Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Air isothermal compression technology for long term energy storage (Air4NRG)

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: Belgium,France,Spain,Portugal,Italy
Call: Development of novel long-term electricity storage technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4959398.75
EU funding (EUR): 4959398.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Recognising that current storage solutions are unable to stabilize enough the intermittent renewable energy production, new long term energy storage solutions are becoming mandatory. Current long-term energy storage is mainly provided by Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity (PSH). Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) has appeared for decades as a credible alternative but its poor energy efficiency, the need of fossil fuels and the use of existing underground cavities as storage reservoirs have limited its development. Variations to CAES have shown low efficiency, losing a big percentage of energy as heat and mechanical losses. Since the 2010s, there is a strong revival of scientific and industrial interest on CAES, led by China and the European Union (EU). For the EU, leading the new generation of high-efficient, low climate-impact and long-term energy storage research, is key to increase its energy independency. In this context, the main objective of Air4NRG is the development of an innovative, efficient (over 70% RTE), long- term, and sustainable CAES prototype, which can enhance renewable energy availability and offers robustness and safety while increasing cost effectiveness and improving the environmental footprint. At the same time, it will promote innovation and competitiveness in the European energy storage industry, while prioritizing the principles of circular economy and environmental sustainability. Another key factor of the solution is the integrability to the electrical grid system and their intelligent EMS, which will be proven by the end of the project through end user integration activities (TRL5). The project will result in two prototypes: one of them will be a plug and play system fitting into a standard 40ft container with an over ten- hours storage duration, while the other will be a larger-scale system of 200kW with the same duration of storage. The developed system is a rare material-free solution with simple industrial infrastructure needs, allowing its full development within the EU, strengthening Europe’s position in the energy storage system sector.

Keywords: compressed air high efficiency long term environmental friendly economical sustainability plug and play robustness high lifetime
Hydrogel Biodegradable Ureteral Stent (HYDRUSTENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2225375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1522762.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hydrumedical S.A. (HYD) team is composed by a urologist and biomaterials scientists that will revolutionise the treatment of ureteral disorders. Hydrustent is a biodegradable, hydrogel-based, soft, lubricated, and flexible stent. These properties prevent bacterial adhesion (>80% of the stent-related complications) and encrustation development. Nowadays, the application of stents requires a 2nd removal procedure, a burden for patients and healthcare systems. Hydrustent is homogeneously degraded by the urine flow within 7-10 days, eliminating the need of further interventions for its removal. Hydrustent will bring huge health benefits for patients and reduce up to 60% of treatment costs (4.3B€ savings for the health system in EU+US). Validated by the urology community, with a global Ureteral Stents Market raising (~604M€ by 2030), if Hydrustent project is successfully implemented, we intend to reach the EU market in 2024 with profits amounting to 25M€, 5 years after product launch.

Keywords: biodegradable,biocompatible,natural origin polymer,patient care,health related biotechnology
Understanding divisions and fostering dialogue among Berlin’s Turkish speaking communities (ARAMIZDA)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-14
End date: 2026-02-13
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 237109.2
EU funding (EUR): 237109.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

After 60 years of migration in countless waves, Germany’s Turkish-speaking communities are complex and diverse. Routinely lumped together by policymakers, media and the public as “Turks”, they in fact encompass a multitude of ethnicities, religions, classes and political groupings. Though they live side-by-side, they often have little contact and frequently harbour disparaging, even hostile feelings towards each other. ARAMIZDA (meaning “between/among us” in Turkish), draws on methods and theories from a range of disciplines to produce novel, high-quality research on divisions within Berlin’s Turkish-speaking communities. It explores the role civil society organisations play in easing and exacerbating those divides. Previous work on Europe’s large Turkish-speaking diasporas (including Kurds) has been mostly concerned with these groups’ links to Turkey or their integration with host populations. No detailed study has focused explicitly on how they interact with each other. At a time when European policymakers are grappling with the paradox of growing spaces for minority communities but shrinking opportunities for social dialogue, the project will use a mix of social science methods (including ethnographic fieldwork, diaries and interviews) to collect rich data to understand divisions within Turkish-speaking communities. It will foster collaboration with research participants by inviting them to play a role in determining data collection methods and taking an active role in a key non-academic offshoot of the project. This final aspect will take the form of workshop, run in partnership with an anti-polarisation charity, aimed at piloting ways of encouraging diverse groups to engage in dialogue. The findings — which will be widely dispersed through academic and non-academic channels — will be used to advance theories on diversity and inclusion, increase understanding among policymakers and the public, and test practical ways to build more united and resilient societies.

Keywords: turkey,diaspora,social anthropology,polarisation,migration policy
EMILIE – ESTABLISHING A NEW PARADIGM IN NANOMATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION (EMILIE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: EIC Booster grant for EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition grants (HORIZON-EIC-2024-BOOSTER-IBA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71428.57
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nanotechnologies have had a major role to play in the modernization and revolution of many industries such as agriculture, food, cosmetics, medicine, healthcare, automotive, oil and gas industries, chemical, and mechanical industries. However, the development of scientific instrumentation capable of handling such small samples and characterizing them has been lagging. As a result, very few nanomedicines have been commercialized so far due in part to the challenges in their characterization, semiconductor fabs and chemical suppliers suffer yield reductions and profit losses due to unidentified nanoscale contaminants, and unfortunately, nanopollutants, such as airborne aerosols with sizes smaller than 2.5 µm and nanoplastics remain unregulated for lack of effective routine monitoring technologies, resulting in unnecessary deaths (500,000 yearly deaths in the EU caused by air pollution alone), increased diseases (nanoplastics have been linked to cancer, obesity, diabetes,…) and hundreds of billions of euros in associated healthcare costs. There exists a current pressing need to fill the technological gap in the analysis of nanoparticles. During the NEMILIES EIC Transition project, we developed EMILIE, an innovative infrared (IR) analyser based on groundbreaking nanoelectromechanical sensing (NEMS) technology which pushes the boundaries of traditional Fourier transform IR (FTIR) spectroscopy. By significantly enhancing the sensitivity of traditional FTIRs and cutting down analysis times as well as instrument acquisition costs, EMILIE opens an array of new possibilities in nanomaterials characterization, paving the way to breakthroughs in environmental monitoring, nanomedicines, and more. However, several barriers must still be overcome to commercialise EMILIE and fully realise its potential. The objective of this booster project is to open the pathway to the commercialisation of EMILIE by addressing standardization, regulation, and intellectual property issues.

Keywords: nems,nanomaterials,nanoplastics,infrared
Off-resonant parametric control over THz collective modes in correlated materials: Complex driving protocols, non-equilibrium correlated states and applications. (LightMode)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-20
End date: 2026-08-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, light induced states of matter focus the attention of many researchers in condensed matter physics. An important limitation at the moment is the lack of efficient technology that could be used to control material properties at THz frequencies. On the other hand, this regime is interesting, because many materials exhibit collective resonances in the THz regime. Some examples are the Higgs modes of superconducting and charge density wave phases, plasmons in two dimensional materials and magnons in antiferromagnets. This project addresses the problem of exciting and manipulating THz collective modes in correlated electronic systems. The idea is to use complex drives with a nontrivial spectral composition, or polarization properties. One example that will be investigated in this project are amplitude modulated signals. Here, a high frequency signal is modulated on the THz scale. Under special conditions, the modulation can couple to THz collective modes such as magnons and plasmons. The collective modes are then parametrically excited. An intriguing aspect of this scheme is that the driving is off-resonant, i.e. the driving consists of frequencies which are much higher (e.g. by a factor of a hundred) then the collective resonances. This can be useful to reduce noise and heating. During this project, we will study ways to off-resonantly excite low frequency collective modes through complex driving protocols. Our main focus will be on antiferromagnetic Mott insulators with a strong Hund coupling, and plasmons in two dimensional gapped Dirac materials. Upon establishing tailored driving protocols, we will study the non-equilibrium states to which the systems evolve under strong driving. Finally, applications, such as time varying spintronic and plasmonic media with unusual wave propagation properties, and means to create THz entangled magnons, which could be useful in quantum devices, will be considered.

Keywords: light matter interactions,floquet engineering,non equilibrium states of matter,quantum matter,hund insulators,strongly correlated materials,magnetism,plasmons,magnons,epr states,thz sources
Self-Monitoring of Prostate cancer by Automated hybrid Recognition of Exosomal miRNA: toward personalized analytical Tool (SMART)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tumor-derived circulating exosomes are a suitable, readily accessible reservoir of cancer biomarkers for disease process analysis. The microRNAs (miRNAs) inside the exosomes provide information about the mechanisms of change in cancer of affected individuals. Quantitative determination of miRNAs in the exosome, a clinical area of unmet need, is tempting but challenging. The main objectives of the proposal are to develop a non-invasive, affordable, user-friendly, and deliverable platform that can measure mutant miRNA-107 in prostate cancer (PCa)-associated exosomes with unmatched accuracy, combining a hybrid oligonucleotides (ONs)-nanomaterials integrated composite system with an E-μPAD. The proposed platform offers "Self-Monitoring of Prostate Cancer by Automated hybrid Recognition of Exosomal miRNA: towards personalized analytical Tool" named " SMART". SMART provides a universal technology for non-invasive PCa diagnosis and quantitative tracking of miRNA levels in cancer-derived exosomes in a very simple and effortless manner in biofluids such as serum and urine. The novelty of the proposed interdisciplinary project work will evolve into the next generation of intelligent point-of-care (POC) tools for precision medicine. This proposal will contribute to the sustainability of the healthcare system by enabling patients to stratify and/or predict disease, thereby improving clinical decision making. This MSCA PF will be carried out at the University of Naples, Italy, will provide the researcher with advanced technical training in exosome isolation, PCR and DNA sequencing, molecular biology, microfluidics, pathology, nanomaterials synthesis, analytical techniques, proposal and manuscript preparation, and academic supervision in research management. The proposed multidisciplinary collaboration in the SMART project has resulted in a new generation of smart medical devices with functions comparable to existing highly specialized hospital devices.

Keywords: electrochemistry,exosomes,prostate cancer,mirna,nanomaterials,point of care
Engineering safe faba beans by targeting the anti-nutrients vicine and convicine (CleanBean)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Faba bean is a high-yielding protein crop well adapted to cold climates. Its seeds contain large amounts of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients, making it an ideal crop to support the transition toward a plant-based diet. However, faba bean seeds also accumulate high levels of the anti-nutritional alkaloids vicine and convicine. These alkaloids cause hemolytic anemia (favism) in individuals with a genetic deficiency (G6PD deficiency) occurring in ~5% of the world population. Faba bean varieties with reduced levels of vicine and convicine exist, but the residual levels are variable, causing concern for the food industry. The development of varieties devoid of vicine and convicine has been hampered by a lack of genomic resources and insufficient knowledge about their biosynthesis. In the CleanBean project, I will team up with Prof. Fernando Geu-Flores from the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences of the University of Copenhagen. I will use recently generated resources to uncover the full vicine and convicine pathway and create faba bean lines devoid of these anti-nutrients. The proposed work involves gene selection through co-regulation & association strategies, pathway elucidation using in vitro and in vivo assays, and pathway inactivation in faba bean using the recently published FIND-IT technology (non-GMO). The impact of CleanBean will be multifaceted, spanning both fundamental and applied research. On the basic science side, the project will uncover the complete pathway of a nucleotide-derived specialized metabolite from plants for the first time. On the applied side, the project will lead to the creation of a vicine- and convicine-free faba bean, thus enabling the safe consumption of faba beans by all individuals and helping transform the landscape of sustainable food production.

Keywords: plant metabolism,faba bean,anti nutrients,pathway elucidation,pathway reconstruction,specialized metabolites
DYNAmics and STructural analYsis of 2D materials (DYNASTY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,France,Belgium
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497125.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

DYNASTY’s primary objective is to build in the European South East, and in particular in the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) in Crete, a significant pole of attraction for nanomaterials researchers and scientists. This will be accomplished through joint research activities and partnering with two well-established European research teams, which are in the forefront of nanomaterials research. The activities will contribute in scientific production that will motivate and attract young scientists in nanomaterials (e.g. 2D materials) science and technology. The partners include: (a) the University of Antwerp (UA) with strong expertise in advanced Electron Microscopy for Materials Science and in Condensed Matter Theory (the EMAT and CMT groups, respectively), which are both part of the UA NANOlab Center of Excellence (Belgium) (b) and the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA- University of Toulouse), with deep expertise in advanced spectroscopic characterization techniques of 2D materials. The activities involve training through cross-lab visits, workshops, short courses, joint conferences, and well-designed communication activities to attract young scientists at FORTH. All teams will provide their expertise and collaborate to build advanced Imaging and Spectroscopy expertise at FORTH (combining non-linear and time-resolved optical spectroscopies) that will provide precise fine structural analysis of 2D materials and their heterostructures. By the end of the three-year project, FORTH will gain advanced skills in nanomaterials characterization and knowhow in nanoelectronic devices fabrication. As a result, DYNASTY will create a collaborative platform for widening experimental networks among nanomaterials labs in Europe, enabling local teams to produce excellent interdisciplinary nanoscience, currently lacking in Greece.

Keywords: knowledge transfer,research management,expanding excellence,networking,nanotechnology,2d materials,microscopy and spectroscopy methods,fine analysis
Nanoscale spin-wave RF filters and multiplexers for 5G communication systems (5G-Spin)

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: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 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

Our everyday life is unimaginable without wireless information and communication technologies. Since 2019, 5G digital systems offer improved speed, bandwidth, and decreased energy consumption. Mobile operators invest $160 billion worldwide in the deployment of 5G each year. Over the last decades, RF filters based on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) occupied the entire market. But their usage for 5G high-band (26 GHz in EU) is impossible. Moreover, the utilisation of Bulk Acoustic Waves (BAWs) is still left to be explored due to their significant damping, challenges with confinement, and complex fabrication. The solution is offered by the propagating excitation in the spin system of a solid magnetic body - Spin Waves (SWs), which can efficiently replace acoustic waves in the RF devices for all frequency bands. The key advantages of SWs are: (i) frequency range from 1GHz up to hundreds of GHz, (ii) manufacturability of SW transducers using conventional photolithography, (iii) strong confinement of SWs, and (iv) additional nonlinear functionalities. The ERC StG MagnonCircuits finished with utmost success (40 articles) and delivered the methodology and know-how for fabrication and characterisation of magnonic nano-structures; explored SW physical properties in them; and identified robust, reliable, and efficient phenomena for applications. In the 5G-Spin project, I will develop fully functioning, bias field-free, and industry-ready SW-based RF filters and multiplexers for mid- and high-band 5G communication systems.