Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Steering the Quantum Dynamics of Confined Molecular Materials (QUADYMM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Molecular materials are often present in forefront technologies targeting new sustainable energy alternatives. However, most of these alternatives currently fall short of the needs of industry and society. QUADYMM will investigate new fundamental mechanisms that could lead to paradigmatic changes in the design of such technologies. We will explore two main thematic avenues, from a theoretical perspective: 1) tuning the atomic and electronic properties of molecular materials in confined structured environments, and 2) realizing nonequilibrium molecular material states for dynamic control of stable and reactive phases of matter. From a large pool of areas where these concepts can be applied, QUADYMM will focus on water interfaces with inorganic materials and on aromatic hydrocarbon interfaces with 2D materials, because of their fundamental impact on electrochemistry and optoelectronics. The state of the art of computer simulation in this area is still based on classical mechanics of nuclei or simplified models, especially for nonequilibrium and nonadiabatic processes. Once successful, QUADYMM will provide new first-principles methodology to treat electronic and nuclear nonequilibrium dynamics, changing the predictive capacity of computational simulations of important processes, such as water-splitting and vibronic energy transport. Crucially, we will develop novel protocols for the inclusion of external stimuli in quantum dynamics simulations, bridging electronic and vibrational time scales and reaching the thermodynamic limit. This will be achieved by new techniques joining machine-learning methods with first-principles electronic structure and trajectory-based path-integral approaches. The resulting framework will elucidate the nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of complex weakly-bound systems containing thousands of atoms, and provide new structural and electronic phase diagrams to aid vibrational design.

Keywords: quantum mechanics,density functional theory,quantum dynamics,molecular dynamics,atomistic simulations,machine learning,non equilibrium
European Shift Enabler Portal for Freight (ESEP4Freight)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Italy
Call: Standardised offer/contract management for agile access to Rail Freight and multimodal services in EU (HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1427785.71
EU funding (EUR): 1299750.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

In the future European mobility system, freight rail plays a key role in making a significant contribution to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal. The fastest and most efficient way to decarbonize freight transport is to shift freight to rail. To achieve this shift, the overall competitiveness of rail in the transport market should be improved. To strengthen the role of freight rail in the transportation market, it is necessary to attract the attention of freight customers. One manner to increase the awareness of rail freight is to provide customers with high-quality and open information about the possibilities of rail transport and the associated benefits of rail freight. The objective of the ESEP4Freight project is therefore to provide freight customers with an overview of the available rail freight services in Europe via a web platform. This will be supported by the creation of a Web Platform based on an existing map developed by SKGV that identifies freight flows with a higher potential for transport by rail. The Web Platform will include an Interactive map with different modules such as CO2 calculator, a schedule viewer, a contract toolbox and a match making tool. In addition, ESEP4Freight aims to support the shift of freight to rail by analysing the current contractual framework, proposing a set of recommendations for its updated and suggesting a set of harmonised and standardised models for transport agreements and contracts. The set of harmonised contracts will be also the base for piloting a new set of blockchain-based specifications for simplifying transport agreements and contracts.

Keywords: web platform,interactive map,supply chain,intermodal shift,key performance indicators kpis,emissions,environment,contractual and legal framework,smart contracts
Realising Girls’ and Women's Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment (RE-WIRING)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Spain,South Africa,Poland,United Kingdom
Call: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2461349.75
EU funding (EUR): 2461349.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

In order to prevent and reverse inequalities and promote girls’ and women’s inclusion, representation and empowerment, it is necessary to better understand the root causes of gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps across political, social, economic and cultural spheres. RE-WIRING’s overall objective is to contribute to practical, sustainable and structural institutional change in these spheres, through evidence-based understanding of cumulative effects of gender stereotyping and multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantages. The project therefore involves extensive research in six countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Poland and the UK and collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. The project team will carry out a survey and interventions, in addition to qualitative data collection, media discourse analysis and legal policy analysis. RE-WIRING incorporates innovative responses to the challenge to properly identify how the interrelations of power and barriers shape gender (in)equality and exclusion within the different spheres and how these can be effectively changed. It does so, first, by developing an approach that combines insights from the institutional, experiential and symbolic levels of gender (in)equality in the fields of decision-making, law and policies, work, education and media. This will provide the basis for a much needed multidisciplinary Transformative Equality Approach. This approach will also add to the state-of -the-art by taking intersectionality, culture and crises into account as relevant contextual factors for making such an approach work. Second, the analysis combines various research techniques geared towards co-creating practical solutions, innovative tools and policy responses for the effective mainstreaming of transformative equality in public and private institutions. The project thus aims to ‘re-wire’ institutions so as to dismantle the structural root causes of gendered power hierarchies

Keywords: media studies inclusion inequality intersectionality sociology anti discrimination law empowerment
Adaptation-oriented Seamless Predictions of European ClimaTe (ASPECT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Croatia,Sweden,Serbia
Call: Supporting the formulation of adaptation strategies through improved climate predictions in Europe and beyond (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7027623.85
EU funding (EUR): 7027623.85
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

ASPECT aims for the setup and demonstration of a seamless climate information (SCI) system with a time horizon up to 30yr, accompanied by underpinning research and utilisation of climate information for sectoral applications (‘middle-ground level’1). The goal is to improve existing climate prediction systems and merge their outputs across timescales together with climate projections to unify a SCI as a standard for sectoral decision-making. The focus will be on European climate information but we will also look more widely where there is a policy interest (e.g., disaster preparedness) and in regions of European interest. We will maintain a strong link into an exploit learning from the WCRP lighthouse activities on explaining and predicting earth system change. To provide a bandwidth diversity of information the SCI system will be based on multi-model climate forecasts, and will build on learning from projects such as EUCP. It will align with new activities on Digital Twins within Europe, including DestinE. The SCI will combine physical science aspects with those from other disciplines to ensure the information is robust, reliable and relevant for a range of user driven decision cases. The information package will incorporate baseline forecasts and projections (plus uncertainty), but also new frontiers will be explored (e.g., extremes which are of socioeconomic high-level interest). To be successful the research will encompass: Understanding and attribution of various processes along the timescales (such as exploring signal-to-noise ratio) and their impact on predictability, new ways of initialisation of the prediction systems, merging predictions with projections, provision of regional SCI for Europe by downscaling (statistical methods, AI) and HighRes models (including convection-permitting models) and innovative post-processing method enhancing the skill and robustness of the climate forecasts.
INTEgrating GaN nanowire heterostructures on 2D heteRogeneous plAtforms for photodetectION (INTEGRASION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-23
End date: 2026-09-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

III-nitride semiconductors (GaN/AlGaN) are strategic materials for photodetection in a broad spectral range from deep ultraviolet to far infrared. These domains can be addressed thanks to interband and intersubband transitions respectively, which cover wavelengths inaccessible to standard III-V semiconductors. Heterogeneous integration of III-N nanowires (NWs) on 2D materials at the same time opens new technological opportunities for advanced optoelectronics and presents fundamental interest to elucidate the physics of van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE). Available research on epitaxial growth of GaN NWs on 2D graphene has demonstrated its promise; however, the scope for improvement remains limited. A number of questions with fundamental significance e.g. the influence of the 2D material in NW growth, controlling factors for NW size/size-distribution, and generalized understanding of vdWE with experimental authentication remain open. INTEGRASION proposes to address these open questions and to achieve a general understanding of vdWE of nitrides on 2D materials for advanced optoelectronic devices. To reach this goal, GaN/AlGaN NWs will be grown on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (WS2) and comparative analysis will be performed with growth on graphene. The fundamentals of growth process will be assessed experimentally and theoretically emphasizing the impact of 2D materials on the NW growth which is pivotal for heterojunction formation. GaN/AlGaN heterojunctions in multi-quantum well structure will be grown on 2D platforms to demonstrate interband UV photodetection as well as intersubband photodetection in mid- and far-infrared domains. Besides, heterogeneous integration of GaN NWs on 2D platforms will facilitate the post-growth transfer of III-N NWs to flexible substrates where monolithic integration is not possible. INTEGRASION will address these three key aspects: (i) heterogenous growth, (ii) interband/intersubband photodetection and (iii) hybrid integration.

Keywords: epitaxy,2d materials,van der waals epitaxy,iii nitrides,nanowires,intersubband photodetection
Efficient direct REcycling for low-valUe LFP battery for circular and SustainablE waste management (ReUse)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Denmark,Czechia,France,Switzerland,Serbia,Norway
Call: New processes for upcoming recycling feeds (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4927664.93
EU funding (EUR): 4927664.93
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The development of sustainable, safe and efficient processes for battery recycling is crucial to improve the circularity and strategic autonomy of the European Li-ion battery (LiB) value chain, in line with the objectives of the Battery Partnership launched under Horizon Europe. The objective of the ReUse project is to improve the circularity and sustainability of the entire low-value LFP battery waste stream - from production scrap to end-of-life LiB - by developing new recycling processes that maximize the recovery of input elements and components. Specific objectives include the development of automated sorting and disassembly strategies, the improvement of recycling efficiency and direct reuse of battery materials, and the assurance of sustainability through life cycle assessment, life cycle costing and social impact studies. With a focus on maximizing material recovery, energy efficiency and purity, ReUse will develop a robust, flexible and sustainable direct recycling process for waste streams of varying composition and quality. The project aims to increase the global competitiveness of the European battery ecosystem in line with the European Strategic Plan for a clean and sustainable transition towards climate neutrality. Building on the BATTERY 2030+ Roadmap and the European Partnership on Batteries, ReUse aims to contribute to the policy needs of the European Green Deal and efficient recycling technologies. The project will address the urgent need to address the shortcomings related to the technological, economic and environmental sustainability of recycling EoL LiBs, especially LFP batteries, which make up 46% of the global LiB market by 2030.

Keywords: li ion battery recycling,lfp recycling,sustainable batteries,direct recycling,battery value chain,battery waste streams,life cycle and social impact assessment,recovery maximisation,efficiency
HUMAN-ROBOT SENSORIMOTOR AUGMENTATION - WEARABLE SENSORIMOTOR INTERFACES AND SUPERNUMERARY ROBOTIC LIMBS FOR HUMANS WITH UPPER-LIMB DISABILITIES (HARIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Sweden,Spain,Portugal
Call: Pushing the limit of robotics cognition (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4948592.5
EU funding (EUR): 4948592.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

HARIA re-defines the nature of physical human-robot interaction (HRI), laying the foundations of a new research field, i.e., human sensorimotor augmentation, whose constitutive elements are: i) AI-powered wearable and grounded supernumerary robotic limbs and wearable sensorimotor interfaces; ii) methods for augmentation enabling users to directly control and feel the extra limbs exploiting the redundancy of the human sensorimotor system through wearable interfaces; iii) clear target populations, i.e., chronic stroke and spinal cord injured individuals, and real-world application scenarios to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the paradigm shift that HARIA represents in HRI and the great impact on the motivation to re-use the paretic arm(s), with consequent improvement of the quality of life. Supernumerary limbs will be partially controlled by artificial intelligence, and partially under the direct control of the human who gains the agency of some motion parameters of the supernumerary limbs. From the control point of view, it is fundamental to find the right trade-off between motion task parameters that are controlled by the user, and the level of robot autonomy. This interplay is enabled by the wearable sensorimotor interface that establishes a connection between the human sensorimotor system and the system of actuators and sensors of the robot, allowing reciprocal awareness, trustworthiness and mutual understanding. HARIA finds its natural application in assisting people with uni- or bi-lateral upper limbs chronic motor disabilities. Technology and methodology developments will follow a user-centered design approach, as only patients with disabilities are fully aware of their real (still unmet) needs in real life activities. This project will also go beyond the application to health, starting a new era of intuitive and seamless human-robot augmentation by wearable sensorimotor interfaces and supernumerary limbs.

Keywords: sensorimotor augmentation,wearable interfaces,ai powered robotic supernumerary limbs,human robot co adaptation,manipulation,haptics,assistive robotics,human motor control,collaborative robots
INTELLIGENT DIGITAL TOOLS FOR GREEN RENOVATION, ASSESSMENT, TRANSFORMATION, EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY (INTEGRATES)

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
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Spain,Bulgaria,Cyprus,Switzerland
Call: BIM-based processes and digital twins for facilitating and optimising circular energy renovation (Built4People Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4408756.23
EU funding (EUR): 3999889.41
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The construction sector faces unprecedented challenges in meeting EU climate and circularity goals, with buildings accounting for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions. Despite available digital technologies, the industry struggles to implement sustainable practices, particularly among SMEs who represent over 90% of the sector. Current digital solutions remain fragmented and often inaccessible, creating barriers to widespread adoption of sustainable practices. INTEGRATES addresses these challenges by developing an innovative framework that connects Building Information Modelling, Digital Twins, and data-driven services through an intelligent knowledge architecture. The project will achieve this through three key innovations: - A unified ontology-based knowledge framework, supported by neuro-symbolic AI, bridging existing building data standards - User-centric digital tools for SME adoption, featuring AI-assisted workflows that reduce design and planning time, and facilitate operation and resource recovery - An integrated platform connecting building lifecycle phases through Digital Product Passports and Digital Building Logbook These innovations will be validated through four complementary demonstration cases spanning different building types: a public building end-of-life transformation in Italy, a residential renovation in Bulgaria, a smart district optimization in Belgium, and a new construction project in Spain. The project targets reduction in renovation planning time, increase in material reuse rates, improvement in energy efficiency, and active implementation by local SMEs. Through participation in standardization committees and regional networks, INTEGRATES will drive lasting change in the European construction sector. The consortium brings together 16 partners from 9 countries, combining research institutions, technology providers, and regional innovation hubs to ensure both technical excellence and practical implementation focused on SME need

Keywords: bim digital twin digital product passport digital building logbook ai ontologies sustainability building renovation resource efficiency circular economy digital transformation construction