Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
New Generation of Electrical Machines Enabled by Additive Manufacturing (EMByAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Czechia,United Kingdom,Finland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1846194.17
EU funding (EUR): 1520395.2
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of our project is to establish a consortium of renowned universities and industry partners in the field of electrical machines and additive manufacturing (AM) for a comprehensive study and solid development of new generation of electrical machines for key applications. In detail we will integrate different necessary steps for realizing our goal into an industry-doctoral network. These include multi-material (soft magnetic and non-magnetic materials) rotor, 3D-structured AM conductors, multi-material (soft magnetic and permanent magnet material) and multi-physical study of additive manufactured EMs. the objectives of our projects are: a) conceiving new concepts of electrical machines that benefit from the 3D geometrical freedom of AM, b) studying the potential and laying the foundations of multi-material additive manufacturing to enhance the EM performance, concretely increasing the power density, increasing the torque density, reducing the copper losses, reducing the iron losses, reducing the harmonic effects, c) establishing a network for educating qualified engineers with deep knowledge on both additive manufacturing processes and electrical machines to accelerate the industrial application of this technology, d) establishing a founded knowledge-based group of experts from academic and industry to represent a solid European innovation and to maintain the pioneering role of the EU in this field, e) reaching the necessary breaking-through technology in electrical machines to accelerate the technological development in related applications, f) reducing the stringent material requirements, particularly focusing on rare-earth magnets, in the light of raw materials shortages. We want to use AM to solve the current technological obstacles regarding electrical machines to accelerate the developing of electrical drives in areas such as automotive and aviation with direct impact on CO2 reduction.

Keywords: electrical machines,additive manufacturing,topology optimization,ac losses reduction,multi physics
Dynamic Interfaces: Strain to Charge and Spin Inside Mobile Ferroelectric Domain Walls (DISCO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2707379.0
EU funding (EUR): 2707379.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of DISCO is to transform our approach to operando atomic scale microscopy, to both probe and manipulate the emergent phases formed inside ferroelectric domain walls during dynamics. Ferroelectric domain wall topologies are one of the most fascinating objects in condensed matter physics, due to their localised multi-functionality and mobility. Recent advances in characterisation techniques have shown that ferroelectric wall configurations go well beyond the previously accepted Ising-type structure. Néel-, Bloch-, and vortex-like polar patterns have been observed, displaying strong similarities with the spin textures at magnetic walls. This seismic shift in the field of ferroelectrics has initiated a cross disciplinary dimension, connecting the ferroelectrics and magnetism communities. However, research into the exotic orders of the ferroelectric domain walls is still in its infancy, and to date the focus has been on the static properties of the walls. The dynamics of domain walls is the key advantage of this type of interface for future interactive nano-electronics, and thus it is vital to not just probe the stationary phases. The DISCO team will target the emerging phases formed inside the walls when they are moving. The major roadblock is the lack of experimental detection methods that provide the required resolution and sensitivity. We cannot harness these dynamic functionalities if we do not understand the sub-atomic scale fundamental physics governing their formation. DISCO will exploit the in-situ electric field of Å-sized electron microscopy probes, thus allowing us to investigate dynamics at the subatomic scale. The crucial goal of this project is detecting and detangling changes in signals of strain, charge and spin produced as the domain walls move. DISCO will introduce viable operando detection schemes for coupled signals within atomic scale interfaces, creating new possibilities in dynamic nano-electronics and future quantum devices.

Keywords: atomic engineering,dynamic interfaces,ferroelectric domain walls,multiferroic,emergent phases,emergent functional properties,operando in situ electron microscopy
Mycelium-based Biochar Supported Sustainable High-Performance Phase Change Materials: Systematical Development and Practical Applications (BIOSUSMAT)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-02
End date: 2027-06-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Phase change materials (PCMs) present a promising solution to address the challenges of intermittent and fluctuating solar thermal energy. However, the widespread use of organic solid-liquid PCMs is hindered by leakage, low thermal conductivity, ineffective solar thermal storage, and flammability. This project aims to overcome these limitations by utilizing the unique growth properties of mycelium, combined with 3D printing technology, to develop high-performance PCMs that present a promising solution to address the challenges of intermittent and fluctuating solar thermal energy. The main objectives include: (1) to develop and optimize 3D-printed mycelium aerogels for effective PCM encapsulation; (2) to improve the thermal conductivity and flame retardancy of the PCM composites through carbonization; (3) to achieve a sustainable and scalable PCM manufacturing process; and (4) to demonstrate the high performance of these PCM systems in practical applications such as solar energy capture and thermal management. This approach offers a sustainable and scalable solution for PCM systems, ensuring high thermal stability, long-term durability, and reduced energy consumption in the manufacturing process. The project has the potential to transform PCM-based thermal storage systems for solar energy harvesting, temperature regulation, and energy efficiency in buildings and industrial applications, providing an innovative, interdisciplinary framework for the development of versatile and sustainable PCMs.

Keywords: mycelium,3d printing,biochar,solar energy harvesting,thermal energy storage,fire safety
POPARCH: The role of POPulation scale genetic variation in chromosome 3D ARChitecture (POPARCH)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The linear one-dimensional (1D) DNA fiber inside each Eukaryotic cell nucleus folds into a precise three-dimensional (3D) structure, whose structural preservation is vital for correct cell homeostasis and gene-regulatory mechanisms. Previous studies showed that if 3D structure is altered, aberrant phenotypes and diseases can arise. However, little is known on how 1D variation can affect 3D genome variation. Although recently developed technologies allow researchers to generate data to characterize the 3D structural patterns, as of yet no studies have systematically examined how this affects inter-individual 3D variation. I hypothesize a substantial fraction of 3D genome structural variation is controlled through 1D variation, affecting gene expression, and lastly phenotypes. I will test this by quantifying 1D and 3D genomic variation from 100 individuals selected from a chicken cohort my host raised under extremely well-controlled environmental conditions, making it the largest study of its kind up to today, and the first to use an in vivo animal model. Then, computationally I will develop an analytical framework and produce a catalog of DNA sequence variants that condition 3D genome structure. Upon executing my research, I expect to provide a new explanation on how non-coding DNA variants can exert their effect, thus offer new testable hypotheses to researchers interested in genotype-phenotype transitions. This is a proof-of-concept project and, should I be correct, will open a door to expansion in other species, including humans, with a large potential use in medical genomics, thus facilitating pharmacological interventions by disentangling causal intermediate processes. By combining my 3D genomics expertise with the host’s population-statistical genomics knowledge, on his unparalleled cohort of chickens, I will develop unique expertise to place me as the pioneer of a completely new, multidisciplinary field.

Keywords: chromosome conformation capture genotype phenotype gwas animal breeding snps
Smart, digitalized components and systems for data-based Agriculture and Forestry (AGRARSENSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Poland,Netherlands,France,Austria,Italy,Czechia,Latvia,Finland,Norway,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Ireland,Switzerland
Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50723993.25
EU funding (EUR): 14276023.41
Participants: 55
Project status: SIGNED

Food security is a global challenge and is impacted by, rapidly compounding effects including climate change, supply chains, human labour shortages, driving the need for traceability, and technological innovation and automation to name a few. The latest important price increases of agricultural row products show the limitations of the available resources. Through this Joint Undertaking, the AGRARSENSE consortium of 57 partners (including 4 affiliates) plan to take agricultural technology and productivity to the next level, beyond the State-of-the-Art, by combining some of the most advanced organisational capabilities from across European industrial 16 Large Enterprises, 25 SMEs and 16 Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs), from 15 countries. The development of the most advanced sensory and autonomous agricultural capabilities requires a sophisticated governance structure, ensuring that all partners are aligned across Use Cases and Work Package deliveries. The AGRARSENSE consortium has one of the world’s leaders in Forestry automation, Komatsu, as Project Coordinator. The AGRARSENSE project goal of creating a holistic ecosystem of sensory and automated capabilities will further extend Europe’s lead in optimizing and securing agricultural value chains. To drive such an ambitious impact agenda, we have selected seven Use Cases which will, collectively, contribute to solving the challenges outlined. These Use Cases are Greenhouses (UC1), Vertical Farming (UC2), Precision Viticulture (UC3), Agri robotics (UC4), Autoforest (UC5), Organic Soils & Fertilizers (UC6) and Water (UC7). These Use Cases are fused together by the most advanced hardware, software and system integration technologies, which will drive new solutions for partners and the collective AGRARSENSE impacts at scale.

Keywords: agriculture,forestry,sensors,robotics,packaging,ict systems,cyber security,safety
Nonlinear Interaction of Terahertz Light with Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials (TeraNanoLIGHT)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 94843.68
EU funding (EUR): 94843.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), hold great promise for the engineering of modern nanophotonic devices that will operate at terahertz (THz) speed rates, with reduced energy requirements. Particularly, their nonlinear properties at THz frequencies, are expected to be the key element for the development of THz nanodevices that can generate new frequencies, control light propagation or act as nonlinear optical modulators. The TeraNanoLIGHT project aims to study with nanometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution, the ultrafast interaction of 2D nanomaterials with atomically strong (multi-MV/cm) THz fields, promoting the light-matter interactions into the non-perturbative regime. Intense THz transients will be combined with a scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) to achieve atomically strong fields. Initially, THz surface plasmons (SPs) will be resonantly coupled in graphene, and their nonlinear behavior will be studied by monitoring their formation, propagation and temporal evolution as the THz field strength increases into the nonlinear regime. Furthermore, non-resonant nonlinearities will be explored, exploiting the oscillating THz field as an ultrafast AC bias. The possibility to observe high harmonic generation (HHG) with characteristics similar to those of atomic gases, will be studied in monolayer TMDs and heterostructures of different layers number and twist angles, excited by an out-of-plane polarized THz field. Finally, the opportunity of exploiting the extremely nonlinear interaction of light with matter, to improve the spatial resolution of SNOM, will be investigated. TeraNanoLIGHT project, envisions to facilitate our understanding about the ultrafast interaction of intense THz light with 2D materials and their high-order nonlinearities. This understanding is expected to trigger innovative research on the development of the future THz lightwave electronic devices.

Keywords: terahertz,nonlinear,2d materials,nanoscopy,graphene,transition metal dichalcogenides
Novel T cell therapies against lymphocytic leukaemia (CATCH)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common type of leukaemia globally and can rarely be cured. Despite recent advances, the efficacy of promising autologous T cell-based therapies, such as CAR-T technology and bi-/tri-specific antibodies, has been disappointing. This stems from a T cell dysfunction in this disease setting: altered T cell skewing, impaired metabolic plasticity, and disrupted T-cell functioning. Prof. Arnon Kater's group studies alternative activation pathways to overcome T cell dysfunction and stimulate an immune response. CATCH will explore the technical and commercial feasibility of alternative T-cell activation, through CAR-T and tri-specific antibody technologies. To reach proof-of-concept stage, in this project we will: 1) Validate the efficacy of two applications (CAR-T, tri-specific antibody) by achieving T-cell activation and killing target cells in in-vitro CLL samples and live specimens. 2) Perform a thorough IP landscape analysis, establish Freedom-to-Operate, and define an IP strategy. 3) Engage with key stakeholders to gather feedback and advise from key perspectives (patient, clinical, industry), conduct market research to discover potential customers/industrial partners, analyse competitors and identify a feasible roadmap to commercialisation. 4) Formulate a detailed business case to guide the commercialisation of CATCH.
Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks with phoTonic Integrated Circuits (QuGANTIC) (QuGANTIC)

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: Denmark,Germany,Netherlands
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3194262.5
EU funding (EUR): 3194262.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The rapidly growing global adaptation of digital technologies has brought an exponential increase in data and computing power consumption, and conventional supercomputers are now reaching their limit in terms of power and energy efficiency. Quantum computers have garnered attention as a way to overcome the struggles of classical computers. Technological progress is happening fast, but the so-called quantum advantage results reported have no meaningful real-world tasks yet, and severe scaling problems remain. An alternative strategy of encoding information in high-dimensional spaces (using quDits rather than qubits) is extremely promising for enhancing computational capacity, accuracy, speed, and noise robustness. However, this approach is still in its infancy. QuGANTIC proposes a science-towards-technology breakthrough in scalable data loading and learning with quantum processors, based on a novel concept of hybrid integration on a single photonic integrated chip (PIC). Our innovative target is the first quantum computer using quDits generated by quantum frequency combs with the potential to execute operations in a reduced number of steps and provide the first scalable PIC quantum computer. Learning distributions of data and generating artificial samples is a formidable task for classical computers, and we will use our novel quDit PIC platform to demonstrate that so-called quantum Generative Adversarial Networks can solve this task far better than classical systems. Our goal will make an unprecedented impact on economy, science and society, as it will predict the behavior of globally critical areas such as energy distribution, weather phenomena, risk assessments and epidemic spreads, by processing vast data sets with a drastic reduction of computational overheads. Our processors have a credible path to market, and QuGANTIC has the right hardware and software Partners to realize this enormous potential.

Keywords: quantum computing,quantum optics,photonics,electronics,quantum software
EUropean DIgital Twin Ocean phase 2 (EDITO 2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium
Call: EU Public Infrastructure for the European Digital Twin Ocean, phase 2 (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-IBA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13999500.0
EU funding (EUR): 13999500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

EDITO (European Digital Twin Ocean) enters Phase 2 with a bold vision to scale up its capabilities, broaden its user base, and establish itself as the cornerstone for co-creating the European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO). Central to the EU Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters," EDITO aims to empower decision-makers, researchers, and communities with cutting-edge tools and actionable knowledge, fostering collaboration across public, private, and civil society sectors. In Phase 1, EDITO validated its potential by integrating diverse data, models, and tools, collaborating with leading marine initiatives such as EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service. Building on this foundation, Phase 2 will expand the platform’s reach, ensuring accessibility for non-experts while enhancing its services for researchers and institutional contributors. The service model comprises three tiers, explore, create and contribute for addressing the needs of non-expert users, researchers, institutions and businesses. Key initiatives include scaling the cloud-native infrastructure, integrating high-resolution data into a unified Core Catalogue, and implementing robust validation for third-party contributions. Phase 2 will also drive community engagement through Horizon Europe collaborations, open calls, and outreach activities like hackathons and innovation challenges. EDITO aligns with global initiatives, including the UN DITTO Program and Destination Earth, ensuring interoperability and adherence to international standards. It supports the development of tailored "local twins" in Lighthouse Areas, addressing regional ecosystem and climate needs. By 2030, EDITO envisions a fully operational DTO platform, serving as a global benchmark for digital ocean solutions. With a user-centric approach and commitment to co-creation, Phase 2 is a pivotal step toward transforming fragmented marine data into actionable, accessible knowledge for all.

Keywords: digital twin ocean