Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Biofuels Production from Waste Olive Pomace of Olive Oil Industries (OliPFUEL)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-05
End date: 2024-09-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Olive pomace waste from edible olive oil industry cannot be currently used due to its acidic pH, high salinity, high phenolic contents, and phytotoxic properties. Its disposal is challenging and creates environmental pollution. Utilization of olive pomace waste for biofuels production is one of the promising solutions. However, conventional methods for production of olive pomace biofuels are using expensive enzymes, corrosive & toxic acids, and are not effective due to high inhibitors content. OliPFUEL will demonstrate a more environmentally friendly and effective process to produce olive pomace biofuels without the use of any toxic chemical. OliPFUEL research on novel integration of " water hydrolysis, hydrothermal treatment and thermo-resistant H. polymorpha yeast mediated fermentation" processes to improve reaction kinetics, yield and quality of olive pomace biofuels (solid biofuel-hydrochar, liquid biofuels-bio-oil and bioethanol). Exclusive collaboration and unification of complementary technical expertise of the researcher (thermal processes), supervisor (H. polymorpha fermentation, olive pomace), host institute (University Institute of Research in Olive Grove and Olive Oils, University of Jaen), and a Bioenergy company (Bioliza—recursos estratégicos de Biomasa, S.L.) will ensure project success, research development and transfer of knowledge. I will gain training in fermentation, hydrothermal process, chromatography techniques, project management, and entrepreneurship skills, whereas I will transfer my knowledge on pyrolysis and thermal plasma process to the host. The OliPFUEL will establish proof of concept and could be fundamental for future research for the development of advanced biofuels from waste olive pomace from the olive oil industries, befitting to present EU priorities and UN sustainable development goals - 2030 related to waste resource recycling, clean environment, and renewable clean energy.

Keywords: non food biomass,waste feedstocks,hydrolysis,hydrothermal treatment,fermentation,hydrochar,bioethanol
Molecular determinants underlying non-host resistance to devastating fungal diseases of cereal plants (noDisease)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499668.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499668.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plant pathogens cause devastating diseases that result in yield reduction and substantial economic losses. Chemical control is often ineffective, costly, and raises ecological concerns. An alternative strategy for generating durable chemical-free disease resistance would have a considerable impact on food security. Most plants species are naturally resistant against various pathogens species. This phenomenon is referred to as non-host resistance (NHR). For example, wheat has durable NHR to the powdery mildew fungus Blumeria hordei (Bh) that normally infects susceptible barley. Employment of NHR genes in susceptible host plants has the exciting potential to provide durable pathogen resistance. Yet, the understanding of molecular NHR mechanisms is limited and the isolation of NHR genes using conventional approaches is restricted by genetic incompatibilities between host and non-host species. Given the growing importance of crop diseases, addressing this critical knowledge gap is both ground-breaking and timely, contributing to food security and promoting non-chemical pest resistance. To bypass the bottlenecks common to standard procedures, 'noDisease' will use an innovative strategy, combining high-throughput molecular and biochemical methods whose developments I have pioneered to rapidly isolate the molecular factors underlying wheat NHR to Bh. This strategy will enable prediction of the most durable NHR genes for effective disease resistance. Specifically, our work plan includes the following aims: I. Isolate the genetic determinants that underly NHR II. Transfer NHR genes between plant species III. Assess the potential for NHR genes to provide durable disease resistance. This ambitious and timely approach employed within ‘noDisease’ will resolve long-standing bottlenecks that hinder molecular-genetic research on NHR, and has the potential to revolutionize both the basic understanding and deployment of non-chemical disease resistance in agriculture.

Keywords: food security,fungal pathogens,cereals,durable disease resistance,pathogen recognition
Exploring sex-based prey selection during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southwestern Europe (PALEOHUNTERS)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The extinction of Neanderthals after a brief period of coexistence with Homo sapiens is a key topic in human evolution and Palaeolithic studies. To date, there is still no consensus on whether differences in diet and hunting strategies between both human populations could have influenced the outcome. Traditionally, archaeologists have addressed this topic by studying faunal skeletal remains, determining species variability, age of prey and seasonality of human occupations. Ethnography shows that, in addition to these aspects, animal sex plays a key role in hunter-gatherers' prey choice procurement decisions, as the biological sex of an animal has major implications on its nutritional value, its presence in the landscape alone or in a group, and its vulnerability. The assessment of this factor has not yet been addressed in Palaeolithic research, but it is essential to understand whether there were strategic differences in hunting behaviour among both human species. PALEOHUNTERS aims to determine the influence of ungulate sex on the hunting strategies of late Neanderthals and the first Anatomically Modern Humans groups of northern Iberia and southwestern France, as both species overlapped in those regions for thousands of years. This interdisciplinary project will implement biological sex determination of ungulates by analysing amelogenin, a protein present in tooth enamel. The resulting ancient protein data will be combined with zooarchaeological and ecological information to re-evaluate Palaeolithic human subsistence behaviour from the perspective of the biological sex of hunted animals. Furthermore, integrating biomolecular methods has the potential to contribute to address long-term debated issues in archaeological research from new perspectives. By achieving these goals, PALEOHUNTERS will put the fellow on an innovative research path where palaeoproteomics becomes an integral part of Pleistocene zooarchaeological investigation.

Keywords: middle upper palaeolithic transition hunting strategies palaeoproteomics zooarchaeology
Investigation of Spin, Charge and Lattice Coupling Effects in Van der Waals Crystals in an electron microscope (SCALE-ICE)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lattice structures are ubiquitous in nature, which determine diverse physical and chemical properties of materials. Exploring and controlling crystal structures is a central task of material engineering. Lattice phase transition is considered as a significant approach to manipulate and control functionalities, and thus, understanding the underlying mechanism of phase transition is a basic premise and guarantee for technological applications. A fundamental understanding of the cooperative interplay between charge, spin, orbital and lattice is required to manipulate this process. The emergence of magnetic Van der Waals (vdW) crystals opened up new horizons for engineering phase transition with magnetic orders together beyond the reach of existing materials. Traditional investigation of magnetic phase transition requires neutron diffraction, which requires nuclear reactor to generate neutrons. In this project, I propose to use three-dimensional electron diffraction (3DED) to study the 3D magnetic orderings, which will serve as a complimentary method to neutron diffraction. I will also study the dynamical behaviour of magnetic ordering in vdW crystals under different electric bias conditions. In addition, I will study the 3D magnetic field distribution at the interface of heterostructures constructed by vdW crystals. I will develop continuous fast holographic tomography (CFHT) with much lower dose and higher speed compared to traditional step-wise tomography. I will also apply a special 3D reconstruction algorithm to reveal and visualize the 3D magnetic field at the heterostructure interface. The outputs of this project will provide insight into the synergy effects of charge, spin and lattice in magnetic materials and greatly facilitate the discovery of novel magnetic materials.

Keywords: magnetic phase transition,2d magnet,van der waals crystal,tem,3ded,electron holography,fe3gete2,heterostructure,interface,continuous fast holographic tomography,3d magnetic field
Socio-Economic Challenges and Opportunities of the Energy Transition (ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499440.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499440.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION will push the frontier in energy and environmental economics by addressing and quantifying novel socioeconomic challenges and opportunities that arise as the Energy Transition moves forward. Firstly, there is an urgent need to design new Energy Transition policies while re-designing existing ones. In particular, the prospect that Green Hydrogen might help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels has accelerated the need to define its regulation. Likewise, the recent energy crisis has triggered the debate about the re-design of electricity markets. However, there is no academic research guiding these fundamental policy changes. ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION will pioneer state-of-the-art research on Green Hydrogen regulation and electricity market design through theoretical, empirical, and simulation analyses. Secondly, it is paramount to assess and address the distributional consequences of Energy Transition policies (across regions, workers, and households). In particular, I will delve into the local socioeconomic impacts of the phase-out of coal plants and the phase-in of renewables. While existing research has analyzed the global effects of this structural change, evidence of the local effects is scant. Local opposition against renewables, which has become a major obstacle to their deployment, testifies to the relevance of the local effects. ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION will use recent advances in survey design to provide novel evidence on the local opposition toward renewables while contributing to identifying effective solutions to curb it. Moreover, I will quantify the distributional consequences of rooftop solar policies across households and investigate the under-studied possibility of re-designing them to mitigate their adverse effects. Academics will benefit from the discovery of new methodological approaches to analyze the Energy Transition, while policymakers will gain insight into the solutions for the most compelling socio-economic challenges ahead.

Keywords: energy transition,auctions,green hydrogen,migration,low carbon subsidies,distributional impacts,experiments,surveys
Extracellular Vesicle Research Exchanges for Advanced Biomarkers and Therapeutics (EVEREST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Sweden,Spain,Germany,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Portugal,Slovakia,Luxembourg,Hungary,Denmark
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1411542.86
EU funding (EUR): 1311000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The EVEREST project is a pioneering consortium in Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) research, bringing together 22 institutions from 11 countries, including 3 UK partners. This interdisciplinary consortium is distinguished by an ambitious plan for over 285 months of staff exchanges, engaging at least 81 fellows. Research-Innovation programme is structured into four pivotal work packages: 1. Combining Expertise and Resources for Advancing Standardised Characterisation and Isolation of EVs: Focused on harmonizing methods for EV isolation across diverse tissues and samples, enhancing the consistency and reliability of EV research. 2. Jointly Investigating EVs in Health or Disease, and Enhancing Translational Biomarker Discovery: Concentrated on exploring the roles of EVs in various health conditions and diseases, with a particular emphasis on identifying and validating new biomarkers for diagnostic and prognostic applications. 3. Uniting Capacities, Advancing EV-Based Therapeutics or Drug Delivery: Dedicated to developing innovative EV-based treatments and drug delivery mechanisms, targeting key health challenges like cancer and cardiovascular diseases. 4. Catalysing commercial development of EV-based technologies: Aiming to bridge the gap between research and practical application, this work package focuses on preparing EV-based solutions for large-scale production and market introduction. At its core, EVEREST is committed to significantly enhancing the capabilities of participating institutions and fostering career advancement for involved fellows. By positioning EVs as critical tools for biomarker discovery and therapeutic applications, the project aims to make substantial contributions to personalized medicine and improved health outcomes, ultimately translating research breakthroughs into clinical practice.

Keywords: extracellular vesicles,clinical biomarkers,therapeutics,biomanufacturing,process optimisation,human health,cell cell communication
Innovative Materials Ecosystem to Gain Synergies of regional, national and EU Initiatives (InnoMatSyn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Italy,Denmark,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Portugal,Belgium,Greece
Call: Synergy with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Innovative Materials (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999335.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999335.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The InnoMatSyn project (“Innovative Materials Ecosystem to Gain Synergies of regional, national and EU Initiatives”) will support the coordination of European, national and regional initiatives in the field of innovative advanced materials towards a materials ecosystem that cover any type of advanced materials (AdMa) and two-dimensional materials (2DM) to accelerate the development and scale up of the materials. The initiative will support the public authorities and funding research and innovation bodies by leveraging synergies between the different research communities and funding opportunities to facilitate the creation of one overarching materials ecosystem. The project will deliver 4 main outcomes: (i) a materials innovation knowledge repository tool capable to connect existing databases at EU, National and regional projects, and to identify possible needs and gaps; (ii) support to national regional funding agencies to create joint calls between funding agencies M-ERA.NET, FLAG-ERA, EUREKA, and EIT’s to facilitate the development and scale up of materials research. iii) an overarching, resilient European R&D&I ecosystem facilitating the cooperation within the different materials-related communities and funding agencies to monitor on-going research and to generate new projects, to run workshops in support of funding calls, and to challenge the knowledge generated in Europe, enabling future initiatives. iv) support EU, national, and regional initiatives with technology leakage risk assessment strategies, generating guidelines and common understanding at regional, national, and EU level to enhance EU sovereignty. Furthermore, InnoMatSyn will engage with all stakeholder groups including citizens, to gain awareness and attention to the potential of innovative materials. Emphasizes will be put on the empowerment by co-creation of skills, supporting and in collaboration with the Advanced Materials Academy, and related partnerships e.g. IAM4EU,‘AI, Data and Robotics'.

Keywords: innovative materials advanced materials graphene european research area member states funding
Spin Polarized Transport in Transfer Doped Diamond Wafers (SPOTTED)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With the advancement of techniques to grow high-purity, single-crystal synthetic diamonds and due to extreme physio-chemical characteristics and ultra-wide bandgap (5.47 eV) nature, diamond has been considered the next-generation material for high power, high temperature and high-frequency electronics, quantum computing, sensing, and communication applications. Observing the temperature-independent conductivity and the possibility of generating excessive hole carrier concentrations and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) generated by electron acceptors, a systematic investigation on the prospects of spin-polarized transport in 2D hole gas (2DHG) formed at transfer doped hydrogen-terminated diamond surfaces is vital. Spotted will investigate the strength of spin-orbit coupling(SOC) in transfer doped diamond via magnetotransport studies and study the possibility of spin injection and spin-polarized transport through Hanle measurements and Rashba-Edelstein Effect, respectively. We will also attempt to reduce the carrier scattering due to electron acceptors immediate to the 2DHG that may cause spin-depolarization by applying 2D-hBN between the transfer dopants and the diamond surfaces. Besides, using time-domain THz spectroscopy, the spin-dependent density and momentum scattering time of charge carriers (2DHG) will be unraveled (with and without 2D h-BN) to shed light on the spin asymmetry of 2DHG during the scattering process. These studies are expected to raise a lot of research in the future, and the realization of spin-polarized transport in diamond wafers offers a robust materials system for spintronics devices and enables faster yet efficient microelectronic devices that are operable even in extreme environments.

Keywords: ultrawide bandgap semiconductors,diamond,2d hole gas,transfer doping,spintronics,spin polarized transport,thz spectroscopy
Lossless Electron Beam Monochromator for Enhanced Resolution in Electron Microscopy (Loss-less Monochroma)

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 GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lossless Electron Beam Monochromator for Enhanced Resolution in Electron Microscopy The performance of advanced high-resolution electron-microscopes (EM) is severely limited by the energy spread of the electron beam, which limits both spatial and spectral resolutions by causing chromatic aberrations. To mitigate this limitation, monochromators are used. Common monochromators have mechanical slits as a narrow band-pass filter, inherently introducing high loss to the electron beam. They are very complex and thus highly expensive. Here we propose to develop a novel electron monochromator technology that is lossless, relatively simple (and thus, cost-effective), and modular, so it can potentially be installed as an upgrade in a wide range of existing EM systems. The proposed monochromator compresses the electron energy rather than filtering it, and thus the resulting electron beam suffers no losses. We use a single crystal, located inside the microscope column, close to the incoming electron beam. Infrared laser pulses are used to generate THz radiation in the crystal which interacts with the electron beam such that the energy of the electron beam is compressed without introducing electron losses. We aim to achieve this through three main goals: (1) Demonstrate the ability to get strong energy compression in pulsed electron mode with the advantage of low losses. (2) Demonstrate that our idea can also upgrade the performance of traditional low-cost CW operating EM such as low-voltage scanning EM (LV-SEM). (3) Commercialize our IP and penetrate the market. We developed new IP, aiming to commercialize the technology at the end of the project. We are in contact with microscope manufacturers expressing interest in our innovation. Our lossless electron beam monochromator is expected to be a game-changer in all EM applications, in particular the semiconductor inspection and medicine development markets, where high-resolution SEMs are becoming increasingly popular.