Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Green Technologies for 5/6G Service-Based Architectures (6Green)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Norway,Romania,Greece,Slovenia,Germany,France
Call: Evolved Architecture for Global Green Systems (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6429280.25
EU funding (EUR): 5996896.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The 6Green project aims to conceive, design, and realize an innovative service-based and holistic ecosystem, able to extend “the communication infrastructure into a sustainable, interconnected, greener end-to-end intercompute system” and promote energy efficiency across the whole 5/6G value-chain. The ultimate objective is to enable and to foster 5/6G networks and vertical applications reducing their carbon footprint by a factor of 10 or more. To achieve this objective, the project will exploit and extend state-of-the-art cloud-native technologies and the B5G Service-Based Architecture with new cross-domain enablers to: 1) boost the global ecosystem flexibility, scalability and sustainability, and 2) enable all the 5/6G stakeholders (from the ones acting at the infrastructure and network platform to vertical industries) reducing their carbon footprint by becoming integral parts of a win-win green-economy business, and meeting a Decarbonization Service Agreement. The 6Green intent-based cross-domain interactions among stakeholders will allow achieving a tight proportionality between the time-varying and geographically distributed mobile workload produced by vertical applications and network slices, and the energy/carbon footprint induced to the 5/6G network and computing infrastructure continuum. 6Green will provide stakeholders with flexible and green Artificial Intelligence mechanisms that will allow propagating the environment impact to any players acting on virtual domains, and triggering zero-touch operations according to customizable energy- and carbon-aware policies, allowing to optimally use renewable energy sources. The project will also deliver three future-proof use-case applications that will provide a diverse awareness of the green capabilities of the 6Green platform, and that will demonstrate the potential 5/6G impact in enabling other vertical industry sectors to reach the carbon neutrality targeted by the European Green Deal.

Keywords: sustainabily,beyond 5g 6g,edge computing,cloud native technologies
Insect-Brain inspired Neuromorphic Nanophotonics (InsectNeuroNano)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Denmark,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3229534.0
EU funding (EUR): 3229534.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

We propose nanophotonic on-chip devices for integrated sensing and neural computation, inspired by the insect brain. This will uniquely combine four lines of research: 1) progress in understanding insect neurobiology that provides proven circuit designs to solve significant problems such as autonomous navigation; 2) advanced III-V semiconductor nanowire technology that exploits light to obtain a large number of interconnects with extremely low power consumption; 3) optically efficient stable molecular dyes that can be used for novel memory components; 4) circuit technology developed for quantum computing. As proof of concept, we target the complete pathway from polarised light sensing in the insect eye to the internal compass and memory circuits by which this information is integrated in a continuous accurate estimate of location. Building on verified models, we will first demonstrate that the computational principles can be implemented using overlapping light signals in a nanoscale system, with high error tolerance and orders of magnitude better energy and spatial footprint than present technologies. We will then explore neuromorphic memory functionalities from nanoelectronics and molecular dyes, in parallel with deeper investigation of the memory substrates in the insect brain. The same nanostructures used for computing can be used for optical sensing, and we will develop an integrated sensor and information processing array to extract global orientation information from polarised skylight. The direct outcome will be an energy efficient, robust chip enabling autonomous vehicle navigation without GPS, with many potential applications; but more importantly, the novel neural components we will develop can then be re-assembled into a wide spectrum of circuits to mimic other computations in the insect brain. The technology platform can be integrated with silicon technology and we will demonstrate the pathway to upscaling and commercialization.

Keywords: nanowire,semiconductor,insect neurobiology,nanophotonics,nanooptoelectronics,neuromorphic computing,insect robotics,iii v,molecular dyes,autonomous systems,neural network,nanostructure
Pilot Line for Photonics-Based Medical Devices (PhotonMed)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Finland,Ireland,Netherlands,Cyprus,Belgium,France,Canada,Germany,Switzerland
Call: Global call according to SRIA 2023 (RIA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 32445156.0
EU funding (EUR): 10894157.75
Participants: 40
Project status: SIGNED

Photonics is a key enabling technology in the realization of modern medical devices with applications ranging from diagnostics to personalised monitoring and therapeutics. Characteristic nature of both photonics and medical applications is high diversity. Therefore, the more widespread use of photonics technologies in scattered ecosystems presents major challenges for the technological values chains comprising end-user companies and manufacturers. In conjunction with highly regulated validation and production processes, the timespan from the proof-of-concept to product launch takes years causing high costs. Relying on existing pilot line concept, PhotonMed aims at accelerated uptake of the latest photonics technologies in medical device applications. PhotonMed project is applied to continuously renew the technology offering of photonics pilot line and to invite new members and countries to join the ecosystem. Within research-oriented PhotonMed project RTOs and industrial parties can develop their technology offering while the end-user companies get matured demonstrators based on the latest research results.

Keywords: photonics,medical device,in vivo diagnostics,in vitro diagnostics
The Vike is an electric utility vehicle for urban areas and peri-urban, designed to minimize upfront costs and environmental impact while maintaining high capacity and operational efficiency (VIKE 2025)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

uMotion is a new European automotive manufacturer revolutionizing urban logistics with a Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) specifically designed to economically decarbonize urban and peri-urban professionals' fleets. Our vehicle offers the standard capacity of an N1-type vehicle, providing a 1.2-ton payload and 5 to 20 m³ of cargo volume, depending on the configuration, making it both versatile and highly efficient. The vehicle is engineered to be the most affordable and sustainable solution for professional fleets by drastically reducing energy consumption. This is achieved through two key innovations: - Swappable Battery System: the vehicle is equipped with 3 to 12 small battery modules, each removable by hand, allowing operators to adjust the battery capacity according to their specific needs. This reduces overall weight and cost, while enabling the vehicle to operate in areas with limited charging infrastructure and low-power charging solutions, eliminating the need for high-end charging stations. Additional advantages include maintaining a high residual value and extending the overall lifespan of the vehicle, as the battery can be replaced as often as needed. - Patented Electric Powertrain: featuring optimized urban-efficiency motors and hardware-integrated ecodriving technology, the powertrain ensures maximum energy savings by further reducing battery size and energy demand. This innovation delivers superior performance while minimizing environmental impact, making the Vike vehicle the perfect solution for eco-conscious and budget-conscious fleet operators. With its advanced features, uMotion’s LCV offers a future-proof, sustainable alternative for professionals looking to decarbonize their fleets without compromising on cost or performance.

Keywords: customize your range,optimize your costs the vike introduces a new approach to electric propulsion with its adjustable,hand swappable batteries
Mental HEaLth Promotion in healthCARE workforce (HELP-CARE): A realist and economic evaluation of an inter-sectoral and multi-level intervention in Denmark. (HELP-CARE)

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: Denmark,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Supporting the mental wellbeing (MWB) of healthcare workers (HCWs) is a global public health priority with far-reaching societal and economic consequences. HCWs face multiple occupational risks that can significantly affect their mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated strained working conditions in hospitals, leading to increased rates of stress, depression, and burnout, particularly among women and nurses. This has resulted in a concerning shortage of HCWs, triggering a negative cycle of deteriorating working conditions, reduced job satisfaction, compromised healthcare quality, and patient safety. To address this critical issue, an intersectoral action using innovative, multi-level interventions promoting MWB is necessary. However, the lack of robust evidence of cost-effectiveness for preventive approaches in the healthcare sector hampers informed health policies and sustainable actions. Three major hindrances to progress are identified: the absence of positive mental health indicators (MWB) as the primary intervention outcome, the need for a multifaceted approach considering individual and organizational factors, and the lack of health economic evaluations. The HELP-CARE project emerges as a solution, aiming to provide a realist and economic evaluation of a multi-level MWB-based intervention in the public healthcare sector launched by the technological company HOWDY.care in Denmark. The study will use Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Cost-Benefit Analysis on large longitudinal data of Danish HCWs to understand how this type of intervention works and its economic impact. HELP-CARE entails a strong inter-sectoral collaboration (academic-public-private-NGO) whose findings will pave the way for more effective interventions to enhance HCWs' MWB.The involvement of leading experts in the field from the Department of Psychology at University of Copenhagen offers valuable resources and infrastructures for the success of this project and my career.

Keywords: mental wellbeing,occupational health,healthcare workers,realist evaluation,wellbeing economics
Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability (MAPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Portugal,Finland,Austria,Hungary
Call: Broadening the range of policy options in transition pathway analysis (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3829180.0
EU funding (EUR): 3829180.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

MAPS aims to broaden the range of policies, models, and assessments to help achieve sustainability, equity, and human well-being. The lack of evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling between economic growth and environmental pressures suggests that future trajectories built on economic growth may not be possible. There is an urgent need for a new paradigm that reconciles human well-being with environmental sustainability -- one based on a “post-growth” approach. The idea is that high-income countries should move beyond the pursuit of GDP growth as a policy goal, and instead pursue policies that improve human well-being while reducing resource use. Despite increasing interest in this idea, the main integrated assessment models (IAMs) used in climate mitigation modelling do not consider post-growth policies or scenarios. MAPS has the ambition to expand the range of policy options available to policymakers and incorporate post-growth scenarios into the major scientific assessments of the IPCC and IPBES. Our goal is to provide new approaches to help steer Europe and the world back within planetary boundaries without compromising on valuable social welfare goals. To this end, MAPS will use participatory processes to develop new policy packages and scenarios, and then assess these policies using a state-of-the-art simulation model. In particular, it will estimate the resource use requirements of a good life, design social welfare systems that are growth-resilient, incorporate a broader range of environmental and social indicators into assessment models, and explore how alternative policies could be implemented in practice. MAPS will provide knowledge about policies that reduce resource use to be within planetary boundaries while maintaining or improving social outcomes. In so doing, it will improve decision-making capacity by broadening the range of policy options, modelling frameworks, and assessments for sustainability.

Keywords: sustainability,ecological economics,environmental social science,post growth,degrowth,doughnut economics,modelling,public policy,human wellbeing,political ecology
Animal ABidings: recoverIng from DisastErs in more-than-human communities (ABIDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999970.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999970.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

What and how can we learn from animals about recovering from disasters? How can we hear them in their own terms, translate their stories, and include their perspectives, in human knowledge about disasters? This project explores the resilience of multispecies communities, and their capacities for healing and bouncing back from disasters, through the point of view of nonhuman animals. It departs from the current context of acute climate crisis, which sets the stage for Dantesque scenarios of impending climate-driven disasters such as wildfires, floods, tornados and hurricanes, with related extensive loss of both human and nonhuman lives, liveable dwellings and species extinction. Focusing on wildfires as disasters that challenge previous expert knowledge due to climate change and human exploitation of natural resources, we propose to compare three countries where wildfires have taken on increasingly critical proportions every year: Brazil, Australia and Portugal. We address a species gap in our knowledge of disasters, and wildfires in particular, by exploring the possibilities of learning with animals how to live and cope with extreme change and uncertainty in wildfire-prone areas. Drawing on contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, ethologists, biologists and geographers, ABIDE aims at attuning to, translating and including the voices, stories and experiences of animals into our knowledge of how multispecies communities can better recover from the traumatic experience of wildfires. In the end, we seek to build the foundations for a new interdisciplinary framework for addressing humans' and animals' ability to build and abide in multispecies communities that are more resilient to wildfires and other disasters. In so doing, we aspire to identify the landmarks of a post-species episteme, and thus push forward the frontiers of knowledge of human-animal relations, as well as contribute to a more-than-human governance of disasters.

Keywords: human animal relations,multispecies relations,nonhuman animals,multispecies ethnography,multispecies methodologies,disasters,wildfires,climate change,global environmental crisis,biodiversity,disaster trauma,disaster resilience,disaster recovery,disaster governance
Galaxy Centers: Understanding Star Formation in Extreme Environments (eCMZs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2436250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2436250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Gas-rich galaxy centers like our own Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) are amongst the most extreme, yet poorly understood, environments for star formation. These regions are affected by large-scale in- and out-flows of gas, by nuclear starburst and/or active galactic nuclei, which makes them unique laboratories in the local universe to study star formation at the highest gas and stellar mass densities, intense radiation fields, and short (<50 Myr) dynamical timescales. CMZs are compact (<1kpc) and subject to high extinction, which requires near- to mid-infrared observations to study their individual star-forming sites. The lack of data that resolves the molecular gas reservoirs and star formation sites has prevented establishing a coherent picture of this star formation regime – a situation that has now radically changed by JWST. At the same time, ALMA has both the sensitivity and spatial resolution to map the underlying gas distribution. This ERC project will develop a first synthetic view of extragalactic CMZs (eCMZs) by zooming in to centers of 37 nearby galaxies from a sample that has been globally well characterized through the PI's PHANGS survey. The PI has assembled in a set of observational campaigns an absolutely unique ALMA+HST+JWST dataset, with unprecedented 5-30pc resolution. Rigorous analysis of these data will provide the urgently needed observational framework to distinguish between theories for star formation under extreme CMZ conditions: it may either argue for a highly time-variable star formation dominated by local processes, or for a more steady-state evolution regulated by the larger-scale environment.

Keywords: galaxy centers,star formation process,multi wavelength observations
ST(R)E(A)M IT/STREAMING GIRLS AND WOMEN INTO STEAM EDUCATION, INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (STREAM IT)

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: Hungary,Ireland,Germany,Bulgaria,Romania,Lithuania,Italy,Croatia,Slovenia,Ukraine,Serbia,Slovakia,Spain,North Macedonia,Belgium,Greece,Poland,Iceland,Sweden
Call: Support to the implementation of an EU Manifesto for STE(A)M education and research and innovation career paths to tackle gender inequalities in the ERA (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1855814.75
EU funding (EUR): 1855814.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of ST(R)E(A)M IT is to initiate change about the persisting gender inequalities in STEM education, research, and innovation to contribute to the implementation of the ‘The European Manifesto for gender-inclusive STE(A)M education and careers.’ The envisioned aim of the project will be achieved by 1) empowering underrepresented groups in STEM, 2) piloting and fostering the integration of STEAM approaches in STEM education by synthesising previous knowledge and networks, 3) promoting gender-inclusive career paths and increasing the talent pipeline in the STEM fields together with the attractiveness of STEM careers, 4) supporting STEM education providers through knowledge sharing, capacity building to remove gender-based barriers including gender stereotypes in STEM education. By encouraging sustainable collaboration of STEM-oriented businesses, secondary and higher education institutions, research organisations, as well as informal science education establishments, NGOs, and civil society organisations, ST(R)E(A)M IT provides several tools for closing the existing gender gap in STEM education and career.

Keywords: stem education,steam approaches,developing toolkits,networking,mentoring capacity building of heis and stem educators,policy dialogue webinars,empowering young female researchers