Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bioregional mineralisation with agricultural resources for construction (BIOARC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Other missions
Destination: Other missions
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Serbia,Germany,Poland,Italy,Switzerland,Slovenia
Call: Exploiting the potential of secondary bio-based products (HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3899197.5
EU funding (EUR): 3899197.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

BIOARC connects the agricultural and construction sector by developing high-performance bio-based building materials from agricultural by-products. Bacteria are included as co-creators through a biomineralization process, to develop lightweight, fire-resistant products – such as insulation boards, construction panels, acoustic panels, and partition walls. To ensure global scalability, the project will leverage regionally available resources like rice, wheat, sunflower, and hops, which are widely accessible not only in the EU but also in other parts of the world. By standardizing production processes and rigorously assessing the structural, thermal, acoustic, health-related, and durability properties of the materials, the project ensures consistent quality, performance and validating them in real-world construction environments. The project takes a bioregional approach, collaborating closely with local communities, farmers, craftsmen, and industries to develop local value chains that reduce carbon emissions and promote circular economy principles. By connecting stakeholders across four European bioregions, the project integrates a participatory design process, ensuring that the developed materials are not only environmentally sustainable but also culturally embedded and economically viable. The project engages with the NEB hub for results and impacts, as well as contributing to regenerative design principles in the construction sector. BIOARC aims to provide scalable, cost-effective, and high-performance materials, while supporting local economies and promoting resilience against environmental and economic changes.

Keywords: achitecture,bio based material,biomineralisation,construction,circular economy,sustainable development
Visualising Hibernia in Ireland, c.1770 - c.1930 (Visualising Hibernia)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-02
End date: 2026-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Changing political relations between Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and the attendant prospect of a united Ireland, have given rise to lively debate within political and public spheres on the capacity of Ireland’s national symbols to represent pluralist notions of Irish identity. Concurrently, the UK’s decision to leave the European Union has led to shifts in how Irish and Northern Irish citizens identify with the EU. Responding to such developments, ‘Visualising Hibernia’ aims to investigate how visual representations of Hibernia, the female personification of Ireland, historically transcended political, sectarian, cultural, and religious boundaries in Ireland and thereby reveal the historic diversity of Irish identities, as well as their complex relations with Britain and Europe. Focusing on the period from c.1770 to c.1930, ‘Visualising Hibernia’ will produce the first dedicated study of this highly significant but neglected figure in Irish cultural history and Anglo-Irish political relations. As an inherently classical figure, Hibernia has typically been perceived as the ‘non-native’ embodiment of Ireland adopted by the country’s eighteenth-century ‘Protestant Ascendancy’ ruling elite or as fodder for nineteenth-century British political cartoonists. ‘Visualising Hibernia’ complicates such perceptions by foregrounding how groups across the Irish political spectrum employed the personification in the period c.1770-c.1930, ranging from a Protestant minority seeking self-governance under the British Crown to Catholic and radical republicans or Anglo-Irish cultural nationalists. It will be conducted under the supervision of Prof. Lynda Mulvin, an expert on classical antiquity and its reception, at UCD, a leading institute for research on Irish political and cultural history. It will result in a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles, an online multimedia exhibition, and communication activities including a podcast series.

Keywords: ireland irish art history irish visual culture irish identities classical reception female allegory national personifications
hiErarchical metal-orgaNic framework@covaLent organic framework (MOF@COF) on carbon nanofIbers for electrocatalytic CO2 conVErsioN (ENLIVEN)

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,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (ECR) reaction offers a powerful strategy to enable a circular economy that converts CO2 from a waste to a useful resource. Among the possible catalysts for the ECR, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer a tunable porous structure for rapid mass transport and easy access to a high density of catalytic sites, which can be tailored at the molecular level, leading to superior activity. Moreover, copper-based MOFs (Cu-MOFs) show relatively low cost and ability to form C2+ products. However, the low selectivity, poor stability and electrical conductivity set obstacles for ECR applications of these materials. The ENLIVEN project aims to surpass these limits, through the combination of Cu-MOFs with highly stable and conductive covalent organic frameworks (COFs) forming core@shell MOF@COF thin films on mesoporous conductive carbon nanofibers (CNFs). To this aim, CNFs prepared by electrospinning will be covered by a homogenous metal oxide layer and then pyrolysed to produce metal seeds for the solvothermal growth of homogeneous crystalline Cu-MOF-NH2 layers. Then, the NH2 functionalized surface will be modified with aldehyde groups necessary for the growth of a COF layer. To allow tuning the selectivity towards the ECR and decreasing the competing hydrogen evolution reaction, superaerophilic electrodes will be assembled using COF ligands with hydrophobic groups and designing a special morphology. Also, ENLIVEN will study the new confined chemistry that takes place inside the pores of MOF@COF architectures, rationally designed from the molecular- through nano- to meso-scale. This knowledge will provide the blueprints for the development of more durable and efficient electrocatalytic materials. The project will be conducted in UNIPD and DTU (secondment). The fellow (S.A.N.Najafabadi), with expertise in MOF/COF synthesis, will acquire new skills in the synthesis and characterisation of advanced structures for electrochemical applications.

Keywords: electrocatalytic co2 reduction ecr,metal organic framework mof,covalent organic framework cof,carbon nanofiber,composite materials
Revolutionizing Data Centres: Enabling Sustainable and High-Efficiency Optical Networking (OPTINET)

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: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3514280.0
EU funding (EUR): 2459996.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Founded in 2022 in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Astrape Networks is pioneering innovative solutions for data centre networking with its breakthrough OPTINET system, designed to drastically reduce energy consumption and improve operational efficiency. By eliminating most of the energy-intensive Optical-Electrical-Optical (O-E-O) conversions, the OPTINET system offers up to 60% energy savings, addressing one of the most pressing cost drivers in data centres today. Supported by an initial €1.6M seed funding and an additional €5M expected in 2024, Astrape is on track to scale its development from TRL 5 to market readiness, with plans to capture 3% of the global data centre networking market by 2032. At the heart of Astrape’s offering is the OPTINET system, a hybrid networking switch integrating optical and electronic links for real-time traffic management. This system dynamically adapts to both small and large data flows, making it highly suitable for data centres running AI-applications. With several patents already filed, Astrape’s IP portfolio is poised to expand with six more patents in 2024/2025, further protecting its technological edge. Astrape targets direct sales to large operators such as Google and Equinix and plans to generate significant revenue by 2028 from its OPTINET 16 and OPTINET-S64 products, with projected revenues exceeding €500M by 2029. To achieve large-scale pilot testing, validation, and commercial readiness and bring this innovation to market by 2026, Astrape seeks €2.5M in EIC funding which will be supplemented by private investment. The non-dilutive support from the EIC will boost investor confidence and bridge the current funding gap in the company. The company also requests €7.5M in EIC equity participation in its 2026 Series A round of €15M to support manufacturing, team expansion, and further development. This funding is crucial for reaching key milestones and securing commercial success in the expanding global data centre market.

Keywords: optical networking photonics energy efficiency network innovation
Unique biogas liquefaction and transport technology to unlock on-farm methanisation (SUBLIME Energie)

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: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2025 (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3474954.77
EU funding (EUR): 2432468.34
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SUBLIME Energie is pioneering a one-of-a-kind biogas liquefaction technology that efficiently transports the methane–carbon dioxide mixture. Biogas-derived methane and CO2 can be transported compressed or liquified separately, never together, except with SUBLIME Energie’s technology. Upgrading of liquefied biogas is then done at the hub allowing mutualisation of costly processes of gas separation and conditioning at a dedicated valorisation hub. In this model, farmers retain ownership of their biogas production, while SUBLIME Energie purchases it directly. The liquefaction process is performed on-farm using a mobile cryogenic tank (the subject of the first SUBLIME Energie patent at the inception of the company), which is then collected 1-2 times per week by hub operators. This approach enables the valorisation of biomass from farms that are far from the grid or are too small to make an injection model profitable. It eliminates the need to extend the gas grid, reduces CAPEX for farmers, and ensures that both methane and CO2 are valorised – thereby generating higher revenues for farmers and unlocking a previously untapped biomass resource.

Keywords: agricultural methanisation,biogas,biomethane,cryogenic liquefaction,liquefied biogas,biolng,bioco2,small farms,circular economy
FindAir 2.0 (FindAir 2.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1960000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1960000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FindAir is a med-tech company that provides smart inhaler devices and telemedicine systems. Since 2016 FindAir has worked to provide better treatment for asthma and COPD patients by developing the newest technologies and innovative solutions. The company’s flagship product, FindAir ONE add-on devices, is a family of smart inhaler add-ons for remote asthma monitoring and complete medication history documentation. FindAir ONE add-ons are available for pMDI inhalers, Ellipta inhalers, Easyhalers, Turbuhalers, and Diskus inhalers. Currently, over 12,000 people around the world use FindAir solutions to manage their asthma better. FindAir's products are used worldwide by top research entities, as well as global pharmaceutical companies. Our ambition is to finalize and implement cutting-edge research and development projects, leading to the creation of an innovative product: FindAir 2.0. This device will revolutionize respiratory care by quantitatively and qualitatively measuring inhalation parameters in DPI inhalers. The detachable module, adaptable to various DPI inhaler models, will non-intrusively measure force and time of flow, enabling accurate airflow analysis without modifying drug delivery channels. FindAir 2.0 data transmission to specialized software will offer visualization and evaluation of the inhalation processes. This groundbreaking product is poised to benefit individual patients, healthcare providers, and telemedicine platforms, as well as institutions conducting clinical trials or technology companies seeking advanced devices for recording and analyzing inhalation parameters. The development of FindAir 2.0 is a strategic response to a discerned market need, reinforcing our commitment to innovation and bolstering our competitive edge in the evolving landscape of respiratory healthcare.

Keywords: smart inhaler,telemedicine,copd,asthma,dpi
Unlocking operational excellence in water desalination plants by nanoscale fouling sensor technology (Excalibur)

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: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3544481.87
EU funding (EUR): 2481137.31
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global water stress currently impacts 40% of the world's population and is even worsening due to climate change. To counteract the devastating consequences, membrane desalination is exponentially booming with over 22,000 plants already operational in 2022. Although membrane desalination has lower energy requirements as compared to thermal processes, membrane fouling significantly jeopardizes the efficiency of these plants worldwide. It results in higher energy consumption and requires frequent, at times aggressive, cleaning cycles. The latter in turn increase process downtimes and expenditure on cleaning agents while drastically reducing membrane lifetime. The consequence is significant economic losses for operators, a detrimental environmental impact and an increased final price of the drinking water produced. Currently, there exist only corrective measures which are entirely insufficient as they are based on indirect measurements. In stark contrast, our sensor system Excalibur (patent granted in the EU) is the first and only system detecting fouling and cleaning at nano levels directly on a membrane in real-time and non-invasively. This enables a truly predictive process monitoring. Excalibur surpasses existing sensitivity limits by three orders of magnitude and its proprietary AI-based software provides unique and hitherto unattainable operational flexibility with a strong impact on running costs: membrane lifespan is prolonged up to 20%, process downtimes are reduced up to 60%. By optimizing the use of chemical agents, Excalibur also enhances the sustainability of membrane processes. It boosts both energy savings (>10%) as well as economic efficiency (decrease cleaning cost by 25%). According to our projections and B2B business model, we anticipate installing our solution in over 666 desalination plants (producing an estimated 25 million m3/day of water) until 2030, ensuring energy-efficient plant productivity and minimizing their environmental impact.

Keywords: water scarcity,desalination technology,fouling issues,environmentl concerns,nanoscale fouling sensor technology,desalination plant productivity
Governing AI Technologies in Weapon Systems from the Bottom Up: Practices to Sustain and Strengthen Human Control (AutoPractices)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Autonomous and AI technologies have become integrated into the targeting functions of weapons. Algorithmic rather than human decision-making may therefore prevail in warfare, raising humanitarian, legal, ethical, and security concerns. Currently, there are no specific, legal rules to govern autonomy and AI in the military. In their absence, ERC AutoNorms has found that use of autonomous and AI technologies in weapon systems makes norms. Practices of design, of training personnel for, and of using such weapons shape a norm of what counts as the requisite form of human control over the use of force. AutoNorms has revealed that this emerging norm accepts a diminished, reduced form of human control when designing and using military autonomous/AI technologies as “normal”. This emerging norm is a societal challenge and a public policy problem because it undercuts the meaningful exercise of human agency over life and death decisions in war. The insight that practices make norms holds the potential for social innovation as a process of recontextualising norms through enacting different practices. Stakeholders could therefore shape a positive norm of human control through changing their practices from the bottom up. The ERC PoC project AutoPractices initiates and accompanies this social innovation process in three ways via multi-stakeholder collaboration: first, AutoPractices raises awareness among stakeholders about the differential effect of their practices on the emerging human control norm in the military domain via empirical mapping. Second, AutoPractices co-creates a set of best practices with stakeholders to sustain human control in weapon systems integrating autonomous and AI technologies at three workshops. Third, AutoPractices diffuses the co-created set of best practices via an operational toolkit and dissemination through multipliers. In this way, AutoPractices becomes a source of diffusing a positive norm of human control in weapon systems from the bottom-up.
Sustainable and Recyclable Polymeric Thermosets (SURE-Poly)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Austria,Australia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 262857.14
EU funding (EUR): 253000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The concerns connected to petroleum-based origin of polymeric materials and the problems related to the accumulation of plastic waste in the environment need an urgent solution. One possible strategy to address this dramatic situation is the exploitation of bio-based resources as precursors for polymers. In particular, the valorization of agro-food wastes via extraction of polymeric precursors could be a winning strategy. Furthermore, the implementation of dynamicity in crosslinked polymeric materials with the introduction into the polymeric networks of labile noncovalent and dynamic bonds capable of undergoing reversible formation and cleavage, will give to the corresponding materials innovative recyclability properties.Within this frame, this project aims to face the complex challenge of the production of sustainable and recyclable polymeric thermosets. The proposed target can be reached by exploiting the peculiar properties of vitrimers, which allows a direct recyclability or reprocessability of the polymeric networks. On the other hand, the use of bio-based polymers holds great promises for the development of sustainable materials. Therefore, the integration of vitrimer properties with bio-based materials appears a great combination of choice to achieve the expected aim. For this reasons, SURE-Polymer has assembled an international team of researchers whose expertise spans green chemical synthesis, biopolymer functionalization, polymer photochemistry, vitrimer design and 3D-printing technology for object fabrication. The project will be run within the international and intersectoral consortium where different and complementary competences of the partners will be shared and exploited creating synergisms. The aim is within the objective of the MSCA-SE call, where transfer of skills and competences will lead to improved employability and career prospective of the involved seconded staff members.

Keywords: 3d printing circular economy bio mass valorization