Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Multi-property Compositionally Complex Magnets for Advanced Energy Applications (CoCoMag)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Austria,Sweden,Italy,Greece
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2987943.75
EU funding (EUR): 2987943.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Converting energy efficiently from renewable sources is crucial; however, the large-scale implementation of technologies such as e-mobility and wind turbine but also magnetic refrigeration will increase drastically the material intensity of strategic metals like rare-earths (RE) and cobalt. Magnets are key enablers of a net-zero emission scenario. As conversion technologies become more advanced, the required attributes of the magnets are now much more demanding and multifunctional, additionally required mechanical, thermal, mechanical stabilities will increase efficiency and lifetime of the devices. We live now in a cryogenic age and gas-compression cooling has not been changed for a century, with only incremental efficiency improvements over time. Magnetic refrigeration uses not only Nd-based permanent magnets, the same as used for the e-motor, to drive the magnetic heat pump but also heavy REs such as Gd for the magnetocaloric heat exchanger. In the CoCoMag proposal, we are targeting these two main applications, e-mobility and magnetic refrigeration, by implementing a disruptive approach for magnet design. Our idea is the use of compositionally complex alloys (CCA) based on hexagonal Fe2P- and MM´X-type compounds, derived from high entropy alloys, for the development of both permanent magnet and magnetocaloric materials without critical elements. With CCA, we can fully utilize the large degrees of freedom in the compositional space in a multi-element approach, leaving behind traditional metal alloying practised since Bronze Age. Using CCA, we address the primary magnetic properties AND the above equally important secondary engineering properties. We will use the theoretical predictions, experimental validation and machine learning cycle to reach our goals fast. Being successful with CoCoMag, we will be give answers to challenges on the path to the decarbonization and electrification of mobility and energy sectors using new magnets free of critical elements.

Keywords: compositionally complex alloys high entropy alloys magnetic materials permanent magnets magneto caloric applications
HOP-ON BLACK CARBON AND PARTICLE CHARGE MEASUREMENTS IN AVIATION EXHAUST EMISSIONS IN THE FRAME OF THE UNIC PROJECT (UNIC-BC)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Greece
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 402138.75
EU funding (EUR): 402138.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ongoing UNIC project aims to quantify real-world concentrations of aircraft-emitted gases and non-volatile particulate matter (nvPM) at cruising altitude, with a focus on elucidating their roles in contrail and contrail-cirrus formation, as well as aerosol–cloud interactions. The current hop-on proposal UNIC-BC, proposed by the widening beneficiary Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, seeks to develop advanced sensors and methodologies for measuring black carbon (BC) and particle charge (PC) in aircraft exhaust – both during flight and in test cell conditions. BC, a short-lived climate forcer with significant radiative forcing potential, remains underrepresented in aviation emissions inventories, despite its likely contribution to aviation’s non-CO2 climate impacts. Additionally, combustion processes generate bipolarly charged particles, and this charge may influence nucleation mechanisms during contrail formation, further affecting non-CO2 climate effects. A deeper understanding of how fuel type and engine operation influence BC and PC emissions is expected to significantly enhance climate impact modeling and improve the accuracy of emissions inventories. This widening activity not only addresses key research gaps identified in the original UNIC proposal but also enriches the project’s scientific outputs by providing more comprehensive data for inventorying and modeling. Moreover, it offers the widening partner valuable exposure to the cutting-edge domain of aviation emissions, fostering research and professional collaborations with established institutions in the field. It also extends UNIC’s outreach to a new Southern EU region, engaging local and regional stakeholders and strengthening the project's geographic and scientific impact

Keywords: black carbon,particle charge,optoacoustics,sensors,emissions
Next generation in-blood glucose monitoring using non-invasive optoacoustic sensing (GLUMON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Spain
Call: Medical Technology and Devices: from Lab to Patient (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITION-CHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2344210.5
EU funding (EUR): 2194210.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

GLUMON aims to leverage a new class of a biomedical optoacoustic sensor developed under the FETOpen project RSENSE (GA #862811) and offer the next generation of non-invasive biochemical in-vivo sensing. The preliminary sensor for non-invasive in-blood glucose sensing has already produced outstanding findings and places the technology well ahead of its competition. Addressing the limitations of existing sensors, mainly accurate non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood-glucose as well as comfort, the GLUMON sensor will better address diabetes healthcare needs. As a secondary goal and contingency plan, GLUMON will exploit this technology as a lipid sensor and build further potential by addressing the emerging precision nutrition market. The objectives of the GLUMON project are to: 1) mature the technology from a lab bench-top setup to a functional portable sensor prototype; 2) improve its market readiness level; 3) validate and demonstrate the sensor in the lab as well as in preclinical and clinical settings; 4) develop a sound business case and exploitation strategy; and 5) address regulatory and ethical requirements for this medical device in preparation for the next phase. The GLUMON consortium includes the key developers of the technology, two SMEs for prototyping, quality control and tech-to-market transition, and two university clinical partners for sensor validation. Key stakeholders (type-2 diabetes patients, patient advocacy groups, clinicians, health insurance) will be involved during the project to assess user needs and market requirements. Overall, the GLUMON sensor has the potential to play a critical role in future medicine by improving diabetes management and, more generally, by promoting new healthcare concepts in obesity and metabolic diseases, including early disease detection and home-based disease monitoring.

Keywords: optoacoustic sensing continuous glucose monitoring blood glucose type 2 diabetes
Air shower interferometry to advance astroparticle physics (CR-INTERFEROMETRY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The universe hosts a population of subatomic particles with astonishingly high kinetic energies, so-called cosmic rays. Where and how they obtain this energy is unknown. These particles initiate cascades of particles in the atmosphere called air showers. The particle interactions within air showers are not fully understood and probe a regime not easily accessible by particle accelerator experiments. I developed a new technique that applies interferometry on the radio emission from air showers. It improves the reconstruction accuracy of air shower properties and hence allows for better determination of the features of cosmic particles. The largest facility for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detection, the Pierre Auger Observatory, is upgrading its infrastructure to include 1660 radio antennas. This CoG facilitates the interferometric technique for the upgrade by deploying an accurate synchronisation system. The Southern Wide-view Gamma-ray Observatory is a next-generation facility, starting construction in 2026. This CoG augments it with 800 antennas to perform interferometry on air showers. By improving the air shower reconstruction of these facilities, we aim to extend their capabilities to address major open questions in astroparticle physics. Specifically, the combination of particle detection and interferometry is used to reach these objectives: - Determine which particles contribute to the cosmic-ray flux at the highest energies, by measuring air shower depth. - Accurately measure the hadronic interactions in air showers, by simultaneously detailed observations of the muon and electromagnetic components of air showers. The same technique is applied over a wide cosmic-ray energy range. - Observe astrophysical photons with energies above 1015 eV, to identify the most extreme particle accelerators in our galaxy. This CoG pioneers the interferometric air shower reconstruction on a large scale and will pave the way for its use in future projects.

Keywords: cosmic rays,air showers,hadronic interactions,gamma ray astronomy
ARCHITECTURES OF COAL AND MODERN EUROPE (ACME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496951.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496951.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

After centuries coalmining is ending in Europe. Few will be sorry to say goodbye to an industry that epitomises the causes and effects of climate change. But while its environmental impact is now starkly and painfully obvious, Architectures of Coal and Modern Europe (ACME) explores another side of coalmining whose legacies and residues remain in various and often unexpectedly progressive forms. It argues that, responding to the unique conditions of coalmining – underground working practices, labour struggles, economic primacy, and social and environmental degradation – architecture emerged as both site and transmitter of an intense and unprecedented level of technological and social innovation where advanced definitions of the social contract were developed and tested. ACME will provide a new synthesis of methodologies including architectural visualisation to reappraise their significance by exploring and establishing the architectures of coal as ecologies: forms, systems, networks and connections that existed both within and across the buildings and landscapes coalmining created. It argues that these ecologies were pivotal to the creation of what needs to be recognised as a coalmining épistémè – the coalscape – a pervasive, interdependent network of beliefs and practices that enfolded geologies, energies, bodies and space to exert a significant influence on the social and spatial foundation of modern Europe, including its welfare state projects and the origins of the European Union. By examining this overlooked and mostly disappeared collective of architectures and landscapes in Belgium, France, France, Poland and the United Kingdom, ACME will not only reveal how it represents a neglected but fundamental contribution to modern Europe but also provide a crucial new piece of intellectual infrastructure with which to rethink the critical intimacies between our energy sources, cultural and social lives and built environment that have contributed to the Anthropocene.

Keywords: architecture,space,twentieth century europe,modernity,coal,mining,visualisation,design,welfare state,controversy,media,landscape,heritage,obsolescence,culture,infrastructure,health,energy,modernism,the anthropocene,ecologies
Recovering Global Exchanges from Sub-Saharan Africa's Cultural and Political Magazines in the Age of Black Internationalism, 1918-68 (AFROPRESS)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497659.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497659.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sub-Saharan Africa is often bypassed in global histories and its print cultures seldom approached through a transnational lens. To recover a lost history of global engagement, AFROPRESS will turn to the subcontinent’s cultural and political magazines from the period 1918-68—a vast, yet slowly disappearing archive. These magazines played key roles in effecting change, from fuelling decolonisation to creating literary and artistic canons. AFROPRESS advances the hypothesis that magazines shaped this transformation through their global orientation, that is, the way they reached out, across borders within and beyond Sub-Saharan Africa, to Black internationalist and anticolonial networks. It will examine these dynamics in five countries: Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Africa and Madagascar. Recent efforts in digitising periodicals from these countries have created the perfect opportunity to explore these sources, often for the first time. To address gaps in the digital record, and to study the multifaceted nature of a range of periodicals, AFROPRESS will assemble a team with expertise in literary and periodical studies as well as art, book, social and political history. Its innovative strategy combines interviews with historical actors and research in diverse national and private archives across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. In so doing, AFROPRESS will break new ground on three levels. (1) Analytically, it will be a milestone in our understanding of the globally interactive nature and agency of cultural and political magazines from Sub-Saharan Africa. (2) Methodologically, it will open up periodical studies to further interdisciplinary inquiry and develop a model of exchange triangulating periodical studies, world literature and postcolonial and African studies. (3) Empirically, it will recover little-known sources that demand scholarly engagement, serving as a prompt for further digitisation efforts.

Keywords: literary,cultural and political magazines sub saharan africa global exchange black internationalism 1918 68
Evolutionary and Molecular Determinants of a Nutritional Polyphenism (ALTEREVO)

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: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Environmental fluctuations are a general challenge for organisms, exacerbated in the context of global change. Many animals evolve phenotypically plastic responses to adjust to new conditions. Polyphenism is an original mechanism that produces specialized morphs to track environmental changes. Whether the molecular mechanisms underlying polyphenism evolve from the acquisition of novel genes or the rewiring of conserved environment-sensing pathways is an unresolved and challenging question as it requires well-characterized regulatory networks, including the involvement of host-microbiota molecular interactions, and relevant phylogenetic frameworks to root the evolutionary steps through which polyphenism emerged. ALTEREVO aims to understand how a nutrient-sensitive polyphenism evolves and is regulated. It uses aphids and their symbionts, to characterize the molecular regulation of nutritional polyphenism, which induces alternative morphs adapted to distinct host plants, and to elucidate how this polyphenism machinery became genetically encoded. It also addresses for the first time the role of symbionts on the evolution and regulation of animal polyphenisms. To fulfil these objectives, ALTEREVO proposes an original approach linking the evolutionary, molecular and ecological components of polyphenism, and incorporating the involvement of symbionts. It relies on metabolomics to identify plant compounds inducing alternative phenotypes, large-scale gene expression and epigenetic analyses to reveal the molecular cascade regulating morph determination, functional characterization of candidate genes, and phylogenomics to elucidate nutritional polyphenism evolution. This project will lead major progress on the mechanisms allowing rapid phenotypic adjustments to environment fluctuations and on the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution in a holobiont context. These advances are of fundamental importance for assessing the resilience of populations to human-induced changes.

Keywords: phenotypic plasticity genetic innovations specialization morph determination insects symbionts
Federalism and Border Management in Greek Antiquity (FeBo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 668961.0
EU funding (EUR): 668961.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

"Federation for Peace in Ancient Greece” is the title of a well-known article published by J.A.O. Larsen in 1944 (Classical Philology 39: 145-62). As the world was being ravaged by war, Larsen wondered about the potential of federalism as a means of conflict resolution. The subject of his study was federal organisations in a broad sense in ancient Greece, but the research clearly stemmed from a question that is today becoming increasingly topical: can federal organisations limit or even eliminate intra-federal war? The project "FeBo: Federalism and Border Management in Greek Antiquity" starts from the assumption that the question above, which continues to be asked by scholars, no longer makes sense. Despite romantic projections, federalisation processes do not guarantee peaceful coexistence, neither within the constituent federal organisations nor on their external borders. This is true for both ancient Greece and the contemporary world. As far as ancient Greece is concerned (and perhaps not only ancient Greece), the question should focus rather on borders: how did the Greek federal states deal with the problem of internal (intra-federal) as well as external borders? The aim of this project is to demonstrate that (a) Greek federal states implemented precise border management policies; (b) these policies did not aim at peaceful coexistence, but rather at maintaining a balance of power and stability; and (c) in order to be successful, these strategies had to take into account economic, ethnic, cultural and religious networks, i.e. there had to be a multi-level policy of border management. In order to prove these points, it will be necessary to adopt a holistic perspective that takes into account not only political borders, but also everyone and everything that crossed and animated these, giving rise in turn to economic/cultural/ethnic/religious networks or even communities of destiny, which were of crucial importance for the stability of a federal state. Politics was not enough. Much more was needed.

Keywords: federalism,borders,koinon,peace,war,balance of power
Multi-commodities microbial-driven BiOrefinery based on food-processing industry wastes, biogenic CO2 and bioprocess wastewaters (GoodByO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Austria,Greece,Czechia
Call: Robust and optimised industrial biotech and chemical/industrial biotech processes (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4929060.0
EU funding (EUR): 4929060.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

GoodByO seeks at creating a new generation multi-commodities biorefinery based on food waste, biogenic CO2, and bioprocess wastewaters for resource-efficient valorization of sustainable feedstocks. GoodByO will apply this visionary concept at ChainCraft BV bio-plant by valorizing its gaseous and liquid side-streams as zero-cost feedstocks. By exploiting the metabolic diversity of microbial catalysts, four different microbial factories (MF) will be developed: -MF1: open culture chain elongation process for bio-octanoic acid production; -MF2: gas fermentation process for bio-hexanol production from biogas and green H2; -MF3: novel anaerobic photoautotrophic biogas desulfurization process; - MF4: wastewaters-based mixotrophic microalgal process for high-value carotenoids production. The project target relies in the validation of long-term production stability of the developed bioprocesses at TRL5, using real feedstocks, to provide transferable outcomes for further scale-up at higher TRLs. GoodByO will also design an in silico 100% renewable energy system capable of sustaining the fluctuating demand of the integrated biorefinery over time, by adopting biomethanation process as grid-balancing system. GoodByO targets to produce biobased products meeting market requirements at cost-competitive selling price with benchmarks, to boost end users companies in substituting fossil- and palm-oil based products with biobased ones. The successful scale-up and the market penetration of GoodByO processes will strongly increase EU global leadership in the Manufacturing biotech-Industry while advancing CO2-utilizing biotechnologies for developing a carbon-negative economy.

Keywords: microbial factories sustainable feedstocks co2 valorization renewable energy high value products