Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart Building Sensitive to Daily Sentiment (SUSTAIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland,Italy,France,Türkiye,Spain
Call: Awareness Inside (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2550196.25
EU funding (EUR): 2550196.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Buildings are evolving into smart organisms through their unmatched concentration of distributed sensing, actuation and intelligence. Indeed, the regulatory decree 2010/31/EU (European Parliament) requires building automation control systems in tertiary buildings by 2025. Still, despite massively deployed sensors of all kind, instead of actual awareness, nowadays at most unconscious processing (C0) is reached. SUST(AI)N derives theoretical & experimental underpinnings to combine novel distributed intelligence, unpre-cedented sensing accuracy, and reconfigurable hardware in a smart building context into a conscious organism that achieves self-awareness through probabilistic reasoning across its connected sustainable devices. SUST(AI)N constitutes the first concentrated effort to explore novel advances in distributed intelligence, reconfigurable hardware, and environmental sensing to establish awareness for smart buildings that reaches global availability of information (C11; through data aggregation across connected reconfigurable hardware), and self-monitoring (C21; via distributed probabilistic intelligence and the sensing of group sentiment). We simplify intelligent building hardware and systems by exploiting electromagnetic signals jointly for backscatter communication, energy harvesting, physical-layer computation offloading, and non-intrusive sensing. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are used to support each of these functions. SUST(AI)N achieves awareness along three high-risk, complementary paths: 1: Reconfigurable intelligent circuits: fit to awareness need by post-installation hardware adaptation 2: Distributed, self-organizing global intelligence: awareness through probabilistic reasoning 3: Unprecedented self-awareness through ubiquitous radio sensing: group-sentiment recognition It achieves sustainability via demand-tailored adaptive hardware, energy and data-efficient AI,non-intrusive RF-sensing, energy harvesting, multi-party encryption.

Keywords: energy harvesting,rf sensing,reconfigurable circuits,distributed intelligence,garbled circuit cryptography,ambient intelligence,building intelligence system,self learning
A Fast and Smart Foundation Model for Particle Transport Simulation (LEGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499356.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499356.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Answering the deepest questions in particle physics, from the laws governing the Higgs boson to the true nature of dark matter, relies crucially on particle transport simulation. Simulation is the best way to create the required pattern recognition algorithms to make sense of our data and to design precision experiments. But the field is at an impasse: Physics insight scales with simulation, but after allocating billions of hours to this task, we are reaching a resource limit. Missing discoveries due to suboptimal algorithms or detector designs is a real danger for two reasons: Simulators are not only excruciatingly slow but also "probabilistic black boxes" that fail to extract the best information when it comes to algorithm training. With LEGO, I will lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers in Munich to re-imagine particle transport. Just as AI language models can create any text with "next-word prediction," I will establish a new simulation model around "next-particle prediction." By predicting instantly what otherwise would take thousands of steps, LEGO will be the first ultra-fast simulation that retains the general-purpose nature of traditional simulators. LEGO will also be the first "smart simulator" in particle physics that provides access to probability and gradient data of the internal evolution of particle showers. This data enables us to extract more information without more simulation and is the key to reaching ultimate physics performance. Smarter and faster simulations combine for an orders-of-magnitude more effective modeling of particle detectors. I will demonstrate the impact of such an advance for key applications for future colliders. In light of the European Strategy Update and AI advances, I exploit a crucial time window to create the best foundation for algorithm and detector design. As particle transport is crucial for fields far beyond particle physics, such as medicine, LEGO will open the door to a broad set of new applications.

Keywords: particle physics,particle transport,simulation based inference,machine learning,foundation models,artificial intelligence,calorimeter simulation,future colliders
Unveiling Innovation Potential of Circular Approaches in Automotive Electronics and Beyond (UNICORN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Netherlands,Finland,Belgium,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: Functional electronics for green and circular economy (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4936017.25
EU funding (EUR): 4936017.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

To strengthen EU’s global competitiveness and resilience, the updated Industrial Strategy calls for accelerating the green and digital transitions of key European ecosystems. UNICORN foresees functional electronics as an enabler & catalyser of EU mobility’s twin transition. Using a car-as-a lab, UNICORN is aiming at increasing the circularity-driven functional integration of electronics in automotive, while simultaneously embedding eco-design principles in their development and ensuring net beneficial effect on climate change mitigation. UNICORN will demonstrate a capability to design & develop innovative green and circular technologies for automotive electronics, based on four electronic systems (composite-embedded, in-molded, textile/plastic and rubber-integrated) taken from industrial use cases for a battery casing, a dashboard, a seat/door system and a tire. Solutions will 1) encompass lightweight, low impact and/or bio-based materials for (flexible) substrates, films, encapsulation, inks, solvents, adhesives and flat cabling & interconnects; 2) validate resource/energy efficient, net shape, additive, printing, encapsulating and (reversible) bonding manufacturing processes for circuitry, sensors, gauges, antennas, interconnects; and 3) implement design for material circularity via reversible design, modularity, form factors to increase disassembly and recovery of valuable material. For harnessing benefits of these technologies, UNICORN will set a new methodology for net impact assessment and eco-design guidelines for automotive electronics designers & developers. It will establish a vision and roadmap on the role of functional electronics for supporting EU mobility climate targets, and set the blueprints for transfers in further application sectors. UNICORN gathers 12 partners (7 companies) mutualising skills and pilot/industrial capacities on flexible, printed & organic electronics, circularity & regulatory competences and business leaderships in Automotive.

Keywords: functional electronics,automotive,mobility,circular economy,twin transition,eco design,green and circular technologies,composite,ime,flexible hybrid electronics,lca
Socio-economic production and mobility patterns in Magreb during the Final Neolithic: Oued Beht case study (3400-2900 BCE) (SEPAMP)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The primary aim of SEPAMP is to delineate the economic characteristics defining the Neolithic period in the Maghreb, with particular emphasis on its final phase. The project investigates dietary habits, animal byproduct processes, and the tools employed in these activities to gain insights into technological specialisation and traditions. To achieve these objectives, I will conduct a comprehensive study, incorporating training on experimental protocols and use-wear analysis, of macro-lithic tools from Oued Beht (3400-2900 BCE), a Final Neolithic site in the Khemmiset province (Morocco). SEPAMP also aims to understand the decision-making processes and behaviours underlying the exploitation of local resources and land management, including cultivation and pastoral areas. Surveys around Oued Beht and geospatial analysis will identify raw material sources and areas potentially designated for farming and forage. Cost-effort and mobility pattern evaluations will be performed to understand how these communities interacted with their environment, including resource procurement choices and the distribution of economic activities within and outside the site. Thus, SEPAMP has the potential to enhance our understanding of the Maghreb's prehistoric communities significantly. Indeed, despite extensive efforts to interpret the neolithisation process in Northwest Africa, the development of socio-economic strategies and how late prehistoric communities approached the environment remain unclear. SEPAMP is then pioneering in understanding these phenomena, leading to new fundamental knowledge that can be compared with other Mediterranean areas, particurarly the Iberian Peninsula. It will also allow me to build hard and soft skills that I will benefit from for future academic and non-academic positions. This will be possible thanks to the high quality of the environment and training opportunities at CNRS - Trajectoires lab (Host) and the University of Cambridge (Secondment).

Keywords: final neolithic maghreb macro lithic tools use wear analysis geospatial analysis
Highly-Innovative technology demonstration for bio-based CO2 Capture and Utilization for production of bulk Plastic applicationS (HICCUPS)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,France,Norway,Germany,Finland,Italy
Call: Biogenic carbon capture and use (CCU) for circular bio-based products (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7138171.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999970.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The HICCUPS project proposes a resource efficient solution to convert biogenic CO2 emissions from wastewater treatment plants into bio-based plastics for packaging. At the heart of the HICCUPS concept lie innovative technologies for the capture, conversion to monomers and polymerization of CO2 to produce PLGA. These polymers with excellent water & gas barrier properties are fully biodegradable and 100% made from renewable feedstock which makes them a promising candidate for the replacement of fossil polyethylene. To demonstrate the potential of PLGA, packaging materials will be produced from PLGA film coated paper and molded plastic. Examples of these types of packaging are paper cups, take out boxes and sealed plastic trays for perishable food from the supermarket. The HICCUPS technology results in a GHG reduction based on CO2 utilization, replacement of fossil feedstock and by industrial electrification. In the HICCUPS project, the complete value chain from biogenic CO2 to polymer end use will be demonstrated, including downstream processing and end of life studies. Recycling and (marine) biodegradability tests will show this sustainable plastic will not accumulate in nature. To maximize impact of the HICCUPS technology, digital modelling, life-cycle assessments and a full business case analysis are initiated in the early stage of the project to provide targets for technology development. Besides the reduction of GHG emissions, HICCUPS will have societal impact by creating awareness through interaction with policy makers and civil society and the creation of new jobs in innovative fields. By targeting an industry as essential as wastewater treatment, HICCUPS aims to create a concept that can impact society and contribute to climate change mitigation, assessed by an integrated monitoring system of the carbon removal potential, on a big scale and serves as a crucial first step in upscaling this new solution to a flagship-scale commercial plant.
Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations (ReNa)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This research proposal aims at rethinking a collective and proactive concept of responsibility towards nature and future generations, on the basis of the understanding of nature developed by German Idealism in the early 19th century and the theory of responsibility first advanced by Hans Jonas in the 20th century. I will articulate my research into two steps, which aim at two objectives: 1) I will first work on the rational foundation of collective proactive responsibility towards the world in which we live, that is the duty to take care of it. This is the “objective side” of my research, in the sense that it grounds on a consideration of human beings as rational and responsible agents in themselves, in a Kantian sense. To reach this first objective (which is the most challenging one), a further step is needed: the elaboration of a concept of nature and its relation to human being able to take into account (1.1) the ontological continuity between nature and human being and with this the value of nature and life in themselves; (1.2) the primary responsibility of humans. All this will be possible analyzing and revitalizing the concept of nature in German Idealism and studying its ethical implications. 2) Second, I will investigate the role of human motivation, the context and the consequences of human action as essential part of any theory of responsibility. This is the “subjective side” of my research, that aims at providing the “bridge” between the formal foundation of the concept of collective responsibility and its application. In this part, my research will deal with the key concepts of “respect”, “care” towards vulnerable nature and future human beings, and “fear” of a collapse of nature and our future lives. The concept of collective responsibility generated by this project might show its fertility also with reference to contemporary debates (like those related to environmental issues).

Keywords: german idealism,responsibility,nature,georg wilhelm friedrich hegel,hans jonas
Development and testing of innovative solutions for the processing of hybrid materials and nanomaterials using artificial intelligence algorithms (PROMATAI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Poland,Slovakia,Lithuania,Greece,Bulgaria
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1840000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1633000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

PROMATAI project aims to develop a product in the field of testing the extrusion method of nanomaterials/bio(nano) composites using AI algorithms. Prototype will be developed and made of a special design for the Feed Opening Section (FOE), the Adjustable Groove Section (AGFS), the Rotary Barrel Section (RBS) and the additional Plasticizing System (PS) of the single-screw extruder, which will be tested in virtual and real conditions of their operation depending on the size of the introduced part. It is assumed that these improvements will increase the efficiency of the extrusion process, reducing the amount of waste and energy usage and enable usage of new materials. The first prototype in the world of a "smart extruder" is planned, which will adjust its geometric elements to the dimensions of the material. Project activities are aimed at significantly strengthening cooperation between industry and academia, creating new and transferring existing knowledge between partners. Project consists of 7 WPs: WP1-4 are focused on the development of innovative extruder elements, including: FOE, AGFS, RBS and the entire plasticizing system. WP5 focuses on networking activities conducted by delegations, including workshops, trainings, and lectures on the topic of the project and the development of skills in the field of R&D infrastructure, competences, digitization and internationalization. WP6 is about the wide dissemination of knowledge and the exploitation of project results (conferences, fairs, publications, IPR, website, social media, outreach to public activities), WP7 is about management and administration of the whole project. PROMATAI is coordinated by Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Engineering of Polymer Materials and Dyes (Poland), partners are: Lublin University of Technology (Poland), Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia), University of West Attica (Greece), LPH a.s. (Slovakia), UAB Dirmeta (Lithuania) and Cerca Trova Ltd (Bulgaria).

Keywords: extrusion,smart extruder,machine learning,hybrid materials,nanomaterials,engineering processes improvement,automation,sustainable energy management
Quantum Optics in Many-Body photonic Environments (QOMBE)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum simulation is a fundamental concept in our pre-fault tolerant era. In this respect, waveguide quantum electrodynamics (wQED) setups, i.e., quantum emitters (atoms) interfaced with engineered photonic materials, represent promising NISQ devices for analog quantum simulation. Many experimental platforms to engineer photonic environments, e.g., arrays of superconducting circuits, possess intrinsic photonic nonlinearities in the form of photon-photon interactions caused by, e.g., the anharmonicity of the superconducting circuits. Though available for specific cases, a coherent theoretical framework to describe nonlinear many-body wQED systems is still missing. The nonlinear character of a photonic bath renders the whole system complex and not exactly solvable, making standard quantum optics textbook approaches not applicable. This project will introduce a radically new approach to this field by transferring knowledge from quantum field theory (QFT) to wQED, an approach that has already proven useful in condensed matter and in ultracold atoms physics. We will study nonlinear wQED systems, i.e., with photon-photon interactions, modelled by, e.g., a Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian, and investigate purely photonic many-body physics effects like quantum phase transitions. This will be carried out by developing a field theory for wQED using a path integral approach, of the most powerful tools in QFT to deal with interacting fields. The central goal will be derivation of an effective emitters’ action, which can probe the many-body physics of the photonic environment. In particular, we will be able to characterize the behavior of an atomic quantum simulator across a quantum phase transition of the surrounding photonic environment. Characterizing the effects of nonlinearities represents a breakthrough in the physics of wQED, and will shed light on how to harness these experimentally unavoidable features for optical quantum computing tasks.

Keywords: waveguide qed,driven dissipative many body systems,quantum fluids of light
Enabling industrial production of geothermal energy with efficient deep drilling (DeepEnergy)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Terramek is a pioneering clean-tech company revolutionizing deep-drilling technology to unlock the full potential of geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is one of the most sustainable energy sources available, offering significant advantages for energy companies, municipalities, and communities seeking reliable, low-carbon alternatives. It emits 3.5 times less CO2 over its lifetime than solar energy, twice as little as wind energy, and at least 35 times less than fossil-based energy production. However, it accounts for only 1% of global energy supply because it's heavily underutilized due to the high costs of setting up industrial-scale production. Drilling accounts for 43.5% of the total cost of developing and installing a geothermal plant, driving the cost of geothermal energy higher than solar and onshore wind . We have developed a deep drilling hammer that delivers at leas 35% cost savings per geothermal energy well, making geothermal energy viable and undercutting the price of solar energy. Our AquaForge Titan introduces a fundamentally new hydraulic hammer architecture that breaks with decades of convention. Unlike traditional designs that divide the piston into separate lifting and striking chambers, our hammer uses a single activation area that can be easily switched on or off. This breakthrough unlocks deep geothermal drilling at scale, reduces costs to below solar parity, and enables urban deployment – making geothermal energy a practical, dispatchable, and globally scalable renewable solution.