Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
European Union Contest for Young Scientists 2023 (EUCYS2023)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Other ERA
Destination: Other ERA
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) 2023 (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-EUCYS-IBA, 2023)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1043750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present proposal is relevant to the organization of the 34th edition of European Union Contest for Young Scientists, EUCYS, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2023. Since 1989, EUCYS has been organised in countries across Europe with the aim of promoting science and research in different countries and bringing research and young talents into spotlight in these countries. The young scientists also have the chance to meet others with similar abilities and interests and to be guided by some of the most prominent scientists in Europe. This way EUCYS seeks to strengthen the efforts made in each participating country to attract young people to careers in science and technology. The Jeunesses Scientifiques de Belgique (JSB), the Belgian EUCYS national organiser, shall host EUCYS 2023 and be responsible for the organisation of the event. JSB objective is to take on the great opportunity to welcome the European brightest young scientists in Europe; the organising committee has built a large experience hosting for 37 years the Belgian national Expo-Sciences, EUCYS 2016, the MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2000 and the MILSET Expo-Sciences international 2015 (ESI2015) – event that brought together 1000 participants from 60 different countries-. It will be a unique opportunity to welcome this prestigious event in Brussels, the European Capital and to interact with all European dimension of the host city and region. By activating JSB large network of schools, professors and students and as well promoting the vent within the European institutions, EUCYS will contribute to greatly enlarge the impact and visibility of the EU science promotion.

Keywords: european union contest for young scientists 2023 eucys square brussels belgium youth science steam
OPEVA - OPtimization of Electric Vehicle Autonomy (OPEVA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Czechia,Italy,Germany,Portugal,Türkiye,Austria,Estonia,Switzerland
Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-2-RIA (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-2-RIA, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 22850988.98
EU funding (EUR): 7600319.67
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

The project OPEVA aims for innovation on aggregating information from the vehicle, not only from the battery but also from other internal sensors and behaviours, to create a model of performance and consumption specific to the individual vehicle and its driver (TD1). It aims to optimize the individual driving episode using the out-vehicle data such as state of the road, weather, charging station location and occupancy etc. that are collated from the back-end systems (TD2). OPEVA will further address the challenges associated with the communication between the vehicle and the infrastructure to gather data from the back-end systems (TD3). It aims for innovation in the use of recharging stations and related applications (TD4). It further aims to achieve better understanding on what the battery and its constituent cells are really doing during real world use for an improved battery management system (TD5). Finally, TD6 covers the driver-oriented human factors for optimizing the electrical vehicle usage. The TDs from the most deeply embedded in the vehicle to its support in the cloud, which need to interwork in an optimal fashion to deliver in one decade a better level of systemic optimisation for personal mobility that took ten decades to achieve with fossil fuels. On the other hand, economic factors (N-TD1), legal and ethical aspects (N-TD2), EV related development by the human (N-TD3), and societal and environmental factors (N-TD4) will be taken into consideration in the OPEVA methods for a higher acceptance and the awareness of the society regarding the these developments.
Hyperaccumulator-grass-derived Antibacterial Boron-functionalized Carbon Dots: Synthesis and Cytotoxicological Evaluation (HyperABCD)

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: France,Belgium,Türkiye
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 146936.16
EU funding (EUR): 146936.16
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The antibiotics’ overuse exerts selective evolutionary pressure on microbial pathogens, leading to the emergence of resistant strains. To reduce the likelihood of future epi/pandemics of bacterial origin, it is, thus, essential to put alternatives in action and consume antibiotics more sparingly. While the heavy metal-based antimicrobial agents are convenient for some uses, they bring human and environmental toxicity issues and suffer from microbial resistance. With their potentially low risk of resistance development, carbon-based nanomaterials seem like promising substitutes. Carbon dots (CDs) are particularly interesting owing to their small size, good solubility, and relative affordability, and boron-doped CDs (BCDs) deserve even greater attention as they typically show high antimicrobial activity. However, our current understanding of the toxicity profile of BCDs is fragmented and limited to materials synthesized by small molecular synthetic precursors as carbon and boron sources. In the project HyperABCD, we will first show the hydrothermal conversion of a boron-hyperaccumulator plant (biomass) into BCDs. Then, we will explore the antibacterial activity of BCDs on Gram-negative and Gram-positive species using various bacterial susceptibility tests. Next, we will undertake toxicological evaluations at different levels. To this end, we will perform standard viability tests with various human cell lines as well as a mutagenicity test. The assembled research team is fully competent to realize the ambitious goals of the proposed cross-European effort. I am a multidisciplinary researcher specializing in antimicrobial nanocarbons. The primary host (Dr. Alberto Bianco, CNRS, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology) is among the pioneers of biomedical nanocarbon research, and our co-host Prof. Tom Coenye (Ghent University) is a renowned expert on microbiology. Our industrial partner, PavTec (Turkey), is a leading company in developing boron-based specialty chemicals.

Keywords: biomass carbonization,biocompatibility,antimicrobials,boron doping,nanodots,sustainable materials
KNOWLEDGEABLE COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY INTEGRATED SMART SOLUTION FOR RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE AND OPTIMIZED TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (KEYSTONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,Estonia,Spain,Greece
Call: Smart enforcement for resilient, sustainable and more efficient transport operations (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3522881.25
EU funding (EUR): 3522881.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The overreaching goal of KEYSTONE is to support the development of a sustainable, efficient, and safe transport system, allowing enforcement authorities to access data for the purpose of checking compliance with rules applied in the transport of goods and passengers. The aim is to tailor standardised digital solutions that can be used from several realities to standardize the transport system. To demonstrate the validity of the solutions proposed, an app will be developed so that two highly diverse pilots can prove the efficiency of the KEYSTONE’s innovation. Using the gained experience to develop a seamless, interoperable, and intermodal digital transport ecosystem that can be replicated at European leveThe overreaching goal of KEYSTONE is to support the development of a sustainable, efficient and safe transport system. Allowing enforcement authorities to access data for the purpose of checking compliance with rules applying in the transport of goods and passengers. The aim is to tailor standardised digital solutions that can be used from several realities in order to standardize the transport system. In order to demonstrate the validity of the solutions proposed, an app will be developed so that two highly diverse pilots can prove the efficiency of the KEYSTONE’s innovation. Using the gained experience to develop a seamless, interoperable, and intermodal digital transport eco-system that can be replicated at European level. The KEYSTONE digital solutions consists of standardised APIs for data and information sharing between transport enforcement authorities and logistics operators based on a federated approach allowing to reduce the costs of logistics thanks to more efficient operations and interoperability, to reduce the impact on the environment thanks to data sharing, the possibility to consolidate flows and to improve safety thanks to seamless information exchange with enforcement authorities and the possibility to foster the acceptance of the CCAM solutions.

Keywords: road safety,logistics,smart enforcement,transport sustainability,resilience,api standardization,standards,dtlf group,ccam,transport security,plug and play,compliance by design and by default
Situationally aware innovative battery management system for next generation vehicles (InnoBMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO, Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Austria,Germany,Spain,Slovenia,Serbia,Romania
Call: Innovative battery management systems for next generation vehicles (2ZERO & Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5657490.22
EU funding (EUR): 4013441.88
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The core objective of InnoBMS is to develop and demonstrate (TRL6) a future-ready best-in-class BMS hard- and software solution that maximizes battery utilization and performance for the user without negatively affecting battery life, even in extreme conditions, whilst continuously maintaining safety. Concretely, the InnoBMS proposal will deliver a 12% higher effective battery pack volumetric density, a 33% longer battery lifetime and a demonstrated lifetime of 15 years. The results will be demonstrated using novel testing methods that give a 36% reduction in the testing time of a BMS. The results will be demonstrated in two use cases, one light commercial vehicle (Fiat Doblo Electric) and one medium-duty van (IVECO eDaily). The key outcomes will enable a cost reduction of 12% and 9.7% for passenger cars and light-duty vehicles, respectively. The core objective will be achieved through five technical objectives. 1) advanced hybrid physical and data-driven models and algorithms to enable a flexible and modular BMS suitable for a wide range of batteries. 2) Software for a fully connected and fully wireless BMS that acts as a communication server inside the vehicle E/E-architecture, the center of connection, on-board diagnostics and decision-taking for all battery-related information. 3) A scalable, fully wireless and self-tested BMS hardware that enables using different battery sizes at different operating voltage levels, and smart sensor integration. 4) Better battery utilization and exploitation using cloud-informed strategies and procedure. 5) A heterogeneous simulation toolchain and automated test methods. The consortium includes 2 vehicle manufacturers, 2 TIER1 supplier, 3 engineering companies, 2 universities (leading in e-power and electromobility), an RTO and 3 SMEs. The partners have worked together closely in previous and ongoing projects, and have extensive knowhow in taking the step from new technology to innovative vehicles for real-world applications.

Keywords: new generation bms,scalable and wireless bms,bms communication hub,cloud informed bms,advanced bms,predictive bms,self tested bms,secure bms,zonal bms,server based bms,self adapting bms
Artwork Unique RecognitiOn and tRacking through chemicAl encoded data, miniaturized devices and blockchain alliance (AURORA)

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,Belgium,Ireland,France,Hungary,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ukraine
Call: Protection of artefacts and cultural goods from anthropogenic threats (HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3466354.0
EU funding (EUR): 3466354.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Artifacts are constantly threatened by anthropogenic actions. Looting, smuggling, and illicit trade of cultural goods pose major risks to our cultural goods and our cultural identity. One of the major consequences of these illegal activities is the dissociation, meaning the loss of information associated with an object, such as provenance, identification, or location information, without which the object loses significance or is lost. Thus, art property marking and tracking are crucial to ensure the object identification, collection management and protection, while maintaining their state of conservation. Several actions have been adopted during the years to strengthen the protection of cultural property and cultural heritage, but they often lack effectiveness. The AURORA project wants to fill this gap by demonstrating how chemical marking, miniaturized device, art deep-scan technique, cloud and blockchain based platforms can be combined to create a cost-effective, non-destructive, and non-invasive countermeasure against illegal activities while preserving artifacts. The technologies researched and implemented in AURORA will converge in a digital tool allowing relevant stakeholders, art dealers, curators, auction houses, logistic services, and enforcement agents, to easily verify artwork authenticity and provenance, enabling art piece movement tracking. In close collaboration with relevant cultural institutions partners, AURORA will showcase real setting applications to validate the non-invasiveness, low cost, long-term stability, confidentiality, and data security features of the proposed solutions. In parallel, AURORA will foster technological democratization among cultural institutions, by creating a knowledge bridge between technical competencies and cultural heritage professionals. Specific awareness-raising activities will demonstrate how the AURORA solutions can be a means to preserve cultural identities mixtures through cultural heritage preservation.

Keywords: chemical marker,artwork digital id,artwork tracking,blockchain,cultural identities,technological democratization,anti counterfeiting,embedded tracking,artwork authenticity verification
Enabling the WHO-Roadmap 2030 (eWHORM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Cameroon,Gabon,Austria,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: Implementing adaptive platform trials (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7967127.5
EU funding (EUR): 7967127.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

We will establish for the first time in NTDs an adaptive clinical trial platform and improve clinical research infrastructure in four SSA countries. A drug acting safely on multiple helminths species would be a major leap to tackle NTDs and enable the WHO RoadMap (eWHORM). The cheap and freely-accessible pan-nematode drug oxfendazole (OXF) has such potential. Given the limited portfolio of anthelmintic drug candidates, eWHORM will assess its efficacy in an adaptive clinical trial for simultaneous evaluation against onchocerciasis, loiasis, mansonellosis and trichuriasis. Thus not only the largest group of NTDs, but also diseases that are not (yet) listed will be adressed. This design significantly reduces patient numbers, development time-frames and enables treatment of co-infections. Combined with our highly sensitive molecular tests, we provide a patient-centric approach providing tools for targeted treatment (test and treat) and precision mapping for elimination programs. Strengthening of early career scientists in SSA in all aspects of clinical trial conduct and research including data management, simulation and statistical analysis, will be fostered by introducing a master and PhD program, a mentorship program as well as several webinars. An open-source virtual training and assessment tool for diagnosis of NTDs will complement the knowledge transfer to remote areas in SSA. The consortium encompasses an interdisciplinary partnership from eight different countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania, and DRC). Each group brings unique knowhow and recognized complementary experience to the project to ensure sustainable capacity building within SSA countries. Through joint development of – and training in – modern, regulatory clinical trial conduct, adaptive clinical trial design and state-of-the-art diagnostics, we will strengthen SSA researchers and clinicians to respond to persisting and future health challenges.

Keywords: oxfendazole onchocerciasis loiasis mansonellosis soil transmitted helminths adaptive clinical trial sub saharan africa masterprotocol pan nematode drug virtual training and assessment platform
6G Wireless Communications in the TeraHertz Band aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (6G-TERARIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

6G-TERARIS is a 24-months research project focusing on the use of sub-terahertz (THz) and THz carrier frequencies in future wireless networks aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The project leverages the tool of stochastic geometry to model propagation channels in RIS-empowered wireless communications at the sub-THz and THz frequencies, and to derive system design guidelines. The project aims at deriving closed-form expressions for key performance metrics such as rate and energy efficiency, and use these expressions to develop resource allocation algorithms optimizing such metrics. The resulting system analysis and design methodology will be then applied to innovative network deployments, providing for the first time insights and results on user-centric cell-free massive MIMO systems and on ultra-massive MIMO architectures operating at THz frequencies. During the project, the researcher will learn and adopt tools from optimization theory, statistical signal processing, probability theory, and stochastic geometry to model and optimize THz-based wireless communication systems. The project will be carried out by the researcher at the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale (Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Buzzi. Furthermore, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany) will host the researcher for a six-months secondment aimed at experimental validation of the developed channel model and signal processing algorithms. The applying researcher is Dr. Maryam Olyaee, currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Malaga (Spain).

Keywords: 6g wireless communications,terahertz band communications,ultra massive mimo,stochastic geometry,channel modeling,resource allocation,transceiver signal processing
Linking community archaeology and wellbeing in the Mediterranean (LOGGIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Ireland,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 267218.0
EU funding (EUR): 267218.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project ‘Linking community archaeology and wellbeing in the Mediterranean’ (LOGGIA), aims to understand to what extent archaeology can contribute to community wellbeing. LOGGIA will be led by the fellow, Dr Francesco Ripanti, under the supervision of Dr Giorgos Papantoniou in the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and encompasses three fields of study: archaeology, wellbeing and disability studies. Archaeology may positively impact individual and community wellbeing and especially benefit vulnerable groups. Since the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan includes the employment of strategies of inclusion and empowerment to ensure equal and wide access to cultural heritage assets, LOGGIA will adopt a unique approach to address how archaeology can promote community wellbeing in the Mediterranean context, by focusing on the inclusion of persons with disabilities through case study research. As first and second research objectives, LOGGIA will outline a novel theoretical and evaluation framework linking community archaeology and wellbeing, and assess the impact of archaeology programs on community wellbeing in two case studies of ‘People and Things in Vignale’ (Italy) and ‘Xeros River Valley’ (Cyprus). The fellow has a background in archaeology and thanks to the support of the three interdisciplinary TCD Centres – the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative, the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute – and the secondment at Manchester Metropolitan University, will acquire the necessary knowledge in the areas of wellbeing and disability studies. An integral part of the research is the non-academic placement at Silversky3D. As third objective, through the popular videogame Minecraft, LOGGIA will assess the extent to which the interaction with a digital environment based on the case studies can contribute to the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their wellbeing.

Keywords: community archaeology,community wellbeing,persons with disabilities,inclusive society