Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative transport of “in culture” cell-based materials ensuring product safety, quality and function (CELLBOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4221174.7
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute, we developed an innovative technology for transporting live cell cultures, tissue and other cell-based samples - Cellbox. Cellbox is a self-sustaining incubator with a controlled environment, where temperature and CO2 can be adjusted to ensure optimal incubation conditions. With Cellbox, valuable cells are not lost due to freezing, thawing and recovering cells, thus reducing the risk of changing the biological structure of the cells and maintaining their high quality. We currently have Cellbox 1.0 ready to go to market: Cellbox Ground for transports on the road and by rail and Cellbox Flight (IATA approved). A future version, Cellbox AT (Advanced Therapy), will fully unleash the potential of live cell transport for the cell therapy and regenerative medicine markets, where increasingly complex and sensitive biological materials are handled, transported and finally delivered to the patient (the scope of the EIC project).

Keywords: cell and gene therapy,regenerative medicine,live cell transportation,organoids,stem cells,biological materials
INNOV-8-2-CREATE Cooperation through acceleration (INNOV-8-2-CREATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Latvia
Call: Towards more inclusive networks and initiatives in European innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 498836.0
EU funding (EUR): 498836.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Collaboration fosters true innovation and success cannot be achieved by any one stakeholder in isolation. This proposal will bring together all of the innovation stakeholders such as business, the investment community, entrepreneurs and government agencies to ensure a joined up initiative which will fully meet all of the objectives of the programme call. The vision of INNOV-8-2-CREATE is to drive innovation efficiency, capacity and cooperation in Europe by building on the strengths of each partner. Actions have been identified that once implemented will deliver immediate impact, while resulting in consequential long-term impact - embedding cooperation within innovation and enhancing knowledge exchange locally, regionally and internationally.

Keywords: innovation ecosystem,investment,widening,spinouts,startups,training,mentoring,knowledge transfer,technology transfer,employment
THE-BET: THEta-BETa dynamics in action execution (THE-BET)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Human actions are complex processes that require the coordination of numerous brain areas responsible for sensorimotor prediction, sensory integration, action planning, decision-making, movement execution, and performance evaluation. Various neural oscillations in different frequency bands, including delta, theta, alpha/mu, beta, and gamma, have been identified as markers of these processes. However, their precise functional significance, interrelationships, and specificity remain poorly understood. This proposal is dedicated to investigating the neural mechanisms involved in action execution and monitoring, with a specific focus on the roles of frontal midline theta and sensorimotor beta activity. The primary objective is to unravel the relationships between these neural activities and their contributions to the performance of goal-oriented actions. To achieve this, I will record a new high-density MEG dataset with participants performing a large number of trials involving conflict-inducing tasks. The proposal is centered around three 3 sub-projects (SPs). Sub-Project 1 (SP1) focuses on unraveling the functional specificity of frontal theta(s) in goal-related actions. The main hypothesis of SP1 is that conflict-related, error-related, and monitoring-related theta activity exhibits different temporal dynamics (e.g., burst vs. sustained oscillation) and originates from distinct neural sources. Sub-Project 2 (SP2) will investigate the functional connectivity between theta(s) and beta activity during action execution. Beta activity in individual trials occurs in brief, sporadic bursts, rather than in sustained oscillations. SP2 will explore long-range directed connectivity measures between action-monitoring areas and M1 during motor execution, considering the burst-like nature of beta and theta. Sub-Project 3 (SP3) will combine results from SP1 and SP2 and focus on neuro-behavioural joint modeling of conflict and error processing using Drift Diffusion Models.

Keywords: meg,neural oscillations,action,action monitoring,performance monitoring system,theta,beta bursts
Homescapes make the world we live in? A multi-sited study to unpack more-than-human homes in the urban South (HOMESCAPES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global South cities have managed public services through socio-technical configurations that provide differentiated alternatives depending on social position. Populations living in low-income neighbourhoods, which in the South accounts for 60–70% of urban housing, seldom have regular access to piped water. They rely on small-scale providers, rain harvesting, and other arrangements. Nevertheless, we do not know much about what happens once the water is transported/stored inside patios, kitchens and other domestic spaces. This is a broader trend: we know little about the socio-ecological life within low-income homes in the urban South. This, despite the fact that it is in these homes that many of the processes sustaining life in the city take place. The question of how socio-ecological processes unfold within these homes is open and pressing. Especially considering the fact that Global South cities are home to the majority of residents worldwide and if we do not understand how the majority live their intimate daily routines, we cannot aspire to build inclusive, sustainable futures. HOMESCAPES follows water, as it is essential for sustaining everyday life, and goes beyond it into other material and atmospheric components of the home. Stored (stagnant) waters are never only water but are also home to communities of organisms such as bacteria and mosquitoes that eventually continue their lives outside of water. The concept of homescape is proposed to denote a produced place in which interdependent social and ecological processes unfold in and around the domestic, but are not independent of broader socio-economic power relations and ecological dynamics. Methodologically, this project will not treat southern cities as sources of data, but as sites of theorization in their own right. It combines multi-modal ethnography and water-quality work, approaches that are ground-breaking in building theoretical insights from a diversity of specific urban processes, and contexts.

Keywords: global south,urban socio ecological processes,water,air,more than human homes,social power relations
Quantifying and controlling the mechanisms responsible for mineral behaviour: Dissolution, adsorption and crystal growth (DRIAD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3499625.0
EU funding (EUR): 3499625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ability to quantify the mechanisms of organic molecule control on mineral behaviour would provide predictive ability, a key for solving the serious Earth science challenges society faces. This has been difficult because molecular scale processes are often beyond resolution limits but even tiny amounts of an organic compound can dramatically alter mineral properties. My overall objective is to gain previously inaccessible insight into the controls on dissolution and growth in the silicate system, with new, custom built instruments that "see" at scales ranging from atomic to macroscopic. My hypothesis is that - by learning from nature - we can develop a universal, conceptual framework for organic molecule activity and from that, tailor them to do as we wish. I chose silicates because basalt mineralises CO2, converting it effectively to carbonate phases, as the Iceland CarbFix method shows - but partly weathered, old, cold basalt is less reactive. My specific objective is to tailor organic molecules to enhance basalt dissolution and carbonate mineral growth, while inhibiting Al-silicates, especially clay and zeolites, which steal cations and block pores. DRIAD will: 1) develop mechanistic insight for controlling mineral-fluid interaction; 2) produce the first, systematic overview of silicate mineral dissolution, defining precise conditions for cation leaching or Al and Si solvation; 3) build a state-of-the-art laboratory for mechanistic studies of fluid-rock interaction at molecular scale and the first ever lab for 4D study of internal rock structure, during reaction, at nm to cm scale; 4) create a new paradigm in the climate change challenge - cheap, permanent CO2 mineralisation in old, cold basalts, globally. Even if only partly successful, the new, conceptual framework for organic-mineral interaction will change the game for solving challenges in geoscience and provide insight for medicine (bones, drug delivery) and advanced functional materials (designer crystals).

Keywords: mineralogy,geochemistry,mineral fluid interface reactivity,characterisation techniques,surface sceince
MAKING REFUGE WORK: LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD AMONG YEMENI REFUGEES IN EUROPE (REFWORK)

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: Netherlands
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): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Making Refuge Work addresses the limits of state-centric approaches in migration studies and proposes the lens of labor to tell the story of Yemeni refugees-turned workers as they struggle to make life and a living in Europe’s urban centers. Moving to the fore those whose stories and experiences remain otherwise invisible, my project proposes to consider refuge not as a gift of sanctuary, or a privileged legal status, but as a terrain of struggle for displaced people, who actively pursuit dignified lives and work hard to construct their futures. Drawing on an ethnographic study with Yemeni refugees in Germany and Netherlands - the two countries with the largest and most rapidly growing Yemeni communities in the EU, the project sets outs to investigate how refugees navigate Europe’s neoliberal economies, and how they become classed and racialized in the process of displacement. What lives and social worlds do they get to inhabit, and how do they evaluate their lived experiences? But also what survival strategies, networks of mutual care and new skills emerge in the context of precarious economic arrangements and increasingly hostile political environments? In addressing these questions my project will unpack the relationship between (forced)migration, racialization and class formation. As such my study will capture structural conditions that produce precarity, explore labor-related production of race, as well as shed light on agency of refugees, who forge possibilities and actively work on their futures. Going beyond accounts that reduce refugees to being either assets or threats, my project will document lifeworlds and full personhoods of those who sustain large sectors of Europe’s economies and make up diversity of Europe’s urban centers. From the theoretical perspective, the study will expand our thinking about refuge, and shed light on the role of migration in the making of race and class formations.

Keywords: yemeni refugees,labour,precarity,agency,migration,class,racialization
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Enabled millimetre Wave Communication for Beyond 5G Cellular Networks (RISE-MM)

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: Spain,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177412.96
EU funding (EUR): 177412.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The 5G mobile communication era has just started, and we are already experiencing the dominance of various new applications with enhanced broadband connectivity requirements. These requirements will become even more critical with the integration of cellular networks in different sectors of society. Conventional sub-6 GHz-based cellular networks represent a short-term solution, where available spectral opportunities are limited and will unquestionably dry up soon. To this end, RISE-MM aims to set the ground for the THz spectrum-based cellular networks. Combining the researcher's experience on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-enabled networks and the expertise on mmWave communication and its practical implementation of IMDEA Networks, in RISE-MM, we will develop channel models for RISE-MM communication in indoor and outdoor deployment settings. Moreover, the project aims to develop an algorithm for joint communication and sensing (JCAS) through RISE-MM using machine learning techniques. RISE-MM aims to validate the proposed channel models and the algorithm using system-level simulations (SLS) and software-defined radios (SDR)-based mmWave experimentation platforms. It will also implement the proposed channel models using a large testbed with tens of 60 GHz off-the-shelf devices, which will provide a more realistic performance analysis for large-scale deployments to complement the SLS and SDR-based results. The practical deployment of RISE-MM will also help formulate the optimal RIS placement policy, which is a critical factor for RIS-enabled network planning. RISE-MM is a unique scientific advance because it capitalises on communication theory, machine learning, and practical experimentation to propose new networking models to design and characterise RISE-MM communication for beyond 5G/6G cellular networks. In addition, the specifically developed JCAS algorithm can be the basis of novel developments for passive object detection and identification.

Keywords: millimetre wave communication,reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,beyond 5g cellular networks,channel modelling,pathloss estimation,software defined radios,testbed implementation
Ports as Energy Transition Hubs (POTENT)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Norway,Germany,France,Chile,Finland,Italy,United States,Switzerland,Colombia,Kenya,Egypt
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4380796.8
EU funding (EUR): 4380796.8
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

In February 2023, the President of the European Commission highlighted a unique generational opportunity for the European Union (EU) to secure its industrial leadership in the growing net-zero industrial value chains. The EU is committed to spearheading the twin transitions of digitalisation and energy system transformation and turning skills into high-quality jobs. The POTENT (‘Ports as Energy Transition Hubs’) doctoral training network will explore the strategic role of Europe’s ports in this transition. It brings together a multidisciplinary network of academic and non-academic partners to provide interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research training for 15 doctoral candidates (DCs). The training is structured into thematic work packages: 'Transition Infrastructure', 'Socio-Techno-Economic Analysis', and 'Port Governance and Business Models'. POTENT is designed as a leadership and inclusion platform with an encompassing approach for securing gender equality in recruitment, supervision and training, and in research design. The DCs are supervised by at least three academic and one non-academic supervisor. Academic supervisors are primarily Category A Researchers, guaranteeing high-quality research training. Non-academic supervisors serve primarily in mid-management and executive roles in world-class organizations across the energy transition system. Guided by Innovative Doctoral Training principles, POTENT strengthens excellence, interdisciplinarity, global mobility and networking – incorporating 15 academic and 18 non-academic secondments. The key innovative aspects of POTENT include state-of-the-art knowledge integration and multidisciplinary research. The programme offers robust career development support through a combination of local, network, and external skills training, complemented by rigorous quality assurance measures. The DCs will acquire the necessary know-how and transferable skills to support the green industrial policies of the EU.

Keywords: green transition,supply chain,infrastructure,industrial strategy,energy systems integration
Neuromorphic-Enhanced Heterogeneously-Integrated FMCW LiDAR (NEHIL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,France,Spain,Korea, Republic of
Call: Joint call with Korea (HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-3-RIA, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499967.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499967.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Grant Preparation (General Information screen) — Provide an overall description of your project (including context and overall objectives, planned activities and main achievements, and expected results and impacts (on target groups, change procedures, capacities, innovation etc)). This summary should give readers a clear idea of what your project is about.Use the project summary from your proposal. The NEHIL project, an EU-Korea partnership, is set to transform the landscape of digital technologies through groundbreaking neuromorphic architectures and advanced heterogenous integration such as LiDAR systems. This collaborative initiative aims to develop two innovative neuromorphic computing architectures that are crucial for tackling the complex demands of modern data-intensive applications. The first system utilizes FeFET-based Compute-in-Memory (CIM) accelerators, which are designed to support hybrid models of SNN and ANN. These accelerators enhance processing speeds and reduce power consumption, making them ideal for real-time, high-resolution data processing challenges like those found in autonomous vehicle navigation. The second system employs photonic integrated circuits based on reservoir computing (RC) principles, significantly easing manufacturing while enhancing the processing of dynamic data streams. The work involves integrating these neuromorphic systems with state-of-the-art FMCW LiDAR technologies. This integration aims to overcome traditional challenges such as high energy consumption and environmental sensitivity, setting new standards for resolution, accuracy, and cost-efficiency. Specific targets for the NEHIL project include reducing power consumption in object recognition tasks by 50% and achieving a proof-of-concept for ultra-low latency LiDAR signal processing using the FeFET-based CIM and RC architectures. With this approach we exploit the LiDAR’s high-resolution capabilities in adverse weather conditions; reducing power consumption, packaging size and manufacturing cost compared to the state of the art. This collaboration extends its benefits beyond the automotive industry, enhancing capabilities in diverse sectors such as telecom, healthcare, smart cities, security, predictive maintenance, infrastructure management, industrial automation.

Keywords: heterogeneous integration,fmcw lidar,neuromorphic computing,photonic reservoir computing,fefet cim accelerators,silicon photonics,artificial intelligence