Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Forest surveillance with artificial intelligence and digital technologies - FORSAID (FORSAID)

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: Italy,Slovenia,France,Portugal,Germany,Sweden,Bulgaria,Denmark,Ukraine,Switzerland
Call: Digital technologies supporting plant health early detection, territory surveillance and phytosanitary measures (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4991187.5
EU funding (EUR): 4991187.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Forests have an important role in the achievement of the objectives of the European Green Deal. Forest trees are increasingly threatened by invasive pests, with many of them being regulated in the Union territory. FORSAID has as an overall goal to develop a comprehensive combination of innovative digital technologies aimed at detecting regulated forest pests at an early stage, surveying their occurrence in the territory, and providing essential information for the adoption of phytosanitary measures to limit their spread and impacts. The project adopts a multi-actor and multidisciplinary approach tailored to develop and favour the adoption of digital technologies at different spatial and temporal scales associated with a selected list of important regulated forest pests. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be used to create networks of insect traps for major guilds of insects, thanks to innovative deep learning analysis of images sent remotely from the traps. Robotized devices will be developed and tested for the automatic barcoding of the captured pests. Drones equipped with sensors will be used for the scanning of plant health status through the measure of physiological variables. Remote sensing techniques will be used to validate existing ground-truth data on the occurrence of tree alterations associated with abiotic and biotic factors, and models based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will be developed to discriminate different types of stresses as soon as they appear. An economic analysis will address the costs and benefits of using digital technologies for the detection and surveillance measures, considering the economic, environmental, and social impacts of regulated pests in EU forests. Stakeholders from the forest sector will be involved in a multi-actor approach to drive the research to applicable results and co-construct guidelines for the best use of new digital technologies for forest pest detection and monitoring.

Keywords: forest,quarantine,insect,fungus,nematode
Climate Policy vs Economic Growth: Opinions, Models, and Novel Strategies (CLIMGROW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2454000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2454000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change has revived the debate on growth-vs-environment which may intensify in coming years. This project studies to what extent concerns about economic growth, ranging from pro- to anti-growth, hamper social-political support for ambitious climate policy, and how this can be amended. Using surveys, experiments and interviews, it assesses whether beliefs about growth-vs-environment affect policy opinions of distinct stakeholders (voters, policymakers, journalists, etc.), and if this is moderated by preferences regarding instrument types, such as standards, taxes or subsidies. The project further tests the role of information by comparing the effect of distinct beyond-GDP metrics on views about growth vs climate policy. In addition, it studies how growth concerns relate to the design of pledges in the Paris Agreement, as these demarcate national climate policies. Based on collected data and derived insights, the project then undertakes system-dynamics and agent-based modelling to study the co-dynamics of climate-policy design and support. This will create models of the “dynamic policy-support cycle” (DPSC), comprising policy design, economic and emission impacts, opinion dynamics (i.e. support/resistance), and policy adaptation. It involves comparing growth strategies and climate policies using distinct beyond-GDP metrics, and connecting this to stakeholder opinion dynamics. Informed by the model results, in a third part the project explores whether an agrowth strategy, which is precautious towards both economic and climate risks, can increase support for ambitious climate policy. Given stakeholder diversity, we perform interviews to decide about tailored strategies in this respect. Similar proposals to agrowth, notably under the label of “post-growth”, will be examined as well. The ultimate aim is to learn about dynamic packages with climate-policy instruments and a/post-growth measures that culminate in majority support for ambitious climate policy.

Keywords: climate policy,public support,public opinion,economic growth,gdp,beyond gdp,stakeholders,welfare indicators,paris agreement,post growth,agent based model
AI-augmented ecosystem for Earth Observation data accessibility with Extended reality User Interfaces for Service and data exploitation. (EO4EU)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Lithuania,Latvia,Finland,Austria,Cyprus,Germany,Switzerland
Call: Tools to support the uptake and accessibility/exploitability of environmental observation information at European and global level (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9260714.19
EU funding (EUR): 8177925.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

A vast amount of Earth Observation data is produced daily and made available through online services and repositories. Contemporary and historical data can be retrieved and used to power existing applications, to foster innovation and finally improve the EU citizens’ lives. However, an undersizedaudience follows this activity, leaving huge volumes of valuable information unexploited. EO4EU aims to provide innovative tools, methodologies and approaches that would assist a wide spectrum of users, from domain experts and professionals to simple citizens to benefit from EO data. EO4EU strives to deliver dynamic data mapping and labelling based on AI adding FAIRness to the system and data. EO4EU introduces an ecosystem for holistic management of EO data, bridging the gap among domain experts and end users, bringing in the foreground technological advances to address the market straightness towards a wider usage of EO data. EO4EU envisages to boost the Earth Observation data market, providing a digestible data information modeling for a wide range of EO data, through dynamic data annotation and a state-of-the-art serverless processing by leveraging important European Cloud & HPC infrastructures.

Keywords: function as a service,augmented and virtual reality,data visualization,data fairness,knowledge graph,user engagement,green deal,copernicus,geoss,inspire,galileo,egnos,destination earth
TOWARDS A PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EXCELLENT CITIZEN SCIENCE (RIECS-Concept)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Italy,Serbia,Lithuania,Switzerland
Call: Research infrastructure concept development (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997895.75
EU funding (EUR): 2997895.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The RIECS-Concept project aims to conceptualize the European Research Infrastructure for Excellence in Citizen Science that will leverage both citizens' resources (such as mobile phones, desktop computers, etc) and scientific existing resources (citizen science platforms, data collections, existing RIs, etc.) and will provide transversal servicies to the research community. This proposal responds to the needs of citizen science actors (atomization and interoperability issues, efficiency, etc) and lays the foundation for the world's first complete design of this nature. It sets a flagship pathway for citizen science marking a supposes significant leap forward for excellence in citizen science for the coming decades. The RIECS-Concept project will produce two key outcomes: a conceptual design including a feasibility study, and a five-year implementation plan for the new research infrastructure. These outcomes will provide detailed insights into the diversity and maturity of the concept considering technical, operational, societal, and environmental challenges associated with establishing the permanent and shared infrastructure. To gather project findings and community-based evidence, the consortium will conduct primary, secondary, and meta-analysis research involving a wide range of communities and various themes and scientific domains. With a transversal and holistic approach, topics addressed will include the catalogue of resources and best practices, gaps assessment, legal and ethical considerations, as well as sustainability and governance frameworks. The consortium will cooperate with major national and international networks co-organizing activities such as surveys and workshops to bring their related solutions and needs.

Keywords: citizen science,research infrastructure,open science
Delftia TsuruhatensTC1 Based-Intervention For Interrupting Malaria Transmission In Mosquitoes: A Novel Trial For Evaluating Alternative Tools For Control Of Vector-Borne Diseases (DEFEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Senegal,United Kingdom,Burkina Faso
Call: New tools, technologies and approaches for vector control in sub-Saharan Africa (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2024-01-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5952881.75
EU funding (EUR): 5952881.75
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Malaria eradication efforts are severely hampered by the rapid emergence and spread of resistance in mosquitoes due to widespread use of insecticide-based vector-control tools. Recently, we have published a study proposing a novel malaria intervention strategy based on the use of a bacterial strain, Delftia tsuruhatensis TC1 (TC1 for short) and its secreted active component, Harmane (HA). The TC1-intervention interrupts malaria parasite development in mosquitoes without affecting mosquito survival and fitness thereby circumventing selection of resistant mosquitoes. Extensive studies to evaluate efficacy, safety and manufacturability have been successfully completed in both, laboratory and contained semi-field settings and further validate use of the TC1-intervention for malaria control. Although, WHO has established product evaluation pathways and regulatory pipelines for insecticide-based vector control tools these are not suited for TC1 and other ‘TC1-like’ control strategies which do not fall within the ‘main-stream’ conventional category of malaria vector-control tools. To date all vector control tools have been evaluated in cluster randomized control trials (RCTs) to demonstrate epidemiological benefit but RCTs are becoming increasingly difficult and extremely expensive to conduct as standard-of-care increases the heterogeneity between clusters, diminishes the effect size of novel interventions thereby requiring higher numbers of clusters to reliably power studies. An urgent need exists for rigorous and validated entomological metrics which infer epidemiological benefit. This project aims to develop a novel trial for generating the evidence base of the TC1-intervention in open-field settings at the scale of the individual mosquito, to help support the regulatory process and expedite the time between product development and widespread deployment. Additionally, this novel trial could be extrapolated to similar interventions for controlling vector-borne diseases.

Keywords: malaria vector borne diseases
Unlocking de novo Rooting Potential (UNROPO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499055.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499055.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plants display an unparalleled regenerative capacity that is widely exploited in modern agriculture, where elite genotypes are asexually multiplied through stem cuttings. A critical point for this successful propagation entails the development of new roots. Unfortunately, the regenerative potential of plants is not universal as many economically and ecologically important species display poor de novo rooting. In my lab we demonstrated that the regenerative potential of plants is the result of a synergistic reaction of two independent wound responses: (1) the accumulation of the phytohormone auxin and (2) the transcriptional activation of stem cell-inducing transcription factors. Follow-up work showed that the latter are specifically activated by pectin-dependent cell wall changes, driving de novo root formation. In UNROPO, we will elucidate this process to UNlock the ROoting POtential of poorly regenerating trees to broaden the spectrum of plant species that can be propagated through cuttings. Through a systematic knockout of pectin modifying and degrading enzymes, combined with metabolic profiling, we aim to identify wound-induced, pectin-derived oligogalacturonides (OGs) that trigger a regeneration response. Downstream OG signal-transducing proteins will be identified through forward genetics experiments and an innovative in-house developed epitope-based single-cell sequencing method. Independently, we will link the regenerative potential of a collection of 250 poplar trees with their pectin metabolome and use genome-wide association studies to pinpoint the underlying pectin modifying, degrading and signaling genes. Ultimately, the obtained results will be used to modify in poorly regenerating tree species the genes involved in the production of regeneration-competent pectin variants, their derived wound-induced OG, and signaling molecules, to unlock the de novo rooting potential, in such manner contributing to the biodiversity of commercial plantations.

Keywords: poplar,stem cells,rooting
Energy Storage in Molecules (ESiM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999822.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999822.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

ESiM will create the scientific basis for a radically new technology addressing the pressing challenges of scalable clean energy storage. The ESiM strategy is to use the conformational degrees of freedom of organic molecules, and to create dense molecular arrays of scalable dimensions on a surface to avoid the limits of battery technology based on ions flow and on environmentally harmful substances. ESiM will provide the proof of principle that storing energy in molecules is feasible, constructing laboratory devices and validating the scientific and technological basis for novel energy storage devices. ESiM will produce scientific and technological achievements well beyond the fields of the individual partners, involving chemistry, physics, and simulation tools. The added value of our interdisciplinary approach will enable the development of methods and materials for an efficient storage of energy in specific degrees of freedom of organic molecules on a supporting surface, ultimately leading to an environmentally friendly, recyclable way of producing, storing, and using energy. Molecules will be designed and synthesized to first capture a possible deviation from the micro-reversibility principle and demonstrate energy pumping and storing in a few specific intramolecular mechanical degrees of freedom. Then, 2D molecular layers will be developed to efficiently store this energy using electric fields and inelastic electrons as a second energy source. As a proof of principle, ESiM will produce a device based on a bimetallic cantilever to store and release energy from the active molecules. ESiM will maintain close contact with industry via regular meetings (ESiM-Industry days) involving nanotechnology startups, energy providers and high-tech SMEs, to favour exchange and synergy towards the identification of innovative potential technology transfer. ESiM will use public talks, scientific workshops, and scientific publications to reach the broadest possible audience.

Keywords: scanning tunneling microscopy,surface science,single molecule actuator rotor,switch,molecular synthesis,energy storage
Urban logistics and plaNning: AntiCipating urban freigHt generAtion and demand including dIgitalisation of urbaN freight (UNCHAIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Czechia,Italy,Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,Latvia
Call: Urban logistics and planning: anticipating urban freight generation and demand including digitalisation of urban freight (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8356151.61
EU funding (EUR): 6955273.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

UNCHAIN will “break the chains”, boosting the cooperation between public authorities and logistics stakeholders. It will create a set of services for optimal and flexible urban logistics operation, management, planning and policymaking, unleashing the potential that technology and digitalisation can bring to the sustainable urban logistics and moving towards climate-neutral and smart cities. UNCHAIN will implement a standardised and reliable data exchange ecosystem supported by a public-private collaborative framework that will allow the establishment of reliable data sharing agreements, break data silos and make the urban freight data more available and accessible. Driven by the unlocked data, an innovative set of 12 urban logistics services will be implemented to optimise the allocation of urban space, improve the policy-making capacity of local authorities and optimise network management and logistics operation. With UNCHAIN, public authorities will improve their data collection capabilities and have the right tools to achieve sustainability goals. Meanwhile, for operators, having services aligned with their own and society's objectives will unlock mutually beneficial cooperation schemes, a key factor for long-term collaboration and the establishment of sustainable urban freight transport policies and operations. 10 European cities will participate in UNCHAIN activities: Madrid, Berlin and Florence as living labs; Prague, Mechelen, Madeira and Riga as follower cities, and Brest metropole, Ravenna and Alba Iulia as peer- cities supporting the early adoption of the results. Also, the well-balanced representation of the urban logistics industry, with DHL and UPS, will ensure large-scale impact and feasibility of the project results.

Keywords: urban logistics,sustainable mobility,urban space,collaboration,public private partnership,data exchange,mobility data space
Boosting the reduction of the environmental impact of pharmaceutical products throughout their entire life cycle. (ETERNAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Ireland,Austria,United Kingdom,Italy,Portugal
Call: Green pharmaceuticals (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-IND-07, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5922398.75
EU funding (EUR): 5922396.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

ETERNAL aims to contribute to sustainable development of pharmaceutical manufacture, use and disposal, by using and promoting full life cycle approaches covering design, manufacture, usage, and disposal, assessing the environmental risks of not only the API and residues/metabolites, but other chemicals and by-products of the production process. This type of approach is essential to take into consideration the types of green manufacturing approach under consideration by the pharmaceutical industry, as evidenced by the range and scope of case studies being undertaken within ETERNAL. Specific application of our risk and life cycle assessment approaches to the ETERNAL case studies is a key element of the proposed work and will provide industry and policymakers with key examples of how whole life cycle assessment may be used to evaluate the changes in environmental impacts expected due to the introduction of green manufacturing processes.

Keywords: safe by design,green by design,compliant by design,fate of pharmaceutical,medicines,healthcare,recycled solvents,continuous manufacturing,era,develop,validate,carcinogenic impurity capture