Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
atm-uspacE iNterface and airSpace reconfigURation sErvice (ENSURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Hungary,Lithuania,Iceland,Ireland
Call: Fast Track Innovation and Uptake U-space and Urban Air Mobility (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9896782.01
EU funding (EUR): 6353582.42
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to refine and complete the definition of the common ATM U-space interface by identifying new working areas with impact and providing a consolidated interface with a standardized data model, architecture and an operation method to achieve a minimum TRL7. This proposal addresses the topic “ATM – U-space Interface and Services” which is composed of the following solutions: - Solution 1: ATM - U-space Interface:. Achieve full integration of ATM and U-space systems, by refining and completing the definition of the common ATM U-space interface and identifying new working areas with impact on the already started common interface. - Solution 2: Dynamic Airspace Reconfiguration: Develop the complete service mentioned in U-space regulation and in their respective Guidance Material (GM) and Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC), necessary to stablish the operating methodology and develop the standard interface to help ATC actors in charge of airspace reconfigurations to maintain traffic segregation and to avoid proximity between manned and unmanned aircraft within the designated U-space airspace.

Keywords: this project aims to refine and complete the definition of the common atm u space interface by identifying new working areas with impact and providing a consolidated interface with a standardized data
PeeRing into the mechanIsm of synthesis of Metal Oxides Nanoparticles using PLANTS (PRIMONPLANTS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

We propose to extend a recently discovered and novel route to the non-aqueous synthesis of Metal Oxide NanoParticles (MONPs; M: Zn, Ce, Zr) that uses as precursors (i) their nitrate salt and (ii) affordable plants, like the doum or beet root, some of their constituents such as glucose and sucrose and even simpler organic compounds such as glycerol and ethylene glycol (iii) which is carried out in a one pot synthesis with foaming at low temperature (< 110°C) in a few minutes compared to those reported that require a higher temperature, several steps and several hours (500°C, 8 h). We will take advantage of this study to model, on simple compounds, the mechanism of MONP synthesis involving plants described as "green synthesis" in the literature, which until now has not yet been properly rationalized. To this end, we have strategically assembled a panel of scientists from different fields ranging from physics and materials science to inorganic and organic chemistry, belonging to both academia and industry. We will extend our original discovery to a series of strategically selected organic compounds containing different functional groups to find those that behave as described above and eventually produce MONPs by foaming. Finally, we will apply our findings to the large-scale production of certain MONPs (M: Ce, Zr) through a partnership with "Stûv", a leading company specializing in the manufacture of domestic wood stoves, a sustainable resource for household heating. This should give this European industry a competitive advantage at the international level. MNOPs will be inserted into filters to destroy Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) found in smoke generated by household woodstoves. The economic impact should be significant because the emission of toxic fumes is a brake on the use of this mode of heating in Europe. This project is in line with and goes beyond the new European regulations (Ecodesign2022).

Keywords: bioengineering,foaming,plants,green synthesis,maillard reaction,caramelization,solution combustion synthesis,synchrotron
Large-scale and wide-band brain dynamics mediating memory consolidation in the freely moving rat (Wide-Band Ephys)

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: United States,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 307784.76
EU funding (EUR): 307784.76
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Dementia is a major healthcare challenge worldwide due to its high incidence and its strong impact on the life quality of patients and on society as a whole. Development of treatments for the mitigation of memory impairment in patients with dementia has proven very challenging, partly due to our limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms of memory consolidation. Memory consolidation is mediated by communication between large-scale networks in the brain, particularly the hippocampal formation and neocortical circuits, coordinated by synchronous oscillatory dynamics, as shown in both humans and animal models during the resting state. In humans, this coordination is associated with complex resting-state network (RSN) dynamics that are reflected in spatio-temporal patterns of infra-slow (<0.5Hz) brain activity. However, the link between RSNs dynamics and well-understood neuronal dynamics underlying memory consolidation in animal models remains a major knowledge gap due to technical limitations. Wide-Band Ephys has a unique potential to close this gap by mapping extracellular potentials with high spatio-temporal resolution in a wide frequency band, enabling inference of RSN dynamics across brain-wide networks in freely moving rats. Using customized graphene-based neural probes in combination with Neuropixel 2.0 probes, fiber-photometry and optogenetics, I aim to investigate the mechanisms underlying memory consolidation with an unprecedented level of detail. Extending the current knowledge on the functional role of RSNs and local slow oscillations in the rat could lead to the development of novel treatments for dementia, which will be explored in collaboration with the private sector during this project. The interdisciplinary approach presented in this proposal will complement my expertise in neurotechnology with more advanced skills in fundamental neuroscience, enhancing my career prospects in the field of translational neuroscience.

Keywords: active sensors,wide band,fiber photometry,closed loop,optogenetics,slow oscillations,rsn,memory consolidation
HYdrogen Public Opinion and accePtance (HYPOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Spain,Poland,Belgium,Bulgaria
Call: Public understanding of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1062755.0
EU funding (EUR): 1062754.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

HYPOP aims to raise public awareness and trust towards hydrogen technologies and their systemic benefits, through: a) the preparation of guidelines and good practices that will help to define more effectively how citizens, consumers/end-users and stakeholders can be involved in the implementation of H2 technologies. b) the creation of a web platform collecting communication material, mainly videos, on new hydrogen technologies, developed according to the early findings of the public engagement activities. HYPOP is led by ENVI, an innovation accelerator for business with 20 years’ experience in the hydrogen sector. HYPOP is represented by a well-balanced Consortium representing 6 Countries: National Hydrogen Clusters (IT, B, PL, BG), three Research Organisations (IR, ES), an Agency for the Promotion of European Research (IT). Four guidelines will be developed: one more public oriented that will report on best practices to involve citizens, the other 3 collecting the results coming from the involvement of stakeholders’ groups (First Responders, Permitting Authorities, Certification Body). HYPOP will also contribute to the definition of indicators to be used for Social Life Cycle Assessment of hydrogen technologies, and for this will focus on 2 applications: residential and mobility, which will enter into the daily life of people. HYPOP will also be connected with some ongoing H2 projects characterised by demonstration activities in public spaces. Some of them have already been identified, i.e., Everywh2ere, Reflex, H2Ports, REMOTE: they are well known to the consortium partners and have faced some barriers often due to a lack of specific reference cases for the authorities called upon to grant safety and other permissions for the installation or use of the demonstrators. The HYPOP website aims to become the hosting site of similar videos explaining upcoming hydrogen technology currently under development and demonstration.

Keywords: public acceptance awareness raising hydrogen stakeholders guidance
UNISCOOL: SMART IN-CHIP LIQUID COOLING FOR ADVANCED MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS (UniSCool)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The continuous increase in power density of integrated circuits due to the ever-increasing rate of data and communications and the constant push for size and cost reduction settles thermal management as a big concern for the ICT industry. Consequently, cooling, with its enormous consumption of electricity and water has an increasingly large environmental impact, and new technologies to extract the heat in a more sustainable way are committed. A promising approach for more efficient thermal management is to directly embed liquid cooling inside the chip, eliminating the thermal resistance between the semiconductor die and the packaging. UniScool proposes a new patented and highly innovative liquid cooling system, based on an adaptive heat sink that includes a series of thermally activated fins capable of efficiently adapting the local heat extraction to time-dependent and non-uniform heat load scenarios, providing high-temperature uniformity without a custom design stage, avoiding overcooling and reducing the required pumping power, what provides an added-value solution that improves the existing ones. But with this project, we aim to go further and enter a new leading thermal management paradigm by developing an embedded liquid cooling system at the chip stack with the advantages of self-adaptive fins. This solution can boost the heat extraction capacity of the system up to more than 1kW/cm2 with significantly reduced flow rate and pumping power consumption (x 0.5), high performance, and significantly reduced space (x10) in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. With Women TechEU, we aim to do a prototype demonstration of in-chip liquid cooling, embedded at the chip stack, based on a microchannel array with self-adaptive fins that regulate the local thermal resistance according to local temperature, which can be an open door for semiconductor manufacturers to believe in in-chip cooling and incorporate UniSCool solution in their microelectronic components.

Keywords: microelectronics cooling,thermal management,self adaptive cooling,data centre,energy efficiency,sustainability
Genomics of Miniaturisation in Vertebrates (GEMINI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497350.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497350.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Miniaturisation—the evolution of such reduced body size that anatomy or ecology is substantially altered—has been a defining force in vertebrate evolution. These changes must have a genomic basis. My ambition with GEMINI is to characterise the interplay between organismal miniaturisation and the genome, and discover how morphological transformations can arise in these organisms. To do this, I will produce a new comparative genomic paradigm in Work Package 1 (WP1) comprising chromosome-level genomes from 20 sister-pairs of miniaturised and non-miniaturised species spanning subphylum Vertebrata. Of these 40 genomes, 23 will be newly generated using the latest sequencing technologies and annotation pipelines. I will apply a host of cutting-edge methods in comparative evolutionary genomics to identify genomic signatures of miniaturisation (WP2), and test hypotheses regarding the drivers and limiters of miniaturisation (WP3) on this paradigm. I will then integrate these findings with developmental approaches to establish if there is a common basis to a classic case of convergent, miniaturisation-induced anatomical change: digit loss in the smallest tetrapods, frogs (WP4). GEMINI will dramatically change our understanding of the evolution of miniaturisation. It will set the stage for larger-scale interrogation of the evolution of novelty in metazoans, and help us understand why being small is such a big deal.

Keywords: evolutionary genomics,comparative genomics,evo devo,miniaturisation,vertebrate zoology
Legal Challenges posed by AI Generated Music: A Comparative study of Copyright Laws of China, India, Norway, USA and UK, to develop suitable Global Legal Framework specifically for AI Generated Music (MusicLaw)

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,United Kingdom
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): 251578.56
EU funding (EUR): 251578.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) with its ability to generate music popularly known as AI Music, has potential to permanently change the music landscape. It presents us with both unprecedented opportunities and challenges - opportunities such as democratising music creation, increasing accessibility by reducing music production costs and time. It also opens pandora’s box of legal challenges such as copyrightability of AI Music, legal concerns at the input stage i.e. training of AI Music Engines/Models, at the output stage i.e. generation of AI Music and others. These legal challenges are not confined to a particular country or geographical area but are of global concern, demanding concerted global effort to arrive at global solution. The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) comprising of 29 members including European Union, USA, United Kingdom and India, have highlighted need for exploring and deeper scrutiny of inter-alia various dimensions of AI including its legality and governance issues. Specifically for Europe, addressing these legal challenges will assist in ensuring secure, safe and sustainable digital transformation that puts people at the center, in line with core EU values and fundamental rights. AI music engines such as Suno and Udio are already in public domain. It becomes pivotal at this juncture, to explore, identify and address legal challenges posed by AI Music. Various countries are re-visiting, re-thinking and amending their copyright laws in light of the increasing AI capabilities. This postdoctoral project aims to conduct international, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the music copyright law using novel research methods, to fill the existing void, by developing first of its kind international legal framework specific to AI Music that accommodates the evolving dynamics of music ecosystem. It will also strengthen the 5 Pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development around which 17 SDG's are structured.

Keywords: music law comparative copyright law generative artificial intelligence and copyright law
A training network on glyconanomaterials as precision tools to unveil key insights on the triggering of the antigen presenting cells against cancer (CanGoNano)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,Hungary,France,Netherlands,Spain,Austria,Portugal,Belgium,Ireland,Australia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4507967.73
EU funding (EUR): 4017472.92
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Immunotherapy is at the frontier of cancer treatment, with vaccine prototypes in phase III clinical trials. However, guidelines for the selection of the optimal antigen format (mRNA vs peptide) to be used in vaccine formulations are still not available. The glycoscience-oriented CanGoNano DN has identified this gap and proposes for the first time a research & training & innovation action that aims to unveil the molecular mechanisms of immune system activation at the molecular level. Our innovative DN puts antigen presenting cells (APC) as the immune system hub to move forward on the rational selection of antigen formats towards next generation of cancer vaccines. Glyconanomaterials are precision tools for the controlled delivery of antigens to APC and will shed light on molecular mechanisms that rule APC activation according to antigen format. CanGoNano credibility and high quality are ensured by a partnership of experts in glycoscience & nanotechnology & immunology. 12 Academics, 6 SMEs & 1 clinical Institution encompass complementary & intersectoral expertise, and unique tools to train 14 doctoral candidates (DC). The combination of interdisciplinary & excellent science, industry know-how and clinical perspective will cover the entire process from fundamental insights to innovative solutions. CanGoNano will create a critical mass of uniquely skilled researchers in glyconanotechnology. We will train DC on the synergic potential of glycoscience & nanotech to provide the missing knowledge in cancer immunotherapy, and will equip DC with transferrable skills to be in an advantageous position for job opportunities in academia and industry. Deciphering the key interactions in APC activation expands the frontiers of knowledge and enables addressing key challenges in cancer immunotherapy. CanGoNano will strengthen the EU innovation capacity bringing new fundamental knowledge for the future development of precision anticancer vaccines to market and policy stakeholders.

Keywords: glyconanomaterials,carbohydrate and mrna synthesis,cyclodextrins,polymeric lipid amino acid nanoparticles,cellulose nanocrystals,lectins,antigen presenting cells targeting
Scaling up dissipative metamaterials for energy absorption applications (MetaSafe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Preventing thermal run-away (resulting in fire) of batteries in electrical vehicles which can result from impingement of the protecting battery box during side impact collisions is a critical design consideration for vehicle safety. This challenge requires a careful trade-off between the shock-absorbing capabilities and the lightness of the material to ensure both safety and efficiency in vehicle design. We have developed a new class of mechanical metamaterials that are lightweight and highly dissipative and that outperforms traditional protections for battery boxes by orders of magnitude. The goal of this ERC POC project is to establish metamaterials as a commercially viable solution for a new generation of battery boxes. Our metamaterials will allow to increase the safety of electric vehicles and reduce their CO2 footprint by making them lighter. More broadly, our new generation of metamaterials could potentially be used in aerospace and seismic protection applications, hence paving the way for being the firsts to use mechanical metamaterials in industrial high-tech applications.