Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Supporting Architectural and technological Network evolutions through an intelligent, secureD and twinning enaBled Open eXperimentation facility (6G-SANDBOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Denmark,Greece,Finland,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom
Call: SNS experimental Infrastructure (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8549801.53
EU funding (EUR): 8039821.26
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The 6G-SANDBOX project brings a complete and modular facility for the European experimentation ecosystem (in line and under the directions set by SNS JU), which is expected to support for the next decade technology and research validation processes needed in the pathway towards 6G. The target is at technologies and research advances, that span over the entire service provisioning chain, and refer to user/data, control and management planes. In this direction, 6G-SANDBOX introduces the concept of Trial Networks, which refers to fully configurable, manageable and controlled end-to-end networks, composed of both digital and physical nodes. The 6G-SANDBOX Trial Networks incorporate infrastructures distributed in EU (namely in Malaga, Athens, Berlin and Oulu) and offer to third parties (including experimenters from open calls) automated experimentation capabilities through a rich and extensible toolbox. Meant to create tangible and long-term impact, the 6G KPIs and KVIs that will be quantified with the facility, will be released to any interested party; while the set of developments and APIs that will be produced, will feed an open repository as an initial step to move the contributions and the lessons learned beyond the project boarders and define a European 6G library.

Keywords: experimental infrastructure,test and measurement,internet of sense,disruptive wireless,deterministic networking,fixed ran ntn integration,standarization towards 6g,digital twins,by5g,kpisandkvis
ARGOS Conceptual Design Study: Designing a next-generation radio facility for multi-messenger astronomy (ARGOS-CDS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,France
Call: Research infrastructure concept development (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Astronomy is being transformed by surveys performed with instruments capable of searching the sky multi-messenger signals with high speed and sensitivity, while delivering science-read datasets to the community. While radio astronomy is not yet fully participating in this revolution, it is clear that an instrument following the same philosophy, that would finally open up the dynamic radio sky for exploration, is not only urgent but inevitable. ARGOS is a concept (TRL2) for a leading-edge, low-cost, sustainable European astronomical facility that will finally realize this ambition, directly addressing multiple fundamental scientific questions, from the nature of dark matter and dark energy to the origin of fast radio bursts and the properties of extreme gravity. ARGOS will enable, for the first time, continuous wide-field monitoring of the sky at centimetre wavelengths, while publicly distributing science-ready data and alerts in real time. To make the strategic scientific need for such a facility clear and accessible to funding and policy bodies, a detailed design study is necessary. This should include technical studies, community groundwork and prototyping, as well as quantitative cost-to-benefit analysis, well-calibrated project budget, and assessments of scientific and socioeconomic impact, sustainability, technological readiness and innovation needs. The ARGOS-CDS vision is to deliver a conceptual design study to fully prepare the subsequent rapid implementation of a leading-edge public radio facility on European grounds and ensure its optimal integration into the network of existing and future international astronomical facilities. ARGOS-CDS will achieve this by directly addressing the aforementioned challenges via an integrated systems-engineering approach. The project will also produce cutting-edge science, big-data and artificial intelligence technologies with significant scientific impact and lasting spill-over societal benefits.

Keywords: astronomy,radio astronomy,pulsars,transients,multi messenger astronomy,gravitational waves,public surveys,astrophysics,open data,public data,services
Mapping vast functional landscapes with single-species resolution: a new approach for precision engineering of microbial consortia (ECOPROSPECTOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1991470.0
EU funding (EUR): 1991470.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Given a list of candidate species, which community should one form to optimize a target function? Answering this fundamental ecological question is particularly urgent in the emerging field of synthetic microbial ecology, where it would dramatically improve our ability to design multi-species consortia for biotechnological applications. An empirical solution is out of reach, due to the astronomical number of possibilities: one could form ~1E30 possible assemblages from just 100 species. To provide a solution, ECOPROSPECTOR will borrow state-of-the-art ideas from Evolutionary Systems Biology and the theory of Fitness Landscapes, where similarly vast combinatorial spaces must be explored to find optimal sequences (peaks) in a genotype-phenotype map. This will result in a new and groundbreaking theoretical paradigm to map community composition and function in large communities at the single-species level. My proposal is motivated by exciting preliminary results revealing an ecological parallel to the emerging evolutionary concept of global epistasis: the functional effect of adding a species to a community can be predicted by a simple mathematical relationship. I will start by characterizing these relationships in a model empirical system consisting of 100 starch-degrading soil bacteria. I will then use machine learning to reconstruct and navigate the full combinatorial landscape between community composition and function, in search of communities that optimize the rate of starch hydrolysis. Through genetic and environmental manipulations and mathematical modeling, I will then mechanistically explain the emergence of those predictive equations and causally link them with species traits. Besides solving a problem of critical practical importance, the theoretical paradigm emerging from this work will unify quantitative research in ecology and evolution, providing unique opportunities for cross-pollination across fields.
Railway stations for green and socially inclusive cities (RAIL4CITIES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Italy,Portugal,Poland,Belgium
Call: New railway station concept for green and socially inclusive smart cities (HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 872585.53
EU funding (EUR): 697796.1
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Railway stations hold a unique position in the urban landscape: they not only act as complex nodes of mobility and transport, but also as public places that can be seen as integral elements of the city. Consequently, stations have a decisive impact on their urban surroundings as places of everyday life, affecting all stakeholders including citizens and the environment. The central ambition of RAIL4CITIES is to develop a new operational, readily available and highly applicable model of stations (SCP model), combined with a common European methodology and tool for its effective implementation. The project takes inter-dependent impediments (profit-orientated business model, complex web of agents and stakeholders, policy gaps) into account and provides decision makers with the tools to transform stations into promoters of sustainable cities. The model will be applied to 5 living labs addressing the stations’ transformation into hubs of green and active mobility (FR), energy hubs (IT), towards Transit Oriented Development (DE), into a socially-inclusive services hub with using Nature Based Solutions (PL) and services hubs enabling the 15-minute city and circular economy (BE). This will be enhanced by 3 case-studies from the high-speed rail line from Lisbon to Oporto (PT) to study the resilience of infrastructures for both adaptation of spaces to new future uses, and adaptation to climate-change issues and health crises. With 14 partners from 7 European countries, further supported by 9 institutions through letters of support, the RAIL4CITIES consortium and ecosystem integrates the relevant stakeholders from universities, industry, government and the public, and is therefore in the position to design, evaluate and publish a EU-wide model for transforming existing stations or designing new ones into socio-technical systems operating as city’s greening engines for the surrounding environment, and new urban hubs aggregating multiple services for the users and its citizens

Keywords: sustainable city promoter,green and active mobility,energy hub,transit oriented development,socially inclusive services hub,nature based solutions,15 minute city,circular economy
Revolutionizing auditory experiences and scaling up AIDIO EDGE: the world's first device for smarter listening (AIDIO EDGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Norway
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

In the current market, consumers must choose between distinct products for their hearing needs: earbuds for entertainment and/or communication, hearing aids for auditory enhancement, and earplugs or earmuffs for noise protection, each with significant shortcomings in functionality, accessibility, and affordability. Particularly, the high prevalence of hearing loss (HL) presents a profound global health and social challenge, affecting over 1.5B people and leading economic costs exceeding 690B€ annually. Person-AIz is poised to address this gap with AIDIO EDGE earbud, an innovative, non-medical device that combines the best features of high-end hearing aids, advanced earbuds, and smart hearing protection into a single, versatile product. AIDIO EDGE's breakthrough lies in its edge AI technology, allowing real-time sound processing and personalization of auditory experiences. The earbuds, controlled through person-AIz App, provide users with unparalleled sound customization, intelligent noise reduction, and speech enhancement. Protected by multiple patents, AIDIO EDGE offers an accessible, user-friendly, and stigma-free solution with multifunctional capabilities for a diverse range of auditory needs, from mild to moderate and unilateral HL, tinnitus, and noise sensitivity, to the tech-savvy consumer seeking premium sound quality for leisure and work. Our team, comprised of 11 experts, has brought AIDIO prototype to TRL6. With a strategic roadmap and a commitment to local production, we aim to advance AIDIO EDGE to market readiness. EIC Accelerator funding is sought to scale manufacturing, speed-up R&D, and navigate the intricate journey from prototype to a mass-producible product. This support is crucial for person-AIz AS to seize the opportunity presented by the expanding auditory device market and to make a significant impact on the quality of life for millions worldwide.

Keywords: audio technology artificial intelligence hearing loss auditory conditions hearing protection consumer audio devices personalization
Breakthrough 3D-Stacked AI Inference Chip Enabling the Deployment of Multi-Billion-Parameter LLMs on Edge Devices (Aloe AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Enabling the smart edge (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Large Language Models (LLMs) are at the center of the roadmaps of almost all large tech companies for new features in electronic devices. However, they usually consists of billions of parameter and running them outside the cloud in edge devices limits the chip size often to less than a square centimetre of silicon and less than 1 W continuous power consumption amongst other criteria. Current technologies not just fail to provide these technical features but also lack of the potential to meet these requirements in the future. This includes digital hardware (energy in-efficiency) as well as new compute paradigms (e.g. in-memory computing) that can only run models of few million parameters on such a small footprint. Instead of the expensive and limited technology node scaling, SEMRON is working on a 3D scaled AI inference chip to incorporate LLMs on a tiny footprint without overheating. This is enabled by a new semiconductor technology that was already tested (CapRAM). CapRAM is utilising a capacitive approach instead of the resistive approaches known in other in-memory computing approaches. This approach shows an inherently better signal-to-noise ratio that is necessary to achieve the energy-efficiency that is required to not run into overheating issues when increasing the compute density (3D). With monolithic growth the compute layers are stacked in the semiconductor manufacturing process based on the matured 3D NAND flash approach. This not just provides the ability to stack hundreds of compute layers but also to decrease the costs per performance ratio by two orders of magnitude. SEMRON is building the demonstrator of such monolithically grown 3D AI inference chip based on the CapRAM technology that itself already constitutes a superior AI solution for edge devices.

Keywords: edge computing,edge ai,semiconductors,chips,consumer electronics,deep learning,generative ai,large language models,smartphones,smart watches
International Trade and Sustainable Development Pillars in sub-Saharan Africa: a Comprehensive Approach (ITSDPs)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2027-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196976.16
EU funding (EUR): 196976.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The sustainable development (SD) paradigm focuses on addressing the needs of current generations without jeopardizing future generations by balancing sustainable development pillars (SDPs) (economic, social, and environmental). International trade, a key driver of SD and inclusive growth, often favors developed nations, increases socio-economic inequality, and harms the environment, despite the UN 2030 agenda’s emphasis on a balanced approach to SD. Moreover, there are conflicting theories and empirical findings on trade-SDPs linkages. Existing studies focused on developed nations, failed to assess all SDPs, have methodological limitations, overlook econometric tests, dynamic relationships, and gender aspects, and are limited in scope, perspective, and case studies. The existing trade trajectory in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) does not align with the UN agenda, and trade’s impact on SDPs has not been examined well. Therefore, a comprehensive econometric analysis is needed to develop better trade policies. The project will use multi-country secondary panel data collected from international databases, address prior study limitations, use descriptive statistics and an integrated sustainable framework, and employ a simultaneous equation model, notably seemingly unrelated regression. It will offer insights into trade-SDP linkages, inform policymakers of balanced trade policies, and lay the groundwork for further studies. The project also aims to develop optimal trade policies that align with the UN agenda. The fellowship provides a unique opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary project, contribute to the UN agenda, improve career development, gain international exposure, access world-class resources, network with experts, enhance employability, and attract future research funding. It will also strengthen VU’s global research networks, build internal capacity, promote interdisciplinary research, attract funding, boost academic reputation, and foster cultural exchange.

Keywords: international trade,development,economic growth,social economics,natural resources and environmental economics,econometrics,statistical methods
FRAgile X syndrome Clinical trial: Unravelling the science behind this Rare disease in Europe (FRAXCURE)

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: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CONNECTA Therapeutics is a clinical biotech company developing new treatments for unmet Central Nervous System medical needs associated with neuroplasticity dysfunction, such as Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), a neurodevelopmental rare disease without a cure affecting around 1.8 M patients worldwide. FXS is responsible for 30% of intellectual disability and cognitive deterioration in both males and females, starting at paediatric age and chronically persisting for life, impacting in learning abilities, attention problems, hyperactivity, autism and social impairments. Early intervention in children is crucial to provide the greatest chance of developing a full range of neurodevelopmental skills, and more opportunities for their social inclusion. Neuroplasticity modulation addressed by the network pharmacology approach is the core of CONNECTA’s technology. Particularly, CTH120, an excellent neuroplasticity modulator, is a new investigational medicinal product designed as an effective cure for both adults and children. This patented and proprietary technology has already succeeded in Phase I clinical trial demonstrating safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics in humans, and its efficacy will be validated through the FRAXCURE project in the corresponding Phase II clinical trials targeting FXS paediatric and adult patients, including women with childbearing potential. CONNECTA’s technology expands to other neurodevelopmental diseases, such as Rett syndrome, Down syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder, currently under preclinical testing by CONNECTA. Therefore, the success of the FRAXCURE project will boost the development of medicines for neurodevelopmental diseases for children and adults in Europe. Likewise, FRAXCURE will position CONNECTA as a leading biotech in the already highly successful research-based European pharmaceutical sector while reinforcing the competitiveness of the European Union in a key strategic technological field.

Keywords: fragile x syndrome,paediatric clinical trial,network pharmacology,neuroplasticity,rare disease,cns diseases
Upcycling raw materials from end-of-life PV panels for a profitable and circular business model (9PV-UP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite many efforts, Silicon from End of Life Photovoltaic (EoL PV) panels is not yet recycled and upcycled for high value applications, such as RES or batteries. In fact, the only industrially applied solution for recycling this waste consists in shredding the panels. Despite recovering ~90% by weight of the materials, these plants only extract up to 35% of the economic value by producing low value Secondary Raw Materials (SRMs): Silicon and Silver end up in low purity powders that are processed into silicone plastics. 9PV is the first end-to-end and zero waste process for upcycling all the SRMs from EoL PV panels, including Silver and metallic Silicon powders usable in existing (photovoltaic) and new value chains (LIBs anodes). 9PV process extracts more than 90% of the theoretical value of the materials embedded in the panels, making the recycling of PV panels profitable even without disposal costs from the owners of the dismissed PV panels. The process has an extremely low environmental impact, already certified by LCA. The developed recycling treatment comprises 3 patented processes 1) a thermomechanical treatment that allows the separation of the glass and PV cells 2) a hydrometallurgical treatment of the PV cells using ultrasound and blend acids for the removal of Silver 3) a method for the production of Si nanopowders for LIB anodes. The first step is currently being implemented at pre-industrial scale while the 2nd and 3rd steps are now at TRL5. With the 9PV-UP project 9-Tech aims to: upscale the two TRL5 processes to TRL8 and integrate them in the pre-industrial plant; modify and optimize the plant and prepare the company to start commercialization of plants starting from 2026. To reduce the entry barriers and contractual risks, 9-Tech will use a rent-to-own business model, in which the plants will be designed and implemented at clients' sites but owned and operated by 9-Tech.

Keywords: photovoltaic,recycling,thermomechanical,ultrasound,hydrometallurgy,circular economy,silicon