Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ENhanced understanding of Trade Impacts on Climate, industries, and the Environment (ENTICE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Germany,Poland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,United States,Switzerland
Call: Improved toolbox for evaluating the climate and environmental impacts of trade policies (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D1-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5986157.5
EU funding (EUR): 5986157.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Despite the wide recognition of the complex interactions between trade (policy) and climate (policy), the state-of-the-art capabilities in macroeconomic models face substantial limitations, such as lack of granular data, dependence on conventional trade theories, limited empirical evidence on trade-climate interactions, limited representation of the value and material chain in key (existing and emerging) sectors, heavy reliance on frameworks not accounting for endogenous technical change, limited understanding of the role of developing countries in trade, etc. ENTICE aims to develop novel data and modelling capacity to enhance our knowledge and inform policymakers on the positive and negative impacts of trade and trade policy on climate and the environment, by combining well-established macroeconomic modelling with new trade theories, empirical analysis, and enhanced data granularity. The project will focus on emissions and climate change issues but also integrate the broader effects on the environment, biodiversity, pollution, and natural resources depletion. The ENTICE work programme includes a novel theoretical conceptualisation of trade, climate, environment, and industry interactions, significant improvements to sectoral detail and relevant granularity in the GTAP database, integrating the new data into and enhancing a toolbox of well-renowned CGE, macroeconometric, integrated assessment, and sectoral models and other methodologies, and analysis of the interactions between trade (policy), climate (policy), the environment, and broader economic and sustainability objectives in the EU and beyond. Finally, ENTICE places considerable emphasis on transparency, legitimacy, and open science and data, as well as on development and research that directly respond to stakeholder needs and trade and climate policy discourse.

Keywords: trade trade policy climate environmental impacts industry macroeconomic models integrated assessment models interdisciplinary science transdisciplinarity sustainable development open science
Collaborative Robots for Impact-based Manipulation (CORIM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The CORIM project aims to introduce a technology that has the potential to significantly expand the application area of collaborative robots (cobots) in the manufacturing sector. Today's collaborative robots have limited ability to handle tasks that require rapid contact transitions with stiff environments, since the force peaks emerging from the contact transition endanger key elements such as gears and force sensors in the collaborative robots. Based on findings of the ERC project NatDyReL, we will develop a solution for these applications, which is based on two main components: a method for analysis and planning fast contact transitions, and an end effector for contact tasks. In connection with the motion planning, which takes the impact models and the inertial couplings into account, this end-effector allows to protect the robot wrist from the impulsive contact forces. Building on this core idea, CORIM enable a conventional collaborative robot to perform physically demanding harsh applications such as hammering, denting, and punching. The CORIM concept will allow to significantly broaden the application area of cobots in the manufacturing industry. In addition to the technical feasibility study, we will perform a business feasibility study as a preparation of further commercialization steps.
MOtorized NAnomachines: fundamentaLs, InnovationS, Applications (MONALISA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Ireland,Switzerland,United States
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4290789.6
EU funding (EUR): 4048480.8
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

MonaLisa, a pioneering European consortium, is at the forefront of artificial molecular machine research, setting the stage for breakthroughs in chemical synthesis, nanotechnology, medical treatment and smart materials. Building on the foundational work recognised by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, MonaLisa aims to make groundbreaking discoveries in the design and functional control of molecular machines that will lead to first demonstrations with practical relevance. At the heart of MonaLisa is an innovative training programme. Fifteen doctoral candidates will receive comprehensive mentoring and training to become future leaders in the field. The programme is designed to foster not only academic excellence but also entrepreneurial skills, enabling these professionals to translate scientific breakthroughs into innovations and support evidence-based decision-making. The strength of MonaLisa lies in its joint vision and collaborative framework, bringing together top scientists, including four Nobel laureates, prestigious institutions and a wide range of industry partners. The non-academic support ranges from dynamic SMEs to large global players, supported by leading organisations that act as multipliers, fostering new programmes and partnerships. Looking to the future, MonaLisa is committed to developing sustainable, educational structures that integrate the non-academic sector to cultivate skills essential for the academic and non-academic workplaces of the 21st century. This initiative will increase collaboration, research intensity and innovation capacity within the European chemistry ecosystem. In doing so, MonaLisa is poised to secure Europe's leadership in science and technology, driving economic growth and societal benefits.

Keywords: molecular motors,nanomachines
Holistic approach for tackling food systems risks in a changing global environment (HOLiFOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Greece,France,Italy,Germany,Ireland,Denmark,Belgium,Hungary,Austria,United Kingdom
Call: Identification, assessment and management of existing and emerging food safety issues (HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6056435.0
EU funding (EUR): 6056434.25
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of HOLiFOOD is to improve the integrated food safety risk analysis (RA) framework in Europe to i) meet future challenges arising from Green Deal policy driven transitions in particular in relation to climate driven changes, ii) contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and iii) support the realization of a truly secure and sustainable food production. HOLiFOOD will apply a system approach, which take the whole environment into account in which food is being produced, including economic, environmental and social aspects. Three supply chains will be considered (i.e. cereals [maize], legumes [lentils] and poultry [chicken]). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data technologies will be used in the development of early warning and emerging risks prediction systems for known and unknown food safety hazards. In addition, tools, methods and approaches will be developed for hazard detection and will be targeted and non-targeted and new holistic risk assessment methods will be develop in which food safety risk will be embedded in a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the food system including positive and negative health, environment and economic dimensions. An effective impact pathway will be developed and implemented through integration of the HOLiFOOD outputs into the legal framework associated with the food risk analysis process. The impact pathway will be supported by an electronic data and knowledge sharing platform aiming at the full digitalization of food (safety) systems and supporting transparency and impact for all stakeholders. In order to align with stakeholder priorities, preferences and user requirements, the HOLiFOOD innovations will be designed and tested in a multi actor approach (i.e. Living Lab) involving all stakeholders (e.g., authorities, food producers and citizens).

Keywords: early warning,emerging risk,risk analysis,holistic,system approach,artificial intelligence
Performance Optimisation of Metasurface-Assisted Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems (PORASIS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 345234.9
EU funding (EUR): 345234.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a key technology for future wireless systems, particularly in monitoring and managing network-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with line-of-sight (LOS) links. ISAC transmitters can use echo signals to detect the angle of arrival of unauthorized UAVs and leverage channel information to enhance secrecy rates. Motivated by these unique capabilities, we aim to optimize the performance of RIS-assisted secure ISAC systems. Our objectives are: 1) to develop a RIS-based collaborative sensing mechanism to mitigate asynchronous reception effects and improve sensing performance; 2) to design methods for unauthorized target detection and sensing and communication (SAC) channel parameter prediction based on perceived information; 3) to create algorithms for joint optimization of resource allocation, RIS phase shifts, artificial noise (AN), and UAV trajectories to maximize the secure transmission rate of ISAC systems. Achieving these objectives will provide immense benefits to the wireless industry and sectors advancing 5G/6G technologies. The Fellow anticipates that the project outcomes will reduce network deployment costs for mobile network operators by 30%, while enabling high-quality mobile data services for citizens, boosting the digital economy, and creating new jobs.

Keywords: integrated sensing and communication,reconfigurable intelligent surface,uav communication,secure transmission,collaborative sensing
AgriPV system with climate, water and light spectrum control for safe, healthier and improved crops production (PV4Plants)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Türkiye,Denmark,Spain,Italy,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Novel Agro-Photovoltaic systems (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4907018.74
EU funding (EUR): 4079701.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

PV4Plants boosts the energy-agricultural synergy of agriPV technologies to enhance growth conditions and increase land-use efficiency, crop yield and renewable energy generation. This is achieved by optimising the light transmission of PV panels through cutting edge nanoparticles spraying on the PV glass surface. PV4Plants system is specifically designed to meet healthy harvesting and to be adaptable to different climatic conditions and crop varieties that will be demonstrated in 3 highly replicable demo sites in Turkey, Spain and Denmark. PV4Plants optimises the system parameters (panels tilt, irrigation level, amount of fertilisers, etc) based on a multi-indicator real-time monitoring system that allows a continuous improvement of the microclimate underneath the agriPV panels to increase crop health and yield. Recyclability and reutilization of components and materials both for the manufacturing and End of Life of the PV4Plants system are central aspects of the project. The PV4Plants system will be certificated through the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), compliance with ISO 14021 and the Sustainability Excellence Label by UNEF. Finally, PV4Plants will boost its market penetration and uptake through innovative farmers' engagement strategies to enhance their acceptance and trust in innovative agriPV systems; new financing schemes and business models to improve investment performance and through a set of policy recommendations that will be developed together with public authorities to create new mechanism designed to accelerate the uptake of agriPV systems in Europe.

Keywords: agrivoltaics,concentrator,glass,novel,pv panels,circularity,reusability,user acceptability,adaptability,scalable,crops physiology,crops health indicators,accelerated testing
Cross-kingdom symbionts: plant pathogens as insect mutualists. (SymPathy)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

By vectoring plant pathogens, herbivorous insects are key determinants in the epidemiology of numerous plant blights. For a vector-borne phytopathogen, natural selection favors upgrading insect fitness to enhance transmission to an uninfected plant. It is currently unclear how a microbe balances this dual symbiotic lifestyle, featuring markedly different interaction outcomes: as a plant pathogen and an insect mutualist. Likewise, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying pathogen specificity, and the genomic basis and consequences of cross-kingdom host shifts along the parasitism-to-mutualism continuum. I will tackle these questions using an emergent model system: the interaction between the fungal pathogen Fusarium, the leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans, and their shared host plant Ipomoea batatas. I recently described that C. alternans associates with a fusarial strain that coats the pupae of its host, protecting beetles against predators during metamorphosis. In exchange, the insect propagates its symbiont to its host plant, where it causes wilt disease. The unique biology and tractability of this study system affords unparalleled opportunities for experimentation. My approach will combine fieldwork and bioassays, with the latest developments in sequencing technologies, reverse genetics and metabolomics to characterize (1) the mechanistic features of symbiont-driven defense, (2) the genetic basis of infection in a cross-kingdom host-shift, (3) the genomic consequences of a dual symbiotic lifestyle, and (4) the breadth, origin as well as partner fidelity and chemical stability of a pathogen-vector interaction. Bridging the fields of chemical ecology, plant pathology and natural product research, this project will significantly further our understanding of the genetic-basis of cross-kingdom symbiotic interactions and the epidemiology of plant pathogens.

Keywords: insect,fungi,host microbe interactions,phytopathogen,chemical ecology
Hydrogen Offshore Production for Europe (HOPE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Portugal,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,Denmark
Call: Demonstrating offshore production of green hydrogen (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 40287430.0
EU funding (EUR): 20000000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SUSPENDED

Hydrogen Offshore Production for Europe (HOPE) intents to pave the way for the deployment of large-scale offshore hydrogen production. To this aim, HOPE will design, build and operate the first offshore hydrogen production demonstrator of 10MW by 2025 in an offshore test zone near the port of Oostende in Belgium. The two-years demonstration of a mid-scale concept on a retrofitted jack-up barge will prove the technical and commercial sustainability of renewable offshore hydrogen production, export by pipelines and supply to end-clients onshore. It will also provide an extensive experience to assess the feasibility of 300MW and 500MW offshore concepts. The experience gathered by the consortium members and the maturity levels reached at the end of the project will enable the deployment of commercial large-scale solutions as soon as 2028. HOPE gathers a unique consortium of European players with cutting-edge expertise across the whole hydrogen value chain: an offshore wind power developer, a renewable hydrogen producer, an electrolyser manufacturer, a desalination solutions manufacturer, an offshore hydrogen pipes manufacturer, a research centre, a regional development agency, a strategic consultancy and a renewables communication agency. HOPE will produce a large range of exploitable results including not only detailed designs of replicable offshore hydrogen technologies, operational data and resulting analyses from a first-of-a-kind project but also pre-feasibility studies and techno-economic assessments of two large-scale concepts. Through an ambitious dissemination and exploitation plan, the consortium intends to accelerate the deployment of large-scale offshore hydrogen solutions to contribute to reach the 10 Mt of clean hydrogen produced in Europe by 2030 to decarbonize the European economy and reach our climate goals.

Keywords: offshore offshore hydrogen production electrolysis flagship,innovation action renewable hydrogen
Disentangling self-paced from cued action initiation in the motor thalamus (DisSeCT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499768.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499768.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The initiation of movement, whether triggered by an internal (self-paced) or external stimulus (cued), relies on complex neural circuitry involving the pre-motor and motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, midbrain, and thalamus. The motor thalamus (mThal) integrates inputs from these structures to orchestrate the shift of cortical activity from a preparatory into an execution mode, resulting in action initiation. However, it is unclear whether the activity in the mThal that releases the motor program is different for externally cued and self-paced movements. Projections from the cerebellum and from the midbrain to the mThal have a critical role in cued movement initiation, while substantia nigra compacta (SNc) dopamine neurons, which send important projections to the basal ganglia, have been show to gate and invigorate self-paced actions. The loss of these neurons in Parkinson’s disease (PD) perturbs basal ganglia inputs to the mThal, leading to impairments in movement initiation. Interestingly, PD disrupts self-paced movements more than those triggered by external cues. We propose that self-paced movement initiation depends on the basal ganglia projections to the mThal, whereas external cues can engage the mThal through cerebellar and/or midbrain circuits to promote movement initiation. To test this hypothesis, we propose a novel behaviour task where mice initiate the same action in a cued or a self-paced manner, combined with recordings and optogenetic manipulation of input-defined mThal populations. We expand this approach to a mouse model of PD to further test if our hypothesis can explain why the use of external cues has a beneficial effect in PD. Our ground-breaking experiments will advance the fundamental understanding of the neural circuits that support self-paced and cued movement initiations, while establishing a framework to understand the positive effect of cues in PD.

Keywords: action initiation,self paced,cueing,motor control circuits,circuit tracing,parkinson s disease,optogenetics,electrophysiology,calcium imaging