Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hoverflies as a new class of managed pollinators for better quantitative and qualitative yields of vegetable, fruit and seed crops (HoverPollination)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1796909.5
EU funding (EUR): 1257836.65
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

"Polyfly produces and commercializes alternative natural pollination solutions for Seed Production and Protected Cropping, based on a group of highly efficient pollinators: Syrphid flies (also known as Hoverflies / Flower flies). Our offering includes 2 new pollinators: 1) GoldFly - GF (Eristalinus aeneus) is well adapted to hot and sunny conditions such as those encountered in the Mediterranean basin (14-40C) 2) QueenFly - QF (Eristalis tenax) is better adapted to the cloudy and cooler conditions characterizing continental and oceanic climates of Northern Europe, or spring and autumn seasons (10-30C) Both are common and widespread species (E. tenax is considered cosmopolitan), and they are excellent pollinators as they exhibit a strong floral foraging behaviour similar to the one of bees. Like them, they continuously visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar, sources of proteins and carbohydrates necessary for their development and survival."

Keywords: natural pollination,sustainable agriculture,protected cropping,seed industry,insect husbandry,hoverflies,new managed pollinators,crop pollination,food security
Photonic Integrated Circuit for Single Emitter Detection (PHOTONCHIP)

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: Switzerland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Single emitters in wide-bandgap semiconductors are key elements of future optical quantum technologies, including sensors, circuits, and fiber communication. The standard approach to detecting and characterizing single emitters is optical fluorescence microscopy, which requires a laboratory infrastructure due to the use of free-space optics. However, in order to integrate single emitters into functional devices and operate them in demanding environments, the optics must be compact, robust, and low maintenance. PHOTONCHIP addresses this issue by replacing the free-space optics with a single photonic integrated circuit (PIC). In PHOTONCHIP, I will demonstrate a prototype PIC device that combines all optical functionality of single emitter detection – excitation and light collection at different wavelengths, lensed focusing, and fiber coupling – on a single chip. The PIC will shrink the size of the optics from meters to millimeters, reduce complexity and cost, and improve robustness with no need for optical re-alignment. Key technical innovations include broadband operation in the visible wavelength range, wavelength separation of excitation and fluorescent light, and integration of the microscope objective on chip. The prototype PIC will be developed on single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center quantum emitters in diamond, providing the first commercial use case with existing applications in quantum sensors and communication networks. The PIC will simplify existing microscopy solutions, lead to lower system cost, extend use to cryogenic environments, and enable integration into portable sensors. More broadly, the chip will be developed as a generic platform for single emitter excitation, control and detection for optical and device metrology. Overall, the PIC has key potential for driving discovery and innovation in the critical EU technology areas of quantum and semiconductors.

Keywords: single emitters,quantum sensors,photonic integrated circuits
Young planetesimal belts (YPB)

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: Serbia,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140187.84
EU funding (EUR): 140187.84
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Recent discoveries of numerous and diverse exoplanetary systems and their debris discs have revolutionized our understanding of how planets and planetesimals form. One of the exciting recent developments is detection of a large number of young systems which appear to be hosting belts of planetesimals, yet also unexpectedly show high amounts of gas. To explain these observations novel computational models must be developed, which take into account all key physical processes shaping the distribution of dust in these systems. I propose to use a kinetic model of collisional evolution of planetesimals and dust, combined with models of dust evolution due to gas drag and radiation pressure, and models of gas structure shaped by viscous evolution and dispersal. To do this I will extend the capabilities of a kinetic model previously used in studies of gas-free debris discs to account for dynamics of small dust grains in the presence of a gaseous disc. This will allow to model the entire range of body sizes, from dust to planetesimals, in a self-consistent way. The project will require knowledge of collisional planetesimal belts as well as of the proto-planetary environment, and this knowledge will be directly drawn from the existing research experience of the candidate. The project will generate a transfer of knowledge to the host institution while developing the candidate’s theoretical and technical expertise. The results of the project will be of wide use to the planetary science community, as they will help to interpret future observations of young planetary systems, to constrain the process of protoplanetary disc dispersal, and determine properties of dust and gas that may be accreted onto planets in the last stages of their formation.

Keywords: protoplanetary discs debris discs planetesimal belts
SciLifeLab Programme for fUture Leaders in life SciencE (SciLifeLab PULSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Canada,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Finland
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6877440.0
EU funding (EUR): 6877440.0
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

SciLifeLab PULSE is a MSCA-COFUND postdoctoral programme of excellence in Life Sciences coordinated by the Swedish research infrastructure SciLifeLab. PULSE will recruit 48 postdocs in academic and entrepreneurial tracks, that will receive 3 years of international interdisciplinary and intersectoral career training focused on preparing them as impactful leaders in academia and/or industry. PULSE postdocs will be immersed in the internationally recognised scientific community of Universities (10), Research Institutes (4), Infrastructures (3), Companies (12) and Associations (4), providing joint core career and specialised training and access to cutting-edge high-technology infrastructures that comprise the foundation of SciLifeLab. At the heart of PULSE is a well-conceived core training programme, augmented by secondments to ensure necessary breadth and tailored individualised training adapted and relevant to academia and industry, and to facilitate international scientific exchange. The PULSE output will be a new breed of scientists, well-prepared in the application of high-throughput technologies and data-dense analytical approaches, and who can confidently meet the emerging societal challenges confronting the European Research Area, specifically in precision medicine, pandemic laboratory preparedness, planetary biology and drug discovery and development. PULSE is aligned with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and takes into account the MSCA supervision guidelines and Green Charter. PULSE will have an impact that extends beyond its duration, establishing dialogues with multiple stakeholders in the non-academic sector and by setting new standards in postgraduate research training in Life Sciences internationally. PULSE will be administered by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and has an overall budget of 19.0 MEUR, of which 36% stems from the EC and 64% from participating institutions.

Keywords: postdoctoral training,career development,life sciences,open science,fair,data,technology,precision medicine,planetary biology,pandemic preparedness,drug discovery,drug development
Innovative Nutraceutical Strategies for Enhancing Organic Quail Farming: A Focus on B Vitamin Supplementation (OrganiQ)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Türkiye,Spain
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165205.2
EU funding (EUR): 165205.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The growing demand for organic poultry, particularly chickens, presents a challenge for the industry to offer sustainable alternatives while ensuring animal health under less controlled organic conditions. Organic quail farming emerges as a viable option, but the absence of controlled environments makes quails more prone to health and productivity issues. Nutraceuticals like B vitamins offer a promising solution, yet no studies have determined the optimal supplementation levels for organic quails under these conditions. OrganiQ addresses this by investigating the effects of thiamine (B1), pyridoxine (B6), and cobalamin (B12) to improve quail growth (WP1), physiological responses (WP2), gut microbiome dynamics (WP3), and meat and egg quality (WP4). The goal is to identify the ideal dosage and combination of these vitamins to boost productivity, health, and product quality in non-controlled environments. Using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates animal production, microbiology, bioinformatics, and food science, I aim to develop evidence-based dietary recommendations for organic quail farming. Selçuk University, known for its expertise in avian production and led by Prof. Olgun, provides the perfect environment for this research. Additionally, secondments at the University of Salamanca and Estación Tecnológica de la Carne will enhance my skills in microbiological and meat quality analysis while further developing my leadership capabilities. OrganiQ will equip me with practical experience and interdisciplinary knowledge, preparing me to manage multidisciplinary teams and pursue European funding opportunities, ultimately enabling me to establish my own research group in sustainable animal production.

Keywords: b vitamin supplementation,quails,organic avian production,avian productivity,avian health,egg and meat quality,nutraceuticals in poultry,avian gut microbiome,sustainable livestock practices
A DISRUPTIVE, ENZYME-FREE BIOMOLECULE DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, UNDERPINNED BY MICROFLUIDICS AND AI (Nanites)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1800000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are Invenirex, a company that has developed a revolutionary technology for detecting and quantifying specific DNA or RNA sequences. Our technology, using synthetic DNA sequences called Nanites, is faster, cheaper, and more accurate than current methods based on PCR (polymerase chain reaction). We can detect and quantify any nucleic acid sequence in a single step, without sample preparation, amplification, or gel analysis. Nanites can also be developed further to detect up to 100 sequences in multiplex, allowing for simultaneous detection of multiple targets. Our technology has applications across life sciences research and development, such as synthetic biology, nucleic acid therapeutics, and molecular diagnostics. We have already established collaborations with UK-based organisations: CPI, Nanovery, FERA, and QuantumDX, to test and validate our technology for different use cases. We have also filed a patent and secured IP protection for our technology. This project aims to optimise and scale up our technology, and to demonstrate its benefits for the EU's life sciences sector. We expect our technology to increase research productivity, reduce costs and time, and improve quality and reproducibility of nucleic acid analysis. This could speed up development for new medicines. We also expect our technology to have positive impacts on the environment, by reducing the carbon footprint of cold-chain logistics and consumable waste, and on the society, by enabling faster and better drug development and diagnostics. Where it improves research into new sustainable technologies, e.g. bioenergy and biomanufacturing, it will also deliver environmental benefits.

Keywords: nucleic acid detection life sciences research sustainable medicines manufacturing synthetic biology molecular diagnostics
Repurposing the CRISPR-associated transposons (CAST) system for gene editing applications (CASTedit)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The rapid advancements in CRISPR-Cas technology have revolutionized gene editing, yet significant challenges persist, particularly the reliance on DNA Damage Response (DDR) pathways and the limitations in integrating large DNA segments. These constraints hinder the application of CRISPR-Cas systems, especially in non-dividing cells and complex genomic modifications. The recently discovered CRISPR-associated transposon (CAST) systems offer a transformative solution, enabling the insertion of large DNA cargos (10–30 kb) into specific genomic locations without inducing double-strand breaks (DSBs), thereby providing a safer and more versatile genome-editing tool. The CASTedit project aims to repurpose CAST systems as next-generation genome editing tools, with a focus on mammalian cells. Specific objectives include the development of engineered CAST systems (Types V-K and I-D) for precise DNA integration, the exploration of novel CAST complexes for RNA-guided transposition, and their validation at the organismal level. Successful implementation of these systems in eukaryotic cells could overcome current CRISPR limitations, paving the way for innovative applications in cell engineering, regenerative medicine, and biotechnology. Under the guidance of Prof. Guillermo Montoya, a leading expert in the structure-function analysis of nucleases, and with his pioneering research in CAST complex assembly at the University of Copenhagen, I will be well-positioned to achieve the goals of this project. I will leverage my expertise in CRISPR-based genome editing, protein expression systems in eukaryotes, and high-throughput mutant screening to optimize CAST systems for precise DNA integration in mammalian cells. The successful execution of CASTedit will establish me as a prominent researcher in genome engineering, utilizing the host institution’s state-of-the-art facilities and collaborative environment to drive innovation in therapeutic applications.

Keywords: crispr cas,crispr associated transposons,rna guided transposition,genome engineering,dna integration,mammalian cells,tn7 transposons
Intra-household responsibilities and financial decisions (IntraHouseDecisions)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark
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): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Much of today’s policies addressing poor’s welfare are based on the presumption that women are more likely than men to use income in ways that improve household welfare. An approach of predominantly targeting women however may overlook opportunities from how men could be encouraged to contribute more to the household welfare. I develop a framework that joins empirical and theoretical findings on intra-household allocations and gender norms in developing countries by incorporating the role of intra-household responsibilities in spouses’ financial decisions. I use a lab-in-the-field experiment with spouses in Ghana to map these intra-household responsibilities and evaluate their causal role on spouses’ expenditures and inter-temporal decisions. By demonstrating causes of inefficiencies in resource allocation and low savings, my findings may help to inform on how women’s role can be strengthened and on the potential for harnessing men’s role in improving the household welfare.

Keywords: lab in the field experiment,social norm elicitation,intra household decision making,saving behaviour,gender
A smart centrifuge camera for testing dewatering ability of waste-water sludges in hyper-gravity (SludgeCam)

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: Netherlands,Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162857.14
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The EU produces more than 45000 tons of waste-water sludge per day as byproduct of municipal and industrial water purification activities. This enormous amount can become a gold mine for materials recovery, or an environmental burden, depending on how well waste-treatment plants can remove water from these sludges. Today sludge treatment processes are based on unoptimized methods, which rely on operator experience and low-tech equipment, and are not able to deal with the fast-changing sludge type evolution, resulting in loss of time, energy and money, as well as a negative environmental impact. The SludgeCam project will deliver an innovative smart camera centrifuge, having advanced software, hardware and sensing features, which will enable plant operators to consciously adapt treatment process parameters, select flocculant polymers and set standards for different sludge types, based on solid, reproducible data, so that more environmentally-friendly water treatment operations and drastically reduced energy consumption for sludge incineration will be achieved.
Affordable smart GaN IC solutions as enabler of greener applications (ALL2GaN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Czechia,Switzerland,Denmark,Germany,Greece,Netherlands,Norway,Slovakia,Spain,Sweden
Call: General according to ECS-SRIA 2022 (IA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2022-1-IA, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 59976056.19
EU funding (EUR): 15924666.77
Participants: 47
Project status: SIGNED

ALL2GaN will be the backbone for the European Power Electronics Industry by offering an EU-born smart GaN Integration Toolbox. The project will provide the base for applications with significantly increased material- and energy efficiency, thus meeting the global energy needs while keeping the CO2 footprint to the minimum. 46 partners from 12 European countries will collaborate on 8 major objectives along the entire vertical value chain of power and RF electronics. O1: Push the limits of industrial GaN devices and system-on-chip approaches for ≤ 100V O2: Leverage the full potential of innovative substrates for GaN O3: Achieve novel benchmark solutions for lateral GaN devices and integrated circuits ≥ 650V O4: Reach best technical and cost performance of RF GaN on Si with novel integration concepts O5: Break the packaging limits by application driven integrated solutions of high performance GaN products O6: Advance the methods to evaluate and optimize reliability and robustness of GaN components, modules, and systems for shortest time-to-market and maximum product availability at the end user O7: Demonstrate highest affordable performance for greener power electronics and RF applications O8: Road-mapping for the future GaN technology development and applications to support long-term exploitation/business cases and European leadership beyond ALL2GaN. The collaboration in ALL2GaN is based on a work package structure covering activities on novel power- and RF-GaN technologies for various voltage classes, latest packaging technologies, research on reliability and demonstration in 11 Use Cases. With ambitious goals and a clear vision, ALL2GaN will unleash the energy saving and material efficiency potential of GaN semiconductors for a broad field of applications, thus being in line with the major challenges outlined in the ECS-SRIA. ALL2GaN technology will directly contribute to energy saving and cutting-edge green technology innovation as…Every Watt counts!

Keywords: power semiconductor,gan hemt,energy efficiency,power conversion,radiofrequency switches