Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
High-pressure anion exchange membrane electrolyzers for large-scale applications (HyPrAEM)

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: Denmark,Netherlands,Italy,Cyprus,Germany,Spain,France,Switzerland
Call: Advanced anion exchange membrane electrolysers for low-cost hydrogen production for high power range applications (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4960499.99
EU funding (EUR): 3992949.44
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The HyPrAEM project aims to develop a disruptive Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer (AEMEL) stack and BoP layout capable of producing hydrogen directly at 100 barg, enabling direct integration into the thermochemical industry. The 100 kW/100 bar AEMEL stack, with an active area of 500 cm2 will be demonstrated for > 3000 h under both continuous and discontinuous operation at the site of an end user. integrating wind, solar, batteries, and HyPrAEM’s electrolyzer, to push the AEMEL technology to TRL 5. The stack will operate at a nominal current density of 2 A/cm2 at 1.75 V per cell with an efficiency of ~ 85%, corresponding to an energy consumption of ~ 46.9 kWh/kg. The proposed stack will include consortium-developed CRM-free/lean electrocatalysts (0-0.05 mg/W), high-performance (reinforced) AEM membranes, separately optimized ionomers for cathode and anode, and microstructure optimized porous transport layers and membrane electrode assemblies (MEA). All components will be optimized for high differential pressure operation and durability, exploiting the Consortium’s unique capabilities for high pressure testing. Round Robin testing and harmonization between all partner testing facilities will be carried out to ensure consistency and interoperability. Specific AST protocols will be developed and validated within the project to assess and optimize degradation characteristics of specific components within the MEA and the stacks. Multi-physics models and a digital twin for the 100 kW stack will be developed to further aid the understanding and optimization of the component and stack design, and to support the operation of the system. Sustainability and recycling aspects will be addressed, and comprehensive techno-economic and life cycle assessments will be conducted. Dissemination and exploitation will be proactively pursued to maximize the impact of the developments within HyPrAEM.

Keywords: electrolysis,anion exchange membrane,aem,electrocatalysts,mea,high pressure hydrogen,catalyst coatings,electrodes,stack,bop,ionomers,modeling,digital twin
Strengthening the Critical Raw Material Independence of the EU through thermochronology (CRITTER)

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: Sweden,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The rapidly increasing green technology transition efforts of the European Union to combat climate change resulted in an unprecedented demand for critical raw materials like rare earth elements, cobalt, nickel and even base metals. These materials are core components of wind turbines and electric cars. However, to fulfil these needs, the EU heavily relies on countries with a high risk of supply chain disruption due to political instability. Therefore, the exploration efforts to find new deposits within the EU borders are crucial to securing economic independence and realising a CO2-free society. The Swedish part of the Fennoscandian Shield has serious potential to discover new deposits. For instance, it hosts the largest rare earth element reserve in the EU. The areal extension of the Fennoscandian Shield is over 1 million km2 and composed of complex magmatic, metamorphic and metasedimentary rocks dating back to Archean. Over time, due to multiple orogenic events, critical raw material deposits formed and re-mobilized in diverse ways. Understanding the formation mechanisms is crucial to locating them. My project, “CRITTER: Strengthening the Critical Raw Material Independence of the EU through thermochronology" will be the first study to reconstruct the thermal history of the Fennoscandian Shield from a critical raw material perspective. It will be achieved by the interdisciplinary combination of novel high-temperature mica in-situ Rb-Sr dating at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg and by low-temperature zircon, rutile in-situ U-Pb-He double dating at the Geoscience Center, Göttingen. These are world-class laboratories in their respective field. The research will target five key critical raw material deposits in the Bergslagen ore province of southwestern Sweden. The findings will fill a decisive knowledge gap in identifying the nature and timeline of "re-heating" and subsequent ore re-mobilization and re-deposition events from Proterozoic to Present times.

Keywords: critical raw materials,ore geology,geochronology,thermochronology,optical and scanning electron microscopy,zircon,rutile,mica,rb sr dating,u pb he double dating,fennoscandian shield,sweden
Neural Circuits Enabling Navigational Simulations (MentalTravel)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1994360.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994360.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most notable features of the brain is the ability to simulate possible consequences of a behavioural choice that has not even been experienced in the real world. While this ability is likely fundamental for our intelligence and creativity, its neural circuit basis is largely unclear. To tackle this problem, we will focus on the rat’s ability of spatial navigation, finding an optimal path to a remote destination that is located outside the range of sensory perception. This ability is thought to be supported by the brain’s internal map that allows an animal to estimate its future position followed by planned movements. While the hippocampal formation has been the primary focus of research on the brain’s spatial map, it mainly tracks an animal’s position and its nearby trajectories. By contrast, the brain has another internal map in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) that points to an animal’s goal destination throughout navigation. Because this goal coding emerges autonomously in the network without relying on explicit external cues, it can be considered part of the brain’s inner reasoning process for future behaviours. Here we will explore how this internally-set goal can emerge in the OFC network through interactions with its associated regions – thalamus and neuromodulatory systems. We will then explore how this goal coding can be used to plan an optimal goal-directed path by avoiding known obstacles in the environment. Since this process likely requires the cooperation of two internal maps in OFC and the hippocampus, we will elucidate the underlying circuit mechanism that employs multiple map systems in parallel. We will take advantage of state-of-the-art experimental and analysis techniques to decipher neural codes for navigational simulations. The OFC and the hippocampus are the regions often affected by psychiatric disorders, and their role in inner reasoning may provide new insights into their pathophysiology.

Keywords: spatial navigation,decision making,navigational simulation
Boosting female entrepreneurship through joint services and activities (Womenture)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Czechia,Estonia,Germany
Call: Towards more inclusive networks and initiatives in European innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-15
End date: 2025-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 553607.14
EU funding (EUR): 499875.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The 24-month Womenture project aligns its efforts with the European Commission's objective to create interconnected, inclusive and more efficient innovation ecosystems across Europe that draws on the existing strengths of European, national, regional, and local ecosystems and pulls in new, less well-represented stakeholders and less advanced in innovation territories, to set, undertake, and achieve collective ambitions towards challenges for the benefit of the society, including green, digital, and social transitions. The overall objective of the project is to empower innovation agencies and accelerators to generate and embed new joint services and activities into their initiatives to boost female entrepreneurship and women innovation in the participating ecosystems. The consortium brings together innovation agencies and accelerators from strong, moderate, and emerging innovator regions with the aim to support women innovators, spread the entrepreneurial mindset, present them the already existing initiatives of the partners, projects, and networks dealing with women innovators and connect each other. Through the delivery of its activities (co-creation, co-design, co-assessment, capacity building, business support programme, innovation ecosystem hub creation), the project will result in enhanced connections, strengthened and more effective capacity of innovation ecosystem actors, improved visibility and increased involvement of women innovators in innovation initiatives towards economic development and growth.

Keywords: women innovation,startup,innovation ecosystem,training,mentoring,visibility,inclusivity,interconnection
On-chip integration of quantum electronics and photonics (ONCHIPS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,France,Hungary
Call: Basic Science for Quantum Technologies (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

A major roadblock for silicon-based optoelectronics and its quantum applications is that conventional cubic silicon has an indirect band gap, and hence it is optically inactive. ONCHIPS will capitalize on a recent breakthrough from within its consortium: growth and optical characterization of a revolutionary new material: hexagonal germanium-silicon (hex-GeSi), which is a silicon-based, optically active, direct-bandgap semiconductor. Building on this discovery, ONCHIPS' key objectives are as follows: (1) We will for the first time grow advanced hex-GeSi heterostructures for quantum technology applications. (2) We will realise spin qubits in quantum dots in hex-GeSi. (3) We will create spin-photon interfaces in hex-GeSi, made possible by the direct bandgap of the material. (4) We will build single-photon detectors for wavelengths beyond 2 micrometers, optimized for emission from hex-GeSi. This project is well aligned with the scope of the call, and will foster the integration of electronic and optoelectronic functionalities based on a silicon-based direct-bandgap semiconductor, using a combination of facilities and expertise that is available only in Europe. Hence ONCHIPS will establish a strong contribution to European innovation leadership in electronics, photonics, emerging enabling technologies in general, and quantum technologies in particular, making our contributions highly relevant for the work program. This new material has the potential to be compatible with standard silicon-based semiconductor technology, benefitting from established roadmaps on miniaturization and scalability.

Keywords: spin qubits,nanowires,spin photon interfaces,silicon quantum technology
SEQANA GmbH (SEQANA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3443106.25
EU funding (EUR): 2410174.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Seqana empowers the agents of climate positive action to maximize the impact of Nature-based Climate Solutions (NCS). Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) growth is an essential component in the fight against climate change. For trustworthy certification, project developers of NCS require reliable quantification of carbon sequestration in soils. Existing solutions for mandatory monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) are one of the main drivers of cost and effort, and the limiting factor for new project development. As a carbon data analytics company we provide a breakthrough satellite-based SaaS (Software as a Service) solution. To date there is no tailor-made solution for this use case that provides better (or even similar) customer value. Our service powered by Earth Observation is low in cost (up to 90% lower then established services), has the highest accuracy (up to 30% more accurate than current comparable approaches) and is easy to use and available on any digital device.

Keywords: climatology and climate change,soil management,machine learning,statistical data processing and
Empowering rural communities to act for change (RURACTIVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,Cyprus,Ukraine,Austria,Spain,Croatia,Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Ireland
Call: Smart solutions for smart rural communities: empowering rural communities and smart villages to innovate for societal change (HORIZON-CL6-2022-COMMUNITIES-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6980043.75
EU funding (EUR): 6452255.63
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

RURACTIVE aims to foster a just and sustainable transition of rural areas by developing smart, community-led, tailor-made, place-based and inclusive solutions within local Multi-Actor Rural Innovation Ecosystems (RIEs) in 12 pilot area (Dynamos - Ds) in 7 EU, 2 Associated Countries and Switzerland. RURACTIVE will unlock the innovation potential of rural communities by addressing six integrated Rural Development Drivers (RDDs) – namely multimodal mobility, energy transition, agri-food and agroecology, culture and cultural innovation, health and wellbeing, nature-based and cultural tourism – and transversally integrating climate change mitigation and adaption, biodiversity and social justice and inclusion. RURACTIVE will empower rural communities to act for societal change, by making available existing knowledge around smart solutions that integrate various forms of innovation (digital and technological, technical, organizational and social, business models and financial) and enhancing rural communities' capacities and skills, by providing training, capacity building, and knowledge transfer. Implementing a methodology for RIEs establishment in 12 Ds, RURACTIVE will work towards inclusive decision-making processes for all, including vulnerable groups and people at risk of exclusion, providing RIEs with instruments and capacities to collaboratively co-develop, co-implement and co-monitor smart and community-led solutions. Also, by offering an open set of data-driven tools (Decision Support Tool, Adaptive Monitoring tool), a digital infrastructure (RURACTIVE Digital Hub), and defining a programme for external Innovators, RURACTIVE will provide a fertile ground for change in rural areas. Results will be out-scaled through knowledge exchanges and networking at EU level (open contest for Additional Ds and RURACTIVE Forum), the deployment of training and capacity building activities for further rural communities and the creation of open e-learning courses and MOOC.

Keywords: social justice and inclusion climate change biodiversity multimodal mobility energy transition agri food and agroecology cultural innovation health and wellbeing nature based tourism
Pre-commercialization of circadian clock-drug interactions screening tool for therapeutic applications (CircaSCOPE)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Circadian clocks carry an immense importance to human health, as clock disruption is related to various malignancies from sleep disorders through diabetes to cancer. Furthermore, many drug targets are influenced by circadian clocks. In order to maximize drug’s efficacy while minimizing side effects, it is necessary to consider the drug’s time-of-administration, also known as “chronotherapy”. These revelations are critical for drug administration and development. However, their practical implementation is tempered by the lack of suitable research tools that bridge the gap from the bench to the clinic. The time-dependent effect of an intervention on the clock is represented by the Phase Transition Curve (PTC). PTCs retrieval is laborious and challenging, consequently they were mostly overlooked in the pharmaceutical R&D process. In the ERC Project CIRCOMMUNICATION, we studied clock-resetting mechanisms, which led to the development of CircaSCOPE, an efficient high-throughput methodology for high-resolution PTC construction. CircaSCOPE can be used as a powerful screening method for clock-modulating drugs, either for the purpose of targeting pathologies associated with circadian disruption, or to identify drugs which elicit unwanted side-effects on the clock. ¬Once fully developed and systematically integrated in chrono-medicine, CircaSCOPE has the potential to improve drug discovery and yield medicines with better therapeutic index. Here, we detail our plan for the first steps toward commercializing of our innovation. We will demonstrate the applicability of this approach through drug libraries screens and expand the repertoire of cell types that the system relies on. In addition, we will explore different commercialization strategies and interact with potential stakeholders and end-users. Given the medical importance of circadian effects, we’d envisage that CircaSCOPE will become as a gold-standard procedure in future drugs development.
twiN-on-a-chip brAins for monitoring individual sleeP habits (NAP)

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: Italy,Germany,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Belgium,Slovakia
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3615375.0
EU funding (EUR): 3615375.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Insufficient sleep is an under-reported epidemic and sleep disturbances are common early signs of neurodegeneration. Clinical research is currently challenging the assumption that human sleep is a one-fits-all phenomenon: breaking new grounds into sleep research is needed. NAP makes real the study of individual sleep pathophysiology through a new science-to-technology paradigm merging in vitro modelling, allometric scaling, signal processing and micromanufacturing. NAP targets five breakthroughs: 1) the development of the first model enabling the accurate study of individual sleep, 2) the realization of the cyborganoid, i.e., the next generation of biohybrid model of the human brain, 3) the setup of an experimental procedure to mimic sleep in vitro accounting for a person’s lifestyle, metabolism and genetic makeup, 4) the exploitation of allometry to obtain meaningful information from in vitro to humans and 5) the delivery of the first tool for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) early diagnosis. As a Proof of Principle, NAP will identify the effects of sleep deprivation and detect sleep-related signs of PD in a personalised perspective. In the long-term, NAP will move Europe to lead sleep research and innovation through its envisioned technology: a predictive medicine twin-on-a-chip allowing the public at large to be routinely screened for i) checking their sleep health, ii) being warned about the consequences of sleep loss, iii) predating PD and other neuropathies characterized by sleep anomalies. This will be of benefit for science, society and economy. NAP Proof of Principle will deliver the first tool for accurately extrapolating biological parameters from in vitro to humans. The identification of individual sleep needs will allow the targeted detection of people suffering from sleep disorders, scaling back healthcare costs. Sleep-related neurodegeneration biomarkers will have tremendous implications in pharmacological research and enterprise and in the healthcare sector

Keywords: sleep in vitro,allometric scaling,human brain models,3d electrophysiology,calcium imaging,signal processing