Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Galileo AUthentication and GNSS/INS platforms for Secure and Safe services In Air Navigation and mobility (GAUSSIAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Austria,Switzerland
Call: EGNSS applications for Smart mobility (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2830511.16
EU funding (EUR): 2192362.01
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years, there has been a vibrating interest in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with attention on advancements in batteries, distributed electric propulsion, and all technologies that are leading to the development of a new class of aircraft, commonly referred to as electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. These are expected to be safer, quieter, greener, and less expensive to operate and maintain than existing vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. They promise to be much less complex than legacy helicopters (of comparable size and carrying capability), but the reduced complexity of the aeronautical structure does not imply simpler avionics for flight control, navigation, and vehicle management, which will have to address an integration problem. This touches diverse Position Navigation and Time (PNT) technologies and the low-level data fusion between Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) is a solution, especially if new features of GNSS signals are exploited. GAUSSIAN addresses the problem of safety and security of UAM applications that rely on PNT modules powered by EGNSS. Specifically, GAUSSIAN wants to demonstrate the value of the authenticated Galileo E1 signals combined to integrated GNSS/INS platforms to have (i) greater robustness against spoofing attempts and (ii) better continuity and availability of PNT data in constrained environments. GAUSSIAN wants to mitigate some security risks and concerns which originate from real needs of flight operators, leveraging advances in existing PNT technologies. The project also includes the application of the Precise Point Positioning (PPP)-RTK corrections provided by the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) to improve the PNT data accuracy. GAUSSIAN starts from existing concepts, prototypes and components developed by the proposing companies, with a strong focus on the creation of new integrated and certified products for the upcoming air mobility market.

Keywords: galileo evtol urban air mobility
Mapping Occult Sciences Across Islamicate Cultures (MOSAIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Germany,United States,Spain
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2031-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8954000.0
EU funding (EUR): 8954000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

“Mapping Occult Sciences Across Islamicate Cultures” (MOSAIC) is the first major project to investigate Islamic and Eastern Christian occult-scientific sources, spanning from late antiquity to the nineteenth century and from Iberia to India, in a vast continuum of languages (Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish). It is generally acknowledged that occult sciences—alchemy, astrology, geomancy, lettrism, magic and a wide range of other operative and prognosticative disciplines—are integral to any history of science and technology. By including the far larger non-Latinate occult-scientific archive, equally integral to this history, MOSAIC is poised to bring about a paradigm shift. We untangle the term “occult” in all its diversity and test a more expansive definition to account for the specific epistemologies driving its multifarious applications. This dynamic and adaptive heuristic not only opens new avenues in the study of body-mind, nature-culture relationships in the historical construction of natural and mathematical science; it also reveals new paths of dissemination and crosspollination of the occult sciences in Islam and Byzantium, restoring a vast textual and artifactual record largely neglected to date. Retrieving occult science will require an unprecedented degree of synergetic expertise, international collaboration and the training of a new generation of highly qualified scholars. We will (1) identify, investigate, catalogue and interpret a critical mass of highly technical sources, making them available through editions, translations, surveys, studies, exhibitions and conferences; (2) combine, as feasible, the study of scientific theories with their technological practice, including through experimental reconstruction; (3) develop a suite of open-access digital tools of immediate use to specialists and nonspecialists alike, and (4) integrate all our findings in a print and born-digital Master Synthesis as an engine for the field going forward.

Keywords: greek,syriac,arabic,persian,turkish,artifacts,manusripts,byzantium,islam,occult sciences,encyclopedism,experimental reconstruction,knowledge organisation,critical editions,digital tools
Leveraging building block technologies to enable the discovery of novel cancer target synergies for the safe and effective delivery of first-in-class antibody-drug conjugates to tumour sites. (ANNI)

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): 2458738.0
EU funding (EUR): 2458738.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Valink Therapeutics propose Anni, a platform for complex drug design, combining robotics and cutting-edge biochemistry. Anni’s brand-new processes can make “any” antibody-based drug, enabling the discovery of advanced, smart therapies for cancer and beyond. Anni’s universal protein assembly platform utilises a multi-part approach to generate advanced complex bispecific antibody-drug conjugate drugs. This results in cutting-edge, higher than seen before throughput of candidate screening at lower cost and high scalability
Advanced Research on Viroid Pathogenesis and Control for Agricultural Sustainability (ViroiDoc)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Slovenia,France,Italy,Greece,Spain,Germany,Czechia,Argentina,Poland,Switzerland,United States
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2532686.4
EU funding (EUR): 2532686.4
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Viroids, the smallest infectious pathogens, cause crop losses in the millions of euros every year and affect crop yields and quality worldwide. Climate change allows viroids to invade new geographical areas and hosts, posing a threat to global food security. ViroiDoc is an international, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral PhD network that aims to thoroughly understand and tackle viroids in line with the European Green Deal and the Farm-to-Fork strategy for sustainable crop production and food security. To achieve this, ViroiDoc will: (i) fill knowledge gaps in molecular pathogenesis and host interactions of viroids, (ii) assess the impact of climate change on viroid infection, (iii) characterize emerging viroids and viroid-like RNAs in plants and fungi, iii) develop innovative CRISPR/Cas and sensor-based diagnostics for early detection of viroid infections, and iv) provide viroid interventions, including breeding targets, antiviroidal agents, and RNA-based biopesticides. ViroiDoc's mission is to prepare 10 doctoral students (DCs) for careers in molecular biology, bioinformatics, research, product and service development in European agriculture and innovation development. The ViroiDoc consortium, composed of researchers with complementary expertise in basic research (molecular biology, biotechnology, genetics, bioinformatics), applied sciences (nano- and sensor technologies) and innovation development (plant protection, plant diagnostics, plant breeding), will provide DCs with excellent scientific, methodological and soft skills. Exposure to an international environment and different industries will allow them to build a valuable network of contacts, providing a solid foundation for future research collaborations and direct employment opportunities. Finally, ViroiDoc will contribute to European research excellence, foster technology transfer and raise awareness of viroid issues, thus improving food safety and the sustainability of agriculture in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: viroids,pathogenesis,diagnostics,viroid induced epigenetic effects,rna spray applications
Engineering Graphene for developing Neural Interfaces to revolutionize how we treat neurological diseases (EGNITE)

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 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3562500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neurological disorders represent one of the greatest healthcare challenges for our society (1B affected people worldwide). 25-35% of these patients are refractory to pharmacological therapy and are left with no options. Neuroelectronic therapies, aimed at recording and stimulating brain activity to restore normal brain function, are emerging as a safe alternative for them. However, current neuroelectronic implants are made of big metal leads with multiple limitations, such as poor resolution, low specificity and high invasiveness. We, at INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, have the solution. We are developing a completed platform of intelligent neuroelectronic interface systems powered by Graphene dots. We are developing graphene-based neural implants that, powered by AI, will have the capability of reading single neural cells at a resolution never seen before, detecting therapy-specific biomarkers and triggering adaptive responses for increased outcomes in personalized neurological therapies.

Keywords: brain computer interfaces,brain mapping,neurological disorders,deep brain stimulation dbs,cortical and subcortical neural circuits,parkinson s disease pd
Cultural Keystone Species as a tool to co-design biocultural stewardship for biodiversity conservation (KEYSTONES)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Canada,Ecuador
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 318138.72
EU funding (EUR): 318138.72
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

KEYSTONES aims to explore the concept of “cultural keystone species” -species of exceptional cultural significance to a specific sociocultural group- as a global biocultural tool to inform biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity conservation initiatives often neglect Indigenous Peoples and local communities' environmental stewardship, and thus to undesirable ecosystem shifts and biodiversity loss. To limit the biodiversity crisis, novel approaches propose expanding conservation initiatives beyond mere biological diversity, implementing actions that consider local values, culture, knowledge, and beliefs. The concept of “cultural keystone species” has the potential to inform and shape local biocultural conservation initiatives, although its use in conservation is still limited. Therefore, KEYSTONES will explore the operationalization of this concept through an interdisciplinary and intersectoral project articulated in four work packages (research, training, communication and management), that will consolidate my leadership in ethnobiology for conservation. The work package “research” is twofold with the “knowledge” part exploring key aspects of the “cultural keystone species” that can inform biodiversity conservation and the “action” part translating the produced knowledge into practices to be applied in conservation initiatives. KEYSTONES is based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona under the supervision of the leading scientist Prof. Reyes-Garcia and will be conducted in collaboration with Miawpukek Mi'kmaq First Nation (Canada) and Huancavilcas and Montubios People (Ecuador). This global fellowship with the outgoing phase at the University of Guelph (Canada) and a secondment at the Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Ecuador, will allow me to grow as an independent researcher thanks to interdisciplinary training placing me at the forefront of the research on biocultural approaches to address pressing global challenges such as biodiversity loss.

Keywords: biocultural diversity biodiversity conservation socio ecological systems local ecological knowledge indigenous peoples and local communities interdisciplinarity knowledge and action
UltraFast production of Modular Facade Elements: Archibiofoam-Hop-On (ARCHIBIOFOAM-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: Finland,Latvia
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 597748.75
EU funding (EUR): 597748.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ARCHIBIOFOAM-Hop-On aims to revolutionize architectural material systems by developing a mono-material biofoam with multifunctional performance through additive fabrication techniques. The inclusion of SIA Acoustic Technologies (AT) as a new partner enhances the project's transition from research to market-ready products. AT, an SME specializing in advanced manufacturing, addresses previous concerns about the consortium's heavy institutional representation by adding commercial insight and agility. This strengthens ARCHIBIOFOAM's mission to replace high embodied energy materials with sustainable biofoam alternatives suitable for indoor and outdoor applications. AT connects to critical industry networks in the Finnish foam, Italian metamaterial, and German robotic fabrication ecosystems, focusing on validating biofoam use in existing products, developing weather-proof façade panels, and establishing a robust outreach strategy across Baltic and Nordic regions. The initiative aligns with EU sustainability goals and the New European Bauhaus, anticipating impacts on healthier building environments, enhanced recyclability, and environmentally responsible construction practices.

Keywords: on demand fabrication,3d printing,sustainable alternatives,networking,market entry
Self-configuring multi-step robotic work-flows (SeConRob)

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: Austria,France,Germany,Italy
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: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3625366.26
EU funding (EUR): 2992176.63
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The SeConRob project aims at developing methods for the self-configuration of robotic processes, where each manufacturing step depends on the results of the previous step. In this case a lot of productivity, energy and resources are lost, because the processes currently cannot be automated for technical and economic reasons. Such situations typically occur during inspection and re-work, where the (downstream) re-work process depends on the results of the (upstream) inspection process of each individual part. SeConRob will develop technologies that enable the automation of such processes, by creating robotic processes that can be automatically configured for each individual part. This will build upon AI-based data analysis that extracts information from the inspection data, that used in turn to automatically generate a robot program and process parameters for the downstream re-work process. Physical process models will the basis for the initial planning and a long-term feedback loop based on reinforcement learning will be established to optimize the process and account for properties that are not included in the initial model. Two use cases with multi-stage manufacturing processes including inspection, gouging, welding, grinding and polishing will provide test cases for the developments. Demonstrations are planned on a real-world production line to raise interest in sectors such as automotive and aerospace, where safety-critical parts are manufactured. The estimated market potential for such multi-stage self-configuring robotic process is about 2000 robotic workcells, corresponding to a market of 600 M€.

Keywords: inspection robots,process planning,re work processes
Jumbo Phages In Translational Enzyme Research (JUPITER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499124.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499124.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Jumbo phages are large viruses of prokaryotes with 200 to 800 kilo base-pair (kb) genomes, well beyond the size of small phages that average around 50 kb. While investigation of small phages over the last century has transformed fundamental and translational biosciences, jumbo phages research is only in its infancy. The majority of jumbo phage genes are uncharacterized and cannot be annotated by comparative genomics. Thus, it is unknown how the genes function in jumbo phage biology. Importantly, jumbo phages generally carry genes to take over their hosts transcriptional and translational machinery, in addition to harboring factors that may modify and degrade nucleic acids. Many of the unannotated genes might have similar characteristics, which could be exploited for translational enzyme research. However, those genes remain experimentally under-explored. The JUPITER project tests the hypothesis that some of the uncharacterized genes have properties that affect their hosts transcriptional and translational machinery, and that some of the gene products could modify or degrade nucleic acids. Using an innovative high-throughput in vitro characterization strategy, I will experimentally annotate gene products of unknown function according to their ability to catalyze the above-mentioned reactions. Known and novel jumbo phages will be isolated and characterized to expand our current knowledge of jumbo phage biology. Promising candidate factors will be characterized in vitro and in vivo to understand their function and to facilitate translational enzyme research. My results will provide (i) an innovative method for experimental gene annotation, unraveling new mechanisms in jumbo phage biology, (ii) an expansion of the available jumbo phage diversity and (iii) detailed insights into the function of novel factors, unlocking future translational applications in biotechnology.

Keywords: jumbo phage,high throughput screening,cell free transcription and translation,novel enzymes for biotechnology,phage biology
EXPLORING AND EDUCATING CULTURAL LITERACY THROUGH ART (EXPECT_Art)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Hungary,Slovenia,Spain,Poland
Call: Promoting cultural literacy through arts education to foster social inclusion (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998329.5
EU funding (EUR): 2998326.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of EXPECT_art is to identify current barriers and potentials for promoting critical cultural literacy by means of arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in education within and across different educational contexts in Europe, to generate and activate knowledge on how to enhance critical cultural literacy and understanding among European citizens. The objectives of the project are: 1. Identification of existing measures and barriers for critical cultural literacy in arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in education at the national and local levels through secondary data analysis and the study of existing practices through fieldwork 2. Exploration of the impacts and potentials of decolonization of arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in education to foster critical cultural literacy, by conducting in-depth case studies of schools and local communities in six countries applying critical ethnography and community-based research in Art Exploratoriums 3. Development and dissemination of interventions and workshop formats for enhancing critical cultural literacy through formal and informal arts education. EXPECT_Art utilizes an approach to cultural literacy that is informed by critical pedagogy and decolonial theory. This is operationalized by a community-based research design, including art-based methodologies, involving children, teachers and citizens directly as research participants. The research design consists of three interconnected parts: Researcher Art Exploratorium, Community-Based Art Exploratoriums and Cultural Literacy Hubs. The project will be implemented through field research in 12 schools and local communities in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Spain and involves research institutions and cultural and creative industry partners in each country.

Keywords: critical pedagogy,decolonial theory,participatory research