Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Driving Sustainability and Efficiency in Material-Centric Industries with Generative Material Language Model (MatGenAI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The MatGenAI project focuses on developing and scaling Senstile's AI Copilot, a solution designed to address inefficiencies and sustainability challenges in industries like fashion, footwear, furniture, and bags. Using generative AI and proprietary sensor technology, the AI Copilot digitises material properties into Digital Material Fingerprints, processed through a Material Language Model. This approach provides detailed insights into material performance, helping businesses optimise sourcing, streamline production, and reduce waste, all while contributing to a circular economy and lowering environmental impact. Senstile plans to advance its technology from TRL 6 to TRL 8-9, supported by EIC Accelerator funding. This will enable the completion of development, integration of AI-driven solutions into industrial supply chains, and the creation of digitisation hubs for scalable global impact. The AI Copilot will also support companies in complying with sustainability regulations, providing greater transparency and enabling data-driven material management to meet initiatives like the Digital Product Passport expected by 2026. This project directly aligns with the European Commission’s goals for a circular economy, sustainability, and digital transformation by helping companies reduce costs, improve resource use, and transition to more sustainable practices. By addressing key challenges in material-intensive industries, Senstile’s AI Copilot aims to drive innovation and economic growth while reducing environmental footprints across global supply chains.

Keywords: ai copilot,material digitisation,textile industry,generative ai,sensor technology,sustainability,waste reduction,circular economy,digital product passport,textile innovation,multi modal ai
High-efficiency high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell system for maritime auxiliary power and propulsion (EFFECTEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To effectively respond to the challenge of decarbonisation in the maritime industry, regulations on both international and national levels are introduced. These are driving the industry to use green fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the problem for the industry is that the cost of using green fuels is significantly higher than the cost of using fossil fuels. Green fuels are an inevitable trend in the maritime industry, the inherent high efficiency and low total cost of ownership of fuel cells, compared with internal combustion engine technology, will make fuel cells a competitive alternative. Blue World will provide the maritime industry with a high-efficiency HT-PEMFC system with an integrated carbon capture feature applicable for auxiliary power and propulsion. The fuel cell system addresses the problem of high cost of using green fuels. The objectives for the Blue World fuel cell system in 2030 are:1) Superior electrical efficiency of up to 60%, 2) Low-energy carbon capture which allows for an efficient capturing of up to 100% of the carbon emissions. This project will develop and test a 1MW fuel cell system with the phased goal of 1) a net electrical efficiency of 55%, 2) to achieve the low-energy carbon capture feature.The technology is currently in TRL 5 and is expected to reach TRL 7. Blue World's HT-PEMFC system shows a higher efficiency and better TCO than enigne in the maritime sector. With the successful implementation of the project and achievement of the system objectives in 2030, we will create the foundation for a CO2 reduction of approx. 27,000 tons and a fuel cost saving of 40-50 million EUR, compared to internal combustion engines with both technologies running on bio-methanol. We would create around 500 new direct jobs. This will strengthen EU’s positions within the maritime industry, where EU players have taken lead in decarbonising the industry, while securing EU's leading position in innovative technology.

Keywords: high efficiency,high temperature proton exchange membrane,fuel cell,maritime,carbon capture
Interactive phononic matter: reshaping crystal landscapes for ultrafast switching (INTERPHON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3250000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3250000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

For almost two millennia people are looking for the philosophers' stone, dreaming to be able to change material properties at will. While turning lead to gold might just have become a reality, even though only a few atoms at a time, in a broader sense we are still very far from this. To make this dream come true, INTERPHON challenges the existing ideas and understanding of the interactions between light and matter, developing a research area at the junction of nonlinear optics, phononics and ultrafast magnetism, and aiming at ultrafast and energy-efficient manipulation of materials by using the crystal lattice as a mediator. Thus, glass can be made into a magnet; antiferromagnets to ferromagnets, paraelectric into ferroelectric, by exciting matter with long-wavelength light. This fundamentally new approach to steering magnetic and electric order by ultrafast excitation at the frequencies of optical phonons has been made possible by my group’s latest work. It will involve a controlled deformation of the crystal lattice and is non-thermal (thus energy-efficient), precessional (hence ultrafast) and potentially universal (since the lattice is found in all crystalline materials). Interestingly, it does not involve any absorption of light by the very same phonons! Instead, light will communicate with matter in an interactive way, so that matter reciprocates by changing the very resonance used for excitation. To realize this, INTERPHON will develop novel research methods using short and intense pulses of an infrared-to-THz-range free electron laser. Therefore, gaining control over the microscopic crystalline lattice could actually be the key to realizing a phononic philosopher’s stone, capable of inducing ultrafast phase transitions and permanently switching macroscopic order. When successful, this will strongly advance the frontiers of knowledge in both out-of-equilibrium physics of solids and nonlinear optics, with a potential for novel emerging technologies.

Keywords: ultrafast magnetisation dynamics all optical switching nonlinear optics magnetism ferroelectricity
HEDGE-A: High cell density engineering for the production of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV). (HEDGE-A)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

HEDGE-A will address one of the current main challenges of biopharmaceutical production: The scalability of the recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) production process. Big Data approaches like transcriptomic and proteomic analyses will be used together with synthetic biology tools to engineer cell cultures and improve rAAV production. The objectives of HEDGE-A are to design (1) a suitable cell platform to sustain transfection at high cell densities and (2) a scalable upstream bioprocess to improve rAAV biomanufacturing. Access to gene therapy is currently extremely limited due to the high cost of producing rAAVs, leading to expensive treatments and making it virtually inaccessible for the general population or even for diseases requiring high dosage. The main limitation is the poor scalability of the current rAAV production process. HEDGE-A will delve into the molecular limitations of the cellular platform and provide a solution to reduce costs, increase titers and help rAAV-based gene therapies reach the wider population. A cost-effective production process for rAAVs will have a high impact in EU competitiveness as it will open the market for countless gene and cell therapies that are currently non-viable due to the required titers to reach clinical trials. HEDGE-A will present the perfect opportunity for the applicant to join a cutting-edge working environment to fulfil his potential in cell engineering and bioprocess development. The host centre, DTU (Copenhagen) is a leading expert in the field and can provide the essential network to undertake a project like HEDGE-A, bridging academic research and its industrial application.

Keywords: recombinant aav production,cell culture engineering,cho cells
CROSS-disciplinary network for research excellence in Regenerative Economy Innovation eco-Systems (CROSS-REIS)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Montenegro,Croatia,Albania,Italy,Slovenia,Norway,Spain
Call: European Excellence Initiative (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4366775.0
EU funding (EUR): 4366775.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to raise excellence in science and value creation through deeper and geographically inclusive cooperation in alliance of higher education and research institutions in 5 widening and 4 science-leading European countries, to support the shift towards a regenerative economy paradigm. Global competitiveness and visibility of the HE institutions in widening countries are to be improved by creating critical knowledge and research mass through cooperation with leading European research institutions in the area of the regenerative economy directly aimed towards the twin green and digital transitions. This is to be achieved through clearly defined and measurable sub-goals: -To achieve a more balanced circulation of talents leading to a diverse and inclusive research community and innovative research outcomes, by organising exchanges, short visits and conferences participations; -To reinforce the role of HE institutions in innovative ecosystems, by bringing additional expertise and resources by European leading research-intensive institutions to support the development of innovative ideas; -To mainstream practices and tools for open knowledge and data sharing; -To make progress toward reforming the research assessment system, including career assessment; -To improve links between science and business by providing access to networks, resources and expertise to support the development of business partnerships and collaborations; -To promote gender equality, diversity and inclusiveness; -To accelerate society’s green and digital transition to support ERA Policy Agenda action 11; -To encourage collaboration with third-country entities to support ERA Policy Agenda action 9. The project contributes to the aims of empowering universities as actors of change in R&I by promoting cross-sectoral collaboration between universities and other actors in the R&I ecosystem, improving their knowledge valorisation capabilities and contributing to raising excellence in science.

Keywords: research excellence,circular economy,innovation eco system,waste management,quality of life,circulation of tallents,urban biodiversity,circularity and social inclusion
Extreme Precipitation Response to Temperature Variations: The Role of Storm Types and Global Circulation Patterns (PTSTORM)

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: Italy,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): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Extreme precipitation-related disasters are causing serious concern to our society. Especially over the last few years, their intensity and frequency have become substantial throughout the globe, a trend that is projected to continue in the coming decades. While existing studies indicate that extreme precipitation increases with temperature—a phenomenon known as scaling—the exact rates of this increase are not spatially homogeneous, and global distribution remains highly debated. Furthermore, current literature has only considered temperature, with no studies examining how different storm types and global circulation patterns could affect this scaling rate, especially at the global level. Since extreme precipitation results from complex phenomena and depends on multiple factors, accurately forecasting and predicting these events is extremely challenging. This, in turn, hampers early warming, efficient mitigation, and strategic planning for such future events. Addressing these research gaps, the PTSTORM project introduces a novel approach to estimating how storm types and global circulation patterns can modulate the scaling of extremes. The project is interdisciplinary in nature and incorporates a range of datasets from satellites, reanalysis, and observations. The project will have significant societal impacts as it will play a pivotal role in providing a broader understanding of the physical mechanism behind the extremes and, consequently, preparing mitigation plans accordingly. Furthermore, it is in line with the EU strategy for the sustainable development goal 13 'Climate action' and thus contributes to the enhancement of EU scientific excellence. Moreover, the project will enhance the researcher's career growth, expand his knowledge and expertise in the field of atmospheric science, and enhance his collaboration.

Keywords: extreme,scaling,precipitation,temperature,satellite precipitation,gpm imerg,era5
Uncovering the missing X factors to understand sex bias in cardiovascular disease (EscapeX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) occur and progress differently in men and women, and the risk dramatically increases with age. Hormone differences have been suggested to account for the sex difference by observing that younger women are regularly protected from CVD until post-menopause. However, hormone replacement therapies failed to provide cardioprotection, suggesting that other biological factors contribute to sex disparities in CVD development. Other likely contributors to sex bias are genes that escape female X chromosome inactivation, an understudied epigenetic phenomenon that has so far not been linked to sex differences in CVD. These so-called escaper genes have twice the gene dose in females compared to males and thus are likely to contribute to sex-based differences. EscapeX aims to identify sex-specific protective mechanisms by disentangling the impact of hormones and sex chromosomes on sex bias in CVD. First, we will combine the transgenic FCG mouse model, in which the sex chromosome complement (XX or XY) is independent of the gonadal hormones, with the pressure overload heart failure model, which shows a sex-specific phenotype. Next, EscapeX uses our established escaper detection pipeline to map and characterize escaping during cardiac aging and disease. The resulting dataset will uncover the escaper gene function, the extend of lineage-specific escaping, and how the escaper landscape changes during aging and disease. Building on those findings, EscapeX aims to overexpress the identified escapers in the disease model using viral vectors with the ambitious goal to rescue the sex-specific phenotype. Finally, we will combine allele-specific genomics and single-cell technology to explore if X-reactivation occurs in cardiac aging and disease and if such a novel disease mechanism further contributes to sex differences. EscapeX will elucidate new regulatory disease mechanisms and relevant therapeutic candidates, forming the basis of new sex-specific therapies.

Keywords: sex differences,escaper,heart failure,cardiac hypertrophy,aging,cardiovascular disease,sex chromosomes,x chromosome inactivation,hormones,lncrna,genomics
Advanced Magnetic Components for High-Efficiency and High-Power-Density Converters (H3PMAG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998736.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998736.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Today’s magnetic components, such as inductors and transformers, in power converters operating at a low frequency of around 100-500 kHz are large compared to other electronic components. These components are a major constraint, limiting the miniaturization and integration of power electronic systems. Increasing the switching frequency can reduce the size of the magnetic components, but this is generally accompanied by significant power losses. I aim to address the fundamental challenges of magnetic components in the frequency range of 1 MHz to 10 MHz, and the main approach will be to reduce the power loss and the component size by creating unique and innovative solutions. My overall objective is to create novel magnetics technologies within conductor materials, nanogranular magnetic materials and component integration that, together with a new winding pattern technique, will enable creation of power converters with unprecedented power-efficiency and power-density. The specific target is to develop efficient, integrated magnetic components suitable for the voltage regulator modules (VRM) in high performance computing systems. I will demonstrate a new VRM converter that is 50 times smaller in size and 5% more efficient than current VRM products. Achieving successful outcomes will have a major impact on the power electronics infrastructure, with the potential to reduce energy waste significantly. To do this, the project’s research questions and hypotheses will be addressed through 5 objectives in 5 corresponding work packages: 1: Mitigation of high-frequency eddy-current winding loss by creating a novel hybrid material structure; 2: Design of new magnetic materials with nanoparticles for a low magnetic core loss; 3: Creation of new core geometries and winding schemes in magnetics integration to handle large current efficiently; 4: “All-in-one” passive components integration mixing the functions of magnetics and capacitors; 5:Experimental verification and demonstration
Innovative and Sustainable High Voltage Li-ion Cells for Next Generation (EV) Batteries (IntelLiGent)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Austria,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Advanced high-performance Generation 3b (high capacity / high voltage) Li-ion batteries supporting electro mobility and other applications (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6823420.75
EU funding (EUR): 6796754.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The IntelLiGent project answers to the need for general public acceptance of EVs, by facilitating the industrial deployment of next-generation batteries allowing for an increased driving range, fast charging capabilities, low cost and increased safety. IntelLiGent will develop European generation 3b high voltage (>4.7 V) LIBs with increased energy density (>350-400 Wh/kg, 750-1000 Wh/l), charge acceptance (>2C) and cycle-life (>2000 deep cycles) compared to the state-of-the-art, while reducing cost (<100 €/kWh on pack level) and carbon footprint of the produced cells. The ambitious goals will be realized through optimized cells produced with; - High-voltage spinel LNMO cathode materials engineered to enhance stability and enable aqueous processing whilst exploring strategies to increase specific capacity beyond the theoretical maximum of standard LNMO - Energy efficient high-capacity stable Si-Gr anodes delivering 850 mAh/g - High-voltage electrolytes with innovative additives that form protective layers on the anode and the cathode - Self-mitigating and healing binders and separators minimize parasitic reactions and degradation - Novel open-source modelling tools and high-throughput screening will be employed to accelerate the development of environmentally benign materials with minimized use of critical raw materials -Optimized electrode design (≥4.5 mAh/cm2) and cell design-based commercial-scale automotive cells (20 Ah) as well as battery modules (1 kWh) at TRL 6 From an industrial viewpoint, a prerequisite for succeeding is continuity in battery R&D&I projects and training/education of required staff, which IntelLiGent will foster by broad dissemination and exploitation of the project results across the battery value chain. The project will result in strengthening of the European battery value chain by developing European industries with leading-edge technologies on battery materials, and allowing for accelerated roll-out of electrification for mobility.

Keywords: li ion batteries