Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Multipoint megAwatt Charging for Battery Electric Truck Hubs (MACBETH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Denmark,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call: Integrated flexible multipoint megawatt charging systems for electric truck mass deployment (2ZERO Partnership) (2024) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10238095.25
EU funding (EUR): 8390483.76
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The transition to electric long-haul trucking facilitated by Megawatt Charging Systems (MCS) is essential for the efficient decarbonization of the logistics transport sector. Despite the significant technological progress made, vital challenges for full adoption and scaling of the MCS systems are still to overcome. Addressing the latter though targeted research and innovation piloting activities will be crucial for realizing the full potential of MCS technology towards a significant leap not only in electrifying the commercial transport but for the achievement of broader environmental goals of the Paris Agreement, EU Green Deal and Fitfor55 package of 90% reduction of the emissions by 2040. In response to the challenges, MACBETH—MULTIPOINT MEGAWATT CHARGING FOR BATTERY ELECTRIC TRUCK HUBS aims to pilot and showcase user-centric MCS charging hubs combined with tools that can facilitate the rapid and mass deployment and scale up of such systems in Europe. To address many of technical, social and economic challenges of mass deployment of megawatt chargers MACBETH intends to build two demonstration sites, in Nordics and Benelux area of Europe with the intention to cover various geographic contexts, operational conditions and scenarios, users’ needs, and business cases and provide valuable experiences and learnings for various industrial, research and policies stakeholders for future deployments. With a strong focus on its industrial cluster, MACBETH contributes to the real-world demonstration of charging infrastructure and service offerings for regional and long-haul electric trucks along TEN-T corridors, logistic terminals, and depots covering multiple countries and it is set to deliver system-level multipoint MCS hub concept at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 8 by the end of the project.

Keywords: battery electric trucks,charging infrastructure,megawatt charging,long haul logistics transport,charging hubs
Innovative solutions for Mediterranean Ecosystem Remediation via Monitoring and decontamination from Chemical Pollution (iMERMAID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Greece,Finland,Cyprus,Belgium,Tunisia,Ireland,Serbia,Netherlands,Austria,Germany,Ukraine
Call: Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse - Actions to prevent, minimise and remediate chemical pollution (HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9352552.5
EU funding (EUR): 7893477.38
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding regions support a diverse variety of essential socioeconomic activities. It is one of the highly exploited water ways and the influence of anthropogenic activities on its marine habitats and ecosystems has grown significantly since the industrial revolution. Because of this, the Mediterranean Sea basin is very vulnerable to chemical contamination and buildup. To safeguard the Mediterranean Sea basin from contaminants for emerging concerns (CoEC), iMERMAID will integrate, coordinate, and synergize innovative preventive, monitoring, and remediation solutions. iMERMAID will build an evidence-based multidimensional framework that will guide policymaking and transform societal perceptions to reduce CoEC usage, emissions, and pollution. Furthermore, next generation sensor and remediation solutions will be developed within iMERMAID to monitor and remove prioritized chemicals from its source while reducing upstream pollution. iMERMAID builds an ideal interdisciplinary team by bringing together prominent SMEs, researchers, regulators, and innovation professionals who have been essential in improving the knowledge and awareness of CoEC. Beyond state-of-the-art techniques, iMERMAID will strive to strengthen regulations against CoEC, expand economic possibilities and competitiveness, improve the standard of living for EU residents, while preventing the accumulation of chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Sea basin. iMERMAID will empower the efforts to create a zero pollution, contaminant free waters by enabling the Chemical Strategy's goals to become a practical reality.

Keywords: industrial environments,micropollutants,heavy metals,electrochemical sensors,environmental risks associated with chemicals,
Mineralogical Controls on Redox-Driven Phosphorus Cycling in the Precambrian Ferruginous Ocean (PaleoNutrient)

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: United Kingdom,Germany
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): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Earth’s early oxygenation history played a pivotal role in the evolution of complex life. Phosphorus (P) is widely recognised as the ultimate limiting nutrient on geological time scales, and hence P exerted a fundamental role in regulating global marine primary productivity, organic carbon burial, and ultimately the oxygen flux to the ocean-atmosphere system throughout the Precambrian Era (~4.6–0.541 billion years ago). Several geochemical proxies have been developed to reconstruct the Precambrian marine P reservoir and links to Earth’s oxygenation history, but all have inherent limitations linked to uncertainty over key processes involved in P cycling. In particular, mineralogical controls on P cycling under anoxic ferruginous (Fe(II)-containing) conditions, which reflect the dominant redox state of the ocean throughout most of the Precambrian, are very poorly understood. One such process concerns the extent of P uptake to (meta)stable, mixed-valence green rust, which has emerged as a key mineral precipitating in Precambrian ferruginous oceans, and the subsequent behaviour of P upon ageing to magnetite and Fe-rich clay minerals. Therefore, the PaleoNutrient project will investigate these key processes by a series of carefully controlled experiments performed under Precambrian ferruginous ocean conditions. These experimental results will then be validated by geochemical and mineralogical investigation of select Precambrian marine rocks deposited under varying types of ferruginous oceanic conditions. The new insight gained from experiments and the evaluation of the rock record will then be used to update existing biogeochemical models, with an ultimate aim to revolutionise our understanding of bioavailable P, primary productivity, and hence Earth’s oxygenation history across critical intervals of the Precambrian Era that dictated the trajectory of Earth’s habitability.

Keywords: phosphorus cycle,nutrient,precambrian ocean,green rust
Reimagining Urban Growth in the Mérida Region through Long-Term Adaptive Indigenous Practices: An applied archaeology for sustainable urban development (REMIND)

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: Belgium,Mexico
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239237.76
EU funding (EUR): 239237.76
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

REMIND strives to enhance the appreciation of indigenous urban form and practices that can benefit sustainable urban development. The Urban Region of Merida (URM), Mexico, experiences unsustainable rapid urbanisation. Weak urban planning policies and globalised urban design generate problematic urban patterns that marginalise the relevance of precolonial Maya rural-urban integration, indigeneity persistent in current urban life, and vernacular urban design. In contrast, URM accommodated urban centres for >2,000 years through social-ecological pressures and societal transitions. To envision regionally appropriate sustainable urban planning and design requires understanding how urban form adapted over the long-term. Thus REMIND asks: How can indigenous Maya practices be applied in urban development processes to substantiate a reimagination of urban space that promotes the future sustainability of Mérida? To address this question, REMIND will first adapt urban resilience concepts for the analysis of material evidence on urban form over the long-term, enabling an actionable ‘applied archaeology of indigenous urban practice' serving regional development. Next, through micro-morphological mapping of urban centres through time in a historical Geographical Information System (HGIS), spatial patterns of urban form will be identified, characterised, and compared. This fundamental research will structure and be guided by two cross-sectoral co-productive capacity building workshops, which match multidisciplinary academic expertise to institutional stakeholders in URM’s sustainable development and heritage to generate leverage for alternative approaches to urban planning and design. Together, participants will ultimately co-create reimaginative ‘indigenous urban development principles’ in response to site-based urban development challenges that promote sustainability and equitability in urban growth.

Keywords: urban morphology maya cities applied archaeology sustainable urban planning and design historical gis merida,mexico urbanism maya indigenous practice spatial analysis urban development
An EU-wide springboard for regional implementation of innovation procurement (PREPARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Romania,Finland
Call: Preparatory action for setting up joint programmes among innovation ecosystems actors (HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 675264.61
EU funding (EUR): 675264.61
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This project is a preparatory action for creating innovation procurement policies and instruments that can be effective and sustainable at regional level, but also relevant at European level. The preparatory work will be achieved by using four European regions that cover the full range of innovation performances defined by the EC’s Regional Innovation Scoreboard as development sites: Murcia (ES), Skåne (SE), Bucharest-Ilfov (RO) and Oulu (FI). During the project, the project consortium will: 1. Gather information from i) regional public bodies in charge of innovation policies and funding instruments, and ii) innovation ecosystem players, which propose and execute projects, using state of the art learnings and best practices. 2. Analyse this information to produce a Joint Programme and four regional Action Plans to incorporate innovation procurement to each region’s policy and increase its impact by leveraging EU initiatives and funding. The PREPARE consortium will produce and widely disseminate added-value results, including a knowledge asset on the state of the art of innovation procurement and policy recommendations. Exploitation initiatives will deliver capacity building, policy promotion at EU, national and regional level and the engagement of a network of EU regions interested in leveraging public procurement instruments to foster impactful innovation.

Keywords: innovation procurement
How does population heterogeneity affect resistance to disinfectants in Mycobacterium? (MycoHeterogeneity)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to investigate the mode-of-action of quaternary ammonium compound-based disinfectants (QACs) against Mycobacterium in comparison to the model rod-shaped bacterium, Escherichia coli. Additionally, it seeks to explore the role of phenotypic heterogeneity in the mycobacterial population’s response to disinfectant exposure. Inappropriate application of QACs may lead to the emergence of tolerance or resistance to these compounds, and possibly cross-resistance to antibiotics. Currently, there are only a few reports discussing the influence of disinfection on anti-tubercular drugs action. It is hypothesized that the specific composition of the cell wall in mycobacteria, along with the potential ability to modify this composition, and their elongation mode, contributes to high population heterogeneity, which might facilitate the adaptation to the stress imposed by QACs. To address this, the following project objectives are planned: 1) to characterize whether and how single-cell heterogeneity influences the response to QACs in rod-shaped bacteria, and 2) to elucidate the population heterogeneity-derived changes in the tolerance and resistance mechanisms of Mycobacterium against QACs. By using a fluorescently labeled analog of the commonly used benzalkonium chloride (BAC), NBD-DDA, it will be possible for the first time to conduct real-time investigations of the compound's accumulation and its effects on rod-shaped bacterial populations. The project outcome will shed light on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of tolerance and resistance to disinfectants in Mycobacterium and will help to understand the basis of potential cross-resistance between disinfectants and anti-tubercular antibiotics. Given the recent increase in disinfectant usage and the high annual incidence of mycobacterial infections, studying the potential interactions between these groups of compounds is of great importance and could guide future disinfection and treatment strategies.

Keywords: mycobacteria,quaternary ammonium compounds qacs,phenotypic heterogeneity,resistance to disinfectants,tolerance to disinfectants
Controlling the Structure of Transition-Metal Catalysts by Tuning their Chemical Environment (Deep-Cat)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251578.56
EU funding (EUR): 251578.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to develop an understanding of how the chemical environment (i.e. solvent, additive and ligand) can be adapted to tune the reactivity of transition metal catalysts, based on molecular dynamics modelling methods enhanced by machine learning. Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions are widespread in research and industry. The efficiency of these processes depends on a detailed molecular understanding of the catalytic cycles, which are highly sensitive to chemical environmental factors. The identification of active species in reaction mixtures is crucial, as demonstrated in the case of Pd-catalysed oxidative addition (Liang et Al., Inorg. Chem. 2021; Rio et Al., ACS Catal. 2023). This project employs deep-neural network potentials to address the challenges of nuclearity and reactivity commonly encountered in homogeneous catalysis, with a particular focus on the interaction of the catalyst with its chemical environment. The initial phase will investigate the speciation of the Pd(OAc)2 pre-catalyst in solvents of varying polarity, with the objective of controlling its nuclearity. Subsequently, these species will be subjected to further analysis at a static DFT level in oxidation reactions. The second part of the project will examine how the ratio of palladium to phosphine affects the nuclearity of palladium catalysts and the selectivity of cross-coupling reactions (Scott et al., JACS 2020). The last stage of the project, in collaboration with an international experimental leader, will broaden the project to investigate the role played by the chemical environment in Ni-catalysed single-electron transfer reactions (Tilley et al., Organometallics 2021). This project will significantly enhance the expertise of the applicant in multi-scale molecular modelling and machine learning methods, establishing them as a key player in the application of advanced computational techniques to address the diversity of challenges encountered in homogeneous catalysis.
Advanced Cryptography for the Quantum Age (ACQUA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1786265.0
EU funding (EUR): 1786265.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Project ACQUA brings together two of the most important trends in modern cryptographic study, with the aim of maximizing their combined benefit. One is the emergence of quantum computing as a realistic computational model, and the other is the accelerated development of advanced cryptographic tools for the remote processing and control of private data. As we aspire to a world where quantum computing is prevalent, it is necessary to prepare the proper cryptographic tools for users to utilize their data in such a world. This includes protection against quantum attackers (known as post-quantum security), ways for classical users to securely maintain and process data stored on a remote quantum device, and methods to utilize quantum powers to exceed classically achievable capabilities. Recent developments in quantum cryptographic research gave us a glimpse of the possibilities that such a world holds, but they are still few and far between. We are still far from understanding even the theoretical possibilities and limitations. Project ACQUA is a concentrated effort, drawing from the theory of quantum computing and from the theory of cryptography, towards establishing advanced cryptography in a quantum world as a viable construct and unleashing its full potential. The project objectives consist of studying the effect of quantum computing on the foundations of cryptography, constructing relevant classical building blocks, and developing new quantum-cryptographic tools that are needed for an advanced quantum-cryptographic future.

Keywords: theoretical cryptography,quantum computing,foundations of cryptography
EVALUation of heAlthy-susTainable fOod pRoteins (EVALUATOR)

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: Netherlands,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 213071.1
EU funding (EUR): 213071.1
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Access to healthy and sustainable foods is an existential priority as recognized by the UN, WHO, and EU. Replacing animal-based proteins with their plant-based counterparts is expected to be a major step forward, due to a 2-8 fold (depending on the species) increase in protein efficiency. In order to speed up this protein transition, methods need to become available to allow for high-throughput evaluation of protein ingredients, in terms of technical functionality that rules food properties, and physiological functionality that ultimately decides on effects taking place in the body. The EVALUATOR project focusses on plant protein properties in colloidal emulsion systems, for which a tailor-made microfluidic platform will be developed to dynamically assess technical emulsion stability and digestibility. For this, we choose to work with pea and bean proteins that are readily available at low cost within the EU. The microfluidic platform allows real-time investigation at micro and nanometre levels, the scales at which basic food structure elements are formed and degraded, and within very short time spans through high-speed recording, therewith closely mimicking the actual process conditions. EVALUATOR will not only lead to the design of healthier and greener food systems but also supply a versatile microfluidic platform that allows design from first principles, i.e., the actual protein properties as they are relevant for food production and digestion. This brings food design, that currently revolves around trial and error, into a completely different realm, and even more importantly, establishes the currently missing link between technological functionality and digestion. The key for success is the combination of my background in microfluidic design and digestion, that of the hosts in emulsions (WUR, The Netherlands) and the secondment (INRAE, France) in advanced digestive systems, which allows me to cover all aspects of the EVALUATOR project in a ground-breaking way.

Keywords: colloidal emulsions plant proteins protein transition in vitro digestion microfluidics encapsulation controlled release sustainability techno functionality physiological functionality