Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
revolutionary tailored ARChitected Heterostructures obtained by solId state DEPosition (ArcHIDep)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Imagine having unlimited freedom in design and scalable fabrication of engineering components with an almost arbitrary selection of mixed composition, inner spatial arrangement and outer shape; this implies the ability to integrate multiple heterogeneity indexes to selectively adjust a variety of site-specific properties over several length-scales in one single component. To offer this treat, ArcHIDep challenges the traditional (composition-structure-process)-function correlations that currently neglect or are incapable to include the intriguing concept of heterogeneity. ArcHIDep paves the way to understand and exploit the synergistic strengthening mechanisms induced by compositional and architectural heterogeneity to offer unprecedented functionalities. My recent studies confirm the significant potential of solid state powder deposition for obtaining 3D metallic objects with notable structural integrity; I also achieved tunable mechanical properties by tailoring heterogeneity features in micro-nanophase deposits thru this method. Thus, I believe solid state deposition holds the key to add extra degrees of freedom (multi-indexed heterogeneity) to customization of metal-based products, beyond what is currently thought as the limits of engineering. I will outline novel mechanism-based strategies to establish a revolutionary tailored 3D manufacturing scheme that will offer countless uncharted functional opportunities. This is achieved by pairing a versatile and scalable solid state fabrication technique with advanced in-situ micro-mechanical tests and multiscale computational models. Successful implementation of ArcHIDep will give rise to in-depth conceptual developments towards a non-existing framework that enables design and real-time tailoring of compositional and structural complexity. This will be reinforced by inexhaustible recipes of bulk heterogeneity regarding chemical composition, microstructure, fraction and hierarchical arrangement of dissimilar phases.

Keywords: solid state deposition,cold spray,additive manufacturing,heterogeneous structures
European Robotic Orbital Support Services In-Orbit Demonstration (EROSS IOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Belgium,Germany,Poland,Norway,Italy,Portugal,Switzerland
Call: Future space ecosystems: on-orbit operations, preparation of orbital demonstration mission (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25983823.75
EU funding (EUR): 25983822.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Access to Space is now easier and easier, and is not possible anymore to design and launch disposable spacecraft without considering the consequences: On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) is a first step towards this change of paradigm, as the technologies, typically autonomous rendezvous, refuelling, Orbital Replaceable Unit (ORU) exchange, repair and waste management with autonomous robotic tools will be used in future smart, flexible and modular space infrastructures. The growing demand for satellite life extension from commercial customers, making OOS an emerging market, is an opportunity to support those developments. To that purpose, designing in a phase B2/C the right mission and maturing the technologies to enable a go-to-market for future OOS missions is the main goal for €ROSS IOD. The objective is to enable the in-orbit demonstration of all the key capabilities: coordinated close rendezvous between two free flying spacecraft comparable in mass and inertia (a first in Europe) and autonomous robotic operations such as capture, refuelling and change of payload with a poly-articulated arm. In order to ensure a sound and low-cost solution, the project leverages on the previous developments carried out for the last 6 years within the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) on Space Robotics technologies, particularly in continuity of the past project EROSS and the current project EROSS+. The final aim of the €ROSS IOD project is to prepare and carry out the last remaining steps to fly a European pioneering mission by 2026 with a customer-driven approach. Thales Alenia Space, with GMV, DLR and 14 European technology providers (research centres, large, medium and small companies including one start-up), is following its plan to commercialise a multipurpose servicer for LEO and GEO servicing by 2026, and this project is a major stepping stone to provide the first go-to-market.

Keywords: on orbit servicing,in orbit demonstration,robotics,autonomy,rendezvous,proximity operations,docking,refuelling,oru exchange,new space infrastructures,european excellence and sovereignty
Solar-powered Multi-energy Hub for Electric Vehicle and District Heating Thermal Energy Storage (SMOOTHER)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transportation electrification and adoption of district heating (DH) are both critical technical approaches toward the European Union's (EU's) carbon neutrality goal in 2050. However, the expansion of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is currently impeded by power supply shortage, where the situation is similar for the DH regarding thermal energy supply. Distributed photovoltaics for EV (PV-EV) charging is a promising solution because they can be deployed at reasonable costs with flexible capacities and locations. However, the inherent mismatch between power generation and charging demand remains unsolved. This project proposes to develop a novel distributed solar-powered multi-energy hub that integrates PV-EV charging stations and DH thermal energy storage for improving renewable self-consumption, alleviating EV-induced grid stress, and enhancing DH energy flexibility. Excess PV power is exported to thermal network via heating device, storing energy in the thermal inertia of the DH network and end-user buildings, and reducing peak heating demand. Development of the multi-energy hub will be achieved through joint efforts of numerical simulation and real-life studies. A comprehensive performance investigation will be conducted for the proposed multi-energy hub to identify its design boundary, based on which a simulation-based design optimization method will be developed. For improving its operating performance, a model-predictive control framework will be established. Finally, a proof-of-concept of the multi-energy hub and the control framework will be achieved through testing on energy planning and design of existing and new areas. With the EV adoptions and renewable penetration facilitated by the multi-energy hub, the research outcomes will effectively contribute to the EU's carbon neutrality target.

Keywords: district heating,thermal energy storage,distributed photovoltaic,electric vehicle,hybrid model predictive control
Succinct Cryptographic Proof Systems: Theory and Practice (CRYPTOPROOF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498819.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498819.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A proof system allows a power prover to convince a weak party (the verifier) of the validity of large computations. Proof systems are a powerful and versatile tool that is central to complexity theory and cryptography. Since their introduction, they have led to breakthroughs such as the celebrated PCP theorem, zero-knowledge proofs, hardness of approximation, and more. The rise of cloud computing, lockchain technologies, and distributed computing have created a vast demand for practical implementations. Cryptographic proofs leverage the use of cryptographic primitives to gain efficiency benefits including succinct proofs with fast proving and verifying time, suitable for practical implementations. These days, cryptographic proof systems maintain the integrity of blockchain networks, securing trillions of dollars in transactions. The goal of the CRYPTOPROOF project is to advance the efficiency of crytographic proof systems: 1. High-soundness: For oracle proofs, the query complexity of the verifier is the main bottleneck towards succinctness. Obtaining proof systems with polynomially small error and constant query complexity would resolve the four-decades-old sliding-scale conjecture and would have significant practical implications. 2. Improving the compilation efficiency: cryptographic proof systems are usually obtained by compiling a proof system with several cryptographic primitives which yields crucial properties such as noninteractivity and succinctness that are required for most applications. 3. Limitations: limitations of proof systems and cryptographic proof systems are a scarce resource. They build the boundaries of possibilities and guide us to new constructions. Beyond the above, the end goal of the CRYPTOPROOF project is to design and implement a new cryptographic proof system with efficiency measures that surpasses the current state-of-the-art.

Keywords: proof systems,interactive proofs,zero knowledge
Doctoral Training Network for Quantum Enhanced Optical Communication Network Security (QuNEST)

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: Netherlands,Denmark,Germany,Poland,Italy,France,Switzerland
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): 3117462.17
EU funding (EUR): 2661328.8
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The security of data has never been more valuable. Today, cryptography is critical to the safe operation of digital infrastructures. However, yearly advances in quantum computing present new threats. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) may provide the best protection, an approach designed to ensure privacy using quantum information encoded on photons. In theory, QKD is proven secure. In practice, QKD systems deviate from this theoretical behaviour due to implementation. Currently, QKD requires a separate dark fibre due to its susceptibility to classical channel effects (e.g., noise, Kerr non-linear interference, and scattering effects). Separating QKD from classical optical signals is costly and impractical, keeping QKD a niche product. Therefore, network providers seek quantum security to coexist in existing classical optical infrastructure. A better understanding of a quantum/classical optical channel is needed to develop improved channel coding, robust error-correcting schemes, digital signal processing, and optoelectronic components for the transceivers. In addition, a study on network topologies and integrating classical to quantum signals on implementation security is needed. The doctoral research network - QuNEST aims to gather diverse industrial and academic partners with strong scientific and technical expertise in QKD technology and optical communications to establish a new, innovative, multi-disciplinary, training network for doctoral researchers (DR). With the high-level objective of training experts to design, develop, and drive the future quantum secure optical infrastructure forward. This doctoral network will train 11 DR fellows, leaning on the expertise of 17 partners: 6 universities, and 11 Industrial partners (i.e., 1 Simulation software provider, 2 Telecom operators, 2 SMEs and 6 hardware vendors). From 7 European countries, QuNEST provides a unique and timely opportunity to train students in quantum physics and optical communications
Enhancing Research on the Integration of Formal Educational Programmes and Workplace Learning (FEWL)

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: Estonia,Finland,Germany
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 803805.0
EU funding (EUR): 803805.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to enhance scientific excellence and research potential in the field of research on integrating formal education and workplace learning (WPL) for students in basic and secondary schools. Facilitating multifaceted capacity building at the School of Educational Sciences (SES) at Tallinn University (TLU) in this field will be achieved through partnership with two internationally leading research institutions with complementary theoretical and methodological expertise: Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), and Institute of Educational Sciences at Paderborn University (UPB). Since the emergence of Industry 4.0, unleashed by the technological advances of the information age, there is an increasing research interest in enriched learning in various authentic environments. The proposed project will pay special attention to students’ participation in authentic work environments outside the school. In the context of integrating learning at school and work, previous research activities have internationally mainly focused on vocational education. Our project intends to widen the scope of research on this area by extending the target group and including besides VET students also students in basic education and upper secondary general education. The project’s activities involve common research activities in the area as well as various forms of knowledge sharing and communicative activities such as training, guiding PhD students, workshops, conferences, common publications etc. The project will introduce novel approaches and methodologies in workplace learning research, and provide new insights by applying the social ecology approach for the research in the field of integrating learning at school and at work. The methodological knowledge and experiences gained will be applied in planning future international research projects within the framework of the EU research agenda.

Keywords: ecology of learning,student agency,workplace learning,learning in authentic environments,individual learning paths,teacher s professional development,qualitative methods,mixed methods,
Interactive Fluidic State Machines for Soft Robotics (ILUMIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Actuation, energy storage, sensing, and logic are four functionalities of both natural and artificial organisms, giving them the ability to thrive in their environment. The blueprint of conventional robots localizes these functionalities in discrete components supported by rigid materials. However, in soft robots that consist of compliant materials, localization of functionality severely limits autonomous operation and intelligent behaviour. This limitation is the result of the functional architecture, not of the used materials. Alternatively and as demonstrated in nature by the common octopus, the distribution of these four functionalities throughout the body allows to overcome these limitations. This concept of ‘functional embodiment’ is currently non-existing in soft robotics. ILUMIS will create soft robots with embodied functionality by transitioning from a conventional robotic architecture to a fluidic network architecture. Further, by incorporating nonlinearities in all the network elements, the global system acts as a state machine, meaning that the output not only depends on the input, but also on its internal state. How to navigate this state space will be encoded within the nonlinearities, creating embodied logic. Energy and actuation are embodied and intricately linked to the elastic deformations of the components in the network, powering the actions of the soft robot. By creating network components that are sensitive to triggers from the environment, embodied sensing emerges, leading to truly interactive fluidic state machines. ILUMIS will overcome the main challenges of inverse design, where a desired behaviour requires the optimization of a network of nonlinear structures. Thereby ILUMIS will create a new blueprint for soft robotic design with embodied functionality that closes the gap with nature’s soft organisms. This knowledge will impact applications ranging from surgical micro-robots and exploration robots to haptic interfaces for virtual reality.

Keywords: soft robotics,embodied intelligence,inflatable actuators
THE EUROPEAN LIVING LAB ON DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRAL CITIES (ELABORATOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Slovenia,Denmark,Finland,France,Spain,Sweden,Czechia,Croatia,Serbia,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy
Call: Designing inclusive, safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility (HORIZON-MISS-2022-CIT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12387260.0
EU funding (EUR): 11347664.0
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

ELABORATOR uses a holistic approach for planning, designing, implementing and deploying specific innovations and interventions towards safe, inclusive and sustainable urban mobility. These interventions, consist of smart enforcement tools, space redesign and dynamic allocation, shared services, and integration of active and green modes of transportation. They will be specifically co-designed and co-created with identified “vulnerable to exclusion” user groups, local authorities and relevant stakeholders. The interventions will be demonstrated in 6 Lighthouse and 6 Follower cities across Europe with three principal aims: i) to collect, assess and analyse user needs and requirements towards a safe and inclusive mobility and climate neutral cities; ii) to collect and share rich information sets made of real data, traces from dedicated toolkits, users’ and stakeholders’ opinions among the cities, so as to increase the take up of the innovations via a twinning approach and iii) to generate detailed guidelines, policies, future roadmap and built capacity for service providers, planning authorities and urban designers for the optimum integration of such inclusive and safe mobility interventions into Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). The Lighthouse cities are: Milan (Italy), Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Issy-les-Moulineaux (France), Zaragoza (Spain) and Trikala (Greece). The Follower cities are Lund (Sweden), Liberec (Czech Republic), Velejne (Slovenia), Ioannina (Greece), Split (Croatia) and Krusevac (Serbia).

Keywords: 12 european cities,co creation,citizen science based toolkits,inclusion plan,twinning among cities
Strengthening Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development (SEEDplus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway,Bulgaria,Ukraine,Slovakia,Germany,Italy,Greece,Austria,Finland,Portugal
Call: Expanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1159917.86
EU funding (EUR): 997125.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The EU is planning to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. To meet these ambitious climate targets, innovative technologies and solutions need to be deployed at unprecedented speed and scale. With this in mind, the SEED+ project aims to nurture a new generation of mission-driven entrepreneurs who will come up with innovative solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges and who will have the skillset to scale them across Europe and internationally. This project is a collaboration between seven academic institutions and five business partners who are geographically spread across regions with varying innovation performance scores. The project partners share the mutual understanding that if more enterprises are to be generated from university ecosystems across Europe, state-of-the-art entrepreneurship education and support at these universities needs to be better aligned with the actual needs of budding entrepreneurs. To this end, project partners will develop and implement a new entrepreneurship course (Venture Creation Course) aimed at students with technical backgrounds, run local and international startup competitions and accelerate the most promising early-stage ventures. Moreover, business partners will work closely with university partners to set up university enterprise hubs, conduct feasibility studies into university venture capital funds and create transformation roadmaps for each local entrepreneurial ecosystem. All these activities will lead to enhanced entrepreneurial activity of university students and strengthened capacity of universities to support and nurture entrepreneurial talent across Europe.

Keywords: venture capital