Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Global as well as Local Flexibility Marketplace to Demonstrate Grid Balancing Mechanisms through Cross-sectoral Interconnected and Integrated Energy Ecosystems enabling Automatic Flexibility Trading (GLocalFlex)

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: Finland,Germany,Spain,France,Serbia,Czechia,Switzerland,Sweden
Call: Replicable solutions for a cross sector compliant energy ecosystem (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10754218.28
EU funding (EUR): 8957646.25
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of GLocalFlex is to mobilise demand-response solutions & services in replicated manner for prompt horizontal scaling of flexible local energy systems (LES) by means of easy access and low barrier energy flexibility markets to increase the participation of the consumers across all energy-sectors. The GLocalFlex approach promotes viable interoperable solutions and products at all levels of the grid (consumers, producers, retailers, aggregators & market) by selecting modular standards and tools during development. It allows the overall system of systems to be 1) flexible by means of energy use to provide quality services to grid and 2) flexible by means of its own evolution (to change, upgrade or integrate several appliances, consumers and microgrids to create complex but viable cross-sectoral energy ecosystems). The GLocalFlex concept will allow any Local Energy System (LES), Positive Energy District(PED), community, or appliance to evolve in a consistent way and offer flexibility using suitable hardware add-ons in a cost-effective and systematic manner to expose their full flexible potential. GLocalFlex concept can adopt to any LES size, availability of local resources and regulations. This project will demonstrate near real time, large scale, flexibility trading in six different field locations in Europe. It has consumer and system centric pilots that develop flexibility services and replicate them within the pilot group. The GLocalFlex aims to have completely automated, machine-to-machine flexibility trading and flexibility order execution in LES by means of open, interoperable energy flexibility market and open standard based IT-tools that allows more flexibility consumers to join the market. Therefore, GLocalFlex will push forward the overall integration of disruptive renewable technologies and enhancing the stability of the grid at the same time.

Keywords: energy,demand response,flexibility market,interoperable energy marketplace
Dissection of the host-microbe crosstalk that controls metabolism and physiology in intestinal symbiosis (METABIONT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Intestinal bacteria have been associated with the most diverse aspects of our physiology, and large efforts are being undertaken to determine how the metabolic repertoire of the microbiome impacts host nutrition and health. These efforts, however, face major obstacles. First, we have a very poor understanding of how bacterial metabolism is regulated in the different sections of the gastrointestinal tract. It is also becoming increasingly clear that symbionts support their hosts by means that extend beyond the provision of nutrients, and these effects can hardly be predicted from metagenomic analyses. We will use ambitious approaches borrowed from several fields, including microbiology, genetics, and cell biology, to dissect how the crosstalk between hosts and their symbionts shapes metabolism and physiology at the scale of the holobiont. We will leverage the relevant Drosophila gastrointestinal tract and use multi-omics approaches to dissect, in mechanistic depth, how the metabolism of a model enteric bacterium is regulated in the different sections of the digestive tract (Aim 1 – The microbe). In parallel, our work suggests that symbionts exert a broad control over intestinal digestive and metabolic activities, and act potentially through host bacterial sensing and epigenetic mechanisms to play these roles. We will dissect these regulatory links in Drosophila, and investigate their conservation in mammals (Aim 2 – The host). Finally, we have evidence that hosts cooperate with their symbionts to regulate gastrointestinal transit, a vital but underappreciated factor that shapes nutrition in both partners. We will use two-sided genetic screens to uncover the bacterial metabolites and the host factors that regulate transit, and determine if this regulation involves the gut-brain axis (Aim 3 – The holobiont). Together, these studies will bring major advances in our understanding of the nutritional and metabolic interactions between hosts and their symbionts.

Keywords: microbiome,microbiota,drosophila,gut brain axis,metabolism,intestine,immunity
Lifesaving Innovation of Flow-Enhanced Membranes with Endothelium-Mimicking Coatings for Uterine-Like Artificial Placenta (LifeLink)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

LifeLink will devise a totally new concept for an interactive artificial placenta (AP) that can provide safer and more efficient oxygenation to pre-term babies giving them the chance to bridge until the point they can breathe on their own. Pre-term birth is the leading cause of death in children under five, with over 1 million deaths annually due to complications. To address this, pre-term infants require continuous oxygenation as they would receive in the womb, yet no extracorporeal oxygenator currently exists for this purpose. LifeLink aims to fill this gap by developing an innovative AP platform that overcomes two key challenges: hemocompatibility and the excessive cardiac stress caused by high flow resistance. The project pioneers a bioinspired, endothelium-mimetic coating that integrates the three key endothelial functions—stealth, modulation, and interaction—into a single hemocompatible layer. This design reduces the need for anticoagulants and minimizes thrombogenicity. The coating, featuring antifouling brushes, FXIIa inhibitors, and tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), mimics the natural endothelium’s ability to prevent clot formation, regulate coagulation, and promote fibrinolysis, making it ideal for blood-contacting devices like oxygenators. LifeLink will enhance gas exchange and flow dynamics using triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) designs, such as gyroid structures, to lower cardiac stress and eliminate the need for external pumps. These 3D membranes will be fabricated via centrifugal casting and tested for gas transport, hemocompatibility, and clot-dissolving capabilities, with polymer brush coatings to boost performance. This interdisciplinary approach, structured across three work packages—developing endothelium-mimetic coatings, designing TPMS-based membranes, and conducting hemocompatibility and gas transfer tests—seeks to revolutionize pre-term care, providing a validated solution for AP systems and improving outcomes for premature infants.

Keywords: hemocompatibility,polymer brushes,biomimetics,biomedical devices,artificial placenta
Nanobubbles Stabilization for Cleaning Applications (NASCAP)

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: Slovenia,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-20
End date: 2024-06-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155559.36
EU funding (EUR): 155559.36
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Bulk nanobubbles (i.e. bubbles with a sub-micrometer size) are believed to have a diverse range of potential applications in fields such as: waste treatment, cleaning and purification technologies, biomedicine, food processing, drag reduction, sonoreactors and sonocatalysis. However, rigorous scientific evidence on how bulk nanobubbles (BNBs) may remain stably in solution is to date not existent. A number of methods for BNBs generation using mechanical, chemical or electrochemical approaches have been reported, but very few studies deal with confirming their gaseous nature. In nearly all research papers the size distribution of the BNBs is obtained from laser scattering, which can not discriminate bubbles form pollutant droplets or nanoparticles. That lead to considerable discussion on stabilized BNBs existence. Recently, we have shown that laser cavitation is a ''clean'' way to produce BNBs, while acoustic assisted bubble detection demonstrated the gaseous nature of the observed objects. That will constitute the main experimental strategy in the proposed project. The overall objective is to establish scientific basis for bulk nanobubbles research by providing conclusive answers to fundamental questions like: What is the underlying physical mechanics for which such small bubbles may remain stably suspended in liquids for long times?; and What is the potential of nanobubbles on water/waste treatment and surface cleaning? The goal is not only of a purely academic nature, aiming also to lay the foundation of a sound scientific exploitation of the nanobubble technology in the long term. In the long term, this project will contribute to the development of devices to remove particulate and non-polar contamination from surfaces. Accordingly, "real" problems will be addressed by laboratory scale trials on bacterial removal from a hydraulic circuit with the components found in a typical water distribution network, under different flow regimes and BNBs concentrations.

Keywords: nanobubbles bubble diffusive stability laser cavitation bubble shockwave interaction optical microscopy surface cleaning water remediation
Compatibility Assessment of Non-steel metallic Distribution gas grid materials with Hydrogen (CANDHy)

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: Spain,France,Belgium,Italy
Call: Compatibility of Distribution non-steel metallic gas grid materials with hydrogen (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2607481.25
EU funding (EUR): 2607481.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Green hydrogen is gaining moment across Europe as feedstock, fuel or energy carrier and storage, as solid actions are needed to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Hydrogen has many possible applications across industry, transport, energy and building sectors and, therefore, local gas grids across Europe are working hard to get ready for its transport. The realization of the prospects of delivering H2/NG admixtures or even 100 % H2 by existing gas distribution grids exacerbates the problem of pipe integrity due to the well-known negative impact of hydrogen on the mechanical properties of metals. Most projects assessing safe hydrogen compatibility with natural gas distribution grids (i.e. H21, HydePloy,etc.) have performed experiments to study the leakage ratio, emission potential and explosion severity of vintage components. However, long-term material integrity assessment replicating distribution grid operating conditions in testing platforms is still necessary. CANDHy will allow the possibility of testing relevant metallic materials, different from the well-studied steels, with a methodology involving simultaneous test in independent R&D platforms with a common methodology. This will allow to obtain trustful and reproducible results about hydrogen tolerance of materials that have not been considered in previous research but that are an essential part in in low-pressure gas grids. CANDHy project will enable hydrogen distribution in low pressure gas grids by consolidated and exhaustive scientific data, coupled with harmonized guidelines for non-steel metallic grid materials. At least five material grades of different families (such as cast iron, copper, brass, lead, aluminium), both new and vintage, will be fully documented, and the results will be publicly available for all stakeholders in a continuously updated database. Mechanical tests will base on static and dynamic conditions to assess hydrogen sensitivity following the most relevant current and updated standards

Keywords: h2 ng blend,100 hydrogen,hydrogen injection,repurposing gas grid,gas distribution network,non steel metallic materials
Enhanced productivity of resurrection photosynthetic organisms in a CO2-richer future: tipping the global carbon and oxidant balance (CRYPTO-AI-FUTURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Terrestrial resurrection cryptogams, including mosses, lichens, algal and cyanobacterial films and crusts, are conspicuous photosynthetic organisms growing on soil, rocks, plants and artificial surfaces. They dominate multiple ecosystems worldwide, but the estimates of cryptogam share in global productivity are uncertain and the impact of climate change on their contribution to global carbon sink is unknown. Several cryptogams are strong emitters of organic volatiles, and due to huge surface area, they can play a major role in air oxidative status and in vegetation-climate feedbacks, but they are currently neglected due to difficulties in gauging their activity. The project hypothesizes that due to extremely large CO2 diffusion limitation, cryptogam productivity responds more strongly to the rise of atmospheric CO2 than that of vascular plants. Because of the direct effect of CO2, cryptogam photosynthetic activity and rate of colonization of as yet unoccupied surfaces increase, resulting in greater cryptogam share in global productivity and air cleansing in future CO2-richer world. The project creates novel high-throughput AI methods to functionally characterize cryptogam covers, and uses unique instrumentation and methodology to assess CO2-responsiveness of photosynthesis and volatile exchange across cryptogams, and estimates cryptogam share under current and future conditions using an array of AI and process based models. The project (1) advances ecological theory by developing the first combined economics and stress response spectrum for photosynthetic organisms, and pioneers in providing the quantitative estimates of (2) alteration of cryptogam productivity in future climates and (3) global cryptogam volatile release and air cleansing under current and future climates, and (4) expects to demonstrate that the high CO2-responsiveness of cryptogam physiological activity is slowing down the CO2-saturation of global productivity and the rate of global change.

Keywords: lichens,mosses,photosynthetic carbon gain,volatile emission,air reactivity,global change,leaf economics spectrum,pattern recognition,artificial intelligence
Tropes and Sequences in the Margins of non-Musical Carolingian Manuscripts, circa 800 – 1000 (MARGICANTUS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-16
End date: 2027-06-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Largely overlooked, if not entirely unknown, about a thousand musical marginalia lie in the empty spaces of Latin non-musical manuscripts of the early Middle Ages, where they are unlikely to come to the attention of music scholars. These marginalia, which I have for the first time systematically identified and newly described during my previous postdoctoral appointment, have the potential to bring us much closer to the composition, expansion and dissemination of new repertories and chants in the 9th and 10th centuries. Appearing in unpredictable places—empty flyleaves, blank spaces, lateral margins—in manuscripts of all sorts and written by individuals of all levels of competence, they provide invaluable and potentially transformative insight into the period before the well-known and calligraphic books of music of the late 10th and 11th centuries (i.e., larger notated antiphoners and graduals, and the newly-devised formats of tropers and sequentiaries). From this body of a thousand marginalia, “MARGICANTUS: Tropes and Sequences in the Margins of non-Musical Carolingian Manuscripts, circa 800 – 1000” isolates a corpus of almost two hundred 9th- and 10th-century entries of tropes and sequences, two genres whose origin can be safely tied to the early 9th-century Carolingian world. These sketches, trials, and individual marginal items expand our understanding of plainchant chronology, repertory and transmission, tensions between local and imported styles of chant, the uses of musical notation, and the extent and urgency with which in Carolingian times newer music embellished older liturgical practices. Blending classic methods of musicology and philology with current computer-based analysis and data management, MARGICANTUS sheds new light on the history of tropes and sequences, and therefore of Carolingian music. By doing so, it recovers some of the earliest layers of Western musical creativity in their full complexity, beginning from the margins.

Keywords: gregorian chant,medieval music,liturgy,marginalia,digital humanities
Collaboration and Pseudepigraphy. Facing the Anonymous in Imperial Greek Literature (COLLAPSE)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499255.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499255.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In Classical Philology, a discipline which has long relied on the figure of the author, authorless texts are an ‘elephant in the room’. In antiquity, however, long before the introduction of copyright, texts were the universal commons of all those who drew on them. Authorship was frequently faked, forged, or anonymized. Because authorless texts resist the author-based gravitational structure of literary history, they continue to pose a challenge to scholars in the field and have often been marginalized. COLLAPSE tackles this problem by providing a new methodological basis for situating authorless texts in Greek studies. Imperial Greek literature in particular serves as a fertile ground to re-think (an)onymized text production. COLLAPSE aims (1) to reinterpret the forms of (an)onymization as forms of ‘fan fiction’ or as attempts to ‘rewrite’ previous authors; (2) to analyze how boundaries between model authors and their subsequent ‘imitators’ collapsed in Greek literature; (3) to explore the relation between poems that were ascribed to alleged authors and unattributed texts, thus differentiating forms, functions, and contexts of (an)onymization; (4) to develop a non-normative terminology and classificatory system that moves authorless texts from various fields to the center of Greek literary history. Three of COLLAPSE’s work packages investigate the centripetal power of the author’s name in the attribution of Greek texts. The other three analyze the dynamics of anonymization and examine the centrifugal forces of anonymity. COLLAPSE attempts to subvert the classificatory binary of genuine and authentic texts versus ‘forgeries’. Moreover, the inclusion of different fields of knowledge aims to break down theoretical boundaries to neighboring disciplines. Overall, COLLAPSE will rethink the processes of (an)onymization in a groundbreaking way and contribute to a better understanding of inter-authorial mechanisms in Imperial Greek textual production.

Keywords: pseudepigraphy,anonymity,authorship,collaboration,fan fiction,rewriting
Generative Patent Analysis Tool (GPAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Slovenia
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

Start-ups, SMEs and even large companies face expensive bottlenecks in the form of patent searches and patent analysis, when they need to assess the patent landscape and ensure a freedom to operate (FTO). We are designing an AI-driven patent-screening & analysis tool that will provide results quickly, reliably and reproducibly. Our aim is not to replace the in-depth patent analysis of patent attorneys, but to automate screening and claims analysis to ensure a technical FTO for many interested groups: from students, technical experts, start-ups and SME's to international corporations. These groups will see multiple benefits: relevant patent information available in minutes instead of days, lower outsourcing costs, better use of human resources with R&D skills, who can now work with up-front information on the patent landscape and know what is patentable, where the FTO lies, and which areas are royalty-free. We will have the GPaT available as online service, with payments per query, by volume or on subscription. We are a team of five, with the complementary skills to take the project from TRL5 => to the market. The team includes an AI expert, a software architect, a patent attorney, a marketing specialist and a nanomaterial scientist & business owner. All with extensive project-management and end-customer experience. Together we have the innovation capacity and know-how to bring GPaT to the market.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,patent analysis,online platform