Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Open CloudEdgeIoT Platform Uptake in Large Scale Cross-Domain Pilots (O-CEI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Germany,Austria,Malta,Italy,Poland,Cyprus,Ireland,Sweden,France,Denmark,Romania,Slovenia,Portugal,Finland,Belgium,Croatia,Switzerland
Call: Piloting emerging Smart IoT Platforms and decentralized intelligence (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 27873237.5
EU funding (EUR): 23140063.63
Participants: 60
Project status: SIGNED

O-CEI overarching goal is to pilot the imperative of accelerating the uptake and upscaling of innovative Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions, strengthening Europe’s competitiveness and open strategic autonomy by orchestrating cross-domain data sharing, minimising energy footprint, stimulating multi-sided marketplaces, and promoting open standards for virtualisation and interoperability. For doing so, O-CEI will feed with such innovative technologies, and a comprehensive framework, to eight multidimensional real-world pilots framed in key strategic sectors: electricity grid, electromobility, software-defined vehicles, agrifood and agriculture, logistics and urban environments. It will swiftly create and implement innovative solutions across the cloud continuum; and effectively address the needs of existing and emerging individual and cross-sector business value chains. By designing blueprints and providing utilities beyond the SotA, O-CEI will help project stakeholders (and 32 Open Call awardees) to achieve challenging objectives. All pilots are formed by technical and stakeholder actors covering the necessary value chains, having an outstanding cross-domain unifying thread: energy flexibility.

Keywords: cloud edge iot,blueprints,continuum,cross domain,energy flexibility,open platform
Reducing Spoilage by Quantifying and Modelling the Dynamics of Volatile Sulfur Compound Formation in Wine (REDUSULF-Wine)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-18
End date: 2027-08-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Wine spoilage poses a significant threat to the global wine industry, leading to substantial economic losses and jeopardising its sustainability. This sector is already under strain, contending with issues including climate change, global competition, increasing production costs, declining consumption and evolving consumer preferences. Volatile Sulphur Compounds (VSCs) influence wine quality with their abundance and low perception threshold. While some VSCs enhance wine aromatic complexity, most of them cause negative wine faults such as aromas of cabbage and rotten eggs leading to discarded wine and substantial economic losses. Despite their significance, current methods for detecting and quantifying VSCs (particularly light VSCs) are inadequate. Additionally, a comprehensive model of sulfur metabolism is lacking. This project aims to develop innovative strategies for the accurate quantification, assessment, and management of VSCs during wine fermentation. The specific objectives are: (1) to identify VSC origins and characterise their production dynamics using a novel real-time monitoring device; (2) to assess sulfur compound flux distribution within yeast metabolic networks; and (3) to create the first model-based strategies for predicting and controlling VSC formation. The project includes a secondment to experts at the CSIC in Spain, where I will refine the model. This experience will significantly enhance my skills in analytical techniques and metabolic modelling while expanding my professional network and career prospects. The results of the project will offer valuable tools for both researchers in yeast metabolism and the wine industry, leading to improvements in quality control and production efficiency to mitigate the challenges faced. This pioneering research will provide a solid foundation for future projects in yeast metabolism and winemaking where the developed tools can be utilised.

Keywords: wine yeast,fermentation,sulfur metabolism,sulfur quantification,flux dynamics,modelling
AI-enhanced digital twins for real-time assessment of wheel-rail contact conditions exposed to climate change impacts (TwinsRail)

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: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Japan
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Railway networks in Europe are one of the world's most developed and dense rail transport networks, spanning over 201,000 kilometers. However, as European railway infrastructure ages and the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, the challenges associated with the operations and maintenance of the infrastructure are increasing, for example, recent reports have highlighted delays and service disruptions on the rail network caused by extreme weather events such as heavy rain, snow, and heatwave. The root of these challenges lies in the monitoring and maintenance of the wheel-rail contact conditions. TwinsRail will revolutionize the rail infrastructure operation and maintenance for climate change adaptation by uniquely integrating state-of-the-art developments in on-board & real-time monitoring solutions, advanced surrogate modelling, physics-informed AI models, and cutting-edge digital twin technologies. The Experienced Researcher (ER), Dr Ruihua Liang, will utilise his unique background in railway dynamics surrogate modelling, in combination of railway-domain expertise with experienced supervisors, to develop a digital twin framework to achieve real-time assessment of wheel-rail contact conditions (including rail adhesion, rail roughness, etc.), enhance safe, stable, comfortable, resource-efficient, and low-carbon transport for over 10 billion passengers and 400 billion tons of goods annually in the EU. TwinsRail substantially offers a reliable solution to minimize operational failures and reduce manual inspection costs for dense rail transport networks. Furthermore, the action will serve as a scalable model for global adoption, driving innovation in the operation, management, and maintenance of infrastructure, while contributing to global efforts in climate change adaptation. Ultimately, the ER will gain unique multi-disciplinary core competencies to create actionable climate solutions and make a positive impact to the railway industry globally.

Keywords: digital twins,railways,wheel rail contact condition,adhesion,friction,climate change impact
TWINNING FOR NEW GRAPHENE-BASED COMPOSITES IN ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING (GrInShield)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Slovenia,France,Germany
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1380722.5
EU funding (EUR): 1207443.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Intensive growth of both the telecommunication and electronic industry in recent years is occurring. With the spreading of electronic device usage in everyday life, the pollution caused by Electromagnetic Waves (EWs) is ubiquitous. EWs are predominantly emitted from cell phones, Wi-Fi, microwave ovens, etc. Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) demonstrates a strong negative impact on electrical devices and affects human health causing leukemia and brain tumors, and the danger of EMI is underlined for those with implanted active medical devices. Thus, textile fabric that can absorb EWs is in high demand in resolving such a life-threatening matter. Another arising problem with EWs is their effect on the working performance of electronic devices leading to untrusted signals and noise. To prevent degradation by unwanted currents and voltages, instrument obstruction, false results, and to reduce measuring time, materials able to neutralize EMI effects are highly needed. The GrInShield project will bring innovation in the field of shielding materials by exploring new nanomaterials as a protective barrier. The goal of this project is twofold: to increase significantly the scientific excellence of the consortium by addressing a scientific issue with potential economic/industrial impact: producing efficient shielding material based on nanotechnology materials for EMI protection; to improve the administrative skills of the coordinator institution from the widening country staff through collaboration with members of the consortium from FRA, GER, and SLO offices. By working with top-class partners, researchers from the widening country will improve scientific skills, work with cutting-edge instruments and gain frontier education, enhance project writing skills, and improve publication records, while the administration will become a competitive, dynamic and efficient instrument for preparation of international projects as well as their implementation.

Keywords: electromagnetic interference,shielding,nanotechnology,graphene,silver nanowires
General Eigenstate Thermalization in Quantum Circuits (GETQuantum)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding the dynamics of typical many-body quantum systems and the emergence of their universal thermodynamic description is both challenging and of paramount importance in various areas of physics, including condensed-matter and quantum-information theory, as well as statistical and high-energy physics. Combining methods of those fields into novel interdisciplinary approaches, GETQuantum - General Eigenstate Thermalization in Quantum Circuits - aims for establishing a General Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (General ETH) and its connection to the mathematical field of Free Probability through the lens of Multi-Point Correlation Functions. The project focuses on Local Quantum Circuits, which, while native to quantum computing applications, have emerged as minimal models for many-body quantum dynamics and have let to unique analytical insights in recent years. Within this setting, the first scientific objective of this project is to identify universal properties of Multi-Point Correlation Functions and their dynamics. This includes deriving exact results obtained via novel analytical tools as well as by numerical investigations based on new efficient numerical algorithms. The second objective of GETQuantum is to establish the recently introduced General ETH, formulated in the language of Free Probability, and its consequences in interacting many-body quantum systems, modeled by Local Quantum Circuits, beyond the current paradigm of standard ETH. It aims at pinpointing correlations between matrix elements of physical observables and at confirming predictions of Free Probability by relating Free Cumulants, a central concept of Free Probability, with the dynamics of Multi-Point Correlation Functions. Hence, General ETH provides an intricate link between dynamical and statistical properties of many-body quantum systems. GETQuantum will deepen our understanding of universal aspects of their dynamics and vastly impact the fields mentioned above.

Keywords: quantum chaos,eigenstate thermalization,quantum circuits,many body quantum dynamics
Mapping Change in Islamic Law, Rules and Practices (MCILRaP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499990.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499990.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project launches a historical inquiry into the phenomenon of legal authority in Muslim religious law. Sharia, a term that designated, for centuries, the Muslim jurists’ law, is undoubtedly a major issue in the Muslim world and, to a different degree, in Western societies today. As representing God’s law in Muslim believes, Sharia is perceived as unchangeable, and, in Western scholarship often as a “deontology”. MCILRaP takes a radically new approach in explaining the obvious paradox between timeless law and observable legal adaptations by studying legal casuistry, not single rules. In casuistry, rules are fixed as laws; and adding rules for specific or other cases limits existing rules’ application and allows for different solutions, which may be viewed as a legal change. To describe the casuistry of the jurists’ law for the first time in detail, MCILRaP creates a new method of mapping rulings “in context”. Thousands of law books and other juridical texts constitute relics of legal thinking in its redaction period. MCILRaP pioneers a comprehensive survey of this source material that necessarily proceeds at different analytical levels, by: a) widely cataloguing works according to author and subject-matter, b) the in-depth mapping of juridical rules in selected law books, and c) determining the conceptual links between juridical rules and detailed real case practices. The project creates a dataset from original source material and devises tools for visualising legal casuistry. By its research on Islamic law, MCILRaP provides evidence for historical law developments that turned “Sharia”, formerly only Revealed Law, into a juridical rule system that lasted until the 19th century. The centuries-long impact of Sharia law on Muslim culture is what has triggered today’s understanding of sacred Sharia laws in the Qur’an and Prophetic Tradition. MILRaP will open new paths of inquiry, create methods and data, and by this fundamentally change the study of Islamic law.

Keywords: history of islamic law,sacred law,normativity,juridical literature in islam,schools of law in islam,arabic language,arabic text segmentation,arabic manuscript studies,arabic onomastics,muslim jurists,muslim legal thinking,arabic philology,muslim history,arabic legal documents,legal casuistry in islam,philosophy of law,islamicate digital humanities,machine learning
The New Republicanisms: The Misinterpreted Ideologies of Democracy Movements in Authoritarian Africa in their Persuasion, Mobilisation and Support (NEWREPUBLIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499437.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499437.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NEWREPUBLIC is about the democracy movements which struggle against authoritarian regimes, especially in Africa. It focuses on the ideas of these movements. Past research has read their ideas as pro-democratic, but this oversimplifies. My recent exploratory research argues that at least some of these movements express visions of democracy which resemble those of small-r republican political theory; they emphasise themes of domination and power. However, this research, and its implications, have gone untested and unverified. In NEWREPUBLIC, I will lead a postdoctoral and two doctoral researchers. We will develop and apply innovative, reliable and replicable methodologies which will test those implications. First, we will develop a content analysis to distinguish between republican, liberal and illiberal ideas. The doctoral researchers will apply this methodology to movement leaders’ speech transcripts in three countries: Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda. I expect to demonstrate with rigour that there is a set of republican democracy movements which is wider than recognised hitherto. Second, the postdoctoral researcher and I will develop questions designed to distinguish between republican, liberal and illiberal attitudes and place them in surveys in the same three countries. I expect to show that republican attitudes are common. This will reveal that these movements’ ideologies are reflected in public opinion. Third, through survey experiments, I expect to find that: (1) republican messages delegitimise authoritarian regimes more than liberal ones do; and (2) that if republican messages foreground violent regime domination, they also inadvertently deter protest participation. These findings will have urgent implications for how democracy movements shape their messages. I will impart these findings to those movements in two policy seminars as part of the impact plan. In sum, I will radically change how these movements and the ideas at their core are understood.

Keywords: democracy anti authoritarianism ideology republicanism liberalism
INNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE EXPLORATION OF MARINE MICROBIOMINNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE EXPLORATION OF MARINE MICROBIOMES: TOWARDS A CIRCULAR BLUE BIOECONOMY AND HEALTHIER MARINE ENVIRONMENTS (BLUETOOLS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,France,Germany,Hungary,Israel,United Kingdom
Call: Marine microbiome for a healthy ocean and a sustainable blue bioeconomy (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7623032.5
EU funding (EUR): 7623032.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Marine microbiomes represent 90% of the total living marine biomass but only a small fraction of them can be cultivated. For this reason, they are an underexplored source of bioactive compounds, carbohydrate polymers and proteins, among others. Sampling the marine biodiversity, screening, identifying and isolating the relevant microbes is cumbersome, expensive and results in a heavy environmental burden, low yields, high costs and long times to market. Therefore, new approaches are necessary to overcome the limitations for the study of marine microbial communities and their “econological use”. BLUETOOLS will unravel the potential of marine microbiomes for healthier oceans and the Blue Bioeconomy through integration of different fields to develop cutting-edge tools that support fast, efficient AND sustainable exploration and exploitation of microbiomes, avoiding the drawbacks of conventional biodiscovery practices. The expected results of BLUETOOLS include discovering several hundreds of enzymes, rhodopsins, resistance genes, antimicrobials and anti-microfouling agents, thanks to a hybrid workflow of in silico and microfluidics-based functional discovery, resulting in the commercialization ≥400 enzymes for biocatalysis and ≥2 new solutions for plastic/polymer degradation, increasing the revenue of our industrial partners by 10-15%. BLUETOOLS assembles 5 leading European companies, 8 academic teams and 1 private RTO that have pioneered approaches in functional metagenomics, microfluidics, microbial ecology and synthetic biology. The presence of diverse, complementary industrial stakeholders in the consortium (from pharma to materials science to sustainability) at different stages in the research-to-market process (from RTOs to SMEs to large end-users) provides a unique opportunity for broad value creation. The planned activities will span 48 months and the project is estimated at ca. 9 M€, with 60% of the total dedicated to creating highly-qualified jobs

Keywords: bioinformatics,microfluidics,cultivation methods,apis,enzymes,rhodopsins,plastic biodegradation,glycosides
European facility on Molten SALT technologies TO power and energy system applications (SALTOpower)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Germany,Italy
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499011.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499011.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The use of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) in combination with the thermal conversion of solar irradiation – Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) – has long been regarded as an important technological solution for the production of dispatchable electricity. Whereas thermal oil based systems have set the standard in the first generation of commercial CSP Plants, the use of Molten Salts as heat transfer and storage media has been gathering research efforts and is regarded, by the industry, as the foregoing standard for new commercial plants. Molten Salt (MS) research has been deployed along the past decade in Germany and Italy, alongside with the erection of dedicated Research Infrastructure (RI) enabling the study and experimental test of e.g. materials, components or O&M procedures suiting this innovative technological approach. With the recent commissioning of a full-fledged Molten Salt Solar system emulating a commercial MS-CSP Plant in Évora, Portugal has joined this research effort with a new outstanding RI in this field. Gathering the unique experience of two non-Widening partners in the development and operation of the most important MS-RI at European level with the incumbent new RI capacity available in a Widening country, the present proposal aims at enhancing the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the Consortium in the foregoing exploitation of this outstanding RI. SALTOpower has a strong focus on an enhanced capacity building of researchers going beyond purely scientific capacities, strengthening the research management and administration skills of the Widening RI. By means of enhanced cooperation duly framed on a common research strategy aiming at further developing MS technologies, SALTOpower aims at creating the reference European facility for the development and testing of Molten Salt based technologies for energy storage and dispatchable power production solutions, for the integration of different renewable energy sources, power and gas grids.

Keywords: molten salts energy storage renewable power production research infrastructure research cooperation