Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Resilience Enhancement through Multi-Hazard Recovery Analysis of Earthquake and Flood-Affected Infrastructure (RE-EnForce)

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: United Kingdom
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): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing frequency and severity of multi-hazard events necessitate comprehensive frameworks to assess the compounding risks to infrastructure systems. Multi-hazard risks, particularly from independent hazards impacting the same infrastructure and communities simultaneously (or close in time), significantly affect the resilience of urban centers. Recent events, such as the flooding in Türkiye following the 2023 earthquake, demonstrate the compounded impacts on communities and infrastructure. These interactions are understudied despite their severity, particularly concerning infrastructure resilience and recovery. To address this gap, the RE-EnForce project introduces a novel computational framework to quantify multi-hazard risks in interconnected infrastructure systems, focusing on interactions between unrelated hazards that impact the same system. The project will also provide novel risk and resilience metrics for stakeholders, including government agencies, emergency managers, and the reinsurance industry. While adaptable to various infrastructure systems and hazard interactions, RE-EnForce prioritizes models to assess the risk and resilience of reinforced concrete building portfolios and transportation networks, accounting for impacts of earthquakes and floods occurring in the same region and within short timeframes. The key project outcomes include (a) consistent consequence scales to evaluate the functionality of individual RC buildings and building portfolios for hazard interactions, (b) similar scales to assess the functionality of bridges and transportation networks, and (c) a decision-making framework considering the system-level performance of interconnected infrastructure. By addressing the compounded effects of spatial and temporal hazard interactions, RE-EnForce advances multi-hazard risk assessment and offers a holistic approach to disaster risk reduction. It supports risk-informed decisions and aligns with global efforts towards urban resilience.

Keywords: reinforced concrete,multihazard risk,infrastructure systems,hazard interactions,system resilience,risk informed decision making
Thermo-spin 3D Platform for Skyrmion motion. (3D-Sky)

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: Spain,Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The overall power consumption of information technology accounts for almost 10% of the global energy demands and it is predicted to reach 20% in 2030. As a result, we need new ways to store and compute data utilizing more efficient and environmentally cleaner alternatives to current technologies, and the EU should be leading this transformation. The development of a low-power non-volatile memory is one of the most sought-after technologies and racetrack memories based on topological magnetic Skyrmions are one of the most promising candidates. There are, however, several drawbacks for spintronic devices based on Skyrmions: their trajectories under currents are nontrivial; the thermal contribution to Skyrmion motion is yet to be well understood, and fully electrical detection of Skyrmions is challenging due to the small contribution of the topology to the Hall effect. In 3D-Sky, I propose to take advantage of state-of-the-art 3D nanopatterning to obtain fine control over the energy landscape for the motion of Skyrmions in 3D racetracks. For this, I will exploit the precise and unique tuning of thermal and geometrical properties that 3D devices enable to decouple the nanostructure from the substrate opening the possibility to use much higher temperature gradients to tackle the main drawbacks of Skyrmion racetrack memories. In short, in 3D-Sky I aim to create a platform for Skyrmion motion based on 3D nanodevices focusing on the impact of temperature on their dynamics, nucleation and properties. This will provide the fundamental knowledge needed to understand thermal-driven Skyrmion motion in different systems including the different driving forces in play. Furthermore, I will tackle the current challenges in reliable nucleation and electrical detection of Skyrmions taking advantage of the singular properties of 3D nanostructures for the creation of defects and efficient heating.

Keywords: skyrmions,mram memories,spintronics,spin caloritronics,thermal effects
Quantum-enhanced Vibrational microscopy (Q-Vibe)

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: Italy,Germany,Denmark,Lithuania
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN, 2025)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2911925.0
EU funding (EUR): 2911925.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The Q-Vibe project brings together a consortium of academic and industrial experts in nonlinear optics, quantum technologies, crystal engineering, FTIR microscopy, and microplastics analysis to pioneer a groundbreaking quantum vibrational microscope. This technology will enable label-free, non-destructive, and spatially resolved chemical analysis with unprecedented performance. By harnessing the quantum advantage, Q-Vibe will deliver hyperspectral maps in the fingerprint region across more than 10^5 spatial points using standard near-infrared components such as lasers, cameras, and optics. This approach will not only significantly accelerate imaging speeds compared to current infrared microscopes but also reduce their footprint and cost, making high-performance chemical imaging more accessible. In environmental applications, Q-Vibe is poised to revolutionize microplastics analysis by enabling rapid classification and quantification at high resolution. This ambitious challenge will be undertaken over 42 months by three leading academic institutions and two innovative companies, each bringing unique technical expertise.

Keywords: quantum imaging,infrared microscopy,fourier transform spectroscopy,microplastics analysis
Aerial Drone-based Automated Tree Harvesting System for Sustainable Forestry (ADATHA)

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: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In Europe, forests make up 43% of the continent's land area, covering around 182 million hectares. European forests absorb approximately 10% of the continent’s total CO2 emissions annually, support over 3.6 million jobs and generate around €640 billion annually through forest-based industries. Forests are most productive if and when trees grow in optimal conditions. Creating such conditions means removing trees that are cluttered, damaged, sick or altogether alien to a forest. This is achieved through forest thinning, an operation that is vital to maintain forest health and productivity and prevent wildfires. Yet today, thinning relies on inefficient old technology. 15-30 t machines cut through the forest, severely damaging the forest floor and ecosystem, emitting a total of 10M t of CO2 by burning diesel, and felling healthy trees to make logging roads (affecting ~20% of the forest ecosystem). AirForestry is reinventing forestry by enabling the fossil-free thinning of trees from the air. Our solution is a novel combination of a drone and a lightweight wood harvesting tool for grabbing, delimbing and cutting selected trees. We use an electric multi-copter with AI-based visual navigation to locate specific trees (sick, alien, wildfire-vulnerable), cut them and deliver timber to the roadside. Our innovation will disrupt the tree-thinning market by offering an automated, non-invasive, and sustainable alternative to harmful state-of-the-art methods. Frequent and gentle thinning that we enable allows healthier forests to generate almost 3X commercial value/ha, store ~90 t more CO2/ha, preserve biodiversity and remain beautiful for our children.

Keywords: drones,robotics,timber harvesting,sustainable forestry,carbon sequestration,green technologies,automation and control systems
Advanced Remote Continuous patient Health mANaGemEnt SoLution (ARCHANGEL)

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: Bulgaria
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3480000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2436000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Patients die because deteriorations are missed. There is a huge unfulfilled need for better patient monitoring, diagnostics and reaction everywhere in healthcare. A reason is that, despite advancements with remote monitoring devices, the current care model still relies on short “snapshots'' examinations, which leave a lot of dangerous conditions missed, untackled, or tackled too late. At Checkpointcardio, we are enabling the switch from a “Snapshot” model to a “full movie” model where patients and carers are fully and constantly connected. We have set up the first of its kind 24/7 remote observation medical centre that, thanks to a wearable device and the use of AI, constantly monitors and manages healthcare delivery for more than 50 000 critically ill patients, already saving hundreds of lives. We now want to replicate the model for patients suffering from chronic diseases, multiplying both our business opportunity and the impact we have on people’s lives.

Keywords: a i decision support,digital biomarkers,digital services,telemedicine,patient care
Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems (iSAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Sweden,Germany,Belgium,Italy,United States,United Kingdom
Call: New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of RIs (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-TECH-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4660023.75
EU funding (EUR): 4660023.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Particle accelerators have become essential instruments to improve our health, the environment, our safety, and our high-tech abilities, as well as to unlock new fundamental insights in physics, chemistry, biology, and generally enable scientific breakthroughs that improve our lives. Accelerating particles to higher energies will always require a large amount of energy. In a society where energy sustainability is critical, keeping energy consumption as low as reasonable possible is an unavoidable challenge for both research infrastructures (RIs) and industry, which collectively operate over 40,000 accelerators. Based on state-of-the-art technology, the portfolio of current and future accelerator-driven RIs in Europe could develop to consume up to 1% of Germany's annual electricity demand. With the ambition to maintain the attractiveness and competitiveness of European RIs and to enable Europe’s Green Deal, we propose to Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems (iSAS) by establishing enhanced collaboration in the field to broaden, expedite and amplify the development and impact of novel energy-saving technologies to accelerate particles. For many frontier accelerators superconducting RF (SRF) systems are the enabling technology. iSAS will innovate those technologies that have been identified as being a common core of SRF accelerating systems and that have the largest leverage for energy savings to minimize the intrinsic energy consumption in all phases of operation. In the landscape of accelerator-driven RIs, solutions are being developed to reuse the waste heat produced, to develop energy-efficient magnets and to operate facilities on opportunistic schedules when energy is available. The iSAS project has a complementary focus on the energy efficiency of the SRF accelerating technologies. This will contribute to the vital transition to sustain the tremendous 20th century applications of the accelerator technology in a green and energy conscious 21st century.

Keywords: particle accelerators,superconducting radio frequency,cryomodule,superconducting cavities,rf power control,energy recovery linac
RumenGlas Beef - innovative feed additive to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants (RumenGlas Beef)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
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

Agriculture, like all sectors of society, must greatly reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to meet binding climate target. Enteric emissions of methane, a consequence of ruminant digestion, are the largest source of GHG emissions in the agricultural sector. Enteric production of methane also represents poor use of feed, with up to 12% of feed energy content lost as methane, representing an economic loss to the farmer. Currently there are no effective and cost-effective solutions to reduce these emissions. As such, the agricultural sector is coming under greater pressure to find a solution. RumenGlas Beef is an innovative feed additive developed by GlasPort Bio. This allows for a 30-50% reduction in enteric methane emissions - allowing for a 8.6-14.4% reduction in EU agricultural GHG emissions. RumenGlas Beef also allows for greater diversion of feed energy away from methane production and towards the animal, resulting in an improvement in animal performance. This is the first feed additive in development which allows for both an effective reduction in methane emissions and an increase in animal performance. This breakthrough innovation shall allow beef farmers to farm in a more sustainable, productive and profitable manner.

Keywords: sustainability agriculture methane enteric fermentation animal performance
Resource Efficient Steel - Recycled Aggregate Concrete Composite Floor Systems (RECOMPOSE)

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: Luxembourg
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-15
End date: 2025-07-14
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the global construction industry, the consumption of aggregates (i.e. sands, gravels, or crushed stones) for concrete is ever-increasing, accompanied by the growing outputs of construction and demolition waste (CDW). Immoderate exploitation of natural resources and the disposal of CDW on land (landfill) both jeopardize sustainable development. Recycling CDW into recycled aggregate is a feasible and economical way to close the loop of supply and waste chains. In such context, RECOMPOSE intends to contribute towards the “European Green Deal” launched in 2019, by promoting a large-scale use of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) for stimulating a circular economy in the European construction sector, reducing landfills, and saving natural resources. Due to the inferior mechanical properties and large variability of RAC, it has been mainly used in non-structural construction such as pavement. To promote wider applications of RAC, building slabs as a kind of secondary structural member are a good destination for RAC. By using steel-concrete composite floor systems, the resource efficiency is double strengthened by consuming recycled concrete and reducing the material consumption (CO2 emission) due to the superior load-bearing performance. Shear connections between steel sheeting-RAC composite slabs and steel beams are vital to the performance of composite beams and further to the entire building. The fellow will identify and model the behaviour of commonly-used headed-stud shear connections, addressing stochastic responses caused by high variability of RAC properties. Owing to the supervisor, Prof. Markus Schäfer’s, broad scientific and industrial network and his leadership role as a Eurocode developer, the dissemination and exploitation of the outputs will trigger the development of Eurocode 4 considering profiled sheeting-RAC composite floor systems. This will have a huge impact making possible a large-scale application of RAC in buildings in the following decades.

Keywords: steel concrete composite,profiled steel sheeting,headed studs,recycled aggregate concrete
Development of patient “Ossicle” for the personalized modelling of bone-developing cancers and therapeutic testing (OssiGel)

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: Sweden
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer is a huge societal concern representing one death out of sixth in 2020. The vast majority of existing cancers emerge or ultimately develop in bones: leukemia, lung, breast, prostate, kidney, bladder. Our bones are thus considered a privileged “harbor” for cancer cells, and this is also associated with a very poor survival prognostic: bone-developing cancers account for ~3 million deaths each year. When at all existing, treatments are poorly effective: 92% of new therapies successful in preclinical testing fail in clinical trials. This urgently calls for the development of models to study cancer and test therapeutics in a more reliable fashion. Towards this objective, we proposed to engineer human mini-bones in mice, in order to mimic the patient bone-developing cancer condition. These mini-bones (aka human ossicles) forming in animals consists in miniaturized bone organs composed of the patient own cells, including cancer cells. The human ossicles were thus proposed as unique technology to study tumour progression but also test therapeutics in an advanced and personalized in vivo setting. However, despite substantial promises, the human ossicle model suffers from a lack of standardization: only 10% of patient-derived cells can successfully form human ossicle5. This prevents the large exploitation of hOss as a standard model to study bone-developing cancers and establish tailored treatments. We here propose OssiGel as a technology offering the standardized and reproducible formation of human ossicles. OssiGel consists in a cell-secreted gel, which production is ensured by a dedicated human cell line. Mixing isolated patient cells with OssiGel in vitro restore their capacity to form human ossicle. By injecting the OssiGel/patient-cells mixture in the back of mice leads to the successful formation of human ossicle in vivo (Fig. 1). The resulting patient-derived bones can then be used to study cancer development and for the personal testing/selection of drugs.
Microneedle array-Mediated Combinatorial Photodynamic Raman Nanotheranostics for simultaneous Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy (MNA-Cancer)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Skin cancer (SC) is the most common human malignancy with rapidly increasing incidence due to numerous environmental, genetic, and metabolic reasons. Highly effective, convenient, inexpensive and widely deployable SC diagnostic and therapies are urgently needed to address this public health issue. Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is one of the available non-invasive SC treatments that involves the combination of photosensitizer (PS), light and molecular oxygen to elicit cancer cell’s death by generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Despite its potential, PDT’s effectiveness is limited by issues such as photobleaching, self-aggregation of PSs, and inadequate visible light penetration into skin tissues due to absorption by photoreceptive chromophores, necessitating further research and development. Our proposed approach introduces a novel process using X-ray active nanotheranostic photosensitizers (NT@PS), which are developed by combining scintillators metal (e.g. Gd) with PSs (e.g. Rose Bengal) to enhance ROS production, photostability, and offer persistent luminescence properties. The outermost layer of skin limits the passive transport of PSs, therefore microneedle arrays (MNAs) technology will be used to achieve effective NT@PS delivery to deep SC sites. MNAs are an emerging drug delivery platform that addresses the limitations of conventional needle-based systems. Upon successful delivery and diffusion of NT@PS through the MNAs device, X-PDT will be assessed in-vivo using subcutaneously implanted SC cells, with real-time monitoring through Raman spectroscopy. Overall, this project aims to revolutionize skin cancer diagnosis and treatment through the development of an innovative combinatorial nanotheranostic system. Additionally, this fellowship and mentorship from leading researcher will lay a solid foundation for the fellow independent research career, providing access to a dynamic research environment, comprehensive training and a robust collaboration network

Keywords: skin cancer,melanoma skin cancer,nonmelanoma skin cancer,nanotheranostic,microneedle arrays,reactive oxygen species,photodynamic therapy,radiotherapy