Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SEISMogenic behavIour of COntinental Subduction: insights from rheology and petrophysics (SEISMI-COS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding the processes controlling the seismogenic behaviour (seismic vs. aseismic) of deformation in convergent margins is one of the fundamental unresolved scientific and societal challenges. Despite the elevated seismic hazard posed by damaging earthquakes in populated areas where continental subduction occurs (e.g. Taiwan 1999 Chi Chi MW = 7.6; Nepal 2015 Gorkha MW = 7.8), little is known about the parameters controlling the seismogenic behaviour of the subducted quartz-rich continental crust. Current geophysical and experimental observations suggest a tight interplay between the presence of, or lack thereof, fluids and the rheology of subducted continental crust. In the SEISMI-COS project I will quantify how rheology and petrophysics controlled the seismogenic behaviour of fossil analogues of deformation zones developed during continental subduction. I will investigate the deformation structures developed at progressively larger depths during Alpine subduction, now exposed at the surface in different tectonic units of Northern Corsica. By integrating field structural and digital analyses, cutting-edge microstructural analyses (EBSD, m-CT), with laboratory measurement of petrophysical properties (lab gas-permeameter) I will quantify the microstructural processes and petrophysical properties characterizing the deformation behaviour of the continental crust at progressively larger subduction depths. This will allow me to provide the input parameters for rheological and numerical models, through which I will investigate the how rheology and petrophysics interact to control the deformation mode, and to test the inferences made from field and microstructural investigations on the seismogenic behaviour. These results will bring us groundbreaking insights on the parameters and processes controlling seismogenesis in continental subduction zones.

Keywords: structural geology,earthquake geology,fault rheology,fault petrophysics,permeability,subduction zones
Measuring what matters: Improving usability and accessibility of policy frameworks and indicators for multidimensional well-being through collaboration (MERGE)

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 Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: Towards sustainable economic policy paradigms (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3618358.15
EU funding (EUR): 3618358.15
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European Union's policies on environmental and social sustainability requires a comprehensive measure of human progress that does not focus solely on GDP. However, the evidence on alternative approaches is fragmented and the lack of consensus on competing indicators and policy frameworks is a mAchieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European Union's policies on environmental and social sustainability requires a comprehensive measure of human progress that does not focus solely on GDP. However, the evidence on alternative approaches is fragmented and the lack of consensus on competing indicators and policy frameworks is a major obstacle to setting policy goals that promote multi-dimensional well-being and to monitoring and measuring progress. MERGE addresses these challenges by providing a forum for dialogue, co-creation and knowledge exchange, and by linking cutting-edge research and policy practice. A consortium of leading researchers and key communities in the field, MERGE brings together three recently launched higher education research consortia (SPES, ToBe, WISE Horizons) and an ERC grant (REAL). To scale up results, MERGE provides a framework for creating and strengthening a multidisciplinary community of researchers, a technical and knowledge network, a policy network and a network of civil society actors. Through these networks, MERGE aims to build a broad consensus on easy-to-use and acceptable indicators and frameworks for measuring multidimensional well-being within planetary boundaries in the EU and Member States, as well as in global organisations and civil society. MERGE participants will benefit from collaborative and training events, analyses, indicators, datasets and policy briefings. Through knowledge exchange, stakeholders and researchers can adopt and develop a systematic and coherent understanding of the sustainable economy paradigm in their own work.

Keywords: beyond gdp,wellbeing,sustainable economic paradigm,indicator,policy,guidance
Novel immunotherapies for tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases (ITHEMYC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,France,United Kingdom,United States,Italy,Israel
Call: Pre-clinical development of the next generation of immunotherapies for diseases or disorders with unmet medical needs (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4686951.75
EU funding (EUR): 4675947.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death due to a single pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb; except in 2020-2022, when it was surpassed by the COVID-19 pandemic), with 1.5 million deaths in 2020. The lengthy TB treatment and the numerous adverse events contribute to poor medical adherence and development of antibiotic resistant strains. Thus, novel therapeutic modalities are urgently needed to shorten treatment duration, improve outcomes and control the emergence of drug resistant TB. The ITHEMYC project convenes a multidisciplinary consortium of 11 partners, including two Product Development Partnerships (TBVI, TB-Alliance) and an industrial partner (GSK) involved in vaccine, drug and biomarker R&D for TB. The partners will work jointly to develop innovative adjunctive TB immunotherapies by capitalizing on a promising pipeline and recent developments in the field. The project will combine current and new antibiotic regimens with novel immunotherapies, such as small molecules targeting host pathogen-interactions, including host-directed therapies and virulence inhibitors, immunomodulatory compounds, monoclonal antibodies and therapeutic vaccines. The project will generate robust preclinical safety and efficacy information on compounds and combinations through a set of relevant in vitro, in vivo and in silico models, and progress two of them up to preclinical proof-of-concept in non-human primates within the project duration. The partners are proposing a critical path for characterization and progression of immunotherapies, that will be refined based on knowledge generated in ITHEMYC aiming to increase the understanding and interest for this emerging concept of adjunctive TB immunotherapy. We expect the new combined interventions will improve TB cure rates, reduce the duration and toxicity of current regimens and reduce relapse rates.

Keywords: immunotherapy,tuberculosis,antimicrobial resistance,mycobacteria
Materials for Sustainable Sodium-Ion Capacitors (MUSIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,France,Norway,Estonia
Call: Novel materials for supercapacitor energy storage (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6297579.0
EU funding (EUR): 6297578.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Materials for sUstainable Sodium Ion Capacitors responds to the need of a new supercapacitor technology that reaches energy density comparable to that of power batteries, but still recharges within few seconds and offers long cycle life with minimum efficiency loss over time. Moreover, MUSIC incorporates a strong policy of sustainability and environmental friendliness. Thus, any use of CRM will be avoided for the development of the SIC technology and will develop advanced novel carbonaceous electrode materials, binders and green electrolytes that are sustainable by design. Finally, the consortium will develop new manufacturing processes and industrial value chains by developing a new, transversal-to-other EES technologies, presodiation approach, which is low-cost and solution processable, enabling the industrialization of the technology. MUSIC will fabricate SIC prototype cells and will develop a 12V module prototype that incorporates an innovative management system to monitor the SoC, SoH, SoP of individual cells.

Keywords: sodium ion capacitors,electrical energy storage,power applications,advanced materials,transport,grid,innovative management system
Functionality Rotation-Mediated Solvent Separations in Nanochannel Membranes (FREEMEN)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nanochannel membranes with 1-nm/sub-1-nm channels provide an energy-efficient and sustainable way of solvent separations for global process-based industries that operate on solvent mixtures. Channel modifications by binding selective functionalities are a widely adopted strategy to improve membrane selectivity, but it often compromises target solvent’s permeability, presenting a persistent and undesired “trade-off” dilemma. This is largely due to the relatively fixed position of the functionalities, whose steric hindrance unavoidably retards molecular transport at this scale. In contrast to previous designs, this project aims to develop a novel nanochannel membrane featuring rotatable functionalities. It takes advantage of functionality dynamics - rotations - to facilitate target solvent transport while blocking competing solvent, effectively overcoming the “trade-off”. The demonstration and verification of this idea are based on 3 steps, including (1) development of a prototype membranes using a 2D layered MXene assembly as backbone and ammonium ions (NH4+) as functionalities due to their intrinsic ultrafast rotation in solvents (e.g., water); (2) evaluation of the solvent separation performance (e.g., water-ethanol) of such membranes against MXene membranes functionalised by slow-rotating ions or no ion (pristine); (3) elucidation of the relation between functionality rotation and solvent transport/separation by coupling experimental results, key characterizations, and computational modelling. Project success will advance the state-of-the-art in practical, conceptual, and mechanistic aspects. A high-performance solvent separation membrane that breaks “trade-off” will be fabricated. A new nanochannel membrane design principle involving functionality dynamics will be established. Most importantly, a “functionality rotation-mediated” transport mechanism will be proposed as a new perspective to understand 1-nm/sub-1-nm mass transport in future membranes.

Keywords: membranes technology,solvent separations,synthetic nanochannels,mxene
Integration and Digital Demonstration of Low-emission Aircraft Technologies and Airport Operations (INDIGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Latvia
Call: Towards a silent and ultra-low local air pollution aircraft (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3111446.25
EU funding (EUR): 3111446.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving the goals of climate neutrality by reducing the impact of aviation is a task that requires a carefully drafted roadmap for the development of disruptive technologies and concepts of operations. With particular attention to the emissions of pollutants and noise in airport local airport areas, a synergetic approach is needed that combines together interventions on the aircraft side and on the airport side. This calls for coordinated efforts in developing technologies that not only provide benefits during cruise conditions but also are capable of improving the local air quality and noise in airport areas where the impact of pollutants and annoyance to local communities has been demonstrated to be quite large in terms of morbidity and mortality. INDIGO is a collaborative project between academia, research centres and airports that aims at identifying the margins of improvement in airport local air quality and noise resulting from the introduction of a new non-conventional mid-range aircraft featuring distributed propulsion based on hybrid electric/sustainable and conventional fuel powertrain and large aspect-ratio wings capable to fly quietly and in zero-to-low-emission mode (i.e. electric and SAF) at low altitudes near airports and resort to conventional aviation fuel only when required, e.g. at higher altitudes or to recharge batteries during cruise. INDIGO will explore a new paradigm for the next-generation of silent and clean mid-range aircraft and for the way such a new aircraft will allow transforming the operations “at and near” airports. It will introduce improved methods for the analysis of future aviation environmental impact that, under the filter of uncertainty, will be able to account for non-conventional aircraft performance and future airport scenarios.

Keywords: distributed hybrid electric propulsion large aspect ratio airframe new mid range aircraft concept new airport operations
SUtainable and REsilient solutions for SOIL erosion control and sediment management (SURE-SOIL)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,France,Greece,Japan,Thailand,China,Italy
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): 1863720.0
EU funding (EUR): 1803600.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Soil erosion is a growing concern, with vast areas of soil lost every few seconds, posing serious risks to food security, biodiversity, and climate resilience. It not only undermines soil fertility but also causes environmental and economic damage, affecting over 60% of European soils. The erosion of soil also leads to significant sedimentation in rivers, lakes, and coastal regions, clogging waterways, damaging aquatic habitats, and disrupting essential infrastructure such as reservoirs and irrigation systems. These sediment loads further exacerbate water pollution, triggering ecological problems like eutrophication. This issue is compounded by increasingly extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, and wildfires, impacting not only Europe but also countries like Thailand, Japan and China. In response, the EU has introduced initiatives like the European Green Deal and the Soil Strategy for 2030 to safeguard soil and sediment resources while promoting sustainable development. However, the complexities of soil erosion and sedimentation—further intensified by climate extremes—make monitoring and management challenging. The SURE-SOIL project addresses these challenges through a collaborative effort, bringing together academic institutions and SMEs from across Europe and beyond, including Thailand, China, and Japan. By combining expertise in geosciences, civil engineering, environmental science, and data analytics, SURE-SOIL aims to develop innovative, practical solutions for managing soil erosion and sedimentation. This collaborative approach will not only advance scientific research but also support the implementation of sustainable, adaptable strategies in various global contexts. Through shared knowledge, international partnerships, and cutting-edge technologies, the project aims to reduce erosion’s impact, protect aquatic ecosystems, and help ensure the long-term viability of vital ecosystem services..

Keywords: soil erosion nature based solutions ecofriendly soil reinforcement
Unraveling Multiscale Embolism Dynamics in Plant Leaves through Biomimetic Models (EMBIOMO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Embolism, the formation of air bubbles in a plant’s vascular system responsible for water transport (the xylem), disrupts the flow of water and nutrients, leading to hydraulic failure. With the increasing frequency of droughts due to climate change, embolism has become a leading factor in the decline of forests worldwide, contributing to tree mortality and ecosystem collapse. Understanding how embolism forms, spreads, and is repaired in plant tissues is critical for predicting plant resilience to water stress, but current models lack the necessary data to make sufficiently accurate predictions. The EMBIOMO project employs a multidisciplinary and multi-tool approach to address this challenge. By integrating on leaves ultra-fast optical imaging, advanced 3D micro-CT, and confocal microscopy, the project will capture embolism propagation with unprecedented temporal resolution and at high spatial resolution. In parallel, biomimetic systems replicating key aspects of plant leaves xylem will be developed to study embolism under controlled extreme conditions, such as negative pressure. These biomimetic models will not only help investigate embolism dynamics but also serve as validation platforms for advanced theoretical modeling of vascular flows in intricate fluidic networks. This synergistic combination of approaches will significantly advance the state of the art in plant hydraulics, enabling unprecedented mechanistic insights into embolism propagation, generating unique databases and opening unique perspectives for fluidic network dynamics studies, beyond plant vascular systems. The outcomes will be transformative, providing novel predictive models of plant vulnerability to droughts and contributing critical data to improve resilience strategies in agriculture and forest management, particularly in the face of increasing environmental stresses.

Keywords: biomimetics,fluidic vascular networks,cavitation,gas embolism,microfluidics,plant hydraulics,advanced imaging
New governance models to enhance nutrient pollution handling and nutrients recycling (NENUPHAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Hungary,Slovakia,Germany,Denmark,Cyprus,Greece,Belgium,Latvia,Lithuania
Call: Piloting innovative governance solutions to limit nitrogen and phosphorus emissions at the interface of rural/coastal and urban/industrial environments (HORIZON-CL6-2022-ZEROPOLLUTION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6172653.63
EU funding (EUR): 5719827.97
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

In a context of ecosystems pressured by nutrient pollution and record-high fertiliser prices, the recovery of nitrogen and phosphorous from waste streams provides a solution to tackle both issues, allowing the supply of new fertilisers (and other products for the food value chain) at a competitive price while enabling cleaner soil, air and water systems. However, to effectively do so, an intensive political, regulatory and governance effort is required to bring all key stakeholders on board. NENUPHAR was conceived to solve this need by developing new governance and value chain solutions addressing three waste streams widely present and the EU: manure, sewage sludges and dairy wastewaters, addressing four main innovations (i) a methodology for estimating N/P emissions from the application of a fertiliser on soil (ii) new governance models based on a network governance approach (iii) innovative economic and financial incentives for public and private entities; (iv) enabling technologies to treat manure, sludges and dairy wastewaters to recover the nutrient loads. NENUPHAR approach will be demonstrated in three different regional clusters from geographically diverse river basins: the Ebro river basin (Spain), the Lielupe river basin (Latvia-Lithuania), and the Danube river basin (Hungary-Slovakia branch) and they will be replicated in two insular systems: Cyprus and Bornholm (Denmark). All the regions involved gather a population of 5,4 M people and an area of 109,000 km2. This demonstration will allow the direct recovery of 273 ton of N and 71.5 ton of P, while the involved regions shows and overall potential of 38.3 Mton of manure, 252 kton of dry sludges and 4.3 m3 of dairy wastewater that can be treated. NENUPHAR will employ a multi-stakeholder approach, gathering 21 entities representing farmers and irrigators, waste managers, research experts in circularity and agronomics, social science experts, environmental organisations and public administrations.

Keywords: governance models,nutrients recycling,regional cooperation,manure,sludges,wastewater,dairy industry