Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Matching investors and EU funded innovations (INVEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,Italy
Call: Innovation Radar, Tech Due Diligence and Venture Building for strategic digital technologies (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998440.0
EU funding (EUR): 3998440.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The introduction of the Innovation Radar is a great step forward for bringing investors and innovations together. However, it is not enough as there still exists a lack of understanding between the investors and the innovators. Based on the Innovation Radar report , there is a large gap where almost half of all innovations see access to finance as the main bottleneck for bringing their innovation to market. Currently, investors lack information on new innovations coming from the research initiatives and researchers lack experience and access when it comes to reaching out to investors and scaling up their businesses. The purpose of this CSA and the mission of INVEST is to overcome this lack of information and bridge the gap between research projects and investors from both sides; hereby significantly increasing the number of new ventures created from EU-funded innovations. To bring innovators and investors together and to reduce the information disparity, it is crucial to leverage the Innovation Radar data and enrich it with third party data so that innovations and investors become able to find each other and have ways to put this information into perspective when possible (i.e. benchmarking, pattern finding, comparing). To make this connection successfully, innovations need to be investor ready, which will be accomplished through our targeted venture building and tech due diligence activities. INVEST brings Europe's leading startup data platform together with venture builders and tech dd service providers to create the ideal matchmaking platform that can bring a step change in the number of new ventures created.

Keywords: tech dd,venture building,matchmaking,innovation radar
Enhancing Liveable Cities with Smart Public Space Management and Sustainable Mobility for climate neutrality in urban areas: the URBAN-FLOW Approach (URBAN-FLOW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,France,Greece,Netherlands,Czechia,Switzerland
Call: Rethinking urban spaces towards climate neutrality (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16762025.0
EU funding (EUR): 14997057.88
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

URBAN-FLOW is a groundbreaking initiative designed to reshape urban spaces into sustainable, climate-neutral, and resilient environments. The project addresses key urban challenges such as limited public space, inefficient mobility and land use planning, suburban connectivity gaps, fragmented energy and mobility systems, and the need for inclusive, liveable urban areas. By integrating Local Digital Twins (LDTs) and Mobility Data Spaces (MDS), URBAN-FLOW enhances data-driven decision-making, enabling dynamic space management and participatory urban regeneration towards climate-neutral mobility, integrated energy, and resilient design. The project is demonstrated in three Lead Cities: Valencia (Spain), Florence (Italy), and Tampere (Finland), where innovative urban solutions will be tested. These solutions include dynamic curb-side management, multimodal transport optimization, and green infrastructure integration. The project also involves three Replicant Cities: Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Brussels (Belgium), and Pilsen (Czech Republic), ensuring the scalability and adaptability of the proposed measures across diverse urban contexts. URBAN-FLOW employs a systemic co-creation approach through City Living Labs (CLLs), engaging policymakers, citizens, and businesses in collaborative urban transformation. The project aligns with the European Green Deal and the Mission 100 Climate-Neutral Cities, driving policy-driven replication across European cities. By combining advanced digital tools, participatory governance, and climate resilience strategies, URBAN-FLOW seeks to create urban environments that enhance accessibility, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve the overall quality of life for residents. To maximise its footprint and its results uptake, the project leverages several city and climate related EU networks: ClimateKIC, EIT Urban Mobility, Open and Agile Smart Cities, Urban Technologies Alliance.

Keywords: urban space management,climate neutrality,climate neutral mobility,integrated energy solutions,resilient urban design,efficient space allocation,sustainable development
Conserved and divergent mechanisms underlying cytokinesis in early vertebrate and invertebrate embryogenesis (MiMING)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria
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): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cell division is the fundamental process for cell differentiation and tissue formation in early embryogenesis. Mainly depending on the distribution and amount of yolk, fertilized embryos undergo holoblastic and meroblastic divisions. Holoblastic division can be found in most mammalian embryos including mouse embryo, in which actomyosin forms contractile cytoskeletal ring and divides the zygote into two daughter cells. In contrast, cell division in fish and insect embryos, such as zebrafish and Drosophila embryos, are meroblastic, and accumulating evidence shows that actomyosin is dispensable for meroblastic furrow ingression. Meanwhile, microtubule has been suggested to constitute the main component that drive meroblastic furrow ingression. How microtubule functions in furrow ingression of meroblastic cleavages in zebrafish and Drosophila embryos, and how far those functions are conserved between these species, remain to be fully understood. The MiMING project aims to uncover the role of microtubule and associated motor proteins in meroblastic furrow ingression in zebrafish and Drosophila, which fits me very well, as I have abundant knowledge about functions of cytoskeleton in embryogenesis and biochemical experimental methods in checking the function of actomyosin and microtubules on the cortex of Drosophila embryos in syncytial and cellularization stages from my PhD study and follow-up work. To check the biochemical and biomechanical mechanisms in meroblastic furrow ingression of zebrafish and Drosophila embryos, I would like to join Prof. Carl-Philipp Heisenberg lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Prof. Heisenberg is a world-renowned developmental biologist (high citation publications > 80, total citations > 26670), who has pioneered interdisciplinary work at the interphase between developmental biology, cell biology and biophysics using both zebrafish and ascidian embryos as model organisms.

Keywords: embryogenesis,zebrafish and drosophila embryos,mechanical property,computational simulation,crispr cas9
Deep Probabilistic Logics (DeepLog)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neurosymbolic AI (NeSy) is the 3rd wave in AI. It wants to answer the key open question in AI as how to combine learning (2nd wave) and reasoning (1st wave) by integrating logic based AI with deep learning. However, there is only little understanding of the underlying principles and there exist no widely used machine learning tools that support NeSy. This makes the development of learning and reasoning systems extremely hard. What is urgently needed is a paradigm shift in NeSy that focuses on foundations rather than on which system from the ‘alphabet-soup’ scores best on the latest benchmarks. I propose to develop these foundations by identifying key building blocks and demonstrate that they support the integration of knowledge and reasoning into any neural network learning task. My methodology is based on the slogan that I have coined: NeuroSymbolic AI = Neural + Probabilistic + Logical AI This advocates that we need to integrate the two main paradigms for reasoning (logic and probability), with that for learning (neural networks). I will exploit many similarities I have identified between statistical relational AI, which focuses on probabilistic logics, and NeSy. More specifically, I shall develop the foundations of NeSy. At the conceptual level, I shall identify the building blocks of NeSy by designing primitives that integrate logical, probabilistic and neural networks representations; at the semantic level, I shall introduce the notion of NeSy networks (that encompass logic circuits, algebraic operators and neural networks) as a semantic framework for NeSy; at the computational level, I will show how to exploit NeSy networks for inference and learning. DEEPLOG is not 'yet another NeSy system', but rather a fundamental and operational framework in which a wide variety of NeSy systems and applications can be cast and implemented. We will develop an open-source software environment, and evaluate DEEPLOG ’s generality and applicability.

Keywords: learning and reasoning,neurosymbolic ai,statistical relational ai,probabilistic logic programming
Quality Assurance for AI (Giskard)

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: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3729395.43
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.99
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The adoption of AI technology is growing faster than ever, tripling from 2017 to 2021 (McKinsey). Risks of AI incidents, in particular with ethical biases, prediction errors, and cybersecurity, are rising. Current AI quality tools are insufficient and rely on manual testing, leaving a gap that AI/ML engineers cannot meet in terms of workload, costs & demand at the needed pace. To address this need, GISKARD is developing an open-source and SaaS solution for companies that need quality assurance of their AI models. It provides a software platform for automated AI Quality Testing, Inspection & Remediation. As a member of AFNOR, the French national standards council, GISKARD is committed to becoming the leading European software provider to help organisations prepare for the upcoming EU AI Act. EIC support is crucially needed to achieve this. In this project, GISKARD will optimise and validate its AI Testing solution and extend it to more use cases such as Time Series & Computer Vision.

Keywords: innovation,ai models,quality assurance,ai implementation,ai integration
Additive Manufacturing of Living Composite Materials (AM-IMATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999491.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999491.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I envision a world in which the responsive power of biological systems is harnessed through direct integration in materials and structures. Biological materials constantly adapt to their environment, display lower embodied energy, and possess remarkable mechanical properties granted by their hierarchical structures. Adapting these principles to human-made objects promises to disrupt the way we engineer our high-performance critical structures. However, today’s engineering materials remain lifeless, and show only limited abilities to adapt and reinforce under load, or to heal and repair in response to damage. By addressing the lack of knowledge in (i) organism signalling, (ii) additive fabrication and (iii) responsive bio-inspired composites, I will be amongst the first to create living composites that will bridge the gap between biology and stiff, lightweight engineering structures. To achieve my vision of living structures, I will cross boundaries between three previously disconnected disciplines. I will (i) exploit the intrinsic electrical activity of fungal mycelium networks to couple electrical and mechanical response in mycelium composite materials, (ii) enable complex shaping using new additive manufacturing technologies to create bio-inspired living objects augmented with sensing and vasculature networks, and (iii) develop topology optimised geometries and large-scale living structures that adapt and remodel during use. The project combines these aspects to exploit organism growth and function in a way never done before to realise stiff, tough, and responsive materials, while paving the way for a future of living material structures.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,bio inspired composites,living materials and structures
CROVER - The world's first robot for the monitoring and management of bulk solids and powders (CROVER)

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): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bulk solids and powders (a.k.a. granular materials) are ubiquitous in industry, with an estimated 16 Billion tons of bulk materials handled annually - representing the single largest category of materials industry in the world. Granular materials range from cereal grains, mineral bulks, chemical powders, to sand dunes and the Martian regolith substrate. This project aims to further the development of the CROVER robot, the world's first 'granular drone' (in the sense of a device able to move through bulk solids and powders), in order to create a system that not only provides condition monitoring of granular bulks, but also the ability to sample and manage them autonomously. The focus of the project will be primarily on cereal grains, then to expand towards the later stages of the project to a wider adaptable modular system for bulk solids and powders in general. Cereal grains are the basis of staple food, yet post-harvest losses during long-term storage are exceptionally high, 5-24% in Europe and 30% worldwide. Pests are to blame, with grain moisture content and temperature being the most significant factors. Cereal storage sites such as grain merchants, cooperatives and port operators experience these challenges, which have high cost implications in terms of lost revenue and cost to rectify. The project is made possible by the ground-breaking physical discovery enabling locomotion in bulk solids (e.g. sand, grains, powders) developed by the Founder of the Company and covered by granted (UK, USA, China) and pending (Europe, Canada, etc.) patents. The granular-matter-equivalent of plane wings in air, or a boat's rotor in water, it allows an object to move between solid grains. The project will focus on advancing the development of the CROVER Grain Storage Management system, with a particular focus on advancing the TRL of the system, and extending the CROVER robot and system's features, towards providing a complete autonomous grain storage management solution.

Keywords: grain storage,granular materials,bulk solids and powders,robotics,cereal grains,oilseeds,pulses,integrated pest management,post harvest,deep tech,automation,grain sheds,silos,bulk cargo
Adaptive CommuniCation Edge System Solution: Smart hardware-agnostic platform, combining mobile edge app hosting with ultra-reliable and ultra-secure connectivity for emergency response operations (ACCESS)

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): 1997769.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997769.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Commercial communication networks are not reliable, resilient or secure enough and do not offer sufficient coverage to meet the communication requirements of emergency service users. Most EU emergency services are therefore using legacy and expensive TETRA networks for voice, with limited private narrowband data communications not capable of secure internet access. The broadband edge applications that emergency services are adopting early are expensive and difficult to maintain due to being implemented on fragmented, single-purpose, proprietary hardware and operating platforms. The emergency services consequently lag in their adoption of mobile edge technology. There is increasing demand from emergency services to streamline and enhance their operations by pushing applications out to the edge. They require a standardised, hardware-agnostic platform to replace legacy technology and to host multiple edge applications on a single device in a secure, well-connected and power-efficient manner. Project ACCESS will deliver a hardware-agnostic public safety grade platform with ultra-reliable and ultra-secure connectivity, capable of hosting multiple edge applications that can be permanently mounted in emergency response vehicles. Simoco’s one-box solution will: host multiple safety-of-life edge applications in a single, well-supported ecosystem; connect these applications to servers using multiple diverse bearers, thereby providing wider and more reliable coverage; have government-grade cybersecurity baked in; contain Western IPR. The project will result in a long-term solution that is easy and cost-effective to maintain. It will provide uninterrupted and immediate access to mission critical information in all conditions. This will enable faster and better-informed decision-making, optimised response times and resource allocation. Successful completion of the project will lead to safer societies and directly benefit EU Member States.

Keywords: multi bearer communication,lte technology,leo satellite,emergency response vehicles,mobile edge app hosting,fog computing,cybersecure,power efficient,ev compatibility,hardware agnostic
INNOVATIVE FIRST PRODUCT FOR THE AMERICAN FOULBROOD - DEADLY GLOBAL BEE DISEASE, PRODUCED FROM AN FUNGUS EXTRACT. CONTROLLED PRODUCTION OF MYCELIUM, EXTRACTION AND WORLDWIDE SALE. (BEECARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12850000.0
EU funding (EUR): 12850000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the BEECARE project is to produce a feed additive for the prevention of bees against American foulbrood (AFB). AFB is a fatal, global bee disease for which there is no natural cure. Studies have shown that around 40% of bee colonies in Europe are at risk of AFB. There are antibiotics and polysulfamides, but their use is prohibited in the EU (they penetrate into honey). Due to the lack of a treatment, infected apiaries are generally completely destroyed - by burning the hives and bees. IDN has developed a product - based on an extract from the Tyromyces fissilis fungus. The drug is the result of cooperation with the Białystok University of Technology. This composition will be the first feed additive of natural origin for the AFB. The effectiveness of the composition has been confirmed by the granting of a patent. The preparation is safe and does not cause side effects in bees and humans. The tests demonstrated the effectiveness of the preparation both on bee larvae and on hives in the apiary. In the BEECARE project, the team intends to conduct research on the optimization of the cultivation of T. fisilis mycelium cultures in controlled conditions and the production of an extract based on it. The extract is the active ingredient of BEECARE. The next step will be to create a technology to produce the feed additive. The expected price of the preparation is attractive for beekeepers compared to the huge costs of rebuilding a new bee family and the entire apiary. The project is at the high level of TRL6 and product is conceptually ready for production. IDN has signed letters of intent with two global distributors of supplements and preparations for bees. IDN's goal is to be the first company in the EU producing mycelium extracts on an industrial scale. IDN plans to introduce further innovative medicinal products based on fungies extracts to the market in the future.

Keywords: bee bee american foulbrood afb cure for deadly global bee disease beekeepers innovative product bioproduct natural treatmant bioreactor mycelium mycelium extract health mycelium production