Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Digital Twin for Europe (TwinEU)

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: Germany,Belgium,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Hungary,Austria,Bulgaria,Cyprus,France,Greece,Portugal,Romania,Slovenia,Spain
Call: Supporting the development of a digital twin to improve management, operations and resilience of the EU Electricity System in support to REPowerEU (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25216061.25
EU funding (EUR): 19999999.5
Participants: 84
Project status: SIGNED

The current international situation makes the process of energy transition more critical for Europe than ever before. It is a key requirement to increase the penetration of renewables while aiming at making the infrastructure more resilient and cost-effective. In this context, digital twins (DT) build a key asset to facilitate all aspects of business and operational coordination for system operators and market parties. It is of fundamental importance to now start a process of agreement at European level so not to develop isolated instances but a federated ecosystem of DT solutions. Each operator should be able to make its own implementation decisions while preserving and supporting interoperability and exchange with the remaining ecosystem. Exactly this is the vision of the TwinEU consortium: enabling new technologies to foster an advanced concept of DT while determining the conditions for interoperability, data and model exchanges through standard interfaces and open APIs to external actors. The envisioned DT will build the kernel of European data exchange supported by interfaces to the Energy Data Space under development. Advanced modeling supported by AI tools and able to exploit High Performance Computing infrastructure will deliver an unprecedented capability to observe, test and activate a pan-European digital replica of the European energy infrastructure. In this process, reaching consensus is crucial: the consortium therefore gathers an unprecedented number of actors committed to achieving this common goal. The concepts developed by TwinEU span over 15 different European countries with a continuous coverage of the continental map. Demos will encompass key players at every level from transmission to distribution and market operators, while also testing the coordinated cross-area data exchange. The consortium also includes relevant industry players, research institutions and associations with a clear record in developing innovative solutions for Europe.

Keywords: energy data spaces,digital twins,interoperability,high performance computing,
Space-based SST (mission, system and sensors network) Horizon Europe TOP3 (HE_EUSST_SB_TOP3)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Cluster 4 other
Destination: Other Digital, Industry and Space destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Latvia,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,Czechia,Germany,Denmark,Finland,France,Greece,Italy,Spain
Call: HORIZON-CL4-SSA-SST-SB - Space-based SST (mission, system and sensors network) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SSA-SST-ART195, 2023)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6000001.25
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

This Horizon Europe grant is to be understood within a wider context on EUSST, where other grants are being executed simultaneously with the common objective of improving the EU autonomy on Space Surveillance and Tracking. In particular, this TOP focuses on: - Study and assess several technical solutions for the development of a future European capability of SBSS. - Explore the use of small satellite solutions to reduce CAPEX and OPEX - To develop in the mid-term the European capacity to operate independently SBSS. - To reduce the dependence on critical SBSS technologies and capabilities from outside Europe, The is the first activity related to SBSS within EUSST.

Keywords: eusst,sst,partnership,front desk,services,assets,sensors,radars,telescopes,lasers,catalogue,users,collision avoidance,re entry,fragmentation,survey,tracking,autonomy
ERA Chair - SPACE – Heyrovsky Chair of Space Science (SPACE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2486137.5
EU funding (EUR): 2486137.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ERA Chair initiative aims to enhance the integration of the J. Heyrovsky Institute of the Academy of Sciences into the European research landscape. Despite the institute's recognized excellence in many areas of Physical Chemistry research within Europe, international peer reviews during the past 5 The ERA Chair initiative aims to enhance the integration of the J. Heyrovsky Institute of the Academy of Sciences into the European research landscape. Despite the institute's recognized excellence in many areas of Physical Chemistry research within Europe, international peer reviews during the past 5 years identified untapped potential in the area of mass spectrometry technology development and astrochemistry and identified weaknesses in key ERA priority areas. To strengthen its international presence and performance, the institute's directors have proposed structural changes emphasizing better utilization of research resources and personnel, increased engagement with international activities, and securing prestigious EU funding, including ERC grants. The institute seeks to strengthen its role as a research leader in the Czech Republic by participating in European networks and coordinating international projects, supported by proactive human resource policies and staff internationalization efforts. The leadership of a new ERA Chair holder in the Department of Space Chemistry and Technology and the creation of a permanent and excellent research group in the chosen scientific field will ensure excellence, visibility, and better integration in the European Research Area, as well as fostering competitiveness in research funding and promoting institutional reforms aligned with ERA priorities. These initiatives, backed by significant political and financial support from management, alongside collaborative projects, are intended to foster greater openness, international collaboration, and ultimately enhance the scientific performance and appeal of the J. Heyrovsky Institute.

Keywords: space chemistry,mass spectrometry,orbitrap,dust detector,ice particles,mass analysis on impact,origin of life,space missions,instrument development,ice accelerator,chemical evolution
Optimising forest operations for sustainable forest management and high-value applications (OptiForValue)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Spain,Bulgaria,Ireland,Austria,Germany
Call: Optimised forest-based value chains for high value applications and improved forest management (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997361.25
EU funding (EUR): 4997361.25
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Forestry is a potential pathway to strengthening European competitiveness, reducing dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources, enhancing the circular bioeconomy, and understanding the bioeconomy’s ecological boundaries. Europe’s forests and their value chains, however, face diverse challenges, including increasing global wood demand, biodiversity loss, and increasing biotic and abiotic threats to forest health and economic revenue caused by climate change. OptiForValue’s ultimate goal is to foster transition to more sustainable and resilient forest-based value chains, by using a unique, interconnected modelling framework involving strong participative engagement and novel scientific approaches, including early warning indicators of biotic and abiotic risks, adaptive forest management strategies, remote sensing and artificial intelligence for agile forest operations, and integrated value-chain optimisation and life cycle assessments. The expected outcomes include increased value addition, competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of European forest-based value chains, particularly in regions already or forecast to be impacted by climate change over the coming decades. OptiForValue will accelerate this transition by enhancing the sustainability, resilience, and profitability of regional value chains in Central European, Mediterranean and boreal, via case studies in Austria, Spain, Sweden, Finland. Significant long-term impacts are expected to be achieved, including a 10% reduction in wood damage, with a subsequent increase in wood harvesting (€240 M annually), 3% value addition from better quality control (€350 M annually), 5% increase in the forestry workforce in areas affected by climate change, and 5–10% reduction in fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The consortium’s research institutes, universities and companies are well equipped to advance the state of the art, validate solutions through case studies, and upscale results.

Keywords: forest based value chains,value creation,resilience,sustainable bioeconomy,forest operations,cascade use of wood,early warning risk indicators,adaptive forest management
Assembly of large synthetic genomes using nanofluidics (SynGene)

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: Sweden
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Synthetic genomics is a rapidly growing branch of synthetic biology where the goal is to assemble a complete genome from small synthetic DNA fragments. The main obstacle is the later stages of assembly where fragments on the kilobasepair length scale are to be assembled, where the efficiency rapidly falls off with increasing fragment size. A large contribution to this bottleneck is purely physical, where the probability of DNA ends meeting decreases with increasing DNA size. My solution to this problem is to force DNA ends to meet using nanofluidic channels. In such channels DNA is stretched out to almost the complete contour length, exposing the ends for hybridization. As part of my ongoing ERC-CoG, I have demonstrated several principles that will make it possible to use nanofluidic devices for genome assembly. Long DNA can be entropically trapped in nanochannels to force DNA ends to meet to promote hybridization of complementary overhangs. The bacterial protein Ku stably anneals 4 bp complementary overhangs, making it possible to engineer which fragments that are annealed. Bacterial Ligase D then binds to Ku to ligate the DNA. Within this PoC project I will take the next steps to bring this principle to a commercially feasible platform.
Improving the precision of behaviour change theories: Development and validation of a computational model of lapse risk in smokers attempting to quit (COMPLAPSE)

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: Finland,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 302331.36
EU funding (EUR): 302331.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Tobacco smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature morbidity and mortality in Europe. Gold standard treatment for smoking cessation includes pharmacotherapy and behavioural support. However, smoking lapses – influenced by momentary fluctuations in cravings and social cues – are a key source of treatment failure. COMPLAPSE aims to advance the state-of-the-art by developing and validating a dynamic computational model of lapse risk, improving the precision of static behaviour change theories to account for observed complexities and laying the foundation for dynamically tailored, person-centred digital smoking cessation interventions for increased effectiveness. COMPLAPSE is interdisciplinary in scope – drawing on know-how from behavioural science, engineering, and computer science – and directly contributes to Europe’s Path to the Digital Decade and its Strategic Framework for the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. First, a conceptual model will be developed by articulating a diverse group of stakeholders’ (e.g., researchers, policymakers, smokers) dynamic predictions through participatory systems mapping. Next, a computational model will be developed through formulating mathematical equations for each model component, followed by a series of simulations to iteratively refine the model to align with stakeholders’ predictions. Finally, the model will be validated against temporally dense experience sampling and sensor data collected in smokers’ daily lives to critically examine whether the computational model outperforms static state-of-the-art theories. The research objectives are linked to key training, knowledge transfer and communication activities to advance the researcher’s expertise and transferrable skills, enabling her to develop independence; valorise the researcher’s knowledge within the associated partner organisation and beneficiary; and disseminate the results to the scientific community, industry professionals, and the public.

Keywords: behaviour change complexity science computational modelling ecological momentary assessments personalisation precision health precision medicine smoking cessation tailoring
SUSTAINABLE, SECURE AND COMPETITIVE ENERGY THROUGH SCALING UP ADVANCED BIOFUEL GENERATION (SUSTEPS)

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: Türkiye,Germany,France,Canada,Brazil,Denmark,Netherlands,Ireland,Morocco,Switzerland
Call: Best international practice for scaling up sustainable biofuels (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999536.25
EU funding (EUR): 2999536.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Europe is on an ambitious path to becoming climate neutral by 2050, aiming to cut 55% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. Transport is a sector where so far it has proved harder to reduce emissions, while being one of the main energy users and source of emissions. Transport sectors such as aviation heavily depend on high energy density fuels, for which sustainable biofuels are the best near term low-carbon renewable alternative. Biofuel production based on algae is being considered as a main clean energy alternative and one of the most promising solutions. However, there are several challenges that hinder development and application of algae-based biofuel, ranging across the entire value chain. SUSTEPS main overall objective is to improve key knowledge, identify systemic constraints and opportunities, and propose solutions for the scaling up of a sustainable algae-based biofuel value chain. It aims to contribute to cost-effective and more sustainable large-scale production of sustainable algae-based biofuels by developing and validating a bio-refinery concept that efficiently produces sustainable biofuel from non-food/feed microalgae via CO2 fixation from high-emission facilities and through feeding on nutrient-rich wastewater, thereby minimising biomass production costs and utilising harmful CO2 emitted from energy-intensive activities. The process will be coupled with green hydrogen to be used in upgrading of microalgae-based fuel, and smart integration of processes that also produce value-added chemicals, valorising all side streams effectively. Based on international collaboration, SUSTEPS will build a more efficient, less costly CO2-to-biofuels process, identifying systemic constraints, opportunities and solutions for scaling up the value chain of algae-based sustainable biofuels which will support the development of best practices and concepts along the entire value chain and accelerate the scale-up of sustainable biofuels worldwide.

Keywords: sustainable biofuels,international collaboration,algae,renewable fuel technology,scaling up production,value chain,best international practice
Dynamic cell wall remodeling during plant-microbe interaction (DYNWALL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2699309.01
EU funding (EUR): 2699309.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Plants have a strong yet extensible wall as their outermost layer, which is indispensable for the survival of the cell and permits cell adhesion. The plant cell wall (CW) plays an essential role in response to biotic stress, as it constitutes the first contact substrate for microbes. Our findings using the model pathosystem consisting of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and a root pathogen that can infect it, Fusarium oxysporum (Fo), confirm that the plant CW is not the static barrier it has been seen as until recently. On the contrary, based on our preliminary data, we hypothesize that plant CW remodeling at the subcellular level plays an essential role in the outcome of the plant-microbe interaction, which might explain the sophisticated mechanisms of plant-endophyte (pathogen, neutral or beneficial) co-evolution. Our work has established a foundation of tools that provide a timely and unprecedented opportunity to test this idea. We aim to elucidate the role of root-specific CW composition and its dynamic changes in root-Fo interaction. Then, we will use this knowledge to modulate the CW properties of the root cell layers to reduce Fo pathogenesis while maintaining beneficial endophytism. Through a unique combination of well-established and high-risk/high-gain molecular, biochemical, bioimaging, and genetics approaches, this project will provide groundbreaking insights not only into the molecular mechanisms underlying CW-dependent establishment and regulation of innate immune signaling in plants, but also into general mechanisms that control plant-microbe interaction outside the plasma membranes. The knowledge gained from this work will advance our current understanding of plant-microbe co-evolution. In addition, we will generate innovative methodologies that will be applicable in designing strategies to reduce damage caused by vascular pathogens in crops.

Keywords: root vascular pathogen,plant cell wall,fusarium oxysporum
Understanding the formation, movement, and host-rock interaction of upper crustal aqueous fluids on Earth, from rock grain to tectonic plate scale (ForMovFluid)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden
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): 4203483.43
EU funding (EUR): 3969043.2
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Fluids play a critical role in the evolution and chemical modification of the Earth’s crust. They control heat and mass transfer, mineral reactions, and deformation processes. The movement and physio/chemical interaction of aqueous geofluids with rocks in the Earth’s upper crust is thereby fundamental for critical raw material mineralisation and the formation of geothermal fluid flow systems. With the rapidly increasing global demand for raw materials, the EU faces significant challenges regarding its dependencies on access to raw materials. Fluid movement in the upper crust is, by its nature, controlled by an interaction of physical and chemical processes that can operate from the tectonic plate to the microscopic ‘rock grain’ scales. Fully understanding these complex systems inherently requires a multidisciplinary/multiscale approach using cutting edge structural geology, mineralogy/petrology, geochemical and geophysical tools. ForMovFluid proposes to adopt new and existing laboratory and field techniques in these geoscience sub-disciplines to address key knowledge gaps related to fluid flow drivers, pathways, and fluid/rock reactions. In doing so, the objective of ForMovFluid is to train 15 doctoral researchers in cutting edge geoscience field and laboratory techniques and broader professional skills to develop future leaders in the field. This will contribute significantly to addressing the climate emergency by developing novel solutions for the energy transition that hinges on enhanced access to hydrothermal-hosted critical metal deposits, as highlighted in the EU Critical Raw Materials Act. The aims of ForMovFluid are to further our understanding of the movement and physio/chemical interaction of aqueous fluids with rocks in a variety of tectonic settings in the Earth’s upper crust, and to establish a long-term pan-sector research network that will go on to contribute to European geofluid research and to underpin Europe’s raw material and geothermal sectors.

Keywords: raw materials critical raw materials geofluids