Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Promoting Resilient Orphan Legumes for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (PROSPER)

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: Italy,Greece,Denmark,France,Portugal,Spain,Sweden,Belgium,Poland,Romania,Germany,Tunisia,Bulgaria,Finland
Call: Promoting minor crops in farming systems (HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999625.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999625.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

PROSPER will provide sustainable technical solutions based on the valorization of highly resilient orphan legumes (OLs) for: i) diversification in agriculture, allowing farmers’ access to a wider range of selected cultivars (cvs) and enhance productivity under challenging environments, ii) diversification of value chains, promoting a wider range of products for food processing/biocircular economy industries. PROSPER will act in Mediterranean/Central/North Europe, covering different geographic regions/pedoclimatic conditions. A multi-actor approach will ensure that PROSPER meets the real needs of stakeholders/end-users who will play active roles in the co-creation of technical solutions. Participatory Spatial Explicit Information Services will provide on-demand information for PROSPER actors (information/knowledge creators/end-users). Based on Partners’ expertise/achievements gained in former/ongoing projects, PROSPER will develop beyond state-of-the-art knowledge concerning novel resilient accessions (source of agrobiodiversity), their performance under environmental constrains and nutritional value. Technology transfer and demonstration actions will be promoted to share PROSPER knowledge, translated into beyond state-of-the-art sustainable technologies. By successfully promoting the use of OLs, PROSPER will improve crop diversity and environmental resilience, fostering socioeconomic development and sustainability in farming practices across diverse European regions. Direct drivers of biodiversity decline will be understood and addressed. Biodiversity, ecosystem services and natural capital will be mainstreamed in the society and economy. Practices in agriculture will be developed and improved. Biodiversity research and support policies and processes will be interconnected at EU and global levels.

Keywords: orphan legumes,value chain,ecoservice
A joint music making game augmenting social skills in autistic individuals (AUTISMUS)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition marked by communication difficulties, but some individuals with ASD excel in understanding and responding to music. Joint musical activities have shown promise in improving social behavior among people with ASD. However, existing music-based interventions have limitations: they lack precise control, flexibility, and accessibility, often requiring training or therapist presence. To address these issues, the AUTISMUS project aims to create technology that allows ASD individuals to easily access engaging and interactive musical activities, even from home. This project leverages a pillar of my ERC StG – the eMusic Box (eMB) – a device developed to enable non-musicians to make music together, mutually adapting to each other’s performance. We will assess if individuals with ASD can use the eMB effectively and whether it enhances their social functioning. If successful, we plan to bring this technology to market, considering insights from end-users. The eMB's impact spans various stakeholders, including individuals with ASD, caregivers, educational institutions, healthcare professionals, therapy centers, research organizations, and autism support groups. Its versatility suits ASD individuals of different ages and abilities. Compared to existing technologies, the eMB offers superior accessibility, flexibility, and interactivity. Our exploitation route involves patenting the technology and licensing it to a market leader for broad distribution to both B2B and B2C customers, fostering innovation and enhancing global products and services.
Singlet fission in fullerene-based single-material organic solar cells (Full-Fission)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-04
End date: 2026-04-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Photovoltaics is, to date, the most promising of all technologies to produce clean and renewable energy. Currently in use silicon-based solar cells have reached power conversion efficiencies as high as 26%, but their fabrication involves expensive and contaminating processes. Moreover, further improvement of their efficiency is restricted to around 30% by the so-called Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit. Potential solutions to these problems may involve moving from inorganic to organic materials. In this sense, organic solar cells (OSCs) represent a promising alternative to replace silicon because of their low cost, flexibility, and manageable nature. Single-material organic solar cells (SMOSCs), a particular class of OSCs in which the donor and acceptor materials are covalently linked, are particularly attractive because of their facilitated fabrication processes, improved stability, morphology, and reproducibility. On the other hand, to enhance the efficiency beyond the theoretical SQ limit, the use of sensitizing singlet fission (SF) chromophores has been proposed. These materials are able to form two triplet excitons from a single absorbed photon, thus raising the External Quantum Efficiency of solar cells up to 200%. The aim of the Full-Fission action is to combine the potentialities of both approaches to fabricate efficient SMOSCs that incorporate fullerenes functionalized with SF moieties as the active layer. The Full-Fission action is conceived as a holistic approach that will combine computationally-assisted materials design, synthesis, and device fabrication in an interconnected and interdisciplinary project developed by a researcher with experience in all these disciplines.

Keywords: singlet fission photovoltaics fullerenes organic solar cells aromaticity
Enhancing the seismic resilience of Reinforced concrete structures Using rubber JOInts (RUJOI)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy
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): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The RUJOI project aims to introduce a new paradigm for the design of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings by developing low-cost, flexible, and highly dissipative rubber joints for protecting the masonry infills and enhancing the global structural performance of the RC frame. Many past and recent earthquake-induced disasters have shown that masonry infills are highly vulnerable components of RC buildings, undergoing damage even under minor earthquakes, and causing casualties and significant economic losses. Flexible rubber joints, recently emerged as effective devices for protecting the infills, have also the potential to provide enough energy dissipation capabilities to minimise the RC frame damage and increase the building resilience to earthquakes. The RUJOI project aims to unlock the potential of rubber joints through a combination of experimental and numerical research. Work will be carried out in collaboration with Tun Abdul Razak Research Center (TARRC), a world-leading research center in anti-seismic rubber-based devices, to reduce the cost and improve the performance of the joints, by introducing unvulcanized and recycled rubber compounds. Moreover, a novel 3D macro-element modelling strategy for masonry infill walls with joints will be developed and validated in collaboration with University of Catania. The proposed strategy, implemented in advanced nonlinear structural software, will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the joints in reducing the seismic vulnerability and losses for typical infilled RC buildings in Europe and worldwide. This will help to quantify the benefits of introducing the rubber joints in increasing the resilience of masonry-infilled RC buildings in areas with different seismic hazard levels, in line with the EU’s objectives of Resilient and Secure Smart Cities and Disaster Resilient Society. Finally, simplified design tools will be developed, allowing the exploitation of the research outcomes by practitioners.

Keywords: reinforced concrete buildings seismic resilient structures rubber joints recycled rubber computational structural mechanics optimal design
EUROPEAN MICROALGAE ALLIANCE (ALLIANCE): INNOVATIVE, SAFE, AND SUSTAINABLE MULTIPRODUCT BIOREFINERIES FOR A BLUE BIOBASED ECONOMY (ALLIANCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Portugal,France,Spain,Norway,Germany,Denmark,Czechia
Call: Sustainable micro-algae as feedstock for innovative, added-value applications (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8895641.25
EU funding (EUR): 7360662.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

ALLIANCE aims to broaden the uptake of microalgae-based products in the EU market, improving the cost-effectiveness, circularity, and overall sustainability of production, processing and product development steps. Our ambition is to demonstrate the effective establishment of algae-based mid-value ingredients using multi-product biorefineries for food, cellular agriculture, aquafeed, and agriculture sectors. Previous sustainability and cost analyses clearly pointed at our R&I targets: recirculating nutrients and water, ALLIANCE aims to expand access to microalgae-based products in the EU market, making it cheaper and more sustainable. Our ambition is to demonstrate multiproduct biorefineries for food, aquafeed, and agriculture ingredients. Our previous sustainability and cost analyses clearly pointed at our R&I targets: recirculating nutrients and water, efficient and automated control of production, reducing nutrient consumption, prioritizing renewable energy and off-the-grid operation, and solvent-free biorefinery processes. We will focus on vertical integration of upstream and downstream processes, developing and demonstrating technological solutions on the targets above for four different existing algae pipelines, which will expand from 4 into 15 lines of fractions/products (and near-zero waste). ALLIANCE will use solvent-free extraction and purification technologies that are scalable and cost-competitive, as well as wet-biomass, bypassing the dewatering process. The ingredients will feed an integrated exploitation strategic plan to identify different business cases and their timelines and markets. We will work in a multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach, with a broad group of stakeholders joining us in reaching European consumers and supporting the penetration and acceptance of microalgal biobased products. Finally, we will collaborate with policy-making communities to propose concrete solutions for addressing gaps in legislation and regulatory frameworks.

Keywords: multiproduct solvent free biorefinery,increased sustainability,novel products,consumer acceptance
Explainable Machine Learning for Identifying the Full Heterogeneity of Peptidoforms and Proteoforms (explainProt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1992500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1992500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mass spectrometry driven proteomics allows deep insights into the working of cells. Still, the vast majority of proteoforms, representing the full heterogeneity of molecular forms of protein products in a sample, currently remain undetected in proteomics experiments. This lack of information strongly restricts our knowledge of disease progression, possible biomarkers, and therapeutic targets across a large number of diseases. Several machine learning approaches have been developed for proteomics data, but not being trained end-to-end, they cannot capture the full wealth of proteomic mass spectra and commonly remain unexplained black boxes. Within explAInProt, my team and I will develop representations of spectra that allow deploying explainable, end-to-end machine learning models on the wealth of proteomic data available, regarding both bottom-up and topdown spectra to identify novel protein variants. Explanations will allow identifying the origin of predictions and allow reducing bias and building up the trustworthiness of AI systems required for clinical applications. To verify results, we will pioneer orthogonal real-time strategies based on selective sequencing approaches and calling of amino acids that we will introduce for nanopore sequencing devices as a complementary acquisition method. All combined, this will allow to drastically increase our knowledge about the current dark matter of mass spectrometry driven proteomics: those proteins and peptides that are non-canonically modified, non-tryptic, have potentially multiple amino acid substation, or no close match in databases or result from structural variants such as fusion proteins that they remain undetected in current analyses. We will highlight applicability in two areas of particular concern in current approaches: the detection of structural variants in proteomic mass spectra and the characterization of novel microbial organisms without sufficient database information.

Keywords: protein identification,data integration,explainable ai,disease bioinformatics,metaproteomics
Building Living Urban Ecosystems through Participatory Renovation and Innovation Tools (BLUEPRINT)

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: Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Poland,Hungary,France,Luxembourg,Ireland,Spain,Italy
Call: Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning and management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts (Built4People Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5687648.78
EU funding (EUR): 4999347.05
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving a climate-neutral and resilient society requires the transformation of Europe’s building stock, not only at the level of individual structures but also across neighborhoods and urban districts. This transformation goes beyond technical retrofitting, demanding an inclusive approach that engages all stakeholders in participatory processes. In response to this, BLUEPRINT, will combine technological innovation with participatory processes in digital solutions that foster greater citizens’ and stakeholders’ engagement and drive the adoption of sustainable renovation practices aiming to promote sustainable, aesthetic and accessible urban spaces with better living conditions for all. This will be achieved with a NEB grounded unified, evidence-based framework for urban regeneration and stakeholder participation integrating immersive and interactive technologies - including AI assistants in urban renovation, participatory and modeling tools, Building Information Modeling, Virtual and Augmented reality - in multiscale Digital Twins to create a novel and robust system for community participation during the design and planning stage of climate-resilient renovation strategies and efficient management of urban systems. Complementing this, an innovative low-tech, analog approach ensures inclusive participation aligned with "leave no one behind" principles, addressing gaps in current participatory tools, which often fail to engage vulnerable groups such as the elderly, disabled, and low-income communities. The project will validate its innovative solutions in Balla (IE), Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR), Athens (GR), Budapest (HU), Benetutti (IT), tackling diverse challenges like energy-efficient renovations, sustainable mobility, public space revitalization, and climate resilience. The learnings from these living labs will translate into new guidelines and recommendations in line with the Built4People Partnership goals to foster replication across Europe and beyond.

Keywords: digital tools,participatory urban renovation,energy and mobility poverty,climate neutrality and resilience,inclusivity
Effective recycling of Rare Earth Elements from End-of-Life products for European Circular Economy (EFESTO4EU)

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: Italy,Switzerland,Serbia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242881.08
EU funding (EUR): 242881.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Raw materials are pivotal in realizing the United Nations' '2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development' and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Among these critical raw materials (CRMs), are of strategic importance to the EU's economy. However, they face significant supply risks, particularly Rare Earth Elements (REEs), vital in emerging clean technologies. Dependence on REE imports, coupled with geopolitical instability, has driven price spikes, prompting the need for recycling. Currently, no commercial recycling operation exists for end-of-life (EoL) products and their REE content, potentially exacerbating supply-demand imbalances. Recycling CRMs offers environmental benefits, reducing mining's impact, enabling multiple CRM recovery from a single device, and minimizing habitat disruption and water pollution. EFESTO4EU project seeks to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative materials for metal extraction, primarily focusing on recycling REEs from real EoL products using environmentally sustainable technologies. The proposed method involves extracting REEs from the leachate resulting from the pre-treatment and dissolution of EoL products. This process employs a solid/liquid system, utilizing Ionic Liquids (ILs) immobilized on silica-based gel to form a material referred to as ionogel. Subsequently, these ions are released and reclaimed, allowing for the reuse of ionogel in successive cycles. The project has a strong interdisciplinary approach going from material synthesis to solution thermodynamics. To ensure the successful implementation of these project goals, I will conduct my research at Swiss Federal Laboratories (Empa) and University of Udine (Italy), under the guidance of Dr. Wim Malfait and Prof. Andrea Melchior, leading scholars. This project will prepare me to become a tenured scholar and obtain advanced funding, strengthening my academic profile and allowing me to establish my own research group.

Keywords: rare earth elements critical raw materials thermodynamics speciation
BOOSTING AND MAINSTREAMING THE BIOECONOMY AND TRANSFORMATIVE GOVERNANCE FOR FOOD SYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY (Presidency Event DK)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Presidency events – Boosting and mainstreaming the bioeconomy and the transformative governance of the green transition for food systems and biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2025-IBA-01, 2025)
Start date: 2025-05-28
End date: 2026-01-27
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 357500.0
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Denmark will take on the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2025. Bioeconomy will be a priority for Denmark during the Presidency. The Presidency event described in this proposal will be an opportunity to announce the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy and discuss implementation steps, with the second day of the event focusing on transformative governance for food systems and biodiversity. This proposal describes the concept and organisation of the presidency event.

Keywords: bioeconomy,food systems,agriculture,biodiversity