Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Accurate simulations of photochemical and photophysical processes at materials interfaces (PhotoMat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The PhotoMat project will develop highly accurate methods for the prediction of excited-state properties and dynamics of materials interfaces based on ab initio Green's function theory in the GW approximation. Insight into the intricate processes unfolding after photoexcitation is crucial to realizing the vision of ‘materials by design’. A detailed understanding of experiment requires aid from theory. However, currently there is no computational method available, which can provide reliable excited-state nuclear forces for materials. I propose here to advance the GW-Bethe-Salpeter equation formalism (BSE@GW), which is computationally very expensive. While GW is considered the gold standard for the computation of band structures, the BSE@GW scheme is the method of choice for describing the formation of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) in materials. I recently contributed to pushing GW to system sizes of up to 1000 atoms, often required to model materials interfaces. I will leverage these advancements to overcome the restriction of BSE@GW to small systems, enabling calculations of similar size. This will be achieved by reducing the scaling of the BSE step with respect to system size combined with an efficient implementation of periodic boundary conditions and optimization of the algorithm for execution on the emerging generation of exascale supercomputers. Excited-state geometry optimization will be enabled by implementing accurate analytic nuclear BSE forces. Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics will be unlocked by combining the low-scaling BSE energies and forces with surface hopping schemes and machine learning potentials. I will employ the newly developed methods to investigate promising candidates for tailored photonic devices. This will include the study of photoisomerization reactions at 2D materials and the formation of charge-transfer excitons in moiré structures. PhotoMat is here the crucial link that bridges the divide between theory and experiment.

Keywords: theoretical spectroscopy,gw,bse,green s function theory,non adiabatic molecular dynamics,high performance computing,excited state forces,machine learning
Strain-Free All Heusler Alloy Junctions (SAHAJ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3108441.0
EU funding (EUR): 3108441.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Spintronics is anticipated to replace current semiconductor-based memories and sensors based on fast-operating times (< ns) and low power consumption (<pJ per read/write operation). The spintronic devices typically consist of a magnetoresistive junction with a free ferromagnet/oxide barrier or non-magnet/pinned ferromagnet trilayer and may suffer from edge-domain formation and leakage current through the barrier by further miniaturisation (<10 nm in cell diameter). To avoid such obstacles, antiferromagnetic spintronics has recently been developed by introducing spin-orbit torque which can reduce the power consumption by over two orders of magnitude but contain critical raw materials. In this transformative project, we aim to develop a ferrimagnetic Heusler-alloy film, in which the magnetic properties will be controlled by substituting the constituent element to achieve compensated ferrimagnetism (effectively the same as antiferromagnetism) sandwiched by weak and strong ferrimagnet in a single-step deposition. This will be achieved based on our Heusler-alloy database developed recently through existing collaborations. The selected alloy(s) without using critical raw materials will be grown by dedicated combinatorial sputtering under low pressure and characterised by conventional structural and magnetic analysis as well as non-destructive imaging we have developed and synchrotron-beam imaging at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Such atomic engineering can offer a new way for material development for low-power electronics. The simplified growth process for a junction without any interfacial scattering is adoptable for future spintronic devices as will be demonstrated using the 200-mm-wafer production line at IMEC by the end of this project. Hence this proposed project will reveal both fundamental magnetic coupling in a ferrimagnetic alloy and atomic control of the alloy for new growth process, which can revolutionalise spintronic device production.

Keywords: heusler alloys,ferrimagnetism,atom substitution
Build scAled Modular Bamboo-inspired Offshore sOlar systems (BAMBOO) (BAMBOO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Italy,Portugal,Denmark,United Kingdom,Spain,Greece,Germany
Call: Floating PV Systems (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9242833.71
EU funding (EUR): 6917726.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SUSPENDED

BAMBOO tackles the barriers for the implementation of a sustainable, large-scale offshore Floating PhotoVoltaics (FPV) system of 1 km2/150 MW, that will act as a blueprint for rollout of offshore FPV projects in Europe, and that is to be implemented in conjunction with the offshore wind leading EU utility-partner. Offshore FPV extends PV potential at enormous scales to make Europe meet its climate targets for 2030 and 2050. It makes use of space at sea, large-scale economies of scale, complementary energy yield with wind farms, and it isa solution with potentially low impact on aquatic eco-systems. However, developing offshore FPV systems is technically challenging due to the harsh conditions of waves &corrosive environments, and economically not feasible yet. Project BAMBOO addresses these challenges through four breakthrough innovations, including: 1. Large floating surface understanding through world’s first basin scale tests and hydrodynamic modelling of 1 km2 blanket-type arrays, 2. A 5 MW demonstrator in the North Sea with hybrid design encompassing the benefits of larger array protection in floaters, 3. The offshore world’s first dynamic floating substation for offshore FPV, and 4. The development of 6 world’s first standard offshore testing methodologies for key FPV-components Through assessments of energy yield, circularity of materials, environmental impact, LCA and end-of-life strategies, BAMBOO paves the way to scale offshore FPV systems to commercial and sustainable applications, significantly reducing emissions, while having a net-positive impact on the marine ecosystem. The consortium covers what is necessary to make BAMBOO a success: companies including Oceans of Energy will provide the technologies, RTOs including MARIN and Fraunhofer the assessment of the system and its environmental impact, ABS expertise on certifications and the industry-leading utility the capacity to implement the large-scale integration of offshore wind with FPV farms.

Keywords: offshore floating solar,multi use of offshore wind farms,technology improvement and validation and qualification,environmental impact assessments,sustainable end of life strategies,5 mw demonstrator
Digital Welfare Borders: The effects of Artificial Intelligence in Migrants’ Access to Welfare (DigiWeB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499763.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499763.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DigiWeB is the first study of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is merging welfare systems and migration management. Governments are increasingly relying on AI to make decisions about who gets welfare benefits. This is important because AI combines large amounts of data and makes predictions based on "risk factors," which can be discriminatory, especially against marginalized migrants. DigiWeB takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach and makes four contributions: 1. It pushes the frontiers of research on digital welfare systems, explaining how AI and connected databases work to make decisions about welfare. 2. It introduces a new way of studying AI’s impact by combining data science and social science, particularly in the context of migration management. 3. The project’s approach can be applied to other fields, like policing or counterterrorism, to understand the broader effects of AI. 4. It highlights a significant shift in how governments operate, showing how welfare systems are changing due to AI and digital technologies, with international implications. DigiWeB has three main aims: 1. To understand how welfare-AI functions and influences welfare decisions. 2. To explore how these decisions are implemented by social workers and how they impact migrants. 3. To theorize the international effects of welfare-AI. The project uses both data science to study welfare algorithms and social science to explore how they impact people in practice across three countries (Netherlands, Sweden, UK). It will provide a major advance in understanding modern government, as AI is transforming welfare provision and migration management faster than current scholarship and policy can respond. By extension, DigiWeB will offer practical improvements for responsible welfare-AI.

Keywords: migration,borders
Understanding and addressing LATE-effects of treatment of AYA cancer survivors with AI-based digital phenotyping and non-invasive holistic approach (LATE-AYA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Cancer
Destination: Cancer
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Romania,Lithuania,Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: Improving the understanding and management of late-effects in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6239687.5
EU funding (EUR): 6239687.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

AYAs face a distinct set of challenges, including increased risks of secondary cancers, cardiovascular diseases, infertility, and mental health issues like anxiety and depression. Oncology programs delivering care to AYAs provide survivors with individualised survivorship care plans at the end of treatment, to accompany follow-up with their primary care providers. However, adherence to these plans is often scarce, due to differences in AYA survivors' age, sex, cancer treatment received, and socioeconomical conditions. Knowledge and understanding of such factors and of related late effects and impacts on quality of life is fundamental to providing effective survivorship care. The ubiquitous use of mobile devices by AYAs offers an opportunity to increase knowledge and understanding of AYAs cancer survivors’ health status and behaviours, allowing the modelling of late effects and quality of life trajectories in the different age subgroups. Digital health interventions overcome many barriers to AYA participation in survivorship programs. LATE-AYA seeks to fill this gap by empowering AYAs to better manage their health and well-being post-cancer, by developing an AI-driven digital phenotyping platform for managing late effects (LE) of cancer treatment. The project will implement a holistic, non-invasive approach through digital tools such as smartphones and wearables to monitor physical, psychological, and social well-being. The project will focus on preventive health behaviours, psychological support, and social reintegration, providing personalized care through digital interventions. LATE-AYA will contribute to long-term quality of life improvements, facilitate early detection of LE, and provide data-driven insights on the impact of lifestyle choices on health outcomes. This project is supported by a diverse consortium of European institutions and will leverage the UNCAN.eu platform to share data and models, fostering wider collaboration across the EU. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on “Quality of life (AYA)”.

Keywords: aya cancer survivors,late effects,digital phenotyping,ai driven healthcare,non invasive monitoring,holistic care,personalized healthcare,psychosocial support,quality of life,preventive care,
Time-varying non-Hermitian metamaterials for micro-vibration isolation (Theorist)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Precision instruments with high performances are highly demanded by both fundamental science and wide applications at different scales. Micro-vibration isolation technology is widely required in order to avoid potential damage of functions. The current vibration control technology mainly includes passive and active control. However, it remains limits in control accuracy and bulk size, which requires to explore new physical mechanisms. Recently, non-Hermitian system and spatiotemporal modulation show great potential in wave control for anomalous properties and provide a promising avenue to address the micro-vibration isolation challenges. Non- Hermitian parameters and time-varying modulation can play additional degrees of freedom to enrich elastic wave-structure interactions. This project focuses on elastic wave propagation in non-Hermitian elastic beams/plates with time-varying modulation for micro-vibration isolation. The project will first conduct an in-depth study on the modeling of time-varying non-Hermitian unit and explore the mechanism of wave isolation with single unit; then study the wave isolation mechanisms from exceptional point with double units and broaden the wave isolation band with multiple units; finally, on-demand inverse design will be developed and experimental validation will be implemented. The proposed time-varying non-Hermitian elastic systems will guide a new direction for the next generation micro-vibration isolation technology.
In-Orbit Services to Satellites Operators (Endurance)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3220040.0
EU funding (EUR): 2254028.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Infinite Orbits is shaping the new market for space infrastructures by providing services to repair, maintain or protect Spacecraft In Orbit. The immediate commercial application of such services is to maintain and extend the lifetime of satellites, particularly geostationary ones given their value. “Endurance” is a life extension service satellite to perform rendezvous and docking operations for end-of-life geostationary telecommunications satellites. A baseline study has been completed for the identified cases and a firm order for the preliminary design project is expected before the end of 2021. The first minimum viable product of our service (OrbitGuard, without docking capacity) is expected to achieve commercial flight in orbit by December 2022. The demonstrator of our full servicer for life extension is expected in early 2025 in the ENDURANCE project.

Keywords: intelligent sensors,embedded systems,sustainability,computer vision
Advanced CMOS Technology for 10 A node (ACT10)

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: Netherlands,Israel,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Sweden,France,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call: Topic 1 Global call according to SRIA 2024 (HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-1-IA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 111473734.5
EU funding (EUR): 26222572.96
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of the ACT10 project is to develop and demonstrate the required technology options, including their integration, for the 10Ångstrom node. The 32 participating partners cover a wide range of activities along the entire value chain for the manufacturing of CMOS chips. Activities include equipment development, computer aided design tooling and process technology development. Essential parts of hardware, software and processing technology are developed pushing the boundaries of semiconductor design and manufacture to enable the new node and keep Moore’s law alive. The project aims to enhance the attractiveness of the EU as a location for new cutting-edge high volume and legacy node fabs. The ACT10 project is built based on the following four pillars. 1. Lithography Equipment and Mask Technology: Increase key-performance indicators in the optical system of High-NA Lithography machines, along with developing advanced mask processes and equipment to reach optical imaging requirements, and nonlinear optics material lifetime effects. 2. Chip design and Block Level validation; Assessment of different CFET devices and evaluate building blocks for digital and analog IPs. 3. Process Technology: development of innovative solutions for routing of the stacked n- and p-devices of the CFET architecture, development of 0.55NA (high-NA) single patterning solutions, and the development of semi-damascene BEOL for the 10Å node. 4. Computational Metrology and Process Monitoring Equipment: develop computational metrology methods, and develop metrology and inspection modules and equipment.

Keywords: lithography equipment,chip design,process technology,metrology
innovative High tEmperAture ThErmal stoRage for iNdustrial AppLications (HEATERNAL)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Belgium,Portugal
Call: Development of high temperature thermal storage for industrial applications (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3465164.25
EU funding (EUR): 3465163.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Industrial processes in the EU released 351 Mtons CO2e in 2020, 8% less than in 2019. In many cases, continuous, high-temperature heat is needed for these processes, and no viable decarbonization solution exists today. Viable, short-term thermal energy storage (up-to 48-hours) would enable the replacement of fossil fuels by industrial waste-heat and renewable electricity. HEATERNAL unites 4 public research teams specialized in prototyping and modelling of thermal systems, phase-change materials and 3D-printing; 2 metals manufacturers; 2 ceramic manufacturers; 1 process engineering SME and equipment manufacturer; 1 SME specialized in LCA and technico-economic analysis; and 1 SME experienced in dissemination and communication. They aim to prototype and model a new thermal energy storage concept combining strong scientific and industrial know-how: (i) innovative phase-change materials and unit designs allowing to increase the unit energy density by 350% versus ceramic bricks, and (ii) manufacturing experience ensuring that materials and units can be rapidly implemented in factories by 2030. Thus, the project will yield a 50kWh prototype (TRL5) and models of the upscaled storage system connected to factories. The preliminary technico-economic study predicts a return on investment below 3 years and levelized cost of stored energy below 6€/MWh. This is 60% lower than molten salt storage, which doesn’t work at sufficiently high temperatures for most metals and minerals industries (steel, glass, cement, ceramics, etc.) HEATERNAL’s solution meets industrial needs, including low footprint, lifetime over 10 years and fast return on investment. The exploitation plan aims to implement the solution in the first factory in 2030. Sales projections are estimated to reach 286M€ from sales of phase-change materials, ceramic refractories & engineering services by 2040, enabling 147.5 Mt CO2eq to be avoided by 2040 thanks to HEATERNAL thermal energy storage systems.

Keywords: high temperature thermal energy storage,phase change material,latent and sensible heat,thermal and mechanical design,ceramic,modelling,industrial waste heat recovery,process industry,upscaling