Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sector-coupling hub for circular use of thermal and industrial waste (HURRICANE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Italy,Portugal
Call: Hubs for circularity for near zero emissions regions applying industrial symbiosis and cooperative approach to heavy industrialized clusters and surrounding ecosystems (Processes4Planet partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 27487972.07
EU funding (EUR): 19090973.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Within HURRICANE a sector-coupling circular hub centered around the ArcelorMittal Ghent site will be created. We will target efficient resource management together with the recovery and utilization of squandered industrial waste heat and water. Together with ArcelorMittal Ghent’s ongoing initiatives, this will lead to a reduction of energy, water and raw materials by at least 20%. Thanks to the ongoing projects taking place within and around the Ghent site, the site is already well connected to many other industries like waste suppliers, chemical producers (ethanol offtake & H2 waste gas), renewable power producers, and wastewater treatment. It has become a multi-sectoral hub leading to efficient implementation of industrial symbiosis concepts. The Ghent site has a significant amount of recyclable energy, material and water that allows this symbiosis. These aspects are not only from the steel making processes, but also from other operations taking place in the mentioned “multi-sectoral” hub. This hub, can be further enhanced with the integration of waste heat with its ongoing initiatives. Our solution aims at developing and demonstrating novel heat recovery (heat exchanger) and upgrading (heat pumps) solutions from selected operations and then coupling it with the internal and external off takers by means of a heat grid. With digital tools, aspects like broadening the district heating network, and adapting the heat demand profile of the buildings to better match the intermittent of the waste heat can be optimized. Finally, an integrated software tool for circular hubs that combines the different tools and data produced at the different operations will be developed and validated. Through two virtual demonstrations and a circular hubs blueprint the replication potential will be proven. The consortium is formed by 13 partners from 4 different countries, including 4 research organizations, 1 large End User, 3 industrial parties, 1 SME, 3 civil organizations and 1 linked 3rd party.

Keywords: water efficiency,material efficiency,industrial symbiosis,circular ecenomy
BRIDGING IGNEOUS PETROLOGY AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Deriving New Skills in Volcanic Hazard Assessment and the Economy of Critical Raw Materials (REALISE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Hungary,France,Belgium,Germany,Slovenia,United States,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4356827.64
EU funding (EUR): 4356827.64
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

REALISE equips a new generation of Doctoral Candidates (DC) with cutting-edge skills in volcanic hazard assessment and the exploitation of critical raw materials by combining advanced petrological studies with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and workflows. To achieve this goal, REALISE brings together experts in Earth Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an unprecedented attempt to develop training-to-research paths, i.e., Individual Research Projects (IRP), focusing on four key research objectives: 1) Systematically investigating the use of ML techniques to probe the lifecycle of magmas; 2) Fusing complementary information derived from cutting-edge analytical techniques to gather unprecedented petrologic data; 3) Bridging the gap between physics and ML in petrologic modelling to develop ground-breaking computational flow dynamics and atomistic simulations; 4) Exploring the potential of Generative AI, Hypothesis formulation, and Symbolic Regression in petrological studies. By combining the research activities with comprehensive training on transferable skills, DCs engage with key study cases in either volcanic areas posing significant volcanic risk [e.g., Campi Flegrei and Etna (Italy), Pico (Azores), Fogo (Cape Verde), Mt Pelée (Martinique)] or great potential in critical raw material exploitation [i.e., Beauvoir rare metal granite (Imerys kaolinite and Li deposit; France), mono-mineralic ore layers at Bushveld Igneous Complex (South Africa) and Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum pegmatites at Manono-Kitotolo (Dem. Rep. of Congo)]. Upon completion, REALISE will largely persist by establishing a network that fosters collaborations between academia and industry, enhancing disaster awareness, and contributing to the exploitation of critical raw materials. Overall, REALISE represents a significant step forward in both understanding magmatic systems and managing their associated risks and resources, with far-reaching implications for society and the scientific community.

Keywords: volcanic hazard assessment,critical raw materials,igneous petrology,volcanology,machine learning,multimodal petrologic data,computational flow dynamics,atomistic simulations,generative ai
Understanding motivations to seek and carry out female genital plastic surgeries to contribute to better informed decision-making of girls/women and to support medics in developing ethical practices (FGPS)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates why girls and women in Belgium and the Netherlands (increasingly) seek female genital plastic surgeries (FGPS) and how healthcare practitioners handle requests for these surgeries. The results will feed into the development of an informed decision-making tool for girls and women, a European standardised assessment tool to support health professionals in handling FGPS requests in a medically responsible and gender-sensitive way, and guidelines for policy-makers on how to regulate and/or reimburse FGPS. The project is important given the worldwide increase in FGPS and the current lack of insight into what drives requests for FGPS and how to handle these requests responsibly. The project creates an opportunity for Europe to establish itself as a world leader in responding to the surge in FGPS, which is happening across the (industrialised) world but which, so far, has not received an adequate response. The project is multidisciplinary and integrates theories from medical and social sciences, including medical anthropology, bioethics, and public health, transcending the disciplines’ traditional boundaries. It uses a mixed-methods approach, including semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, and desk research. The project will be hosted by Rhea, the interdisciplinary research centre on gender, intersectionality, and bioethics at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in collaboration with the Ghent University Hospital Gender Team, an internationally renowned multidisciplinary team of plastic surgeons, sexologists, and gynaecologists who specialise in genital surgeries. With these teams’ support and my background in sociology, gender, and social anthropology and expertise in women’s health and genital surgeries, I am confident that I will successfully carry out this project and establish myself as a leader in the field of female genital surgeries. The project will prepare me for a career in women’s sexual health in academia, government, or civil society.

Keywords: female genital plastic cosmetic surgeries,sexual health,women s rights,health care
Hyperbolic Components and Wandering Domains in Complex Dynamics (HyCoWanDoCoDyn)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Complex dynamics is a subfield of dynamical systems, where the systems in question are generated by the iteration of a holomorphic function on a complex manifold. This proposal concerns itself with the following question: What is the equivalent of a hyperbolic component for parameter families of entire functions with wandering domains? Both hyperbolicity and wandering domains are the subject of much research in the area, and lie at the core of some of the field's major open questions. This project attempts to link them by focusing on three separate objectives: - Investigating generalisations to wandering domains of the multiplier map, a central tool in understanding hyperbolic components for parameter families of rational functions. - Fully classifying the structure of the Teichmüller spaces associated to wandering domains of entire functions. - Obtaining quasiconformal invariants for the boundary dynamics of wandering domains.

Keywords: dynamical systems,complex dynamics,wandering domains,hyperbolic geometry
Soil Quality Analysis Tool: Implementing Smart Farming Applications using EO Data, Soil Sensors & Robotics (SQAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Ukraine,Italy,Switzerland,Ireland
Call: Copernicus downstream applications and the European Data Economy (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3586760.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999903.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Digitalisation, robotics, and smart algorithms have brought the data economy to the farm. However, farms face large societal pressures related to soil: cleaner water, healthier soils, improved carbon storage and increase in biodiversity. A better understanding of the variability of soil properties and quality is needed, with current market solutions being too expensive and not well suited to farmer needs. SQAT's smart soil mapping service is a multi-level, multi-technology and multi-purpose solution. With a keen eye on markets and users, SQAT’s approach is designed to overcome today’s practical, technical and financial challenges to generate high resolution soil properties maps – and demand-driven products like application maps for soil improvement or crop management, or compliancy proof for eco schemes. Our vision is that the integration of different technologies provides a flexible and agile service beating the unbundled alternatives that are now in the market: our in-situ sampling and/or sensoring is wrapped in a Copernicus-based artificial intelligence soil mapping product. In the field, our autonomous robot-mounted sensor toolbox includes VIS-NIR sensors, automated sampler drill and penetrometer, and a novel chamber for in situ wet chemical soil analysis (Lab in the Field). Overall, the system increases the productivity and reduces laboratory/labour costs compared to current approaches. Using resulting maps, SQAT co-develops, tests and validates 5 smart farming applications to deliver value to farmers: Variable rate liming/fertilisation/seeding, Variable depth tillage, & Carbon farming MRV. We include 7 SMEs from across the SQAT data value chain to lead co-development in 7 use cases across Europe. The results will be commercialised by project end courtesy of a pro-active market focus, that aims to engage and onboard users in the use case locations, as well as other agri-service providers to develop their own SQAT-enabled smart farming applicatications.

Keywords: farm to fork,remote sensing,gnss,proximal sensing,automated robotic platforms,sustainable agriculture,mrv,regenerative agriculture,precision liming,variable rate sowing
Lipid Inclusions Modulating Inflammation in Thrombotic Stroke (LIMITS)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Each year, 1.1 million inhabitants of Europe suffer stroke. Stroke leads to extensive neuronal loss and results in an environment filled with cellular debris, notably myelin debris. The clearance of this debris by microglia is crucial for restoring homeostasis, but it can overwhelm their phagocytic function. Consequently, damaged areas often exhibit microglia with cytoplasmic inclusions known as lipid droplets (LDs). Recent findings by one of the supervisors indicate that microglia in young mice accumulate LDs, with Plin2 being one of the most differentially expressed genes after brain ischemia. LIMITS aims to characterize the contribution of LDs to the neurological deficits following thrombotic stroke to be exploited as (i) novel markers for monitoring and (ii) novel therapeutic targets. Additionally, we will develop new preclinical models to share with the entire research community. The objectives are: (i) to establish a new strain of transgenic mice with a deletion of the Plin2 gene in microglia, (ii) to characterize the inflammatory response, lesion volume, and neurological function after ischemic stroke of this new strain, and (iii) to identify new pharmacological approaches targeting LDs for the treatment of ischemic stroke. My expertise in inflammation and metabolic reprogramming, the supervisors' established proficiency in clinical and basic stroke research, the lipid expertise of our collaborators, and the availability of all necessary facilities and training opportunities at the host institution will ensure the success of this research. LIMITS project has the potential to uncover innovative therapies for ischemic stroke. Furthermore, since LDs have been shown to play a pivotal role not only in ischemic stroke but also in other conditions such as aging, obesity, and cancer, the results from this project are expected to have a significant impact across various disease areas.

Keywords: lipid droplets,plin2,microglia,metabolism,stroke
INNOVATIVE WATER-SOLUBLE PHYTOMCHEMICAL INHIBITORs FOR ALZHEIMERs AND PARKINSONs DISEASES PREVENTION (PhytoAPP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-SNLS-2021-IBA (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SNLS-IBA, 2021)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 46500.0
EU funding (EUR): 46500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions pay particular attention to physical accessibility and inclusion and foresee financial support for the additional costs entailed by recruited or seconded researchers with disabilities.

Keywords: innovative water soluble phytomaterial inhibitors for alzheimer s and parkinson s diseases prevention
Bringing sheet music into the Digital Era via Artificial Intelligence (Enote)

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: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2858758.75
EU funding (EUR): 1950597.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Since the ancient Greeks musical text has been preserved as written or "sheet music". In the last 100 years preservation of audio recordings has evolved from non-digital (vinyl discs, cassettes) to digital mediums (CDs, MP3 & streaming) with new technological possibilities as consequence. Sheet music remained static: It is mostly available on paper or as paper-scan-files. Enote sets out to evolve sheet music from paper and pdf-scans to native digital content in order to be able to apply modern-day technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data for solving key issues of modern-day musicians. Enote is developing an application for tablets and smartphones which for the first time in history will give musicians access to a comprehensive library of native-digital sheet music including artificial intelligence functionalities. This allows for ground-breaking features solving core problems of “static” sheet music itself and the limited possibilities of interaction that come with it.

Keywords: digitization,classical music,sheet music
FIrst NEar-TErm ApplicationS of QUAntum Devices (FINE-TEA-SQUAD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1485042.5
EU funding (EUR): 1485042.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum technologies have set remarkable milestones in the last years, e.g. with quantum advantage experiments and loophole-free Bell tests. Despite this progress, the quantum devices we currently have, the so-called noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, are too imperfect to run textbook quantum algorithms, yet they hold great potential. With their advent, much research has been devoted to finding them a first practical application. Focus on optimization, quantum chemistry and machine learning has been intense, and the developments are closely monitored by governments and industry alike. Variational algorithms in a classical-quantum feedback loop and adiabatic algorithms have been the dominant paradigm. However, important bottle-necks remain that severely maim the performance of NISQ devices and the field yearns for a novel approach. FINE-TEA-SQUAD, FIrst NEar-TErm ApplicationS of QUAntum Devices, proposes a radically new vision: to develop a unifying framework that will yield the first practical applications of NISQ devices. The main objectives are (A) to design experimentally-friendly protocols for quantum state preparation circumventing major existing bottlenecks (high number of repetitions, noise-induced barren plateaus...) and characterize broad families of states that can be prepared in a scalable way, (B) to develop a practical certification toolset amenable to near-term devices, with especial focus on the generation of certified randomness from a single NISQ device. The key idea is to use the hardness of many-body physics in a classical verifier-quantum prover interactive protocol. This approach will overcome the existing limitations of current approaches: it will be both easy to prepare and easy to verify (C) to overcome current hardware scalability limitations by combining several NISQ nodes into a small quantum network, and develop the appropriate theoretical framework to efficiently tailor and run quantum algorithms on them.

Keywords: near term quantum architectures,device independent,quantum information processing,certified randomness generation,tensor networks,variational algorithms,adiabatic algorithms,distributed quantum computing,semidefinite programming,certificates,relaxation methods
Renewable and Waste heat valorisation in Industries via Technologies for Cooling production and energy Harvesting (RE-WITCH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Greece,Spain,Poland,Sweden,Netherlands,Lithuania,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Integration of renewable heat or industrial waste heat in heat-to-cold conversion systems to generate cold for industrial processes (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11750284.61
EU funding (EUR): 9493621.88
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching aim of RE-WITCH is to deliver cost-competitive, game-changing solutions in the field of sustainable industrial cooling and heating. To do so, RE-WITCH will demonstrate advanced thermally-driven industrial cooling technologies based on ADsorption and ABsorption processes driven by an optimized mix of low-grade waste and renewable sources (innovative high vacuum flat plate solar collectors). Such solutions will be demonstrated in 4 demo sites encompassing food and beverage sectors as well as industrial sectors where heat-to-cold solutions are not yet widely explored (bio-refinery, pulp & paper). The activity will be completed by studying the replicability of proposed technologies in replication sites even integrated with DHN. The project will be delivered by an industrial-driven consortium of 26 partners from 10 countries and it is composed by some of the most innovative SMEs, LEs and R&D centers in the field of industrial renewable H&C leveraging experience from industrial and EU-funded projects (HYCOOL, SO-WHAT, Indus3Es). The multi-disciplinary composition of the consortium ensures that all the challenges (technical and non-) will be addressed to ultimately bring RE-WITCH solutions to the market by 2029. Innovative open access modelling platforms and engineering solutions will be also developed to facilitate the design, upscale, replication and integration in industrial processes of the proposed technologies. Thanks to a stakeholders’ driven dissemination and communication campaign, RE-WITCH will ultimately demonstrate transformative technological solutions that unlock the combined potential of low-grade waste and renewable heat use in industries, hence also targeting integration of heat-to-cold technologies into relevant EU Policies.

Keywords: absorption,adsorption,waste heat recovery,industrial solar thermal,renewable heating and cooling