Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SUBSTITUTION OF RARE-EARTHS FOR ADVANCED NOVEL MAGNETS IN ENERGY AND TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS (BEETHOVEN)

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: Spain,Denmark,Cyprus,Greece,Armenia,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Slovenia,Sweden
Call: Advanced materials for magnets in applications for the New Energies Market (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6759523.75
EU funding (EUR): 6759523.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Modern technologies required for the transition to a climate-resilient sustainable green and digital future (wind generators, electric motors) heavily rely on rare-earth (REE) permanent magnets. However, with China covering 98% of the supply to Europe in 2022, the continent is left in an extremely vulnerable position with respect to these critical raw materials. In this framework, BEETHOVEN seeks to address the challenge brought forward in the Topic description to reduce the amount of REE employed in the new energy sector. The main goal of the project is to develop innovative and sustainable advanced magnetic materials that substitute REE in the energy and transportation sectors. We will work on developing and upscaling 3 types of magnetic phases: high-entropy alloys, ferrite-based composites and W-type ferrites, that could be deployed at large scale in the permanent magnets market. Substitution will be demonstrated in final applications by developing REE-bonded magnets for automotive components, and by designing and building prototypes for a REE-lean wind generator, a REE-free flywheel and a REE-free/lean e-motor for electric vehicles. With a total budget of 7.5 Million €, balanced between the parallel technological developments and across the project´s value chain, BEETHOVEN will address the 6 activities specified in the Topic Description. To do so, a team of experts from 14 partners and 10 countries -with demonstrated experience working collaboratively at the frontier of knowledge in the permanent magnet sector- has been assembled. The successful implementation of the project is expected to put BEETHOVEN in the position to contribute to the expected outcomes and wider impacts of the call by reducing Europe´s REE magnets imports by an estimated 2,200-4,900 tons by 2033. The key technologies, skills and materials to achieve this impact will be developed within EU borders, contributing to a more resilient, autonomous and industrially competitive Europe.

Keywords: permanent magnets rare earth substitution
Coherent control of spin chains in graphene nanostructures (CONSPIRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2988750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2988750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Elementary nuclear and electronic spins are called to be key components in the second quantum revolution. Their atomic-scale integration into scalable platforms with tunable interactions is a demand that I will address in CONSPIRA by synthetizing graphene architectures with interacting spin chains, using customized on-surface reactions of organic precursors, and by controlling their quantum state through microwave spectroscopies. I envision the formation of collective magnetic states through the assembly of interacting electronic and nuclear spins in periodic arrays with atomically precise spacings. Through rational design and synthesis strategies, we will tune spin interactions via the graphene host and hyperfine coupling, with the goal of bringing the quantum state of the arrays into different regimes of energy, coherence, and topology. To access the broad energy range of such multiscale interacting system and to probe its quantum dynamics, we will combine two antagonist experimental techniques like Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). This will be realized by incorporating superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators (CWRs) as substrate of a low temperature STM. We will use QED techniques to couple the resonant states of spin chains with microwave photons of the resonator, while the STM tip acts as a local gate. The MHz and picometer resolution of this new type of spectrometer will enable us to study the quantum coherence of the spin arrays and undertake the coherent control of distant nuclear states entangled through the electronic spin system, a potential system for QED-based quantum computation. CONSPIRA will provide a new platform for quantum spins, and methods to address and manipulate their coherent state. The combination of QED and STM represents a ground-breaking experimental development, which is called to boost studies of general correlated phenomena in condensed matter physics.

Keywords: graphene nanoribbons on surface synthesis scanning tunneling microscopy electron spin resonance microwave resonators nuclear spins hyperfine coupling collective magnetism spin chains and lattices
6G-PATH: 6G Pilots and Trials Through Europe (6G-PATH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Finland,Romania,Portugal,France,Spain,Ireland,Cyprus,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Italy
Call: SNS Large Scale Trials and Pilots (LST&Ps) with Verticals – Focused Topic (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15071644.75
EU funding (EUR): 12571341.13
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

The path towards 6G is beginning now that 5G matured and is being deployed worldwide both publicly and privately. While 5G brought a step up in many fields, such as, performance and efficiency, more is always expected in terms of efficiency by the overall community and in terms of performance by industry and technology providers who want to further increase their offerings and products. Continuous demands for higher throughput, lower latency and more energy efficient communications needs to be supported by relevant use cases that can claim and demonstrate the needs for these requests. 6G-PATH goal is to help foster the further development and integration of new and improved tools and products from EU companies with 5G/6G, while also measuring relevant KPIs and KVIs. To achieve this, 7 testbeds will be part of the project consortium, which will be used by 10 use cases spread across four key verticals: Health, Education, Smart Cities and Farming. Moreover, a relevant portion of the budget will be used for FSTP, where we envision the integration of 2 new Pilot Sites, extend the testbeds with 10 additional technologies, as well as 30 new Use Cases, through Open Calls, to further involve the community and obtain more metrics and outcomes. 6G-PATH plans to work closely with other ongoing/starting Stream-B and Stream-C projects in a feedback loop, where the innovations that partners are achieving in other projects can be deployed and further tested by our pool of use cases and Open Calls, while sharing our results and outcomes to further cement the innovation being made.

Keywords: 6g,b5g,aiaas,aaa,closed loop coordination,education,energy efficient communications,farming,health,kpis,kvis,saas,slicing,smart cities,verticals
Characterising Heterostructures and Integrated Methodologies for Electronic Real-time Analysis in 2D Materials (CHIMERA)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

The next wave of electronic quantum devices requires the development of solid-state systems showcasing distinct quantum properties. The ongoing intensive research has pinpointed promising quantum systems in 2D materials, particularly those derived from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Their properties are typically investigated in two distinct and separate phases. Initially, electronic states and transitions between them are studied through optical spectroscopy. The material is then embedded in a device whose electrical response is characterised by using electron transport spectroscopy. This workflow, however, fails to capture events such as grain boundaries formation, defects, and carrier scattering sources that happen when the device is operating and are major factors for performance deterioration and energy wastage. As a result, the correlation between material structure modifications and quantum properties remains largely unexplored. This action seeks to bridge this gap by merging both techniques into a unified, real-time methodology. I will produce wafer-sized TMDs layers using a novel synthesis technique compatible with industry routines for large-scale manufacturing. I will then fabricate TMD-based field-effect transistors and monitor the optical response of the channel whilst charge carriers flow through it. This will provide a fundamental understanding of rapid ageing effects in nanoscale transistors. Ultimately, using this knowledge, I aim to fabricate energy-efficient logic gates with TMDs.

Keywords: 2d materials,physical synthesis of nanostructures,in operando spectroscopies,thin film growth,synchrotron radiation,x ray optical excited luminescence,photoelectron spectroscopy
Advancing Capacity and analytical Tools for supporting Common Agricultural Policies post 2027 (ACT4CAP27)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Spain,Ukraine,Belgium,Hungary,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: Advancing analytical capacity and tools to support EU agri-food policies post 2027 (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5434000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5434000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The Common Agricultural Policy is the European Union's flagship policy for supporting the agricultural sector, ensuring food security, and safeguarding rural development while it is also a key tool for reaching the objectives of the European Green Deal, including the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity Strategy. With these policy strategies, the EU aims for more sustainable food systems. Effectively supporting the policy impact assessment in this new context is a great challenge for the existing quantitative modelling tools as it requires them to substantially enhance the thematic coverage to comprehensively address all the components of the European Green Deal and ensure consistency with the monitoring systems in place. ACT4CAP27 responses to this challenge by enhancing the analytical capacity of the key policy tools (CAPRI,GLOBIOM,MAGNET,AGMEMOD) used by the European Commission to assess short-term and long-term policy impacts on EU’s agri-food systems and providing evidence-based knowledge supporting analysis for the design of agri-food policies post 2027. ACT4CAP27 develops a consistent, interdisciplinary methodological framework to operationalise and quantify relevant aspects of the EU agri-food system and related policies post 2027 and their economic, social (including health), environmental and climate sustainability impacts. Act4CAP27 addresses the main shortcomings of current modelling tools with its Act4CAP27 Modular Toolbox for EU Food System Modelling which provides a basis for innovation by creating a collaborative space and a modular model infrastructure for the whole EU agri-food research community and beyond. The Act4CAP27 Dissemination and Stakeholder Platform establishes an appropriate and inclusive engagement with stakeholders to co-create, communicate, and disseminate Act4CAP27 research results. ACT4CAP27 launches an Interactive Roadmap for guiding EU, national and regional policy makers weigh up policy objectives towards more sustainable outcomes.

Keywords: food systems,modelling,capacity building,environmental impacts
Liver Electronic Offering Platform with Artificial intelligence-based Devices (LEOPARD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Italy,Spain,Luxembourg,Portugal,Belgium,Switzerland,Germany
Call: Computational models for new patient stratification strategies (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-12-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6530108.55
EU funding (EUR): 6320857.3
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Liver transplantation (LT) is a life-saving procedure for decompensated cirrhosis (DC) and hepato-cellular carcinoma (HCC). Its efficacy is hampered by the risk of death/drop-out on the Wait List (WL). This risk is driven by organ shortage and is mitigated by organ offering schemes. According to a sickest first policy, offering schemes prioritize LT candidates with the highest risk of dying, as assessed by predictive models. To drive allocation, Organ Sharing Organizations (OSOs) use a 20-year-old model, the MELD, predicting mortality in DC but not in HCC. Because of a dramatic increase in % of HCC candidates (40% against 10% in early 20ties), MELD schemes are increasingly inaccurate, with persisting 15 to 30% mortality in countries with low/medium donation rate. This scenario, together with advances in prognosis in DC and HCC candidates and statistics, prompts LT community to look for up-dated algorithms to refine offering schemes. To address this issue, key European LT stakeholders including OSOs, experts in LT, Statisticians, Research Labs and SME joined LEOPARD. Building on an innovative, harmonized OSOs pre-LT dataset and advances in modeling, LEOPARD propose to design and validate 1) an AI-based LEOPARD predictive algorithm outperforming current allocation models by better stratifying patients on the risk of mortality, to be proposed OSOs to drive allocation; 2) DC & HCC LEOPARD calculators available for professional for assistance in complex decision-making processes; 3) OMICs/radiomics predictive signatures integrated in a prototype 3rd-generation exploratory model. We expect to generate computational tools improving candidates’ outcomes, with more patients transplanted on time. Adoption of these tools should result in harmonization of European heterogeneous prioritization schemes, and in a signification reduction in disparities of access to LT, a major objective pointed out by EC. LEOPARD should place Europe in leading position for organ offering schemes.

Keywords: liver transplantation organ offering schemes organ sharing organizations,machine learning algorithms,omics,decompensated cirrhosis,hepato cellular carcinoma
Inspiring New doctorate Candidates to Empower the Production of interconverTIble and Optimized ziNc-based batteries and supercapacitors (INCEPTION)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Denmark,Austria,Malta,Cyprus,Greece,Brazil,India,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4653554.66
EU funding (EUR): 4532802.48
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

To respond to the incredibly challenging development of efficient manufacturing and recycling methods of energy storage devices and the significant shortage of young generation talents in this field, INCEPTION - Doctoral Network is proposed. It will provide an excellent triple-I (Interdisciplinary/Intersectoral/International) research and training network, which aims to face Zinc-based energy storage development (i) by exploring the innovative idea of supporting the development of rechargeable batteries (RB) and supercapacitors (SC) by early addressing recyling&manufacturing within Safe and Sustainable by Design framework (ii) by exploiting excellent expertise and advanced technologies at leading universities, research centers, enterprises, and associations across EU, UK, India, and Brazil. This will maximize their ability to convert new knowledge/ideas into products and services for the industrial, social, and economic benefit, and thereafter becoming the future leaders in academia, industry, and the public sector, which is crucial for the EU. With its triple-I-dimension spans 7 major scientific disciplines (electrochemistry, physics, materials engineering, chemistry, electronics, computational science, economics). The resulting highly integrated, international, intersectoral, interdisciplinary collaboration will enable the delivery of 15 Ph.D. degrees (13 beneficiaries). All Ph. D fellowships are devoted to singular and intercrossed (high interconnection between candidates) aspects that are crucial to meet the energy storage challenges of EU, recognized by the HEU, the Batt4EUPartnership, and UN Sustainable Development Goals. The strong interaction across the scientific themes is crucial for: (a) the training-through-research, (b) the knowledge sharing, (c) the development of novel materials for RB and SC and new workflows for effective recycling&manufacturing within a SSbD framework, as well as potential business marketing for technological outcomes.

Keywords: rechargeable zinc air batteries supercapacitors recycling manufacturing safe and sustainable by design operando techniques digital twins grid integration
Rapid In-situ Synthesis of high Entropy oxides for next-generation thermal barrier coatings (RISE)

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: Sweden,Austria,Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 315225.0
EU funding (EUR): 315225.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to develop a streamlined, one-step method for producing and applying high entropy oxide (HEO) coatings using solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) technology. This approach will bridge the gap between HEOs' remarkable laboratory properties and their practical applications, such as thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) for gas turbine engines. HEOs are a new class of ceramics where multiple metals, in equiatomic proportions, are randomly arranged on cationic sites within an oxygen anion lattice. The high configurational entropy of these multi-cation systems ensures excellent phase stability and advantageous thermo-physical properties. Research on processing HEOs via thermal spray for TBCs is currently limited due to difficulties in synthesizing high-quality HEO particles in sufficient quantities. Traditional methods produce nanoparticles that require further processing, which can be labor-intensive and may introduce impurities that affect the HEO properties. The SPPS method overcomes these challenges by using metal salt solutions as feedstock, which react in situ within the plasma to form and subsequently deposit metal oxides directly onto the substrate. This method simplifies the process and allows for greater control over the coating's microstructure, enhancing its properties. The project will take place at University West, Sweden, where SPPS expertise and infrastructure are available. A secondment at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Republic, will provide advanced deposition and characterization facilities. Additionally, a non-academic placement at Treibacher Industries, Austria, will offer industry experience and resources for commercializing the project. The researcher will gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge equipment, engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, and acquire insights into both academic and industrial applications, significantly benefiting their future career prospects.

Keywords: high entropy materials,thermal spray coatings,thermal barrier coatings,liquid feedstock,solution precursor plasma spray