Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Digital Ship: Mastering Complexity of the Waterborne Digital Transport through “Cloning of the Ship" (D-NAVIO)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Cyprus,Bulgaria,Italy
Call: Ensuring the safety, resilience and security of waterborne digital systems (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999437.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999437.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

D-NAVIO (meaning Digital-Ship) is an advanced digital twin project that aims to develop a next-generation digital “clone of ships” through an Intelligent Digital Twin (IDT) system. Integrating explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and self-healing technologies, D-NAVIO focuses on large, complex vessels. The project aligns with the global mission to enhance maritime safety, protect property, improve environmental efficiency, and facilitate the transition to autonomous ships by incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge from automation, aviation, and the space industry. D-NAVIO’s “System-of-Systems” approach enables real-time monitoring and analytics through two pilot use cases: 1) COLUMBIA’s large passenger/cruise ship, and 2) DANAOS Shipping’s large cargo/container ship. These pilots will identify missing requirements and propose advanced methods for forecasting, preventing, and managing faults, failures, and hazards throughout a ship’s operational phase. Through its multi-pillar approach, D-NAVIO goes beyond the state-of-the-art to offer specific and tangible, cutting-edge innovations: 1) D-NAVIO XDTLib: An Extensible Digital Twins Library for Waterborne Systems, 2) D-NAVIO HYDRA: A Hybrid and Adaptive Risk Assessment Framework, 3) D-NAVIO Failures Reporting System: A “memory of failures” system, 4) D-NAVIO Cybersecurity Assessment Toolkit, 5) DYNAMO: Dynamic Cloning for Maritime Applications, and 6) Analysis of Reliability Regimes for critical systems. D-NAVIO’s innovative solutions, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and input from shipyards, shipbuilders, system designers, maritime engineers, equipment manufacturers, IT experts, operators, class societies, and regulators, will establish a smart platform that revolutionizes risk assessment and hazard management. This will not only enhance safety during design, construction, and sea trials but will also ensure operational resilience and cost-effectiveness throughout the life cycle of large ships.

Keywords: digital twins,clones,predictive maintenance,self healing,reliability regimes,genai,xai,iot,hazop
THEMATIC EUROPEAN RURAL BIOECONOMY NETWORK (thERBN) (thERBN)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Greece,Italy,Lithuania,Romania,France,Poland,Germany,Portugal,Slovakia
Call: Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice (HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3172322.11
EU funding (EUR): 2999886.25
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of thERBN is to put into operation an EU-wide multi-actor (MA) thematic network (TN) for knowledge sharing on innovative solutions for sustainable circular bioeconomy (CB) applicable by small farms and foresters (practitioners) at a local scale in rural areas. Such a framework will contribute to empowering practitioners (PPs) solving the gap between available and viable CB solutions and the problems they face in their everyday. Starting from their most urgent needs on the management and use of biological by-products and residues, thERBN will identify existing solutions from grassroots from PPs, innovations developed by Operational Groups (OGs) and research applied results from national and EU projects, to produce practice-oriented easily understandable materials to be shared in national and EU demo days and training and through channels most consulted by PPs. thERBN TN will assure open access to long-term digital structures like EU-Farmbook, and EU-CAP Network, complemented by the thERBN platform to facilitate multilanguage access and a social environment to interact among and integrate CB-interested OGs, TNs & project communities, thus enhancing the cross-border dimensions and effects of thERBN TN, and reducing the fragmentation in knowledge and innovation. The MA thERBN TN will connect with the key actors (researchers, advisors, innovation brokers) and structures (national and regional AKIS, extension services, advisors networks) necessary to encompass the transition of small rural farms and foresters towards climate neutrality and more sustainable and resilient operation. Bottom-up MA-based dialogue will yield evidence on the current PPs' needs, the remaining gaps for CB solutions that new innovative products and services can cover, and policy briefs proposing policies or instruments to support the adoption of small-scaled CB solutions by small farms.

Keywords: advisors,akis,cap strategic plans,circular bioeconomy,policymakers,rural development programme,thematic networks,eu farmbook
Identification and development of novel colorectal cancer biomarkers via state-of-the-art liquid biopsy approaches (ColoMARK)

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: Spain,France,Ireland,Austria,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2882252.57
EU funding (EUR): 2656677.6
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The ColoMARK network integrates 17 teams with multidisciplinary expertise (omics, epidemiology, microbiome, circulating tumour DNA, bioinformatics, assay development, circulating RNAs, circulating tumour cells, tumour profiling, clinics) that will take advantage of the assets conferred by novel liquid biopsy strategies to provide complementary and comprehensive know-how on the features required to successfully fulfil the objectives of ColoMARK: 1) to foster a next generation of scientists that can address the challenges of colorectal cancer biomarker development. The network is enforced by pre-existing collaborations from COST Action TransColonCan, and enhanced by the participation of non-academic entities, who will play an essential role in the cross-sectoral and transversal training of the researchers. It is our purpose to provide a personalised training programme that builds on the knowledge offered by the participants to produce future cross-sectoral leadership and a sustainable initiative of excellent research that enhances the competitiveness of European researchers; 2) to achieve maximum impact by appropriate dissemination, patient and public engagement, and results exploitation, activities that will be embedded in the training of the researchers. Given the promising perspectives of liquid biopsy approaches for the future of cancer prevention and management, ColoMARK will constitute an opportunity to reach outstanding scientific, technological and societal impact in a field highly relevant to Horizon Europe´s priorities in cancer, therefore enhancing European competitiveness in R&I; 3) to advance in colorectal cancer understanding by producing outstanding, synergistic research. As the main scientific aim of ColoMARK, ten tailored ground-breaking research projects, only possible in the context of ColoMARK, will be undertaken for the identification and validation of better risk, prognostic and monitoring colorectal cancer biomarkers.

Keywords: colorectal cancer genomics circulating tumour cells ctdna exosomes rna biomarkers liquid biopsy
BlueArray Hop-On: Blue light metasurface correction optics (BlueArrayHop-On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Portugal
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599725.0
EU funding (EUR): 599725.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The original BlueArray project aims to develop the next generation of high-performance, fully integrated underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) transceivers, paving the way for the sustainable Internet of Underwater Things revolution. With the ambition to achieve unprecedented underwater optical connectivity in terms of range, energy efficiency, and node mobility, while maintaining a low environmental impact, the project will explore the breakthrough technologies for fully integrated photonic system-on-chip transceiver modules targeting the challenging blue-light spectrum. The consortium will develop a radical new approach for high-speed optical beam steering over a large field of view (FOV), using narrow low loss beams, significantly advancing the state of the art in blue vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL), blue optical phase arrays (OPA), large-scale array digital-to-analog converters and coherent receiver technologies. The widening partner INL brings novel metasurface based blue light modulation technology to the project, introducing an impactful new degree of freedom to substantially enhance the performance and reliability of the optical links between OPA transceiver nodes. The new concepts for low loss silicon nitride metasurface optics aim to correct the curved radiation patterns of 2D OPA beam steering, effectively eliminating blind spots and improving FOV coverage. The INL expertise in nanofabrication of deep sub-wavelength structures will be supplemented by new advanced topological optimization algorithms to design and produce flat optical devices are fully compatible for integration with the other system-on-chip modules. Joining the BlueArray project will enable the widening partner to leap beyond the state-of-the-art in photonic metasurfaces, capitalizing on its recent research outputs in the field of flat optics and cementing its position as an internationally recognized photonics stakeholder.

Keywords: metasurface flat optics topology optimization nanofabrication
Flexible InteligenT NEar-field Sensing Skins (FITNESS)

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: Belgium,France,Germany,Croatia
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3603992.0
EU funding (EUR): 3603992.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The FITNESS project will realize flexible smart skins able to provide a non-contact sense of “touch”. The envisioned smart skins will operate at microwave frequencies, and the same device will also allow far-field communication. The key technology enabling these functionalities is that of metasurfaces, i.e. structured surfaces that have unusual properties at some frequencies. In this case, they convey and manipulate surface waves, which also can be turned into radiating leaky waves for far-field communications. The research follows a holistic and multidisciplinary concept targeting thin smart skins: the FITNESS project encompasses the synthesis of new low-loss flexible microwave substrates, research on the embedded electronics, the analysis and design of metasurfaces on curved structures and data analysis. The first demonstrator will be realized in the field of robotics, while later applications are envisioned in the medical area. Therefore, FITNESS will integrate ultra-low power operation from the beginning. The devices will essentially work through the measurement of the transmittance between a limited number of ports (sparse electronics), through surface waves following the shape of the smart skin which is wrapped around the robot or the body. The workpackages follow the main challenges toward the new technology: sparse, curved, integrated and flexible metasurfaces. One of the main societal outputs will consist of a more harmonious cooperation between robots and humans through the constant probing of their respective near-field environments. This ambitious 48-months 3.6 MEuros action gathers complementary key European experts from 4 EU countries, covering electromagnetics, electronics, materials, robotics, thermal aspects, but also the necessary skills for appropriate management, communication and exploitation: 3 universities (5 research teams), 2 SMEs and 2 research centers.

Keywords: metamaterials,robotics sensors,silicon based electronics,phased arrays
LH2 storage and fuel-system below deck, integrated in a Service Operating Vessel (NAVHYS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Norway,Sweden,Spain,Belgium,Italy
Call: Next generation on-board storage solutions for hydrogen-powered maritime applications (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6751031.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999049.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

To achieve the ambitious objectives set at the international level, the transition to an alternate low carbon energy source will become essential. Since batteries are limited to smaller ship, and synthetic-fuel will remain hardly available, hydrogen will irremediably appear as the best alternative energy. However, the related challenge is to store efficiently and safely hydrogen, and here Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) is the most attractive solution. Alternate storage solutions (CH2, ammonia…) have lower power-to-volume ratio, and additional constraints, such as high-pressure, toxicity, reverse transformation etc. Moreover, LH2 is already becoming a standard in space, aeronautics, motorsport, trucks. NAVHYS aims at providing a concept based on a LH2 storage and fuel-system below deck, integrated in a Service Operating Vessel to provide to wind energy providers a fully decarbonized solution. The design of the LH2 system, its integration in the ship and the risk analysis will be very challenging as they deviate from previous prescriptive safety rules and design guidelines. NAVHYS will design a fuel-system to supply GH2 at 5 bar/Tambiant to be used in any propulsion system to produce from 500kW to 2MW. This system will integrate a LH2 pump, benefiting from ArianeGroup’s experience in Ariane 6, thus making it more robust to sloshing and allowing beneficial impact of low-pressure tank considering sizing and loading limit. A prototype of the distribution system will be tested on ArianeGroup test bench. NAVHYS will confirm the safety and the operability of the proposed design with an Approval in Principle delivered by the Classification Company Bureau Veritas. NAVHYS will address refuelling operations and supply chain evaluation, based on the HORIZON Europe DelHyVEHR project which already aims at demonstrating the capacity to refuel LH2 with a high flowrate. NAVHYS will also integrate an analysis of the potential scale-up of the system and a spill-over towards other applications.

Keywords: liquefied hydrogen,lh2 tank,lh2 fuel system design,lh2 bunkering station,refueling protocol,safety,hazid,scale up,spill over,maritime transport,simulation,sloshing,boil off,sustainability
Convergence of syntactic, prosodic, and interactional units in conversation (SPEAK)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Kazakhstan
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

SPEAK aims to establish the intonation unit as a basic unit of organization of spoken discourse. It does so by exploring the nature of the relationship between intonation units, syntactic constituents, and communicative units in Kazakh and Italian conversation. To achieve this goal, the project combines corpus analysis and experimental methods that approach the main question from the point of view of both production and perception. This project is innovative in that it represents the first study of the intonation units that systematically addresses the issue of written language bias by employing data from the only genre that is cross-linguistically available, namely conversation, and building an explicit comparison between two languages with different traditions of written production (Kazakh and Italian). It is timely given the increasing amount of economic, human, and environmental resources devoted to the development of AI products for the treatment of spoken language. It is impactful insofar as its insights can contribute to the understanding of grammar representation in the human mind and to the technical application that can be leveraged for the development of speech technologies. The study will be conducted at the University of Bologna (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Caterina Mauri, expert in typological comparison, spoken corpus design, and syntactic analysis, with a secondment of 2 months at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), where the fellow will be trained in the analysis of Kazakh grammar, perfect their language knowledge, and conduct part of the data collection.

Keywords: intonation units,spoken grammar,interactional linguistics,spoken language corpora,kazakh,italian
NOVEL ECO-CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR DURABLE, COMPETITIVE, AND BIO-INSPIRED OFFSHORE FLOATING PV SUBSTRUCTURES (NATURSEA-PV)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,France,Ireland,Germany,Italy,Portugal
Call: Innovative foundations, floating substructures and connection systems for floating PV and ocean energy devices (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3621694.1
EU funding (EUR): 3621694.1
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The green transition strategy of the EU aims to a climate neutral economy by increasing the use of renewable energy sources, being offshore floating photovoltaics (PV) one of the target technologies. Although floating PV is already used in shallow inland waters, its use in offshore environments is not common due to the harsh marine conditions and thus requires a revamping of the technology. The main objective of NaturSea-PV is to improve the overall lifetime, reliability, and maintainability of marine substructures for offshore floating PVs and thus reduce its LCOE. For this, NaturSea-PV will develop innovative structural designs capable of handling the marine conditions, at the same time ensuring the durability and minimizing (un)installation costs. The substructures will be built using newly developed environmentally friendly low carbon ultra high performance concrete and will be coated with new biobased antifouling and anticorrosive coatings. A specific predictive simulation toolkit will be developed to assess the mechanical and chemical durability of the new materials under marine conditions and will be validated against experimental data. The new materials and structural design will be first validated in the laboratory (testing), then integrated in prototypes to check the buildability and to be validated in relevant environments. NaturSea-PV will co-develop and co-validate the project results with external stakeholders while assessing the potential environmental and social impacts and perception to verify that the proposed solutions compatible with existing regulations and socio-economic activities taking part in the sea to maximize the impact of offshore floating-PV solutions. The results and knowledge from the project will be managed to have the most effective exploitation (e.g., IP) and widest possible communication and dissemination to forward the implementation of successful floating PV substructures with circular materials and low, competitive, LCOE.

Keywords: lcoe,circular materials,eco uhpc,biobased coatings,low carbon,eco friendly,antifouling,anticorrosive,computational tools,simulations,environmental impact
Polymer-Enhanced Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction - The Influence of the Local pH Value (PoCalopH)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) has the unique potential to utilize the vast carbon source CO2 for production of valuable synthetic fuels being a sustainable process, if the electricity is obtained from renewable energy sources. Several metal surfaces are known to catalyze the electrochemical CO2RR. However, they suffer from poor selectivity and energy efficiency. Recently, this limitation has been mitigated by functionalizing metal catalysts with polymer-coatings. However, previous investigations are non-systematic. Several electrocatalysts (Au, Cu, Ag, Pt) of different morphologies (bulk electrodes, nanoparticles, foams) were combined with a variety of different polymers. This renders a general view of the polymer´s role in electrocatalysis impossible. Coordinative stabilization of intermediates is the most frequently proposed origin of the performance increase, however, local effects like pH fluctuations were never detected. This is a severe gap of knowledge considering the high pH sensitivity of electrocatalysts. Within PoCalopH, the researcher will, therefore, systematically investigate the influence of various polymer-coatings on the selectivity and efficiency of gold and copper catalysts and will correlate these effects to local pH changes. This will be realized by equipping the most efficient polymers with fluorescent pH reporters allowing for a spectroscopic pH read out. The results will be systematically compared to those obtained from non-coated electrodes. Therefore, PoCalopH will create a double benefit of polymer-coatings combining performance increase with valuable insights into local pH-effects within the coating. This will precise mechanistic knowledge on the electrochemical CO2RR and may enable the rational design of polymer-coated CO2RR catalysts.

Keywords: fluorescent ph reporters,synthetic chemistry