Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
URBAN MOBILITY CULTURES IN TRANSITION: SOCIO-SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES (TRANSFORM)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Luxembourg,Denmark,Austria,Belgium,Portugal,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3469629.6
EU funding (EUR): 3469629.6
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The interaction between individual choices to address mobility demands and the structural components of cities (e.g., land use and transport system) results in specific urban mobility cultures, which can be different across cities, regions, and countries. To varying degrees, those urban mobility cultures threaten various ecological, economic, and social objectives of a sustainable development. The project TRANSFORM aims to break new academic ground by studying from a holistic, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and gender- sensitive approach the meaning and functioning of transitions in urban mobility cultures, examining whether and to what extent transformative practices are effective mechanisms for activating and consolidating the transitions mentioned as well as the resulting socio-spatial effects. The operationalization of the project will be mainly based on recruiting 13 doctoral candidates, aiming to pursue post-graduate studies towards the acquisition of a doctoral degree. The research program of these individual researchers will be integrated into a set of 8 work packages that include the participation of 16 highly-reputed European academic institutions and 9 experienced non-academic organizations of relevance for urban mobility: private companies, associations, regional governments, and urban living labs. The project will focus on training of a new generation of researchers through an innovative, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral doctoral program that includes: (i) academic training; (ii) non-academic training; (iii) transferable skills training; and (iv) specific and coordinated supervision & mentoring.

Keywords: urban mobility policymaking governance sustainable communities
Solidify the European FDSOI Ecosystem Accelerating its Industrial Deployment (SOIL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Germany,Netherlands,Czechia,Belgium,Greece,Italy,Romania,Switzerland
Call: General according to ECS-SRIA 2022 (IA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 95095263.89
EU funding (EUR): 24019350.28
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

The European FDSOI family of technology platforms is recognized for its low power consumption, versatility, high radiation hardness, embedded non-volatile memories and exceptional radio frequency capabilities. The objective of the SOIL project is to extend FDSOI technology platforms and broaden their use within the European industry in order to provide Europe with a real alternative to semiconductor supply autonomy using FDSOI semiconductors. We will thus expand a European technology manufactured by European players and suited to the European and Worldwide market. The SOIL project will give Europe the opportunity to move forward with industrial and academic players spanning the value chain by joining in the risk-taking necessary for the growth dynamics of semiconductors for Automotive, Space, IOT and Edge AI domain in Europe. The SOIL project will accelerate the implementation of semiconductor manufacturing based on FDSOI technology, building, and securing the European semiconductor value chain from material to system, supporting the twin green and digital transition. SOIL will expand the family of European FDSOI technology platforms by developing production and innovation capabilities in the following key areas: i) Advanced features: prepare next generation of FDSOI technologies and components; ii) Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) core: reinforce the FDSOI design ecosystem and the supply chain around FDSOI manufacturing; iii) Digital, analog & RF single-chip integration capabilities (Microcontroller Unit; RF communication; RF sensor, e.g. radar). The project will shape the future by developing new technology approaches as well as numerous IPs on advanced applications and will promote the capability and benefits of the technology by providing advanced demonstrations on key applications and comparing the technology. SOIL will strengthen and expand the overall FDSOI ecosystem from material to system.

Keywords: semiconductors,fdsoi,communications,automotive,iot,space,nonvolatile memory,microcontroller,life cycle analysis,sustainability,sovereignty of european semiconductor industry
The ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests (FORWARDS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland,Italy,Austria,Hungary,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Latvia
Call: Forestry - European observatory of climate change impacts and demonstration network of climate smart restoration pilots (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CLIMATE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14617660.0
EU funding (EUR): 14617659.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

FORWARDS will prototype The ForestWard Observatory to provide (a) timely and detailed information on European forests’ vulnerability to climate change impacts, (b) science-based knowledge to guide management using the principles of climate-smart forestry, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity preservation (CSF & Restoration), and (c) stakeholder engagement and public participation in decision-making processes. We capitalize on data from existing networks (e.g. ICP Forests) and expand this with a Network of Pilot sites through 5 FORWARDS Demo cases plus ~50 trials established via grants to third parties. We will reconcile the current divide between forest information obtained from the ground and remote sensing by incorporating the concept of Monitoring Supersites and novel approaches to more comprehensively characterize cause-effect relationships of forest disturbances. Tools for European-wide forward-looking and spatially explicit projections on forests as well as regionalized CSF & Restoration trajectories will be developed jointly with stakeholders to evaluate synergies and trade-offs of conversion and restoration activities. These will be used to provide good practice guidance on effective CSF & Restoration management practices. The ForestWard Observatory will be constructed under the principle of co-design to address the information needs by users and stakeholders. FORWARDS interacts with several established networks on CSF & Restoration and effectively utilizes five dedicated grant calls to implement forest observations and test CSF & restoration measures. The ambition is for The ForestWard Observatory to become a long-lasting legacy of FORWARDS, which supports decision making across scales to boost the uptake of good CSF & Restoration management practice throughout Europe (local scale for management practice), while efficiently informing about climate change and disturbance impacts and resilience of European forests (regional to EU scale for policy making).

Keywords: climate change impacts,disturbances,climate smart forestry,ecosystem restoration,icp forests,forest monitoring,remote sensing,forward looking,co design,stakeholder engagement
Reversible and irreversible cardiac electroporation: Establishing the fundamentals to advance cardiac treatments (REINCARNATION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiovascular diseases are the No. 1 healthcare challenge in the world, among which ischemic heart disease and atrial fibrillation are the most prevalent. Better treatment strategies are greatly needed to reduce the medical, economic, and social burden of these conditions. Electroporation (application of intense pulsed electric field) is showing tremendous potential for treatment of atrial fibrillation, enabling a safer and shorter treatment procedure compared with existing thermal ablation approaches. Moreover, recent pioneering studies provide evidence that electroporation can also be used as a nonviral vector for intracellular delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids that promote cardiac regeneration, potentially offering a way to cure the so-far incurable ischemic heart disease. For treatment of atrial fibrillation, electroporation must be irreversible, resulting in the death of cardiac muscle cells, to locally destroy (ablate) the arrhythmogenic cardiac tissue. Conversely, for treatment of ischemic heart disease electroporation must be reversible, meaning that the pulsed electric field transiently enhances cellular uptake of nucleic acids while the cells are able to survive and express the delivered transgene(s). Due to a lack of fundamental understanding of cardiac electroporation, there are currently no reliable methods able to ensure electroporation (ir)reversibility and the desired treatment outcome. This project is designed to decipher the biophysical mechanisms of cardiac electroporation at the molecular, cellular and tissue level as to develop methodologies that will enable optimal implementation of both irreversible and reversible electroporation. By combining bottom-up experiments in primary cardiac cells and tissue slices with computational modeling and advanced data analysis I will create the foundations needed to streamline further (pre)clinical research and realize the potential of electroporation to advance cardiac treatments.

Keywords: pulsed electric field,microrna,plasmid dna,cardiomyocytes,cardiac fibroblasts,cardiac tissue slices,excitable cells,action potentials,calcium transients,voltage gated ion channels,electrophysiology,numerical modeling,finite elements,machine learning,molecular dynamics
Mobile Freedom (MOBIFREE) (MOBIFREE)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Romania,Serbia
Call: Pilots for the Next Generation Internet (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4899925.0
EU funding (EUR): 4421800.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The Background to the development of the MOBIFREE project is the current mainstream mobile software ecosystem. This ecosystem is dominated by a small number of American technologies, which are known for collecting large amounts of data on users. They are closed-source and use proprietary data and standards, resulting user-‘lock-in’ and monopolizations of markets. Organizations in Europe are working to change this and to create a fair mobile software ecosystem that is pro-privacy and pro-openness, applying open-source principles and using open data and standards, contributing to digital sovereignty of Europeans. In MOBIFREE we bring together Europe’s leading organizations in this area to further develop Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies to realize this. The Ambition of MOBIFREE is to support the digital sovereignty of European citizens and organizations by further developing open-source software that is human-centred and ethical, and by strengthening the ecosystem that provides these software solutions. The broader Objective of MOBIFREE is to scale up mobile software technologies in all four key areas of the mobile software ecosystem through co-creation and piloting with four key sectors of end-users, in order to improve the quality, privacy and openness of these software solutions, and create new business opportunities for the leading mobile software organizations in Europe making them. The Outcomes of MOBIFREE will include: • More freedom for European citizens and organizations, who will get access to improved human-centred and ethical mobile software solutions that build upon the outcomes of the NGI-programme. • New business and sustainability opportunities for the pro-privacy, open-source mobile software ecosystem in Europe and an expanding community of human-centred and ethical IT companies. • Europe’s top innovators in mobile software will be supported in improving, validating and implementing human-centred and ethical technologies.

Keywords: freedom,digital rights,digital sovereignty,privacy,open source,openness,open data,open standards,competition,fair,ethical,sustainable,human centred,human centric,environmental,inclusive
EMPYREAN: TRUSTWORTHY, COGNITIVE AND AI-DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE ASSOCIATIONS OF IOT DEVICES AND EDGE RESOURCES FOR DATA PROCESSING (EMPYREAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Israel,Denmark,Spain,France,Germany,Belgium
Call: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (AI, data and robotics partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5769063.5
EU funding (EUR): 4673517.95
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

EMPYREAN envisages a hyper-distributed computing paradigm, based on federations of collaborative and heterogeneous IoT devices and resources (e.g., on RISC-V) across different providers and networks. These federations, namely Associations, operate autonomously and interconnect seamlessly utilizing distributed, cognitive and dynamic AI-enabled decision-making, to balance computing tasks and data inside an Association as well as between Associations in a multi-agent manner and across central computing environments, optimizing resources and providing scalability, resiliency, energy efficiency and quality of service. An Association will constitute a trusted execution environment, while identity and data access management schemes will assure controlled access and confidentiality of data, utilizing Cluster 3 related outcomes from participating partners. EMPYREAN will also be empowered with automated tools and mechanisms for efficient data processing of AI-workloads and secure distributed edge storage. Developed technologies will also enable Associations-native application development and deployment, contributing to the entire application lifecycle and interoperability. EMPYREAN will provide open and standardized APIs, while utilizing and extending open-source platforms maintained by European companies from the consortium. EMPYREAN will demonstrate its advanced and innovative capabilities through three well-defined use cases that involve device- and data-rich applications in advanced manufacturing, smart agriculture and warehouse automation, involving AI-driven value extraction from high volume and dynamic IoT data generated by multiple sources (e.g., robots) at the edge of the network. Also, a South Korea based use case in smart factories will further showcase the benefits of the EMPYREAN’s technologies. EMPYREAN will develop its Association-based continuum through synergies with emerging IPCEI initiatives and EU bodies (e.g., GAIA-X, IDSA) by involved partners.

Keywords: hyper distributed,collaborative,iot,edge,interconnection,cognitive,trust,ai,intelligent,autonomous,ai ml workloads,manufacturing,agriculture,warehousing,robots
Open-Source Cloud-Based Services on EPI Systems (OpenCUBE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland
Call: Open source for cloud-based services (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4259360.0
EU funding (EUR): 4259360.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

This project proposes to design OpenCUBE, a full-stack solution of a validated European Cloud computing blueprint to be deployed on European hardware infrastructure. OpenCUBE will develop a custom cloud installation with the guarantee that an entirely European solution like SiPearl processors and Semidynamics RISC-V accelerators can be deployed reproducibly. OpenCUBE will be built on industry-standard open APIs using Open Source components and will provide a unified software stack that captures the different best practices and open source tooling on the operating system, middleware, and system management level. It will thus provide a solid basis for the European cloud services, research, and commercial deployments envisioned to be core for federated digital services via Gaia-X. To remain competitive for the European Green Deal, OpenCUBE is designed to make energy awareness a core feature at all levels of the stack, exploiting the advanced features of the SiPearl Rhea processor family at the hardware level and exposing the necessary API at the site level, up to and including interfaces to the electricity grid. This project will leverage representative workloads like those of ECMWF characteristics for production and Digital Twin workflows as drivers for the design and deployment of the cluster infrastructure. We will collaborate closely with the projects developing the virtual environments and the open hardware interfaces for current and future European processor and coprocessor technology.

Keywords: cloud services,epi systems
AI Attack and Defense for the Smart Healthcare (ANTIDOTE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Portugal,Serbia,Italy,Romania
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1794000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600800.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The smart healthcare domain utilizing a combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medical Internet of Things devices is undoubtedly transforming the healthcare industry as it can deliver new applications and solutions that benefit patients, doctors and hospitals. Improved treatment, cost reduction and faster diagnosis are some of the advantages that smart healthcare brings to healthcare stakeholders. First, AI can be utilized to efficiently process data for improved disease diagnosis in medical images including liver lesion classification and segmentation, brain tumor segmentation, breast cancer detection, etc. Besides, AI can assist in securing the healthcare system from cybersecurity attacks that target the operation of medical IoT devices or sensitive medical data. However, the common assumption with AI is that the training, testing and deployment environment is benign and trustworthy. This assumption, however, does not hold true in general. As a matter of fact, research in this area has shown that small perturbations in the important features of AI models during training or testing phase can trivially undermine their performance. This gives rise to adversarial AI, in which attackers can trick healthcare AI models to degrade their diagnostic or cybersecurity detection performance. ANTIDOTE project objective is to create a sustainable European and inter-sectoral network of organizations working on a joint research programme in the interdisciplinary fields of Healthcare, AI and Cybersecurity. The participants will exchange skills and knowledge which will allow them to design and develop concrete mechanisms to evaluate the robustness of AI models and propose novel methods to ensure their secure, safe, resilient and robust operations in the healthcare domain. The outcomes of the ANTIDOTE project will have a significant benefit for European society, while strengthening the collaborative research between the different countries and sectors.

Keywords: cybersecurity,medical image analysis,artificial intelligence,medical iot,adversarial ai,robust ai,cyberattack detection
ExpLoring Lithium tantalate on Insulator PhoTonic Integrated Circuits (ELLIPTIC)

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: Norway,Germany,Italy,France,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997273.75
EU funding (EUR): 2997273.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Transparent ferroelectric oxide crystal with a strong 2nd-order optical nonlinearity are a paramount building block for electro-optical and nonlinear photonics bridging the electromagnetic spectrum from electrostatics and THz fields to optical frequencies. Currently, smart-cut ferroelectric thin films such are revolutionizing integrated photonics, overcoming the traditional limitations of bulk lithium niobate and silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits such as low power efficiency and speed. Despite more than half a decade of tremendous scientific progress in the field, predominately using lithium niobate thin films, many technological and commercial hurdles have emerged compounding their adoption. The goal of ELLIPTIC is to overcome these limitations and to close the technology gaps that are still inherent to photonic integrated circuits based on ferroelectric thin films. LTOI will open new paradigm for nonlinear integrated photonics, based on its unique properties, such as a high optical damage threshold, reduced photorefractive effect, ultra-low optical and microwave loss and low birefringence. Moreover, LTOI leverages the existing micro-electronic manufacturing infrastructure due to its widespread adoption for 5G cellular signal filters. We will demonstrate the transformative potential of the LTOI platform for applications across various domains including optical and millimeter-wave communications, signal processing, metrology, frequency-comb generation, and quantum technologies, such as the transduction of quantum signals between superconducting microwave devices and optical fibers. The development of an process design kit (PDK) will democratize access to the technology for academia and the R&D communities.