Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Strengthening Research and Innovation Excellence in Autonomous Aerial Systems (AeroSTREAM)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Spain,Czechia,Netherlands
Call: Capacity building to strengthen networks of higher education institutions and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-05, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1969762.5
EU funding (EUR): 1969761.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Built on lessons learned and experience gained upon successful implementation of twinning project AeroTwin, this proposal is conceived as an effort to stream AeroTwin positive effects on a network of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to enlarge capacity for research and innovation, and to prepare and establish a long lasting and integrated cooperation between those institutions and their partners in the local ecosystem. The essential support to reach this objective and prepare the network to facilitate future synergies with the European Universities initiative, will come from three internationally-leading HEIs from Spain, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Additionally, increase of innovation capabilities of widening HEIs will be achieved through close cooperation with FADA-CATEC and Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA), leading European research and innovation intensive organizations, deeply involved in the most relevant EU initiatives and projects. The long lasting and integrated cooperation between institutions will be established in the field of autonomous aerial systems (AAS) applications, with emphasis on smart agriculture, forestry and logistics. The project objectives are i) integrated and long term cooperation between HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with partners from Spain, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, ii) increased scientific excellence profiles of HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of autonomous aerial systems, and shared capacities with partners from Spain, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, and iii) improved quality of innovation management, technology transfer and citizen involvement of HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Particular set of actions is planned for achieving those objectives, such as common innovation strategy, staff exchange, experts visits, workshops and tutorials, hands‐on trainings, and PhD students co-mentoring.
Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Expertise in a Learning and Adaptive European Pandemic Preparedness System (LEAPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Denmark,Greece,Switzerland
Call: Pandemic preparedness (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999600.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999600.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a global need for accelerating research, improving surveillance, and efficiently developing countermeasures against pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential. LEAPS aims to demonstrate the value and feasibility of a pro-active policy-supporting strategy for genomic surveillance and for pandemic preparedness and response, by delivering a system-wide stakeholder-validated proof of concept, validated in 4 EU countries, of a learning and adaptive European pandemic preparedness system against pathogen X. LEAPS will fill the gaps observed by global, EU (HERA) and national stakeholders in pandemic response by demonstrating the feasibility of combining genomic One Health surveillance, with genomic epidemiologic modeling for detailed pathogen understanding and precise public health intervention design. LEAPS formalizes dynamic health emergency threat assessment linked to the initiation of governance mechanisms to enable timely decisions in crucial, early stages of an outbreak. LEAPS will develop protocols and models for accelerated medical countermeasure development, availability and accessibility. Based on resulting highly effective intervention strategies, timely countermeasure access and governance mechanisms, model-based policy support is proposed to health authorities for effective, implementable, stakeholder co-created epidemic response scenarios against pathogen X. Scenarios are evaluated on health, socio-economic, and sustainability impact. LEAPS brings together a unique multidisciplinary team with optimal complementary expertise and experience. LEAPS will interact regularly with medical and scientific communities, HERA and health authorities in order to disseminate relevant and accessible information, and during non-emergency periods LEAPS will validate a roadmap for large-scale implementation of LEAPS methodology by EU level, and national authorities and stakeholders in an ecosystem of interlinked actors.

Keywords: preparedness,pandemic response,health systems modelling,scenario based decision support,infectious diseases,surveillance,epidemiology
Partial Differential Equations on Sets of Measures (PaDiESeM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1438541.0
EU funding (EUR): 1438541.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in science, whether it is in physics, engineering, biology or economics, as they naturally arise in the modelling of continuous objects. Recently, several PDEs have been derived to characterize complex objects such as: the best response by a player facing a continuum of adversarial players, the optimal control used to manage a distributed system or also the free energy or rate function of some distributed physical systems. All the associated PDEs are written on a set of measures on a smooth finite dimensional domain and raise new and difficult analytical challenges such as regularity and stability of the solutions, or the existence of weak notions of solutions. A systematic understanding of those equations is missing at the time, but it would lead to: derive rigorously the PDEs form the underlying models, justify numerical computations and, most importantly, to prove quantitative estimates and several properties of the modelled systems, which are otherwise out of reach because of the absence of explicit solutions. The key challenges targeted in this proposal are concentrated on two PDEs on spaces of measures, which are for the moment only understood in particular regimes, often very simplified compared to their original motivations. The first one is the mean field game (MFG) master equation: we intend to obtain a precise theory of regularity which will then help us both to extend the actual theory to more realistic MFGs and to have a better understanding of the stability of MFG equilibria. The second one is the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation: we aim to obtain much more general stability properties in order to treat practical mean field optimal control problems and mean field physical systems. Moreover, we also plan to introduce new PDEs modelling the optimal control of MFG master equations, thus raising new mathematical challenges. The design of numerical schemes for such equations will complement the program.

Keywords: mean field games,master equations,hamilton jacobi bellman equations
Soil multifunctionality: from biodiversity associations to understanding mechanisms (MultiSol)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humanity places large demands on its cultivable soils for specific functions, e.g. food production, at the expense of the capacity of soils to provide multiple functions (carbon storage, biodiversity). However, currently multifunctionality is studied without considering the mechanistic linkages among individual soil functions. All soil functions depend on three key resources: energy, nutrients and water, producing critical trade-offs and synergies among functions. Furthermore, we lack a common measurement framework to assess soil multifunctionality. I propose to address these two challenges by 1) developing a soil multifunctionality assay that combines existing measurement techniques with latent variable models, and 2) causal modelling to test how different soil functions interlink across different soil types. I will sample grasslands across intensive-extensive land use gradients that are representative of NW European edaphic and management conditions as my study system. I will use latent variable models conditioned on multiple indicators per soil function, to develop a standardized testing procedure measuring five key soil functions (plant production, nutrient cycling, carbon and water storage, and habitat provision). Next, I will combine this standardized procedure with structural-causal modelling to test the role of resource division during plant-microbe-soil interactions in determining which functions predominate. My MSCA-project will elucidate the mechanisms underlying trade-offs and synergies among soil functions and reveal how differences among soils drive differences in soil multifunctionality.

Keywords: soil functioning,plant soil interactions
Mycelium-based substrate for sustainable flexible PCBs (MycoSub)

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: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Printed circuit boards are an indispensable technology present in all classes of modern electronics. Their flexible embodiments (flexPCBs) enable current and emerging form factors and drive the transition to human-centered applications. At the same time, PCBs are notoriously difficult to recycle and contribute majorly to the growth of electronic waste and an unsustainable use of resources. A paradigm change towards bioderived and biodegradable materials promises a remedy, however so far, no viable solution for sustainable (flex)PCBs exists. MycoSub takes on an entirely new approach of growing and refining fungal mycelium skins as environmentally friendly and entirely biodegradable, yet high performance substrate material for the manufacturing of flexPCBs. Building upon MycelioTronics, the first mycelium-based electronic circuits, we here aim at developing an industry-compatible process flow that seamlessly merges into established commercial procedures for rapid adoption of the technology. With facile post-processing steps that do not impede biodegradability, we will achieve a competitive flexible circuit board substrate with high thermal stability, high flexibility and low surface roughness. We aim to develop both conventional subtractive (etching) as well as fully sustainable additive manufacturing techniques for low-conductivity, soldering-compatible conducting traces. Such MycoSub-flexPCBs will ultimately provide unprecedented levels of sustainability through the combination of a biodegradable yet resilient substrate with efficient waste-minimizing, energy-saving workflows and re-use strategies for precious metals and electronic components. These endeavors will be accompanied by thorough material characterization, ensuring that MycoSub materials live up to the high requirements of the industry. Ultimately, MycoSub-flexPCB demoboards will showcase the potential of sustainable solutions for the broad ecosystem of flexible electronics.
Fully-Integrated PV-EC Device for the Production of C-N Chemicals (SUN2CN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Netherlands,France,Sweden,Ireland
Call: Solar-to-X devices for the decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4340955.04
EU funding (EUR): 3997401.47
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The SUN2CN project aims to deliver a standalone Solar-to-X device for the conversion of simple, low-energy molecules found in waste streams — such as nitrates (NO3-) and carbon dioxide (CO2) — into valuable carbon-nitrogen (C-N) chemicals, using sunlight as the only energy source. C-N chemicals, such as urea and methylamine, critical for the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries, contribute significantly to human health and quality of life. To enable the solar conversion of NO3- and CO2 into C-N chemicals, SUN2CN will develop a fully-integrated photovoltaic (PV)-electrochemical (EC) device that incorporates a porous PV membrane coated with selective electrocatalysts in an innovative flow cell design. The standalone solar-to-X device will provide a sustainable solution for the decentralized production of valuable organonitrogen (C-N) chemicals and wastewater treatment, eliminating the need for fossil resources and energy-intensive ammonia production. SUN2CN aims to achieve a breakthrough in the chemical and energy sectors. It will contribute to the vision of decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials using local resources and solar energy, thereby empowering communities and remote areas.

Keywords: photovoltaic electrochemical device organonitrogen compounds carbon nitrogen chemicals carbon nitrogen coupling nitrate reduction carbon dioxide reduction
Literature of the Post-Soviet Diaspora (PoSoLit)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-20
End date: 2026-07-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148478.4
EU funding (EUR): 148478.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Moshkin's project examines the works of post-Soviet literature by writers who, after the fall of the USSR, left their countries of birth and established new homes in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. To date, these authors have been studied either as literary representatives of their adopted nations or as part of a global Russian culture, in which the moniker “Russian” stands as a synecdoche for the whole post-Soviet world. None of these scholarly works, however, widened the scope of the study of post-Soviet literature beyond the traditional focus on a single nation, language, or canon, nor they have adequately grappled with the transnational affiliations and identities of ex-Soviet authors. By putting diaspora at the center of its analytical framework, this project offers a revisionist approach to the study of post-Soviet literature by 1) cutting across entrenched cultural, national, and linguistic divides that structure the study of post-Soviet literature and 2) amplifying underrepresented literary voices and identities that are frequently overlooked through a monolithic focus on Russia. In so doing, the project produces a new understanding of post-Soviet literature as inherently multilingual, decentered, and global. To curate my research for the wider public, I will build a website that will use pioneering DH tools and methods (such as digital storytelling, data visualization, and cultural mapping) to transform my findings into public-facing scholarship with a wider appeal. This will result in a better transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines and help foster a culture of open science.

Keywords: post soviet literature digital humanities russian literature israeli literature german literature american literature turkish literature diaspora and transnationalism multilingualism
Development and commercialization of an EMF tracking platform for motion tracking in Robotics, AI, XR & other Industry 5.0 applications (ManusCapturePlatfom)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The market for motion capture technology faces significant challenges that hinder its widespread adoption across various Industry 5.0 segments, such as extended reality (XR), robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as in sectors like entertainment and life sciences. Current technologies struggle with several critical issues, including the complexities of real-time object detection, occlusion, lack of tracking accuracy, and maintaining speed in real-time processing. These problems affect users at multiple levels, from initial setup to execution and post-processing, making the pursuit of reliable, efficient, and precise motion capture solutions a dynamic and ongoing research area in AI. Manus' solution is an advanced Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) based tracking system that directly addresses the challenge of precise hand and object tracking within a 3D environment. This system, capitalizing on sophisticated EMF technology, innovates beyond current market offerings by providing a seamless, user-friendly experience that necessitates minimal setup while delivering high-precision enterprise experiences. The platform consists on Manus’ the Metagloves PRO, an EMF base and complementing tracking elements – all proprietary components backed by our modelling software, Manus CORE. This design ensures that all elements—electromagnetic field sources and sensors—operate within the same coordinate system, guaranteeing effective communication needed for finger tracking. The solution also addresses the prevalent issue of marker occlusion in traditional optical MOCAP systems, ensures consistency and reliability in tracking, and requires minimal recalibration. This translates to reduced operational costs and enhanced productivity. In the planned EIC project, the company aims to complete development and achieve market readiness of its platform technology to address key Industry 5.0 applications.

Keywords: virtual reality,industry 5 0,extended reality,motion capture technology
Synergistic Antitumor Activity of Microbiome and OMV-based in situ Vaccination (INSITUOMVAC)

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 GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184285.71
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

ISV is a promising immunotherapy strategy which envisages the direct injection of immunomostimulatory reagents into the tumor mass. ISV offers the advantage to reduce off-target toxicity and to induce potent inflammation where cancer antigens have the maximal concentration. Different substances are being exploited in ISV and they include adjuvants, lytic viruses, cytokines/chemokines, antibodies. The rationale is to recruit antigen-presenting cells, T cells, NK cells and macrophages, thus promoting a strong anti-tumor immunity. Two ISV products are available and others are expected to come in the near future. Similarly to other cancer therapies, the current ISV strategies need to be optimized to improve their efficacy. In this proposal we wish to demonstrate the strength of a novel approach of ISV optimization based on two main innovative solutions. First, we plan to couple ISV to the oral administration of Bifidobacterium, a probiotic that, in the context of the Advanced ERC Grant “Vaccibiome”, we have shown to promote the remodeling of the gut microbiome and the tumor infiltration of T cells. Second, we propose to treat tumors with engineered bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs). OMVs are naturally decorated with a number of immunostimulatory molecules and we have already demonstrated the effectiveness of E. coli OMVs in different tumor mouse models. We plan to exploit our proprietary OMV engineering strategies to further potentiate OMV adjuvanticity by decorating them with Flt3L, a chemokine known to recruit immune cells. The combination of Bifidobacterium and Flt3L-OMVs will create a “perfect immunological storm” at the tumor site capable of eliminating both primary and metastatic tumors. Considering its simplicity and low production costs, our Microbiome-ISV therapy has the potential to become a broadly applicable neoadjuvant therapy to be performed before surgery in a large panel of solid tumors.