Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Holistic approach to foster CIRCUlar and resilient transport InfrasTructures and support the deployment of Green and Innovation Public Procurement and innovative engineering practices (CIRCUIT)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Croatia,Netherlands,Italy,Slovenia,Spain,France,Germany,United Kingdom
Call: Smart and efficient ways to construct, maintain and decommission with zero emissions from transport infrastructure (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5666556.25
EU funding (EUR): 4810447.63
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of CIRCUIT is to develop a holistic approach supported by digital solutions and guidelines to foster the introduction of innovative engineering practices in the whole construction supply/value chain to foster The overall objective of CIRCUIT is to develop a holistic approach supported by digital solutions and guidelines to foster the introduction of innovative engineering practices in the whole construction supply/value chain enabling circular, sustainable resilient and smart transport infrastructure and a wider deployment of Green Public and Innovation Procurement. This will be achieved by: i. developing and deploying an innovative open-source digital platform (with advanced Circularity analytics and Supply/value chain matchmaking tools) interoperable with traditional engineering/design (BIM, Digital Twinm LCC, LCA) and traffic simulation tools; ii. introducing modular solutions, ecodesign and reusing concepts as alternative to traditional designs; iii. maximizing the use of biobased, Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) and Secondary Construction Elements (SCE) as alternative to traditional ones; iv. including in the decision making process of transport infrastructures design and route planning, information from updated traffic simulation tools to reduce incidents, accidents, congestion and future scenarios with autonomous vehicles). New elements and technologies for Circular, Smart, Resilient and Sustainable transport will be included in the design process to facilitate infrastructures upgrading and a quick adaptation to smart mobility and operations. CIRCUIT will also provide knowledge and technical solutions by exploiting the potential of four strategic pillars: Digitalisation, Recycle, Reuse and Energy. Different technologies will be validated in each of the pillars to deliver a holistic approach suitable for different transport modes, the urban and interurban environment, and the different stages of the life cycle of infrastructures.

Keywords: digitalization,recycle,reuse,green energy,smart and circular transport infrastructure
Streaming flexibility to the power system (STREAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Slovenia,Finland,Austria,Italy,Croatia,Spain
Call: Increasing energy system flexibility based on sector-integration services to consumers (that benefits system management by DSOs and TSOs) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10364936.93
EU funding (EUR): 7929958.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

The ambition of the STREAM project (STREAM) is the creation of an innovative and robust flexibility ecosystem (“STREAM Ecosystem”) on the low voltage (LV) grid side of existing power markets connecting data, technologies, stakeholders and markets, thus facilitating the flexibility provision. A variety of benefits for both technical- and non-technical aspects of energy services supporting power market and power grid operations will be created. STREAM will empower data from flexible devices and support creation of other citizen services through a User-centric Approach to improve their acceptance. The exploitation of both types of services will benefit from new business models, built upon local LV flexibility markets and novel barter-like mechanism, developed in STREAM. Presently, such services and business models don’t exist in either established- or developing power markets. The STREAM ecosystem covers their implementation, includes various stakeholder groups on all levels of power markets, from small-scale end-users, energy communities, ESCOs, service providers, to market- and system operators. To achieve the goals, STREAM consortium comprises relevant actors to capture the entire flexibility value chain within STREAM ecosystem from end users, energy communities to service providers, flexibility services providers, market operators, DSOs, and TSO, complemented by technology and research partners. The latter will supply knowledge in a form of STREAM tools that will enable the realization of STREAM ecosystem. They will be adapted, deployed, calibrated, and demonstrated in the 4 STREAM pilots that serve as a basis for benchmarking of STREAM ideas. They cover geographical, economic, size and type diversity of the consumers. While complementary, the pilots focus on a specific part of STREAM Ecosystem. The pilot partners have all the essential roles and authority to carry out the specified activities.

Keywords: demand response,flexibility market,business models,energy services,tso,dso
Understanding Non-CO2 Impact for deCarbonized aviation (UNIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Sweden,France,Switzerland,Canada
Call: Accelerating climate neutral aviation, minimising non-CO2 emissions (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4533939.0
EU funding (EUR): 4533911.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The UNIC proposal, under the "Accelerating climate neutral aviation, minimizing non-CO2 emissions" call, will enhance scientific understanding and mitigate the impact of non-CO2 aviation emissions which emminate from both combustor and oil lubrication vent. UNIC’s objectives are to improve non-CO2 emission measurements, including nitrogen oxides and volatile and non-volatile particulate matter, across all flight phases. This will improve the understanding of the impact of alternative fuels (SAF and H2) on non-CO2 aged emissions and refine aerosol-cloud interaction models whilst providing robust data to support future aviation policy decisions. To achieve these objectives, UNIC will develop and enhance novel technologies including a cold oxidation flow reactor and an integrated on-board sensor for real-time CO2 and non-CO2 emission quantification across the entire flight envelope, including cruise. UNIC will conduct extensive laboratory, combustor, engine and flight tests using both conventional and alternative fuels. These extensive tests will go beyond certification testing to provide a comprehensive assessment of pollutantes that impact climate. They will include particle size distributions down to 1 nm , gas- and particle-phase chemical composition, charged particle/ion concentration and ice nucleation potential of emissions, including those of lubrication oil. The project will leverage advanced modelling techniques to simulate the interactions of emissions with clouds to improve assessment of their radiative forcing impact more accurately. UNIC aligns with the Horizon work programme by addressing urgent needs in aviation emission science and regulation, providing data that supports the development of effective emission reduction strategies. The proposal's relevance is underscored by its potential to guide regulatory frameworks and contribute to the broader goal of reducing aviation's climate impact, ensuring it supports sustainable development in the sector.

Keywords: non co2 impact,sustainable aviation fuels,aircraft emission measurement,sensor development,emission aging,nucleation,lubrication oil,aerosol cloud interactions,aviation policy,climate impact
Fire-safe and bio-based polymer electrolytes for new generation lithium-sulfur batteries (SAFE-BIOBATT)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Low ionic conductivity as well as insufficient ability to suppress the shuttle effect and lithium dendrite growth has been a crucial problem constraining the development of polymer electrolytes, which further leads to the fact that the vast majority of solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries (SSLSBs) have to be operated above room temperature. Moreover, researchers have given much more emphasis on the energy density of batteries, while the fire-safety property is not given as much attention as the battery’s performance. Therefore, facing these challenges, the overarching target of this ambitious yet achievable project (SAFE-BIOBATT) is to develop high energy density and fire-safe SSLSBs and to systematically investigate the electrochemical reaction mechanism based on these fabricated SSLSBs. In details, cross-linking biopolymer Carrageenan (Car), a promising and potential bio-based solid electrolyte with high ion conductivity at room temperature, with functionalized β-cyclodextrin (CDP-Car) will be produced with the aim to not only facilitate the fire-safety of fabricated polymer-based electrolytes but also enhance the mechanical strength to suppress the lithium dendrite growth for their application in SSLSBs. The Car is not only fabricated as electrolyte but also developed as binder for sulfur electrode with the aim of effectively capturing lithium polysulfides. By introducing this bio-based fire-safe electrolyte in this project, the room-temperature polymer-based SSLSB can be achievable as breakthrough. Furthermore, LiN(CF3SO2)2 as a typical candidate salt will be employed in this bio-based electrolyte (CDP-Car-salt), expecting its effects in stabilizing the solid electrolyte interface and preventing the lithium dendrite. As compared to the current electrolytes and key components of the batteries which mainly rely on fossil-based sources, the strategy proposed here provides a safe and sustainable solution to the development of new generation fire-safe batteries.

Keywords: fire safe batteries,bio based polymer
Revealing the RNA-LNP ultrastructure and subcellular trafficking using advanced Cryo-electron microscopy and proteomics (CryoLipNano)

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: Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 197263.68
EU funding (EUR): 197263.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

RNA therapeutics are revolutionizing medicine, offering new treatment possibilities for diseases once considered undruggable. Central to the delivery of nucleic acids, especially mRNA, is the use of Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) – the most advanced and the only clinically approved gene delivery platform. LNPs protect mRNA from degradation, facilitate its transfer, and ensure delivery into the cell. Despite their potential, the therapeutic potency of RNA-LNPs remains limited due to suboptimal RNA delivery, with <10% of the administered RNA-LNP system reaching the cytoplasm. To this end, crucial gaps persist in our understanding of LNP structure, integrity and their impact on trafficking and RNA delivery. CryoLipNano aims to advance our knowledge on LNP ultrastructure and intracellular dynamics, by linking – for the first time – lipid composition, morphology, LNP integrity, mRNA localization and trafficking after endocytosis. By integrating physical chemistry with cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), advanced imaging techniques, and proteomic analysis, this study will address critical knowledge gaps, ultimately leading to the rational design of second-generation LNP platforms with enhanced efficiency and potency. Moreover, CryoLipNano will establish the first RNA-LNP research hub at the host institute and, alongside with the ERA Chair's launch of the country's first cryoEM facility, will create a new line of expertise in RNA-LNP characterization by cryoEM. This expertise will be valuable not only in Greece, but also for entities across Europe and globally. CryoLipNano will also focus on disseminating the lab’s presence, educating the scientific community and the public about RNA therapeutics and their structural analysis, and inspiring young scientists. Finally, the high-level science and training the fellow will receive, will significantly advance her expertise and enhance her future employability in the field of nanomedicine and RNA therapeutics.

Keywords: lipid nanoparticles,mrna lnps,rna therapeutics,cryo electron microscopy,lnp morphology,lnp trafficking,nanostructure analysis,gene delivery
Intent and Context-Aware Optical Networks (ICON)

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
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Cyprus,Czechia,Estonia,Norway,Denmark
Call: Smart photonics for joint communication & sensing and access everywhere (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999183.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999183.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The Intent and Context-aware Optical Network (ICON) project builds the research foundation for a new generation of optical networks, in which sensing is designed as an integral part of overall system architecture. ICON will enable communication networks that offer sensing services, turning the terrestrial and subsea fibre infrastructure into a global scale sensing manifold. This will pave the way for future network evolution of services offering a wide range of sensing applications in diverse areas such as geological disturbances, global weather and oceanographic phenomena, and urban mobility. The control and management of such new sensing services will be enabled by extensible and modular ICON intelligent sensing controller that include an intent interpreter and network digital twin to preserve state information. As an integral part of future communications systems, the ICON functions and sensing devices enable transmission optimization that goes beyond today’s signal monitoring. The ICON project will develop fibre sensing and controls to create context awareness of both the internal fibre system state as well as the environment encompassing it. This addition of a sensing dimension to transmission engineering in optical networks brings new tools for optimizing transmission performance and increasing availability and energy efficiency.

Keywords: sensing,digital twin,machine learning,physical layer,energy efficiency,data processing,otdr,sdn
Engineering of Photo-rechargeable Nanoswimmers using Multicomponent Heterojunctions (PhotoSwim)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The realization of smart nanoswimmers capable of moving and performing desired tasks in an aqueous environment is a technological challenge due to the viscous and thermal forces exerted upon them. While various types of external stimulus can be used to activate their autonomous motion, light is the easiest to operate and most flexible, due to the opportunities that it offers for motion modulation through intensity, wavelength, and direction. However, such optical control is affected by the properties of the aqueous media, limiting the applicability of light-driven nanoswimmers to non-scattering environments. The novel approach of this project (PhotoSwim) is the design of hybrid nanoswimmers that consist not only of photocatalytic but also persistent luminescent materials in order to provide triple light-responsive, light-storage, and light-emissive properties at the material level. This project will explore the potential of these innovative photoactivated swimmers to: (1) store and emit sufficient light energy to maintain motion in the absence of external irradiation, (2) exhibit long-term luminescence for tracking purposes, (3) move and interact with their surroundings at high speeds due to efficient charge pair separation and (4) achieve a major control over their motion by wavelength tunability. The knowledge obtained will then be used to expand the applicability of these hybrid nanoswimmers in scenarios of limited light penetrability. Specifically, their capabilities to maintain their photoactivity in the presence of chemical and biological interferences, along with real-time monitoring of their location by the emitted luminescence, will be tested. In this way, the potential of advanced multi-functioning nanoswimmers to keep moving and interacting with the surroundings in scenarios where the light supply is not fully available will be demonstrated.

Keywords: micro nanoswimmers,persistent luminescence,heterostructures,photocatalysis
Intrinsic autophagy receptors: identity and cellular mechanisms. (IntrinsicReceptors)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Macromolecular complexes (MC) are cellular machines that perform a wide array of vital tasks. They operate in a controlled, coordinated fashion within the crowded environment of the cell. Accumulation of dysfunctional MCs leads to age-related diseases. Despite recent technological advancements, it still remains elusive for many of them how excess or dysfunctional MCs are sensed and removed. I have recently established a role of intrinsic receptors in degradation of the nuclear pore complex and the clathrin-mediated endocytosis machinery by selective autophagy. Intrinsic receptors represent functional subunits of the macromolecular machine but can if needed recruit the autophagy machinery to engulf and degrade the complex. As such intrinsic receptors provide an in-built quality control function that monitors the assembly state and/or functionality of macromolecular machines. I hypothesize that this is a conserved and widely used principle existing within various MCs and that there is a common, yet unexplored, regulatory pathway underlying the intrinsic receptors’ mode of action. In the proposed project, I will employ a combination of genetic screening, mass spectrometry and cryo-electron tomography to systematically define intrinsic receptors and their working principles in cells. I will use systematic discovery approaches to determine how many MCs contain intrinsic receptors, how the degradation of intrinsic receptors and their cargo is regulated, and how this is orchestrated with autophagosome biogenesis. My results will not only provide insights into a novel cellular quality-control mechanism but also unravel novel aspects of selective autophagosome biogenesis. Importantly, both accumulation of dysfunctional complexes and impairment of autophagy are linked to aging and age-related diseases. Therefore, my results will contribute to understand the role of autophagy in these processes and have the potential to provide new pharmacological therapeutic avenues.

Keywords: protein biology,cell biology,selective autophagy,macromolecular machines,biophysics,cryo et,mass spectrometry
Near-field Enhanced Accuracy Tracking for 6G Networks (NEAT-6G)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the technological world marches ahead, the advent of the sixth generation (6G) networks promises unprecedented advancements in communication capabilities. One of the core components of 6G systems will be the inclusion of various large array structures such as the extremely large antenna array, reconfigurable intelligent surface, and cell-free multiple-input multiple-output. Ttraditional positioning and tracking methodologies (which are based on far-field signal models) are ill-suited for these innovations. This is mainly caused by curved wavefront in the near-field models. Consequently, the conventional methods for positioning both passive objects (e.g., walls) and active users (e.g., phones) will be severely degraded when the far-field assumption does not hold. On the other hand, the radio signals optimized for positioning and sensing in the far-field are sub-optimal in the near-field regime. To address this gap, this research aims to develop novel positioning and tracking methods tailored explicitly for the near-field environment of these large array structures. To this end, three work packages (WP) are conducted. WP1 is to design optimal signal waveforms for positioning and sensing with large and/or sparse antenna arrays that can make full use of the near-field features. WP2 is to develop phase-coherent sensing and tracking methods for non-isotropic and extended targets. WP3 is to develop algorithms for carrier-phase based positioning and tracking of active targets, by using the near-field signals transmitted by them. This research intends to solve these challenges through the development and implementation of innovative algorithms and methodologies, such as compressive sensing, convex or non-convex optimization, and machine learning, establishing a dedicated framework for near-field positioning and tracking in 6G networks.

Keywords: 6g localization and sensing,dual function radar,communications and sensing,positioning and tracking,compressive sensing