an industrial, economic and social dimension on a European level and beyond. As a solution, EDDIE creates a de-centralised, distributed, open-source Data Space, aligned with directions of the work on the Implementing Acts on Interoperability and other European activities. This European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy (EDDIE) lowers data integration costs drastically because the resulting EDDIE Framework lets energy service companies work and compete in a common European market. EDDIE’s vision is to make it cheap and easy for smart, data-based energy-related services to operate on a common European Energy Data Space. EDDIE will feature a streamlined, uniform European interface to energy data usable by everyone from service companies to end-user customers. EDDIE also targets the social problem of limited access to energy data. European customers across Member States will have a far greater choice between solutions. This boosts competition, quality and functionality of energy-data-based services by reducing cost-per-customer and leveraging economies of scale. EDDIE tackles the lack of access to measurements of in-house sensors. The Administrative Interface for In-house Data Access (AIIDA) provides the basis to share data streams close to real-time with remote services on a manageable consent basis. All EDDIE components enable interoperable solutions based on energy data available online and in-house. These components will be extendable and form the nucleus for a Common European Energy Data Space.

Keywords: energy data based services,energy data space,uniform interface to energy data,smart meter and iot device integration,validated historical and near real time energy data