Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hydrogen-Electric Zero Emission Propulsion System (HEROPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Ireland,Czechia,Netherlands,Austria,United Kingdom,Italy
Call: Multi-MW Fuel Cell Propulsion System for Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 40421698.18
EU funding (EUR): 29684005.51
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

HEROPS aims to introduce climate-neutral propulsion into regional aircraft by developing MTU’s Flying Fuel Cell (FFC) propulsion system concept for entry into service in 2035. This disruptive hydrogen-electric propulsion system uses fuel cells as sole power source and a liquid hydrogen fuel system, without the need for high-power batteries. Integration of both the fuel cell system and the electric propulsion unit into a compact engine nacelle will ensure an efficient system at high power-to-weight ratio. HEROPS targets to demonstrate a 1,2 MW propulsion system based on a scalable 600 kW core module at TRL4. The core module and all further sub-systems will be validated up to TRL5. Complemented by simulation and electrical network testing of the overall modularised system, scalability to the 2 – 4 MW power level will be confirmed. The certification programme will build upon on-going certification activities, enabling timely maturation of the aviation-native HEROPS technology against relevant certification requirements. The two-phase approach of the overall programme - including extensive development, test and validation cycles at each stage - is expected to advance the FFC concept to TRL6 for integration and demonstration on a regional aircraft by 2028. It will pave the way for commercial prototyping and entry-into-service by 2035, delivering a key propulsion technology to reach the European Green Deal’s objective of climate-neutral aviation by 2050 with 100% prevention of CO2 and NOx emissions and up to 80% reduction of the climate impact from contrails and contrail cirrus. The HEROPS project will meet this challenge with a European consortium of aircraft propulsion system integrators, electrical system experts, key tier 1 suppliers and leading researchers in stack technology, mechanics and propulsion, leveraging relevant and effective synergies between European and national programmes.

Keywords: ffc climate neutrality liquid hydrogen flying fuel cell regional aircraft electric power train zero emission electric propulsion electric drive train hydrogen fuel system thermal management
Establishing a Spatio-Temporal Language for Scene Representation (4DLang)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1563730.0
EU funding (EUR): 1563730.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We have recently experienced a boost in AI as the performance of ChatGPT-like large language models has matured from a purely scientific endeavor to deployment in various businesses and real-world applications. Also in computer vision, we have seen tremendous gains that were enabled by scaling to large models trained on vast corpuses of data in an unsupervised fashion. Language is symbolic and can inform about abstract properties and relationships, while vision without human labels does not model explicit semantics and brings distributed representations for spatial structures. Both are complementary, and the fundamental unsolved challenge is to bring them together. The current state of the art is to follow the common paradigm of scale and to naively train models on large amounts of data to exploit the co-occurence of objects in single images and words in text captions to learn their correlation. However, looking at the outputs of these models reveals that they in fact perform extremely poorly in many cases. The next step to approach human-level AI requires reasoning about scenes spatially and semantically at the same time and demands an abstraction of our real world that brings both of these modalities together, while being lightweight and highly efficient. 4DLang presents the solution and introduces a new approach by first creating a primitive-based geometric symbolic abstraction of physical scenes that is then shaped into a spatio-temporal language. It will enable the fine-grained coupling of both modalities and go beyond the state of the art by augmenting large language models with real-world understanding that is only present in observations of moving scenes, as we humans perceive them. This design will fundamentally advance the generalization abilities of AI and have a large impact on downstream applications, such as content interpretation and generation, AI assistants, robotics, and autonomous driving.

Keywords: 3d computer vision,3d reconstruction,graphics primitives,large language models,transformers,detection,tracking,open vocabulary segmentation,text to image generative models,incremental learning,learning behavior,object representation,scene representation,world models
Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Norway
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): 2499995.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499995.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Until recently, the study of penal systems has focused mainly on their most severe or repressive features, but these systems often do great harm when aiming to do good, not least by expanding the scale, reach and intensity of penal control. For example, recent research suggests that ‘rehabilitation’ has become focused on managing risks rather than enabling reintegration and that, in consequence, it often hurts and harms those that it claims to help. By examining evidence from three countries that are often considered ‘progressive’ (the Netherlands, Norway and Scotland), the RaRiE project will help us better understand whether and where rehabilitation lives up to its ideals, and to creatively, critically and comparatively interrogate its development and prospects, its coherences and contradictions, its rhetoric and its realities, its pitfalls and its possibilities. Through a new approach that I call Dialogical Comparative Penology (DCP), building on the interdisciplinary approaches that I have used in a series of innovative, high-impact research projects, RaRiE will provide a uniquely comprehensive analysis of the nature and impact of rehabilitation in these three nations. It will also develop new tools and metrics for critically assessing rehabilitative systems and practices, to better direct their future development. In and through dialogue with policymakers, senior leaders in prison and probation systems, practitioners, activists and people with lived experience of rehabilitation, RaRiE will help to improve the fairness and effectiveness of European penal systems. RaRiE’s ambition -- the ‘step-change’ it offers – lies both in developing a new approach to comparative penology, and in using that new approach to reshape how rehabilitation is understood and developed in Europe.

Keywords: criminology,penology,criminal justice,corrections,punishment,rehabilitation,reintegration
Sustainable exploration and biodiscovery of novel products and processes from extreme aquatic microbiomes to expedite the circular bioeconomy - Hop On (XTREAM-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: Norway,Portugal
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

XTREAM-ON is a Hop-On project under the topic HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03-ACCESS-01. Its main objective is to reinforce and diversify the XTREAM consortium’s discovery and processing capabilities by integrating expertise in eco-efficient downstream processing of high-value biogenic compounds from extremophiles. By introducing a new partner and a dedicated Work Package, XTREAM-ON addresses key bottlenecks in extremophile valorisation, advancing sustainable bio-based innovation in line with the European Green Deal and the EU Bioeconomy Strategy. The project will (i) boost process efficiency and sustainability by applying advanced computational solvent modelling (COSMO-RS) to design low-waste extraction processes; (ii) accelerate validation and scale-up by translating computational predictions into optimized and reproducible extraction protocols; and (iii) ensure the quality and functionality of biogenics for high-value sectors such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, food and feed. These efforts will expand XTREAM’s exploitable outputs, providing robust and scalable methodologies for future industrial uptake. The addition of the new partner introduces complementary competences in computational modelling, chemical and biological characterisation, and green solvent engineering, enabling the selective recovery of a wider range of biogenics including pigments, polar lipids, phenolics, and mycosporine-like amino acids. This strengthens synergies with XTREAM’s omics, screening, and upscaling workflows while maintaining the integrity of the project’s overall methodology. By broadening XTREAM’s molecular portfolio and embedding sustainable downstream solutions, XTREAM-ON will open new value chains, shorten time-to-market for bioproducts, and enhance Europe’s leadership in marine biotechnology and the circular bioeconomy.

Keywords: downstream processing,predictive model,ecosolvents,extraction efficiency
Gaming Clusters Across Multiple European Regions (GAME-ER)

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: Portugal,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,Italy,Belgium,Croatia,Spain
Call: A world leading European video game innovation system (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3104745.0
EU funding (EUR): 3104745.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the project Gaming Clusters Across Multiple European Regions (GAME-ER) is to research how video games clusters emerge, develop and sustain themselves, with particular focus on local and regional clusters. Based on this research, GAME-ER will formulate a series of policy and practical recommendations which will compose an Interactive Methodological Toolkit. These recommendations are aimed especially at local and national policy and decision-makers, with the intent to help them bootstrap Cultural and Creative Industries clusters, or strengthen existing clusters in their regions or cities. Much of existing research on video game clusters concentrate on clusters outside Europe, or on European clusters in capital or large metropolitan cities (such as Helsinki or Hamburg). However local and regional clusters also are key drivers of innovation, growth and cohesion and GAME-ER will fill the gap around the limited knowledge we have about them. To achieve its ambitious objective GAME-ER a core component will be a comparative analysis of six local and regional clusters in five European countries, which include France, the Czech Republic, Italy, Scotland and Portugal. These clusters have been selected because of their different levels of maturity, and their specificities such as the concentration of human creativity or companies. Moreover GAME-ER will conduct a Europe wide analysis of the spatial organization of the European video games industry/ecosystem, with focus on local and regional clusters. Through this research the project will formulate policy and practical recommendations using a participatory approach and working with policy makers and the industry. The project is organised in six Work Packages, with 3 dedicated to research clusters and one focusing on building the project Toolkit. The project includes 16 partners from 9 countries, with expertise in social sciences and humanities, policy making, the third-sector, business and innovation.

Keywords: gaming clusters gaming industry
Advanced traffic management solutions for synchronized and resilient multimodal transport services (SYNCHROMODE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: Advanced multimodal network and traffic management for seamless door-to-door mobility of passengers and freight transport (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4549281.25
EU funding (EUR): 4549281.25
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The European transport faces major challenges in terms of traffic congestion, safety, greenhouse gas emissions and its derived costs. In addition, the development of disruptive technologies and emergence of new mobility solutions generate a revolution in transport network and traffic management. SYNCHROMODE aims to develop data driven ICT tools for improving the management of transport operations from a multimodal perspective and managing the overall transport network as a whole. SYNCHROMODE will provide to transport managers new predictive and network optimization capabilities for balancing the transport supply and demand, and capable of reacting to different types of events. The project will research in transport network supply& demand modelling, simulation and prediction of future states; optimization techniques for multimodal traffic optimisation, standards for data collection and storage; new governance models in transport management and new approaches for defining KPI for assessing the overall solution. SYNCHROMODE will deliver a suite of services for improving the overall transport network management, fostering the coordination of different agents involved in the provision and control of the transport services, the services are: 1) Transport network-wide data exchange and integration system; 2) Cooperative dashboard for real-time monitoring and prediction of network-wide multimodal transport and traffic; 3) Resilient multimodal transport network and traffic management support tool. SYNCHROMODE system will test and validate its results in 3 real Case studies, Thessaloniki (GR), Netherlands and Madrid (SP), with real data from various modes of transport under different traffic events, such as bottlenecks, accidents etc.

Keywords: network and traffic management intelligent transportation systems,multi modal traffic management
European Data as a PRoduct Value Ecosystems for Resilient Factory 4.0 Product and ProDuction ContinuitY and Sustainability (RE4DY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Germany,Portugal,Slovakia,Austria,Finland,Greece,Norway,Italy,Belgium,Luxembourg,Switzerland
Call: Data-driven Distributed Industrial Environments (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9502277.14
EU funding (EUR): 7991699.0
Participants: 34
Project status: SIGNED

As part of the green, circular and digital transformation of the European manufacturing community, it is extremely important that data-driven digital manufacturing processes urgently incorporate innovative and active resiliency strategies at production and supply chain levels to maintain their sovereignty and competitiveness levels, respecting European digital values (excellence, privacy, trust) to improve individual and value chain flexibility. In order to achieve long-term resilience to reorganise supply chains or speed up decision making to dealt with any disruption, it is imperative to ensure the implementation of distributed data-intensive intelligent and dynamic industrial decision support, augmentation and automation processes, integrating Artificial Intelligence (smart anticipation) and Intelligent Automation (rapid response) capabilities in Human-Automation symbiosis. Hence, only businesses that can articulate their data, based on AI, digital thread and digital twin solutions, will be able to react rapidly to external shocks. RE4DY mission is to demonstrate that the European industry can jointly build unique data-driven digital value networks 4.0 to sustain competitive advantages through digital continuity and sovereign data spaces across all phases of product and process lifecycle, proposing ?Data as a Product? core concept to facilitate the implementation of digital continuity across digital threads, data spaces, digital twin workflows and AI/ML/Data pipelines. This concept leverages resiliency on top of advanced manufacturing digital processes and value ecosystems supporting the development and implementation of digital continuity, so distributed data management solutions implemented to deal with factory resiliency can be immediately and seamlessly reused to enhance connected factory and value network level processes.

Keywords: smart manufacturing,resiliency,value networks,data pipelines,artificial intelligence,digital twin,digital thread,sovereignty,sustainability
Flexible Operations for Production of green crash tolerant structures (Inclusion of HIDRIA in FLEXCRASH project) (FlexHOP)

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: Spain,Slovenia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Proposal to include Hidria in FLEXCRASH project (101069674), which aims to develop a flexible and hybrid manufacturing technology based on applying surface patterns by additive manufacturing onto preformed parts. Aluminium alloys have been selected as the optimum material to build high performance structures, addressing both lightweight and environmental sustainability. They provide better recyclability, affordability (low CRM content), and costs than other material alternatives that would need complex developments for joining, recycling, and manufacturing. The property tailoring capacity offered by hybrid manufacturing will permit to develop a new type of crash-tolerant structures with outstanding performance under a wide range of impact angles and unexpected crash conditions. Structures will be defined according to the collision parameters identified by the different mixed traffic scenarios. Such tailored structures are the ideal solutions for dynamic active safety devices that allows displacement of crash structures to optimally face an imminent crash. Considering that the frontal crash is the most common (70%), a front-end structure has been chosen as demonstrator to validate the manufacturing developments, the modelling approach and the testing methodologies. The flexibility of the proposed technology will facilitate its transferability to other safety-related structures in vehicle’s locations with higher risk for passenger’s injuries while decreasing the number of materials and processes used to manufacture a crash structure. Simplify supply chain will turn into 20% manufacturing costs saving and reduce the risk of disruption. Virtual testing with improved reliability, validated by crash tests, will be used to propose new testing configurations, looking at the next step towards standardization. The application of Flexcrash solutions to the whole BiW offers a lightweighting potential up to 20% with improved safety (toward 50% less injuries and fatalities).

Keywords: hybrid manufacturing,additive manufacturing,aluminium alloys,extruded profiles,casting,virtual testing,crashworthiness,toughness,durability,material models,traffic modelling