Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Trustworthy, Energy-Aware federated DAta Lakes along the computing continuum (TEADAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Portugal,Italy,Estonia,Israel,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Spain,Romania,Switzerland
Call: Technologies and solutions for compliance, privacy preservation, green and responsible data operations (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8846422.51
EU funding (EUR): 8846422.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Data analytics is one of the main cornerstones in many enterprise architectures and the data lake paradigm is more and more adopted to assist organizations in taking reliable, accurate, and fast decisions. Although the initial approaches to address these issues saw the data lakes as the evolution of data warehouses to be implemented on-premises, cloud providers are nowadays including in their offerings platforms able to setup and run them. Nevertheless, the increasing amount of data generated at the edge and the need to enable the data sharing among organizations are posing new challenges in terms of performances, energy efficiency, and privacy/confidentiality which can be properly addressed with data lakes which are deployed along the whole computing continuum as well as building a federation of such data lakes. The ambition of TEADAL is to provide key cornerstone technologies to create stretched data lakes spanning the cloud-edge continuum and multi-cloud, providing privacy, confidentiality, and energy-efficient data management. The TEADAL data lake technologies will enable trusted, verifiable and energy efficient data flows, both in a stretched data lake and across a trustworthy mediatorless federation of them, based on a shared approach for defining, enforcing, and tracking privacy/confidentiality requirements balanced with the need for energy reduction.

Keywords: data lake in computing continuum,trustworthy data sharing,energy efficient data sharing,trustworthy data lake federation,energy efficient data management
Enhanced and cost-effective biosecurity in livestock production (BioSecure)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Ireland,Denmark,Spain,Sweden,France,Romania,Estonia,Italy,Hungary,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Enhancing biosecurity in terrestrial livestock production (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4868322.5
EU funding (EUR): 4868322.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Given the multitude of interactions between animals, humans and production systems, a thorough understanding of infection transmission routes is key in designing good biosecurity measures. Transmission can occur via direct contact but also through a range of indirect routes such as clothing, footwear, contaminated vehicles, air etc. Although all these routes have been described, their relative importance and therefore the importance of the linked biosecurity measures are still poorly understood. Consequently, many of the current biosecurity guidelines are based on empirical evidence making it difficult to rank measures by importance. The overarching goal of BioSecure is to improve the capacity for key actors and decision-makers in livestock farming to understand, prioritise and implement evidence-based, cost-effective and sustainable biosecurity management systems in current and future terrestrial livestock production chains for pigs, poultry, cattle and small ruminants. This will be achieved by: • Setting up and facilitating a multi actor stakeholder forum to support interactive knowledge exchange, bottom-up behavioural change and uptake of the key exploitable results. • Collecting existing biosecurity intelligence throughout the livestock production chain and creating biosecurity risk maps at an EU level for improving future risk analysis. • Quantifying the impact of biosecurity practices through quantitative risk assessment and mathematical models as tools to quantify the probability of introduction and spread of pathogens at farm and sector level. • Improving and extending biosecurity scoring tools for accurate measuring the level of biosecurity and providing adapted and science based advices. • Evaluation and improvement of biosecurity measures through experiments and field studies. • Assessing the socio-economic impact of biosecurity measures both at farm level and beyond.

Keywords: biosecurity,evidence based,cost effective,stakeholder,production chain,impact,infection prevention,field studies,socio economic impact,disease transmission
Highly efficient and sustainable refrigeration based on solid state Magnetic Cooling Device (MCD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3733402.5
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cooling and refrigeration account for 7.8% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 20% of electricity demand. The standard refrigerant F-gases have a tremendous global warming potential (GWP) and are being phased out in the EU. Available alternative gases are either toxic or explosive, posing serious issues for their applicability. Magnotherm has developed the first industrially feasible refrigeration unit based on magnetic cooling technology that uses a specific class of material and alternating magnetic fields. This is achieved thanks to a patented process to mass produce highly performant, stable and cheap magnetocaloric materials using abundant, noncritical materials; and to interdisciplinary backgrounds and world-leading research resulting from TU Darmstadt. Magnetic cooling implements a solid state cooling cycle using no refrigeration gas, with 0 associated GWP, no risk to the environment and no issues of flammability. It is x3 more efficient and achieves 40% electricity savings.

Keywords: magnetic cooling,magnetocaloric materials,alternating magnetic fields,solid state refrigeration cycle,gas free refrigerator,domestic refrigerator,food and beverage refrigerating display cabinet
Investment and EU Law: Reconceptualizing Reverse Discrimination (RULIERD)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The RULIERD project aims to reconceptualise the hierarchy of norms of the European legal order to lessen the clash between European Union (EU) law and international investment law. To achieve this aim, the project examines reverse discrimination (RD) as an understudied, and yet representative issue of this larger phenomenon. Following the Achmea case of 2018, the Court of Justice of the EU has progressively developed a far-reaching interpretation of the principle of autonomy of the European legal order that renders difficult the coordination of EU law with international investment law. At a theoretical level, RULIERD will be the first research project to explain the connection between the dualistic attitude of the Court of Justice of the EU and RD. At a practical level, it is unclear whether RD is admissible under article 18 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU or under general international law. RD may in fact endanger the principles of equality and fair competition: if foreign firms are treated more favourably than domestic firms, this disadvantages small domestic companies, thus adversely affecting economic development. RULIERD examines the practical and theoretical aspects of RD using an innovative combined methodology that involves the use of law and economics. Market power theory allows defining RD and testing whether RD jeopardises the fair functioning of the common market. The hypothesis is that a neo-monist approach could avoid RD. RULIERD makes both a theoretical and practical contribution: it mitigates the clash between EU law and international investment law and, identifies a fairer legal framework for companies operating in the EU market.

Keywords: international investment law eu law legal philosophy law and economics
Live Agora: Creating Inclusive and Democratic Digital Spaces for Community Collaboration (Live Agora)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Social Innovation Competition
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: The European Social Innovation Competition 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-EUSIC-PRIZE-04, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TAAT’s work is a form of critical spatial practice, using the performativity of space to mediate and facilitate spontaneous and meaningful interactions. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on physical gatherings forced TAAT to rethink its approach to placemaking. TAAT was faced with the significant challenge of replicating the physical spaces' accessibility and autonomy in the digital realm. Existing digital platforms were centralised, inaccessible, and failed to support the user-led, decentralised environments TAAT envisioned. This inspired the creation of Live Agora, a digital platform designed for user-led collaboration and co-creation. It operates on a decentralised, community-owned model, ensuring users maintain full control over their data and interactions. This approach supports self-hosting, guaranteeing long-term access and sovereignty over digital spaces. Live Agora addresses the need for digital spaces that prioritise user control and community empowerment over centralised data exploitation, while promoting a digital ecosystem based on empowerment and community-driven solutions. It is shaped by local community assets, inspiration, and potential, much like traditional placemaking. Our solution aligns with the European Commission’s vision outlined in the ‘2030 Digital Compass’ to empower citizens and businesses through digital transformation. Live Agora fosters grassroots communities and strengthens civil society, creating spaces for dialogue rooted in democratic values. This initiative represents not just a digital tool, but a movement towards a more inclusive and democratic digital future. Through Live Agora, we envision a space where collaboration and co-creation thrive, driven by principles of equality, accessibility, and sustainability. Live Agora is our response to the need for decentralised digital placemaking, ensuring that digital spaces can be as inclusive and empowering as physical ones.

Keywords: digital placemaking,interactive environments,user led,spatial canvas interface,real time collaboration,open source,participatory design,decentralisation,self hosting,digital commons
Tools and methods for extended plant PHENotyping and EnviroTyping services of European Research Infrastructures (PHENET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Austria,Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,Portugal,Spain,Switzerland,United States
Call: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10237131.26
EU funding (EUR): 9993469.0
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

Europe urgently needs to find pathways towards agroecological transition of agroecosystems in support to food security, climate change resilience, biodiversity and soil carbon stocks restoration. In PHENET, the European Research Infrastructures (RI) on plant phenotyping (EMPHASIS), ecosystems experimentation (AnaEE), long-term observation (eLTER) and data management and bioinformatics (ELIXIR) will join their forces to co-develop, with a diversity of innovative companies, new tools and methods - meant to contribute to new RI services - for the identification of future-proofed combinations of species, genotypes and management practices in front of the most likely climatic scenarios across Europe. Ambitioning to go beyond current highly instrumented but often spatially and temporally limited RI installations, PHENET derived services will allow wide access to enlarged sources of in-situ phenotypic and environmental data thanks to (i) new AI-based multi (agroecology-related) traits multi-sensors devices (ii) to unleashed access to high resolution Earth Observation data connected to ground based data, (iii) FAIR data support for connection with (iv) new generation of predictive modeling solutions encompassing AI and digital twins. Developments will be challenged by and implemented in a series of eight Use Cases covering a large range of agroecosystems but also of ecosystems to demonstrate portability of solutions. Several of these Use Cases will mobilize on-farm data. A large effort will be devoted to training RI staff and beyond through a sustained collection of training material fed by experts. Outreaching activities will aim at enlarging the range of RI users. PHENET will not only strengthen RI but will also have major impact on the development of innovative companies on phenotyping, envirotyping and precision agriculture as well as on the emergence of climate smart crop varieties and innovative practices fitted to climate change and agroecological transition.

Keywords: phenotyping,envirotyping,big data,artificial intelligence,models,earth observation,internet of things,agroecology,climate change
Enabling Noble Metal Reactivity with Earth-Abundant Metals for Selective Bond Functionalization Strategies (Fenometal)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The functionalization of C=C and C–X bonds (X = I, Cl, Br, and H) is fundamental in organic chemistry for making carbon-carbon bonds or for introducing molecular complexity. Chemists have traditionally relied on precious metals catalyst such as palladium, platinum, and iridium to facilitate these transformations. Some of these metals, if not all of them, are one of the rarest on earth, leading to increasingly high prices and uncertainty in future supply chains. As their availability continues to decline it is important to address the scarcity of these metals to secure a sustainable future. One solution is to develop new technologies that allow one to substitute the precious metal catalysts for those that are abundantly available (e.g., iron), without sacrificing on performance and selectivity. Because of the fundamental differences between the properties of iron (one-electron chemistry) and the second/third-row transition metals (two-electron chemistry), this approach has shown to be a daunting task. If, however, it could be shown that iron could reliably engage in two-electron chemistry, then the reactivity of precious metals could be unlocked for iron. Through bespoke ligand design we will attempt to unlock this two-electron chemistry and apply it to three of the most common reactions in organic synthesis; (i) cross-coupling, (ii) alkene metathesis, and (iii) C–H bond functionalization. By relying on a distinct two-electron mechanism, a treasure trove of possibilities for selective bond forming reactions is generated. Overall, this work is expected to result in new avenues in earth-abundant metal catalysis and provide new methodologies to construct ever important C-C and C-N that can be used to induce molecular complexity.

Keywords: earth abundant metals iron cross coupling alkene metathesis bond activation organometallic chemistry
SEARCH: SEaweeds in ARCHaeology to promote sustainable consumption (SEARCH)

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: Norway,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-02
End date: 2027-06-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 267418.56
EU funding (EUR): 267418.56
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Current global concerns about food security and the impacts of climate change on our existing food systems require innovative and sustainable solutions. Seaweeds are poised to become a sustainable food of the future and will be central to solving impending food crises, mitigating effects of global climate change, and re-invigorating human-ocean relationships. However, a significant barrier to successful uptake of the seaweed industry in Europe is a lack of cultural awareness on local seaweed consumption in human foodways. Human relationships with seaweed and aquatic coastal plants (e.g., seagrass) are historically understudied in archaeology and underappreciated culturally despite the likelihood that these relationships have been central components for past coastal societies, as evidenced by historic and ethnographic research. Understanding past human-algae/plant relationships and cultivation strategies provides key frameworks for contemporary and future strategies involving coastal plant and seaweed foraging, cultivation, and consumption. Such frameworks are urgently needed to build ecologically and culturally sound strategies and to prevent problematic over exploitation of these resources and damage to ecological systems. This project will provide important global advances in environmental archaeology by investigating archaeological seaweed residues and retrieve critical data at a local scale for the future of Northern Europe's seaweed and coastal industries. Past human relationships with seaweeds and coastal plants will be investigated using innovative archaeological science approaches that target microbotanical and micro-algae residues. Through accessing these microremains this project will compile paleoecological data to create a scientifically informed environmental baseline and trace ancient human-plant/algae relationships in northern Europe.

Keywords: seaweed,diatoms,phytoliths,starch grains,palaeoecology
REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture (REWATERING)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Protected agriculture makes use of technology to create an optimal environment for crops growth. In particular, protected agriculture makes use of covers to shield crops from adverse meteorological events including storms, droughts, temperature extremes and strong winds. However, these controls inherently disrupt the water budget terms currently accounted for in hydrological modelling (runoff, evapotranspiration, soil moisture storage, infiltration, etc…). For the first time, the project REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture (REWATERING) will deliver and validate a methodology for catchment-scale models (i.e., CATHY) to explicitly account for the role of protected agriculture on water quantity and quality. REWATERING will also unprecedently monitor water quality in a stream draining a small catchment mainly used for protected agriculture by means of high-resolution mass spectrometry. I will carry out REWATERING in a globally recognised research group for hydrological modelling. Overall, the host university will be the perfect interdisciplinary hub to accomplish the proposed research because it will provide internal collaborations with excellent academics in hydrology, agriculture and environmental chemistry. Protected agriculture is a growing reality worldwide, currently covering 15% of the agricultural lands, and often occupying entire hydrological catchments. The socially relevant and scientifically innovative interdisciplinary activities proposed in this research are urged to expand catchment-scale hydrological models to predict short- and long-term water quantity and quality resulting from water management characteristic of protected agriculture.

Keywords: agricultural catchment hydrological modelling,water resources,protected agriculture,high resolution mass spectrometry