Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
BlueActionBANOS (BAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Estonia,Lithuania,Norway,Netherlands,Belgium,Finland,Spain,Sweden,Denmark,Latvia
Call: Community-led actions to restore our ocean, seas and waters (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12499806.25
EU funding (EUR): 12499806.25
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

As a project, BlueActionBANOS (BAB) mission is firmly aligned with the EU’s "Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030" initiative and the European Green Deal and aims to deliver measurable contributions toward biodiversity conservation, pollution reduction, and the transition to a climate-neutral blue economy. The overarching objective of BlueActionBANOS (BAB) is to facilitate the successful transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the Mission Ocean, where solutions piloted in the early stages are scaled up and deployed across a broader spectrum within the Baltic and North Sea Lighthouse Area. To that end, BAB aims to mobilise and provide practical and easily accessible support to a diverse set of established or emerging communities of actors to implement innovative and impactful actions and measures to restore our ocean, seas and waters. BAB will achieve this by providing targeted financial assistance, technical guidance, and strategic knowledge-sharing, equipping communities with the tools and resources they need to address complex environmental challenges and drive sustainable transformation at local, regional, and national levels.

Keywords: deployment upscaling community led actions financial assistance technical guidance mission ocean third party funding transition agenda
ClimateJusticeReady (ClimateJusticeReady)

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: Spain,United States
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cities in the Global North are increasingly adopting nature-centered and other green infrastructure interventions to respond to climate risks and impacts and enhance their adaptation and resilience capacity. Yet, plans for such green infrastructure (GI) and other urban greening interventions tend to underestimate risks of displacement for lower-income and minority residents – what myself and others have previously called green climate gentrification. Despite increasing recognition of this process and concerns for the displaced, few municipal green interventions are coupled with social provisions (such as social housing; resident-driven economic development schemes) to protect residents from displacement. Yet, predicting and preventing green gentrification is the only way to build a green resilience agenda that upholds the stated social and environmental goals of such plans and avoid green paradoxes born out of urban renaturing projects and which municipalities have expressed commitment to avoid. In this POC, I propose to further analyze the social equity impacts of climate adaptation and green resilience efforts and build on my GreenLULUs ERC in order to (a) create a replicable, interactive community- and policy-driven predictor index, tool, and analysis for green gentrification in the context of planned green climate-centered infrastructure and (b) test the early development of an actionable, pilot municipal policy and planning instrument, such as a climate-adaptation focused community land trust, a municipal green bond program for equitable climate resilience, a community-based stewardship fund, or green minority-owned green business seed grants (among others) to prevent green climate gentrification. These tasks will be decided and built in partnership with municipal governments and community groups based on pilot cities included in my finishing ERC project – Barcelona and Boston – so that this POC can support them in their work for more just green cities.
Electrical control of picoCavity enhanced mOlecule-Light intEractions (ECOLE)

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: Germany,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 416941.44
EU funding (EUR): 416941.44
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Controlling and engineering light matter interactions at ever smaller scales is an ambitious research enterprise that has fostered the field of plasmonics, leading to improved molecular sensing, monitoring of chemical reactions at the single molecule level and the exploration of new phenomena such as room-temperature strong coupling. One of the most powerful and prolific approaches has been to engineer plasmonic gap cavities with (sub) nanometric gaps yielding high field enhancements. At such small scales, the displacements of one or few atoms leads to an additional, highly localized field enhancement, termed picocavity, that allows for example to robustly detect SERS signals stemming from a single molecule by boosting its signal more than 1000 times. In Ecole I will equip such small plasmonic gap nanocavities with electrical connections. First, I will achieve electrical control over the formation and dynamics of picocavities, making them a more reliable sensing tool and testing current hypotheses about their microscopic nature and formation mechanisms. Subsequently I will use this increase enhancement to study the electron-phonon coupling in a molecular junction. Looking at the influence of strong optical resonances and drive on the the electron transport and phonon generation, allowing to reach non-classical states. Third, I will then demonstrate electrically driven mid-IR upconversion from a molecular junction, where the incoming excites vibrations of fluorescent molecules and thereby triggers overbias electroluminescence. This paves the way for a new all electrical detection scheme of mid-IR radiation, with a more scalable and potentially cheaper approach than current technology, enabling to integrate the advantages and promises of the mid-IR technology in a larger range of products and applications.

Keywords: molecular junctions,mid ir optics,picocavities
Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders (LEmobAB)

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,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project 'Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders' (LEmobAb) investigates how practices of cross-border police cooperation (CBPC) contribute to the production of a legal and political European space. Its overall aim is to connect bottom-up insights from selected border-regions with ongoing legislative developments on EU level aimed at enhancing police cooperation, in particular the upcoming proposal for a new regulation, the Police Cooperation Code. Three questions lead this research. 1) Empirically, what are the relations and variables between situated bilateral CBPC and the role of legal-geopolitical practice in fostering security cooperation? Conceptually, what role do LE mobilities and border-regions play in the creation of a European space? And applied, how can qualitative police- and security-research’s understanding of complex social, legal and political dynamics increase its impact? The focus upon LE mobilities (CBPC) as spatial-legal practice enables to contribute filling three gaps: 1) at scholarly and policy level, an empirical research research gap, 2) at the intersection between social and legal police-cooperation scholarship and critical security and EU studies, the need for space-and-practice sensitive concepts of law-making and of law-enforcement, 3) in public scholarship, the under-used potential of academic knowledge visualisation for increased impact. This study will produce empirical results accompanied by empirically grounded practice-oriented and space-sensitive concepts, regarding a delicate but core element along the process of European Integration – the exercise of executive powers beyond national jurisdiction. Results will provide critical understanding of legal frameworks and of social practices which are of relevance to HE cluster III and contemporary EU policy objectives. The innovative PF design will foster a creative and innovate researcher profile. Visual communication will enhance the projects' scientific and public impact.

Keywords: police cooperation,eu studies,legal anthropology,critical security studies,qualitative studies,afsj,schengen
Connecting Quantum Hopfield Networks (CoQHoNet)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Classical Neural Networks (NNs) are architectures successfully employed in Machine Learning (ML) tasks, such as pattern recognition, analysis of big data, and digitalization. Currently, a full development of quantum technologies is considered the most promising improvement on classical ML. Motivated by this, various contributions are focusing on the emerging field of quantum NNs, regarded as the backbones of quantum ML. Though strategic to tackle digitalization challenges of Europe concerning e.g. secure information, a unifying framework for quantum NNs is still missing. This project aims at contributing to the general effort of defining the main features of quantum NNs, and further exploiting them for practical purposes. More concretely, it considers quantum generalizations of associative memory-type NNs, such as the prototypical example referred to as Hopfield NN. To start with, associative memories can perform relatively easy tasks such as pattern retrieval. However, they are employed in more complex architectures too, as it is the case of Hopfield NNs when embedded in Boltzmann Machines. State-of-the-art quantum associative memories exploit quantum spin NNs and bosonic platforms, describing them as Markovian, or memory-less, open quantum systems. Importantly, these setups are relevant for condensed matter and photonic implementations. Inserting these proposals in a more general theoretical frame can provide insights to answer timely questions, such as storing non-classical states, accounting for non-Markovian effects on the retrieval task, characterizing the storage capacity. The challenge of this proposal consists in unveiling the bridge between Markovian quantum Hopfield-type NNs, and the formalism of quantum maps. Fulfilling such a gap further enables to use associative memories for designing near-term quantum devices that are robust to detrimental effects of the environment, which generically cause deterioration of e.g. coherence and entanglement.

Keywords: quantum neural networks,quantum machine learning,near term quantum devices
Foldable, REconfigurable & Jagged devices for enhanced drug Absorption/seeding (FREJA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2556251.0
EU funding (EUR): 2556251.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Oral delivery of protein/peptide drugs is extremely challenging and the majority of research in the field is based on exploring new formulations, for instance using permeation enhancers. In recent years, some research has been done on ingestible devices for internal injections. Here I propose an entirely new approach based on what we have named ‘Self-configurable, Proximity Enabling Devices’ (SPEDs). The idea is that these devices (the simplest ones will be rolled-up foils) will unfold in the gut, embed in the mucus layer and align to the intestinal wall. It is essential that the SPED has close proximity to the intestinal wall and is retained for a while in order to ensure efficient drug delivery. The proximity will additionally allow us to study and explore the influence of nanotextures (embedded in the SPED) on the interaction with the intestinal wall as well as micromotor-based delivery. The SPEDs will be developed and characterized with the following specific objectives: (i) understanding the SPED properties needed to penetrate mucus, (ii) investigating the mechanisms for enhanced retention time, (iii) exploring the SPED as a carrier for self-propelling cargo, (iv) unraveling the overall behaviour of SPED and (v) demonstrating anti-diabetic drug formulation delivery with at least 5 % systemic uptake and show feasibility of a wider range of applications (delivering/seeding e.g. peptide and proteins/vaccines/probiotics). The work will include simulations of soft materials, device design, micro/nano fabrication, development and use of techniques for mechanical characterisation of device/tissue interaction, bio imaging and in vitro and in vivo studies. The major novelty lies in the SPED concept, providing tissue alignment/contact and unidirectional drug release. Further, the SPEDs provide a unique platform for studies on micromotors as well as nanotextures interaction with the epithelium.

Keywords: polymer microfabrication,oral drug delivery,retention in the gut,devices for oral drug delivery,self configurable polymeric devices
3D Scene Reconstruction, Segmentation and Augmented Reality for Robotic and Endoscopic Surgery (3D-Intel-Surgery)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The 3D-Intel-Surgery project aims to advance robotic-assisted and minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) to improve the patient outcomes through novel 3D intelligent algorithm development, inter-disciplinary collaborations, skills training and knowledge transfer between world leading researchers in the EU. The innovative aspects of the project are as follows: (a) New methods for medical image processing for RMIS to advance the field significantly by developing a robust deep learning-based segmentation algorithm, such as the Segment Anything-guided method, for endoscopy images, resulting enhanced accuracy of image segmentation in medical diagnoses. (b) Augmented reality for RMIS through the rapid and accurate 3D reconstructions of soft tissues using monocular endoscopic videos for augmented reality of surgical scenes to improve the visual quality of the medical procedure. (c) Adaptive stereo vision transfer for enhanced depth perceptions through the development of adaptive stereoscopic transformation methods based on the 3D reconstruction, 3D segmentation, and viewing conditions. Interdisciplinary collaborations underpin the success of this project since it is at the cross-section of medical image processing, computer graphics and Augmented Reality, and computer vision. By advancing precision medical technologies such as robotic and endoscopic surgery, the EU can address critical societal challenges, including ageing populations and increased costs and demands for cancer treatment, and sustainable and high-quality healthcare for all its citizen. The project supports knowledge exchange and future academic developments of the research teams and trains the PF into a leading European multi-disciplinary scientist through collaboration with world class researchers in the UK and the digital innovation medical device SEM in Italy to provide essential research expertise and resources for knowledge exchange, log-term collaboration, and industry innovation.

Keywords: augmented information in endoscopic scenes,3d scene reconstruction,deep learning networks for medical images robotic and minimally invasive surgery
Dynamic Regulation of photosynthEsis in light-Acclimated organisMs (DREAM)

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: France,Germany,Czechia,Netherlands,Italy
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3090026.35
EU funding (EUR): 3090026.35
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Cultivation of plants consumes huge resources of water for irrigation and energy for lighting. Introducing disruptive technologies is key to improve plants and enable their parsimonious cultivation. DREAM overtakes these challenges by gathering an interdisciplinary consortium sharing a same radical vision: to measure and exploit the dynamics of photosynthesis regulation under natural-like light conditions for selective sensing – monitoring the plant state – and enhancing lighting efficiency in controlled environments. We develop ground-breaking instruments and acquisition protocols unraveling unprecedented kinetic data from microalgae and plants (including tomato as a crop species) by using novel periodically modulated or randomly fluctuating illuminations, chlorophyll fluorescence, and original luminescent nanosensors. These data are processed with comprehensive theoretical tools (system identification, dynamical systems, system control, machine learning) to build a powerful dynamical model which delivers categorizing fingerprints for highly selective sensing and tailored modulated illuminations for enhancing lighting efficiency. Finally, we implement a server with incremental learning from an open source community to extend sensing to organisms and environmental conditions much beyond the ones used in our DREAM project. DREAM will expand knowledge on photosynthesis regulation and lead to major achievements: categorizing plant states (sensing stresses, selecting improved plants), improving controlled ecosystems (equipping lighting with sensing and decreasing its cost), and instrument design (targeting scientists and many more end-users). DREAM will further improve innovation in key European industries active in the fields of scientific instruments, phenotyping, and plant production while increasing resource use efficiency so as to improve environmental quality and offer better and safer products to consumers.

Keywords: 1 photosynthesis regulation 2 remote sensing 3 lighting efficiency 4 reactive dynamical systems 5 system identification
Circular design and manufacturing techniques for next-generation highly-efficient integrated axial flux motor drives for electric vehicles-Hop-on (CliMAFlux-Hop-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: Belgium,Lithuania
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 292812.5
EU funding (EUR): 292812.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The CliMAFlux-Hop-on project aims to enhance axial flux (AF) machine technology by developing AF motor drives for chassis auxiliary systems, improving electric vehicle (EV) efficiency. It introduces a novel vehicle architecture, featuring a high-voltage powertrain with integrated AF drives and actuators, targeting several advancements: enhancing chassis flexibility by integrating high-performance actuators for various EV segments; boosting EV performance by a reduction in losses during vehicle operation by over 20%, improving safety and handling; improving chassis kinematics with active steering and toe/camber control to enhance ride comfort by over 20%; providing practical functionalities like advanced steering systems for better steering feel, and more accessible parking; increasing reliability through redundant systems and alternative energy sources to ensure continued operation despite component failures; and extending digital twins (DTs) to include AF-based chassis actuators for comprehensive vehicle DTs, enabling detailed analysis of vehicle dynamics and energy consumption, optimising motion controller design, and enhancing product testing in the XiL environment. The project will improve VT participants' international outreach, increase their visibility and impact, strengthen ties between EU academia and business representatives, enhance career mobility and boost VT's science and innovation capacity. It aims to drive structural changes, modernise VT's R&I systems, and increase research talent competitiveness, attractiveness and retention. The project will mobilise national and EU resources, increasing success in Horizon Europe and leadership roles in consortia. Strengthening links between academia and industry will enhance the role of the higher education sector in R&I, encouraging greater involvement of regional actors.

Keywords: electric motor,axial flux,chassis actuators,digital twins