Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advances in aErosol Retrievals and Impacts on South america (AERIS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Greece,Italy,Lithuania,Portugal,Romania,United States,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Argentina,Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1130112.86
EU funding (EUR): 1012020.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

AERIS aims to build an international, cross-sectoral network to advance atmospheric sciences by improving vertically-resolved atmospheric characterization techniques, including near-surface regions. The project unites European academic and commercial institutions with North and South American partners (LALINET). AERIS enhances measurement techniques, connects international observation programs, and creates opportunities for early warning systems, business innovation, and job creation. The main objective is to advance retrieval capabilities for biogenic and non-biogenic aerosols over South America, enabling data with applications in health, hydrology, air quality, and climate. This will support a regional early warning system with global implications, benefiting aviation, biodiversity, and space mission validation. Specific goals include: (1) Implementing quality assurance and calibration for vertically resolved and near-surface measurements; (2) Optimizing inversion algorithms for aerosol property retrievals; (3) Enhancing synergies between instruments to improve spatial and temporal data; (4) Developing predictive models linking aerosols to health impacts; and (5) Investigating aerosol-induced cloud nucleation and its effects on the hydrological cycle. South America faces critical atmospheric challenges with global consequences. Limited infrastructure and monitoring networks hinder accurate data collection and climate modeling, weakening public policies and international cooperation. AERIS addresses these challenges by integrating high-quality, vertically resolved atmospheric data with near-surface imagery, advancing aerosol characterization in South America. This unique database will strengthen regional and global atmospheric science. To achieve these goals, AERIS includes an ambitious consortium and proposes secondments, workshops, and training activities to foster a shared culture of research and innovation.

Keywords: atmospheric aerosols
NEW PATHWAYS FOR EQUITABLE CLIMATE ACTION IN LINE WITH THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (NEWPATHWAYS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Italy,Greece,United Kingdom,Brazil,India,Viet Nam,Kenya,Switzerland,China,Saudi Arabia,Korea, Republic of,Japan,United States,Thailand
Call: Next generation low-emission, climate-resilient pathways and NDCs for a future aligned with the Paris Agreement (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D1-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999395.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999395.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

There is an urgent need to strengthen collective action to limit global warming to levels consistent with the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement. The NEWPATHWAYS project aims to inform solutions to strengthen action by developing and analysing next-generation Paris-aligned global and national low-emission transformation pathways for the next global stocktake in 2028. The project objectives are to promote enhanced transparency, consistency, and clarity of GHG emission reduction commitments, identify opportunities to leverage equity and finance to strengthen collective climate action, and establish new national and global transformation pathways that limit temporary overshoot, rely on deep sectoral transformations, combine climate and nature protection, and are aligned with sustainable development and just transition objectives. The project will rely on a multi-level stakeholder dialogue to co-create knowledge and build user capacity to maximize relevance and uptake of its results. The NEWPATHWAYS consortium combines strong global and national pathway modelling capacity with expertise from the social sciences, economics and policy analysis. National modelling teams come from a diverse set of countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe covering two thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions. The robust global and diverse national modelling capabilities with simultaneous access to global and national policy debates will prove effective in providing critical information to global and national policymakers and stakeholders for strengthening climate action towards achieving the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement.

Keywords: climate change transformation pathways,paris agreement,global stocktake,climate policies,emission reduction commitments,sector transitions,equity,climate finance,sustainable development
Quantum-engineered lattice-matched III-V-on-Si multijunction solar cells (MIRACLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2808686.0
EU funding (EUR): 2808686.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photovoltaics is called to be a main player in the global transformation of the energy sector the world is facing to fight climate change. Multijunction solar cells, based on classical III-V compound semiconductors, are the most advanced photovoltaic cells holding a record photoconversion efficiency of 38.8%. However, the high cost associated to their manufacturing process has typically relegated this technology to non-terrestrial applications in favour of Si cells. On the contrary, single-junction Si cells are cost-effective, but there is almost no room left to further improve their efficiency, which already approaches its theoretical limit, 29.4%. MIRACLE is created to make true a dream of decades: combining the unbeatable efficiency of multijunction solar cells with the cost-effectiveness of Si technology. The ultimate objective of MIRACLE is the demonstration of both double- and triple-junction solar cells based on III-V materials pseudomorphically grown on top of a Si cell, configurations that promise photoconversion efficiencies of up to 43 and 47%, respectively. Quaternary dilute-nitride alloys are the only III-V compounds that can be grown lattice-matched to Si with ideal band gaps for the fabrication of multijunction solar cells in combination with a bottom Si cell. Nevertheless, despite of their well-known potential, reports on dilute-nitride solar cells are rather scarce yet due to their challenging fabrication with the high structural perfection demanded in photovoltaics. The revolutionary idea of MIRACLE is to make use of quantum engineering to fabricate dilute-nitride compounds lattice matched to Si not as thick layers, as attempted so far, but as short-period superlattices by periodically alternating simpler compounds on atomic-layer scale. Hence, MIRACLE does not only aim to push the efficiency of cost-effective Si-based tandem solar cells to their theoretical limits, but also to unveil the physical properties of unexplored quantum heterostructures.

Keywords: dilute nitrides,iii v compound semiconductors,quantum heterostructures,molecular beam epitaxy,and photovoltaic solar cells
ADVOCATING THE ROLE OF SILK ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN SCALE - ARACNE (ARACNE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Slovenia,Spain,France,Georgia,Bulgaria
Call: Europe’s cultural heritage and arts - promoting our values at home and abroad (HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999635.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999634.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

ARACNE project focuses on the cultural heritage of the European silk production and its preservation, protection and valorisation; it aims at revigorating traditional skills through the adaptive reuse of the common cultural and artistic legacy and at shaping a silk-linked European cultural identity. Literally and metaphorically a thread that has woven the European culture, silk greatly contributed to the development of the European economy and arts. The production and the past and present development of the silk sector can be again the common basis for a future European Silk Route intended as a cultural itinerary across Europe. To create a wide and well-connected network that, starting from the historical path followed by Marco Polo in his travels to East, even includes the routes of production and commercialization of silk in Europe in the following centuries, we aim to: • Bring back silk production in vogue by reconstructing a resilient and innovative silk ecosystem that retraces the concerned European countries and promotes traditions, architecture, and both tangible and intangible heritages. The consolidation of an European Silk Route will encourage links and shared activities among European cities and regions, specifically among museums, study and research centres to strengthen the preservation and protection of their culture and promote innovations in production and trade; • Contribute to improve skills and competitiveness of silk-related European Cultural and Creative Industries through the renewal, co-development and the implementation of human-centered and place-specific silk-based cultural products, processes and service innovations, leveraging on digital applications and cutting-edge technologies, to foster the transition to more sustainable business models, and promote economic and social growth, and strengthen the reputation of European countries abroad. The project will also meet the Green Deal and New European Bauhaus macro-objectives.

Keywords: silk,fashion,textiles,museums,cultural routes,digital technologies
Aquaponics from WAstewater REclamation (AWARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Portugal,Germany,Greece,Chile,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call: Integrated and sustainable freshwater bioeconomy: Combining aquaculture, biodiversity preservation, biotechnology and other uses (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4715438.8
EU funding (EUR): 4691437.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

AWARE sets out to increase capacity to produce fish for human consumption at KM 0 in every European city, with no impact on natural habitats, no dependence from natural freshwater availability, and high resiliency to climate change This goal could be met by farming fish locally using reclaimed water. Europe lacks the regulatory and policy framework to allow such a value chain to take root, due also to the absence of compelling scientific evidence of safety, quality, economic feasibility, and social acceptability. With AWARE, we want to remove the barriers preventing reclaimed water aquaculture from becoming a European reality. We will demonstrate seamless integration of our solutions in an aquaponic recirculation system (RAS) with IoT monitoring and automation technologies to improve its operation and overall sustainability metrics. We will create the first European case study for reclaimed water aquaponics in the town of Fasano (Puglia, Italy), where we will leverage the results of a pre-existing H2020 project on advanced wastewater treatment. With the case study, we will - Demonstrate technical solutions for efficient and sustainable aquaponics from reclaimed wastewater - Increase the circularity of wastewater as freshwater resource to be exploited where it is generated - Create a new farm-to-fork value chain, contributing to European economic growth and to urban KM 0 farming - Lay the ground for a new regulatory and policy framework in support of European aquaculture The project will go as far as conducting human intervention (i.e., feeding tests) on a panel of volunteers to obtain evidence of safety and quality of the produced food. In parallel, it will develop a sustainable business model and strategy for the for the future upscaling of the pilot solution, including its application to other European communities and in international development projects. Our consortium includes a large network, one extra-european partner, and one international organisation

Keywords: microbiome,advanced oxidation,nutrient cycling,biofilter,uvc light,economics,business models,regulatory roadmap,disruptive innovation
Tackling the Peak Assignment Problem in X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy with First Principles Calculations (BETTERXPS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Estonia,United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,United States,Germany,China
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193200.0
EU funding (EUR): 193200.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is one of the most widely used methods of characterization in applied surface science. It is applied in studies of heterogeneous catalysis, environmental degradation, corrosion, the manufacture of surface coatings, and various other processes. However, the practical value of XPS measurements is currently negatively affected by widespread problems in the analysis of recorded spectra. These have been extensively discussed in recent scientific literature, and problems with peak fitting and peak assignment in core level XPS have been identified as a source of significant errors in the analysis of XPS spectra. These problems can limit the amount of useful chemical insights that XPS is able to provide, and moreover, incorrect peak assignments can lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn about the underlying chemistry. The aim of this research project is to tackle these problems by enabling and encouraging the more widespread use of computational methods in the interpretation of experimental XPS spectra, and to thereby make XPS a more reliable and more useful method of characterization. Specifically, we want to make existing computational methods for calculating core electron binding energies and simulating core level spectra accessible to a wider community of researchers, and to improve these methods such that they would better meet the needs of XPS users. We will develop new, computationally efficient and user-friendly implementations of the ΔSCF method and the GW+cumulant approach, carry out case-studies that are designed to test the limits of current theories in guiding the analysis of real world spectra, and organize workshops and write tutorials to increase the user base of the computational techniques. The planned work will be carried out by an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral team of experts in theoretical spectroscopy, developers of electronic structure codes, XPS users, and instrument manufacturers.

Keywords: photoelectron spectroscopy,xps
Nucleation and Analysis of Nanobubbles Observed by Single Entity Electrocatalysis in Microdroplets (NANOSEED)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The NANOSEED, Nucleation and Analysis of Nanobubbles Observed by Single Entity Electrocatalysis in microDroplets, project seeks to directly electroanalyze microdroplet-confined nanobubble properties to elucidate the physical chemistry of their formation and reactivity. Its success will develop the first stochastic electrochemical method for nanobubble nucleation in microdroplet reactors, calculate important physical parameters of heterogenous nucleation processes under femtoliter confinement, and address the topical literature controversy regarding redox species generated and/or stabilized at gas|water interfaces. When a microdroplet collides with a microelectrode surface it forms a nanoscale contact area. By loading these microdroplets with acid, and applying a sufficient bias to the microelectrode, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) will occur at the microdroplet|microelectrode interface. Under conditions where the evolved hydrogen exceeds the critical concentration, a hydrogen nanobubble will nucleate in the microdroplet. The nanobubble is detected as a sharp decrease in cathodic current due to the insulating phase physically blocking molecular flux of the electrochemically active species (i.e., proton) to the microelectrode surface. Bulk mathematical models are re-derived for microdroplet reactors to relate the transient current-time profiles to nanobubble sizes and nucleation rates. Finite element simulations will validate the equations and provide additional information on the nanobubble geometry and nucleation site. The microdroplet is further used to confine radical oxygen species that may be produced at the nanobubble interface by accumulating the redox species to electrochemically-detectable levels. The detection of reactive oxygen species will provide clarity to an ongoing debate that may, in turn, reveal opportunities to leverage the harsh physical properties at the dielectric gas|water boundary to drive remarkable interfacial chemistry.

Keywords: confined electrocatalysis nanobubble nucleation single entity electrochemistry bhydrogen evolution reaction microdroplet reactivity
THE COMPUTATIONAL LABORATORY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE CHEMICALS AND DIGITAL TRANSITION (NEXTBIOMOL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-03
End date: 2027-11-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3526420.34
EU funding (EUR): 2468494.24
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bytelab Solutions S.L. (Bytelab) is a B2B deep tech startup specialising in computational chemistry. We develop digital solutions to accelerate the R&D of sustainable Specialty Chemicals via in silico experiments using molecular modelling and machine learning uniquely combined in our NEXTMOL Lab SaaS platform. Our mission is to help the chemical industry in its green and digital transition by enabling faster development of sustainable chemicals. Bytelab is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities in Europe. Chemicals have been designed mainly using experimental techniques. This trial-and-error approach is inefficient and, on average, takes more than 14 years. NEXTMOL Lab is a computational lab that allows us to characterise molecules directly on the computer, reducing up to x9 the cost and x5 the time of developing a new chemical or material. We specialise in polymer and surfactant chemistries, which are present in many applications in personal care, home care, coatings, paints, packaging or engineering fluids, to name just a few, and in particular, in many materials for energy, electronics and construction applications. Bytelab’s simulations investigate the behaviour of molecular systems at the atomistic level and calculate their physicochemical properties. Thanks to our HPC capabilities, we are able to characterise very large and complex formulations. These simulations are enhanced by data-driven methodologies, which allow to prioritize molecules, predict properties very fast, and generate new molecules. This facilitates the rapid analysis of thousands of potential new candidate molecules, predicting and ranking their performance. During the NEXTBIOMOL project, we will focus on further developing our SaaS platform and widening the portfolio of possible applications in strategic materials for energy, electronics and construction.

Keywords: advanced materials,digital randd,high performance computing,specialty chemicals,bio based polymers,surfactants,molecular modelling,high throughput screening,sustainable chemicals,cheminformatics