Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
igzO-based smaRt Interposer technologieS fOr iNtegrated circuits and pixels (Orison)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999688.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999688.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (Si CMOS) technologies are ubiquitous in a plethora of products today employing a multitude of chips. The current challenges of Si chips research and applications are area, power consumption and high-voltage interposing for AR/VR, low-power IoT, high-voltage sensors and actuator interfaces such as MEMS and lab-on-chip. ORISON’s goal is to develop a scalable toolbox on top of Si CMOS chip technologies for disruptive research activities in ultralow power circuit design, high-voltage interfacing and low-area 3D stacked hybrid pixel engines. The technology platform focuses on a 3D hetero-integration route of Si CMOS and Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (IGZO) n-type transistors with a 100x lower electron mobility. The game changing nature of ORISON enables innovation on three major pillars: (1) extreme low off-stage leakage currents due to the wide bandgap semiconductor, leading to ultralow power and long retention electronic circuits, (2) the absence of a bulk for IGZO devices, enabling low footprint and high-voltage devices on top of Si CMOS and (3) a 3D technology platform facilitating beyond state-of-the-art circuit and pixel resolutions. A new hybrid Si pMOS/IGZO cell library will be pioneered targeting ultra-low power consumption because of comparable sub-threshold slopes of both technologies, low off-state leakage currents and individual tuneable threshold voltages by a local backgate. In addition, true cell-level power gating techniques are envisioned to radically reduce the idle power consumption, paving the way to lifetime battery-powered or battery-less wearables and leaf-node IoT. The novel high-voltage hybrid library impacts positively MEMS and AR/VR applications with unprecedented footprint and power characteristics and enables technology partitioning for smart pixels. The 3D technology also envisions high-resolution pixel engines with refresh-on-demand capacitor-less pixel engines.

Keywords: low energy design,high voltage interface electronics,igzo,back end of line technology,sub threshold logic
Generation and Verification of Masking Countermeasures Against Side-Channel Attacks (AMAskZONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cryptography is everywhere in our daily life to ensure the confidentiality and authentication of our communications and the integrity of our records. Although there are strong expectations regarding the security of cryptographic schemes against black-box attackers whose knowledge is restricted to a few inputs or outputs, the security of their implementations is less challenged. However, once implemented on embedded devices, cryptographic schemes become vulnerable to powerful side-channel attacks. The latter additionally exploit the physical leakage (e.g., power consumption) released by the device to recover the manipulated secrets. With cheap equipment, side-channel attacks may yield tremendous damage (e.g., full key recovery) within seconds. Nevertheless, the current security level of countermeasures is not yet close to that achieved in the black-box model. The community is divided on how to assess the security of cryptographic implementations. From practitioners’ perspective, they need to be confronted with concrete side-channel attacks directly on embedded devices. Conversely, theorists consider that such an empirical approach is not portable and does not yield concrete security levels (e.g., not all attacks can be tested). Therefore, they instead investigate security proofs based on abstract leakage models, although the latter are often too far removed from reality to yield practical security. In this project, I plan to combine the advantages of both worlds with a toolbox to generate and verify cryptographic implementations with practical security. Namely, I aim to: (i) design new compilers to turn any high-level algorithm into an efficient implementation proven secure for identified concrete devices, (ii) push the limits of formal verification with device characterization and polynomial complexity for industrial use. The main challenge of AMAskZONE is to design and verify cryptographic implementations so that they achieve measurable practical security.

Keywords: side channel attacks,formal methods,masking,cryptographic implementations,provable security
Global status, trends, drivers and impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems (GloNoMo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499606.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499606.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The current biodiversity crisis is characterized by unprecedented rates of species extinctions, and invasive species are one of the most important drivers of this loss. Yet, many invasive species were only recognized as such when already widely naturalized in a region. A major challenge is thus to identify which non-native species have the potential to spread into natural ecosystems and become invasive before their eradication becomes unfeasible. Mountain ecosystems remained comparatively natural and harbour high levels of unique biodiversity but are disproportionately affected by climate change. So far, they are considered to be only minimally affected by non-native species and are thus the frontiers of their distributions. Yet, many non-native plant species spread upslope along roads, from where they might continue to spread into the surrounding undisturbed habitats. Indeed, non-native plant species have been recorded in mountains on all populated continents, and might hence be substantially more widespread than assumed. However, due to data deficiency, it remains unknown whether non-native plant species already occur in undisturbed habitats, which species have the potential to spread and which drivers besides roads are decisive. Even less is known about their impacts in mountains and thus which species should be classified as invasive, as impacts are least investigated in mountains of all terrestrial habitats. This project will fill these knowledge gaps by integrating field observations, experiments and macroecological analyses based on so far untapped global monitoring data from all populated continents, ranging from valleys to the upper limits of plant life in disturbed to undisturbed habitats. It will conduct the first global quantification of the status, trends, drivers and impacts of non-native plant species in mountains. The outcomes have thus not only a high scientific relevance but are also essential for the conservation of the world’s biodiversity.

Keywords: global change,invasive species,macroecology,monitoring,mountains,non native species,plants,species distributions,vegetation
Fake nEws Risk MItigator (FERMI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Fighting Crime and Terrorism
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Luxembourg,Greece,Portugal,Italy,Cyprus,Belgium,Finland,Sweden
Call: Disinformation and fake news are combated and trust in the digital world is raised (HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4471715.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999815.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Online social networks, news media and web platforms are the way contemporary societies operate for communication, information exchange, business, co-creation, learning and knowledge acquisition . However, the veracity of information circulating in the digital world is often in dispute. Indeed, disinformation and fake news (D&FN) increasingly affect and distort public opinion. National governments and supranational institutions recognize the spread of D&FN as a pernicious social problem. Indeed, the diffusion online of D&FN may have severe consequences. First, the spread of D&FN might infuse uncertainty and fear, intensify the crisis situations, weaken the European societies aggravating their divisions. In turn, the increase in divisions and fear leads to episodes of physical violence offline and other hate crimes. As such, D&FN have the power to polarise public debates and put the health, security, and environment of EU citizens at risk. Finally, the use of fake accounts, the involvement of AI-generated fake content and the use of bots that can spread D&FN at scale pose additional problems. FERMI will exploit a holistic and cross-disciplinary methodology towards a framework that will thoroughly analyse D&FN and their sources, in combination with all the socioeconomic factors that may affect both the spreading of such incidents and their effects on multiple dimensions of society. Comprising a set of innovative technological developments, FERMI will facilitate EU Police Authorities to detect and monitor the way that D&FN spread, both in terms of locations and within different segments of the society, and to put in place relevant security countermeasures; it will produce and diffuse tailor-made training material designed for i) European Police Authorities, ii) other professionals and stakeholders, iii) EU citizens for combating the spread and limiting the impact of D&FN and increasing digital trust.

Keywords: risk analyses and modelling fake news spread modelling impact assessments
AcceleRating the Translation of virtual twins towards a pErsonalised Management of fatty lIver patients (ARTEMIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Israel,Italy,Austria,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Integrated, multi-scale computational models of patient patho-physiology (‘virtual twins’) for personalised disease management (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9365096.0
EU funding (EUR): 9365095.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The ARTEMIs project aims to consolidate existing computational mechanistic and machine-learning models at different scales to deliver ‘virtual twins’ embedded in a clinical decision support system (CDSS). The CDSS will provide clinically meaningful information to clinicians, for a more personalised management of the whole spectrum of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD). MAFLD, with an estimated prevalence of about 25%, goes from an undetected sleeping disease, to inflammation (hepatitis), to fibrosis development (cirrhosis) and/or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), decompensated cirrhosis and HCC being the final stages of the disease. However, many MAFLD patients do not die from the liver disease itself, but from cardiovascular comorbidities or complications. The ARTEMIs will contribute to the earlier management of MAFLD patients, by prognosing the development of more advanced forms of the disease and cardiovascular comorbidities, promoting active surveillance of patients at risk. The system will predict the impact of novel drug treatments or procedures, or simply better life habits. The system will therefore not only serve as a clinical decision aid tool, but also as an educational tool for patients, to promote better nutritional and lifestyle behaviors. In more advanced forms of the disease, therapeutic interventions include TIPPS to manage portal hypertension, partial hepatectomy, partial or complete liver transplant. ARTEMIs will contribute to predict per- or post-intervention heart failure, building on existing microcirculation hemodynamics models. The model developers will benefit from a large distributed patient cohort and data exploration environment to identify patterns in data, draw new theories on the liver-heart metabolic axis and validate the performance of their models. The project includes a proof-of-concept feasibility study assessing the utility of the integrated virtual twins and CDSS in the clinical context.

Keywords: virtual twin,personalised medicine,liver heart axis,metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease mafld,chronic liver disease progression,fibrosis,cirrhosis,cardiovascular events
A University Partnership for Acceleration of European Universities (aUPaEU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Italy,Poland
Call: Acceleration Services in support of the institutional transformation of Higher Education Institutions (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3477625.0
EU funding (EUR): 3477625.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

aUPaEU is based on the collaboration of five academic institutions from two European alliances under the European Universities Initiative, EPiCUR and Unite!, who are working together to integrate and implement acceleration services in the context of a coordinated support system for higher education institutions (HEIs), networks, alliances of universities, and their umbrella organisations. The partners are experts in identifying effective approaches for R&I modernization that might serve as a model for other European HEIs, networks, and partnerships. Each partner has made significant internal efforts to advance their institutions, has sought new development routes through the European University Alliances, and has contributed to a variety of European and regional university networks. aUPaEU's ultimate purpose is to develop methodologies, sustainability plans, coaching services, and tangible digital technologies to give an acceleration agora. HEIs, university networks, and alliances will achieve integrated, shared, and long-term R&I transformations through this accelerated agora. These transformations are intended to focus on six major areas of the HEI transformation agenda: capacity, infrastructure, and resource sharing; researcher career attractiveness; collaboration with R&I ecosystem actors; open science; societal outreach; and gender equality. Following the Greek concept of the agora, the project will attempt to build a shared space where all stakeholders can give and consume accelerated services while also contributing their knowledge and experience. Access to this place will be accessible, diverse, and inclusive, promoting the reduction of all sorts of disparities, including economic, gender, and other inequalities. Finally, the project will deliver this agora, which will be evaluated by the user groups of two alliances and will serve as a model for other HEIs, networks, or university alliances to emulate.

Keywords: acceleration agora transformation of heis networks alliances randi ecosystem open science shared infrastructures researchers careers societal outreach gender equality
Egyptian Cults in Ancient Thrace – Spread, Extent and Interaction (ECAT)

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: Greece
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169326.72
EU funding (EUR): 169326.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The spread of Egyptian (Isiac) cults in ancient Thrace was a multi-layered and continuous process of great importance for the history of the Balkans. In fact, it was a process that has lasted for more than eight centuries – from the beginning of the Hellenistic period (end of the 4th BC) to the end of the Roman Empire (4th century AD) – and it has probably left an imprint on religious beliefs of the local population. Originated from the Nile Valley, drawing on the diverse religious concepts of Ancient Egypt, the Isiac cults have become а weapon of central government throughout their long existence. They were adopted very quickly by ordinary people because of the soteriological nature of the Egyptian deities and the more personal connection they had with their followers. That is why we find them all over the Greco-Roman world and in particular in ancient Thrace, where they were more or less assimilated with the local deities. The project ECAT: Egyptian Cults in Ancient Thrace – Spread, Extent and Interaction aims to give a comprehensive and modern study of the spread of the Isiac cults in ancient Thrace in order to expand our knowledge of religious beliefs in the Southeast Europe during the Antiquity. With one of the largest libraries of Classical Studies and open access to various research databases, EFA provides the best current academic context for the more interpretative and synthesising parts of the research. By partaking in a more conceptual research culture, this experience will have a decisive impact on my scientific development and will open up numerous new perspectives.

Keywords: classical world hellenistic and imperial ages ancient thrace egyptian gods isiac cults
ADVANCED CROSS-BORDER AND MULTI DOMAIN INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVED COLLABORATIVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY FOR SECURE MARITIME BORDERS (CROSSMARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Border Management
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Italy,Romania,Finland,Lithuania,Switzerland
Call: Interoperability for border and maritime surveillance and situational awareness (HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7359365.66
EU funding (EUR): 5821980.96
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Maritime surveillance is crucial for achieving maritime situational awareness (MSA) and to effectively prevent, protect, and respond to critical security challenges (e.g., illicit commercial activities, irregular migration, pollution, terrorist attacks). CROSSMARE aims to overcome existing challenges in border and maritime surveillance by introducing a layered maritime surveillance network and an interoperability framework that integrates the space, air, surface, and underwater domains within a comprehensive monitoring picture, enhancing MSA and surveillance capabilities. To achieve this, a consortium of 17 big industries, SMEs, RTOs, and end-users a) utilize cutting-edge technologies in the context of maritime surveillance: High Altitude Platform Stations; Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems; High-Res SAR Sat imagery; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Autonomous Underwater & Unmanned Surface Vehicles; novel Flash LiDAR sensors; as well as legacy surveillance systems, b) apply innovative AI algorithms; Large Language and Visual Models; Advanced multi-modal data fusion, c) extend the capabilities of existing C2 and HMIs, also supporting intelligent mission management of manned and unmanned systems, d) and support the interoperability of novel and legacy surveillance systems, improving cross-border and cross-agency collaboration. To this end, CROSSMARE aims to demonstrate interoperable data exchange with CISE and proposes an extension to the current CISE data and service model, enhancing existing and enabling new functionalities. The project will validate the proposed technologies through a series of validation activities: a) continuous integration testing, b) 2 Small Scale Tests (Italy, Lithuania), c) a Table Top Exercise (Romania), and d) a Full Scale Demonstration (Spain) involving real assets, end-users and relevant stakeholders. A Security and Privacy-by-design framework will ensure compliance with fundamental rights, privacy and personal data protection regulations.

Keywords: layered maritime surveillance network,intelligent mission management,cise,critical maritime infrastructure protection,anomaly detection,llm vlm,unmanned systems
Clean Heat and Power from Hydrogen (CLEANER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Norway,Finland,Germany,Sweden,France,Italy,Ukraine,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Development and validation of high power and impurity tolerant fuel cell systems ready to run on industrial quality dry hydrogen (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3949959.5
EU funding (EUR): 3949959.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving the European Green Deal target of becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 will require deep cuts to emissions across all aspects of the economy, including the power generation and heating sector. This, combined with the REPowerEU plans, places hydrogen as a clean energy carrier in a unique position. It can be used in, and thereby couple, all sectors like; power&heat, transport and industry. Hydrogen offers long term storage, it can be transported over large distances and it can be produced and used without, or with very low emissions. A central part of the EU climate strategies is the target of domestic renewable hydrogen production of 10 million tons by 2030, in addition to the same amount imported. Large-scale stationary fuel cells in the MW-range should be able to operate on such industrial quality H2 without repurification. They can offer a low-cost clean alternative for both large scale (peak) power and heat production, as well as for small, medium and large-scale back-up power units for the critical infrastructure, thereby also improving the resilience of the energy system. The aim of CLEANER is to develop and demonstrate for more than 5000 hours a >100 kW PEM fuel cell system operating on industrial quality hydrogen.