Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Distributed data modelling and Federated Digital Twinning for lifecycle data-driven sustainable operation and management of buildings and districts (WILSON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Lithuania,Türkiye,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Italy,Greece
Call: Innovative uses of lifecycle data for the management of buildings and buildings portfolios (Built4People Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4709209.06
EU funding (EUR): 4083377.47
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

As the built environment continues to face challenges such as climate change, energy consumption, and social inequality, there is a growing need for adopting sustainable building practices beyond energy considerations, encompassing environmental, social, and economic dimensions across the entire lifecycle of buildings. In view of these challenges, WILSON proposes a groundbreaking approach, leveraging semantic data repositories, cognitive digital twins, and decentralized data management to transform building and buildings’ portfolio management. The project aims to enhance sustainability by harnessing cutting-edge technologies and innovative management practices. To achieve it, WILSON main development is focused on a decentralized data mesh architecture that is agnostic to and interoperable with proprietary BMS and Digital Twin Systems. Key objectives include improving building operations, evaluating environmental impact, and enhancing building diagnosis and monitoring. Personalized Data Hubs (PDHs) will connect and integrate all WILSON solutions, adhering to International Data Space (IDS) principles. These solutions will be complemented by an Investment Tool to support decision-making on renovation and RES investments. To maximize its impact across the EU, WILSON will validate and demonstrate its solutions in four large-scale pilots across different European countries. The consortium comprises 16 partners (50% SMEs and industry) with diverse expertise, including research institutions, technological providers, an international Data Association, and finance SMEs. Overall, the project aims to upgrade 200,000 m2 of buildings, reducing maintenance costs by up to 35%. In the long-term, WILSON seeks to ensure Europe's global competitiveness, data sovereignty, and achievement of EU energy and environmental goals by 2050, resulting in a highly energy-efficient and decarbonized building stock.

Keywords: data mesh federation decentralised lifecycle buildings districts energy efficiency operation predictive maintenance aggregation risk resilience biodiversity circularity renovation
Choreographies for Distributed Systems: Reasoning, Expressivity, and Development (CHORDS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999498.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999498.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Decades of research in computing led to high-level programming languages that can turn a programmer's ideas into executable software. For applications that run in isolation, we have a solid toolbox. We can write code with abstract concepts like functions and objects, and then a compiler tool can automatically produce working implementations. This significantly increases productivity, facilitates program analysis, and reduces the risk of bugs. Today, society increasingly relies on distributed systems for work, services, social participation, and so forth. Here the key high-level concept is that of communication: a message exchange between independent programs. Yet it is nowhere to be found in the syntax of modern programming languages. Instead, we manually write lower-level instructions for sending and receiving messages in separate programs, hoping that they match each other during execution and produce the wished communications. This is infamously hard, leaving us with code that is difficult to write or trust. This situation is not due to lack of trying. Choreographic programming is a recent attempt at a programming paradigm with high-level abstractions for communications and their composition in programs called choreographies. Unfortunately, compiling choreographies is technically challenging, which resulted in excessive simplification. Current theories make unrealistic assumptions -- remaining confined to toy scenarios -- and reasoning methods for choreographies are underdeveloped. This project will break new ground by developing (a) new linguistic constructs for choreographies that can deal with realistic scenarios, (b) logics for verifying properties about choreographies and understanding what they mean for the compiled code, and (c) a toolchain for compiling, testing, and deploying software based on our choreographies. These actions have the potential to significantly impact how we will model and program distributed applications in the future.

Keywords: choreographic programming,choreography
Ecosystem Modelling of Biospheric Responses to Anomalous Climate Events with Sun-Induced Fluorescence (EMBRACE-SIF)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France,United States,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Heatwaves and droughts, intensified by climate change, pose a significant threat to European ecosystems, reducing gross primary productivity (GPP) and disrupting the global carbon cycle. The EMBRACE-SIF project seeks to improve the predictive accuracy of sun-induced fluorescence (SIF)-enabled terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs) under stress conditions. Currently, models like ORCHIDEE struggle to capture the photosynthetic response during extreme events due to limitations in modeling photosynthesis and characterizing non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). To overcome these challenges, the project will implement the Johnson and Berry (J&B) photosynthesis model, which provides a mechanistic framework for electron transport rates (ETR), and extend it to better represent NPQ under heat and drought stress. Using the unique Austro-SIF dataset and assimilating canopy-scale SIF and GPP data, EMBRACE-SIF will optimize key parameters in ORCHIDEE, enhancing its ability to simulate GPP during past European heatwaves (e.g., 2003, 2010, 2018, 2022) and at a global scale. The project's results will improve GPP predictions, contributing to climate resilience and supporting the European Green Deal's target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Additionally, it will strengthen the fellow's expertise in remote sensing and biosphere modeling, positioning them for leadership in these critical fields.

Keywords: sun induced fluorescence,terrestrial biosphere models,photosynthesis,non photochemical quenching,gross primary production,heat wave,extreme events,orchidee
STARTS Ec(h)o: fostering ECOlogically conscious and Human compatible digital technology (STARTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Portugal,France,Germany,Spain,Italy
Call: Art-driven digital innovation: Towards human compatible and ecologically conscious technology (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3660535.71
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

In the digital age and the decades of societal and environmental emergency states that we live in, science, technology, and industry have hit the innovation ceiling. New approaches, alternative perspectives, and creative solutions to inspire progress and accelerate development are needed: Artistic thinking can provide the boost we need to tackle the great challenges of our times. Science, Technology and arts (S+T+ARTS for short) limn a nexus at which insightful observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. And innovation is precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe is facing. STARTS Ec(h)o's main objective is building towards the triple transformation and developing artist-led approaches through creative experimentation and recognising the most successful ones: • The S+T+ARTS Prize will highlight and promote 90 outstanding technology-driven artistic projects and the achievements of the teams behind them towards the green transition and social sustainability. • Through S+T+ARTS residencies, artists will be enabled to develop 10 new pilots on human-centered and sustainable technologies in the fields of AI, high-performance computing, simulation & visualisation, digital twins, medical tech or circular economy. • An annual AIxMusic program at Sónar will create an international platform for pushing limits of digital technology and exploring the compatibility of digital with human values and needs through artistic thinking. Ars Electronica, Sonar, Salzburg Festival, Inova+, T6, French Tech Grand Provence, Technical University Dresden and Media Solution Center Baden Württemberg will stimulate arts-driven innovation that is human compatible and ecological consciousness and showcase outstanding examples from the field of S+T+ARTS in 12 events at the Ars Electronica Festival, Sonar and the Salzburg Festival and hence new pathways to European innovation.

Keywords: art driven innovation,triple transformation,starts prize,starts residencies,aixmusic
Intensity Modulated Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells (IMPLS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The solar cell industry already has an annual value of 200 billion US dollars and is expected to triple in the coming ten years. Within that period, an emerging solar cell material – halide perovskite – is projected to capture 20% of the market, by being used in combination with current market-leading silicon solar cells. While the efficiency of this emerging solar material is outstanding, ionic migration that occurs during solar cell operation leads to poor stability, which is the main factor limiting commercialization today. The current state-of-the-art techniques for measuring ionic migration require electrical contacts, cannot be used during the manufacturing process to understand which steps lead to instability, cannot be used for spatial mapping and provide no chemical information about the migrating ionic species. This means that such tools have limited utility in understanding and solving the stability problem. We have developed a purely optical technique for measuring ionic, chemical and defect processes in halide perovskite semiconductors – intensity modulated photoluminescence spectroscopy (IMPLS) – which overcomes all the limitations associated with state-of-the-art measurements. The goal of this ERC PoC project is to benchmark IMPLS against state-of-the-art techniques for measuring ion migration in halide perovskite materials and build prototypes of instruments that meet the market demand for understanding and solving the stability problem in halide perovskites. This will be done first in the research market, setting the stage for entering the much bigger development and manufacturing markets in the future.
Spacecraft Heliospheric Observation of Collisions and Kinetic Wave Analysis in Various Environments (SHOCKWAVE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plasma shocks are ubiquitous phenomena in space plasmas, emerging when a supersonic and super-Alfvénic plasma flow encounters an obstacle. The solar wind is such a flow with usually high Mach numbers. Solar wind shocks occur due to two obstacles: magnetic fields of planets or much slower solar wind in front of it. The Mach number dictates the shock strength: from strong (roughly > 5) to weak (1-4). Spacecraft in Earth’s environment allowed us to study the terrestrial shock as an example of a strong shock in increasing detail in the past decades. The availability of shock measurements from other planets is increasing as well. However, most astrophysical shocks are weak, in particular shocks that have little to no in-situ measurements. The lower range of Mach number shocks is underexplored, especially with high resolution data (resolution of several seconds to milliseconds). Our main goal is to utilize state-of-the-art spacecraft data to explore the lower Mach number range of shocks (including wave activity, jets, instabilities) and crosscheck the universality of our results with available events in the solar system. To tackle this project, we propose a 3-step analysis: 1) Comparing low and high Mach number range at the terrestrial shock, 2) Investigate interplanetary shocks using high-resolution data, and 3) Providing a comprehensive study on the transition of characteristics from low to high Mach number values. The proposed research will be carried out in a 24-month project at the Queen Mary University of London. This institution hosts well-known international experts on shock physics and space plasma physics, providing outstanding expertise that perfectly matches the proposed efforts. The generated knowledge will deepen our understanding of shock physics with application throughout the solar system as well as general astrophysics. In particular we will apply the knowledge on interplanetary shocks, which are the precursor of strong geomagnetic storms at Earth.

Keywords: bow shocks,weak shocks,interplanetary shocks,space plasmas,magnetosheath,solar terrestrial relations,inteplanetary plasma,coronal mass ejections,stream interaction regions
Bringing knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce FOod LOss at the primary production stage. Understanding, measuring, training and adopting (FOLOU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,Norway,France,Austria,Greece,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: Research and innovation for food losses and waste prevention and reduction through harmonised measurement and monitoring (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6523903.25
EU funding (EUR): 6523903.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Each year, a substantial amount of food loss (FL) is generated at the primary production stage; FL have negative impacts on the society, contributing to food insecurity, depleting the environment, generating avoidable GHG emissions and creating pressure on land and water. Currently, key challenges hampering the reduction of FL are: regulatory challenges (e.g., exclusion of FL in the EU Commission Decision 2019/1597), technical challenges (e.g., lack of common measurement methodology, lack of cost-effective measurement tools), scientific challenges (e.g., lack of understanding of drivers) and social challenges (e.g., lack of skills of the different stakeholders involved). FOLOU is willing to contribute in overcoming these challenges, being the main objective of the project to set up the necessary mechanisms to: (i) measure and estimate (robust and harmonized methodology), (ii) monitor and report (national and EU FL registries), and (iii) assess the magnitude and impact of FL. Additionally, FOLOU will also work to assure the appropriate knowledge transfer and adoption of the project outcomes by the key targeted stakeholders: primary producers, retailers, consumers, policy makers and researchers. FOLOU will structure its activities in a comprehensive action plan revolving around four levers of change: 1#Understanding by working on collecting and curing FL available data, by working on understanding the drivers behind food losses and by assessing the impact of these losses; 2#Measuring by developing new cost-effective tools for the measurement/estimation of FL and a robust and harmonized methodology; 3#Training by providing tailored trainings to different stakeholders; 4#Adopting by preparing recommendations and creating a twinning programme. With a duration of 4 years, FOLOU gathers 16 multidisciplinary partners from 10 countries joining forces around a common challenge: Preventing and reducing the amount of food intended for human consumption that is eventually lost.

Keywords: food losses,measurement and estimation methodology,training,sustainability
SUSTAINABLE CAREERS FOR RESEARCH EMPOWERMENT 2 (SECURE2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Cyprus,Portugal,Romania,Spain,Hungary,Moldova, Republic of,Ukraine,Poland,Serbia,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers – pilot (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2099450.0
EU funding (EUR): 2099450.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The SECURE2 project aims to pilot and implement recommendations from the European Framework for Research Careers (RCF) to improve research career progression and mobility within research-performing organizations (RPOs) and research-funding organizations (RFOs). This project builds on the previous SECURE project and expands its scope to a four-year duration, allowing a more extensive and impactful implementation of RCF recommendations. SECURE2 will provide a 2+-year trail within the 4-year project, to effectively implement the more difficult and time-intensive actions and recommendations. The overarching Aim of SECURE2 is to: • Build upon the completed ERA50 project SECURE, using SECURE expert partners and the pilot RPOs and RFOs experience in implementing Action Plans (APs) for institutional change. • Use and adapt best practice tools from the SECURE project, in particular, the ‘RCF Actions selection’ tool as the basis of guiding the pilots to select their interventions. • Foster the development of ecosystems for research positions by promoting collaboration between researchers, research managers, and administrators, facilitating active participation from all stakeholders, and ensuring that the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of the RCF are rooted in the practical needs of both academic and non-academic sectors. SECURE2 employs a three-tiered approach to ensure representation and consensus building of key stakeholder groups in the research and innovation ecosystem: (1) large consortium ensuring expert partners (2) open consultations with the stakeholder community to co-design and validate key project outcomes (3) advisory board of key representatives to ensure independent expert oversight and connection to policymakers.

Keywords: research careers,rcf,hrs4r,career progression,careeer precarity
SUstainable sports and Physical activity for Equity and Resilience in the Anthropocene (SUPER)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,France,Belgium,Australia,Finland,Denmark,Canada,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4532658.12
EU funding (EUR): 4532658.12
Participants: 41
Project status: SIGNED

SUPER will train 15 doctoral Fellows as transdisciplinary leaders to develop and promote sustainable, equitable physical activity and sports that prioritise both human and planetary health in the face of world finite resources and a changing climate. The network will bring together sports and physical activity industries, organisations and practitioners with leading researchers and experts across fields such as sports & behaviour sciences, human health, education, social science, planetary health, circular economy, environmental sciences and sustainable development to conduct empirical research and cascading skill-building with the following objectives: Objective 1: Establish the theoretical and evidence base as well as a research roadmap on the impact of sports and physical activity on planetary health, resources and climate and, conversely, the impact of climate change on sports and physical activity. This, to support policy, practice and novel solutions. Objective 2: Develop novel solutions for sports and physical activity policy, infrastructures, equipment, practices and promotion that bring co-benefits by simultaneously increasing population resilience to climate change equitably and lowering the impact on the planet and planetary limits. Objective 3: Test and demonstrate these novel solutions in key sectors through living labs: Health Care, Professional and Amateur Sports, School/Education, Urban Design, Workplace/Occupational Health. Objective 4: Provide evidence-based guidance and scientific support to future generations and all stakeholders who promote, manage, or use sports and physical activity: industry, practitioners, organisations, policymakers, funders, and the public, on making sports and physical activity sustainable and equitable. Objective 5: Build capacity for future generations and among the sports and physical activity industry, organisations and practitioners for developing innovative, sustainable and circular solutions and practiceTBD

Keywords: sports,sustainability,circular economy,planetary health,climate change,planetary boundaries