Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Printing Electro-Tomography (PET)

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 GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

3D printing is literally building our future in realising components and parts which cannot either be manufactured with standard techniques (milling, lathing) or for which the scale does not justify the use of molding techniques which require longer time and are only convenient for a high production scale. The problem with current 3D printing is the tradeoff between speed and precision: if we want to print fast in additive manufacturing, it is more difficult to know what physically happens with the deposition, and increasing speed is always at the cost of precision. This is mostly due to the fact that the deposition process is basically in Open Loop. Currently there is a strong demand for in-situ measurement techniques to enable real time feedback, where the newest camera based techniques only allow for measurements on the outer surface of prints. The proposed innovation wants to create real time feedback by using easily implementable electrical impedance measurements during the printing process together with conductively doped material, measuring multipoint impedances among points on the substrate and the nozzle to possibly realize a tomographic description of the print. This intrinsically cheap method can be used pervasively and has ground breaking potential for both the professional and consumer 3D printing market. Prints will be of higher quality, printing will be faster and losses will be reduced. This will increase the usability, reliability and throughput of 3D printing which are the major concerns in this manufacturing technology for both the professional and the consumer market. The idea has been patented and industry has already confirmed strong interest. With the support of the ERC-PoC, the PI and his multidisciplinary team will be able to address the questions still to be answered in close collaboration with the industrial partner Ultimaker in order to address the correct scientific questions needed for a successful transfer to market.
Boosting SUstaiNability, Reliability and EfficiencY of perovskite PV through novel materials and process engineering. (SUNREY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,Austria,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Sweden,Belgium,Spain
Call: Stable high-performance Perovskite Photovoltaics (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4249978.25
EU funding (EUR): 4249978.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Perovskite photovoltaics have seen rapid advances in the last decade with the promise of higher efficiency, reduced embedded energy and CO2 emissions, low-temperature production for versatile applications such as flexible photovoltaics and all at potentially much lower cost than current Si technology. However, poor stability and short lifetime in the field is holding back wide deployment of perovskite photovoltaics. The current best performing materials also contain lead (Pb) which is toxic and damaging to health and the environment. To address these limitations, SUNREY will tackle the root causes of these limiting factors through a suite of innovations covering all aspects of the device design and manufacture including improvements to the stability/performance ratio of the perovskite materials themselves, development of new charge transport and electrode materials and low-cost deposition methods that can be configured to different perovskite absorbers, development of improved stability Pb-free materials, development of a range of measures for barriers and encapsulation from layers to module and process optimisation. These technology developments will be underpinned by new approaches to degradation mechanism analysis and the incorporation of modelling to combine barrier properties data with device performance models and test data. The design process will be driven by lifecycle, circularity and sustainability analyses. Developments will be validated to TRL5 through testing by an accredited laboratory under both realistic laboratory conditions and outdoors. SUNREY targets a breakthrough combination of high efficiency (25% Pb-based, 15% Pb-free) with long lifetime (25 years), reduced emissions and cost of manufacturing compared to Si. This will open up a wide range of new opportunities for the consortium companies including utility-scale panels, IoT and MicroPower, Independent Power Sources, Building Applied Utility Power (BAPV) Building-Integrated Photovoltaics.

Keywords: pv,photovoltaic,solar,energy,power,renewable,perovskite,materials,process,stability,efficiency,environment
Energy-efficient Computing via Reversibility (E-CoRe)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,United Kingdom,Poland,France,Netherlands,Japan,Germany,United States
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): 4214317.83
EU funding (EUR): 4064858.64
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Energy is a main concern in current society as limited natural resources and high production costs lead to energy shortages, and energy consumption causes complex and undesirable phenomena such as pollution and global warming. IT accounts for a surprisingly large fraction of global energy consumption, estimated at 10%. Hence, energy efficiency in computing is a critical and necessary research area, called green computing. The laws of physics, Landauer principle in particular, fix a lower bound to the amount of energy needed to perform an irreversible computation, proportional to the number of bits of information discarded by it. Classical computing discards large amounts (e.g., x=0 on 64 bits discards 64 bits), while reversible computing (RC) discards none, avoiding Landauer’s lower bound. Although the fraction of energy lost due to Landauer principle is a currently small (around 1‰), it will become increasingly relevant as hardware technology improves. It is our conviction that in the near future RC will become a main player in the quest for energy-efficient computing. We call such transition the RC revolution. The world, EU research, and software industry in particular, are not ready for the RC revolution. RC is a young and relatively small area, albeit with breakthrough applications in robotics, debugging, and parallel simulation. Reversible programming languages exist, but they are at the stage of academic prototypes, missing key elements such as error handling and modularity, libraries of relevant algorithms, and high-level tool support. E-CoRe aims at setting the stage for the RC revolution by forming a community of experts with deep understanding of RC intricacies, who will improve and popularize RC languages, algorithms and architectures, in particular in energy-intensive applications such as machine learning, blockchains and drones. Beyond energy efficiency, RC also benefits other aspects of software, including ease of debugging, reliability and security.

Keywords: reversible computing,programming languages,algorithms,simulation
Improved Science-Based Maritime Spatial Planning to Safeguard and Restore Biodiversity in a coherent European MPA network (MSP4BIO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Bulgaria,Poland,Spain,Estonia,Italy,Finland,Belgium,Portugal,Romania,Croatia,United Kingdom,Lithuania
Call: Improved science based maritime spatial planning and identification of marine protected areas (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3490501.25
EU funding (EUR): 3490501.25
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

With an overall aim to support the coherent implementation of the EU (European Union) Biodiversity Strategy (EUBS) 2030, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 framework, as well as the EU Green Deal, MSP4BIO develops and demonstrates the ways in which knowledge-based MSP becomes a vehicle and a tool for the protection and recovery of ecosystems. Specifically, MSP4BIO will develop an integrated flexible socio-ecological management to cope with a rapidly changing environment for coastal, offshore, and deep-sea ecosystems and validate its concrete applicability in 6 test sites in 5 European Sea Basins. The management relies on improved systemic biodiversity prioritization criteria for MPAs and EBSAs, based on the best available scientific knowledge on biodiversity attributes, and linking spatial ecological features (including migratory ones) with socio-economic considerations. MSP4BIO uses a participatory approach to co-develop ecosystem services trade-off scenarios to prioritize the areas and assess the suitability of spatial and strategic management measures from the ecological and socio-economic perspectives. The approach integrates the criteria and objectives of relevant maritime and biodiversity policies as well as the EUBS 2030 to ensure coherent policy implementation. As such, the project will develop and improve approaches, methods, and tools to feed scientific knowledge, making it of direct use to planners and MPA managers, while producing site-specific results informing site-specific, and broader policy processes and decisions. The project builds on and integrate existing knowledge and results from multiple origins, and ensures effective collaboration with relevant projects and initiatives to fill present gaps on marine biodiversity, speeding up the scientific brake while paving pave the way for effective biodiversity management.
PARty Headphones: The Future of Immersive Sound by Brandenburg Labs (PARty)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 14.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Brandenburg Labs GmbH (BLS) is developing revolutionary Personalized Auditory Reality (PARty) headphones that bridges the gap between digital and real-world audio. Founded by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg, well known as the inventor of the mp3 format, BLS is dedicated to unlocking the full potential of human hearing through its Deep Dive Audio innovation. Drawing on over 50 years of research at the Technische Universität Ilmenau and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, BLS is based in Ilmenau, Germany, a global center for audio engineering. PARty headphones will transform how people experience sound in digital environments. This innovative technology replicates digital sounds as if they were physically present in the listener's surroundings, offering a fully immersive auditory experience. The applications of this technology extend across various industries, including music, gaming, VR/AR, teleconferencing, and more. With a diverse team of 21 experts and ten patents, BLS is positioned to lead the next revolution in audio technology. The company’s proof-of-concept demo has garnered significant attention at global conferences, impressing over 1,000 audio experts. By continuing to push the boundaries of audio innovation, BLS is committed to keeping Europe's legacy as a leader in the audio industry alive, especially as other companies shift R&D efforts away from the region. Supported by the EIC, Brandenburg Labs aims to take its cutting-edge headphones to market, ensuring that the benefits of this visionary audio technology are realized in Europe.

Keywords: immersive audio personalized auditory reality party audio augmented reality aar intelligent audio scene analysis headphones digital media innovation
Federated and distributed inference leveraging sensing and communication in the computing continuum (FIND-OUT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1019000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1019000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The integration of sensing and communication is attracting a fervent research activity and will result in a myriad of contextual data that, if properly processed, may enable a better understanding of local and global phenomena while increasing the quality, security, and efficiency of our ecosystems. The computing continuum offers a timely and unique solution for processing such a massive volume of sensed data, as it provides virtually unlimited and widely distributed computing resources. Nevertheless, the deployment of data analysis at the edge or in the cloud has many implications regarding latency, privacy, security, and data integrity. As we learn how to sense ubiquitously and we build a tool able to handle the sensed data, the greatest challenge is to understand how and where to process them. The purpose of this project is the development of a pioneering framework to guide the design of federated and distributed inference systems, leveraging sensing and communication and harnessing the computing continuum. The framework will build on: (i) the definition of statistical and mathematical models for the sensed data, which capture the complex and interrelated phenomena underpinning sensing and communication systems, with different levels of integration; (ii) the development of cloud-native inference algorithms, mainly distributed and parallelized, with scalable complexity that can be adapted to dynamic performance requirements; (iii) the design of orchestration strategies to guide the flexible deployment of the inference process at the edge and in the cloud with a dynamic allocation of the computing resources. The aim is to overcome the paradigmatic accuracy-complexity trade-off that has driven distributed inference for decades, leading to a paradigm shift that encompasses multi-level performance indicators beyond accuracy, including latency, integrity, privacy, and security aspects and how these impact the confidence on the inferred phenomena.

Keywords: statistical inference,sensing,integrated communication and sensing,computing continuum
Twin transition and changing patterns of spatial mobility: a regional approach (MOBI-TWIN)

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: Belgium,Greece,Netherlands,Spain,Finland,France,Italy,Cyprus
Call: The impact of spatial mobility on European demographics, society, welfare system and labour market (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2910125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2910125.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

ΜΟΒΙ-TWIN argues that major global transition processes, such as green and digital transition, require to constantly redefine the changing nature of regional attractiveness for capturing shifts in the drivers and effects of spatial mobility. It builds on the idea that twin transition affects regional attractiveness -or otherwise, the drivers of human mobility- offering an opportunity to left-behind areas to attract new population based on characteristics related to living and environmental conditions and the changes it brings on job accessibility. It argues that this creates new spatial mobility patterns which tend to develop new equilibria between the different forms of mobility (permanent, circular, temporal), affecting both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ sending and receiving regions. It uses biga data and agent-based modelling to analyse the impact of those changing patterns of spatial mobility on EU regions and envisage policies to counterbalance their effects in terms of demographics, society, welfare system and labour market. The project has a four-dimensional scope: (i) it will analyse the changing drivers of spatial mobility based on human mobility behaviour, encompassing the structural changes caused by twin transition in the definition of regional attractiveness; (ii) it will examine the new balance rising between the different forms of spatial mobility (permanent, circular, temporal) and their effects on EU regions following the changing nature of regional attractiveness; (iii) it will use agent-based modelling to capture and assess the impact of changing patterns of spatial mobility on EU regions in terms of demographics, society, welfare system and labour market; and (iv) it will use the insights to envisage place-based policies for harnessing the positive outcomes of twin transition. Specific attention will be placed on the ways in which the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 and Brexit have affected freedom of movement between EU regions.

Keywords: regional attractiveness,twin transition,agent based modelling,microsimulation,regional policies
Developing Correct Concurrent Software Using Types (COCONUT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern society runs on concurrent software: different processes (threads) jointly process massive data sets and serve many clients and users simultaneously. Good methods to ensure the correctness of concurrent software are lacking due to the enormous space of concurrent executions. But it is vital to have some correctness guarantees, e.g., “every thread will eventually perform an action” (liveness) or “private data cannot leak to an attacker” (non-interference). Recent years saw an active development and industry adoption of new programming languages that automatically enforce correctness guarantees through a type system that disables programmers from writing “bad programs”. Yet, existing concurrent programming languages cannot enforce “deep” concurrency properties such as liveness and non-interference. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the good properties of high-level programs are preserved after compilation to executable machine code, because compilers perform increasingly complicated unverified optimizations. The COCONUT project will design and verify new type systems, compilers and logical abstractions for fully-fledged concurrent programming languages that automatically enforce deep program properties. COCONUT will address this objective through rigorous machine-checked foundations, leveraging recent innovations in the development of powerful program logics for concurrency (in which I played a key role). The foundations are essential to prove the validity of our results, but they will also play a key role for experiments and to bring together recent results from the fields of programming language theory, concurrency theory, compilers, security and proof assistants. COCONUT will impact the development of future concurrent programming languages but also the practice of concurrent programming itself, and thereby contribute towards the grand challenge of enabling software engineers to write correct and secure concurrent software.

Keywords: programming language theory concurrent separation logic type systems compiler verification
Spectroscopic investigation of the electrochemical interface for sustainable electrocatalysis (Double layer)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The structure of the double layer at the electrode-electrolyte interface dictates the electrocatalytic performance. A better understanding of the double layer is thus necessary for the optimization of key reactions such as the electrocatalytic hydrogen production and the CO2 electroconversion to value-added products, both of which are central to transitioning to carbon-free fuel alternatives. However, there is currently a significant lack of appropriate characterization methods to resolve this interfacial region. Meanwhile, recent results demonstrate that the models so far employed to predict the physical behavior at the double layer are incomplete. Therefore, for the field of electrocatalysis to reach its performance targets, it is critical we develop new techniques to fill this gap in our understanding of the catalyst-electrolyte interface. In this work, we propose to leverage the unique properties of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and total electron yield X-ray absorption spectroscopy (TEY-XAS) in a dip-an-pull geometry to resolve the concentration and configuration of the ions and water molecules present in the double layer. Using single crystal electrodes that are well-defined surfaces, we propose to use these spectroscopic insights to verify the nature of non-specific ion-water-electrode interactions suggested by previous electrochemical and computational investigations. Once optimized, we propose to expand the application of this spectroscopic approach to electrocatalytically relevant conditions for the hydrogen evolution reaction on Pt(111) and for the CO2 reduction reaction on Au(111). The as-described methodology will not only provide unprecedented insights into the elusive contribution of the double layer during electrocatalysis, but it will also enable the standardization of a powerful characterization tool that will greatly benefit the field of surface chemistry and catalysis.

Keywords: x ray spectroscopy,hydrogen evolution reaction,co2 electroreduction,electrical double layer