Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SUNBEAR: NOVEL OIL PRODUCING YEATS STRAIN FERMENTATION FOR FOOD AND COSMETICS (Sun Bear)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The primary objectives of this 24-month project are to optimise genetically engineered yeast strains to achieve 70% lipid accumulation, use renewable feedstocks like potato peel waste, and scale production from bench to pilot plant level 10,000L scale. The project aims to validate the process at an industrial scale within the UK, targeting an initial production of 50,000 tonnes of oil. Strategic partnerships with academic institutions and industry leaders will be leveraged to ensure successful scale-up and market entry. Sun Bear Biofuture's approach combines synthetic biology, precision fermentation, and advanced metabolic engineering to create a sustainable alternative to palm oil and cocoa butter. The project includes developing an optimized yeast strain, streamlining downstream processing, and ensuring the final product meets both EU and UK regulatory standards. The solution will disrupt the existing market by providing a cost-effective, eco-friendly oil that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and preserves natural habitats.

Keywords: fermentation,precision fermentation,novel foods,synthetic biology,novel oil,yeast strain,cosmetics,sustainable palm oil,biotechnology,environmental impact,feedstocks,alternative
Shifting Mindsets for Sustainable Consumption (SUSCON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497526.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497526.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Unsustainable consumption is a key driver of the climate crisis and must be urgently addressed to stay within planetary boundaries. Despite widespread awareness, personal lifestyle changes have proven insufficient and difficult. Rather than relying on individual self-control alone, major structural policy solutions addressing the systemic roots of the social dilemma of unsustainable consumption are needed. Thus, citizens, as well as policymakers, need to become more aware of the significant constraints to sustainable lifestyles and to support and actively promote such policy solutions. I argue that this very process is psychologically hindered by an individual autonomy mindset, characterized by an emphasis on personal autonomy, a neglect of the pervasive influence of structural factors on choice (structural blindness), and a focus on individual solutions for self-optimization. SUSCON aims to expose the limitations of this mindset for advancing the sustainability transformation and to understand the psychological mechanisms needed to shift towards an alternate mindset—one that better recognizes structural influences on behavior and the benefits of more systemic policy solutions. Using a diverse set of methods including public goods games, ecological momentary assessment, policy scenarios, and natural language processing, I will demonstrate how these opposing mindsets influence structural awareness, cooperation, and policy support in citizens and policymakers, and explore novel avenues for fostering a shift in mindset. By intertwining psychology with sociology, economics, and political science, SUSCON seeks to deepen our understanding of mental barriers to sustainable consumption and to chart the foundations for more effective governance. The project challenges conventional narratives and provides valuable insights for policymakers, contributing to the development of more effective climate policies.

Keywords: sustainable consumption,autonomy,policy support,structural awarness,climate change
Assured Recompilation of Vintage Executables via Binary Lifting: Unfreezing Legacy Software from Obsolete Toolchain Dependence (REVITALIZE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2031-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A lot of everyday infrastructure is powered by legacy software that depends on obsolete toolchains. Such software is literally “stuck in time” and cannot benefit from innovations in modern compilers such as automated security mitigations applied during compilation. There are often other undesirable consequences, such as a need to use outdated hardware platforms. Unfortunately, modernizing such legacy software isn’t as simple as taking the ancient source code (if it exists) and re-running it through a modern compiler. In practice, hidden undocumented dependencies on specific compiler versions, build systems, and other parts of older toolchains often make it infeasible to recreate legacy programs from old source code. There is also the related problem of identifying which of several surviving source code versions might be the one that corresponds to an existing authoritative binary. In this project, the PI proposes an ambitious approach that bypasses these concerns by starting at the existing authoritative binary and then “lifting” it to the intermediate representation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Once “lifted,” the existing software can immediately take advantage of the vast array of software reliability tools and optimization passes that already exist for LLVM. Our project will take existing x86 legacy binaries and automatically translate them to security-hardened replacement binaries for the open standard RISC-V architecture, both with and without CHERI security extensions. In order to provide assurance that replacement software revitalized via “lifting” actually performs exactly as a functional drop-in replacement of the original (but lacking security vulnerabilities lurking in the original), the PI proposes a novel use of Multivariant Execution Environments (MVEEs) for the fine-grained differential testing of replacement against original. This can also be used to confirm that existing legacy source code truly matches the authoritative binary.

Keywords: binary lifting from machine code to compiler ir,binary to binary cross compilation between instruction set architectures,security retrofitting of binary executables,legacy code revitalization,differential testing of binaries directly against each other with deep state introspection using multivariant execution
Exploring factors determining resilience to marine heatwaves in coastal temperate rocky habitats (RES2HEAT)

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,Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

Coastal ecosystems, vital for global biodiversity and human well-being, face growing threats from climate change (CC), particularly marine heatwaves (MHWs), which are causing irreversible ecological changes. As a result, the enhancement of ecosystem resilience to disturbances has become a critical research and socio-political priority. Although there is substantial documentation of MHW-induced mass mortalities and thermal tolerance thresholds of key species, multifactorial mechanisms that help marine species and coastal ecosystems to resist and recover from MHWs are not well understood. RES2HEAT aims to fill this gap through a comparative, multidisciplinary approach, studying two contrasting Mediterranean habitats. We will investigate how various factors acting at different ecological levels affect the resilience, including both resistance and recovery capacity, of coastal ecosystems to MHWs. Specific objectives are: (1) evaluate differential resilience of communities and species to MHWs by analysing long-term changes in community and habitat complexity and developing a new index to quantify habitat complexity; (2) explore plasticity and heritable components of phenotypic variation of key species in response to thermal stress through common-garden and reciprocal transplant experiments with populations from varying thermal histories; and (3) characterize the genetic structure and connectivity among and within populations of key species to understand their ecology, including local dispersal, reproductive biology, and gene pool stability, using next-generation sequencing and demo-genetic methods. RES2HEAT integrates innovative and traditional methods, including long-term and regional data series, experiments, demographic sampling, novel underwater photogrammetry techniques, ecological indices, and genomics. The findings will be synthesized to provide key actionable recommendations for managing, conserving, and restoring coastal ecosystems in the context of CC.
Smart, Connected and Secure Battery Management System Enhanced by Next Generation Edge and Cloud Computing, Sensors and Interoperable Architecture (iBattMan)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO, Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Austria,Spain,Italy,Portugal,Türkiye
Call: Innovative battery management systems for next generation vehicles (2ZERO & Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6360168.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999641.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In this project, leading European universities, research centers, and companies within the battery supply chain are bringing their expertise and innovations together to create the next-generation BMS platform able to overcome critical challenges limiting the performance of the existing solutions. iBattMan will incorporate novel sensors and methodologies for monitoring the State-of-Health (SOH) of the cells during operation and in charging, together with cutting-edge technologies and tools for V2X and second-life applications, and use advanced physics- and data-based models implemented on-board and on-cloud for performance evaluation, diagnosis, health management and safety evaluation tools, to trigger actions to address safety and cyber-security concerns. This will result in an innovative, modular and scalable BMS, for a wide range of vehicles, from small passenger cars to e-buses and electric trucks, with improved performance, connectivity, security and reliability to enhance battery performance and reduce total cost of ownership in EV applications and intelligent battery use for grid support and in 2nd life applications, based on a holistic design of an interoperable architecture and supported by a suite of advanced sensors and edge- and cloud-computational resources. This will represent an outstanding step forward in the EU battery development roadmap and enable accelerated market adoption of smart batteries to bring to market world-leading class Li-ion technologies to improve the cost-effectiveness, circularity, and sustainability of the EU battery industry by 2030-2035. It will support the integration of more renewables on the grid based on new concepts such as Smart Cities and Net Zero Buildings to benefit EV car manufacturers and complementary markets like urban mobility, 2nd life application for stationary storage, batteries, and battery recycling.

Keywords: smart bms cloud edge computing v2x sox estimators cybersecurity hybrid modelling connectivity wireless charging battery cell next generation vehicle second life optic sensor gas sensor
The Next Generation MS SPIDoc’s (SPIDoc's)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,France,Sweden,Czechia,Netherlands,Greece,United Kingdom,United States
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2947054.63
EU funding (EUR): 2711880.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

SPIDoc’s DN stems from the need to prepare for emerging viruses enabling a fast response, as became evident lately. Basically, better knowledge of the dynamic nature of viral structures is required and fundamental to combat with appropriate treatments. In this perspective, several technologies were developed for structural biology, including a cutting-edge approach combining mass spectrometry (MS) and X-rays for single particle imaging (SPI) in MS SPIDOC. Despite these advances, a major bottleneck that the scientific community will face in coming years will be the lack of expertise with a broad knowledge from theory, instrument development and application relevant to structural biology with MS. SPIDoc’s therefore aims to train the next generation of scientists with such expertise by a dedicated intersectoral training programme. SPIDoc’s projects are highly interlinked and the proposed training programme aims to provide the doctoral candidates with the basic and advanced knowledge to build a common interdisciplinary language, to work in teams and to acquire deep knowledge by a combination of lectures and practical sessions. An important aspect will be given to data management and the establishment of currently lacking standards for native MS metadata. The research training is complemented by transferrable skills courses, setting the basis for progressing through the doctoral studies as well as for future career progression. Within these modules, training on equal opportunities and unconscious bias are included, shaping the future generation towards creating fair workplaces. Special attention will be paid to green-practice measures from the everyday practice in laboratories and offices up to the institutional level. By including developments from computational theory to instrumentation, the SPIDoc’s beneficiaries and associated partners will closely work together to advance cutting-edge technologies and apply them towards fast response.

Keywords: structural mass spectrometry,md and qm simulations,action spectroscopy,single particle imaging,structural and physical virology
Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes (EXREAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1980706.25
EU funding (EUR): 1980706.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Background. In historical linguistics, reanalysis is described as process by which speakers assign a new meaning to a superficially unchanged element. Reanalysis is basic to grammar change. However, due to the methodological difficulty of studying change on the basis of historical texts and limitations in the understanding of associated social processes, current research struggles to explain both why and when reanalysis occurs and why it spreads between speakers. Aim. EXREAN has three main innovative objectives: (a) to develop a methodology that allows replicating historical reanalysis processes in a laboratory setting, (b) to determine in which context types reanalysis occurs, (c) to determine which social, language-specific, and individual factor favor or disfavor reanalysis and its actualization. Approach. The EXREAN project is the first of its kind to systematically examine reanalysis and actualization processes in a laboratory setting. EXREAN brings together and integrates insights from historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and social psychology. Using experimental paradigms from natural language comprehension and artificial language learning, participants from typologically diverse languages will be trained to replicate three attested historical reanalysis processes from different grammatical domains. The project will test the hypothesis that reanalysis processes can be predicted from exposure to bridging contexts, social factors such as arousal and familiarity, individual differences in habit tendency, and blocking effects arising from previous experience with language. Innovation and impact. EXREAN breaks new ground by developing a methodology by which hypotheses on processes of language change can be submitted to rigorous testing. It will establish the necessity to define reanalysis not only as a cognitive, but also as a social process. In doing so, EXREAN will establish a new historical linguistics that understands itself as a predictive science.

Keywords: language change experiment artifical language learning social psychology reanalysis actualization grammaticalization
Development of innovative decentralized technologies and new co-created governance models for WATER SENSitive communities (WATERSENS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Denmark,Greece,Portugal,United Kingdom,South Africa
Call: New circular solutions and decentralised approaches for water and wastewater management (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CIRCBIO-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5285004.75
EU funding (EUR): 4874617.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change events, such as droughts and floods, are affecting water availability and the global economy. Decentralized water management (DWM) systems can enhance water reuse by treating wastewater near its source and repurposing it for suitable uses. However, widespread adoption requires greater awareness of its benefits, technical demonstrations, and policy adaptation. The WATERSENS project aims to demonstrate the benefits of six DWM technologies and provide an integrated decision framework to help water authorities and stakeholders select, design, and integrate these systems. The selected technologies cover diverse water resources and uses, addressing various geographic and economic contexts. They include floating wetlands for wastewater and stormwater treatment, biofilters for river pollution removal, phototrophic bacteria and biofilters for urban wastewater, green walls for greywater treatment, and green roofs and cisterns for stormwater collection. Quality control procedures will be followed, and emerging contaminants will be characterized. The impacts will be evaluated through LCA, LCC, and social LCA, supported by a risk management model to provide data-driven evidence of the benefits. WATERSENS will also identify barriers in different regions and propose a governance framework based on a cost-benefit analysis and the evaluation of administrative challenges. This will be integrated into a Decision Support System (DSS) platform, driven by AI, which will also include a DWM catalogue, GIS tools, and climate change models, aiding water management stakeholders in making informed decisions.

Keywords: decentralized water management,nature based solutions,governance framework,water reuse,green economy,contaminants of emerging concern
MaGnesium Alloys for effICient solId stAte cooliNg (MGICIAN)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Portugal,Cyprus,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4534101.72
EU funding (EUR): 4534101.72
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Thermoelectrics (TEs) could offer high-performing, efficient, durable and sustainable power-generation and heating/cooling solutions to catalyse the transition to a low-carbon economy, but current state-of-the-art TE modules rely on the toxic and scarce element tellurium. While TE materials based on magnesium, which is abundant and non-toxic, have recently emerged as a potential alternative, there are many challenges related to materials synthesis and performance, device design, fabrication and reliability, and economic and scaling viability, which need to be solved. MGICIAN will address these challenges by: i) bringing together a unique synergy of academic and industrial partners that are leaders in the field of ThermoElectric Coolers (TEC), ii) designing an immersive, interdisciplinary, inter-sectorial, and international research and training program, iii) recruiting, training and mentoring 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) in cutting-edge research and innovation in TE-based solid-state cooling for a low-carbon, sustainable future, and providing them with a broad set of skills to succeed in academic and industry careers. The consortium will include 14 academic institutions, one industry-near academic institute and 4 industry companies from different EU countries (DE, ES, IE, PT, CY, FR, and DK) plus UK. They will offer DCs top-tier supervision and training through interdisciplinary collaborations in TE material synthesis, TEC module fabrication, and system integration for scalable solid-state cooling applications up to TRL 6. Alongside scientific skills, DCs will be trained in ethics, entrepreneurship, project management, intellectual property, and communication, with industry secondments providing practical experience. MGICIAN aims to prepare future research leaders and entrepreneurs in TECs, enhancing Europe’s capacity to develop sustainable TE-based solutions.