Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
PEM Electrolysis: Pushing towards significant Improvements Reaching Extended Performance and Lifetime (PEMPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Belgium,United Kingdom,France
Call: Improvements in lifetime and cost of low temperature electrolysers by introducing advanced materials and components in stacks and balance of plant (HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5108747.14
EU funding (EUR): 3999494.24
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

PEMPIRE aims to advance Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysers (PEMELs) deployment for acieving climate neutrality by 2050, addressing systemic and technological barriers. PEMELs, known for compact design and high-pressure output, face several challenges such as high system costs and usage of critical raw materials (CRM). PEMPIRE tackles these barriers, aligning with EU priorities on circularity, digitalization, and manufacturing scale-up. The project develops a new generation of scalable, cost-efficient, and circular PEM electrolysers at TRL 6 by creating super low-Platinum Group Metal (PGM) catalyst loading in advanced membrane electrode assemblies, integrate them into optimized next-gen stack and BoP systems and adressing critical questions of durability, recyclability, circularity, economics and general sustainability. Combining experimental and digital investigations, PEMPIRE employs degradation modeling, stress testing, and predictive analytics with techno-economic and life cycle assessments to understand durability, cost drivers, and environmental impact comprehensively. PEMPIRE's approach ensures solutions to PEMEL deployment barriers within a two pillar approach. Pillar A focuses on design, validation, and demonstration of next-gen systems, emphasizing ultra-low CRM solutions, durability, scalability, dynamic operation, and academia-industry collaboration. Pillar B paves the path to exploitation by proving sustainability, engaging stakeholders, and developing dissemination, exploitation, and replication strategies with validated business models. By clustering with other ongoing EU projects like ELECTROLIFE and a strong advisory board, PEMPIRE seeks to align with PFAS-substitution goals and EU regulatory frameworks, ensuring its innovations are technically sound, industrially relevant, environmentally responsible, and deployment-ready.

Keywords: electrolysis,pem electrolysis,catalyst coated membrane,ccm,membrane electrode assembly,mea,long term stability
Hydrogen Scale-up and Production through Innovative high-temperature SOEC manufacturing techniques optimized with AI and Quality control Tools to enhance scalability and minimize scrap rates. (HySPRINT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Ireland,Denmark
Call: Scale-up and Optimisation of manufacturing processes for electrolyser materials, cells, or stacks (HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5186147.39
EU funding (EUR): 3999540.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of the HySPRINT project is to use innovative manufacturing techniques for cell components to make them more sustainable, cost-effective, and easier to recycle. The project will bring together three different advanced production techniques: i) for the oxygen electrode, InkJet printing will be used; ii) for the barrier layer, Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) magnetron sputtering will be applied; finally, iii) for the production of the other half of the cell, the project will optimize its proprietary ReScale method, generating the steam electrode and the electrolyte. These three manufacturing techniques were specifically chosen to ensure a low-impact production process, generating minimal waste and material loss. To further improve the durability and performance of the components, thin films will also be applied. The process will be made even more automated and waste efficient, using AI algorithms and a quality control tool called Advanced Electrode Manufacturing Supervisor (AEMS). Each advanced technology will be scaled up to reach MRL5, by producing a large quantity of components (e.g. 300–400 units) as also by increasing the active area (e.g. 12x8 cm2). The cells assembled with the various components will then be tested to assess their performance, with the aim of validating them in a relevant environment at TRL6. Finally, to simulate the scale-up of a 5kW stack, a test bench will be implemented, and feasibility assessments for a larger-scale stack up 30kW will be carried out. From a sustainability and circularity perspective, the HySPRINT project will set out eco-design as well as design-for-recycling guidelines, in order to make the cells easy to disassemble, and recycle thus accomplishing circularity principles. The sustainability of the components will be further enhanced by developing strategies to reduce the presence of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), increase the share of recycled materials, and define effective waste recycling approaches.

Keywords: cell,stack,solid oxide electrolyser cell,manufacturing,eco design,design for recycling,artificial intelligence,quality control tools,key performance indicators
The social life of ancient DNA. How can scientists and citizens better interpret the past in light of ancient DNA research? A dual ethnographic study in Germany and Vanuatu (SOLACE-aDNA)

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: Germany,Australia,United States,Fiji
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 287700.96
EU funding (EUR): 287700.96
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

More than ever before, humans have access to new specialist knowledge involving genetics (e.g., ancestry genomics, social epigenomics). Crucial questions are at stakes as this newly accessible knowledge grants individuals with an objectifying image of their ‘identity’. Knowing the ‘real’ or potential biological endowment of oneself & others has tremendous social, political, & ethical consequences. This project extends my investigation of practices whereby genetics & the construction of identities intersect in a field little studied by SSH & STS: ancient DNA (aDNA) research. At the crossroads of archaeology, bioanthropology, & population genetics, aDNA research entered a golden age in its contribution to untold facts on past societies & the way it changes how past populations are perceived. While this field is growing rapidly, in-depth understanding of social & political consequences arising from practices & knowledge produced are crucially needed. We still lack robust ethnographic understanding of how aDNA researchers incorporate the knowledge they produce into narratives about origins, ancestry, social relationships. Meanwhile, little is known about what exactly citizens or community stakeholders (CS) do with genomic histories they receive from aDNA researchers. The main goal is to study how scientists & CS interpret the past in light of this new knowledge. This project involves two research sites: researchers producing aDNA knowledge in an unprecedented case-study located in a leading research facility in Germany & the postcolonial context of Vanuatu where knowledge produced from ancient remains raises significant issues for CS’s ancestry narratives. Studying the production & circulation of aDNA knowledge in interaction between identity & from an ethnographic perspective is not only highly original & greatly needed, but timely. This project is utterly innovative, invents new collaborations & involves fields that spans across social & natural sciences.

Keywords: science studies socio anthropology of science genomics as a cultural object ethnography social construction of the relationship to the past specialist knowledge and lay users interdisciplinarity
Dimension and Dynamics (DimDyn)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This ambitious project tackles several fundamental questions in dynamical systems, additive combinatorics, and probability theory by developing groundbreaking techniques. These new techniques are rooted in fractal geometry and will make use of the latest developments in dimension theory. In particular, we will tackle the dimension drop conjecture, advance our understanding of projections of regular sets, and aim to resolve open questions on quasi-symmetric embeddings of random metric spaces. Our approach is to develop unifying machinery that will help in studying these seemingly disparate questions.

Keywords: dynamical systems,ergodic theory,probability theory,geometric measure theory,fractal geometry,dimension theory,projection,percolation
A novel cyber-security solution for comprehensive real-time detection and monitoring of cyber-attacks on automotive fleets (EnigmaOne)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2390000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2390000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cyber-attacks on organizations via their computers have become a daily event in the world. Vehicles today are virtually computers-on-wheels, and thus highly vulnerable. Cyber-attacks on vehicles have increased by over 350% since 2021. Globally, there are ~1.5bn vehicles, of which 170M are commercial vehicles that are part of fleets, a very attractive target for attackers for both economic and terrorist reasons. Most fleets have vehicles of different types which are connected to each other and to external systems, usually via 3rd-party add-ons, making them even more vulnerable. Cyber-security pre-built into a vehicle model by the manufacturer cannot help in these cases. Without a solution to protect fleets, many will face a growing number of cyber-attacks expected to cost over €460bn in the next 5 years, not considering terrorism. Enigmatos developed EnigmaOne. A vehicle-agnostic, real-time, comprehensive solution for detecting and monitoring cyber-security threats in commercial fleets. It is based on our patented technology (> 19 patents), including our AI/ML algorithms and Deep Car Identity (DCI) engine providing a unique “vehicle signature” enabling fast anomality detection. EnigmaOne monitors all messages passing on the vehicle CANBUS network, which includes all communication between systems, computers, ECUs, and 3rd party installations. It detects and alerts of threats in real-time, while continuously learning each fleet’s specific behaviour. It is made up of an SDK installed in the vehicle on existing telematics systems, and a cloud-based analysis engine, making it highly cost-effective. In this project we will improve our detection algorithms and move capabilities to the edge device enhancing cyber-security and reducing costs. We will then pilot and launch EnigmaOne in Europe. The combination of edge and cloud-based capabilities in one solution is unique in this market – increasing cyber-security robustness, speeding detection and lowering costs.

Keywords: commercial fleets,cyber security,cyber monitoring,cyber attacks,automotive industry,automotive security,canbus,machine learning,vehicle fleets,car fleets
Transforming Molecular Diagnostics through NanoTechnology (UbiHealth)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biotechnology startup Altratech Ltd was founded with the vision to transform molecular diagnostics through nanotechnology. We have developed and patented a novel technology for molecular testing of viruses and pathogens in non-clinical environments. This all-synthetic novel assay can detect and quantify DNA, RNA, Antibody, and Antigen molecular targets, from blood or saliva samples, in 20 mins, without any need of centrifuges or pipettes. This will enable market-disrupting products that have the simplicity of a pregnancy test and the performance of a laboratory PCR test. All molecular diagnostic systems today require biological amplification, i.e., polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Loop-mediated polymerase amplification (LAMP), or similar. This takes time, and requires trained personnel, refrigeration for enzymes, and specialised equipment for heating/cooling and optical detection. It is because of these requirements that there is no solution on the market today for the non-clinical detection, monitoring, and management of viral infections such as HIV, Hepatitis, Influenza, Malaria, Meningitis, Shingles, Dengue Fever, HPV, EBV-related cancers, and many more. Our solution is a molecular detection process that eliminates the requirement for biological amplification and optical detection. We have invented and patented the key breakthrough of detecting and quantifying genetic material, viruses, and pathogens using almost instant ‘electronic signal amplification’, with semiconductor sensing and digital readout. The Value Proposition to our target customers, who will be the world’s leading diagnostic companies, is the ability to licence a novel patent protected product, with a wider range of market applications compared to their current diagnostic products. This will facilitate their entry into new markets and increase gross margins in existing markets. This innovation will impact the €48B Diagnostics industry.

Keywords: ehealth,digital health,bioinformatics,virology,wellbeing,telemedicine,cmos,semiconductors,electronics,communication technology
Digital platform for data-driven and physics-based product development enabling a circular economy (Digi4Circular)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Italy,Portugal,Czechia,Spain
Call: Technologies/solutions to support circularity for manufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5764110.5
EU funding (EUR): 5764108.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The urgency to address the environmental impact of the prevailing linear economic paradigm has intensified, stressing the need for optimizing resource utilization, minimizing waste, and maximizing product value to achieve ecological and economic benefits. This is particularly critical in the automotive industry, where a significant volume of primary materials is employed. Recycling scrap materials in this sector can yield impressive 85% reduction in CO2 emissions. However, designing automotive parts for circularity requires innovative (1) tools and infrastructures to close current information gaps as well as (2) multi-purpose alloys with enhanced compatibility and processibility for scrap materials to increase recyclability of materials. This requires a comprehensive consideration of life cycle scenarios, potential constraints on recycled material, and adherence to changing standards and regulations. Digi4Circular project tackles these challenges by creating a robust digital workflow for circular product development integrated into the Synera low code platform, demonstrated on aluminium casting use case in the automotive sector. Through automated workflows, the project facilitates the generation of circular product designs and manufacturing possibilities, contingent on environmental impact assessments for different end-of-life scenarios. The approach relies on novel methods for material design and property prediction of circular alloys, rapid LCA and LCC analysis, knowledge extraction from norms and expert know-how, integrated by rule- and knowledge-based systems for automated product design generation. The workflow connects all necessary software tools and data generated throughout the value chain in a dedicated information space, whereas life cycle data for individual products is systematically stored in a Digital Product Passport accessible for all developers in the value chain.

Keywords: digital product development circular product design environmental impact calculation circular material design digital product passport knowledge extraction engineering platform
Histories of Asia's Gendered Armed Frontiers, 1780 - 2021 (HAGAF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: United Kingdom
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): 2375861.0
EU funding (EUR): 2375861.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

HAGAF will pioneer research in the comparative and transnational, colonial, and post-colonial history of protracted conflicts in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh through a gendered lens. Referred to in HAGAF as the Indo-Burma borderlands, this historically marginalized, mountainous region was once central to the North East Frontier of British India and part of a global strategic defence system. Bringing together extensive but administratively separate colonial archives with field-based historical research in local communities for the first time, HAGAF will transform understanding of the Frontier and its legacies through inquiry focused on gender, kinship, and social change. Its lessons for how geo-politically marginalized regions arising from colonial legacies are imagined, created, and understood as gendered spaces will also be transformative in traditional Area Studies of Asia and beyond. Protracted conflicts must be understood through the everyday experiences of individuals and communities, and gender reveals conflict’s social reproduction from the home-household to the nation-state. HAGAF’s gendered analysis of traditional kinship systems is also unique. Distinctive kinship systems of Asian highlands communities distinguish them from their ‘lowland’ neighbours, but they must be studied as constructed, negotiated, and gendered systems. HAGAF will for the first time bridge the gap between academic understanding and local concepts of relationships, experiences, and collective imaginaries at different scales. Working with community-based research institutions, a valuable dataset of materials and resources will be part of its legacy. By transforming understanding of the legacy of imperial Frontiers in the world’s most protracted internal conflicts and through supporting inclusive histories, HAGAF addresses critical social and historical challenges, improving understanding of marginalized communities in some of Asia’s poorest regions.

Keywords: frontiers,borderlands,asia,conflict,gender,area studies
Digitalization of Power Electronic Applications within Key Technology Value Chains (PowerizeD)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Austria,Italy,Greece,Latvia,Hungary,Switzerland,Romania
Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 73296965.25
EU funding (EUR): 18267433.19
Participants: 64
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching goal of PowerizeD is to develop breakthrough technologies of digitalized and intelligent power electronics, in order to enable sustainable and resilient energy generation, transmission and applications. PowerizeD enhances the level of mechanical and electrical integration of new driver circuits into power electronics and allows for the first time common optimization of all power switch functionalities. Regarding data sharing along the value chain, PowerizeD drives the novel approach of Federated Learning as a methodical approach to an intrinsically encrypted transfer of confidential and proprietary data. Also new is the usage of detailed electrical physical models in digital twins of real time digitally monitored and controlled power electronic devices. Unlike other projects focusing on competence and technology with limited effort on demonstration, this project will start from vital societal needs, by identifying and analyzing the key generic technology challenges from broad application scopes. Major effort will be spent on cross-domain research and innovation. The developed technologies will be demonstrated and evaluated via a large number of universally applicable results. To realize this ambition, a large project consortium will incorporate the needed competencies and resources along the whole value chain. 24 Large Entities, 19 Small Medium Enterprises and 22 research partners from 12 EU countries – representing the entire value chain from materials to “system of systems” – strive to demonstrate the applicability of these innovative approaches to multiple industrial domains. Among the concrete objectives are a 25% reduction or power losses, a device and system lifetime increase of 30%, a chip size reduction of at least 10% and a shortening of the design time by 50%. By this, PowerizeD addresses the three megatrends Independence, Sustainability and Digitalization, thereby opening pathways to massive economic and societal benefits for the EU.

Keywords: electrification,digitalisation,independence,sustainability,sovereignty,power electronics,service,value chain