Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A rEVOLUTIONary approach for maximising process water REuse and REsource REcovery through a smart, circular and integrated solution (R3VOLUTION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Greece,Norway,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,Finland
Call: Sustainable and efficient industrial water consumption: through energy and solute recovery (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10985636.5
EU funding (EUR): 10985636.5
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

R3VOLUTION (R3V) project will revolutionize industrial water management in the EU, providing key innovations that can enable economically, environmentally and operationally water reclamation projects (by addressing solutes and energy recovery challenges), and generate significant impact for the EU in the next decade. To pave the way towards sustainable and efficient water and resource consumption, R3V takes on the challenge of developing and demonstrating a resource recovery solution that will enable >90% water reuse across most intensive water industries, applicable upstream and downstream, whilst recovering >45% effluents solutes, >50% waste heat reuse and eliminate 100% of hazardous substances. R3V will investigate, develop and demonstrate tailored membrane-based treatment trains coupled with waste heat, and a digital process assistant (DPA) to support the design phase to achieve optimal configuration for different industrial settings, minimising risks in implementation and provide critical support in operation. With the aim to demonstrate R3V solution capabilities and replicability potential across varied process industries, the project includes 4 physical demo cases at pilot scale targeting several up- and down- streams in a variety of industries with high water discharges and complex effluents: petrochemical, bio-based chemical, pulp & paper and steel, each led by renowned technological partners. The project will also assess the transferability of the results by evaluating one additional industry (mining in Chile), and its replicability in 3 additional streams, via the DPA tool developed within the project. The consortium perfectly maps the triangle of competences required to develop R3V solution: membrane technologies and design of treatment trains, energy recovery and digitalisation, considering also transversal competences such as economic, environmental and social assessment, together with the exploitation plan of the developments.

Keywords: water reuse,zero liquid discharge,solutes recovery,energy recovery,membrane separation,membrane filtration,membrane distillation,ceramic membranes,nanocellulose membranes,digital twin
Towards an Alternative History of the Age of Goethe (Alt History)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project challenges our understanding of the core canonical period of German literary and philosophical historiography (1770-1830) by asking: what concept of literature emerged in the period, and why were some authors and philosophically engaged figures marginalised through processes of canonisation, whilst others were not? This was a transformational period in German literary and philosophy culture, featuring major figures such as Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and Fichte, and these names continue to determine the narratives of the period in both fields. Through a series of three case studies, the first on social cultures of emotion, the second on gendered networks of philosophy, and the third on local canons, this project will examine the social and material contexts of literature and philosophy and ask how they influenced later processes of canonisation. I will integrate a wide variety of methodological approaches, including sociological concepts of networks imported into literary studies, and methods from book history and intellectual history. These will be used to interrogate the agency of individual mediators – readers and publishers, among others – in the development of literature and philosophy. The project will argue for a more nuanced understanding of what is understood by literature and philosophy in the period. I will specifically argue that examining literary sociability opens up other overlooked contexts that are obscured by canonisation and the master narratives that develop subsequent to the period. The fellowship will provide me with expertise in a variety of fields to expand on my background in literary studies: I will develop specialisms in the history of philosophy and in gender studies, and so will gain an interdisciplinary perspective on German studies. It will furnish me with the publication record that will allow me to apply for permanent positions (associate professorships) in academia in the UK.

Keywords: the long eighteenth century german literature german philosophy canon formation literature and philosophy as socially mediated phenomena
Strategic Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation and Resource Recovery Innovations at Basin Scale - SIMARIS (SIMARIS)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Global warming and consequent increase in frequencies of extreme weather events (flooding, drought, landslides, etc.) have become major threats to livelihoods across many river basins. Additionally, increasing scarcity of energy, water, land and nutrients threaten food, health and environmental security and require more efficient uses of resources. Yet, most prevention policies aim at only short-term measures of protection or recovery and most basin-scale hydro-economic assessment models do not consider long-term causes, consequences and economic effects of such changes and related policies. Focusing mostly on water, land or energy use efficiency enhancement, water-energy-economic modeling research do not adequately address circular economy options of improving resources use efficiency and reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. This research therefore investigates long-term investments required for climate change mitigation, adaptation and resource recovery innovations at river basin scale. This will be achieved through applying a novel approach of integrating intertemporal macroeconomic growth model with process-based hydro-energy-economic model. Offering demanded policy-relevant solutions to river basin managers and enriching water management research with novel methods, this study greatly enhance the scientific career of the author.

Keywords: hydro economic model,intertemporal dynamics,water energy food nexus,circular economy,climate change
Slavery, Abolition and Archipelagic Connections in the Swedish Caribbean (SAINTBARTH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1992925.0
EU funding (EUR): 1992925.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Surveys and datasets of the trans-Atlantic slave trade do not include Swedish slave trade and colonial history. Yet, when Sweden acquired the Antillean island Saint Barthélemy in 1784 it became a slaving nation that traded and smuggled captive Africans and punished the enslaved population using draconic slave laws until the abolition of Swedish slavery in 1847. The project is the first investigation of new sources and it situates Swedish colonialism in the Caribbean archipelago. By shifting the emphasis of the previous historiography from the European colonizers to building knowledge on the enslaved and free Afro-Caribbean majority population the project shows how the Swedish Caribbean society only can be understood in a larger setting where single-nation historical narratives have little explanatory power. Five subprojects creates new knowledge that will build a critical mass of data on hitherto unstudied facets of Swedish Caribbean history: slave law and justice, slave trade, abolition of slavery, colonial demography, and colonial governance. The project uses the Swedish governmental colonial archive held in France that for the first time has been made accessible in the PI’s preceding project. By scholarly publications and the creation of datasets covering legislation, biographies of the majority Black population, slave trade data etc. – and publishing them online in both project-owned databases and by contributing to major international datasets – it develops new methods within digital Caribbean and colonial history. The Caribbean intergovernmental organization CARICOM has included Sweden in its claims for reparations for “genocide, slavery, slave trading, and racial apartheid” and the project builds a firm basis to evaluate Swedish participation in Caribbean slavery and colonialism.

Keywords: caribbean history,slavery,abolition,legal history,colonial demography
Multimodal imaging of lung tissue based on LIBS, MALDI and histology fusion to unravel sarcoidosis causes (imATLAS)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196750.88
EU funding (EUR): 196750.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory, granulomatous disorder with unknown cause highly associated with occupational exposures. It has geographically variable prevalence, with an elevated cost for the patients. It can be detected among metal-exposed workers, firefighters, rock, glass wool or agriculture workers. The most prominent example being rescuers in the World Trade Center in 2001. The need for accurate information about the exposures and causes of sarcoidosis is a limiting factor for clinicians, therefore, supplying them with relevant information will improve the patient's healthcare trajectory. The aim of imATLAS project (IMaging Analysis of Tissues via LAser Spectrometry) is to develop a novel multi-analytical procedure based on LIBS and MALDI-MSI, in combination with standard histology, to identify, localize and relate exogenous and endogenous agents allowing to elucidate possible external causes and biomarkers of sarcoidosis. A data analysis pipeline will be created containing all the bio-statistical steps, graphical representation, exposure and biomarker search approaches, as well as the image fusion results, to provide a global view with elemental and molecular information of the tissue, in addition to the pathologic information provided by histology. The scripts will be publicly accessible, available to other researchers as well as widely adaptable to different imaging techniques and instruments. Furthermore, the results obtained will be released as an easy-to-read file (Quicklook) to present all the useful multimodal analytical information to clinicians and optimize the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Keywords: libs maldi msi imaging data fusion sarcoidosis occupational disease
SHIFTting the narrative of the climate GENeration: ecology, emotions, and critical thinking in young adult contemporary climate fiction (SHIFT-GEN)

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: Italy,United States,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

SHIFT-GEN investigates how narratives of climate change can affect young generations, proposing the first extensive study of young adult climate fiction (YA cli-fi) in English (2000-2023; interest age: 13-19 years). Emerging studies reveal that the chronic fear of environmental catastrophe is particularly affecting young people’s daily life. Feelings of climate anxiety and ecogrief are amplified by a sense of intergenerational injustice, with the so-called climate generation often portrayed as an innocent victim that adults are failing to protect. By adopting an ecocritical perspective, my research will examine whether YA cli-fi portrays young adults as assertive leaders and protagonists, shaping their own future. Moreover, combining recent developments in ecocriticism - namely econarratology, affective ecocriticism, and empirical ecocriticism - this project will investigate whether YA cli-fi is able to prompt the development of ecological citizenship, communicate fears and hopes about the future, and inspire creative thinking and long-term action. Given its scope and purpose, the proposed research is a timely contribution to current ecological debates and can offer significant insights on the connection between the health of people, animals, and ecosystems, engaging in a One Health approach. This three-year action will be undertaken under the supervision of Prof. R. Baccolini (UNIBO) and Prof. E. James (UIDAHO), and includes a secondment supervised by Prof. M. Caracciolo (UGENT). It will comprise a transversal training and the acquisition of transferable skills, as well as a targeted program of dissemination and communication activities. The project will also undertake citizen science research engaging with university students of the Emilia-Romagna region to explore the impact of YA cli-fi on young readers’ climate change emotions, thus employing the theoretical categories of the project to reflect on local communities and fragile landscapes.

Keywords: climate fiction young adult fiction ecocriticism econarratology affective ecocriticism empirical ecocriticism ecology environmental humanities emotions citizen science
Facilitating Autonomy in Astrodynamics for Spacecraft Technology (FAAST)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-07-16
End date: 2025-07-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The FAAST project (Facilitating Autonomy in Astrodynamics for Spacecraft Technology) is proposed for developing autonomous guidance and control algorithms for CubeSats and other interplanetary spacecraft. This project will be conducted with Prof. Francesco Topputo of the DART group at Politecnico di Milano (Polimi) in Italy, which has expertise in deep-space guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) from its past and present involvement with ESA projects, including multiple CubeSat missions. The primary focus of FAAST is on autonomous orbit guidance and control for deep-space scientific space missions - a challenging problem which currently must be handled by dedicated teams of engineers on Earth which support the spacecraft's operations. In particular, this work is concerned with autonomous guidance and control in the vicinity of asteroids, which presents a particularly challenging environment. The FAAST project will contribute to, benefit from, and interface with the DART group's EXTREMA project, a 5 year (2021-2026) €2M project funded by the European Research Council. EXTREMA is developing new GNC techniques for self-driving spacecraft. FAAST proposes research activity that spans from fundamental developments in celestial mechanics and astrodynamics to specific algorithm development and demonstration in a high-fidelity setting. This presents an ambitious course of research for a two-year project, but it is well-organized into four achievable objectives. The researcher holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder, a leading institution in spaceflight education and research. The supervisor is a Full Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Polimi, and a leading expert in spacecraft GNC and interplanetary CubeSats. This project has the potential to meaningfully advance the state-of-the-art in spacecraft guidance and control while facilitating transatlantic cooperation between the US and EU spaceflight research communities.

Keywords: spacecraft guidance and control,astrodynamics,orbital mechanics,autonomous spacecraft,asteroid missions,cubesats,low thrust spacecraft,deep space science missions,dynamical systems theory
Robotics and AI for Sewer Pipe Inspection and Maintenance (PIPEON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Estonia,Norway,United Kingdom,Hungary,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Novel paradigms and approaches, towards AI-powered robots– step change in functionality (AI, data and robotics partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7997691.25
EU funding (EUR): 7997691.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

There are estimated to be 3.2 million km of sewers in Europe. Their inspection technology is based on human analysis of CCTV images. Often condition of sewers is just not known. This leads to failures such as property flooding and wastewater spills via storm sewer overflows into rivers. PIPEON will develop robotic and AI technologies for autonomous sewer inspection and maintenance. Robots are rugged-by-design working in the corrosive and abrasive sewer environment. They move over different surfaces, above and within the wastewater. Dexterous manipulators install flow monitors and remove blockages of different sizes made from materials such as textiles, fats and grease. Sensors, sensor fusion and sensor perception ML algorithms for feature and anomaly detection facilitate navigation and mapping in self-similar/featureless sewers and risk-aware mission planning methods reduce the risk of robot failure. All these tools will be developed with computationally bounded resources so that robots are able to operate for days. The use of robots automatically determining defect type and size will reduce the cost or inspecting sewer networks by at least one order of magnitude if not more. The reduction in cost “floods” water utilities with data and allows delivers the right maintenance at the right time leading to almost “defect-free” sewer operation. Removing blockages quickly will reduce sewage spills into rivers by an estimated 30% of current numbers. This will intelligently enhance protection of Europe’s rivers and meet Europe’s zero-pollution ambitions in a sustainable, climate friendly way. The team includes scientists from leading European research groups in robotics, in-pipe sensing, mapping, manipulation and the modelling and management of sewer networks. Leading SMEs in the areas of AI based sewer data analysis, and robotics bring knowledge of exploitation pathways. Three water utilities bring case study networks and knowledge of practical application.

Keywords: pipe inspection,locomotion on soft ground,manipulation in confined places,water management,harsh environment
Innovative electrochemical CO2 Conversion to Versatile Feedstock (ICO2NIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Netherlands,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Spain
Call: Turning CO2 emissions from the process industry to feedstock (Processes4Planet partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21928822.5
EU funding (EUR): 14985432.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

ICO2NIC will couple developments in polymer membrane-based CO2 capture technology with a novel Gas Diffusion electrochemical cell for CO2 to formic acid conversion. Valorisation of formic acid via innovative biological processing routes will deliver high value products and materials. By making CCU (carbon capture and utilization) profitable, the ICO2NIC approach will enable global emitters to capture and valorise waste CO2, paving the way for a significant reduction in global emissions. The ICO2NIC consortium will form a complete value chain, from CO2 emitter (TUPRAS), to end users (TUPRAS, P&G), inclusive of carbon capture and purification (CPT), electrochemical conversion (AVT), and downstream processing (B.Fab, NPI). This industrial representation will enable validation of an integrated business model that has the potential to deliver a viable economic model for all parties (without external financial aid). Leading RTOs will support the integration of RES through digital monitoring and control systems (IDE), and confirm the cost efficiency, environmental performance and scalability of the proposed concept through development of a robust TEA and process design (SINTEF) and LCA (TNO); paving the way for capture of 6.45 Mt of CO2 from TUPRAS’ refineries by 2040, and up to 75 Mtpa CO2 in the EU refinery sector in the long term.

Keywords: polymeric membrane,electrochemistry,gas diffusion electrode,formic acid,biological processing,fermentation,microbial oil,aquaculture feeds,integrated plant,petrochemical refinery