Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next generation sensitive X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer for the determination of traces of gold in geological materials (CHASING4GOLD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Latvia
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Baltic Scientific Instruments Ltd. is a growing research driven SMEs aiming the development and fabrication of devices for gamma and X-ray spectrometry based on semiconductor and scintillation radiation detectors. The Research & Development team of the company includes 6 Ph.D. in Physics and highly skilled software and hardware developers in electronics, fine mechanics engineers and designers and counts excellent record of high level scientific publications (more than 140). During 30 years BSI Ltd. has been effectively responding to the needs of global market and has gained enormous amount of experienced to satisfy demand in instrumentation comming from International Atomic Agency, European Space Agency, govern-ments of Singapure, Japan, Ukraine (assisted in restauration of monitoring instrumentation of Chernobyl Nuclear Station damaged during Russia military), as well as working for global market of the atomic energy industry, mining industry, space related industry, medicine and healthcare, environmental monitoring, scientific research, etc. With the Research & Development team, BSI Ltd. has developed the prototype of a new and unique X-ray fluorescence analyzer, GOLD-FINDER-2024BSI, that is based on the analysis of the K-series lines of gold. The prototype (TLR5) is capable of accurately detecting and quantifying traces of gold in geological samples, with the detection limit up to 0.3 ppm. The mission of CHAISING4GOLD project is to produce commercially mature GOLD-FINDER-2024BSI device.

Keywords: x ray fluorescence,x ray spectroscopy,mining of gold,analyzer for traces of gold,geological samples
Breast Radiography Image Dimension Generation and Enhancement (BRIDGE)

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,Tanzania, United Republic of,Egypt
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

BRIDGE (Breast Radiography Image Dimension Generation and Enhancement) is an innovative research project aimed at revolutionising breast cancer screening in low-resource settings. Despite being the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide, with alarming mortality rates, access to advanced 3D imaging technologies remains limited in many regions. BRIDGE proposes to bridge this gap by developing a novel artificial intelligence (AI) framework to generate synthetic 3D mammography images and/or magnetic resonance images (MRI) from standard 2D mammograms. Further, it aims to detect the presence of anomalies in the segmented 3D images. Leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, including Swin Transformers and Generative Adversarial Networks, BRIDGE will create a robust system capable of producing clinically actionable 3D breast images. This approach will enhance diagnostic capabilities in resource-limited settings without the need for expensive 3D imaging equipment, potentially improving early detection rates and patient outcomes. Additionally, the GAN method is utilized to detect anomalies in 3D images. The project's interdisciplinary methodology integrates expertise from AI, medical imaging, clinical practice, and ethics. It focuses on four key areas: cross-modality synthesis, clinical applicability, resource optimisation, and ethical AI development. By collaborating with radiologists and oncologists of low-income countries, BRIDGE ensures that the generated images not only are visually accurate but also enhance clinical decision-making. BRIDGE aims to validate its approach through rigorous clinical trials and cost-effectiveness analyses. The project's success could significantly narrow the global disparity in breast cancer diagnostics, contributing to improved healthcare equity worldwide. Moreover, this research will advance the field of synthetic medical imaging, potentially opening new avenues for AI applications in healthcare.

Keywords: generative artificial intelligence,synthetic images,medical imaging,low resources,low income countries
Promoting Positive Mental and Physical Health at Work in a Changing Environment: A Multi-level Approach (PROSPERH)

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: Ireland,Germany,Albania,Kosovo,Türkiye,Hungary,Portugal,United Kingdom,Australia,Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands,Spain,Finland
Call: Evidence-based interventions for promotion of mental and physical health in changing working environments (post-pandemic workplaces) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5796408.75
EU funding (EUR): 5796408.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Recent years have seen rapid changes in the workplace arising from the digital and green transitions (‘twin transition’), as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. New forms of work and work management have arisen, which can affect the physical and mental health of workers in new ways (both positive and negative) that are not yet well understood. Yet, workplaces can be health-promoting environments. Robust, comprehensive data must be generated, made available to key stakeholders, translated into evidence-based guidance to support the design of policies and used to develop evidence-based interventions and guidelines to promote mental and physical well-being and health in the workplace. PROSPERH will gather timely data and robust evidence on factors influencing mental and physical health in the workplace from the literature and analysis of existing high-quality datasets. Based on this evidence and building on existing EU-funded and national interventions, the project will develop and validate the multi-level PROSPERH intervention, delivered via the PROSPERH Portal. The intervention will target both organisational (work), peer and individual (worker) aspects, with three components focusing on health promotion, online self-monitoring & self-management and clinical care or coaching referral pathways. Development will focus on tailoring content for three sectors experiencing significant change (telework and ICT-based mobile work, health and construction), with validation carried out in 10 representative European countries and Australia through a cluster-randomised controlled trial to determine effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. To ensure that the expected impacts of PROSPERH are achieved during and beyond the project lifetime, key outputs of the project will include open access publications and FAIR datasets, guidelines and recommendations and a roadmap for making the PROSPERH Portal freely available in a sustainable manner.
REgional project development aSsistance fOr the Uptake of an aRagonese Circular Economy (RESOURCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Belgium,Netherlands
Call: Circular Cities and Regions Initiative’s project development assistance (CCRI-PDA) (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995875.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The Region of Aragon together with local and European partners aims to support the uptake of the Aragonese Circular Economy (CE), through a new project development assistance service, that aims at accelerating the private funding of CE projects in the region: The RESOURCE project (REgional project development aSsistance fOr the Uptake of an aRagonese Circular Economy). RESOURCE gathers partners all along the value chain. G.A.C Group, (impact maximisation) is the project coordinator. CEEIARAGON the regional a reference centre of Aragon for the development and consolidation of technology-based business projects, will support GAC in co-coordinating the Project. Project partners involve the Government of Aragon (policy alignment), ANCES (links to private funders), AITIIP (technical support to projects), European Business Network, to liaise with a large array of European region and the CCRI, and University of Leiden, for expertise on circularity assessment. The overall implication is that implementing a change from a linear to a circular business model involves significant risks, which necessitates de-risking, in combination with a learning environment. Providing some financial support is essential. Investors and lenders need to learn about and assess better if financing such business investments in circular transitions will pay off, so that they ultimately can take over the role of providing risk capital. RESOURCE aims therefore at co-creating a Project Development Assistance (PDA) solution which reinforces Circular Economy projects, supports innovative business models and investment schemes, to help them raise funds from the private market in Aragon. In this project 9 pilot projects will seek funds for an investment of 20M€. The approach developed in the project aims at feeding from European best practices and replicated in other regions. RESOURCE is focussing on the Aragon region and will last 36 months.

Keywords: circular economy,project development assistance,investment schemes,innovative financing scheme,innovative business modelling,aragon,de risking,innovative private financing
Scanning probe microscopy in high vectorial magnetic fields: New device for imaging quantum materials (VectorFieldImaging)

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
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and of other similar devices was a revolution for research at atomic scale. Many companies offer microscopes which can be used to study materials at atomic scale as a function of temperature or magnetic field. However, unlike temperature, the magnetic field is a vector quantity. The direction of the magnetic field vector is as important as its magnitude when it comes to study properties of materials at atomic scale. The only solution available today to vary the vector of the magnetic field is to build a set of three separate solenoids, with which one can generate separately the three components of the magnetic field vector. However, this unavoidably implies a significant reduction of the magnitude of the largest vectorial fields that one can obtain, typically at most 1-2 T. The EU proposal VectorFieldImaging will overcome this challenge by developing new technology to modify the orientation of the entire microscope with respect to the solenoid. This will provide a significantly less-costly solution that will allow the direction of the magnetic field to be varied at the highest available magnetic fields, opening the door to the microscopic studies of many quantum phenomena. Specifically, the project will focus on a proof of concept by establishing technical feasibility, usability and commercialization of prototypes that allow turning a STM inside a high magnetic field solenoid tested in an operational environment by end users. If successful, this technology will make a real breakthrough in the area of quantum materials by allowing visualization by means of scanning probes at very high vectorial magnetic fields.
GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND RURALITY: AGENCY, COMMODIFICATION AND THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRYSIDE, 1870-1945 (CAPITALEAST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Middle East is rarely associated with global capitalism. And yet, capitalist expansion had a substantial impact on its modern history. While previous works address issues such as ‘dependency’ and ‘coloniality’, state building, human-environmental interaction and connectivity, there is little recognition of the influence of global capitalism on the socio-ecological transformation of the rural Middle East. CAPITALEAST therefore compares tribes of diverse origins, examining the ‘capitalization’ of their agriculture and the commercialization of their livestock. It adopts a translocal and global approach to reveal the connectedness of the diverse social entities to the wider world like the nomadic, semi-settled and settled tribes living in cultivable, desert, and mountainous ecologies. The project argues that intertwined processes such as commodification, the scientification of cultivation and animal breeding, mechanization of agriculture, ‘automobilization’, and new patterns of land ownerships resulted in an impressive repositioning of tribal agency in the physical environment and a noticeable increase in urban-rural and global-local relations. States, urban elites and tribal leaders, and global capitalists all emerged as active participants in the process. The project proposes an ambitious longitudinal enquiry, combining an analysis of digitized and published sources with extensive work in regional and central archives. This ground-breaking research will create an online database including interactive maps, network graphs, and structured data about spatial locations which offer multiple avenues of interpretation of the sources. In addition, 5 monographs, 2 conferences and 2 edited volumes will constitute the other major project outputs. This project promises to recast the field of the Middle East history, contribute to the extra-European story of capitalism and open new frontiers in studying the history, sociology, economy and anthropology of rural peoples.

Keywords: ottoman history,middle east history,syria,iraq
The Phantom Fish: Untangling the long co-evolution of herring and people along the Pacific Rim using ancient DNA and marine historical ecology (PHANTOM)

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: Denmark,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 368638.08
EU funding (EUR): 368638.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Herring have been a crucial resource for human communities across the northern hemisphere for time immemorial. In addition to providing cultural and nutritional benefits, these forage fish are a keystone species in their environments, providing myriad ecosystem services including acting as prey for many predators (bears, salmon, seabirds, fish, whales, pinnipeds, etc). In the 20th and 21st centuries, herring populations suffered commercial collapses, culminating in a wave of fisheries closures across the Atlantic and Pacific. The drivers behind these collapses are still debated, with some researchers arguing climate change is to blame and others concluding overfishing caused the population declines. PHANTOM will bring together an interdisciplinary research team to address the question of historical and recent population declines in Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in relation to climatic and anthropogenic forcing. To do this, PHANTOM will employ ancient DNA and genomic analysis in conjunction with local traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities in Alaska and Japan. Demographic modeling will be compared to changing climate and management regimes to assess their impacts on this keystone species. PHANTOM will train early-career researcher Lane Atmore in Indigenous- centered research and the development of genetic tools for monitoring and fisheries management to complement her existing expertise in historical ecology and genomic analysis. PHANTOM will culminate with the development of genetic tools and policy advice for Pacific herring management that integrates ancient DNA and local traditional knowledge. The Atlantic and Pacific fishing industries are currently facing challenges due to overfishing and rapid ecosystem change; creating more sustainable management regimes is our best defense against climate change and ensuring food security and economic stability for communities that rely on the sea.

Keywords: ancient dna,historical ecology,local and traditional knowledge,fisheries management,genomics
Next Generation Software Supply Chain Security (COANA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3566071.4
EU funding (EUR): 2496249.98
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Software development relies heavily on third-party libraries, with 70 - 90% of code in modern software applications coming from open-source dependencies. However, this dependency on external code can lead to serious security risks due to library vulnerabilities. According to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), supply chain attacks on software dependencies will be the foremost cybersecurity threat by 2030. Coana, a spinout of Aarhus University, is developing the next generation of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to address this issue. Our groundbreaking program analysis tool infers data flow and generates call graphs for large, real-world libraries and applications with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Unlike conventional SCAs, our built-in reachability analysis lets developers focus on reachable vulnerabilities in their dependencies and ignore the unreachable ones. Since most vulnerabilities are unreachable, Coana reduces the burden and cost of managing vulnerabilities by at least 80%, enabling developers to focus on eliminating vulnerabilities that truly matter. If successfully deployed in the market, Coana could assist 5.9M developers in the EU in building more secure software by 2033. This widespread adoption will help overturn US dominance in the EU’s SCA market while enabling Coana to be a new EU unicorn in the next 10 to 12 years. Developer time savings will help save €318k for a company with 100 developers and €18.7B for the 5.6M developers in the EU using Coana by 2033. Additionally, it will help save €5.6B lost due to vulnerabilities annually. The support of the EIC Transition grant is crucial to bringing this impactful solution to the market. This project aims to expand our curated vulnerabilities database, improve the recall for detecting vulnerabilities to over 90%, and extend language coverage to Java, Python, and Go. We will also validate our business model and develop the business plan to guide the route to commercialization.

Keywords: software maintenance tools,software maintenance,dependency management,static analysis,software tool,javascript,program analysis,code security,software security,cybersecurity
Preventing rejection and ensuring survival of grafts (PRESERVE)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The success of organ transplantation depends on the lifelong use of immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the donor cells by the recipient’s immune system. These immunosuppressive drugs have several limitations, most notably major side effects, namely opportunistic infections and cancers. We have recently shown that the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) induces the resistance of infected cells to T-cell mediated killing. This project aims to protect grafted cells from T cell-mediated killing and thereby mitigate organ rejection. This will lay the groundwork for patent filing and the establishment of a robust business model to ensure further development and clinical translation. This innovative approach is expected to reduce the need for immunosuppressive therapy in transplant recipients, thereby improving outcomes and quality of life for the 130,000 patients who receive transplants worldwide each year. This proof-of-concept project is based on our recently published study (Maudet et al, Nature 2022) supported by the ERC Invadis grant.