Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Development and validation of a new magnetocaloric high-performance hydrogen liquefier prototype (HyLICAL)

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,Spain,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Netherlands,Romania,France,United Kingdom
Call: Validation of a high-performance hydrogen liquefier (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4677848.75
EU funding (EUR): 4677848.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

HyLICAL will contribute to reaching an energy demand of 8 kWh/kg and a liquefaction cost of <1.5 €/kg as targeted in the call by validating an innovative and energy-efficient liquefier prototype for the cryogenic region (< 120 K) based on magnetic refrigeration. The implementation of the magnetocaloric hydrogen liquefaction (MCHL) technology developed in HyLICAL offers the following perspectives: i) Increased energy efficiency of >20% for small liquefaction volumes of <5 tonnes per day (TPD) and up to 50% for >5 TPD; ii) Reduced capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenses (OPEX) by at least 20% in addition to the targeted energy savings; iii) Decentralized (local) production of liquid hydrogen (LH2), thus reducing the need for distribution and transport across long distances; iv) Coupling of the MCHL technology to hydrogen production from renewables (green hydrogen) for off-grid configurations; v) Integration into conventional liquefaction plants to increase their overall energy efficiency; vi) Application of the process for the liquefaction of hydrogen and for boil-off management of LH2 tanks. The MCHL technology will enable the decentralized production of green LH2, in competition with LH2 from fossil sources, and will furthermore reduce the need to transport LH2 over large distances if there is a local green energy source available (e.g., bio-based or electricity from renewables). We will drive the Technology Relevance Level for MCHL technology from initially TRL 3 to TRL 5 at project end. This will be achieved by significantly increasing the liquefaction capacity of the demonstrator from the current SoA (<1 kg/day) to close to 100 kg/day. We will demonstrate that there are no intrinsic limitations that prevent the MCHL technology from being scaled up to suit flowrates above 100 TPD, as highlighted in the call, thus satisfying the need for large-scale production capacities needed in the heavy-duty mobility sector and elsewhere.

Keywords: magnetic refrigeration,liquid hydrogen,energy efficiency,demonstrator
Gen. 4b Solid State Li-ion battery by additive manufacturing (AM4BAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,France,Austria,Belgium,Germany,Czechia
Call: Advanced high-performance Generation 4a, 4b (solid-state) Li-ion batteries supporting electro mobility and other applications (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4854773.75
EU funding (EUR): 4854773.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

AM4BAT will develop innovative component materials and assemble an anode-free all-solid-state battery (ASSB) manufactured by a cost-competitive and sustainable vat photopolymerization 3D printing. The objective is to reach a high-performance battery the energy density of 400 Wh/kg and 1000 Wh/L for electric vehicles applications. This will be achieved by developing materials including i) single crystal NMC811 with superior energy, ii) LNMO Co-free and higher voltage for power AM4BAT variant, iii) dopped LLZO with different size from 0.5 to 5µm and 50-100 nm for higher loading in the HSE, and iv) novel acrylic, nanocellulose, sustainable photocurable polymer. The materials will be optimized for their processing by additive manufacturing. AM4BAT will then validate the technology via 3-Ah pouch cells reaching TRL5, and will carry out an evaluation of manufacturability, a full sustainability assessment and a recycling study to support customers’ uptake. Identified stakeholder groups as well as other research initiatives will be actively involved to ensure dissemination of AM4BAT results and broader users’ acceptance. With its ambitious concept based on cutting-edge 3D printed ASSB and a strong consortium involving the whole value chain from material providers to an OEM, AM4BAT aims to overcome the remaining technological obstacles of the Gen 4b technology as specified in the work programme and accomplish the urgent shorter-term needs of the battery industry: to make Gen 4b batteries a viable technology beyond 2025. On longer term, the AM4BAT outcomes will contribute to the creation of a sustainable European battery manufacturing value chain helping the EU to succeed in the electric mobility roll-out and accelerate the energy transition.

Keywords: solid state battery,advanced materials,3d printing,anode less battery,additive manufacturing,li ion
Generative Spatial Synthesis of Sound and Music (G3S)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2467853.0
EU funding (EUR): 2467853.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Machine learning is particularly well-suited to the processing of ill-defined problems, where complexity rules out direct solutions; it is therefore of paramount importance in the field of music creation, where compositional knowledge is far from explicit. Until now, the generation of sound spaces has often been neglected in the application of AI to music and sound, whereas 3D spatial audio is undergoing significant industrial development. The G3S research project, designed by and for musicians and sound creators, will take sound creation to a new level by enabling the generative synthesis of sound spaces in a context of man-machine interaction. This research will challenge the very notion of space in music and revolutionize practices: we will propose new ways of creating, modeling and analyzing sound by natively integrating its spatial dimension. G3S has four research objectives: 1) to design a unified operative representation of spatial synthesis 2) to propose a thesaurus and quantitative measures to describe the spatiality of sound 3) to generate sound spaces from machine learning 4) to design interfaces for exploring spatial synthesis through listening, semantic or functional description. We will form an international research network on the subject to consider what already exists and test our new proposals; we will develop open-source environments for each of the four objectives; and we will generate musical and sound creations using the project's results. There will be a wide range of uses, from artistic creation (installations, concerts) to video games and applications on phones or in virtual reality. Finally, the developments achieved will be integrated into the workflow of sound designers, and compatible with spatial audio standards.

Keywords: computer music,research creation,spatiality,generativity,representation,machine learning,human machine interaction,auditory space,sound spaces,spatial audio processing
Harnessing mechanisms for plant carbon delivery to symbiotic soil fungi for sustainable food production (maxSYMize)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499551.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499551.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis between plants and symbiotic soil fungi confers key nutritional benefits to plants: AM fungi increase plant productivity by up to 30% by improving mineral nutrient uptake from the soil. In exchange for these nutrients, plants transfer more than one gigaton of photosynthetically fixed carbon each year to the AM fungal network in the soil. This carbon transfer has a major impact not just on plant and fungal physiology, but also on the global carbon cycle. My previous work identified a molecular pathway in plant roots that is activated during fungal colonization of root cells and transfers fixed carbon to AM fungi in the form of lipids. This finding represents a breakthrough in the field of AM symbiosis as we were able to describe, for the first time, how and in which form carbon is delivered to AM fungi. My discovery unlocks an opportunity: I propose to engineer the model crop rice to maximise carbon delivery to the fungal mycelium by exploiting the mechanisms underpinning carbon allocation to AM fungi. This approach could lead to enhanced nutrient uptake by promoting the symbiotic association, thereby reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Moreover, it also has the potential to increase carbon sequestration and soil fertility. However, it is currently unknown how plant carbon metabolism is altered at a whole plant level to increase carbon flux to the fungal mycelium, and how plants control the amount of carbon allocated to AM fungi. To achieve this ambitious aim, I will exploit the recent technological advances in genetics, carbon tracing, and single cell transcriptomics to map the carbon allocation pathway from leaves to roots and to AM fungi at single cell resolution (aim 1) and identify the genetic and transcriptional regulators of this pathway (aim 2). These insights, along with established knowledge, will be used to maximise carbon delivery from crop plants to the fungal mycelium in the soil (aim 3).

Keywords: beneficial plant microbe interactions,carbon allocation
EXcellence and competitiveness in marine algae AQUAculture for a sustainable Black Sea (EX-AQUA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Romania,Belgium,Germany,Bulgaria,Spain,Cyprus
Call: Twinning Green Deal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1602649.89
EU funding (EUR): 1494104.3
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Algae aquaculture represents an alternative for high quality, healthy and diverse sea products, with climate change benefits in terms of carbon sequestration and positive environmental, social and economic impacts. In Romania, marine algae aquaculture (m.a.a.) is underdeveloped and faces considerable challenges in meeting the current targets, despite its considerable potential for the sustainable development of the country, and especially the Black Sea region. To overcome this challenge, EX-AQUA supports NIMRD in building excellence in the field of m.a.a., as a catalyst in the Black Sea, developing and enhancing competitiveness of the local value chain for the exploitation of marine living resources in multiple applications, creating new jobs and market opportunities. The aim is to transfer m.a.a. knowledge, tailored to the Black Sea specific environment, from Western top leading institutions to NIMRD, with the support of other targeted public-private organisations, to finally enable the creation of new industries and business and to enforce the Blue Economy value chain. EX-AQUA will be implemented through 4 action pillars: 1) creating Excellence Science in marine algae aquaculture; 2) enforcing Capacity Building for NIMRD to increase their impact in RDI; 3) strengthening the local Innovation ecosystem for the industrial uptake of new technological solutions for m.a.a.; 4) creating Synergies through the creation of a Cluster for Marine Applied Aquaculture. The two top-leading institutions will enable NIMRD´s research skills in macro algae large-scale cultivation and will open new lines for further developement. These actions will unlock structural changes enabling stronger collaborations between industry, academia, policy makers and civil society in the Black Sea and beyond, to add the EU South-East region to the marine and algae aquaculture map, reducing disparities among EU regions, and contributing to the achievement of the Green Deal targets.

Keywords: marine aquaculture,algae,blue economy,common maritime agenda,aquaculture,green deal
From paradise to mass extinction: correlating and comparing low and high latitude basins during the greatest Permian extinction events and subsequent faunal recoveries. (ExtinctRecov)

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: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184933.87
EU funding (EUR): 184933.87
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Drastic global climate change during the Permian resulted in two of the greatest mass extinction events of all time, one around 260 Ma ago and the other around 252 Ma ago. Arguably the best record of these events on land is preserved in the main Karoo Basin (MKB) of South Africa, which was situated in higher latitudes (~60° S) at those times. Because of the relatively poorer fossil record from lower (0-15°) palaeolatitudes, latitudinal differences in faunal assemblages, and lack of precise radiometric dates, global applicability of extinction and faunal recovery patterns observed in the MKB has long remained elusive; we simply lacked the necessary data. As such, stratigraphic correlations between basins are tenuous. Moreover, it is not known whether the terrestrial expression of the two greatest mass extinction events of the Permian, and subsequent ecosystem recovery, are preserved in western Europe. ExtinctRecov is a novel interdisciplinary project that aims to, for the first time, combine palaeontological, sedimentological, stratigraphical and geochronological data to correlate the Permian-Triassic Spanish and French basins and the MKB. ExtinctRecov will also explore patterns of faunal turnover, extinction, and recovery during the mid-to-late Permian and across the Permo-Triassic boundary i.e. between 265 and 250 Ma ago. The proposed project draws on the geological, geochronological, and palaeontological advances and work undertaken during the past two decades in the Pyrenees and Lodéve basins (Spain and France) and the main Karoo Basin (South Africa), which finally makes this ambitious project possible. Implications of the results from the proposed project include new and key insights on the faunal communities present in this part of Pangea and a better understanding of how terrestrial ecosystems were affected by and recovered from the late Capitanian and Permo-Triassic extinction.

Keywords: mass extinction permian triassic pangea
Geology of Texts, Genealogy of Concepts, Intellectual Ecosystems: Mapping the Indic and Tibetic Buddhist Text Corpora (Intellexus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Israel
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9902166.0
EU funding (EUR): 9902166.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A major legacy of the Indic and Tibetic great civilisations is the enormous corpora of preserved texts and the plethora of profound ideas transmitted therein. Intellexus focuses on three vast corpora of Buddhist texts: Indic works in Sanskrit, Indic works in Tibetan translation, and autochthonous Tibetic works with claimed Indic origin. Our hypothesis is that the Indic and Tibetic Buddhist intellectual cultures and their elements—including texts, ideas, and intellectual ecosystems (and their constituents)—arose and developed in dependence. Bringing to light the details of this dependent arising is essential for understanding the rich philosophical, religious, and literary traditions of these cultures and the subtle processes of transfer from the Indic to the Tibetic cultural sphere. These complex processes, we claim, involved interactions not only with other Buddhist elements, but also with non-Buddhist ones. The unique synergy within a broad team of scholars of Humanities and Computer Science makes it possible for the first time to develop methods and tools with which our hypothesis can be tested. We will map the three corpora, taking also Indic and Tibetic non-Buddhist material into consideration, with a focus on three aspects: (a) the geology (composition history) of texts and text corpora; (b) the genealogy of selected concepts; and (c) the intellectual ecosystems involved. The project will also devise sophisticated visualisations of the nexuses of interactions between texts, ideas, and people, which will uncover patterns of intertextuality and intersecting pathways of ideas, and will enable the profiling of the intellectual ecosystems. Our groundbreaking methodology and tools will revolutionise the way we think about and investigate these―and with some adaptations also other―intellectual cultures and the processes leading to the development of their rich traditions. We thus expect a major impact on our fields and beyond.

Keywords: intellectual ecosystems evolution of intellectual cultures cultural transfer buddhism india tibet
Standardization Roadmap of Swappable Batteries for L-cat Vehicles (STAN4SWAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Pre-normative research and standardisation in industrial ecosystems (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1161621.07
EU funding (EUR): 922111.25
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

A robust standardization roadmap towards boosting innovation to market for swappable Battery Systems for L-cat vehicles deployment as a major contribution to safe, secure, resources and environmental friendly and interoperable decarbonization solution of the Mobility-Transport sector.

Keywords: standardization,mobility,decarbonization,light categories of vehicles,swappable batteries,
Closed-loop Individualized image-guided Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (CITRUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Denmark,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Tools to measure and stimulate activity in Brain Tissue (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3799402.5
EU funding (EUR): 3799402.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

We are joining forces across Europe to advance a new non-invasive technology – transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) – to reversibly modulate brain regions with exquisite millimetre precision, even deep in the brain. As such, we aim to establish an urgently needed novel treatment option for neurological and psychiatric diseases. TUS combines the precision and reach of invasive deep brain stimulation, required to directly target clinically relevant structures, with the non-invasive and low-cost nature of transcranial electromagnetic techniques that are inherently limited in focus and depth. The main roadblock to widespread adoption of TUS in neuroscientific and clinical applications is the difficulty of steering the small ultrasound focus onto the intended target and reaching the desired intensity, with no empirical validation of targeting success currently available. We will develop a neuronavigated TUS-MRI system with advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided application planning and closed-loop application control to enable safe, individualised, and effective high-precision TUS in humans. As such we will unlock the full potential of TUS to non-invasively modulate deep brain structures with unprecedented spatial precision in the millimetre range. The final prototype will be a fully functional device that integrates novel MR-compatible 256-element TUS-transducers (for advanced 3D-steering of the TUS focus) with a custom-tailored 32-channel MR-receiver coil (for accelerated imaging with maximal sensitivity) and closed-loop target validation using MR-acoustic radiation force imaging (MR-ARFI). This novel device with its unique features will enable for the first time the personalized non-invasive high-precision stimulation of cortical and subcortical targets in the human brain. It will be a game changer for both neuroscientific research and clinical application in neurological and psychiatric diseases with the potential to benefit millions of patients.

Keywords: non invasive brain stimulation,neuromodulation,magnetic resonance imaging,therapeutic ultrasound,brain disorders