Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MASS ASSEMBLY AND GROWTH FOR NEXT-GEN EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY (MAGNET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Scale-up of magnet production by HyProMag GmbH. Founded in October 2021, HyProMag GmbH is scaling up the recycling and production of rare earth magnets in Pforzheim, Germany, targeting first commercial production in 2025, with growth to date supported by both grant funding and equity investment since inception. The company's strategy is to become an EU market leader in the production of recycled magnetic powders, alloys and sintered magnets for motors, generators and sensors used in a wide range of high-tech applications across multiple business sectors. To achieve this, HyProMag will provide customers with comprehensive expertise in the entire (currently underdeveloped) magnet recycling value chain with highly automated sorting, separation and manufacturing technologies based primarily on its own IP and exclusive IP from partner companies. A first series project is being evaluated with a German premium car manufacturer (OEM) to replace loudspeaker magnets in electric vehicle doors, currently sourced from China, with 100% recycled magnets using the IP-protected Hydrogen Processing of Magnetic Scrap (HPMS). Initial prototypes have been produced and are currently being evaluated with the Tier 1 loudspeaker supplier. As production volumes of permanent magnets for the automotive speaker project alone would be up to 400 tonnes per year, there is a clear need for rapid scale-up. The aim is to cover the entire value chain technologically, from the dismantling of products containing magnets, both mobile (server farms, wind farms) and stationary (traction and industrial motors, mixed waste), to the preparation of the material, the production of both magnetic alloys and finished coated permanent magnets. This complementary technology expansion strategy aims to increase market share in key markets and to access new industries, customers and applications in new markets where HyProMag GmbH is not yet present.

Keywords: ndfeb,permanent magnet,circular economy,sustainability,scale up,production
Safeguarding African Foodsheds and Ecosystems for all Actors across Local, regional and international Levels to manage migration (SAFE4ALL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Kenya,Ghana,Germany,Slovakia,Greece,Zimbabwe,Italy
Call: Needs-based adaptation to climate change in Africa (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4989715.0
EU funding (EUR): 4989715.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Agriculture is the foundation of the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide, including African rural and urban households, farming communities, and cities. However, weather and climate risks have increased, creating a need for better access to climate and weather information, soil water management, insurance, and other climate-agricultural services. Although some services exist, they are often separated and follow a top-down information provision that operates on a national scale. SAFE4ALL aims to address the interconnected issues of climate change, food security, ecosystem and disaster management, and migration in Africa by providing user-centred climate services. It will innovate and bundle affordable, and scalable services that include location-specific information to meet the needs of end-users in Kenya, Ghana and Zimbabwe. Three co-creation case studies will be organized in these vulnerable African countries, engaging with small-scale farming communities, municipalities, and cities. SAFE4ALL will coordinate efforts from governments, civil society, academia, and international organizations to mobilize the capacity of end-users, build food security and resilience, promote sustainable agriculture, and provide social safety nets to affected localities. Specific objectives include establishing a collaborative, co-creation, and engagement platform for the prioritization and co-development of needs-based climate services, identifying adaptation challenges, requirements, and enabling factors and complementing policies in adapting to the wider socio-economic environment, and exploring and harnessing existing services to improve the uptake and effectiveness of climate services and develop sustainable business and implementation models for services. The outcomes aim to manage migration to cities by ensuring that communities are better equipped to adapt and cope with the impacts of climate change while enhancing food security in a rapidly changing world.

Keywords: climate change adaptation user centered climate services co creation foodclimate change adaptation user centered climate services co creation foodsheds business models services sustainability
Zolak is a AI-powered product visualisation platform tailored specifically for the Furniture and DIY industry, leading the digital transformation of the industry by revolutionising the online shopping (Zolak)

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): 1600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Zolak is a B2B product visualisation platform tailored specifically for the Furniture and DIY market, leading the digital transformation of the industry by revolutionising the online shopping experience. AI-powered Zolak Component is seamlessly integrated into online furniture stores and websites, providing customers with an immersive 3D shopping experience similar to visiting a showroom in a traditional brick-and-mortar store. Unlike traditional online shopping experiences that rely on static images and descriptions, Zolak Platform offers customers an immersive 3D shopping experience, bridging the imagination gap. Shoppers can envision how items would fit and complement their existing decor, thereby being able to make decisions faster and increasing their satisfaction with the purchases. In doing so, Zolak streamlines the entire shopping process, making it more efficient and enjoyable for customers while driving tangible business results for the clients by boosting sales and increasing brand loyalty. Zolak's mission is to provide cost-effective, cutting-edge solutions to furniture businesses of all sizes, enabling them to seamlessly integrate into the digital environment and compete effectively in the global market. Through this commitment to digitisation and innovation, Zolak not only contributes to economic growth but also fosters sustainable consumption and supports climate mitigation efforts. Aligned with the EU's Digital Single Market Strategy, Zolak strives to advance technological innovation and help EU businesses succeed in the digital transition, positioning them for success in the global market.

Keywords: digital services,household products,web 4 0,generative ai,diffusion neural networks,digital twins,computer vision,b2b saas
AI-driven precision fermentation platform for cow-free casein production (AI-FERM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fermify, founded in 2021 in Vienna, Austria, by visionary food scientist Eva Sommer and bioprocess engineering expert Christoph Herwig, aims to revolutionize the dairy industry by providing a sustainable and economical solution for producing animal-free casein through autonomous precision fermentation. By providing this technology to big dairy and food ingredients manufacturers, we addresses the global demand for high-quality dairy alternatives, and facilitate the large-scale production of alternative cheese that mimics the taste, texture, and meltability of traditional cheese without using animals. We design a custom bioreactor solution for each customer, which is installed by a third party. Our customers pay us for the use of our proprietary and continuously optimized microbial strains, growing media, and advanced digital twin technology to produce casein identical to cow-derived casein. The uniqueness of our technology is the combination of continuous precision fermentation with AI-driven digital control. This enables genetically engineered microorganisms to produce for extended periods, which leads to higher productivity and lower costs. The global market for cheese casein production technology is big and growing, the global cheese market is estimated to reach €115.8B in 2030. Increasing legislative pressure, consumer trends, and volatile milk markets are driving our customer’s need for our technology. While our technology can be applied across various segments of the food industry, our initial market focus is on large cheese, dairy, and food ingredient producers in the EU and the US. With support from the EIC Accelerator, we aim to demonstrate our technology at industrial scale (TRL8), and successfully enter the market. This will enable us to capitalize on market opportunities, create significant economic and environmental impacts, and establish Fermify as leader in sustainable dairy protein production technology.

Keywords: precision fermentation,digital twin,casein production
Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access (CRAFT-OA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Finland,Croatia,Portugal,Czechia,France,Slovenia,Greece,Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Improving and coordinating technical infrastructure for institutional open access publishing across Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4777337.5
EU funding (EUR): 4777337.5
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

After several decades of evolving, Open Access (OA) publishing is now at the centre of scientific communication, providing access to scientific publications without barriers. In Diamond Open Access, authors can publish free of charge as the institutional sector with universities, research institutions or libraries provide the necessary technological infrastructure. While the commercial model of Open Access dominates in anglophone journals from the Global North, the Diamond OA model shows a much higher level of diversity and origin. However, the Diamond OA landscape continues to be fragmented, is often underfunded, and is not always technically proficient enough to develop its full potential for science and society. The CRAFT-OA project aims to consolidate the Diamond OA publishing landscape. The project focuses on four threads of activities to improve the technical and organisational infrastructure of Diamond OA: (1) Provide technical improvements for journal platforms and journal software (2) Build communities of practice to foster overall infrastructure improvement (3) Increase visibility, discoverability and recognition for Diamond OA publishing (4) Integrate Diamond OA publishing with EOSC and other large-scale data aggregators. CRAFT-OA’s 23 consortium partners from 14 European countries are all engaged in institutional publishing and its infrastructures, and committed to sustaining and developing capacities in the field. Many CRAFT-OA partners are leading organisations at national and European levels in terms of open publishing, and represent internationally visible centres of expertise in Open Science and FAIR implementation with strong connections to EOSC. Within 36 months, CRAFT-OA will deliver technical and community tools, training events, training materials, information, and services for the Diamond OA institutional publishing environment. It will foster communities of practice with the capacity to sustain the project improvements over time.

Keywords: institutional publishing diamond open access journal software interoperability eosc content visibility fair principles
Integrons in Arctic Air: Exploring the drivers behind integron diversity in the Arctic atmosphere and integron integrase gene expression under simulated atmospheric conditions. (IntegrAAir)

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 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the current context of the “One-Health” concept, the importance of assessing and monitoring microbial biodiversity and ecology in all environmental compartments is becoming increasingly apparent. However, although the atmosphere participates in worldwide dispersal of microorganisms and their genetic material, it has been relatively little studied compared to freshwater, marine and soil ecosystems. Recently, concerns have been raised about the atmospheric dispersal of antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs). Interestingly, ARGs are part of integrons, important bacterial genomic elements that facilitate the dispersal and acquisition of genetic material. In this context, the main objective of the two-year IntegrAAir project is to assess the ecodynamic of integrons in the atmosphere and assess their impacts on human and ecosystems health. It relies on the hypothesis that aerosolization can impact integron dynamic by inducing the integron integrase gene expression and thus mobilizing new genetic elements from the environmental gene pool. In order to respond to this hypothesis, two main sub-objectives are planned: (i) Understand the drivers behind integron complexity in the Arctic boundary layer using an omics approach, the Arctic being an ideal environment to attempt to focus primarily on environmental integrons, as it is little impacted by anthropogenic sources; (ii) Understand whether aerosolization can affect integron dynamics (gene gain and loss). We will investigate the integron integrase gene expression under simulated atmospheric conditions, using unique atmospheric chambers developed by the host research team. Overall, the project will provide new insights in the fields of aeromicrobiology and microbial ecology, as well as for public health, with regard to the impact of atmospheric transport on bacterial evolution and adaptation, and integron ecology in an environmental context.

Keywords: aeromicrobiology,metagenomics,integrons,bacteria,arctic
Cartan and differential geometry, Lie theory, quantum groups and non commutative geometry For novel and Innovative Applications to quantum algorithms and geometric deep learning (CaLiForNIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Italy,Czechia,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,United States,New Zealand
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2504779.2
EU funding (EUR): 2504779.2
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Lie theory pervades all areas of mathematics, by providing natural encodings of symmetries; representation theory and Cartan geometry are two of its most successfull manifestations. CaLiForNIA aims to push the frontier of research in these two key topics, Lie Theory and Cartan Geometry in synergy with the complementary investigations in the areas of quantum groups and more generally non commutative geometry, including physical applications. CaLiFornia goal is to apply the new mathematics originating by the above research to the new and strategic fields of quantum computing and geometric deep learning, top priorities in HorizonEurope.

Keywords: lie theory,cartan geometry,quantum groups,supersymmetry,quantum computing,geometric deep learning,information geometry
Are you experienced? An exploration into the functions and value of consciousness (EXPERIENCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2303531.0
EU funding (EUR): 2303531.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Why would we do anything at all if the doing was not doing something to us? In other words: What is consciousness good for? Here, reversing classical views according to which subjective experience is a mere epiphenomenon that affords no functional advantage, I propose that the core function of phenomenal experience is to enable subject-level valuation: “What it feels like” is endowed with intrinsic value. Thus, I argue that it is only in virtue of the fact that conscious agents experience things and care about those experiences that they are motivated to act in certain ways and that they prefer some states of affairs vs. others. Conscious experience functions as a mental currency of sorts that makes it possible for agents to compare vastly different states of affairs in a common subject-centred mental quality space — a feature that explains that consciousness is unified. While my previous work was focused on the how question of consciousness, here, I propose to focus on the even more challenging question of the why of consciousness. EXPERIENCE will address this issue by pursuing a rich interdisciplinary program rooted in integrative philosophy of mind and in innovative cognitive neuroscience methods applied to the interactions between affect and consciousness in perception and action. The project is articulated over four work packages, each addressing a specific claim: (1) Subjective experience has intrinsic value, (2) The phenomenal field is valenced, (3) All intentional action is motivated by subjective experience & (4) Subjective experience has functional effects. EXPERIENCE is high-risk, for the function of subjective experience is largely unexplored territory, and high-gain, for it promises to question entrenched distinctions and to move the scientific approach of conscious a step closer to what we all know: That subjective experience matters. In fact, in many respects, it is the only thing that matters, as without it, life would simply not be worth living.

Keywords: functions of consciousness,phenomenal experience,visual perception,affective neuroscience,decision making
Towards a spatial coexistence theory for species rich communities (SpatioCoexistence)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497799.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497799.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ecologists have tried for long to explain coexistence of many competing species in communities such as tropical forests, but this key question of ecological theory remains largely unresolved. We argue that this failure originates as a scaling problem. Although plants compete mostly with their closest neighbours, the phenomenological models of most approaches addressing this question do not consider spatial mechanisms of how the dynamics and patterns at the “macroscopic” community scale emerge from the collective behaviour and interactions of individuals at the “microscopic” neighbourhood scale. We therefore propose to change the way the problem is tackled by incorporating this essential information into macroscopic mathematical models. The overarching objective of the project is to develop a spatially-explicit theory for understanding the dynamics and stability of plant communities of intermediate to high species richness at local scales. We integrate state-of-the-art mathematical and simulation approaches with methods from physics and spatial analysis of the best available spatial data, such as ForestGEO inventory data of 20-50 ha forest plots, each comprising the species identity, size and location of >100,000 trees. The link to the microscopic scale of individual plants allows us to integrate ecological detail in unprecedented ways, while keeping the theory tractable. Such a comprehensive and highly integrated research endeavour can only be tackled within the frame-work of a large project and will be a ground breaking advance at this final frontier of ecological research. The project will provide theoretical expectations and mechanistic understanding of how multiple (spatial) pattern and processes shape species richness, and reveal if simple laws govern the assembly and dynamics of complex species-rich communities. This proposal will also open the door to new research lines of spatial ecology to better understand and conserve biodiversity.

Keywords: computer simulation,forest dynamic model,in silicio biodiversity experiments,micro and macroscopic scales,spatial point process,stochasticity,separation of timescales,species interactions