Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Reincarnation of construction products and materials by slowing down and extending cycles (Reincarnate)

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
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Spain,Netherlands,Austria,Sweden,Serbia,China
Call: Automated tools for the valorisation of construction waste (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999560.0
EU funding (EUR): 5999559.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Reincarnate aims at enabling the European construction industry to significantly reduce construction and demolition waste (CDW) by providing a circular potential assessment information model platform (CP-IM) and a set of innovations to make use of the CP-IM. The CP-IM will provide a digital representation of building materials and products with life-cycle information and prediction methods for tracing and predicting the lifetime of a products / material. The CP-IM will also allow for assessing the potential for lifetime extension and reuse and possibilities to predict circular value flows. Based on the CP-IM REINCARNATE will develop and demonstrate ten innovations that use CP-IM data, ranging from innovations for building inspection, to solutions for planning construction and dismantling, to automatically identifying and sorting CDW, to decision support tools for architects and real estate managers. The innovations will draw upon emerging digital technologies, such as digital twin representation, artificial intelligence, and robotic automation. REINCARNATE will also develop detailed social science insights about the social adoption behavior existing in the wider construction industry that will allow for understanding how a wide realization within the industry can be established that building products and materials can be reincarnated and re-used in high product quality. All innovations will be demonstrated on five selected demonstrators. Business process guidelines, an online learning platform with training materials and proposals for standards will be developed to additional foster widespread dissemination and exploitation of the REINCARNATE results. The REINCARNATE consortium combines 16 partners from different EU member countries and Hong Kong with strong expertise in digital twins, lifecycle prediction, material assessment, social sciences, construction management, architecture, and real estate management.

Keywords: circular value flows,avoiding waste,information management
Quantum Optical Networks based on Exciton-polaritons (Q-ONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Poland,Belgium,Austria,Singapore
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Alternative approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Communication, and Sensing (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3980960.0
EU funding (EUR): 3980960.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

One of the main needs in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information is the ability to generate, manipulate and characterize arbitrary quantum states both in discrete and continuous variable domains. Q-ONE aims at exploring a novel approach for sensing and generating quantum states of light based on quantum neural networks (QNN) in integrated photonic devices. This proposal has the ambition to solve one of the most interesting problems of quantum mechanics: the recognition of quantum states of photons, like Fock states or entangled pairs, without the need of correlation measurements. Moreover, our platform has the ability to be reversible: by injecting a quantum state into the QNN, the output gives access to the full characterization of the input quantum state; conversely, with a classical state of light as input (a coherent state, emitted by a laser), an arbitrary quantum state can be generated on demand at the output of the QNN. This is all realised in a single device. The project idea places itself at the frontier between quantum physics and applied artificial intelligence, building on top of state-of-the-art semiconductor material growth and processing. The consortium targets the realization of a novel device based on strongly interacting photons (exciton-polaritons) that, using principles of neuromorphic computing, is able to recognize, characterize, and generate a variety of quantum states. Importantly, we propose to exploit the properties of a quantum neural network which is able to identify and generate quantum states without the need to reach extreme single-particle interaction strengths: this innovative idea relies on the physical realization – rather than the simulations – of a massively parallel computing task. If successful, the Q-ONE approach will enable the realization of a completely new, fully reconfigurable and reversible universal quantum platform which will significantly advance the state of the art in the field of Quantum Technologies

Keywords: optics,light matter interaction,exciton polariton,neuromorphic computing,semiconductors
Enabling One Health Coastal Management through advanced AI over Marine Copernicus and citizen science data (ENHANCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,France,Belgium
Call: Copernicus-based applications for businesses and policy-making (HORIZON-EUSPA-2023-SPACE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1701375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1701375.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Coastal zones comprise just 20% of the Earth’s surface, yet this transitional area between land and sea is of major environmental, economic, and social importance. However, they are also home to 45% of the entire human population. Given their exposure to anthropogenic and climate change pressures, they are currently one of the most threatened environments on Earth. ENHANCE will leverage Copernicus Marine Service to monitor marine biodiversity and coastal water preserving at-risk ecosystems. The project will adopt an One Health approach encompassing services for the impact assessment of water quality in biodiversity, public health, and the environment. More specifically, ENHANCE will engage all relevant stakeholders affecting and being affected by the degradation and evolution of coastal marine ecosystems to identify and analyze the stakeholder needs to support effective decision making for sustainable climate resilient coastal areas. Additionally, a robust data collection and fusion infrastructure will be built, for ENHANCE, to allow real-time data communication from a variety of information sources including Copernicus data, EGNSS services, citizen science, etc. The project will enable the development of new products, integrating Copernicus and Citizen Science Data services, to provide more dynamic information (both pressures and impacts) and support policy makers and businesses in sustainable coastal management. More specifically, ENHANCE will deliver 3 new products to analyse the urban, agricultural and climate extremes pressures in coastal areas, as well as their impacts following the One Health framework. ENHANCE will be validated in 2 case studies in the Mediterranean; on Barcelona's urban beach and Pagasitikos Gulf. These two areas were chosen because of the touristic and anthropogenic pressures of Barcelona’s ecosystem and the latter because of the high climate change pressures resulting from the recent floods in the region of Thessaly.

Keywords: one health,coastal management,citizen science
Ethics and Regulatory Capacity Building Partnership for Clinical Trials in Portuguese-speaking African Countries (CT-Luso)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Portugal,Mozambique,Guinea-Bissau,Angola,Cabo Verde,Sao Tome and Principe
Call: Strengthening ethics and regulatory capacity (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 997513.75
EU funding (EUR): 997513.75
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

CT-Luso intends to (1) draw an updated diagnosis and screenshot of the research ethics infrastructure in the 5 Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PSAC), (2) identify the needed transformations, draft strategic recommendations to carry out this transformation and design a policy roadmap for its implementation, (3) reinforce existing legislation and promote the necessary regulations for a robust ethical-legal framework, supporting the revision of internal regulations for the operation of RECs and NRAs, and promote the development of codes of scientific integrity in research institutions, (4) strengthen the skills of RECs and NRAs, researchers (senior, junior and post-graduate students) by drafting guidelines for the practice of the different roles required by the evaluation of CTs. It is necessary to work with all 5 PSAC simultaneously on four different levels, all equally indispensable and complementary: legislative, institutional, professional, and procedural, which in turn requires political commitment. CT-Luso proposes to reach the abovementioned objectives by (1) building an international team of legal experts and promoting dialogue for the co-creation of legislative and organizational recommendations (2) creating an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral education (3) creating an advanced progressive training program for members of RECs, NRA, CTs Centres and researchers (4) hands-on experience developed in a finely tuned manner and according to country specificities, complementing the previous education and training programs (5) assess whether each PSAC has the necessary installed capacity to be included in the international CTs roadmap and in particular to create a Portuguese-speaking cluster by simulating the procedures under the development of an academic CT (6) in parallel, the legislative and regulatory transformations to be implemented will require the political power involvement, acting in a double approach, both bottom-up and top-down.

Keywords: ethics and regulatory capacity building,psac,cross sectoral education,hands on case studies and practice,clinical trial simulation,public policy implementation,lusophone cluster
Modelling and Interdisciplinary SCience for the Ecological trAnsition: building the worlds of tomorrow (MISCEA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA COFUND 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1814400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1814400.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Humanity is facing critical challenges due to climate change and the absolute need for rapid ecological and energy transitions is not disputed. To address these challenges, new knowledge to produce cleaner energy, build and adapt our environment in a sustainable manner and evaluate the consequences of extreme meteorological events on populations and constructions is needed. The societal impact of these transitions cannot be overlooked or studied separately from these technological issues. The objectives of the MISCEA programme are twofold. First, to contribute to these transitions through research and innovation in multiple fields and using interdisciplinary approaches. Second, to train future scientific leaders and decision-makers in an interdisciplinary manner to achieve excellence in the implementation of these ecological and energy transitions. To achieve these goals, the programme will build on the excellence of the research conducted in the 12 laboratories overseen by the Beneficiary, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. The Institution will also rely on its strong interactions with the private sector to provide the 18 PhD fellows with a fruitful environment to develop their employability skills. A solid participation of industrial partners, as Associated partners, in this research training program as well as the related activities are at the heart of the development of MISCEA Programme and is intended to intensify during the project. The implementation of the programme will be based on the best practices in terms of open and fair recruitment, with a strong focus on diversity and excellence in the recruited cohorts. The programme will also strive to foster group cohesion among the MISCEA PhD fellows. The membership of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées of the European University Alliance EELISA will be an asset for the implementation of the programme, in terms of information dissemination, recruitment and secondment opportunities.

Keywords: environment,pollution and climate,scientific computing,simulation and modelling tools,renewable energy sources,urbanization and urban planning,smart cities,circular economy
Hydrated Electrons from iRradiated metal-free semicOnductors for Per- and poly-FluoroAlkyl Substances degradation in water (HERO4PFAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals produced for several applications, ubiquitous in water bodies close to industrialised regions, and with recognized associated issues to human health (e.g. carcinogenicity). Being among the most recalcitrant class of emerging contaminants, an efficient water treatment able to degrade PFAS will represent an outstanding technology, not only for the recovery of already contaminated sites (impressively spread in Europe), but also for drinking- and waste-water treatment plants. The project proposal, “Hydrated Electrons from iRradiated metal-free semicOnductors for PFAS degradation in water (HERO4PFAS)”, focuses on the development and investigation of wide band gap semiconductors able to photo-produce hydrated electrons under ultraviolet (UV) light to eliminate PFAS from water. The main goal will be to evolve from the state-of-the-art homogeneous advanced reduction processes (ARPs) towards heterogeneous systems to be employed in real cases. Since very expensive materials are required to photo-produce hydrated electrons (e.g. diamond-carbon), in this project low-cost photocatalysts based on hexagonal boron nitride will be prepared, and their ability in the degradation of PFAS studied under different conditions (type of irradiation, pH, dissolved oxygen). Systems based on heterogeneous UV-ARP will be implemented for the removal of PFAS from retentate streams of advanced membrane filtration systems and coupled with advanced oxidation processes in a holistic treatment train able to reach the complete PFAS mineralization. HERO4PFAS will fill the gap between PFAS degradation and the development of a cost-efficient heterogeneous photo-ARP. With the support of my supervisor (Prof. Minella) at University of Turin, I will diversify my individual competences to materials science and UV-ARP chemistry, boosting my career as future expert on photocatalysis and water treatment technology.

Keywords: water treatment pfas advanced reduction processes hydrated electrons boron nitride carbon diamond advanced oxidation processes emerging contaminants
EU-CIEMBLY: Creating an Inclusive European Citizens’ Assembly (EU-CIEMBLY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Belgium,South Africa,Ireland,Cyprus,Italy,New Zealand
Call: Intersectionality and equality in deliberative and participatory democratic spaces (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2106591.25
EU funding (EUR): 2106591.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

EU – CIEMBLY addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life and, particularly, an EU Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully addresses issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality. While there has been an admirable appetite to improve the landscape of participatory and deliberative democratic mechanisms at the EU level, this has not always been accompanied by adequate considerations of how to build these mechanisms to ensure avoidance of intersectional discrimination and the exclusion of vulnerable groups of citizens. In fact, the concept of ‘intersectionality’ within EU law has presented difficulties even without bringing into the picture the context of citizens’ democratic participation. The time is ripe to create a new participatory tool with intersectionality at the forefront. This project will provide the analytical framework and the prototype through which such a tool can be created in the form of a Citizens’ Assembly that can be established at the EU level and with features allowing for the transfer of a (modified) prototype to the national and local levels of EU Member States. To do this, the project moves from theorising to evaluating and finally piloting such a tool and concludes with recommendations. In this way, EU-CIEMBLY seeks to be the first project that uses an academic and theoretical understanding of issues of intersectionality, equality, and power relations in the design of an innovative and inclusive EU Citizens’ Assembly.

Keywords: citizens assembly participatory and deliberative democratic mechanisms
Media Production of Prison Communities (WALLS2BRIDGES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2031-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Incarceration is widely depicted in films, TV, and the news, but prison communities—imprisoned people, their families, and anti-prison activists—are seldom recognized as media producers. Developing a transnational, collaborative, and comparative model of media justice, this project examines textual, visual, and sound media created by prison communities. It focuses on France, Turkey, the UK, and the US, where racial and ethnic discrimination stimulated mass incarceration of minorities from the mid-1960s, which marks the start of global mass incarceration and widescale prison revolts. The transhistorical and multimedia project attends to diverse prison environments and communities and their differential access to media. This study is grounded in three topics fundamental to media, its place in society, and its function in human relations today: media and surveillance, media and the senses, and media and justice. The research questions it addresses are: a) What are the subversive uses of media by people who commonly experience them as tools of surveillance? b) How does the experience of imprisonment impact different sensory strategies and engagements with media? c) How can media provide a space of safety and justice for underprivileged communities? WALLS2BRIDGES is groundbreaking in three ways. Theoretically, by bringing together media, literature and art studies, criminology, and racial and ethnic studies, it is innovative in approaching prison communities as media producers who resist stigmatization and marginalization. Methodologically, by integrating multimethod research (archival research, epistolary ethnography, fieldwork, media design, netnography, textual and audiovisual analysis), it maps historical and multimedia strategies for marginalized self-expression. Substantially, by opening a debate on media justice for communities in oppressive environments it engages in broader debates on social inclusion and equality.

Keywords: film and visual studies,media studies,race and ethnic studies,visual anthropology,visual criminology,media history,carceral studies,art activism