Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative Education for the BioEconomy (BioBeo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Poland,Netherlands,Austria,Estonia,Greece,Romania,United Kingdom
Call: Education on the bioeconomy including bio-based sectors for young people in primary and secondary education in Europe (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1871312.5
EU funding (EUR): 1871312.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

BioBeo is a 2 year, €2M project with 15 partners, bridging theory and practice. Its overall aim is to develop and deploy an education programme to enhance understanding and engagement across society regarding lifestyle, circularity and bioeconomy, using 5 bioeconomy themes: interconnectedness, outdoor learning, forestry, life below water and the food loop. A network committed to promoting the bioeconomy concept will co-create and co-deliver the programme. BioBeo will provide for better coordination between bio-science and education in schools by developing the Circular Economy Science-Society message with a particular focus on circular lifestyle/behaviours, and a governance framework on society-wide engagement in bioeconomy policy. BioBeo will address social issues such as gender bias, disadvantaged youth groups, migrants and members of society with additional needs. We shall 1. increase awareness of environmental, social and economic benefits of sustainable and circular bioeconomy among young people at pre-school, primary and secondary school level 2. identify institutional and cultural barriers 3. develop innovative approaches and digital toolkits for educational and information materials 4. pilot BioBeo education programme reaching 35 schools, 1,000 university students, 1,800 parents/guardians and 100 teachers across Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany 5. demonstrate a measured increase in engagement of young people and their intention to pursue education and careers in life science, technology and bioeconomy 6. enhance governance of bioeconomy related processes within society by engaging European citizens from young to old in active policy making 7. coordinate communication and dissemination to optimise the reach and visibility to students, teachers, policy makers and parents. BioBeo will contribute to the transition to a sustainable EU circular bioeconomy by enhancing society-wide awareness and inspiring Europe’s youth to pursue STEM related careers.

Keywords: bioeconomy,education,youth,governance
Isocyanate Free Self-Blowing Biobased Circular Foams (EcoFoams)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Plastics have been key materials to be aligned with the European Union´s Sustainable Development Goals. This promise stems from its lightweight, low-density nature while maintaining favorable mechanical, thermal, and insulating properties. Nevertheless, plastic production still lacks sustainability, primarily relying on fossil resources. Indeed, less than one percent of the annual plastic production (390 million tons), originates from renewable sources. This heavy reliance on fossil resources exacerbates global warming, as the extraction, production, and disposal of these materials release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Furthermore, in Europe, less than 20% of post-consumer plastic waste is recycled. In the realm of plastics, polymer foams merit special attention for their versatility, combining the main unique plastic properties while minimizing material usage. Foams serve two main purposes: flexible types for uses like packaging and cushioning, and rigid foams for insulation, construction, and high mechanical strength needs. Despite their remarkable properties, foam production relies on nonrenewable resources and toxic chemicals like isocyanates and phosgene. Additionally, their exceptional performance relates to their highly crosslinked nature, which also renders these materials challenging to recycle, or often, non-recyclable. The central goal of EcoFoams is to develop biobased foams that not only match the manufacturing process and performance of commercially available foams but also offer recyclability and reprocessability. To do so EcoFoams will explore the use of S-Alkylation Reaction to produce self-blown polycarbonate (PC) and polyhydroxurethane (PHU) foams without using toxic isocyanates. Dr. Gabriel Perli, under the guidance of Prof. Haritz Sardon, Polymat (University of the Basque Country, Spain), will endeavour to pioneer the EcoFoams that are both more sustainable and exhibit excellent performances.

Keywords: material science,foam research,biobased foams,free isocyanate foams,self blowing foams,circular foams,high performance foams,molecular engineering,efficient design of monomers,foam industry
Social Injustice and Workplace Behavior: How #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo and Islamist terrorist attacks Shape Cooperation in Organizations (INJORG)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project I explore the effect of diversity-related societal events on workplace cooperation. Throughout the recent decade a number of large-scale cultural and political events have continued to draw attention to threats like racism, sexism, and discrimination. Prominent examples of such events are the #MeToo movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, or Islamic terrorism in Europe. Despite the prominence of these events in public discourse, we don’t know the consequences of this mega-threats for the cooperation and interaction between co-workers in organizations. In this project, I deploy a novel interdisciplinary approach, in which I combine insights from the emerging “macro” literature in sociology and management and their effect on organizations and the large existing “micro” literature in psychology on diverse work teams and behavioral strategy in order to develop and test novel hypotheses about how diversity related large-scale events that occur in organizations´ larger social context affect the cooperation in diverse teams and the decision-making in organizations. I will focus on four related research questions: 1) How did the #BlackLivesMatter movement affect the cooperation between black and white co-workers? 2) How did the #MeToo movement affect the cooperation between male and female co-workers? 3) How did Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe affect the cooperation between Islamic and Non-Islamic co-workers? and 4)How can managers and business leaders manage issues arising from mega-threats? In order to test my prediction I will collect a novel large scale database including information on diversity related mega-threats from Twitter and media reports and combine it with data on the cooperation in organizations. The ambitious goal of this interdisciplinary project is to open a research stream which strives to develop an understanding on how macro societal events affect our micro behavior with other co-workers in organzations.

Keywords: cooperation in organizations,group diversity,groups and teams,team conflict and cooperation,intergroup relations
Water4All – Water Security for the Planet (Water4All)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: COFUND actions
Partnership: Water4All (co-funded)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Austria,Estonia,Finland,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Latvia,Lithuania,Malta,Moldova, Republic of,Netherlands,Czechia,Denmark,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Slovakia,South Africa,Spain,Sweden,Türkiye,Switzerland,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,Brazil,Tunisia,Georgia
Call: European Partnership Water Security for the Planet (Water4All) (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CLIMATE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2031-05-31
Duration (months): 108.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189766976.36
EU funding (EUR): 56930093.0
Participants: 95
Project status: SIGNED

Water is central to all human activities, to all components of the EU Green Deal and to several UN SDGs. The Water4All Partnership aims at enabling water security for all on the long term through boosting systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers. It gathers more than 70 partners, R&I funders, environment ministries, local authorities, European, national and regional-scale networks, research performing organisations. It will collaborate with other relevant R&I initiatives. Water4All proposes a portfolio of multi-national, cross-sectoral activities, targeting a variety of actors, intending to generate the following outputs: - Strengthen the water R&I collaboration at European and international levels, across at least 31 countries, notably through Joint Transnational Calls - Coordinate and leverage the activities of the Water R&I community - Support and promote the demonstration and access to market of innovative solutions - Produce, share and better communicate water-related knowledge & data, from local to global scales - Enhance talent development of water R&I professionals - Foster capacity development and life-long training of water policy-makers, stakeholders and civil society - Design & implement approaches for participatory development of innovation Water4All will run its activities across 7 themes of its strategic agenda: water for circular economy; water for ecosystems and biodiversity; sustainable water management; water and health; water infrastructure; international cooperation; water governance. Water4All’s outputs will contribute to: - Deliver sound knowledge, tools and evidence basis on water for policy- & decision-making - Improve consideration of water impacts in all relevant policies - Enhance the field/market use of innovative solutions to water challenges - Increase citizens’ awareness and engagement for an inclusive water
Molecular Visualization of High Performance Computing Simulations with VTX (VTX-HPC)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Molecular Dynamics Simulations (MD) are widely used in molecular and structural biology and drug discovery to study the structure, properties and dynamics of small and macromolecules. The size of the simulated systems (up to a billion atoms) and the length of the simulations (from microseconds in 2010 to milliseconds in 2021 in million atom scenes) have dramatically increased following the recent advances in computing hardware (GPU clusters) and storage. Additionally, with the recent advances in Cryo Electron Microscopy and the arising of AlphaFold many new models of macromolecular structures and complexes are now available for molecular simulation. Due to their more and more extreme size, the storage, analysis and visualization of the resulting data is becoming problematic: 1. Technically for a usable and efficient processing of the data and 2. Environmentally in terms of storage, bandwith and power comsumption. Within the ERC ViDOCK project, we created a highly usable, free and open-source high-performance molecular visualization software called VTX. VTX is optimized to handle the biggest molecular structures and trajectories notably by including cutting-edge molecular graphics with a high performance graphics engine coupled with a video game based minimalistic task-oriented GUI to maximize its usability. The goal of the VTX-HPC project is to improve the performance, usability and sustainability of VTX for the visualization of the High Performance Computing Molecular Dynamics Simulations big data by developing and implementing 1. a highly compact molecular structure and trajectories file format optimized for streaming for increased performances and reduced environmental load. 2. a meshless version of the widely used Solvent Excluded Surface representation for scalability purposes and real-time ray tracing in the rendering engines and 3. Adapted manipulation and controls for the generation of illustrations and movies of massive dynamic molecular scenes.
Innovative Cultivation Methods for Marine Biodiscovery - Hop On Facility (COMBO-HOPON)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Greece
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 380500.0
EU funding (EUR): 380500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The COMBO project is funded under CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01-11 call of Horizon Europe from 1 January 2024 to December 2026. The main aim of COMBO is to uncover Innovative Cultivation Methods for Marine Biodiscovery. Our mission is to address the supply challenges related to seaweed and sponge biomolecules by pioneering innovative cultivation techniques that leverage the holobiont concept. COMBO – HOP ON aims to support further the main objectives of COMBO through the involvement of NKUA as a widening partner from Greece. As we do not have partners from widening countries, we do propose and strongly support the inclusion of NKUA as a widening partner that will secure access to a new geographic area, the Eastern Mediterranean, which is considered a biodiversity hotspot where species of the two algal genera under investigation thrive. Through their extensive expertise in the natural products’ diversity of these two families of seaweed terpenoids, NKUA will provide key support to the tasks related to COMBO. At the same time NKUA will undertake the lead role for new tasks towards the exploitation of natural products from the selected families of marine organisms by evaluating their anti-aging potential enabling applications in the field of cosmeceutics and nutraceutics, as well as towards the development of circular processing through the provision of data on the potential production of polysaccharides and hydrolyzed collagen from the residual biomass of algae and sponges, respectively. COMBO – HOP ON will address the outcomes expected for the call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, at system and organization level, as well as at the level of the beneficiary.

Keywords: seaweeds,terpenoids,cell culture,biotechnology,metabolic pathway
SpaceSense – Democratizing satellite imagery for Machine learning (WomenTech-EO_AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SpaceSense is a French deep-tech Space-AI company, created in 2019. Our mission is to democratise access to intelligence from Earth observation (EO) technology by making it possible for data scientists to create applications using EO data without the need for expertise in remote-sensing nor any infrastructure investment. With us, our users build an EO product in days instead of months and at 20% of the cost. We are building a platform to simplify end-to-end “Data preparation” for satellite imagery - AI solutions. We have released a first version of the platform earlier this year that allows a user to access different types of satellite imagery (Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2) in an “Analysis ready data'' format, combine it with weather data, add various proprietary datasets like drone, sensor data, or other geolocated data & generate a clean feature-cube compatible with tensorflow/pytorch models to create practical solutions and at scale thanks to SpaceSense’s compute engine- a proprietary system fine-tuned to perform large scale on-demand EO data analysis on cloud. We have ongoing pilots & trials with the first release of the platform. Through Women Tech EU, we aim to develop a core technical component of “Data preparation for AI” capabilities to help us create a clear competitive advantage to achieve product-market fit in 2024, and set up the processes for a more diverse and gender balanced workplace as we grow our team. This will be achieved through four main tasks, detailed in the proposal: - Data Augmentation tool for Sentinel-2 imagery - Creation of “Solution template” - Marketing and sales - HR tools & processes Jyotsna Budideti is the co-founder and CEO of the company. She has been driving the company’s vision and strategy. On a day-to-day basis she leads the product development, management of technical team, & GTM strategy of the company. Her team currently has 6 different nationalities and is composed of about 12% women, with a goal to reach 40% by 2024.

Keywords: earth observation artificial intelligence cloud computing
FAILURE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN-ROBOT SENSORIMOTOR AUGMENTATION (HARIA-FT)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 353292.5
EU funding (EUR): 353292.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The original HARIA project aims to build human sensorimotor augmentation systems, particularly for people with uni- or bi-lateral upper-limb chronic motor disabilities. This new approach to physical human-robot interaction is achieved through the development of supernumerary robotic limbs and wearable sensorimotor interfaces. The combination of these technologies, together with Artificial Intelligence methodologies, allows the users to control and feel the robotic limbs as an extension of their bodies. In this Hop-On Facility activity, we propose to expand the ambition of the HARIA project, by adding a robust layer that manages the occurrence of failures and anomalous situations, using a combination of methods to Predict, Detect, Communicate, and Recover from failure events during the execution of collaborative and augmented tasks, aimed at the application scenarios envisaged in HARIA. Prediction of failure events will be done through a Deep Learning classifier using multi-modal sensory information, while actual failure detection relies mostly on model-based methods. Failures are communicated to the users via the Wearable Sensorimotor Interfaces developed in the project, who can then control the reaction strategies. HARIA-FT strives to improve the robustness of the original system through this failure management framework and through extensive experimentation and validation.

Keywords: sensorimotor augmentation,failure management,failure recovery,wearable interfaces,ai powered robotic supernumerary limbs,manipulation,haptics,assistive robotics,collaborative robots
Connected headset adapting music to emotions (ONTBO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to contribute to individual well-being by offering a device that adapts music to the user's emotions. ONTBO is a software coupled with neurotechnology that detects, interprets and adapts audio content to human emotions in real time. ONTBO measures the emotional state in real time (concentration, stress, relaxation) thanks to a connected headset with an electroencephalogram. The various AIs will then deliver the appropriate playlists to enable the user to reach the desired emotional state.

Keywords: neurotechnology ai music