Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Future Agricultural Resource Management and Water Innovations for a Sustainable Europe (FARMWISE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Netherlands,Finland,Spain,Italy,Ireland,Ukraine,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Poland,Germany,France
Call: Knowledge and innovative solutions in agriculture for water availability and quality (HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5835760.0
EU funding (EUR): 5835760.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

FARMWISE transforms the EU agricultural sector by empowering farmers and decision-makers with a state-of-the-art decision support system, combining precision agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, and remote sensing. FARMWISE provides new insights into water quality, quantity, soil health, and nutrient management. FARMWISE's state-of-the-art framework fosters knowledge sharing between scientists, farmers, and policymakers in a co-creation environment (Systems Thinking). It consolidates existing collaborations, and promotes new long-term cooperations between European organisations, including Water4All (BRGM) and Water Europe (SITES). The FARMWISE project will develop improved tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) for more efficient European water policy and decision-making founded on research-based technologies to solve the most burning water pollution and climate change problems. For this purpose, the FARMWISE consortium brings together the best European water, agricultural, climate, and AI researchers to handle the sustainability of water resources, the natural environment, and efficient agriculture in the highly diverse European landscape in view of present and future climate change. FARMWISE's impact will increase interest and bond cooperation of quadruple helix stakeholders for science-based solutions. FARMWISE evaluates, monitors, and implements gender and diversity balance in the consortium during the planned activities (T7.4). All partners' have established policies to foster gender equality, diversity, and inclusion for all employees. UEA holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of good practice in recruiting, retaining, and promoting women in STEMM subjects.

Keywords: agriculture,water quality,water quantity,artificial intelligence,policymaking
Forest vulnerability to compound extremes and disturbances in a changing climate (ForExD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1425000.01
EU funding (EUR): 1425000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Forests play a crucial role not only in providing breathable oxygen, supporting biodiversity and regulating water and energy exchanges, but also in mitigating climate change. Currently, forests absorb 25% of human CO2 emissions, but their sequestration potential may be negated by more frequent and intense weather extremes and disturbances in the future. Mega-droughts, massive wildfires and widespread tree mortality reported in the last decade might be early warnings of the upcoming threats to forests under climate change. Yet, process-understanding about the interactions between climate, forests and key disturbances is limited. Consequently, impacts of compound extremes and disturbances on forest CO2 sequestration potential are not yet realistically simulated in future climate projections by Earth System models. To overcome this knowledge gap, ForExD proposes a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework placing disturbances as intrinsic components of coupled ecoclimatic variability. We will apply novel high spatiotemporal resolution remote-sensing data to reconstruct disturbance histories and explore emerging analytical tools to gain understanding about the interactions between climate, forests and disturbances. We will then develop mechanistic models of forest-disturbance interactions, which will allow simulating, for the first time, compound extremes and disturbances (fires, droughts, insects, storms) and impacts in a state-of-the-art land-surface model. The project will build on the PI's expertise on ecological monitoring and modelling and strong cross-disciplinary background on ecoclimatology and biogeochemistry to develop a systemic understanding of interactions between climate, forests and disturbances. ForExD will provide fundamental knowledge about forest dynamics and feedbacks between climate and the carbon-cycle. In doing so, ForExD will make a vital contribution to resolve long-standing uncertainties about forests' climate change mitigation potential.

Keywords: remote sensing,land surface modelling
Breakthrough Fuel Cell Technologies for Aviation (BRAVA)

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: Germany,Spain,France,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Development and optimisation of a dedicated Fuel Cells for Aviation: from dedicated stack (100s kW) up to full system (MWs) (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19986841.75
EU funding (EUR): 19986841.75
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell technology emerging from the automotive industry is of high interest for the future aeronautic industry. While automotive industry fuel cell (FC) systems are usually limited to 100 kW, aircraft require a significantly greater amount of power (multi-MW) and must operate at both different temperatures and pressures, while keeping the system’s safety and reliability levels to aeronautical standards. BRAVA will develop breakthrough technologies for a FC-based Power Generation System (PGS) for aviation. The overall target is a high-performance PGS with a power range of over 2 MW. The foreseen future multi-MW system will be a multi-stack aircraft propulsion system. Airbus reckons that several of such multi-MW FC-based PGSs can be used to propel an aircraft capable of carrying up to 100 passengers on distances of up to 1,000 nautical miles. Advances in the FC stack and balance of plant components, the thermal management system, heat exchanger design and technology, and air supply system architecture, will act as building blocks for this multi-MW FC-based PGS. The key project results are: • New catalysts and membranes with higher performance, durability and higher operating temperature capability to enable integration into new Membrane Electrode Assemblies to reach high efficiency, low weight, compactness and long lifetime; • 2-Phase cooling based thermal management system (including a newly designed fuel cell stack) for compactness, weight reduction and hence improved fuel consumption; • Additive manufactured heat exchangers for increased heat rejection, compactness, lightweight and low drag; • A new air supply architecture and components designed and optimized to provide low parasitic power and weight reduction and thus enabling lower fuel consumption and equipment cost. Each of the breakthrough technologies for these FC system subsystems will be advanced to TRL5, i.e. technology validated in relevant environment.

Keywords: fuel cell stack,thermal management system,additive manufactured heat exchanger,air supply,membranes,balance of plant,pem,mea,zero emission aviation
Energy Transitions in the History of Economic Thought (19th-20th c.) (ETRANHET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1472313.0
EU funding (EUR): 1472313.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Economic ideas play a vital role in public decision-making. The energy sector is an emblematic case: competition policies (e.g. anti-trust laws, deregulation), taxation, emission permits and sustainable-growth programmes all have origins rooted in economic reasoning. Today, more than 80% of the world's primary energy comes from fossil fuel combustion, contributing strongly (75% of CO2 emissions) to climate change. To understand the historical developments that led to this situation, an in-depth examination of past economic discourses, concepts, theories, models and policy recommendations is essential. This has not been done to date. ETRANHET's ambition is thus to write the first ever history of energy transitions in economic thought, on a global scale. ETRANHET will analyse how economics has dealt with energy issues and transitions since the early 19th century, in diverse market-economy contexts (5 areas: Continental Western Europe, the British Isles, North America, Latin America, Japan). Deliberately going beyond the English-speaking literature, it will perform an unusual decentring of the history of economic thought. ETRANHET aims to characterise the context-dependency of past economic views of energy. It seeks to uncover forgotten, yet relevant, ideas that could enrich current research into the energy transition. And it intends to precisely determine how the economic discipline has been able to influence decision-making in energy matters. ETRANHET is a multidisciplinary project mobilising historiographical and science studies methods to study past economists and economic thinking. Digital humanities and archival research will be key, including the creation of electronic repositories, making new valuable material available to historians. By taking a fresh look at today's challenges in relation to the low-carbon transition, ETRANHET will contribute to show that the history of ideas has a role to play in contemporary debates on sustainability.
Social INnovation methods and Tools for Communities Affected by Transition(s) (SINTACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Romania,Iraq,Sri Lanka,Japan,Morocco,Viet Nam
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 951900.0
EU funding (EUR): 951900.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The SINTACT project (Social Innovation Methods and Tools for Communities Affected by Transition(s)) aims to develop social innovation tools and methods to support regions in achieving a fair and inclusive transition towards a green economy. As Europe moves towards climate neutrality, communities reliant on fossil fuels and traditional industries face growing uncertainty, with rising unemployment and energy poverty disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups such as youth, women, and the elderly. To tackle these issues, the project takes a comparative international approach, spanning three European countries (Bulgaria, Romania, and the UK) and five non-European nations (Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Japan, and Morocco). What sets SINTACT apart is its cross-regional perspective, combining systemic, participatory, and interdisciplinary methodologies. Through analyzing socio-economic vulnerabilities, developing social innovation strategies, and quantifying social value, the project will generate a set of valuable outputs for policy makers. This will be facilitated by SINTACT’s open science approach, which ensures that all research findings, methodologies, and tools are widely accessible. The SINTACT consortium brings together universities, research centers, and social enterprises with expertise in economics, sociology, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability. The project’s extensive research and training programme will facilitate 190 person-months of staff exchanges across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. This interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration ensures that SINTACT’s findings will empower policymakers, businesses, and communities in shaping socially equitable green transition strategies.

Keywords: social innovation,green transition,energy poverty,unemployment
Octo ReconfIgurable cONverter (ORION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany
Call: Space technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3934553.56
EU funding (EUR): 2999999.99
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The ORION project (OCTO RECONFIGURABLE CONVERTER) is a collaborative, technological project proposed in the frame of the Horizon Europe program in a call related to Space technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness. Its main objective is to develop a new high-speed ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) that will be designed and optimized for active antennas and digital beamforming. Its performances will be validated on a dedicated demonstration board and in a specific use case. The final component will reach TRL7 and will be space-qualified. It responds to the challenges of the digital beamforming application by providing an integrated 8 channels devices with very low power that is able to make direct conversion up to the X-band. It will generate new knowledge on the possibility to move from the X-band to the Ka-band. The new ADC will be highly suitable for a wide range of applications, from telecommunications to Earth Observation and GNSS, and will respond to the future needs of Europe’s flagship programs, such as the Green Deal. The project addresses the issue of the critical components supply chain, by fully assessing the gaps and potential vulnerabilities, and will propose recommendations at the European and industrial levels. The project also focuses on two key elements, which are the wafer foundry and the circuit’s packaging. The ORION project targets a 90% European supply chain, as the manufacturing, test and qualification are already on European, open-to-all, industrial facilities. The ORION project is led by Teledyne e2v, and fosters cooperation between scientific (Fraunhofer IIS and the Polytechnical University of Madrid), and industrial teams (INDRA and THALES ALENIA SPACE). The partners will implement several measures for exploitation of the results and dissemination to the European scientific, industrial and policy communities. It builds upon and is complementary to several other research and innovation activities.

Keywords: analog and digital data converters,high speed,high bandwidth,telecom,earth observation,navigation,serial links,non hermetic package,flip chip,space,digital payloads,satellites
Support to EIC Accelerator by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN2EIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Greece,Lithuania,Germany
Call: Cooperation with EEN (HORIZON-EIC-2021-EEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7299999.14
EU funding (EUR): 7299999.14
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of EEN2EIC is to empower EEN network offices support potential EIC applicants, specifically women entrepreneurs and widening countries, and Seal of Excellence (SoE) holders. The project aims to develop a strong cooperation mechanism between the European Innovation Council and EEN in order to support innovation and scale up companies. EEN2EIC will involve the most relevant actors in the EIC and EEN landscape: the Enterprise Europe Network ( EEN), the EIC NCPs Network (ACCESS2EIC). EEN2EIC aims to focus on specific outreach and support activities, increasing the number of quality proposals to EIC calls with a specific focus in widening countries as well as women innovators, assisting Seal of Excellence holders access alternative sources of funding and guarantee a strong and profitable exchange of best practice within EEN. EEN2EIC overall objective is to make EU innovation support more efficient by improving the capacity of SMEs to apply to the EIC and by helping SoE holders finance their projects and to avoid overlapping with NCPs activities

Keywords: enterprise europe network horizon europe european innovation council
Making Superconducting power grids a feasible solution for Europe (SUBRACABLE)

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: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3567845.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497491.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Power transmission is a critical step in electrifying and decarbonizing Europe. The construction of cross-continental grids for transmitting large amounts of power over very long distances has become strategic. But using current cables made with standard conductors entail prohibitive energy losses in such grids: 50GW would be wasted in a pan-European 75.000km 10GW High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) grid, equal to the electricity produced by 50 power plants. SUBRA, a spin-off from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), has developed and patented a solution which will revolutionise European grids by mass producing High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) power cables, with superior properties, no limitation in length, and at an affordable price. This represents a ground-breaking option allowing: 90% reduction of energy losses; 99% reduction of copper required; 75% reduction of Levelized Cost of Transmission (LCoT); and using small underground lines rather than overhead lines.

Keywords: superconductivity,power transmission,supergrids,filamentization,bundling,high temperature superconductor,cable,surface treatment
Revealing Elusive LIght particles with Cosmic microwave background surveys across cosmological Scales (RELiCS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498451.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498451.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neutrinos and other well-motivated particles from the Big Bang are gateways to much awaited new physics that will sharpen our understanding of Nature. Cosmology offers a unique arena to unveil their secrets in a way that is separate from, but complementary to astrophysical and terrestrial searches. The next generation of cosmological surveys will supersede the current, which is already highly sensitive to these particles’ fundamental properties. The first-ever measurement of the neutrino mass scale, a handle to its beyond-standard-model origin, has never been so close. A novel approach to data exploitation is both necessary and timely. Perfect command of theoretical predictions of key observables and instrument knowledge must inform each other. A robust inference framework is required to compare and combine the wide datasets soon to be available. Without this interconnected analysis pipeline, the richness and complexity of new data will spoil detection prospects. RELiCS is the project to lead new Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments towards discoveries in particle physics. I propose a program built around my expertise in particle cosmology and CMB data analysis that will deliver new and robust limits on neutrino and light relics properties. The flagship experiment is the ground-based Simons Observatory, for which I already lead key parts of the analysis. RELiCS is timely: the analysis pipeline will be immediately applied to fresh data from 2024. The same pipeline will shape the analysis strategies of the two ultimate CMB experiments, of which I am a key member of: the ground-based CMB-S4, and the space-borne mission LiteBIRD. My expertise is unique in that embraces understanding of the theory, instrument, data analysis and high-level science exploitation. Through RELiCS, I will lead work that will crucially support cosmology towards first discoveries in the neutrino and light relics sector and pave the way to robust exploitation of ultimate surveys.

Keywords: neutrino and particle cosmology neutrino masses light relics thermal axions neutrino interactions cosmic microwave background instrumental systematics in cmb experiments likelihood analysis bayesian inference terrestrial laboratory searches of neutrino properties