Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Accessible Innovative Methods for the Safety & Sustainability Assessment of Chemicals & Materials (CHIASMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Belgium,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom,Finland,Slovenia,Norway,Cyprus,Greece
Call: Innovative methods for safety and sustainability assessments of chemicals and materials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6845417.25
EU funding (EUR): 6845417.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The CHIASMA’s Central Objective is to develop a new and improved Safety and Sustainable by Design Assessment framework based on innovative, in-project validated in vitro and in silico methods New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and data for the next generation of hazard- & risk assessment of chemicals and materials. The developed NAMs cover main human target organs and exposure routes. The CHIASMA Assessment Framework will be based on an iterative multi-step approach based on Next Genaration Safety Assessment (NGSA) that combines chemocentric and biocentric approaches and NAMs and it will be able to predict regulatory relevant endpoints and long-term safety, together with absolute Life Cycle Impact Analysis (LCIA). Developed methods will be demonstrated for scienfic soundness and performances and for transferability (including to industrial environment), prior to submission to regulatory bodies. Demonstration of the SSbD Framework in at least three chemicals/materials groups (PFAS, 2D materials for energy applications and (nano-)pesticides), supported by the assessment of socio-economic aspects and gap analyses in the context of existing methods. Integration of the new & improved methods for expressing safety and health parameter into existing life-cycle and sustainability assessments methodologies and tools, as well as into the relevant applicable regulatory frameworks (incl. the SSbD framework). Provision of accessible data for industry and public authorities, in order to ultimately support the wider implementation of the SSbD framework and its criteria. The CHIASMA Project will run for 48 months. It is organised interdependent workflows, which will be broken down into 9 workpackages aligned with the scientific plan in order provide an optimum project-conduct and achievement of Project objectives.

Keywords: safe and sustainable by design,ngsa,safety assessment,new approache methodologies nams,environmental impact assessment,life cycle impact assessment lcia,fair,regulatory toxicology
Standardisation Booster for H2020 & HE research results (HSbooster.eu)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Serbia,Denmark,Spain
Call: Standardisation Booster for fostering exploitation of FP-funded research results (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

HSbooster.eu will increase the European standardisation impact coming from H2020 & Horizon Europe Research & Innovation projects, by designing, launching, and managing a dedicated booster-type initiative. HSbooster.eu will draw from the positive and practical experience of the H2020 CSA StandICT.eu and two previous Boosters (Common Dissemination Booster, CDB & Horizon Results Booster, HRB) and it will: a) Design and implement an effective range of Automated, Proactive, and Premium Services to boost standardisation results from European-led initiatives; b) Launch & manage a robust and efficient Facility to serve R&I projects over 30 months, also owing to an External Pool of Experts to support the Premium Services delivered; c) Deliver a Training Academy of next generation of standardisation experts; d) Enjoy steering from an authoritative Expert Advisory Group, tapping directly into the WGs & TCs of SDOs, tackling EU priorities, challenges & gaps. HSbooster.eu is proposed by a lean Consortium of Partners with extensive experience in the Standardisation landscape Trust-IT Srl (IT), the Coordinator of StandICT.eu and CDB, Dublin City University (IE), an active player in SDO WGs & TCs and in educating future standards experts, Dansk Standard (DE), with a track record in increasing European impact on the international standards scene, University of Belgrade (RS), experts in delivering training packages to support standardisation efforts, and SGS (ES), experts in certification. Principal outputs: The HSbooster.eu Service Facility, serving 300+ projects/organisations and providing feedback on the services received, A continuous Open Call delivering 230+ Premium Services, 250+ experts contractualised, and 1,500+ people trained); 14 Webinars, 3 Workshops, 1 final event, 3 Standards Impact Reports, an engaged, multi-stakeholder Community of 2,000+ individuals in Europe, bridging the R&I community (1,000+ H2020 and HE projects) and the standardisation experts.

Keywords: booster type services for h2020 and he projects
Sustainable routes for synthetic graphite production for high-performance Lithium-Ion battery anodes (SOURCE)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Sweden,Italy,Norway,Germany,Belgium,Spain,France,Netherlands,Greece
Call: Sustainable processing and refining of battery grade graphite (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6811002.5
EU funding (EUR): 4949386.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

SOURCE will develop, improve and demonstrate in an industrially relevant environment economically and environmentally viable routes for producing battery-grade synthetic graphite for high-performance anodes. SOURCE will first enable the production of carbon precursors from heterogeneous raw material sources, including alternative sustainable petroleum feedstocks, bio-waste and black mass from recycled batteries, to reduce the current dependence of synthetic graphite from petroleum-based coke. Sustainable technologies to transform these materials into carbon feedstock will be demonstrated at TRL6/7. Additionally, low-temperature graphitization techniques (<1000°C vs. 3000°C) will be demonstrated, with >30% potential reduction of the energy consumption and production cost. Innovative high-performance Carbon@graphite, Si@graphite, and graphene@graphite coatings and anode (capacity > 350 mAh/g) will be formulated, fabricated, tested and validated in 1Ah prototype pouch cells at TRL7. Recycling processes to recover graphite at low cost with >90% purity from LiB EoL batteries and >98% purity from anode production scrap will be demonstrated at TRL7. LCA and LCC analysis will be delivered to accurately assess the sustainability of SOURCE synthetic graphite and value chain defining the best routes to ensure economic and environmental sustainability. SOURCE brings together key EU industries with main businesses in graphite precursors and synthetic graphite production, and advanced anode formulation, supported by EU leading RTOs forming the complete value chain to produce high quality synthetic graphite in a sustainable and economic way. SOURCE achievements will increase EU competitiveness and independence from foreign graphite suppliers and anode manufacturers. SOURCE technologies and materials will be directly exploited by its top-level industrial partners with a direct market presence and already established commercial channels, ensuring SOURCE value chain sustainability.

Keywords: synthetic graphite,low temperature graphitization,anode material,lib batteries,biowaste valorisation,lcc,lca,carbon materials,carbon precursors
RISC-V GENERATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE PROCESSORS AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS (Rigoletto)

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,Austria,Italy,France,Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,Denmark,Belgium,Czechia,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Greece,Romania,Egypt,Switzerland
Call: Topic 2 Focus topic on “High Performance RISC-V Automotive Processors supporting SDV” (HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-1-IA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 67050005.0
EU funding (EUR): 19124185.74
Participants: 64
Project status: SIGNED

Electrification and autonomy drive the rapid evolution of modern vehicles, requiring increasing computational capabilities, coupled with safety and efficiency. The classical, decentralized multi- Electronic Control Units (ECU) architecture has significant drawbacks when it comes to scalability, and it is becoming untenable. The dominant megatrend pushes for an increasing number of key functionalities to be software-defined, with the direct implication that the software content (lines-of-code) in a vehicle will grow by 10x in just 5 years, to 1 billion by 2030. From a hardware viewpoint, increased complexity and autonomy requires a more centralized approach to on-board computing to curtail cost, latency and bandwidth bottlenecks of the in-vehicle network. Centralizing the E/E architecture requires merging multiple Electronic Control Units (ECUs) into powerful, fully programmable Domain Control Units (DCUs) or Zonal Control Units (ZCUs). To address this paradigm shift, the Rigoletto project will establish the foundation for a next-generation Automotive Hardware Platform based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), bolstering and securing Europe's leading role in the automotive electronics industry. The project aligns with the high-level goal of EU Chips Joint Undertaking and the of the industry-led Vehicle of the Future initiative: namely, the creation of a RISC-V based automotive hardware platform strongly linked with the formation of an open, software-defined vehicle ecosystem led by European automotive manufacturers and suppliers. Rigoletto aims at developing RISC-V intellectual property (IP) components, including processor cores, accelerators, interconnects, memory hierarchy and peripheral subsystems. A wide range of performance profiles will be targeted for next-generation DCUs and ZCUs, to enable increasingly electrified, automated, and connected vehicles.

Keywords: automotive risc v,high performance,control processors,ai accelerators,european sovereignty in embedded computing,rt,functional safety,security,embedded domains,standards,open source
Associative metal-free ElectROlytes for Battery Energy STorage (AERO BEST)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) offer attractive alternatives to pumped hydroelectric and compressed air energy storage methods on account of their modularity, flexibility, and independence from geographical conditions. However, new BESS installations are primarily lithium-ion batteries alongside increasing market share for vanadium redox flow batteries, which both rely heavily on key metals with significant cost and safety implications as well as geopolitical concerns. The EU-funded AERO BEST project will address this problem through use of metal-free associative electrolytes for air-stable BESS and exploration of its commercialisation potential through feasibility studies and market research. Our associative electrolytes serve as fully organic electrolytes in aqueous flow battery systems, they provide a paradigm shift through ‘self-protective’ supramolecular assembly, mitigating against detrimental interactions with oxygen while providing extended battery life-time. The system will be scaled allowing validation of the technology through a battery demonstrator and a sustainable business model will be developed for commercialisation of the electrolytes. AERO BEST has potential to revolutionise energy storage, realising a purely sustainable energy ecosystem independent from geopolitics, offering a substantial reduction in the cost of both electrolytes as well as in costs of battery manufacturing. As these electrolytes demonstrate air stability, they offer simplified battery system operation and maintenance, with an opportunity to democratise the BESS market, especially benefiting developing nations.
Interventions to promote mental and physical health in changing working environments due to climate change, sustainable work practices, and in green jobs (INTERCAMBIO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Sweden,Belgium,Switzerland,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Evidence-based interventions for promotion of mental and physical health in changing working environments (post-pandemic workplaces) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5728111.25
EU funding (EUR): 5728110.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Work environments are rapidly changing in Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an acceleration of a range of complex and multidimensional trends at the workplace. There is also increasing awareness of the importance of mental and physical health of workers and fundamental interconnections of work, health and well-being. Climate change is further shaping the future of work on an unprecedented scale. European economies are undergoing transformation and reorientation towards sustainability. The European Green Deal is reforming the workplace through implementation of new sustainable work practices and policies, circular economy solutions, and rapid expansion of work in green jobs, resulting in novel workplace exposures with likely impacts on health. Increases in complex algorithmic management and performance monitoring are also taking place with a view towards sustainability. There have been calls towards inclusive green economies ensuring social protection, and the creation of decent green jobs. The overall objective of the INTERCAMBIO project is to promote mental and physical health of workers in changing work environments due to climate change, implementation of new working practices, and among workers in green jobs. We will examine key research questions regarding mental and physical health of workers and conduct detailed evaluation of interventions in strategic industries in Europe relevant to green and digital transitions, including in outdoor construction, health care, public transit, renewable energy (wind turbine), and waste management/recycling using a variety of multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art research methods. We will leverage large, geographically diverse longitudinal cohort consortia for new climate-related studies, promote a framework for social protection, and engage multi-level stakeholders. Findings are expected to have major scientific and societal relevance and will provide support for new policy action in occupational health.

Keywords: exposome,job exposure matrix,cohort studies,climate change,sustainable work,green jobs,co creation,intervention,health research agenda
Genome Enhancer Network Exploration – Tuning expression through enhancer collaboration (GENE-TUNE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999968.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999968.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Enhancers are the central regulators of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns, but how enhancers control their target genes from vast distances remains enigmatic. Individual enhancers do not work in isolation but are embedded into the genomic context, often together with other enhancer elements. The synergy arising from multiple enhancers can activate a target gene across distances that the individual elements cannot bridge. Therefore, the synergy of enhancers plays an essential role in gene regulation, but the nature of this synergy and how it affects gene expression is not understood. We have recently established a unique synthetic platform that allows for the efficient interrogation of individuals and combinations of enhancers from different distances to a target promoter. We aim to refine this platform by incorporating large-scale analysis to decode distance-dependent activation and enhancer synergy patterns. This rich dataset will form the foundation for our deep-learning approaches to determine the sequence constraints underlying enhancer synergy. Furthermore, we will map the 3D genome changes and examine the role of loop extrusion in synergistic gene activation. In addition, we will determine the activation kinetics at the promoter to reveal how multiple enhancers together control burst kinetics. Finally, we will examine how the addition of other regulatory elements, such as promoters or transposable elements, shape enhancer-promoter communication. We follow a bottom-up reductionist approach to study gene regulation: we will build gene regulatory landscapes and explore how enhancers navigate the genomic context to activate a target promoter. Ultimately, my mission is to unravel the mechanistic relationship among synergistic enhancers in activating distant target genes, complementing genomics and deep learning endeavours for a comprehensive understanding of gene regulation.
Careful, now! A new socio-structural theory of manipulation and its normative status (CareNow)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499803.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499803.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Interest in philosophical theories of manipulation has soared in recent years. One reason is the debate about rising populism, polarisation, and political events like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which draws on philosophical theories to identify illegitimate, manipulative influence. Beyond academia, philosophical theories also inform the definition of manipulation in legal regulation, like the EU’s AI Act, which aims to limit the risk of technological mass manipulation. Getting the definition right is an urgent issue: according to Sam Altman, ChatGPT's inventor, new AI systems may soon reach superhuman persuasive capabilities. But current manipulation theories are ill-equipped to carry out this task because they are overly individualistic. They assume that humans are solitary beings who think and reason independently. In reality, however, we are deeply social beings who depend on others and helpful technology to deliberate well. Therefore, we must be protected from malicious interference (as current manipulation theories emphasise) and from a lack of care to safeguard the social and structural conditions under which we reason and deliberate well. CareNow aims to develop the first manipulation theory that acknowledges our deliberative dependency. The targeted outcomes will be an original definition of manipulation, one that is – unlike current definitions – compatible with manipulation by social systems and technology (which typically lack intention), and explain the context-dependent epistemic, ethical, and political status of manipulation based on the new value of deliberative care. It yields innovation by taking a social epistemology perspective and pioneers an experimental philosophy approach that integrates philosophy with empirical studies of manipulation. Because CareNow reverses a fundamental assumption of current manipulation theories and switches perspectives from the individual to the social, it is ambitious, bold, and potentially groundbreaking.

Keywords: manipulation,social epistemology,experimental philosophy,ethics of influence,ethics of technology,deliberation,reasoning,bullshit speech act,online manipulation
MICP Applications for Geotechnical Infrastucture Concrete (MAGIC) (MAGIC)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France
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): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete is of fundamental importance to construction, a sector that provides 18 million jobs and makes up to 9% of EU’s GDP. It is thus not surprising that European countries invest billions of euros each year in maintaining and repairing concrete infrastructure. A major reason for concrete repair is the development of cracks, which lead to poor durability of concrete or its reinforcement. Many concrete structures are partly or fully embedded in the ground (e.g. foundations, tunnels, sheet pile walls). Detecting or repairing cracks in structures embedded in the ground is difficult; therefore, developing concretes that can self-heal/repair when cracks form is very useful for geotechnical infrastructure applications. MAGIC is an interdisciplinary project that aims to realise self-healing concrete structures for ground engineering applications, using novel biobased processes. The techniques developed in MAGIC will be tested both in the laboratory and in the field and will be evaluated in terms of sustainability. The proposed research addresses the environmental impact and costs of infrastructure maintenance, in line with the European Green Deal and EU priorities for decarbonisation, green and resilient civil infrastructure, resource efficiency and waste minimisation.

Keywords: biocements bioconcrete ground engineering self healing