Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Agroecological crop protection: towards international co-innovation dynamics and evidence of sustainability (ACROPICS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France,Spain,Belgium,Portugal,Netherlands,Romania,Chile,India,Argentina,Senegal,Cambodia,China
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1725000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1656000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

ACROPICS addresses the need for sustainable agricultural practices that use little to no harmful crop protection inputs. ACROPICS (1) reinforces 12 place-based co-innovation initiatives involving local actors implementing agroecological crop protection (ACP), (2) connects these initiatives to each other and to research & innovation teams worldwide, (3) produces scientific evidence of the sustainability of ACP systems, (4) supports these initiatives via international research and innovation actions, (5) highlights these initiatives at the international level, and (6) contributes to creating and training an intersectoral network of teams and (future) experts promoting ACP. ACROPICS associates 15 organisations (12 academic, 3 non-academic) with biological, ecological and social science expertise. It plans staff exchanges among academia, biocontrol industries and 12 sustainable agriculture systems (SAS) in 10 countries. Collaborative activities will (1) co-design and implement innovation strategies (coupling ecological, technical and organisational/institutional innovations in an innovation push/pull approach), (2) produce knowledge enabling ACP innovations (certification schemes, ecological infrastructures, etc.), and (3) produce sustainability assessments and communicate them to a wide range of stakeholders, from growers to policy-makers and investors. Expected results and impacts are: the creation of a core team of an emerging large-scale international initiative on ACP; drastic increases of sustainability in 12 systems covering main crop types and further impact on >100 similar systems worldwide via dissemination in connected networks; state-of-the art research results promoting ACP; training of future researchers with hybrid expertise adapted to the challenges faced by ACP; engagement of a large number stakeholders across food value chains; demonstration and exploitation of new innovations ranging from certification schemes to biocontrol products and services.

Keywords: agroecology,sustainability assessment,certification,ecological infrastructures,biocontrol,risk management,co design,academia industry partnership,place based pilot systems
Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living (IDEAHL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Belgium,Portugal,Italy,France,Ireland,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,Australia
Call: Healthy Citizens 2.0 - Supporting digital empowerment and health literacy of citizens (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-STAYHLTH-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2791350.0
EU funding (EUR): 2791350.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living project (IDEAHL) aims at developing and testing new models and approaches of (digital) health literacy ((d)HL) intervention development and application through the co-creation of a comprehensive and inclusive EU (d)HL Strategy. The IDEAHL consortium is composed of 14 multi-disciplinary partners from 10 EU Member States, which work hand in hand with patients, citizens, and the broad socio-economic sector at local level. The project will first conduct an extensive mapping of health literacy (HL) and (d)HL research, initiatives, and projects in the EU and beyond. It will define best practices and champions in these fields to foster knowledge exchange and uptake of selected practices. Building on these foundations, IDEAHL will launch a large co-creation process to design and plan its EU (d)HL Strategy. The project will involve over 1,300 different stakeholders, from citizens and patients to healthcare and social services, policy makers, non-health sectors, academia, etc. The collected feedbacks will allow to develop an inclusive Strategy to improve (d)HL for the benefit of all citizens focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and (self-)care as well as on monitoring its impact on the wellbeing, productivity and the economy. The Strategy will pay special attention to social innovation, inclusion, gender, and ethics & privacy dimensions. Finally, a number of actions of the Strategy will be piloted in the 10 project countries. From the testing and evaluation of the pilots, IDEAHL will be able to put forward a common EU monitoring model and indicators for (d)HL levels. The ultimate purpose of the project will be to empower EU citizens in using digital tools to take a more active role in the management of their own health and well-being, as well as supporting social innovations for person-centred care models.

Keywords: digital health literacy,health literacy,digital literacy,digital tools,citizens empowerment,co creation,eu strategy,active and healthy citizens
SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION FOR EUROPE’S GAME INDUSTRIES (STRATEGIES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Poland,Germany,Finland,United Kingdom,Denmark,Malta,Czechia
Call: Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2735266.53
EU funding (EUR): 2735266.53
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

STRATEGIES aim is to support Europe’s game industries in realising their potential as drivers of sustainable innovation, contributing to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal and delivering an economy that works for people. Europe’s game developers are a vital cultural and creative industry whose capacity to meet climate goals must be achieved as a matter of urgency. The size, energy and resource intensive nature of game development means that these industries are key contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ecological destruction. There are over 4,900 video game developer studios in Europe, employing 98,000 people, with a combined revenue of €23.3bn. Although smaller in size, Europe’s board game industry is also a significant CCI, with revenues projected to reach $4 billion by 2023. Analogue and video game developers share expertise, creative practices, and workers, and can support one another to meet challenges and take up opportunities. In video and analogue game development, micro and small enterprises represent over 90% of the industries. The fact that most developers are micro enterprises presents specific challenges in their climate transition. However, game developers are also first movers among Europe’s CCIs, paving the way in green technological developments and business innovation. Furthermore, game development requires innovative design practices that can be harnessed to drive an inclusive societal climate transition. This project not only addresses the challenges faced by the industries, then, but seizes on the opportunities for game developers, and on the unprecedented reach of games among European citizens, recognizing the role of bottom-up behaviour change as key to the success of policy aimed at societal transformation.

Keywords: game industries sustainability video games game design game development production ghg emissions
RECYCLING INDUSTRIAL WASTE HEAT THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC AND THERMOELECTRIC: A NOVEL HYBRID TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION (INFERNO)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,France
Call: Increasing the efficiency of innovative static energy conversion devices for electricity and heat/cold generation (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3082712.5
EU funding (EUR): 3082712.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Energy intensive high temperature processing industries lost more than 50% of their energy as waste heat during the production, which accounts for 200 TWh of power each year in Europe. There are many technologies available for converting waste heat into electricity but at industry scale the adaptation of these solutions is scarce. Specific barriers such as efficiency and cost of these renewable technologies and difficulty in integrating these systems in the production lines limit their extensive adoption as heat recovery technologies in the industry. Innovative approaches to improve the efficiency with new modular technology are therefore urgently required that can be retrofitted in production lines to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emission. The primary goal of INFERNO is to develop a new hybrid platform system based on the integration of thermophotovoltaics (TPV), metasurface collector (MetaS) and thermoelectric generators (TEG), which will eventually contribute to a breakthrough in sustainable energy harvesting from industrial waste heat. We will develop new infrared sensitive low bandgap (<0.7 eV) TPV cell with integrated plasmonic metamaterials to increase the photon adsorption to improve the overall heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 25% and high performance TEG devices made of earth-abundant materials with an efficiency of 10%. With an innovative design strategy, all these components will be integrated to develop a modular, hybrid energy harvesting system that can be easily integrated in the production lines for converting waste heat into usable electricity. To accomplish the project's ultimate goal, expertise in materials research, modelling, cell fabrication, thermoelectricity, and electronics is merged in a pan-European scale. The integrated hybrid system and its components (TPV, MetaS, TEG) invented by INFERNO will be tested in 3 pilot demonstrations in 3 countries to convert waste heat into electricity to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

Keywords: thermophotovoltaic,metasurface based collector,thermoelectric generator,hybrid power generation,waste heat to electricity
Enhancing Biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables for European and Global Assessments (BioGeoSea)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Poland,France,Spain,Norway,Denmark,Switzerland,Italy
Call: Closing the research gaps on Essential Biogeochemical Ocean Variables (EOVs) in support of global assessments (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5791541.75
EU funding (EUR): 5670368.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Changes and variability in ocean biogeochemistry are poorly observed despite its profound impacts on ocean ecosystems and associated services, and sensitivity to and for climate. The overall aim of BioGeoSea is to significantly close the research and knowledge gaps on biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables (BGC EOVs), validate them in-situ and in models, and use them to feed ocean metrics in the form of indicators and data products that reflect their relevance to the society. This aim includes updating EOVs requirements and specifications to enhance their usefulness in providing ocean biogeochemistry indicators, which BioGeoSea will develop and deliver. These indicators will reflect different spatial and temporal scales, and be focused around: 1) ocean acidification; 2) ocean deoxygenation 3) the biological carbon pump; and 4) greenhouse gas fluxes. BioGeoSea will: 1) improve the requirement setting of BGC EOVs; 2) Improve the observational capability of BGC EOVs over a large range of temporal and spatial scales; 3) Provide better representation of biogeochemical processes in models and more accurate predictions; 4) Improve ocean BGC data products that are invaluable to understand complex ocean phenomena; 5) Deliver ocean BGC indicators and engage actively with stakeholders. Key results will be communicated to international networks and entities for endorsement, approval and efficient dissemination of the outcomes. This project will help to better observe and deliver biogeochemical ocean data and information, and ultimately advance our understanding about ocean health and its role in climate regulation. BioGeoSea will demonstrate the importance of long-term observations of the ocean, focusing on BGC EOVs. The quality of information from all BGC EOVs will be improved, and four innovative BGC indicators will be delivered, at a technological readiness level that responds to the needs of an economically viable and healthy society.

Keywords: essential ocean variables,ocean biogeochemistry,earth system models,data products,ocean indicators,stakeholders engagement,lab to market technology,innovative bgc products
How a pinch of Salt makes all the Difference for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals - The Role of Promoters to Catalyse the Production of Low Carbon Fuels (PromSusCat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our large, non-circular use of fossil fuels is the main cause of rapid climate change and resource depletion. CO2 capture followed by conversion back into fuels would be attractive. The feasibility of this route depends critically on new catalysts that allow quick CO2 hydrogenation to desired products. Most man-made catalysts are supported metal nanoparticles. The influence of the type of metal, particle size and metal-support interaction are increasingly well understood, also due to major contributions from my group. In contrast, the influence of the addition of a few foreign atoms (“promoter”) has so far hardly been investigated for new reactions such as CO2 conversion, while it can have a far larger impact on catalyst activity, selectivity, and stability. My aim is to explore and understand promoters and design new, promoted, catalysts. Several challenges must be overcome, such as measuring the structure under working conditions and unravelling the complex interplay between promoters and other catalyst components. I will combine (1) carbon-based model supports, which allows isolating metal-promoter interaction from other effects, (2) emerging atomic scale characterisation, and (3) high throughput testing under relevant high pressure working conditions. Using these tools, I will address fundamental questions such as: • What is the nature of reducible metal oxide promoters, and their interaction with the active metal, CO2, and reaction intermediates, under working conditions? • How does the structure of alkali promoters explain their influence on the rate of CO2 hydrogenation? • Can we tune the adsorption strength of reaction intermediates, such as adsorbed CO, to obtain product distributions far from equilibrium? A detailed understanding of the electronic and structural interaction between metal nanoparticles and promoters is crucial to rationally design catalysts to selectively, effectively and in a stable manner convert CO2 and H2 into valuable fuels.

Keywords: supported catalysts metal nanoparticles co2 conversion carbon supports promoters
Sensorimotor Integration, Motor Planning and Learning In FLY (SIMPLIFLY)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are constantly learning new motor skills throughout our life. Whether riding a bicycle or playing an instrument, motor learning relies on a calibration between sensory signals and internal motor information. Saccadic adaptation, the recalibration of fast eye rotations induced by visual error signals, has helped develop key insights into the identity of circuits, and the theoretical models underlying motor learning. However, how visual signals interact with internal movement representations during motor learning remains at present underdetermined. Taking advantage of the compact brain of the fly with well characterized visual pathways, and a plethora of anatomical, physiological, and genetic tools, here we propose to study motor learning in the context of goal-directed body saccades in D. melanogaster. We will monitor changes in body saccades consistent with repetitive visual perturbations by quantitative analysis of head-fixed flight behavior in an adapted version of the classical eye saccadic adaptation paradigm. In simultaneous, we will first record and then manipulate the activity of population of neurons known to contribute to body saccades, including visual descending neurons (VDNs) and their upstream synaptic partners, which as a network integrate visual signals and self-motion information with motor commands. Together, these experiments will establish unprecedented causal relationships among neural activity, learning, and the formation of a flexible internal representation for locomotor control. The functional principles identified in this project will establish a framework that can be tested in other species and behavioral contexts, and ultimately improve our understanding of motor learning with important implications both in health and disease.

Keywords: sensorimotor integration vision motor learning drosophila calcium imaging virtual reality
Search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A trilateral Europe – United States – Japan effort. (BEYOND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,United States,Japan,Georgia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 914682.86
EU funding (EUR): 901800.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

BEYOND will explore elusive aspects of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and search for new physics, covering a wide range of research topics across different areas of fundamental interactions, from electroweak to strong interactions. It will exploit particle accelerators, as well as shared experimental techniques and search strategies. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a framework consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavours in three mass eigenstates, along with small mass differences. Experimental anomalies suggest the existence of sterile neutrino states, which participate in the mixing but do not couple to the SM gauge bosons. Lepton mixing and massive neutrinos also provide a potential gateway to deviations from the SM in the lepton sector, including Charged Lepton Flavour Violation. Several low-energy aspects of quark-gluon interactions remain a challenge, such as the mechanism of color confinement, which accounts for 99% of the mass of ordinary matter in the Universe, as well as the equation of state of ultradense matter. Astrophysical observations and particle physics anomalies indicate the existence of Dark Matter (DM), prompting major efforts to the search for galactic DM and potential signals at particle accelerators.We are leading the development, construction, commissioning, operation and data analysis of cutting-edge experiments aimed at answering these fundamental questions. These endeavors require extensive knowledge sharing and technological advancements, with potential spin-offs not only in fundamental physics but also in commercial applications, offering market opportunities for non-academic participants. Through extended exposure to cutting-edge research environments at world-class laboratories, including PSI and CERN (Switzerland), FNAL, JLAB and BNL (United States), and J-PARC (Japan), BEYOND will enhance the career prospects of both researchers and technical staff.

Keywords: lavour physics,neutrino oscillations,charged lepton flavour violation,dark matter,nuclear structure,particle detectors