Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cross-border Hydrogen Valley around the Baltic Sea (BalticSeaH2)

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: Finland,Estonia,Lithuania,Latvia,Poland,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,France,Norway
Call: Hydrogen Valleys (large-scale) (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 33235406.25
EU funding (EUR): 24998830.0
Participants: 42
Project status: SIGNED

BalticSeaH2 will establish the first, largescale interregional hydrogen valley in Europe. BalticSeaH2 will build a main cross-border Hydrogen Valley between Finland and Estonia and connects it with local valleys in different countries surrounding the Baltic Sea. The ultimate goal is to develop an international hydrogen economy and markets that work optimally both from the technical, economic and environmental perspectives across country borders in the Northern Europe, more specifically around the Baltic Sea. The project will develop, scale and demonstrate hydrogen use in production, storage and distribution, and in Use Cases in different sectors from industry, mobility and energy. The learnings from the cross-border build-up of a hydrogen economy will be shared with specifically identified Connected Valleys and replicated across borders between them, but furthermore, shared to boost replication and initiate new hydrogen valleys across Europe. The cross border Main Valley is to be located in the region of Southern Finland – Estonia. These regions are already connected with a natural gas pipeline, transmission cable and maritime operations and the Transmission System Operators (TSO) in both countries collaborate actively in the further development of the cross border infrastructures. The cross border nature of the Main Valley makes is possible to develop cross border markets and businesses for green hydrogen production, transport and use from the start, including also development of cross border neighbouring pricing zones for renewable electricity to reach optimized system, market and business designs for an efficient hydrogen economy.

Keywords: interregional hydrogen valley,public acceptance,corridor d,green hydrogen from res,sector coupling,safety,full hydrogen value chains,integrated market model,online hydrogen marketplace
ENVironmental Research Infrastructures delivering an open access Hub and NEXT-level interdisciplinary research framework providing services for advancing science and society (ENVRI-Hub NEXT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,Greece,Finland,France,Norway,Germany,Sweden,Czechia,Italy
Call: Consolidation of the RI landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan- European research infrastructures (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5149932.5
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

ENVRI-Hub NEXT develops and implements the open access hub to the data and services provision framework of the Cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) and connects the environmental research community to the European Open Science Cloud. The overarching goal of ENVRI-Hub NEXT is to consolidate and advance the robust conceptual and technical structure established by the ENVRI-Hub to empower the ENVRI Science Cluster to provide interdisciplinary data-driven services. These services will support climate change research, including the development of mitigation and adaptation measures and strategies, and the assessment of the climate change risks. Through this platform, ENVRI-Hub NEXT will facilitate the integration of the environmental sciences community into EOSC, guided by the concept of Essential Climate Variables. In direct answer to the Call Topic, ENVRI-Hub NEXT expands the frontiers of multidisciplinary environmental sciences by fostering operational synergies between ENVRI RIs and developing and utilising complementarities in their data and services provision. The joint forces of ENVRI and e-infrastructures allow for the integration of cutting-edge information technology, alignment with the EOSC architecture, and efficient resource allocation for the advancement of a more integrated, productive, and globally competitive ENVRI Science Cluster. The ENVRI-Hub NEXT consortium brings together the key ESFRI Landmarks (ACTRIS, AnaEE ERIC, EPOS ERIC, EuroArgo ERIC, IAGOS AISBL, ICOS ERIC, LifeWatch ERIC) and ESFRI Projects (eLTER) participating in ENVRI-FAIR, the ENVRI information technology development and support providers from the University of Amsterdam, SeaDataNet as the key marine data infrastructure, FMI for the close relationship to EOSC Association and stakeholders, and the EGI Foundation and members of the EGI Federation to implement the operation of the services and the integration with EOSC Core.

Keywords: envri,hub,research infrastructures,interdisciplinary,open access,eosc,e infrastructure
Self-Powered Near-Infrared Photodetectors for Wearable Healthcare Devices (SPINIP)

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: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Wearable healthcare devices have disrupted health monitoring with personalized medical diagnostics and real-time data collection. An essential component of such devices are high-performance near-infrared (NIR) photodetectors, which facilitate the non-invasive measurement of vital signs and physiological parameters such as blood oxygenation, heart rate, and pulse rate. Significant progress has been made in exploring functional materials for self-powered NIR photodetectors on rigid substrates. However, the development of flexible self-powered NIR photodetectors and their integration into wearable device applications are largely overlooked in the literature. In SPINIP, we aim to develop efficient and stable flexible NIR photodetectors operating in self-powered mode (or zero bias) based on non-toxic and cost-effective semiconductors tailored for seamless integration into wearable healthcare devices. In particular, we will leverage eco-friendly tin-based perovskite-inspired materials (PIMs), starting from A2SnI6, owing to their broadband photodetection from UV-visible-NIR regions, good air stability, and low-temperature solution processing. The mechanical flexibility of photodetectors is a paramount feature, enabling seamless adherence to various surfaces and conforming to the dynamic movements of the human body. The mechanical flexibility of the device will be investigated via in-situ nanoindentation in FE-SEM. To ensure flexibility, we will perform thorough composition engineering of photoactive PIMs films and explore the synergetic effects of polymer scaffolds and hybrid annealing. The performance of NIR photodetectors will be enhanced by understanding the defect chemistry of PIMs, the charge transport within the device components, and the device physics. The reliability of the photodetectors will be verified in different conditions (environmental, thermal, and mechanical) and will be improved by reducing the ion migration and device engineering approaches.

Keywords: flexible self powered nir photodetector,lead free perovskite inspired materials pims,photophysics,nanomechanical properties,device reliability,wearable healthcare devices
EuroMedMig PhD Network (EuroMedMig)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain,Türkiye,Tunisia,Portugal,Italy,Greece,France,Belgium,Switzerland,Egypt,Morocco,Albania
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2927551.0
EU funding (EUR): 2927551.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

EuroMedMig PhD Network creates a sound community of leading DCs based on research excellence and following core research principles, being EuroMedMig the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Migrations in the Mediterranean coordinated by UPF, and its philosophy being that of promoting multilateral knowledge co-production on Migrations while ensuring geographic representativity and plurality of perspectives and disciplines. Against this background, 10 leading universities from all rims of the Mediterranean have joined efforts and engaged in this DN, which represents a quantum leap in training the next generation of researchers taking the Mediterranean as a regional scale of analysis. More specifically, this DN revolves around 3 main pillars: promoting research excellence; developing advanced training for DC, including methodological, ethical, conceptual and transferable skills training aiming at leveraging career prospects, and promoting inter-academic stays; and fostering policy and social dialogues by favouring policy-oriented research capable of influencing the scientific and the political debate in line with EU’s Euromed agenda. Regarding the latter, this DN seeks to establish connections with relevant multi-scale stakeholders and highly impactful policy recommendations will be produced. In turn, these efforts will enhance the role of Academia, and in particular, Academic Networks, in initiatives at the nexus of research, governance and policy. In particular, DCs will be able to develop their individual research projects in the following themes: Governance, policies and politics, taxonomies of motions and drivers of migration, social and cultural transformations, and economy and labour market. These themes will also guide all EuroMedMig PhD Network’s training cumulative activities. In order to ensure successful DCs progress, special attention will be devoted to the quality of supervision and mentoring, which will be key in leveraging DC's potential.

Keywords: mediterranean,mediterranean migrations,med thinking,human mobility,theories revision,geopolitics,migration governance,collective awareness
Tracing the Epipalaeolithic origins of plant management in southwest Asia (PalaeOrigins)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499150.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499150.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The transition from foraging to farming represents one of the most transcendental shifts in the history of humanity. Decades of research in southwest Asia have shown that this process culminated with the development of Neolithic agricultural systems c. 10 ka cal. BP. Yet, how it started, that is, how hunter-gatherers became, for the first time, engaged with the management of plants, continues to be largely undetermined. Palaeorigins aims to fill this major gap of knowledge. Benefiting from the exceptional Epipalaeolithic archaeobotanical materials that are now available (c. 23-11 ka cal. BP), it will ask: To what extent were Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherers managing the land and the plant resources around them? Did climatic factors trigger plant resource intensification, or were cultural dynamics, like the need for specific foodstuffs, that first motivated plant-food production? To achieve such an ambitious aim PalaeOrigins will pioneer a holistic and high-resolution approach to study the plant-based subsistence. It will use a unique combination of traditional and most novel archaeobotanical materials, state-of-the-art stable isotope analyses, computational science, and theoretical models to: 1) Reconstruct the distribution and availability of plant resources during the environmental shifts of the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene; 2) Determine how plant procurement strategies, land uses and management activities articulated during the Epipalaeolithic period; and 3) Define hunter-gatherers' food culture, assessing their plant-food selection, processing and consumption practices. Taken together, PalaeOrigins will move beyond traditional Neolithic-centred paradigms to explain the origins of plant-food production. It will open up new research horizons, merging science and theory, to elucidate the nature of the human-environment interactions that paved the way to agriculture, and ultimately, changed the course of our history.

Keywords: epipalaeolithic,archaeobotany,human niche construction,plant domestication,climate change,archaeology of food,southwest asia,stable isotope analyses,computer modelling
Studying Imaginative Otherworlds: Chinese Fantasy Fiction, Literary Politics, and Media Creativity (SINOFANTASY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1419850.0
EU funding (EUR): 1419850.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fantasy fiction is one of the most understudied areas in in the field of contemporary Chinese literature, a gap that is particularly striking given the current popularity of genres such as Eastern fantasy, science fiction, and silk punk. Over the past two decades, Chinese fantasy fiction has undergone both a quantitative surge and a qualitative transformation, evolving from a niche youth subculture into a fixture of everyday cultural life. The popularity of fantasy fiction reflects not only its mass market appeal, but also its importance in mediating contemporary debates. As a result, fantasy fiction has become a central focus of China’s soft power ambitions, but also one of the most closely monitored areas of cultural production. SINOFANTASY is the first comprehensive study to explore this thematically diverse, immensely popular, and politically sensitive literary field. Current research on fantasy fiction in China is skewed towards media analysis and often dismissive of the genre’s formulaic aesthetics and alleged disengagement from socio-political realities. Within fantasy studies there is also a strong bias towards science fiction, which has a critical pedigree in the West and addresses issues in a more realist key. SINOFANTASY addresses these knowledge gaps and biases by developing a novel, integrative approach to Chinese fantasy fiction and its role within a censored media landscape. In doing so, SINOFANTASY also makes a vital contribution to the global history of fantasy fiction. SINOFANTASY has three main goals that address the meaning, embedding, and agency of fantasy fiction: 1) to develop a historically embedded and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction; 2) to study the relationship between fantasy fiction and key socio-cultural and political developments and debates of the postsocialist period; 3) to analyze the role of fantasy fiction and practices of fantasy fandom within the wider Chinese mediasphere.

Keywords: chinese literature,fantasy fiction,science fiction,new media,fan culture
MaterHypoBiota: Exploring the role of maternal gut microbiota on hypothalamic neurodevelopment and metabolic programming in offspring. (MaterHypoBiota)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211380.88
EU funding (EUR): 211380.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The alarmingly high incidence of obesity, particularly in children, highlights the need to better understand the factors and mechanisms involved in the early development of this pathological condition. Accumulating evidence, including work from the host lab, support the idea that the maternal nutritional environment could influence the offspring’s susceptibility to develop obesity and related comorbidities in later life. In particular, there is growing appreciation that developmental malprogramming of hypothalamic neuroendocrine system by the perinatal environment represents a possible cause for these diseases. However, the mechanisms by which the maternal environment affects hypothalamic development and predisposition to obesity are still largely unknown. We hypothesize that the maternal gut microbiota (mGM) conditions, in the offspring, the development of hypothalamic structures with lifelong metabolic consequences. We will test this novel hypothesis by using two complementary animal models of impaired mGM: germ-free dams and dams with antibiotic-induced alteration of gut microbiota during pregnancy and lactation. We will assess neuroanatomical organization of hypothalamic feeding circuits, structural and functional development of blood-brain barrier as well as metabolic outcomes in the offspring. Finally, we will examine the cause and effect relationship between mGM and hypothalamic development and function by determining whether i) maternal fecal material transplant and ii) dams’ supplementation with specifically identified microbial metabolites prevent offspring’s neuroanatomical and metabolic alterations. Completion of this project will i) shed light on a new vertical role of mGM on hypothalamic neurodevelopment and metabolic programming and ii) identify new potential drivers leading to early-life metabolic disorders. Given the high prevalence of maternal antibiotic use and childhood obesity, this project could have a potential impact on public health.

Keywords: neuroendocrinology maternal gut microbiota,metabolic programming,early life obesity
Single-atom decorated 2D catalysts for power-to-X conversion and sustainable future (P2XSACat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166278.72
EU funding (EUR): 166278.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

High efficient Power-to-X technologies such as hydrogen production by water splitting, the electrocatalytic reduction reaction of carbon dioxide to fuels, and nitrogen reduction to ammonia are the cornerstones for building sustainable future energy and economy. P2X technologies are a direct tool for achieving carbon neutrality and reducing the negative effects of anthropogenic climate change, as well as, dramatically reducing the role of fossil fuels in energy and industry, making it impossible to use the fossil fuels supply as an instrument of political pressure. The Proposed project is aimed at the development and complex study of the electro- and photo-electro active materials based on single-atom-modified 2D flakes of MXenes and MBenes, aimed at significant improvement of the energy efficiency of Power-to-X technologies. Optimization of the composition and structure of catalytic sites, including the simultaneous decoration of material by two or several atoms of different elements, controlled by electrochemical atomic-force spectroscopy will be used for the preparation of efficient catalytic materials with outstanding properties. Novel methods of decorating 2D materials by laser and microwave exposure, as well as, general patterns of controlling the catalytic MXenes and MBenes activity by SA (SA ensemble) structure will be also developed.

Keywords: mxene,mbene,single atom site,carbon dioxide reduction reaction,nitrogen reduction reaction,oxygen reduction reaction
Teaming for Capacity Development and Synergies in Micro-nanofabrication and Flexible Electronics for Widespread Impact (TEAM-NANO)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Türkiye,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 9000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The TEAM-NANO proposal addresses the modernisation of SUNUM, a state-funded, autonomous Centre of Excellence in Turkey, with the strategic partnership of two European CoEs: 1) Univ. of Southampton (UoS) and 2) TUDelft. Currently, SUNUM has strong infrastructure and personnel for conducting research in nanotechnology. However, SUNUM’s R&I infrastructure needs to be upgraded and modernized and the skills of researchers /technical staff must be updated and improved, to keep up with the recent technical advances in the field and to attain a competitive position at EU and global value chains. The project will strategically link the unique expertise of each partner to establish smart and connected flexible electronic platforms. While UoS develops forefront AI hardware and active flexible components; TU Delft leads in sensors, 2D materials, and packaging. This way, both partners will provide SUNUM complementary training dimensions to develop functional systems. SUNUM’s open access infrastructure and national co-funding will catalyse the three-way collaboration, creating a triple-win situation, for the host organisation and European partners. This strategic vision will be realized by six objectives: 1) Institutional advancement of SUNUM’s technical and managerial capabilities 2) Skills enhancement of SUNUM researchers by support from EU partners, 3) Developing symbiotic collaborations with EU partners, 4) Stimulating Turkish R&I ecosystem via collaborations and leadership, 5) Long term sustainability via the creation of value-added, 6) Cultivating a collaborative community via open innovation and capacity building. These objectives will be accomplished through training activities, recruitment, infrastructure investment, dissemination, and outreach activities; networking with EU partners; ensuring SUNUM’s role as a driver of change in regional R&I, attainment of excellence in advanced technologies and established collaborations within ERA serving the objectives of the Call.

Keywords: research innovation capacity development,competitiveness,micro nano fabrication,flexible electronics,collaborations,commercialization,sustainability,ecosystem enhancement,systemic changes