Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Green H2 and circular bio-coal from biowaste for cost-competitive sustainable Steel (H2STEEL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Spain,France,United Kingdom
Call: Novel routes to green hydrogen production (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2368910.0
EU funding (EUR): 2368910.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The achievement of the Net-zero emissions target established by the European Commission is huge challenge which could not be achieved without re-thinking the conventional route (materials and energy chains). H2STEEL project proposes an innovative, disruptive solution to convert wet waste streams into green Hydrogen, Carbon and Critical Raw Materials. The proposed innovative solution aims at supporting the green transition of one of the most hard-to-abate industrial sector: metallurgy. In particular, H2STEEL combines the conversion of biowaste and bioCH4 through innovative catalyzed pyrolysis with chemical leaching, to fully convert biowastes into Green Hydrogen, Green Carbon (biocoal), and recovery of Critical (inorganic) Raw Materials. Biomethane pyrolysis is carried out in a brand new, ad-hoc designed, and proof-of-concept reactor, on a bed of biocoal made from pre-carbonized biowastes, i.e. on a very cheap fully carbon-based catalyst, very resistant to temperature and contaminants: this will enhance the efficiency of the methane cracking step to generate Green Hydrogen. As new solid carbon from methane cracking is generated on the biocoal surface, thus reducing the performance of the catalyst, new biocoal-catalyst is inserted in the reactor, while the spent biocoal is removed: the continuous renewal of the catalyst is feasible thanks to its low cost, and to the market value of the spent catalyst. This material, fully bio-carbon based, is then used in steel-making as a substitute of metallurgical (fossil) coke, generating a net GHG reduction, EU ETS (Emission Trading Scheme) compliant. The regeneration of the spent catalyst thus becomes unnecessary, as the biocoal is used in a downstream process, avoiding the release of CO2 in atmosphere (as it happens in the SMR process or in most of the catalysts regeneration steps).

Keywords: steelmaking,biocoal,sludge,biowaste treatment
Gecko based Innovative Capture Kit for uncooperative and unprepared Orbital assets (gEICko)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Portugal,Spain
Call: Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4097404.22
EU funding (EUR): 3994596.36
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The gEICko project aims to develop a capture kit for docking uncooperative spacecraft, such as satellites and rocket stages, through innovative use of Gecko-inspired micro-patterned dry adhesives (MDA). These adhesive pads mimic a gecko's foot, utilizing Van der Waals forces to securely attach to various surfaces, such as solar panels, on satellites even if they weren’t designed for docking. This two-phase docking system first allows for flexible attachment using MDA, supporting multiple dock and undock procedures. It then secures the target with a robust anchoring mechanism at an optimal spot, enabling ISOS operations such as controlled re-entry or recycling. In cases where direct docking is not possible due to tumbling targets, gEICko offers a tether-based capture mechanism. Using a whip-like motion, the tether allows for controlled deployment and contact to targets that exhibit a complex motion, significantly expanding the range of potential mission targets. Additionally, gEICko seeks to harness energy from solar panels on captured satellites. This feature involves studying methods to extract power directly from the solar arrays of a target, with options to adapt future panel designs for improved energy transfer. These innovations aim to support multiple space services, from debris removal to satellite servicing, offering a versatile and game-changing technology for space operations and a new option to attach various payload packs to different space assets.

Keywords: capture kit gecko material debris removal uncooperative assets
TUCUVI Voice and Artificial Intelligence to reduce the impact of chronic diseases (TUCUVI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3634848.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

TUCUVI is a virtual medical assistant that converses with large volumes of patients through phone calls in an intelligent and personalized dialogue. It provides and collects medical information, monitors the evolution of symptoms and intelligently identifies alerts that allow medical teams to plan and act preventively based on clinical protocols/clinical evidence. TUCUVI provides a groundbreaking Dialog manager and a unique prospective Medical Phone Calls database. As a language-agnostic platform, it uses breakthrough AI models based on NLP, Transfer Learning and Machine Learning, complemented by a solid Medical Knowledge base. It can manage massive amounts of medical phone calls to monitor any patient, on any pathology in a non-supervised way to reduce chronic disease impact. TUCUVI’s AI has currently conversed empathetically with patients for +50.000 hours, in 3 languages, about 12 medical protocols. It is the only voice-based conversational software CE marked as a medical device.

Keywords: natural language processing,clinical study,natural language understanding,voice,big data,medical virtual assistants,telephone calls,deep learning,transfer learning,chronic diseases,healthcare,patient monitoring,home monitoring,conversational technology,phone call automation
The Design, Creation and Survival of Democratic Laws (DEMOLAW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1974936.0
EU funding (EUR): 1974936.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Democracies are constantly confronted with the challenging task of merging widely diverging worldviews, interests and values into coherent legislation. Given the increasingly hostile political climate around the world, solving this task has never been more difficult and more important than today. Yet, despite the crucial relevance of laws for our daily lives and the legitimacy and effectiveness of democratic government, our understanding of how the design, creation and long-term survival of legislation are related is still very limited. The DEMOLAW project analyses legislative texts in three different political systems (US, UK, EU) with cutting-edge computational methods to answer three major research questions: (1) Which conceptual dimensions capture the design of a law and how can we exploit textual properties of law texts to measure these dimensions empirically? (2) Why does the design of democratic legislation vary across laws, policy domains and political systems? (3) How can we explain why some laws are entirely stable over time, while others are constantly adjusted and sometimes transformed fundamentally? The project makes three major contributions. First, it provides an entirely novel conceptual perspective on the design of democratic laws by focusing on two analytical dimensions that are central to any piece of legislation: versatility and precision. This innovative approach allows us, for the first time, to measure and compare the substance of legislative output across and within policy domains, political systems and over time. Second, the project will develop and test an integrated theoretical framework on both the creation and the survival of democratic legislation and thereby advance the theoretical state-of-the-art in comparative public policy. Finally, the project’s ground-breaking methodological approach will pave the way for a computational analysis of legislative content and will thereby push the boundaries of how we study democratic decision-mak

Keywords: comparative public policy,computational social science,democracy,law,legislation,policy design,political institutions,text as data
joInt wireless commuNicaTion and sEnsinG by hologRaphic surfAce TranscEivers (INTEGRATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Finland,Spain,Türkiye
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3055188.08
EU funding (EUR): 2706465.34
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

As the standardization of 5G wireless networks progresses, the research community has started focusing on what 6G will be. Motivated by the need of ensuring high data-rates, while at the same time saving spectrum, a major technology that has been proposed for 6G is the integration of communication and sensing services in the same infrastructure. This enables wireless networks to perceive the surrounding environments, triggering new services and leading to a more efficient use of resources. The INTEGRATE project focuses on the theoretical, algorithmic, and architectural foundations of integrated communication and sensing networks, developing the first open access network-level simulator for joint communication and sensing. To this end, a new implementation of wireless transceiver is proposed, which leverages the use of reconfigurable holographic surfaces and allows the integration of communication and sensing with remarkable performance while at the same time reducing the energy consumption. Specifically, INTEGRATE will: 1) Develop reconfigurable holographic surfaces capable of supporting joint communication and sensing tasks and that can be integrated in wireless transceivers with minimal cost and energy requirements. 2) Characterize the fundamental performance limits of integrated communication and sensing networks, developing an algorithmic framework and protocol suite to approach these limits. 3) Build the first open access software simulation platform for joint communication and sensing networks.

Keywords: 6g wireless networks,integrated communication and sensing,green networks
Cellular immunoTHERapy modelling by exploitation of humanized OSSicles (CiThOss)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bones represent a privileged site for cancer initiation and metastasis. Yet, current in vitro and animal models fall short in accurately recapitulating bone-developing cancers. To address this, we developed the human ossicle (hOss) technology: the in vivo formation of miniaturized bone organs composed of patient-derived bone and marrow cells. By mimicking the patient’s bone microenvironment, hOss offer a personalized model for studying bone-related cancers. To ensure reproducibility and standardization, we further developed OssiGel—a customized extracellular matrix that reliably supports robust hOss formation from patient-derived cells. This innovation paves the way for advanced therapy testing, particularly for cellular immunotherapies, which still rely heavily on mouse models despite their limited clinical predictive value. Here, we aim to validate hOss as a superior platform for assessing the efficacy of immunotherapies. Using OssiGel, we will generate hOss and evaluate therapeutic responses, directly comparing outcomes in tumors engrafted in mouse bones versus hOss. Our project addresses a critical need to understand how the human bone/bone marrow microenvironment shapes immunotherapy outcomes. It proposes the first in vivo personalized model for testing immunotherapies, offering insight into the variable clinical success of current strategies.
Tailoring Organic-Inorganic Layered Structures to Build Functional Graded 2D Nanomaterials for Advanced Nanointerfaces (EVA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996889.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996889.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Advanced functional devices require integration of distinct materials (polymers, ceramics, metals) with different properties to achieve high performance in aerospace, biomedicine, electronic, and automotive. A major structural challenge is associated with localized (mechanical, thermal, electrical) stresses due to property mismatch at different scales, thus causing premature malfunction and failure. Research has focussed on compositional or structural material gradients (in at least one spatial direction) to enable fabrication of “in-one” body parts (mostly inorganics) with exceptional properties. Examples at rather macroscale include AlGaAs with graded bandgap for solar cells, or Al2O3/Ti with graded mechanical stiffness for bioimplants. However, in light of miniaturization technology, there is a need to translate this concept to nanomaterials. The EVA project aims to establish scientific principles to design and fabricate pioneering organic-inorganic 2D layered nanomaterials with functional gradients and continuous interfaces. My approach to designing such innovative nanomaterials is based on their compositional engineering by using correlations to perform an extended mapping of combinations and properties. I will explore self-assembly techniques in solution and translate them into automated processes to hierarchically build robust components with nm-layered thicknesses and mechanical and optoelectronic gradients. EVA will also demonstrate their use as advanced interfaces for soft bio-tissue coupling and flexible lighting nanosystems, providing answers from the nanoscale to key drivers in these fields: reliability, robustness, and durability. Through this interdisciplinary approach (physics, chemistry, mechanics, biology, and materials science), the envisioned atomically designed hybrids will be a hallmark for frontiers in fields such as energy, health, robotics, and digital technologies.

Keywords: 2d nanomaterials,functional graded materials,layered structures,organic inorganic nanostructures,nanotechnology
DECiphering the seismic signature Of aseismic DEformation (DECODE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Earthquakes are a major threat to humankind, causing damage above 500 billion USD and more than 400,000 fatalities within the last 20 years. Nonetheless, the generation of large earthquakes remains poorly understood. Recent research suggests that the key to deciphering this preparatory phase lies in the complex interplay of seismic and aseismic processes. Three event types are of genuine interest: slow slip events (SSEs), which are episodic aseismic deformations; low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs), a type of earthquake depleted in high-frequency energy; and regular earthquakes. A key factor limiting the understanding of the seismic-aseismic interplay are incomplete LFE catalogs, caused by the difficulty to detect these events. Therefore, in this project I will develop a novel detection method for LFEs building on recent advances in deep learning. Applying this method, I will compile comprehensive catalogs for three regions: Northern Chile, Nankai (Japan) and Nicoya (Costa Rica). These catalogs, in conjunction with continuous geodetic records, SSE catalogs and seismicity catalogs, will allow me to study the seismic-aseismic interplay. This will reveal physical driving mechanisms of the seismic-aseismic interplay and give insights into the preparation of large earthquakes. This will contribute towards the accurate assessment of seismic hazard and the preparedness for seismic events. I will conduct this project at the Université Grenoble Alpes, with a secondment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My scientific background in interdisciplinary research between deep learning and seismology, is complemented by my supervisiors: Anne Socquet, expert on aseismic processes and subduction zones; and William Frank, expert in the detection and characterisation of LFEs. The project, together with targeted training activities, will refine my scientific profile and extend my skill set, enabling me to define my independent research agenda and pursue a career in research.

Keywords: low frequency earthquakes,slow slip events,deep learning,earthquake preparatory phases,subduction zones
Coherent and cross-compliant ocean governance for delivering the EU Green Deal for European Seas (CrossGov)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Finland,Netherlands,France,Italy
Call: Environmental and social cross-compliance of marine policies (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999997.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999997.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The three-year CrossGov project aims to enhance knowledge on how coherence and cross-compliance of marine related policies and legislation affect the ability to realise the goals of the EU Green Deal for the protection of marine ecosystems and biodiversity, and to co-create proposals and roadmaps towards this end. A core strength of CrossGov is the close collaboration with the policymaking community that will be engaged in co-creation of knowledge and recommendations for solutions. The background for the project is the complex multi-level and multi-sector governance system created by global and regional international frameworks, the EU and the European coastal states. This policy landscape has not managed to halt the degradation of European seas and will be challenged further by the EU Green Deal’s call for transformative changes. Based on scenarios and methodological guidance for studies of coherence, cross-compliance and scientific advice, the project will analyse how policies and legislation at various levels support or impede progress towards the Green Deal in the marine domain. The practical results of attempts to implement the various requirements will be studied in three regional cases (the North Sea, the Baltic and the Mediterranean), and in five national cases (Finland, Norway, Netherlands, France, Italy). The insights gained will be discussed with CrossGov’s Stakeholder Forum to co-create recommendations for better integrated policies towards implementing the Green Deal in the marine context. The innovative, web-based and fit-for purpose roadmaps and methodological guidelines will enable policymakers to effectively foster environmentally sustainable law and governance that is fit-for-purpose for delivering the societal transformation called for.

Keywords: coherence,cross compliance,implementation,environmental policy integration,coordination,ocean governance,marine ecosystems,co creation,stakeholder participation,legal analysis,policy analysis
Electrify-It (EI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Poland,France,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2450658.96
EU funding (EUR): 2450658.96
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union has been challenged to contribute to the global aim of providing sustainable solutions to the current and future needs on synthetic compounds and materials in the coming years. The development of sustainable chemical processes is a cornerstone of modern chemistry, emerging as a critical global research focus. By optimizing the use of natural resources and reducing waste and environmental impact, sustainable chemistry addresses pressing societal needs and contributes valuable solutions. In this sense, electrochemistry has been reborn as a very powerful synthetic tool, which allows organic transformations to be carried out using simple electrons as the driving force of these transformations, and it is beginning to play a significant role in both academic and industrial settings. It is therefore necessary to establish strong networking among European research centers and industries focused on the application of electrochemistry in organic synthesis. The EI program aims to create a multidisciplinary training program in which, the students will acquire a deep knowledge of electrochemistry applied to organic synthesis, in addition to highly valued industrial skills, and the establishment of a strong networking in the area. This strong networking will promote the appearance of new research lines and the creation of a highly qualified research training program for PhD students, ultimately positioning Europe as a leader in a hot research field as electrochemistry.

Keywords: organic synthesis,electrochemistry,electrocatalysis,electro photocatalysis