Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Impact of Digitalization and Automation on Operational Efficiency and Financial Performance of Manufacturing SMEs: Using AI and IR approach based on numerical and text data. (IMPACT AIR)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252180.0
EU funding (EUR): 252180.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This MSCA postdoctoral fellowship project aims to assess the impact of Digitalization and Automation (DA) on the operational and financial performance of manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sweden. The research employs an innovative hybrid approach, combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to analyze both numerical data and unstructured text from company reports and scientific literature. The project's main objectives include: - Developing and validating text-based measures to quantify DA levels in manufacturing SMEs - Assessing the impact of DA on operational efficiency and financial performance - Identifying optimal levels of DA for manufacturing SMEs The methodology involves creating a dictionary of DA terms, applying topic modeling to company reports and academic literature, and constructing panel datasets for regression analysis. This approach allows for a more comprehensive understanding of DA's effects on SMEs compared to traditional survey-based methods. The research is structured into six work packages, covering project management, training and career development, data collection, data analysis, dissemination, and public outreach. The project will result in conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, as well as various public engagement initiatives. Key expected outcomes include: - A framework for understanding DA in manufacturing SMEs based on scientific literature - A specialized dictionary of DA terms for the manufacturing SME context - Insights into the relationship between DA levels and SME performance - Recommendations for optimal DA implementation in manufacturing SMEs The project contributes to scientific, technological, and social impacts by advancing AI and IR techniques in business research, informing policy decisions, and supporting SMEs in their digital transformation journey. The researcher will benefit from a multidisciplinary environment at Linnaeus University.

Keywords: digitalization automation manufacturing sme ai information retrieval big data financial performance operational efficiency impact econometrics investment evaluation advanced manufacturing industry 5 0
From Villain to Antihero: She-Wolf in Old Norse Literature (SWON)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates the similarities between superhero narrative in modern popular culture and medieval Icelandic literature so as to (1) establish a viable theoretical framework based on current research on superheroes and (2) to apply it to a selection of medieval Icelandic texts that feature strong, politically powerful women who do not conform to conventional gender roles. The primary corpus will be drawn from the legendary and the chivalric sagas between ca. 1300 and 1600, which were composed under heavy influence of medieval French romances. Criteria will be established so as to define 'she-wolf' -- a concept drawn from both the Old Norse-Icelandic traditions of shapeshifting and fylgja and later chivalrid literature, and from the symbolism of wolf in European folklore that gave rise to Shakespeare's epithet 'she-wolf'. Based on the criteria, relevant characters will be classified into physical-visual, metaphorical-associative, and behaviourable she-wolves for further case-study based analysis. On the methodological side, this project constructs a spectrum based on character-types in superhero narratives: villain, anti-villain, and anti-hero, into which different categories of she-wolves will be analysed. A selection of post-medieval texts with roots traceable to the medieval materials will also be considered to highlight the motif's continuity and contemporary relevance. Overall, this project aims to bridge three academic fields -- medieval (literary) studies, medievalisms, and popular culture -- and shed lights not only on Old Norse-Icelandic literary motifs (such as the Maiden King and the supernatural elements) but also on the conceptualisation and representation of female, femininity, and issues of gender and ethnicity in the society that produced and enjoyed this literature.

Keywords: old norse icelandic literature,medieval scandinavia,medieval literature,monstrosity,gender,femininity,medievalism,popular culture,she wolf,werewolf
Intelligent additive manufacturing of SMART low-carbon cementitious composites (I am SMART)

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: Poland,United Kingdom,France
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): 163166.16
EU funding (EUR): 163166.16
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

To tackle the challenges of climate change, there is a growing emphasis on developing green, eco-friendly resources alongside advanced digital technologies. The construction industry is undergoing significant transformations in both materials and digitalisation. With the European Union facing resource constraints, there is a pressing need for innovative solutions to replace CO2-intensive materials and conserve natural resources. In response, the construction sector is increasingly adopting sustainable practices and materials, particularly in concrete technology. These efforts aim to reduce the environmental impact of concrete production, extend structural lifespans, minimise resource consumption, and improve the reliability of new construction technologies. The I am SMART project seeks to address these challenges by promoting a fully automated, greener, circular economic model for production and consumption. The project specifically focuses on developing a novel, intelligent 3D printing technology, supported by artificial intelligence (AI), capable of producing highly accurate printed structures. Additionally, the project aims to develop environmentally friendly cementitious feedstock derived from construction and demolition waste (CDW), as well as low-grade clay minerals, suitable for use in load-bearing building blocks. The project intends to imbue the structures with smart properties by integrating graphene-based materials (GBMs) into the feedstock, significantly enhancing their service life and reducing maintenance costs. The expertise of the Fellow, Dr. Mehdi Chougan, and the supervisor, Prof. Pawel Sikora, is complementary and will facilitate the development of novel construction materials and technologies through a reciprocal knowledge transfer and comprehensive training activities for the Fellow. The project will involve collaboration with world-leading academic and industrial partners, thereby enhancing the overall quality and impact of the research.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,3d printing,clay,cementitious materials,low carbon,limestone calcined clay,graphene,ai assissted system,3d scanning,calcined clay
Tendon Engineering for Comprehensive Advanced Rehabilitation and Enhancement (TEN4CARE)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,Portugal,Belgium,Ireland,Germany
Call: Advanced biomaterials for the Health Care (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8729047.08
EU funding (EUR): 7929471.46
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Every year, around 33 million musculoskeletal injuries are reported, 50% involving tendon and ligament injuries. Due to their diverse aetiology, there is no “one-fits-all” solution. TEN4CARE means a crucial opportunity for the EU Material and MedTech Industries to solve this challenge, by providing a technologically advanced, biomaterial-based medical device that can be applicable in the worst prognostic scenarios, generating a wide impact on the citizens health and wellbeing but also on the sustainability, resilience and business opportunities for the whole industrial sector. We aim to achieve tendon integrity by amplifying the recruitment of cells from surrounding tissues and refining their homing capabilities. This effort will drive the production of extracellular matrix, effectively replacing compromised or absent tissue. The objective is to tackle health complexities linked to tendon and ligament disorders, promoting rapid recovery for acute or chronic conditions. TEN4CARE will develop an innovative strategy for tendon tissue engineering through the design of a medical device based on electromagnetic-responsive shape memory 4D nanocomposite fibrous hydrogel and a minimally invasive surgery to inject and anchor it to bridge tendons/ligaments, able to be implanted using minimally invasive surgery that can be a game changer, as will combine enhanced structural properties, shape memory, antibacterial activity and regenerative capabilities, driven by external forces like magnetic and electric fields. We will get a GMP validated production process, coupled with a scale up, industrially-driven strategy and an early regulatory planning, completed by a regulatory roadmap for the sector and the implied communities; a detailed evaluation of Safety and Sustainability based on SSbD concepts, guiding our developments but also generating general guidelines and discussion for the whole sector and business models and exploitation plans for the transfer of the TEN4CARE products.

Keywords: biomaterials,biopolymers nanomedicine,regenerative medicine,magnetic nanoparticles
Linking the development and implementation of technologies in nursing care (LinkinCare)

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: Netherlands
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): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

With a rapidly aging population and a growing shortage of healthcare workers, digital technologies, such as robots, are essential for transforming healthcare. Nurses, the largest group in the healthcare workforce, are key to implementing these technologies. However, up to 80% of technologies fail to be fully implemented in the workplace due to insufficient involvement of end-users in the technology development and implementation process. LinkinCare aims to bridge this gap by aligning the needs of patients and nurses with technology development and implementation. This project will: (i) explore the needs of nurses and patients to co-design robotic functions that integrate seamlessly into nursing workflows; (ii) identify barriers and facilitators to robot implementation and develop tailored strategies to ensure successful integration in healthcare settings; and (iii) evaluate the cost-effectiveness of robot implementation by assessing outcomes such as acceptability, adoption, feasibility, impact on staff workload, patient experiences, and costs. LinkinCare will draw on interdisciplinary expertise from nursing science, robotics, implementation science, social science, and health economics, with a specific focus on compatibility with existing hospital systems and workflows. By collaborating closely with nurses, patients, and the industry partner Welbo (a robot supplier), this approach will ensure that the co-designed robotic functions are fit-for-purpose and suitable for practical use by both patients and nurses. Moreover, promoting needs-driven and cost-effective technological innovations will provide long-term societal benefits by sustaining the workforce and reducing costs. Additionally, the extensive multidisciplinary training in research and transferable skills provided by this fellowship will support my goal of becoming an independent researcher in health technology innovations.

Keywords: nursing care,technology,implementation science,robotics
Economical and Robust Ionic Liquid Drugs Loaded Biopolymer Scaffolds Assisted by Microbubbles for Advanced Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration Applications. (IonoFoldS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-06
End date: 2026-05-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We strongly believe in economic yet effective healthcare options. The wound dressing materials in this regard require significant research. Herein we aim to develop economic yet effective wound healing and tissue regeneration material. The proposed IonoFoldS will consist of ionic liquids and biopolymers made using a microfluidic device. The proposed microfluidic device will be scalable and hence will allow bulk industrial production. The constructed IonoFoldS can work as both tissue regeneration as well as wound healing material.

Keywords: microfluidics,tissue engineering,ionic liquids,wound healing
Anticipatory Climate Adaptation for Communities in Africa (ACACIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Kenya,South Africa,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Ireland,Switzerland,Madagascar
Call: Needs-based adaptation to climate change in Africa (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5576853.75
EU funding (EUR): 5576853.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

ACACIA is an ambitious interdisciplinary alliance to enhance the resilience of at-risk communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to climate impacts. Focusing on floods in the Greater Horn of Africa and floods and tropical cyclones in Madagascar, we seek to improve the ways climate services are produced, disseminated and used for making short-term and long-term decisions to diminish climate risk. Our strategy is to mitigate five obstacles to climate adaptation: 1) Temporal and spatial mismatches and lack of relevance of climate services; 2) Capacity to implement coping strategies and access to climate services; 3) Governance barriers, including fragmentation of responsibility; 4) Climate change, which can make existing coping strategies obsolete; 5) Lack of evidence on the socioeconomic impacts of climate services. Our consortium is highly multidisciplinary. Social science is strongly represented in our cross-cutting co-production activities, which involve working with peer communities consisting of actors from multiple sectors including policymakers, and community work with 100 vulnerable villages in Madagascar. Our rigorous assessment of the added value of climate services-based interventions in these villages will also be led by social scientists. Climate scientists will steer the co-production of national and regional operational early warning systems and work to enhance the skill of a subseasonal forecast model system. All the partners will be involved in an extensive training and capacity-building programme, which targets vulnerable communities, consortium members including national and regional meteorological services. Our consortium has 14 partners, with strong representation from Africa. It involves actors from all parts of the climate services ecosystem. The reason for mobilising such a broad alliance is to ensure that services and protocols are developed locally, which enables our outcomes to be sustained beyond the lifetime of ACACIA.

Keywords: climate adaptation,early warning systems,africa
Electrolyte optimization for enhancing GREEN ammonia production from nitrogen ElectroReduction (GREENER)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-16
End date: 2025-12-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The continuously increasing environmental concerns together with a potential energy crisis make more necessary than ever to explore alternative and sustainable energy sources that can replace fossil fuels. Ammonia is gaining momentum as a promising alternative renewable energy carrier and storage intermediate for global use in the future. Nowadays, ammonia is mainly produced via the Haber-Bosch process, which is high energy-demanding and source of greenhouses gases emissions. The electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (E-NRR) is a promising opportunity and at the same time a challenging alternative route for green ammonia synthesis under ambient conditions. Although to date most E-NRR research studies focus on catalyst design, the electrolyte is vital since it essentially is responsible for the selectivity and efficiency of the process and more research is needed. The proposal “Electrolyte optimization for enhancing GREEN ammonia production from nitrogen ElectroReduction” (GREENER) fills this gap by focusing on novel electrolytes development and E-NRR optimization for green ammonia synthesis, boosting the transition toward zero-carbon. With the support of my supervisor (Prof Bella) and his cutting-edge European Research Council (ERC) Green Electrochemistry Lab at the Politecnico di Torino I will be trained in materials, methods and data analysis in electrochemistry and this fellowship will boost my career in science.

Keywords: nitrogen reduction,electrocatalysis,ammonia,electrolyte
dEvelopment of non-fluorinated COmponents for PEM fuel cells and water electrolysers (ECOPEM)

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: Norway,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland
Call: Development of non-fluorinated components for fuel cells and electrolysers (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3200831.79
EU funding (EUR): 2996992.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

PEM water electrolysers (PEMWE) and PEM fuel cell (PEMFC) technologies currently rely on perfluorinated sulfonic acid (PFSA)-based materials and components, which pose significant health and environmental risks due to the release of toxic fluorine groups during production and disposal. Moreover, the production of PFSA remains costly, compounding the challenges associated with their use. Therefore, the ECOPEM project aims at developing safe-by-design, non-fluorinated hydrocarbon-based membranes, reinforcements, and ionomers. This ambitious work will be facilitated by the development and implementation of life cycle thinking tools addressing environmental and economic dimensions to drive the research and innovation using quantifiable sustainability criteria. ECOPEM will deliver scientific breakthroughs in the design and processing of materials, components and membrane electrode assembles (MEAs) enabling replacement of PFSAs by hydrocarbon-based polymers in membranes and catalyst layers. The project will validate the significant benefits of these MEAs by demonstrating an increased current density, reaching a minimum of 3 A cm-2 at a cell voltage of 1.8 V and degradation rate < 5µV/h for PEMWE cells; and a power density > 1.5 W/cm2 at 0.650 V and a degradation rate < 5 µV/h for PEMFC using harmonized JRC testing procedures. Achieving these ambitious targets would result in a new standard for hydrocarbon-based MEAs for PEMWE and PEMFC applications.

Keywords: pem fuel cells,pem water electrolysis,hydrogen production,circularity,sustainability