Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Microbial Hydroponics HOP ON (Mi-Hy-HopOn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Serbia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 646250.0
EU funding (EUR): 646250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Mi-Hy is a circular hydroponic-bioelectrical system (BES) designed for urban agriculture. It integrates carbon and nitrogen metabolism in plants to optimize their transformation into animal feed and other valuable products. This system combines BES technology, which uses electrons from biochemical reactions, with hydroponics, a method of growing plants without soil. The goal of TFNS joining the consortium is to valorise wastestreams from Mi-Hy by developing complementary bioprocess and biomaterial solutions that enhance the circularity and sustainability of the Mi-Hy system. This includes valorizing by-products from waste stream feedstock, such as urban wastewater (WW) sludge, sludge dewatering effluent (EF), hydroponics waste solution, and hydroponics sludge. These by-products still contain significant amounts of carbon and nitrogen after processing, which can be further used. Valorization routes include developing microbially-mediated processes and “green” building materials (GBMs). Two major pathways are defined as specific objectives (SO): SO1 aims to create biofertilizing products (BFP), including biostimulants, blends of biostimulants and organic fertilizers. SO2 focuses on developing novel GBMs using sludge effluents (EFs) combined with other industrial waste materials to create new ceramic blends and microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP)-based biobricks. The proposed methodology integrates bio-based principles to use renewable bioresources and nutrients, addressing environmental issues in agriculture (hydroponics, chemical fertilizers) and green building applications (e.g., high embodied energy materials like fired bricks, steel, and glass). These sectors currently rely on fossil fuels and material extraction. The valorised Mi-Hy waste streams, have potential applications in organic agriculture and the green building sector. Including TFNS, a Western Balkans (WB) institution will support the specific objective (SO3) related to the WIDERA topic.

Keywords: waste valorization,biostimulants,fertilizing products,biobricks,green building materials,sludge effluents
Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research, and Innovations (TETTRIs)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Greece,Denmark,Austria,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Finland,Czechia
Call: Building taxonomic research capacity near biodiversity hotspots and for protected areas by networking natural history museums and other taxonomic facilities (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5987337.25
EU funding (EUR): 5987337.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Accurate taxonomic knowledge and tools are needed to understand the drivers and impact of biodiversity decline. However, the field of taxonomy is severely hampered by a continuous decrease in capacity. With TETTRIs, we envision a transformative change in the field of taxonomy to build and sustain taxonomic research capacity through increasing knowledge and developing systems. TETTRIs will achieve this aim by creating joint knowledge in reference collections, training frameworks, and with innovative tools as well as by developing centralized resources providing access to an expertise marketplace, the taxonomic knowledge platform, and career paths. The core methodology for reaching these objectives includes co-creation with citizen scientists, and professionals in biodiversity hotspots. The open-access knowledge and systems built into TETTRIs, together with citizen scientists, will accelerate the integration and expansion of taxonomy in education, governance, and multidisciplinary research. This will ensure the long-term relevance of taxonomy as an instrumental science, necessary to halt European and global biodiversity loss, and ensuring ecosystems and their services are preserved and sustainably restored on land, inland water and at sea. TETTRIs builds taxonomic research capacity near biodiversity hotspots by networking natural history museums and other taxonomic facilities through bottom-up co-creation between 17 partners. The consortium includes the European Citizen Science Association and several of Europe's leading natural history museums, botanic gardens and universities unified under CETAF, the leading European voice for taxonomy and systematic biology. Impact throughout the EU and beyond is secured through involvement of associated initiatives such as DiSSCo and DEST, partners in third party projects, and key TETTRIs dissemination activities towards a new generation of taxonomists, citizen scientists, users in need of taxonomic knowledge, and decision makers

Keywords: taxonomy,capacity,citizen science,innovative tools,training,reference collections,career perspective,education,biodiversity
Methodologies for Assessing the Real Costs to Health of Environmental Stressors (MARCHES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Estonia,Czechia,Norway,Spain,Kosovo
Call: Methods for assessing health-related costs of environmental stressors (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-ENVHLTH-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999281.75
EU funding (EUR): 3999281.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

To underpin regular use of integrated economic and health modeling in impact assessments and socio-economic analysis by public authorities, the MARCHES project aims to advance methodological rigor and consistency in accounting for the welfare economic health costs of air pollution and drinking water nitrate, based on systematic reviews of health effects, and by extending the consensus on established approaches on premature mortality with disability-adjustment of the associated morbidity burdens, while developing European-wide exposure modeling for integrated assessment. Based on expert and stakeholder consultations, the project will provide guidelines and unit prices for an accounting approach that can be applied routinely by EU and national authorities, subject to data availability and policy scenarios. This will be demonstrated in case studies with public authorities in five Member States (CZ; DK; EE; ES; SE) and in one west-Balkan country (XK).

Keywords: externalities air pollution drinking water impact pathway method
Predictions and Actions shape sensory plasticity (PredActive)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ease with which children acquire new skills is progressively lost with age. Several mechanisms make the adult brain resistant to change, especially for low-level sensory processing, the hardest barrier for strategies aimed at recovering plasticity. PredActive will use vision as a test case to develop a new understanding of plasticity and its limits, through an emerging theory of brain function termed predictive coding. This theory asserts that not all incoming information is encoded directly, but only deviations from a priori predictions are represented. It follows that keeping predictions updated and calibrated to the sensory input is crucial for accurate processing. I propose that calibrating the prediction-verification cycle involves transient plasticity, of the type elicited in adults by interference with sensory input. For example, briefly patching one eye leads to a sustained boost of sensitivity and BOLD responses for that eye. This is usually interpreted as a homeostatic response. But predictive coding suggests another interpretation: when a sensory channel consistently fails to respond as expected, its signals are no longer predictable, and therefore generate large prediction errors that explain the short-term boost. A strong implication is that this form of plasticity should be elicited, even without sensory deprivation, by manipulating sensory predictability. Preliminary studies by the PI suggest that this is the case. PredActive will establish this principle and uncover its neural underpinnings by manipulating different sources of predictions (through advanced psychophysics and virtual reality) and tracing their origin (with ultra-high field fMRI, in adult volunteers and patients). The studies will permit a novel understanding of predictive sensory processing and its calibration. They will cast a new light on the fundamental phenomenon of homeostatic plasticity, and on the possibility of harnessing it for the rehabilitation of adult brain function.

Keywords: predictive coding ocular dominance plasticity corollary discharge neuroimaging at ultra high magnetic field
Smart Use of Novel Digital Tools for advanced performance and reduced costs in CSP tower plants (SUN-DT)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Türkiye,Belgium
Call: Digital tools for CSP and solar thermal plants (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3284812.85
EU funding (EUR): 2995445.97
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

SUN-DT partners will take advantage of the great potential of the promising CSP tower technology together with the hitherto unexplored possibilities offered by digitalisation to execute this project, aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the European CSP tower plants sector, as well as that of its supplier digitalisation companies. To do so, the project members will jointly mature four complementary and interoperable innovative digital tools: i) a tool for calibration and characterization of heliostats; ii) a Digital Twin of the solar field and the receiver; iii) an Energy Management System for dispatch optimization, and iv) a predictive tool for enhanced Operation and Maintenance(O&M). These digital tools will then be integrated into a single platform capable of processing data collectively to optimize decision-making at the plant level, and tested for validation in 2 experimental test facilities and 2 commercial tower plants. Two of the world's largest solar thermal projects, the Khi Solar One plant and the Cerro Dominador plant, operated by two of the world's leading solar energy players, COX and ACCIONA respectively, have been selected for demonstration purposes in commercial plants. Each of them represents the two possible types of tower plants (circular solar field and north/south solar field), ensuring the versatility of the solutions adopted for all current and future plants. The demonstration period of the tools will be extended to 1,5 years, which will provide more robust test data and will bring the possibility of testing a complete year with its two distinct seasons: summer and winter. Additionally, the joint maturing of the digital tools and their integration into a common infrastructure for running/coordinating/processing them together will increase the efficiency of the plants by managing multiple elements simultaneously. This will increase the number of data sources, and the amount of shared information for better decision-making.

Keywords: digitalisation,digital tools,csp tower plants,
Mycobacteriophages to treat tuberculosis - Passed station or future promise? (Phage-TB)

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: South Africa,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 238993.92
EU funding (EUR): 238993.92
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The emergence of drug-resistance to tuberculosis (TB) drugs poses an increasing challenge to TB control and new treatment options are urgently needed. Novel or repurposed antibiotics are still being introduced, but this pipeline will dry out in the near future. Bacteriophages are viruses that kill bacteria. They have been used to treat infections before the introduction of antibiotics. With the emergence of drug-resistance there is renewed interest in this ancient treatment option. Clinical use of mycobacteriophages to treat TB and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections is still in its infancy. This project contributes to 3 areas in the development of clinically useful mycobacteriophage treatments for TB and NTM infections: - Phage discovery: From soil samples collected in the compounds of TB clinics and hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa, we will isolate mycobacteriophages using spot tests and plaque assays. DNA of newly discovered mycobacteriophages will be sequenced and during the return phase of this project I will select promising mycobacteriophages with lytic effect against TB or NTM infections, that can be used for development of phage cocktails for clinical use. - Phage inhalation method: the efficiency of phage treatment is dependent upon the phage concentration reached at the site of disease. Phages that can attack M tuberculosis have long tails which might be vulnerable to manipulation. We will optimize an inhalation method leaving the phages intact and functional. - Preparation for a clinical trial: an existing mycobacteriophage cocktail active against TB will be used for a first clinical study in humans to assess dosing, safety and efficiency. If our mycobacteriophage hunt is successful, and the translation can be made into purified and adequately dosed administration of mycobacteriophages, a virtually inexhaustible addition will be made to the therapeutic armamentarium for drug-resistant as well as drug-sensitive TB and NTM infections.

Keywords: tuberculosis,non tuberculous mycobacteria,mycobacteriophage treatment
INorganic Photochemical PATTerning (INPATT)

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: Spain,Italy,Germany
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: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Light activation finds a widely spread application to produce photochemically solid organic resins at low irradiation intensity from liquid organic precursors. The main advantages of this process are that it can be activated locally, by focusing a light beam, remotely, and switched on/off easily, in a safe and convenient irradiation regime. For these features, light-activated polymerization is used for patterning organic structures in fields of high technological, economic and social impact such as stereolithography and tooth restoration. Recently we demonstrated that a similar result can be achieved by photochemical generation of an acid or a base in a suitably designed precursor solution and that this approach can be easily extended to inorganic materials such as insoluble carbonates and phosphates. On the basis of these results, our project INorganic photochemical PATTerning (INPATT), hence the photochemically-controlled production of a solid inorganic matrix instead of an organic resin will offer a solution to the market for the problem of patterning inorganic materials with light. The ambitious objective of INPATT is to provide new liquid formulations suitable for applications in stereolithography, patterning, and tooth and art restoration.
Mr.Goodfish3.0: Co-creating solutions for sustainable seafood consumption (Mr.Goodfish3.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,France,Belgium,Bulgaria,Poland,Norway
Call: Choose your fish: a campaign for responsible consumption of products from the sea (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999877.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999877.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Mr.Goodfish3.0 builds on an existing application developed with stakeholder input from the seafood value chain to promote sustainable seafood consumption. It aims to upgrade and employ the app within an EU-wide awareness campaign. The app will be part of an ecosystem of tools and activities to be co-created by stakeholders in three pilot sites and upscaled in two replication sites in Europe to raise awareness for responsible consumption of sea, freshwater and aquaculture products. Co-creation will inform content development, enriching scientific input with socio-cultural and economic considerations and engaging stakeholders throughout the seafood value chain. The upgraded app will offer outputs such as individualised decision trees, information about health benefits, tips and tricks to fight food waste, recipes, and good practices. It will be available in all EU official languages, and it will take into account all major EU sea basins and inland waters. The awareness campaign will involve social and traditional media, a package of material and activities, and a call for multipliers with a local focus via our pilot and replication sites, as well as EU-wide dissemination activities. The campaign will relate to other European initiatives such as #TasteTheOcea and it will engage adults and the youth via educational activities for promoting the app as a guiding light for consumption behaviour change. The existing labelling process will be upscaled to display European providers of sustainable seafood and support the sustainability of the business model of Mr.Goodfish3.0. Consortium partners display a mix of science centres/aquariums and communicators, research institutions, and European-wide organizations. Their expertise and networks in terms of scientific input and content development, co-creation processes, app development, design and implementation of outreach campaigns and science engagement will be fully exploited to promote sustainable seafood consumption.

Keywords: content development co creation application development awareness campaign
Uncovering the creative process: from inception to reception of translated content using machine translation (INCREC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993643.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993643.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The new machine translation paradigm, neural machine translation, has drastically changed society’s perception of technology and the act of translation. It has also motivated a series of claims by research labs and the media implying that machines will soon decode the transfer of one language to another, thus driving professional translators out of their jobs. Creative content producers, such as streaming platforms or publishing houses, are now exploring, testing or using neural machine translation. Yet little is known of the constraints this technology poses to translators’ creative process and how such constraints impact the users. The need to understand this has become essential to sustain translation richness, translators’ job satisfaction, authors’ and directors’ reputations, and the user experience. INCREC aims to uncover the creative stages of professional translators to understand how technology can be best applied to the translation of literary and audiovisual texts, and to analyse the impact of these processes on readers and viewers. The research project is articulated in four work packages that cover two broad areas: inception and reception of literary and audiovisual translation. To better understand this complex process, INCREC triangulates data from eye-tracking, retrospective think-aloud interviews, translated material, and questionnaires from professional translators and users. Thus, INCREC develops a new theoretical framework that encompasses a) creative stages in translation, b) classification and mapping of translation problems which require a higher level of creativity and cognition, as well as a classification of the solutions to these problems c) understanding how machine translation is most effectively used during this creative process, and d) understanding user attention to creativity in translated literary texts and films. This is achieved using a new combination of methods from different disciplines.

Keywords: translation studies,creativity in translation,translation reception,translation processes,translation technology,machine translation,user experience,literary translation,audiovisual translation