Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Quantum measurement and control of non-classical mechanical states (emcc)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mechanical systems are an essential platform for future quantum science and technologies, such as quantum interfaces, sensors and transducers, and for studies of macroscopic quantum physics. The ability to measure and control macroscopic non-classical states is an outstanding challenge. The aim of the proposed research is to obtain the motional non-classical states of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator using quantum measurement and control techniques. The first non-classical state here is a single-phonon Fock state which will be generated by controlling the phonons at a single quantum level. This single-phonon state will be heralded by single photon detection, verified using photon counting statistics, and further reconstructed using state tomography which can completely reveal the non-classicality of the state. The second non-classical state is a squeezed state where either the position or momentum is localized with better precision than the zero-point motion. Achieving the measurement-based preparation of squeezed states requires the usage of quantum measurement techniques, in my case, continuous position measurements with a speed faster than the rate at which noise couples into the position from the momentum. The experimental demonstrations of the two non-classical states will be performed on millimetre-sized macroscopic membranes with exceptionally high coherence, and even, at temperatures much higher than previous experiments of non-classical nanomechanical oscillators. This will greatly relax the requirements of quantum experiments with macroscopic mechanical systems, and potentially enables new quantum technology at room temperature. The project will pave the way towards advanced quantum state engineering by quantum measurement and control of mechanical motion, building new high-performance quantum devices, and developing and testing potentially transformational new ideas for quantum gravitational decoherence tests and ultraprecise sensing.

Keywords: optomechanics,quantum measurement,quantum control,quantum optics
Building self-supporting all-liquid hierarchical constructs using polysaccharide nanoparticles-stabilized interfaces (INTERLAYER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Liquids lack the spatial order required for advanced multifunctional materials with spatial resolution. However, self-supporting structured all-liquid multiphase systems would create a new class of biomimetic and reconfigurable materials. This can be achieved by assembling nanoparticles (NPs) at the liquid-liquid interfaces providing enhanced interfacial elasticity and stability. However, NPs-stabilised multiphasic materials currently suffer from low mechanical strength owning to the limited particle concentration that can be achieved at the interface, ultimately limiting the structure-property space. To remove these limitations, INTERLAYER sets out to localise NPs at the interface with much higher concentration via novel advective processing for the first time, enabling non-equilibrium kinetically trapped stabilized states. This will impart enhanced interfacial and bulk mechanical properties, while offering a unique and material-efficient route to create novel self-supporting all-liquid hierarchical constructs. The choice of polysaccharide nanoparticles (PNPs) in INTERLAYER, isolated top-down from plant-based sources, offers a promising platform with adaptability in particle shape, size, and surface chemistry. PNPs are also a sustainable alternative for fossil-based surfactants and inorganic particles, and are gaining increasing attention from industry. INTERLAYER will establish static state diagrams linking PNP physico-chemical properties to the multiphase material structure (Objective 1). Elucidating the physics-chemistry-processing relations will allow the production of novel self-supporting all-liquid hierarchical constructs stabilized by PNPs-laden interfaces (Objective 2). These constructs will then be used to build multiphase materials with more complex structures and advanced functionalities via 3D printing (long-term vision). INTERLAYER will pave the way to the next-generation sustainability-by-design materials, contributing to a more sustainable world.

Keywords: polysaccharide nanoparticles,interfacial rheology,particle laden interface,particle stabilised multiphase system,viscoelasticity
Cooperative robotics powered by AI and data for flexible production cells (COROB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Poland,Switzerland
Call: AI, Data and Robotics for Industry optimisation (including production and services) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5450687.5
EU funding (EUR): 4999712.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The high-mix low-volume (HMLV) market scenario requires constant changes in jobs, materials and machines. This implies the need to build highly flexible and intelligent manufacturing environments, that allow a fast adaption of processes and systems to changing conditions, assuring high product quality with lower production costs and energy consumption. This urges manufacturing industries to re-define their production processes for competitiveness and sustainability. Most of the manufactured components have joints, so welding technologies are identified at European level as key enabling technologies for the development of innovative and sustainable manufacturing processes. Among welding technologies, arc-based accounted for 36% of the total in 2020, highlighting its relevance for major European industries. Traditionally robots have been used in mass production industries performing repetitive tasks at acceptable cost and quality levels, sacrificing flexibility for productivity. The cooperation of multiple robots powered with IA and Data technologies offers new operational capabilities in terms of manoeuvrability and manipulability in several industrial processes. COROB proposes the development of a smart cooperative multi-robotic system for flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing to cover HMLV industrial production needs in the current technological context of Industry 5.0. The system will be human-centered and will integrate advancements in robotics, inspection, monitoring, control and AI developed by consortium partners and 15 external third parties through an Open call. The flexible solution will be validated in 2 semi-industrial pilots for automotive sector (Multi-robot cooperative arc welding) and toolmaking industry (Multi-robot cooperative WAAM (wire arc additive manufacturing) for repairing). It will contribute to resilience, resource saving, circular economy, cost savings and digital supply chain, fostering European industrial competitiveness.

Keywords: cooperative multi robot,machine learning modeling,non destructive monitoring and inspection,human centered approach,digital platform
Monitoring system of the environmental and social sustainability and circularity of industrial bio-based systems (BIORADAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Italy
Call: Developing and validating monitoring systems of environmental sustainability and circularity: collection of best practices and benchmarks (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2873165.0
EU funding (EUR): 2873165.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

A bio-based system covers all sectors that rely on biological resources (animals, plants, micro-organisms and derived biomass, organic waste), processes, and principles.The development of a bio-based economy has been emphasized in EU Green Deal to decrease dependency on non-renewable energy and material resources, maintain food security, and decarbonize the economy.However, considering limited land and biological resources in the EU,sustainable and just development of industrial bio-based systems calls for special attention to material circularity, carbon emission, & iLUC risks of bio-based systems, as well as social objectives. BioRadar takes a system perspective to fill the indicator gap in material circularity, environmental impacts, and social impacts of industrial bio-based systems and develop digital monitoring tools for policy-makers and investors. BioRadar identifies circularity opportunities in industrial bio-based systems through biological and technical loops.Material Circularity Indicators(MCIs) are required to assess how well a bio-based system performs in the context of a circular economy.MCIs will help to incorporate circularity as design criteria in developing new bio-based systems, from material choice to new business models.Such indicators will also allow policy-makers to investigate the transition of bio-based systems from linear to circular. Environmental impact assessment of industrial bio-based systems calls special attention to energy use, water consumption, carbon emission, and land use indicators.For this, BioRadar aims to develop frameworks and metrics to evaluate carbon emission and assess the carbon capture and utilization potential, develop methods to evaluate iLUC risks of bio-based systems, and explore climate change mitigation and adoption opportunities for the whole supply chain of industrial bio-based systems. Further,BioRadar aims to identify social development objectives, formulate action plans for social impact assessment.

Keywords: bio based transition indicators self assessment regulatory tracker tool,bio based transition framework
New manufacturing approaches for Hydrogen Electrolysers to provide Reliable AEM technology based solutions while achieving Quality, Circularity, Low LCOH, high Efficiency and Scalability (HERAQCLES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Greece
Call: Design for advanced and scalable manufacturing of electrolysers (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2342385.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999622.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

HERAQCLES stands for New Manufacturing Approaches for Hydrogen Electrolysers To Provide Reliable AEM Technology Based Solutions While Achieving Quality, Circularity, Low LCOH, High Efficiency And Scalability. Project HERAQCLES delivers an operational 25kW electrolyser stack including balance-of-plant based on AEM technology to validate both our novel design-for-manufacturing architecture and innovative components developed for automated production processes. AEM electrolysis offers a more attractive cost/performance ratio compared to state-of-art PEM electrolysis because these is no need to utilise precious group metals in stack components like catalysts, porous transport layers and bipolar plates for generating hydrogen at reasonably high current density. Current stack manufacturing processes face bottlenecks limited by many separate components, manual assembly and lack of tooling due to low production numbers. The project focusses on increasing Manufacturing Readiness Level from 4 to 5 by collectively advancing all components to comply with automated manufacturing processes at industrial scale: forming of metal plates, 3D-screen printing porous layers, pilot-scale synthesis of membrane polymers and catalyst. Validation occurs in three yearly loops using single cell, short stack and full 25kW stack configurations, where test results are benchmarked against commercially available options to highlight critical improvements of composition, functionality and recyclability. The experienced consortium brings together a unique combination of know-hows acquired in previous projects (e.g. Anione) and manufacturing capabilities provided by strong representation from industrial partners (6 out of 8). If successful, the final qualified stack prototype can be scaled-up quickly. Finally, a business plan is established comprising of a technology roadmap, an analysis of premium applications, an overview of product-market combinations and feasible market development plans.

Keywords: electrolysis,electrolyser,electrolyseur,electrolyzer,aem,aemel,aemwe,anion exchange membrane,hydrogen,green hydrogen
Europe’s Rail Flagship Project 4 - Sustainable and green rail systems (FP4 - Rail4EARTH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Spain,Norway,Hungary,Austria,Poland,Netherlands,Sweden
Call: A sustainable and green rail system (HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 52705267.82
EU funding (EUR): 38386394.04
Participants: 73
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal is fully addressing the HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA4-01 call for project. It’s scope of work is covering the Sustainable and green rail systems including rolling stocks, infrastructures, stations and all of their related sub-systems. The objectives are to significantly progress on several families of Key Performance Indicators on different fields : technical ,environmental, economical, standardisation. The decarbonisation of Diesel trains, noise and vibration reduction, energy savings, circular economy, resource consumption, resilience to climate change and pandemic attack, attractiveness of passenger trains are at the heart of the proposed project. The consortium carrying out the project is made of recognized world-class know-how partners : operators, train and sub-sytems manufacturers, research and technology laboratories. It will perfectly identify the precise needs of operators including implicitly the European public policies of sustainable transports, including Climate Neutral Europe for 2050. It will provide the needed scientific and technical solutions via the development and demonstrations (up to TRL7) of new solutions increasing drastically the environmental performances of the railway holistic system. These new solutions will be proposed while verifying that they have viable economic models ensuring a rapid commercialization for the benefit of European citizens. Driven with a constant will for performance, the project will regularly quantify its KPIs progress and will communicate regularly with other ERJU projects as well as other European research entities such as Clean Hydrogen JU or Batt4EU so that all suitable synergies can be implemented. With the quality of its partners, its organization and its processes implemented for maximum efficiency, there is no doubt that this project will achieve all the project objectives set by the HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA4-01 Call.

Keywords: circular economy,recyclability,co2,energy efficiency,noise vibration reduction,climate change mitigation,batterie train,hydrogen train,airless train,air quality,sustainable interiors
Artificial Placenta (ArtPlac) - Miniaturized Integrated Lung and Kidney Support for Critically Ill Newborns (ArtPlac)

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: Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,Canada,Portugal,Ireland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4229608.75
EU funding (EUR): 4229608.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

This Pathfinder project will establish a radical change in the treatment of newborns using an artificial placenta (ArtPlac). What drives us towards a radical new treatment approach? 2 mio. neonatal deaths that occur worldwide yearly. The technological advancements of the last fifty years were based on scaling down adult devices which are not ideal for all babies. Why? Because babies are not just small adults! In fact, the applied treatments are very invasive and cause side effects by damaging their sensitive bodies. Survivors often suffer from life-long complications or cannot live independently. In utero, the placenta is a life-giving organ and serves as fetal lung, fetal kidney, and feeder. Because the placenta cannot be reconnected after preterm birth, we aim to continue the placental support with ArtPlac. Our novel device simply connects to the belly button for lung and kidney support while the newborn can breathe, mature, and heal. To achieve this, a novel compact and miniaturized all-in-one artificial placenta device combining lung and kidney functions will be developed. Our plug-in approach will use the natural umbilical vessels at the belly button with expandable catheters to provide a large bore vascular access like in utero. This allows ArtPlac to be driven solely by the newborn's heart like in the womb. Inline sensors will analyze blood parameters without painful collection. Feedback loops in ArtPlac will provide individual demand-driven support. Inbuilt features for hemocompatibility will prevent thrombosis and use of high-dose systemic anticoagulation with the high risk for brain bleeding. Importantly, ArtPlac allows family integrated care providing a therapy for the newborn in close connection to its family. In summary, our visionary approach revolutionizes the treatment of newborns after birth. It will reduce brain damage and comorbidities, promote long-term health, and therefore improve the survival chances of up to 1.2 mio. newborns per year.

Keywords: neonatology,fetal medicine,artificial placenta,combined lung and kidney support device,oxygenator
Evaluation and validation of connected mobility in real open systems beyond 5GS (ENVELOPE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,France,Netherlands,Hungary,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Cyprus,Luxembourg
Call: SNS Large Scale Trials and Pilots (LST&Ps) with Verticals – Focused Topic (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15739303.75
EU funding (EUR): 13499953.75
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

5G adv. and 6G aim to expand the set of supported verticals and provide enhanced capabilities beyond connectivity. 5G CAM vertical services are a broad range of services in and around vehicles, including both safety-related and other services enabled or supported by 5G. 5GS has been built as a modular architecture to support any vertical running on top in a vertical-agnostic manner. However, it is realized that certain verticals (like CAM) have specific and strict requirements. Although significant progress has been made in supporting verticals, the corresponding necessary configuration of the network and end-devices is a time-consuming manual process that requires tight coordination at technical and business levels across the verticals, the vendors, the network operator, and even the end-users. This hinders not only the greater adoption of 5GS but also the uptake of novel CAM UCs and the modernization of existing ones that require a tighter integration with the underlying network. The main objective of ENVELOPE is to advance and open up the reference 5G adv. architecture, and also to transform it into a vertical-oriented with the necessary interfaces tailored to the CAM UCs that i) expose network capabilities to verticals, ii) provide vertical-information to the network; iii) enable verticals to dynamically request and modify certain network aspects in an open, transparent and easy to use, semi-automated way. ENVELOPE aims to deliver 3 large-scale B5G trial sites in Italy, Netherlands and Greece for CAM services and beyond, implementing functionalities tailored to the CAM services and advanced exposure capabilities. Although focused on the CAM vertical, the resulting developments will be reusable by any vertical. The ENVELOPE architecture will serve as an envelope that can cover, accommodate and support any type of vertical services. The applicability of ENVELOPE capabilities will be demonstrated via the project CAM UCs and via at least 9 open call projects.

Keywords: cam vertical,trials,ai zero touch,mec,predictive qos,open calls