Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Printed Perovskite Solar Cells for Large Area User Applications (PERSEUS)

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: Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Norway,Czechia,Switzerland,Netherlands,Türkiye,Portugal,Sweden
Call: Large Area Perovskite solar cells and modules (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6433264.06
EU funding (EUR): 5631248.94
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Renewable energies provide clean, inexhaustible, and increasingly competitive energy source differing from fossil fuels in diversity, abundance, and potential for use. Solar energy capacity in European Union has been increasing in recent years with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the way in new installations. In 2022, the European Union added a record-breaking 41.4GW of solar power, increasing the total solar power capacity by 25%. Within the solar energy market, perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) will contribute significantly towards the overall mix of solar energy due to PSCs differentiators compare to other solar Photovoltaic technologies of: (i) low-cost, (ii) excellent power-to-weight performance and (iii) high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.7% at lab-scale in 2022, up from 3.8% in 2009. A key challenge of PSC technology is replication at large-scale as there is a substantial difference in performance from small-area cell (lab-scale) and large-area module performance. PERSEUS is designed to establish a foundation for PSC production and application development within Europe. The project will develop and demonstrate 3 different large area PSC architectures that offer broad adoption potential across multiple industries such as Floating Photovoltaics, Building Integrated and Applied Photovoltaics, Agri-Photovoltaics and Urban Photovoltaics. As each end-user requires different properties (e.g. performance, lifetime and cost targets), PERSEUS will develop parallel solutions to meet end-user needs covering: (1) single-junction opaque modules (2) semi-transparent modules and (3) 4T Perovskite + CIGS tandem module architectures. These will be translated into ‘blueprints’, of multi-stage manufacturing line(s) which have validated, matched outputs and allow immediate post-project progress to the commercialization phase.

Keywords: perovskite solar cells,psc,perovskite,solar power,emerging technology,renewable energy,next generation solar power,sustainability,thin film solar cells,perovskite tandem cells
DietWise: Systemic Solutions to Enhance Healthy and Sustainable Food Provision and Cooking at Home (DietWise)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Lithuania,Greece
Call: Creating smart and attractive tools to enhance healthy and sustainable food provision, eating and treating of food at home (HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3045562.5
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The DietWise advances the state-of-the-art by proposing systemic changes, a focus on inclusion, and open social innovations with the aim of developing solutions that streamline existing tools and applications to foster healthy and sustainable food provision and to make cooking, eating, and treating of food at home the most attractive choice for all stakeholders. Using disruptive new approaches and voluntary market self-regulation, our activities will help to dampen nutritional noise gradually and organically merge cultural and commercial practices with a healthier and sustainable food consumption pattern. Next, we will empower citizens with novel, citizen science-based solutions that will shift the role citizens play – away from passive actors influenced by the food environment to citizens as active participants influencing their decisions and helping to create better digital food environments. The project will generate multiple novel insights to empower citizens to make healthy and sustainable choices and original empirical evidence through 'big data' analysis, large-scale surveys, qualitative research, and micro-level experiments. From a methodological point of view, we will harness novel state of the art methods, such as using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms with deep learning techniques to analyze big online data. Finally, we will integrate scientific and empirical findings into social innovations powered by AI and develop user-oriented tools to support citizens. As a result, our methodological and empirical advancements will provide a deeper understanding of how various external system-level environmental factors shape attitudes and beliefs towards healthy and sustainable food provision and cooking, how to motivate consumers to follow nutrition guidelines, how to include the ones who are in greatest need, and how to help citizens shape digital food environments.

Keywords: systemic changes focus on inclusion
A Universal platform for recycling plastic waste using dynamic covalent bonds (ReBond)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Greece,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4010730.0
EU funding (EUR): 3950152.8
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Despite the ubiquity of plastics in daily life, our capacity to recycle end-of-life plastic products remains limited. Today, most plastic waste collected in the EU is either sent to landfill or incinerated for energy recovery, which releases large amounts of greenhouse gases. A promising strategy for transforming the plastics sector into a circular economy is to increase the amount of plastic waste that is mechanically recycled. However, this amount represents less than 10% of the feedstock used to make new products in the EU, because of poor physical properties. Three formidable challenges are at the origin of this lasting problem: chain degradation during processing, immiscibility of mixtures comprising different kinds of recycled polymers, and reduced ability to efficiently recycle elastomeric materials with permanent bonds. We propose to address them with ReBond, a DN dedicated to developing a versatile platform for reinforcing polymer-polymer interfaces and improving the mechanical properties and processability of recycled plastics. We shall implement a novel strategy based on the use of vitrimers, which are permanent chemical networks comprising thermally-activated dynamic covalent crosslinks. We envision that processing of recycled polymers can be substantially enhanced through the addition of vitrimers. To accomplish this ambitious goal we have devised an interdisciplinary approach involving polymer synthesis, structure, rheology, processing and mechanical properties. A superb training program, spanning polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering, provides trainees with double doctorates and a unique scientific background with access to the state-of-the-art in the field. ReBond assembles an international team of experts from both academia and industry to provide outstanding inter-sectorial experience to the next generation of material scientists and pioneers of circular plastics economy.

Keywords: polymer rheology,polymer networks,plastics recycling,dynamic covalent bonds,elastomers
Porous Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Energy (PILSEN)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the society’s need for energy is increasing, climate change points towards the need of finding sustainable renewable energy sources. Biogas holds the potential to replace natural gas as energy carrier, thus reducing the reliance on fossil fuels while introducing renewables as drop-in solution to existing infrastructure. However, existing technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide from biogas are energy intensive and considerably decrease the overall efficiency of biomethane as energy carrier. The aim of the project Porous Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Energy (PILSEN) is to improve the energy efficiency of biomethane production from biogas while lowering the carbon footprint. We will achieve this by capturing carbon dioxide during the purification of biogas and using it as a source of carbon. We propose to develop a versatile chemical platform for carbon dioxide removal from biogas, together with the subsequent conversion to value-added chemicals. This chemical platform will be based on porous ionic liquids, which are a new and promising class of materials for processes involving gases. Preliminary results confirm that porous ionic liquids show carbon capture performances similar to benchmark technologies allowing for simultaneous capture and utilization with minimum energy cost. The design flexibility and low environmental impact of ionic liquids bears great potential for the tuneability of our chemical platform. Hence, we will combine theoretical and experimental approaches to identify porous ionic liquids suitable for carbon capture and conversion including the energy-efficient isolation of products.

Keywords: carbon capture and utilisation biogas upgrading
Computational Mapping of Electrocatalytic Interfaces In-Operando Conditions (CAMELLIA)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-15
End date: 2024-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of project CAMELLIA (ComputAtional Mapping of ELectrocataLytic InterfAces) is to derive fundamental insights, predict and design electrocatalytic properties (activity, selectivity, stability) of nanoparticles with realistic sizes, under operando conditions. To achieve this goal, a computational approach, based on electronic structure methods – Density Functional Theory calculations – in conjunction with newly developed Artificial Neural Network-trained interatomic potentials, is used. Coverage- , solvent-, and potential-cognizant static and molecular dynamics simulations are employed to develop a methodology for the construction of an open-source computational database, collecting properties of electrocatalytically active interfaces, under relevant experimental conditions. These insights will be used to i. elucidate the in-situ nature of electrocatalyst active sites, in the context of technologically-relevant chemical reactions; ii. bridge the gap between experimental and computational methods in addressing key processes hindering the development of active and stable electrocatalytic materials for successful deployment of fuel cells technology; iii. go beyond state-of-the-art computational models based on well-defined extended surfaces, towards realistic simulations of synthesized nanoparticles, in a complex electrochemical environment.

Keywords: electrocatalysis,density functional theory,orr,hor,methods development,accelerated molecular dynamics,database
Hardware Acceleration of crypto As a Service (Belfort HaaS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BELFORT offers hardware acceleration for advanced cryptographic protocols, making them practical for real-world applications. Having efficient cryptography enables leading-edge security, privacy, and trust guarantees. More and more data are available, for example in IOT, industry 5.0, financial, medical and health, and edge applications. Correct harnessing of this data has large societal and economical value. However, data protection and privacy concerns typically limit the practicability of safely using this data. This stand-off, typically referred to as the data paradox, can be solved using advanced cryptography. More specifically we target homomorphic encryption (FHE) and zero knowledge proofs (ZKP). These protocols enable computation and verification on data without revealing the underlying data. While extremely useful these technologies are difficult to adopt as they are expensive and slow. For example, in some previous demos FHE was about 1,000,000 times slower than unencrypted calculations. Our start-up BELFORT, with the support from the EIC grant, will unlock this potential, and thus create an effective market for FHE and ZKP. It will offer hardware acceleration for advanced cryptography as a service. Our FPGA architecture is already more than 100x faster than optimized CPU calculations, and about 10x cheaper to run, experimentally demonstrated on FPGA cloud infrastructure. Our ambition is to improve our accelerator to a speedup of 1.000x through hardware, architectural and arithmetic optimizations, and develop the cloud infrastructure. We aim to create dedicated hardware acceleration for specific applications such as transciphering (useful for edge computing) and string matching (useful for financial applications). Once high efficiency is reached and high-demand applications are identified, we lateron plan on building dedicated chips (ASIC) for these applications, thus reaching even better performance.

Keywords: hardware acceleration,fully homomorphic encryption,zero knowledge proofs,fpga,asic,edge and cloud
Development of a point-of-care microfluidic device for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in cancer treatment (POC-TDM) (POC-TDM)

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: Hungary
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157622.4
EU funding (EUR): 157622.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer claims almost 10 million lives annually, making it one of the major causes of death around the world. Despite the development of novel drugs and treatment options, the 5-years survival of the most common cancers are still strikingly low. Chemotherapy (CT) is a widely used option to treat malignancies, however CT protocols are established on a “one size fits all” basis and ignore inter-patient differences in drug pharmacokinetics which influence the blood levels of anticancer drugs, therefore leading to improper dosing in 50% of patients. Missing target blood concentration will lead to drug resistance and/or unwanted side effects. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) could be the key to improve and personalize CT, however the lack of an affordable point-of-care (POC) method is preventing its introduction to oncology. Mass spectrometry (MS) is the golden standard analytical approach to determine blood drug levels, but the instrument and specialized expertise to operate it are rarely available in the clinical environment. The high volume of blood required for MS analysis is also a challenge, because cancer patients are regularly weakened. Exploiting the strong and specific fluorescence of anthracyclines, the most used CT agents, we propose a radically new microfluidic chip-based approach to rapidly determine plasma concentrations of several widely applied anticancer drugs. Microvolume plasma separation and collection from a drop of blood (>50 ul) will be done with a specifically designed chip, then plasma anthracycline concentration will be measured using a compatible spectrophotometer. The approach will be validated using clinically relevant mouse tumour models and with samples from veterinary cancer patients. This interdisciplinary project, combining microfluidic engineering with cancer research, will introduce a novel POC-TDM system which could change CT treatments and improve survival through patient-tailored therapy.

Keywords: cancer,chemotherapy,microfluidics,lab on a chip,personalized medicine,optical spectroscopy
Disaster Distortion: Climate Crisis Representation in Contemporary Transpacific Literature (DISASTERDISTORTION)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-13
End date: 2027-01-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I explore how the representation of disasters in contemporary fiction warps our understanding of the threat posed by the climate emergency. To do so, I coin the term disaster distortion. Disaster distortion refers to how catastrophes monopolize the imagination when representing the consequences of climate alterations in ways that restrain or omit other forms of violence associated with human involvement and which are systemic, stretch over longer periods of time, and affect the most disenfranchised. I focus on two ways for fictional disasters to produce this distortion: first, disaster dystopias promotes the idea that the climate emergency is a hypothetical concern and not a pressing issue; second, disasters estranges and alienates human agency and responsibility and exclude acts of interpersonal or environmental care. In this project, I propose to study the challenges of climate crisis representation by fashioning an exercise of comparative literature that explores the deployment of the trope of disasters in fiction produced across the Pacific from the second decade of the twenty-first century onward. I choose to focus on three literary hubs distributed across this space: Japan, Australia, and Mexico. I will select a corpus of up to 12 contemporary novels or anthologies of short stories, 4 for each of the literary ecosystems. The texts will be first analyzed using an interdisciplinary methodology that combines close-reading with qualitative data analysis to examine the mechanisms through which we are imagining the climate emergency. My goals are to devise a theoretical framework that can question the usefulness of the trope of disasters, assess to what extent climate dystopias are rising to the challenge of representing the climate crisis effectively, examine whether representations of interpersonal and environmental care foster a sense of agency and responsibility, and implement a functional methodological model of multipolar transpacific comparative literature.

Keywords: ecocriticism,climate crisis,climate fiction,disaster studies,transpacific,slow violence,pacific,ecofeminism
MAGLEV-DERIVED SYSTEMS FOR RAIL 2 (MaDe4Rail 2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Portugal,France,Spain,Netherlands,Switzerland,Poland
Call: Further Technological development of Maglev-derived Systems (HORIZON-JU-ER-2025-01, 2025)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3928851.65
EU funding (EUR): 2999443.2
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The MaDe4Rail 2 project aims to advance the development of Maglev-Derived Systems (MDS) and assess their feasibility for integration into the European railway network. Building on the outcomes of the previous MaDe4Rail project, MaDe4Rail 2 will refine MDS configurations and investigate their compatibility with existing infrastructure, focusing on subsystems such as power, propulsion, levitation and guidance. Through a structured methodology, the project will address key Technical Open Points (TOPs) by developing advanced simulations to analyse vehicle performance, electromagnetic compatibility, and interactions with trackside signalling systems, including Eurobalises, odometry, and radio communication. These studies will be complemented by field testing of core MDS components. Since some performance aspects cannot be fully validated on test tracks, dedicated strategies combining on-field testing and high-fidelity simulations will be used to ensure a robust demonstration and optimal integration. In parallel, a risk and safety analysis will be conducted, and regulatory gaps and standardisation needs will be identified, with particular attention to compliance with the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs). Technical and socio-economic feasibility of deploying MDS on on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) will be assessed. A concept for a full-scale, fully autonomous MDS demonstrator will be designed, with the architecture developed up to TRL 5. The project will then contribute to a European roadmap for MDS implementation, aligning with the System Pillar and future system requirements. The project’s expected impact includes accelerating the deployment of innovative and sustainable solutions, supporting modal shift, and reinforcing rail as the backbone of Europe’s mobility network. A broad consortium of infrastructure managers, authorities, industry, and research organisations will ensure knowledge exchange and foster MDS uptake across Europe.

Keywords: transport,magnetic levitation,tsi,propulsion