Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A fully wearable electro-stimulating system designed to improve mobility and foot health in diabetic peripheral neuropathy patients (NEURO-SOCK)

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-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The NEURO-SOCK is a non-invasive, fully-wearable device designed to induce sensations in patients with sensory loss due to conditions such as amputation, diabetes, or multiple sclerosis. The device captures information from the environment interaction through wearable sensors and translates it into electrical impulses delivered to the nerves embedded in a soft-robotic stimulating garment. An AI-based algorithm optimizes stimulation parameters to target the nerves and restore natural sensation to patients in real-time. Our device has been already validated in 12 neuropathy patients, resulting in 30% restoration of lost sensation in the foot and in an improved cadence in 60% of the users. The generated artificial feedback intuitiveness was validated through an fMRI study. This ERC-funded project aims to investigate the health benefits of NEURO-SOCK, with the potential to improve skin conditions, lower cardiovascular stress, and ultimately reduce the harmful conditions that lead to sedentary lifestyle, heart failures, amputations, and elevated death rates. Therefore the funding will be used for optimizing the NEURO-SOCK design for home-use scenarios and a following clinical trial investigating the long-term rehabilitative effects on people suffering from neuropathy, who currently have no immediate solution.
Colliding System Size Dependence of Jet Quenching (CSScanJet)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210789.12
EU funding (EUR): 210789.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At high temperature, quarks and gluons are no longer confined in hadrons and form instead a complex phase of matter called the quark-gluon plasma. Among the various ways of probing this phase in nucleus-nucleus collisions, a promising one is to study how jets are affected by their propagation through the quark-gluon plasma, an effect commonly referred to as jet quenching. This project aims at developing a consistent computational framework grounded in perturbative quantum chromodynamics to describe jet quenching from large to small colliding system sizes. Its final outcome is twofold. It will deepen our understanding of the embedding of jets in a space-time structure as well as answer topical questions regarding the phenomenology of jet quenching in small systems.

Keywords: quantum chromodynamics,jets,heavy ion collisions,jet quenching
federated data and intelligence Orchestration & sharing for the Digital Energy transitiON (ODEON)

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: Spain,Greece,Denmark,Germany,Belgium,Cyprus,Italy,Ireland,Austria,France,Romania,Netherlands,Poland
Call: Supporting the green and digital transformation of the energy ecosystem and enhancing its resilience through the development and piloting of AI-IoT Edge-cloud and platform solutions (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 22564718.75
EU funding (EUR): 17875306.25
Participants: 35
Project status: SIGNED

Even if significant progress has been made towards the Twin Transition, the recent energy crisis revealed the EU energy system’s vulnerability and dependence on external energy sources and highlighted the need for intensifying the integration of RES in electricity, transport and building (heating) sectors. To achieve on this, the energy system shall transform from a centralised/fossil-fuel-based to an energy efficient, RES-based and interdependent system, operating with a high degree of flexibility offered by distributed assets. ODEON is conceived under the principle that this can only be realized through the creation of an inclusive ecosystem of stakeholders characterized a mesh of Data, Intelligence, Service and Market flows, jointly enabling the resilient operation of the energy system under increased RES integration and distributed flexibility. ODEON introduces a sound, reliable, scalable and openly accessible federated technological framework (i.e. ODEON Cloud-Edge Data and Intelligence Service Platform and corresponding Federated Energy Data Spaces. AI Containers, Smart Data/AIOps orchestrators) for the delivery of a wealth of services addressing the complete life-cycle of Data/AIOps and their smart spawn in federated environments and infrastructures across the continuum. It will integrate highly reliable and secure federated data management, processing, sharing and intelligence services, enabling the energy value chain actors and 3rd parties to engage in data/intelligence sharing, towards the delivery of innovative data-driven and intelligence-powered energy services in accordance to the objectives set by the DoEAP. ODEON results will be extensively validated in 5 large-scale demonstration sites in Greece, Spain, France, Denmark and Ireland involving all required value chain actors, diverse assets, heterogeneous grid and market contexts, and multi-variate climatic and socio-economic characteristics to support its successful replication and market uptake.

Keywords: cloud,edge,smart orchestration,iot,ai,energy data spaces,data sharing,sovereignty,cybersecurity,interoperability,grid resilience,flexibility,data driven energy services,prosumers,lecs
Elastocaloric COoling and HEAT-pumping (E-CO-HEAT)

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: Slovenia
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Decarbonization of the heating and cooling sector with renewables is a crucial step for the EU to achieve its energy and climate goals. Although heat pumps are considered renewable technology, they are all (as well as cooling and air-conditioning devices) based on relatively inefficient vapor-compression technology that still uses environmentally harmful refrigerants. The Kigali Amendment mandates phasing out high-global warming potential refrigerants, such as hydrofluorocarbons, in the EU by 2036 and replacing them with eco-friendly natural refrigerants. However, natural refrigerants have their own limitations, including flammability, toxicity, high operating pressure, and lower efficiency in hot climates. Recently, elastocaloric technology has emerged as the most promising non-vapor-compression alternative. It is based on safe, environmentally benign solid-state refrigerants and may offer higher efficiency than vapor-compression. The ERC PoC E-CO-HEAT project evolved from the ERC StG SUPERCOOL project, in which we explored fundamental aspects of elastocaloric technology. Based on this research, we have developed a fatigue-resistant elastocaloric regenerative cooling and heating device with breakthrough performance and an efficient drive mechanism. This device serves as the foundation for the E-CO-HEAT project, with the main objective to elevate the readiness level of elastocaloric technology in various areas, including technical aspects, customer engagement, business strategy and IPR. After fine tuning the elastocaloric device, it will undergo industry-relevant testing to achieve Technology Readiness Level 5 and IP protection of the most innovative solutions. These achievements will form the basis for disseminating the results to our (future) potential industry partners, elaborating a comprehensive business model and pursuing later-stage funding opportunities to further improve the readiness level of the elastocaloric technology and bring it closer to the market.

Keywords: elastocaloric cooling heat pump refrigeration shape memory alloys
Sustainable Agronomy For Europe, Natural Plant Ingredients Produced in Eco Efficient Vertical Farms (SAFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Futura Gaia is a startup company specializing in industrial vertical farming, founded in 2019. The company focuses on producing the plants of tomorrow, and the derived ingredients. The company has tested 600 recipes in its laboratory and produced 5 tons in 2023 in its pilot farm. Futura Gaia's main solution is integrated vertical farms in industrial premises, designed to be in a closed and protected environment, modular, automated, and remotely controllable. The scalability of the model is very important and differentiating. Futura Gaia's target markets are mainly transformation industries (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food for specific plants). We have registered significant proofs of interest from potential clients. Futura Gaia leverage the benefits of vertical farming, with the production of plants all year round, nutritional, sanitary and taste quality, optimization of resources, traceability, zero pesticides, and locally distributed production. Futura Gaia's unique competitive advantages include large R&D capacities in agronomy and technology, reduced water consumption by 15 to 20 times, reduced energy consumption and strong automation. The soil-based cultivation system is unique and is a strong asset to answer industrial needs. We are committed to addressing the challenges of global limits and climate change, while meeting market expectations and contributing to a sustainable future. At the end of the project, Futura Gaia will provide a systemic response to natural ingredients and plant production issues, optimizing soil, nutrients, photosynthesis, and space.

Keywords: natural ingredients,plant extracts,vertical farming,pharma industries,cosmetics
Blueprint demonstration for co-created effective, efficient and resilient networks of MPAs (BLUE4ALL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Finland,Ireland,Estonia,Croatia,Netherlands,Sweden,Switzerland,France
Call: European Blue Parks (HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8018806.25
EU funding (EUR): 8018806.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

BLUE4ALL will align top-down regulatory demands about European (networks of) MPAs with bottom-up societal expectations as a guarantee for achieving effective, efficient and resilient MPAs and networks of MPAs which meet EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 objectives. By mobilizing stakeholders from BLUE4ALL’s 25 information sites and Living Labs, i.e. locations across the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North-East Atlantic regions where (networks of) MPAs have been established and from which lessons learned can be drawn about success and failure relative to how challenges were tackled, we will co-create robust and replicable social, governance, ecological and environmental tools to meet conservation and/or restoration objectives in socially sustainable and acceptable ways. These science-based tools will be tested in Living Labs, i.e. locations where (networks of) MPAs are in the process of establishment and where these tools can be fed into the ongoing MPA process. The operationalized and tested frameworks will ultimately be generalized into a Blueprint Platform for the co-creation of effective, efficient and resilient (networks of) MPAs. This scheme will separate generically encountered challenges and applied solutions from MPA (network)-specific challenges and solutions and develop guidance in a user-friendly manner to end-users (i.e. MPA (network) managers and authorities). This guidance will take the shape of an interactive web-based Blueprint Platform directing the end-users to those challenges and solutions most applicable to their site(s). User-friendliness and applicability will be maximized by cross-checking the Blueprint Platform development with the actors and stakeholders of the Living Labs throughout the whole process of its development. Knowledge transfer and interaction with stakeholders and society-at-large at local to regional scales will lead to the development of a platform for MPA networking to interact with communities of practice boosting the BLUE4ALL legacy to its ultimate goal to restore our oceans and waters.

Keywords: mpas,mpa networks,challenges and solutions,co creation,effective and efficient mpas,resilient mpas,living labs,user friendly blueprint platform,community of practice,mpa networking
Engineered symbionts elucidate gut T cell memory and its (dys)regulation (GuT Memory)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and I mmunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system , related disorders  and their mechanisms , biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases , innovative imm unological tools and approaches , including  therapies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1600683.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600683.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A detailed understanding of intestinal T cell memory is crucial for novel treatments against inflammatory bowel disease but also for efficient vaccine design. Th cells induced by the gut microbiota are important for pathogen defence and tolerance, but it is unknown whether they form immunological memory characterised by long-term, antigen-independent maintenance. This has been due to the technical inability of disconnecting T cell induction from bacterial persistence in the gut. The GuT Memory project will yield unique insights into microbiota-directed Th cell memory and its (dys)regulation through uncoupling Th cell induction from luminal persistence of the microbe. Mutant strains of non-pathogenic gut bacteria engineered to transiently colonise germ-free mice will be combined with state-of-the-art adoptive transfer experiments to trace antigen-specific Th cells into the memory phase after their inducing bacterium has been cleared from the gut. With this, I aim to (1) elucidate how the longevity of such responses is regulated by host survival niches versus microbiota-mediated attrition. Uncovering (2) how the sequence of bacterial exposures and their microbial context shape the functional repertoire of such Th cells will demonstrate the impact of lineage flexibility on their protective versus pathogenic potential. (3) Ultimately, successive transient colonisations will provide a novel approach to dissect the physiological relevance of microbiota-specific memory Th cells for the luminal microbe, host protection, and epithelial function. These findings will aid mucosal vaccine design and indicate novel approaches to target pathogenic Th cells in chronic inflammatory disorders. The ground-breaking nature of this proposal lies in the innovation of being able to uncouple microbiota-mediated T cell induction from luminal antigen persistence to understand how T cell maintenance is fine-tuned to promote host–microbial mutualism while avoiding aberrant inflammation.

Keywords: immunological memory,host microbial mutualism,microbiota,microbiome,intestine,gut,cd4 t cells,vaccine
Structured Model- and Learning-based Localization to Support Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-aided 6G Systems (SMALL-6G)

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,Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Radio localization is the process of estimating the state (position, orientation, and possibly velocity) of a user equipment with the assistance of one or several base stations within a wireless communication system. With the increased carrier frequency (such as mmWafve and THz band), angle and delay estimation can benefit from the large array size and wide bandwidth, and hence improve localization performance. The estimated position and orientation can, in return, assist communication to increase beamforming gain and reduce delay via proactive resource allocation. As a result, simultaneous localization and communication (SLAC) in the 6G systems will support new use cases that require low latency, high data rate, and high localization accuracy, such as digital twins, virtual reality, and tactile networks. To support SLAC systems, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a key technique that can provide increased channel gain and coverage for communication, which can also act as a passive anchor to enable/enhance localization. However, the system models used in existing localization works are either too simple or too ideal. To fully exploit the potential of RIS-aided localization, the impairment factors need to be considered, including the near-field effect, multipath, anchor calibration error, and hardware impairments. In this project, we will first develop a RIS-aided SLAC system model with performance analysis on the effect of the impairment factors. Then, a localization pipeline will be formulated with corresponding model-based algorithms designed by treating the dominant factors as unknowns. Benchmarked by the model-based methods, the learning-based method will also be developed to solve the challenging localization subtasks. Finally, based on the improvement of new SLAC performance metrics with localization information, we will propose a structured model- and learning-based localization (SMALL) solution to support RIS-aided 6G systems.

Keywords: 6g,ris,localization,optimization,near field,hardware impairment,calibration,slac,3d orientation,crb,mcrb,deep learning,thz,beam focusing,slam,mobility
Critical Capital for Novel Approach to predicting Product Value at Climate Risk (PVCR) for financial resilience in the food and beverage industry. 24 month funding to scale SaaS MVP to Market Launch. (Product Value Risk)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Risk-Mesh is an environmental technology startup that offers a scalable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, primarily for the Food and Beverage (F&B) industry. The core innovation is the "Product Value at Climate Risk (PVCR)", a novel metric that quantifies the financial impact of climate-related risks at the product level. This goes beyond typical carbon accounting by linking impact materiality (emissions) with financial materiality (climate risks) to enhance financial resilience. The platform operates through three modules: A Bill of Materials (BOM) generation, AI Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation, and supply chain climate hazard mapping and risk assessments. It automates data ingestion to create BOMs quickly, calculates PCF using real product data, and combines geospatial hazard data with financial models to calculate the monetary impact (PVCR) of potential disruptions. The PVCR model's breakthrough lies in mathematically defining vulnerability at the product level, integrating factors like criticality and replaceability. Risk-Mesh aims to establish PVCR as a standardised feature in global Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks. Its business model—including recurring license revenue and a freemium model for farmers—focuses on embedding sustainability into financial and operational decision-making, offering advantages over competitors who focus on reporting. The funding request of approximately €2.1 million is critical to hire key R&D expertise and accelerate platform market readiness, aiming for financial independence within 36 months. The solution aligns with key EU frameworks and respective policies, the EU's Green Deal, as well as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Keywords: environmental risk,nature value at risk,financial risk,product inputs vulnerability and replicability,supply chain mapping,adaptation and resilience