Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Stimulating Performance of Ecosystems in Creative Territories and Regional Actors (SPECTRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Bulgaria,Germany,Denmark
Call: Towards more inclusive networks and initiatives in European innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 564530.01
EU funding (EUR): 516423.88
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The SPECTRA proposal embodies the collaborative vision of 8 partners (including 3 associate partners) representing 4 regional ecosystems – an emerging innovator region in Bulgaria (North-Central-BG), moderate innovator region in Ireland (Northern and Western), together with lead innovator regions in Denmark (Hovedstaden) and Germany (Berlin). SPECTRA will put in place key ingredients required to equip the emerging innovator and moderate innovator regions with a more responsive, resilient ecosystem, capable of growing and developing coordinated responses to many challenges creative industries are facing to achieve the National and European goals. This will be based on interaction with 2 successful initiatives - Media Deals Investment Network and Creative Business Network. SPECTRA will harness and multiply the power of individual ecosystem initiatives to enhance participation of financiers/investors and women innovators - resulting in enhanced, more inter-connected, diverse, gender-responsive, competitive, and sustainable ecosystems. Additionally, SPECTRA will include activities that will encourage development of joint strategies and amplify collaboration. Stakeholders will benefit extensively from the advanced business support models developed to fast-track start-ups, produce scale-ups, avail of best practice, new systems, structures and tools, as well as data-driven & carbon-reducing challenge-based innovation methods, case studies, role models, cross-sectoral and intra-territorial learning - engaging over 1000 stakeholders over 30 workshops, experiments/challenges, huddles and roundtables, supporting over 100 start-ups and SMEs and creating an excess of 300 new linkages. SPECTRA measures will be integrated within the context of policy, economic, societal framework and implemented on a transversal and transdisciplinary basis, encouraging the maximum output in terms of potential for additional new linkages, interconnections, joint initiatives and replication.

Keywords: creative ecosystems,sustainability,cross sectoral collaboration,creative industries,regional innovation
WIRE - Widening Innovation+Research Excellence in FilmEU) (WIRE FilmEU)

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,Estonia,Belgium,Ireland,Denmark,Lithuania,Bulgaria,Slovakia,France,Cabo Verde,Canada,United Kingdom,United States
Call: European Excellence Initiative (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999868.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999868.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

WIRE is promoted by all eight HEIs currently members or soon to be members in the FilmEU Alliance. FilmEU fully represents Europe’s geographical, cultural, and linguistic differences, combined with the diversity and richness of its European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and its Research Area (ERA). WIRE integrates five out of eight academic partners each coming from widening countries, a majority of less research-intensive institutions and is led by an institution from a widening country. All WIRE activities are centered in widening countries, and it is these countries and less research-intensive HEIs that are beneficiaries of the of the project. WIRE’s main objective is to catalyse a step change in the excellence and innovation of the science and value creation activities carried out by and across the FilmEU Alliance via its capacity building and the promotion of several reforms across the HEIs in widening countries participating in the Alliance. WIRE will capacitate the FilmEU Alliance Research and Innovation R&I dimensions, notably by focusing on management and administrative competencies, for the benefit of its members in widening countries, and through that increase the overall competitiveness of the Alliance. WIRE will achieve this through deeper and more geographically inclusive cooperation between all members of the Alliance. WIRE will contribute significantly to the expected outcomes of the call via the consolidation of an inclusive Alliance of HEIs which mostly (5 of 8) come from widening countries. Through collaboration between themselves and with other actors in local ecosystems, they will promote institutional and country-level reforms and upgrades, facilitate an embedded culture of excellence and value creation driven by artistic research, and focus on the cultural and creative industries, in view of increased competitiveness and accelerated institutional reforms in their R&I dimension.

Keywords: film,media,arts,innovation research,artistic research,widening
Photo-switchable ultra-thin membranes for molecular separation (PhotoBrane)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Poland,United States,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Spain
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3918278.06
EU funding (EUR): 3806618.4
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The separation of molecules and ions by membranes is essential for the separation of gases, purification of water, energy conversion and storage, and many other applications, and is therefore of crucial technological importance for achieving the sustainable development goals "clean water and sanitation", "affordable and clean energy", and "climate action" defined by the UN. The membranes established to date suffer either from a poor compromise between permeability and selectivity or from fouling. Innovative concepts to extend the lifetime of membranes and to improve their separation performance are urgently needed to achieve the aforementioned goals as quickly as possible. PhotoBrane will train a new generation of leading experts in a completely new approach to membrane technology to take separation performance and longevity to a new level. Our research will be built on the most modern membrane materials, investigated by PhotoBrane’s PIs. In our new research approach, we are exploring how to use photochemistry methods to develop photo-switching regimes of the membrane’s wettability to prevent their fouling. To achieve unprecedented separation performance, we take the photo-switching a step further and investigate the influence of photo-tuning the structure, porosity, and polarity of dye-loaded membranes on their function in gaseous and liquid media. Through this research, the doctoral researchers receive interdisciplinary training and, through secondments to industrial partners, gain insights into various topics of photo- and material chemistry as well as membrane technology. The excellent research is carried out at renowned European centers of membrane research and photochemistry. The mobility within the network, combined with excellent research and training, creates a highly synergistic framework for success. This ensures an efficient transfer of excellent academic results to industry through a new generation of entrepreneurial and highly skilled scientists.

Keywords: structural properties of materials,thin films,self assembled materials,theoretical and computational chemistry
dAta-dRiven integrated approaches to CHemIcal safety assessMEnt and Drug dEvelopment (ARCHIMEDES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Traditional in vivo tesTraditional in vivo tests are hampering the development of new, safe and effective chemicals and drugs. If on one hand we need to ensure that dangerous chemicals do not emerge, on the other, we also need to promote rapid and sustainable innovation to successfully overcome the modern challenges of humankind. Toxicogenomics aims at clarifying the mechanism of action (MOA) of chemicals by using omics assays. The Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) concept is also emerging to contextualise toxicogenomics-derived MOA. Efforts are ongoing to anchor AOPs to molecular assays, but systematic embedding of AOP-derived in vitro tests and Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) are still unestablished. At the same time, toxicogenomics-based evidence still struggles to gain regulatory acceptance. I aim to implement an integrated strategy based on state-of-the-art big data science, artificial intelligence (AI), toxicogenomics, molecular assays and cell technology via a novel Knowledge Graph approach. I will do so by developing the Toxicology Knowledge Graph (TKG), an innovative data platform where the currently fragmented knowledge in the field is going to be curated and integrated. The TKG will serve as a learning platform for artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, which will be used to: 1) find new characteristics of chemicals/drugs; 2) infer associations between exposures and diseases; 3) select the most relevant cell lines to study specific phenotypes/chemical classes; 4) find the best genes to be used as reporters for specific AOPs; 5) define the applicability domain of computational, experimental and IATA models. I will also establish and validate regulatory-relevant high-throughput molecular assays to investigate the point of departure (PoD) of exposures. The ARCHIMEDES project will shift the paradigm of chemical and drug development, facilitating the emergence of new, smarter, greener, and more sustainable chemicals, drugs and materials.

Keywords: toxicogenomics,iata,chemical safety assessment,drug development,predictive toxicology
Breaking limits Using Record enabling Silicon Technology with photonic management (BURST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Ireland,Portugal,France,Israel
Call: Advanced concepts for crystalline Silicon technology (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3214191.5
EU funding (EUR): 3214191.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The BURST project supports the efforts of a strategic European IBC (interdigitated back-contact) c-Si technology by improving the power conversion efficiency towards the practical limits. BURST will achieve efficiencies of at least 26% with thin (<80 µm) and 27% with thick c-Si cells, without relying on critical materials like indium or silver. Leveraging on the expertise of leading IBC experts and pioneering groups in light management, passivation and metallization for Si PV, BURST will develop the next generation of IBC cells with innovative and industrially scalable photonic light management, superior passivation schemes and Ag-free metallization. Maximizing the absorption of light in ever thinner wafers requires advanced light management. BURST’s light trapping based on optimized photonic structures will demonstrate superiority over the state-of-art random pyramidal textures by absorbing >99 % of the theoretical limit. BURST will transfer lab-type fabrication processes to cost-effective, high throughput industrial fabrication methods (TRL5) by using high precision, rapid laser patterning and atmospheric dry etching. Advanced passivation and passivating contacts are essential in preventing recombination and harvesting the extra charge carriers generated from the advanced light management. BURST’s cell front side will achieve excellent passivation (>>750 mV) and high transparency. Alloying BURST’s excellent poly-Si passivating rear contacts with Oxygen will mitigate parasitic absorption at the rear side. BURST will apply Aluminium and Copper as inexpensive and abundant materials with low-cost techniques to ensure a low-resistive contact (<1 mOhm.cm²) to the passivating poly-Si contact of the Ag-free BURST IBC cell. Finally, the high-efficiency BURST cells will be assembled into mini-modules supplemented by detailed analysis of the costs, environmental impact, supply security and circularity to demonstrate the advantage of BURST technology in relevant environments.

Keywords: photonics,high efficiency,c si,ibc solar cells,light trapping,passivating contact,surface passivation,thin wafer cells,metallization,rapid laser structuring,atmospheric dry etching,tea,lca
A multi-ingredient brain function model predicting chronic pain in youth: a window into future well-being (AMIGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998081.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998081.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic pain is endemic and difficult to treat. The first surge occurs in adolescence, a critical period for brain development associated with high vulnerability. The number of adolescents with disabling pain has soared, and in most cases, pain persists into adulthood, strongly impacting long-term wellbeing. The impact of chronic pain in adolescence urgently calls for a better understanding of its causes, longitudinal predictors, and underlying biopsychosocial mechanisms. Psychosocial and physical stress in youth are critical risk factors for chronic pain in adolescence. Yet it is unknown how they interfere with individual brain physiology to predict who will develop chronic pain. I will use a longitudinal design involving adolescents undergoing major surgeries, coupled with an experimental neuroimaging approach, precision fMRI and machine learning methods to: (i) test the directionality of the association between risk factors, brain physiology and future onset of chronic pain (WP1); (ii) identify a neurophysiological multi-ingredient model that predicts, before surgery, who will (and via what mechanisms) develop chronic postsurgical pain (WP2); and, in a subset of pre-selected patients, (iii) test whether target neurophysiological pathways track pain along subacute and chronic pain phases and after treatment (WP3). I hypothesize that target brain pathways during pain, multisensory unpleasantness and self-evaluation in an affective context will: (i) synergistically predict future onset of pain at the individual adolescent level; (ii) be associated with major risk sources, (iii) exacerbate with chronic pain and attenuate after effective treatment. The results will lay foundational tools that can be used prospectively for early identification of (patho)physiology predicting future pain and patient subtypes. AMIGO has the potential for a profound impact on understanding, early detection, and mechanistically informed treatment recommendations in high-risk adolescents.

Keywords: chronic pain stress adolescence brain affective neuroscience fmri prediction
Free-space Optical Communications for Aerial-sateLlite networks (FOCAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Finland,Denmark,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Japan
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4281466.63
EU funding (EUR): 3569385.6
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

With currently 3 billion people lacking access to broadband internet worldwide, European operators are struggling to fill the white areas with insufficient or nonexistent connectivity. In light of the early promises of 6G wireless networks, it is tempting to consider non-terrestrial networks as complementary to the ground-based radio and fiber infrastructure. However, radio frequency-based satellite systems are nearing their capacity limits and cannot be scaled further. Free-space optical technology is a natural alternative to deliver greater capacity and to better address data security needs by leveraging quantum communications. The first optical intersatellite links are being deployed in commercial networks at relatively low data rate (10 Gbps). However, once the most important remaining research challenges are resolved, they could rapidly expand and serve as a catalyst for the development of a new communication backbone in the sky, consisting of aerial and space optical nodes at different altitudes. The overarching aim of the FOCAL project is to train a new generation of highly qualified doctoral candidates in developing innovative aerial and space optical wireless technologies that will provide future telecommunication networks with ubiquitous connectivity, resilience, and quantum-proof security. In addition to contributing to the fundamental understanding and technical know-how of such networks through co-supervised individual research projects, FOCAL will train talented and innovative researchers with multidisciplinary expertise and skills that are desirable in this European industrial sector. This will be achieved through a combination of theoretical and hands-on research training provided by a unique consortium of 16 academic and 10 industrial partners from 8 countries, resulting in collaborative research including co-supervision and secondments, as well as transferable training skills, which is necessary for prosperous careers in this prominent R&I area.

Keywords: non terrestrial networks free space optical communications network architecture design resilient communication links quantum secure communication quantum key distribution global coverage for 6g
Intensification of methane upgrading into ethylene via additive manufacturing of nanosecond pulsed plasma reactor (DisCH4rg3D)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Luxembourg
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153486.72
EU funding (EUR): 153486.72
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

Valorization of a greenhouse gas such as methane (CH4) into value-added ethylene (C2H4) can be paramount to combat climate change and foster economic prosperity. Non-thermal plasma reactors running solely on renewable electricity can enable modular, decentralized transformation of CH4 from natural gas or biogas in a sustainable fashion. The DisCH4rg3D project will develop a catalytic Nanosecond Pulsed Discharge (NPD) plasma reactor for single-pass upgrading of CH4 into C2H4 with energy requirement competitive with the state-of-the-art industrial benchmark (i.e., 600 kJ/molC2H4). The reactor configuration entails a plate-to-plate plasma discharge for CH4 activation followed by a catalytic step where acetylene (C2H2) hydrogenation into C2H4 enhances the process throughput. The energy input to the plasma discharge will be optimized with the help of an Artificial Neural Network which will relate the operating parameters to the energy performance of the reactor. The catalytic reaction following the plasma discharge-activation will be performed by a bimetallic hydrogenation catalyst deposited on a 3D-printed Periodic Open Cell Structure (POCS), which also serves as ground electrode. Heat integration between the plasma zone and the catalytic region allows operation without external heating, thus increasing the energy efficiency of the system. The catalyst composition can be tuned separately to intensify the C2H2 conversion into C2H4, whilst computer-aided design of the POCS can target optimal heat exchange. The same integration approach will be used for the direct conversion of a biogas stream of CH4 and CO2 into syngas to showcase the versatility of the system that can represent a blueprint for modular, catalytic plasma reactors. Ultimately, Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) and Life Cylce Assessment (LCA) will be conducted to compare the proposed process with the fossil fuel-based industrial benchamk, hence to appraise its industrial feasibility.

Keywords: process electrification,additive manufacturing,structured catalysts,techoeconomic analysis,life cycle assessment