Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The next step towards the elimination of iodine deficiency and preventable iodine-related disorders in Europe (EUthyroid2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Norway,Poland,Cyprus,Slovenia,Sweden,United Kingdom,Canada,Bangladesh,Belgium,Pakistan
Call: Non-communicable diseases risk reduction in adolescence and youth (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD) (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2567165.0
EU funding (EUR): 2567165.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The iodine status is a primary determinant of thyroid disorders, which are a major cause of morbidity, particularly in women. In addition, even mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy is related to neurocognitive impairment in the offspring. Iodine deficiency imposes tremendous costs on the health-care systems of affected regions, but can easily be prevented by iodine fortification programmes. In many countries, iodine deficiency receives surprisingly little publicity. The initial EUthyroid consortium evaluated European prevention programmes against iodine deficiency and uncovered major limitations including the low awareness on the importance of iodine for healthy living. EUthyroid2 will now fill important gaps in the prevention of iodine deficiency in Europe and beyond. The main objective of EUthyroid2 is to improve the low awareness with respect to iodine deficiency-related risks in adolescents and young women. The major aim is to find best practice models for accessing and informing them to increase their awareness and to improve their iodine status in order to lay the foundation for their own thyroid and general health and that of their offspring. Implementation studies and community-based randomised-controlled trials will be conducted with the objective of increasing iodine-related awareness in adolescents and young women up to age of 24 before pregnancy. The interventions are multimodal and performed in the two settings educational system and ambulatory care in eight study regions. As public health project EUthyroid2 is not only science, but will also serve our societies. Therefore, dissemination of findings to various sectors of our countries and the EU will be of utmost importance. By finding best practice models to raise the awareness on the importance of iodine for a healthy life of their own and their offspring in young people, EUthyroid2 will lay the foundation for a cost-effective way to eradicate iodine deficiency-related disorders.

Keywords: iodine deficiency pregnancy offspring neurocognition prevention intervention
POlarised Electroweak Bosons at the LHC with Improved Theoretical Accuracy (POEBLITA)

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: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Extracting the polarisation of electroweak (EW) bosons from Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) data represents a crucial step towards a deep understanding of the electroweak-symmetry-breaking (EWSB) mechanism realised in nature. Therefore, an accurate and realistic theoretical modelling is needed for polarised-boson production and decay in relevant LHC processes. In order to improve the current theoretical accuracy for polarised-bosons processes and to enable direct comparisons with experimental data, this research aims at the inclusion of higher-order corrections in the strong and EW couplings through a matching of fixed-order predictions to parton-shower programs. This will be carried out within the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, as well as in the presence of beyond-the-SM effects, allowing for broad phenomenological investigations of the EWSB and fostering the development of polarisation taggers (also using modern machine-learning techniques) that will be beneficial for upcoming LHC analyses.

Keywords: lhc,polarisation,electroweak,qcd,matching,parton shower
Hardware Abstraction Layer for a European Software Defined Vehicle approach (HAL4SDV)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Austria,Czechia,France,Germany,Italy,Lithuania,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,Türkiye,Finland,Sweden,Israel
Call: Focus Topic on Hardware abstraction layer for a European Vehicle Operating System (RIA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 61616801.25
EU funding (EUR): 17079262.09
Participants: 66
Project status: SIGNED

The HAL4SDV proposal aligns with the EU Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2022 on Electronic Components and Systems. It aims to pioneer methods, technologies, and processes for series vehicle development beyond 2030, driven by anticipated advancements in microelectronics, communication technology, software engineering, and AI. HAL4SDV envisions a future where vehicles are fully integrated into smart cities, intelligent highways, and cyberspace, blurring the lines between inside and outside the vehicle. Assumptions include data-centricity, code portability, efficient data fusion, unlimited scalability, real-time capabilities, and robust cybersecurity. The objectives encompass unifying software interfaces, creating a hardware abstraction framework, enabling Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, designing platform architectures, ensuring hardware abstraction and virtualization, offering hardware support, automating integration, supporting safety features, harnessing edge computing, implementing security measures, and providing essential development tools. By focusing on these objectives, HAL4SDV aims to establish a unified ecosystem for software-defined vehicles, positioning Europe's automotive industry for continued leadership post-2030 while leveraging existing results and technologies to accelerate progress.

Keywords: automotive,software defined vehicle,electronics,e e architecture,embedded systems,safety critical systems,unified architecture,standardization,cybersecurity,safety,open source
QUANTUM-OPTIC SILICON AS A COMMODITY – HOP ON (QOSIHOP)

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: Austria,Greece
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 593681.25
EU funding (EUR): 593681.25
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The QOSiLICIOUS EIC Pathfinder project set out to make Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) broadly accessible by addressing scalability and cost challenges. Its all-silicon approach led to the development of compact, cost-effective, and easily deployable chip-scale QKD (QOSI modules), enabling the transformation of QKD into a commodity technology. These modules now provide robust security for zero-trust environments, protecting critical infrastructures such as smart cities, energy grids, transport systems, IoT, and personal devices. While the original proposal focused on point-to-point QKD demonstrations, real-world secure IP or Ethernet communications require end-to-end QKD across complex multi-domain networks. Security is ultimately constrained by the weakest link—often the last meters of free-space or mobile access. With the addition of UOA as a partner and exploiting their proven expertise in large QKD network deployments and testing and their background on network integration and free-space quantum communications, QOSIHOP expands the vision by: 1. Integrating chip-scale QKD into large, heterogeneous network environments and validating performance in multi-vendor, multi-layer deployments. 2. Developing switched-QKD for optimized use of widespread QOSI modules. 3. Extending free-space QKD to mobile access scenarios, including drone-based communications. The addition of UOA broadens QOSiLICIOUS’ reach by providing access to new application areas and offers Greece’s national QKD infrastructure, as a widening country, access to cutting edge QKD technology. UOA ensures project outcomes align with real deployment needs, strengthening long-term impact. UOA also engages skilled researchers, boosting collaboration and training opportunities and gains from technology transfer, photonic integration know-how, and management experience, enhancing its role in Europe’s quantum communications ecosystem.

Keywords: quantum key distribution,free space optics quantum communications,quantum secure networks,drone based quantum communications,end to end quantum encrypted networks,secure 5g 6g networks
Intangible and Invisible Interests, Concealed Constituents and Excluded Electorates: Understanding the Politics of Absence (INCONEX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499956.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Political representation is about presence and absence. Yet, does advocating for ‘the poor’ mean not advocating for ‘the rich’, representing rural interests not representing urban ones, and speaking for young people neglecting the concerns of the elderly? Political scientists have solid theories and empirics on who is made present in the political process, but lack an understanding of the politics of absence – who is made absent by whom, how, when, and why? Amid an urgent crisis of representation in modern democracies, this research uncovers crucial power dynamics (who & whom?), identifies inequalities (how, when & why?) and addresses policy gaps (what to do?). Building on the PI’s record of leading research on political representation, INCONEX fundamentally pushes the boundaries of the field: It is the first to develop a comprehensive conceptualization of representative absence. It identifies two agents of absence – representatives and citizens – and two types of absence – intentional and unintentional. Representatives can intentionally exclude groups from the electorate (e.g., migrants), but also unintentionally overlook them because their interests are intangible (e.g., future generations). Constituents may deliberately conceal themselves (e.g., ‘the rich’) or their interests remain invisible because they are unaware of their group belonging (e.g., ‘those in need’). Methodologically, INCONEX develops and applies qualitative and computational social science techniques to map presence and absence in national and EU-level parliamentary debate over time. To understand the mechanisms that shape different representative absences, INCONEX uses in-depth interviews with members of national parliaments (MPs) and the European Parliament (MEPs), and focus groups with their constituencies. Based on this extensive data collection, the project builds a comprehensive theory of representative absence and the politics behind it – its manifestations, causes, and implications.

Keywords: representation,parliaments,citizens,european union,mixed methods
V-PURE Variable-Pore Ultra Recycling Effluent and Water Treatment (V-PURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2401000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2401000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

V-PURE: Revolutionizing Urban Wastewater Treatment for a Circular Economy An innovative technology for treatment of urban wastewater and complete reuse of purified water and its by-products using variable-pore microfiltration (VPMF). V-PURE is a deep-tech breakthrough in water management that addresses global water scarcity and environmental strain by transforming wastewater treatment. Current biological methods are resource-intensive, requiring extensive land, high energy, and complex operations. WTD's innovation is the Variable-Pore Ultra Recycling Effluent (V-PURE) system: an unprecedented, integrated solution combining Direct Filtration of Sewage (DFS) using Variable-Pore Microfiltration (VPMF) with a complete circular economy loop for resource recovery. This system eliminates high-energy biological treatment, delivering unmatched efficiency: - Cost & Footprint: around 50% lower CAPEX and >80% smaller land footprint. - Energy & Resilience: $40-60% energy savings, achieving near energy-neutral operation, and is fully resilient to temperature/toxic substances. - Resource Recovery: Captures sludge for anaerobic digestion and purifies the resulting biogas CO2 for commercial resale (beverage industry), creating a new revenue stream. - Water Reuse: Produces superior quality water (Class A/B) for agricultural reuse, supporting EU Reg. 2020/741. The project aims to reach TRL 8 via two crucial pilot plants: a municipal DFS unit and a mobile emergency trailer (for disaster relief). The EUR 2.4M EIC grant is essential to de-risk this high-capital TRL 6 to TRL 8 scale-up, positioning WTD to establish European leadership in sustainable water technology and creating a new global paradigm for water security and resource circularity.

Keywords: circular economy,wasterwater,water reuse,vpmf,direct filtration,dfs,energy neutrality,co2 valorisation,emergency water,resilience,opex reduction,water scarcity,sustainability
Global Alliance for Chronic Disease Secretariat (GACD4)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Other health destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Grant to the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) (HORIZON-HLTH-2025-04-IBA, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 635477.0
EU funding (EUR): 635477.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), launched in 2009 is an alliance of international health research funders, galvanised by concern at the stark statistics on the ever-increasing burden of chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) particularly in poorly resourced settings. These diseases and conditions include both major contributors to mortality such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory diseases, cancer and mental health conditions, but also to a broader range of chronic conditions causing significant morbidity and cause a huge inequitable health burden. Within the the alliance the funders have agreed a common mission to reduce the burden of chronic NCDs in underserved populations within low and middle income countries and within high income countries (HIC) amongst populations where health disparities exist, for example Indigenous Populations. GACD’s strategic intent is to provide research outcomes that readily inform practices and policies for prevention and management of NCDs and to minimise the systematic and avoidable differences in the health status of different underserved population groups within and between countries. The GACD Secretariat supports its member agencies by coordinating and facilitating :- the strategic prioritisation and management of joint research funding calls; capacity and capability strengthening for implementation research; and in promoting the likelihood of impact, by fostering collaborative working across the GACD Research Network, communicating and disseminating collated outputs and outcomes and partnering with external advocacy and policy influencing partners.

Keywords: chronic noncommunicable disease,underserved populations,health disparities,research
sCO2 Operating Pumped Thermal Energy Storage for grid/industry cooperation (SCO2OP-TES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Spain,Greece,France,United Kingdom,Sweden,Portugal,Czechia
Call: Development of novel long-term electricity storage technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4701873.75
EU funding (EUR): 4701873.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

SCO2OP-TES project aims to develop and validate up to TRL5 in UNIGE-TP lab the next generation of Power-to-heat-to-power (P2H2P) energy storage able to guarantee long duration and large scale energy storage to facilitate bulky RES integration in EU energy systems as well as to enhance fossil based power plants flexibilization and facilitate grid integration of EU industries. SCO2OP-TES promotes indeed a new paradigm where industrial WH (even at low temperature like 150-200°C) can be used not only to produce power via ORC or sCO2 Cycles, but to operate P2H2P storage systems more efficiently and grid flexibly. The consortium is composed by innovative SMEs and acknowledged EU RTOs, motivated to realize the first sCO2 PTES pilot plant in Europe. Leveraging experiences from previous EU Funded projects (SHARP-sCO2, CO2OLHEAT, SOLARSCO2OL etc.) as well as from acknowledged RTOs (UNIGE, CVR, KTH, POLIMI, CERTH, UoB) and industrial partners (EDPP, EDP-NEW, HERON,), SCO2OP-TES the potential of “sCO2 BASED CARNOT BATTERIES” based on innovative Molten Salt TES (KYOTO, RPOW) and sCO2 HEXs (AL) and turbomachinery (ENOGIA, SIT) targeting to assess the potential benefit of valorising local WH to optimize round-trip-efficiency and reduce TES size/CAPEX while optimizing local grid/power plant flexibility needs. Via its pilot and replication campaign (involving further CCGTs in Greece and Portugal), SCO2OP-TES promotes the role of P2H2P as key enabling long duration/large scale energy storage technology to boost RES integration in EU energy systems. PC-TECO will develop and validate key enabling technologies (HEXs, turbomachinery, TES) and modelling approaches (Dynamics, thermoeconomic, grid flexibility potential assessment) to make EU leader in the field of P2H2P solutions, boosting WH Recovery as well as fostering a storage solution based on rotating-machine and therefore more grid flexible and environmentally friendly if compared to battery or power-to-H2 storage solutions.

Keywords: power to heat to power,carnot battery,sco2 turbomachinery,long duration energy storage,pumped thermal energy storage,innovative thermal energy storage
The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development (GLOBCOADEV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1370996.25
EU funding (EUR): 1370996.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Healthy coastal waters play a critical role for global food security. Worldwide, the ocean sustains the livelihood of more than 3 billion people, the vast majority of which live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Worryingly, recent evidence shows that human contamination of coastal waters is having a significant impact on marine life. With a large share of communities relying on fishing for survival, it is likely that coastal water contamination is already disrupting local socio-economic development in LMICs. However, knowledge about this phenomenon remains highly limited. GLOBCOADEV will provide novel insights into the causal effect of coastal water contamination on economic development. Using a novel approach exploiting exogenous variation in coastal water contamination determined by rivers' release and by climate change, we will identify this effect for the last five decades and at a global scale for all LMICs. By gathering a wide array of micro-level datasets, ranging from household surveys to satellite imaging, and applying advanced micro-econometric techniques, we will pursue three major objectives: 1) to provide the first global evidence of the effect of coastal water contamination on early-childhood development, focusing in particular on the role of nutrition; 2) to determine how coastal water contamination affects local economic activities, concentrating on the pattern of fishing and on indicators of overall economic development; 3) to investigate side effects of coastal water contamination that are impacting local economic development, which include changes in political attitudes, the insurgence of violence, and rural-urban migration. GLOBCOADEV will not only fill an important gap in the literature, but also inform the design of policies protecting the environment. As highlighted by UN's Sustainable Development Goals, knowledge in this area is crucially needed in these challenging times for the ocean.

Keywords: ocean,early childhood development,economic development,fishing,conflict,political attitudes,migration