Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Dynamics-Aware Theory of Deep Learning (DYNASTY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498410.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498410.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The recent advances in deep learning (DL) have transformed many scientific domains and have had major impacts on industry and society. Despite their success, DL methods do not obey most of the wisdoms of statistical learning theory, and the vast majority of the current DL techniques mainly stand as poorly understood black-box algorithms. Even though DL theory has been a very active research field in the past few years, there is a significant gap between the current theory and practice: (i) the current theory often becomes vacuous for models with large number of parameters (which is typical in DL), and (ii) it cannot capture the interaction between data, architecture, training algorithm and its hyper-parameters, which can have drastic effects on the overall performance. Due to this lack of theoretical understanding, designing new DL systems has been dominantly performed by ad-hoc, 'trial-and-error' approaches. The main objective of this proposal is to develop a mathematically sound and practically relevant theory for DL, which will ultimately serve as the basis of a software library that provides practical tools for DL practitioners. In particular, (i) we will develop error bounds that closely reflect the true empirical performance, by explicitly incorporating the dynamics aspect of training, (ii) we will develop new model selection, training, and compression algorithms with reduced time/memory/storage complexity, by exploiting the developed theory. To achieve the expected breakthroughs, we will develop a novel theoretical framework, which will enable tight analysis of learning algorithms in the lens of dynamical systems theory. The outcomes will help relieve DL from being a black-box system and avoid the heuristic design process. We will produce comprehensive open-source software tools adapted to all popular DL libraries, and test the developed algorithms on a wide range of real applications arising in computer vision, audio/music/natural language processing.

Keywords: machine learning deep learning theory dynamical systems
Electrical COmpetitive PROPUlsion (ECOPROPU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Belgium,Italy
Call: Technologies and generic building blocks for Electrical Propulsion (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2931218.75
EU funding (EUR): 2105815.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Faced with the increasing demands of satellite contractors in terms of costs and mission capabilities, the EU’s space sector must be ready to react as quickly as possible to the needs related to the evolution of space infrastructures and markets to stand out from the competition at global level. Electric Propulsion (EP), based on Hall-Effect Thruster (HET), is strategic to foster the EU’s space sector competitiveness. Europe needs competitive EP Systems or EPS (combination of a Power Processing Unit (PPU) driving and delivering electrical power to a HET). The PPU has a strong impact on the EPS cost and performances. Completed in 2021, the H2020 GaNOMIC project demonstrated the feasibility of major disruptive technologies for the PPU. A PPU based on these technologies will open the way to extend drastically the mission field capability and efficiency of EPS, pushing propulsion systems to an unprecedented level of competitiveness, capability, and efficiency. To achieve these impacts, ECOPROPU, takes over from GaNOMIC and will develop five key generic Building Blocks for the PPU which are crucial to unlock the target performances of the EPS: three functions of the PPU (Anode module, Digital processing module, Magnet power converter) and two other Building Blocks on which the Anode module rely (DAB digital controller and Planar transformer). ECOPROPU will also prepare and evaluate the HET adaptation to high voltage operation brought by this innovative PPU by better understanding stability and magnet-related phenomena and a complete operation mapping of a large domain thruster (2-7kW, 250-700V operating domain). The impact of this project will be to give the consortium industry the capacity by 2025 to develop disruptive and economic PPU and versatile EPS (medium to high power class), allowing to reach a European worldwide leadership in EPS and offer to European space primes and agencies improved performances and cost reduction for their space missions.

Keywords: electric propulsion systems,power processing unit,hall effect thruster,high voltage,high power,dual mode,low cost
Designing Many-Particle Wavefunctions in Mesoscopic Quantum Devices (MaPWave)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Atomically thin semiconductors are emerging as an important class of quantum materials that provide groundbreaking functionalities in device architectures. In particular, tailoring quantum degrees of freedom associated with charge, spin and orbital quantum numbers, as well as twist angle, could enable novel electronic, spintronic, valleytronic and twistronic applications. These fascinating properties are all contained in the quantum mechanical wavefunctions associated with the charge carrying electrons and holes of the semiconductors. Here, I will prepare heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors and use the strong many-body interactions in the materials to generate condensates of electron-hole pair excitations. The many-body wavefunctions of these so-called exciton condensates will be visualised for the first time using advanced photoemission spectroscopies that provide complementary access to the energy-, momentum-, time- and length-scales of the excitations. I hypothesise that this fundamental level of control of the underlying quantum mechanisms of the semiconductors will ultimately enable highly specific quantum engineering of 2D optoelectronic devices. I will combine my expertise on non-equilibrium femtosecond dynamics of 2D semiconductors with the capabilities of my host group at Aarhus University, Denmark, in order to gain access to multiple photoemission spectroscopy experiments with nanoscale spatial resolution and femtosecond time-resolution, as well as 2D material fabrication facilities. These new skills and networking opportunities will ultimately enable me to obtain a permanent academic position.

Keywords: many body physics,excitons,twistronics,optoelectronics,valleytronics,transition metal dichalcogenides,nanoarpes,time resolved arpes
Open 2D Quantum Simulator (OPEN-2QS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9981952.0
EU funding (EUR): 9981952.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

OPEN-2QS aims to deliver a disruptive change in our capabilities of analog quantum simulation of open 2D many-body systems. For the first time, this will allow us to investigate quantum matter with competing coherent and dissipative processes over extremely long times - a regime that is inaccessible by current technology. This will open a new window for the discovery of emergent dynamical phenomena and states of matter, such as quantum glasses. As any system in Nature eventually couples to an environment, and thus is open, the research program of OPEN-2QS will deliver foundations and concepts whose relevance extends to chemistry, biology and information processing, thereby also forming a basis of future technological innovation. OPEN-2QS’ ambition to redefine the state-of-the-art of open system quantum simulation will be achieved by employing ion crystals, forming two-dimensional geometries, which host >100 individually addressable and mutually coupled particles. Strong state-dependent tunable dipolar Rydberg interactions will allow for a full control over the build-up of quantum correlations in 2D geometries. Vibrational phonon quantum degrees of freedom will enable the engineering of irreversible dissipative processes. The ensuing complex dissipative dynamics will be stabilized over thousands of dissipation cycles via coherence-preserving in-situ optical cooling. Monitoring quantum trajectories under dissipative dynamics and an unprecedented access to reservoir correlation functions will enable the investigation of collective relaxation behavior and exotic forms of matter. We will study the impact of quantum effects on phase transitions, explore correlated dynamics in quantum glasses, test fundamental principles of quantum thermodynamics, and advance numerical algorithms through a close theory-experiment interplay. To achieve these goals, we have gathered a world-wide unique team of pioneers in trapped ions, Rydberg physics and quantum non-equilibrium theory.

Keywords: trapped ions,open quantum systems,phase transitions,rydberg states
Founding a Global Image Data Ecosystem (FoundingGIDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Italy,Germany,Japan,Australia
Call: Strengthening the international dimension of ESFRI and/or ERIC research infrastructures (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499999.41
EU funding (EUR): 1499999.41
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Digital image data is a crucial part of biological research, fueling an exponentially growing body of research output. A surge in volume and diversity of bioimage data, owing to the fast developing imaging technologies, has brought to light many challenges including in sharing open image data. Resource owners, research infrastructures as well as grass-roots communities are actively tackling these challenges by developing file formats, ontologies, metadata models, to ensure that shared data is in line with the FAIR principles. However, many of these solutions remain regional and a global coordination effort is necessary to enable seamless image data sharing. This project will lay the foundation for a Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE) that connects different biological and biomedical image data resources across the globe to allow metadata and data sharing. GIDE will bring European research infrastructure and image data resource owners together with their counterparts from Australia and Japan to develop the basis of image data sharing. These interactions can then be used as a blueprint to engage with the wider global bioimage data community while strengthening the position of European infrastructures in the landscape. To enable partner resources and research infrastructures to communicate in one language, coordinated technical development towards use of harmonised imaging ontologies and metadata models will be carried out. Proof of concept implementations using harmonised image data and metadata will showcase the project developments and encourage adoption of these recommendations globally. These developments will also lay a crucial and strong foundation to build a future federated image data ecosystem on. Together, global efforts towards GIDE will provide a necessary framework for bioimage data to grow into a democratised resource enabling innovative research in Europe and across the globe.

Keywords: ontologies metadata harmonisation bioimaging
High-power hydrogen fuel cell system balance of plant component up-scale and optimization (H2UpScale)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Türkiye,Romania,Spain
Call: Scaling-up Balance of Plant components for efficient high power heavy duty applications (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4992872.58
EU funding (EUR): 3998498.77
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells are considered as one of the solutions enabling long-term sustainable transport, however, incumbent systems provide electric power outputs below 200 kW. To cater to the need of the heavy-duty transport sectors, the development of next generation of Fuel Cell systems aims at durable PEMFC stacks offering power output between 250 and 500 kW. To support this development, the H2UpScale project aims to design, build, test and validate key BoP components for PEMFC systems generating more than 250 kW electric power suitable for heavy-duty transport applications (aviation, maritime, on-road long-haul). H2UpScale brings together 3 research organisations, 2 academic and 11 industrial partners, including BoP manufacturers and OEMs. The project will identify application-specific requirements, that will then drive the requirements, development and optimization of 3 standards for modular and scalable PEMFC architectures ≥250kW (electrical power supply architectures & waste heat management system designs).The BoP components in focus include the hydrogen ejector, H2 recirculation pump, H2 leakage sensor, air compressor, cathode air filter and air humidifier, water separator, exhaust resonator, coolant heat exchanger and coolant medium. The targeted advancements for BoP components include efficiency and durability improvements, weight and volume reduction, and architecture simplification. The components will be designed to be compatible with both single- and multi-stack platforms, with scalability and modularity in mind, facilitating their integration into multi-MW scale systems. Selected full-scale BoP components will be validated on a Hardware-in-the-Loop test bench and a techno-economic analysis of the potential impact of the developed BoP components on the HD markets will be performed. With these main targets, the aim for H2UpScale is to provide critical technological bricks enabling the creation of a TRL7 demonstrator from 2027 onwards.

Keywords: fuel cell,fuel cell system,balance of plant,component,optimisation,heavy duty,aviation,maritime,long haul
Thermal Management for the Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft (TheMa4HERA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Czechia,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Ireland,France,Poland
Call: Thermal Management Solutions for Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 33463308.12
EU funding (EUR): 25380002.63
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

The TheMa4HERA project takes on the huge challenge of on-board thermal management that comes with the introduction of hybrid electric power and propulsion systems in Regional and Short and Medium Range aircraft. This will be achieved through development, design and testing at TRL 5 of wide range of innovative technologies from Air Supply, to Air Conditioning, Systems Thermal Management to Cabin Air Distribution. Whereas today’s thermal management systems need to handle a heat dissipation of about 35-50kW, tomorrow’s hybrid electric regional aircraft will have to handle heat dissipation in the range of 300 to 1.000kW! With a consortium composed out of all key aerospace players in the market of thermal management, this project will address almost all currently known thermal management technologies. Multiple two-way interactions loops with TRA-01 will be established integration requirements and feedback constraints and validation results, to allow for further aircraft architecture optimization iterations. Through the development of a full digital twin, the project will be able to simulate and optimize component level requirements for any given aircraft architecture. This architecture will be taken from the EXACT project, adjusted and refined throughout the project, to eventually reflect the final Hybrid Electric Aircraft architecture. The project will validate and demonstrate its results in a full-scale demonstration test facility at Fraunhofer IBP. With the further refined models, that will be available by then, the project will also be able to calculate the achievements towards the Expected Outcomes, in particular the environmental footprint. The Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation actions will make sure that all necessary stakeholders will also be supportive to the EIS of the first Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft relying on TheMa4HERA thermal management technologies.

Keywords: hera
Uncovering the role of the m6A epitranscriptome in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) (EpiDM)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

RNA metabolism is regulated by multiple post-transcriptional layers, primarily orchestrated by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). When disrupted these processes can lead to diseases like myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a rare inherited disorder affecting skeletal muscle. DM1 is caused by an expansion of trinucleotides in the DMPK gene, leading to accumulation of RNA foci and deregulation of RNA metabolism. The mutation was identified in 1992 but aspects of its pathophysiology are not understood and there is no cure. A promising area of research is the potential alteration of the m6A epitranscriptome in DM1. A major discovery in gene regulation is the presence of modified nucleotides like N6-methyladenosine (m6A), which affect RNA fate. Defects in m6A have been linked to various diseases but its role in muscular dystrophies including DM1 remains unexplored. m6A is regulated by writers that add and erasers that remove the modification. In DM1, the erasers FTO and ALKBH5 are deregulated. Once added m6A marks are recognised by readers which mediate their cellular effects. m6A readers are crucial to skeletal muscle physiology but their involvement in DM1 is unknown. EpiDM project hypothesises that altered m6A demethylases activity leads to hypermethylation, impacting RNA function and muscle physiology. Its objectives are to 1) map and characterize m6a’s role in DM1, 2) identify m6A readers involved in the disease and 3) explore the therapeutic potential of targeting m6A methylation to restore muscle function. My expertise will be combined with the host lab’s by leveraging DM1 models and next-generation sequencing techniques to study m6A and RBPs, and developing innovative therapies. By pioneering this research EpiDM will uncover the regulation of novel RNA pathways in skeletal muscle, advancing understanding of DM1 and identifying new therapeutic targets for muscular dystrophies. Finally it aligns with European initiatives focused on rare diseases and epitranscriptomics.

Keywords: myotonic dystrophy,epitranscriptomics,m6a methylation,rna,rna binding proteins,omics,trinucleotide repeat expansions,toxic rna,skeletal muscle,innovative therapies
Smart dismantling, sorting and REcycling of glass Fibre REinforced composite from wind power Sector through Holistic approach (REFRESH)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,France,Norway,Belgium
Call: Demonstration of innovative materials, supply cycles, recycling technologies to increase the overall circularity of wind energy technology and to reduce the primary use of critical raw materials (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15520627.85
EU funding (EUR): 11462602.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

REFRESH aims to develop and demonstrate a novel circular, smart system for an improved recycling (>90%) of glass fiber-reinforced composites derived from wind turbine dismantling or reblading, with high purity level. The project will focus on the mechanical and thermal treatment of waste, but it will strongly involve the entire reverse circular value chain: from end-of-life blades to a wide range of re-manufactured products. REFRESH proposes a flexible re-manufacturing line: when a wind-blade is decommissioned, it will be performed a selection of optimal recycling process according to the technical condition of the blade and current market demand; this will be achieved by using a dedicated tracking tool for collecting, protecting and sharing information and an embedded decision-making tool software for selecting time by time the most sustainable approach to recycling. The project will focus on the most robust and mature mechanical treatments, where composites are grinded in various size and used as new raw material to create multifunctional panels for automotive, marine applications, home furniture, civil construction. The project will design and deploy an up-scaled process, starting from the already available remanufacturing line of GEES Recycling (Aviano, Italy). Another robust and proven process is the thermal technology, here proposed by Gjenkraft, that allow also to recover long and “clean” fibers, without matrix, having properties comparable with the one of virgin fibers. The holistic approach developed within the project will be validated by means of LCA/LCC/health-safety analysis. The project will finally contribute to the increase of awareness among stakeholder communities through direct engagement, aimed at replicating the solution in Europe and guarantee a capillary presence of treatment plants. The novel REFRESH approach will allow potential savings of virgin raw materials of 22 and 52 Mton after 5 and 8 years from project end respectively.

Keywords: circular economy,waste recycling