Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the ICLEAR-EU intervention to integrate palliative care in the treatment of people with advanced COPD and their family caregivers: An international stepped wedge cluster RCT in six European countries. (EU PAL-COPD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Novel approaches for palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5162444.25
EU funding (EUR): 5162444.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a devastating life-limiting lung disease with a high personal and societal burden. Worldwide, COPD is the third leading cause of death. The symptom burden of people with COPD is as severe and burdensome as the symptom burden of people with lung COPD. While palliative care in many countries is available for people with lung COPD, palliative care and good end-of-life care for people with COPD are not well integrated into their treatment by respiratory hospital teams in Europe. The EU PAL-COPD project is a multidisciplinary, interprofessional, international and intersectoral project aiming at evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the ICLEAR-EU intervention for people with advanced COPD in different healthcare systems in Europe. ICLEAR-EU is a person-centred and family-centred non-pharmacological service intervention in which respiratory teams in the hospital collaborate with interdisciplinary palliative care teams and with primary care to promote shared decision-making and advance care planning, improve symptom treatment and comfort care, and prevent re-hospitalization after an exacerbation. ICLEAR-EU is based on an existing intervention developed and pilot tested in the UK. In EU PAL-COPD, the effectiveness of ICLEAR-EU will be assessed with a stepped wedge cluster RCT in 1,224 people with advanced COPD in 18 hospitals across six European countries. It is hence the first large-scale international trial on systematic integration of palliative care in respiratory care for people with advanced COPD. Cost-effectiveness, robust mixed methods subgroup analyses and in-depth process and implementation evaluations are also included. EU PAL-COPD will improve the well-being and empowerment of people with COPD and their families and advance the state of the art by providing an innovative service model to the complex palliative and end-of-life care needs. User and stakeholder involvement is crucial throughout the project.

Keywords: end of life,palliative care,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd,quality of life,person family centered care,stepped wedge cluster rct,process evaluation,health economics,ethics
Consumers’ Understanding of Eating Sustainably (CUES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Hungary,Italy,Croatia,Iceland,Portugal,Greece
Call: Inclusive and smart ways to communicate sustainability of food (HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6496857.5
EU funding (EUR): 6496856.75
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Fostering a significant Triple Change concerning culture, food value chain, and policy in the food system is crucial for ensuring that sustainable food is desirable and trustworthy for consumers. To address the urgent need for a more sustainable food system that benefits the environment, society, and the economy, CUES (Consumers’ Understanding of Eating Sustainably) sets to foster the Triple Change through co-designing scientific methods and approaches to transmit and present sustainability related information to guide consumer knowledge and behaviour, and to determine the persuasive cues to promote sustainable consumer behaviour most effectively. CUES will develop nine interventions and a series of policy dialogues through a multi-actor participatory approach. This innovative approach goes beyond the state-of-the-art by addressing the complex interplay of factors in the food system and actively involving consumers, food value chain actors, and policymakers. The learning community, communication and behaviour change toolkits developed by CUES aim to remove the bottlenecks in current practice with respect to informing, motivating and engaging consumers, and to reach at least three million consumers, increasing their consumption of sustainable food.

Keywords: food system,sustainability,consumers,communication,persuasive cues,food value chain,policy makers,food labelling,co creation
The European Hydrogen Academy (HyAcademy.EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Czechia,Germany,Belgium,Bulgaria,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Romania
Call: European Hydrogen Academy (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2987233.75
EU funding (EUR): 2987233.75
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

HyAcademy.EU will capitalise on the investments already made by the European Commission and Member States in education and training activities. The consortium brings together representatives from multiple projects (Table 1), enabling previous outputs to be consolidated and exploited, maximising the Academy impact and reach. In order to realise its objectives, the European Hydrogen Academy will have achieved by midterm to - build and sustain a network of over 100 universities (The Network of 100) offering recognised qualifications, specialisations, and degrees in hydrogen technologies, - build and sustain a network of over 500 schools integrating hydrogen topics into their science teaching, including technical schools and colleges with more specific technical training, - create a network of 5 hands-on, physical training laboratories, - offer a portal to showcase and link the educational programmes available in the network and beyond, in order to supply prospective trainees with accurate and detailed information on training and career opportunities, with a minimum of 100.000 accesses to documents specialising in hydrogen topics, - provide free training materials across European languages to lecturers and teachers in order to enable educational staff to deliver the vast body of educational measures necessary, - develop and integrate novel (online) teaching methodologies into university, college and school curricula, and train educational staff to successfully employ these, and - create and implement an organisational structure and a successful business case allowing continuation of the project activities post-funding in establishing a European Hydrogen Academy spanning all levels and types of education and training. HyAcademy.EU will considerably contribute to the EU goals of offering access to high-quality education, supporting the creation of a highly-skilled workforce and more and better jobs in the European hydrogen industry. Through the school activities it will foster public awareness and acceptance of hydrogen technologies.

Keywords: skills development,university education,hydrogen
Vehicle-Sensing Digital Twin for Highway Maintenance Decision-Making (VSDT-HiDM)

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: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, highways, as one of the major financial community assets, predominantly rely on manual surveys by inspectors for their maintenance, followed by necessary repair actions taken by asset managers; a static process that causes significant delays and cost inefficiencies. As the world experiences its fourth industrial revolution, commonly known as Industry 4.0 (I4.0), practitioners are beginning to engage with I4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins (DT). Such technologies are automating and digitizing previously analogue processes, enabling modern and sustainable asset management. However, their adoption is often based on big data, and the availability of such data for vast highway assets is a problem; deploying sensors across extensive highway networks is costly. To solve this, we propose using sensor data from passenger vehicles to monitor highway assets, serving as a link between I4.0 and highway maintenance. On the other hand, I4.0 will have limited value if they focus solely on building information modelling (BIM) and data storage. This requires an information-knowledge-action framework to plan long-term maintenance strategies, thereby realizing the economic value of information and achieving sector renewal. This project will: a) develop an interface to integrate sensor data from passenger vehicles into DT to access real-time updates on highway assets (data from Mercedes-Benz); b) propose a holistic model to support decision-making based on the updates. The model and surrounding findings will be transformed using co-design methods into a suite of industry-targeted tools tailored to the National Highways (NH) asset operators. I will move to University of Cambridge to complete this fellowship. Didimi will participate as an associated partner, providing access to proprietary data from Mercedes-Benz (MB) passenger vehicles and key point of contacts (POCs) from the pilot highway operator NH team and the maintenance team Costain.

Keywords: digital roads asset management vehicle based monitoring intelligent transport infrastructure decision making
Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum (Swarmchestrate)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Hungary,Spain,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom,Greece,Finland,Slovenia,Cyprus,Italy
Call: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (AI, data and robotics partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4980369.11
EU funding (EUR): 4331726.25
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Collecting and analysing large amounts of data in the Cloud-to-Edge computing continuum raises novel challenges. Processing all this data centrally in cloud data centres is not feasible anymore as transferring large amounts of data to the cloud is time-consuming, expensive, degrade performance and may raise security concerns. Therefore, novel distributed computing paradigms, such as edge and fog computing emerged to support processing data closer to its origin. However, such hyper-distributed systems require fundamentally new methods. To overcome the limitation of current centralised application management approaches, Swarmhestrate will develop a completely novel decentralised application-level orchestrator, based on the notion of self-organised interdependent Swarms. Application microservices are managed in a dynamic Orchestration Space by decentralised Orchestration Agents, governed by distributed intelligence that provides matchmaking between application requirements and resources, and supports the dynamic self-organisation of Swarms. Knowledge and trust, essential for the operation of the Orchestration Space, will be managed through blockchain-based trusted solutions using methods of Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) and Distributed Identifiers (DID). End-to-end security of the overall system will be assured by utilising state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithms and privacy preserving data analytics. Due to the imminent complexity of the decentralised system, novel simulation approaches will be developed to test and optimise system behaviour (e.g., energy efficiency) in the early stages of development. Additionally, the simulator will be further extended into a digital twin running in parallel to the physical system and improving its behaviour with predictive feedback. The Swarmchestrate concept will be prototyped on four real-life demonstrators from the areas of flood prevention, parking space management, video analytics and a digital twin of natural habitat.

Keywords: cloud to edge continuum,swarm computing,decentralised orchestration,distributed intelligence,energy efficiency,decentralised knowledge management
Novel highly sensitive NanoWire sensors for disease biomarker analysis (NanoWi)

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 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3308491.5
EU funding (EUR): 2315943.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nanowire-based platforms are expected to radically impact disease diagnosis and precision medicine thanks to their high surface-area-to-footprint ratio and optical waveguiding properties. The challenge is to cost-effectively produce nanowires in a reproducible manner. At Aligned Bio, we have developed a new technology that enables, for the first time, mass- and cost-effective production of nanowire sensors. Our solution relies on three core patented technologies, which when combined, allow to produce low-cost, high-quality nanowires with controlled diameters to reproducibly enhance waveguiding properties of nanowire platforms. This unique combination of novel technologies results in enhanced biomarker detection platform devices with 20 times higher sensitivity than current solutions in the market and, crucially, at low price. To effectively carry out the tasks needed to reach TRL9, the EIC Accelerator project is crucial to bridging the critical risk-gap.

Keywords: diagnostic tools,medical devices,immunology,semiconductors,process engineering,production technology
Informing and educating young people on more sustainable behaviours and choices to build a future Generation informed and interested in Bioeconomy (GenB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Portugal,Slovakia,Belgium,Austria,Spain,Greece
Call: Education on the bioeconomy including bio-based sectors for young people in primary and secondary education in Europe (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999762.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999762.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

GenB contributes to the implementation of the updated 2018 EU Bioeconomy Strategy and the European Green Deal priorities, and the achievement of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and the Sustainable Development Goals, involving: the most relevant awareness and education EU funded projects and initiatives (Transition2Bio, BIObec, AllThings.Biopro, WaysTUP!, BIOSWITCH, BLOOM, BIOVOICES, BIOWAYS, LIFT, Biobridges, BioCannDo, EuBioNet), European and International school networks and experts in socio-economic science and humanities. GenB overall objective is to raise the Generation Bioeconomy (GenB), aware, sensitive and interested on environmental issues, sustainability and circularity. GenB will: Co-create innovative approaches in cooperation with young people, parents, teachers and other formal and non-formal education professionals, to provide formats, materials and toolkits on bioeconomy and bio-based sectors, through social innovation (Common Ground Camp, Focus Groups and Living Labs); Inspire & Inform young people, raising their awareness on sustainable and circular bioeconomy and bio-based sectors, including the promotion of bioeconomy careers; Educate young people to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable and circular behaviours and lifestyles, teachers in teaching environmental issues and other multipliers to promote the bioeconomy to their target audiences; Engage and Empower Bioeconomy Youth Ambassadors (GenB Ambassadors), the frontrunners in driving the change by attracting and influencing other young people; support them to Take a role creating opportunities to make their ‘voices’ heard and assume their role in the transition. To maximise its impacts and ensure exploitation, replicability and sustainability, GenB will: widely communicate and engage the society, create synergies with other projects and initiatives, consolidate the GenB education model, produce policy recommendations targeting Ministries of Education and other policy makers.

Keywords: young people,teachers,education,awareness,communication,information,engagement,empowerment,bioeconomy,bio based sectors,toolkits,policy recommendations,social innovation,co creation
Beyond mapping of the human brain: causal deconstruction of brain mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors (BeyondMapping)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1637981.0
EU funding (EUR): 1637981.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Social information pervades every aspect of our lives, and our ability to process it and respond appropriately is essential to our success as individuals and of society as a whole. Despite its critical importance, there are profound individual differences in social processing abilities. The key to understanding this variance may lie beyond isolated cortical regions, in the poorly understood large-scale interactions between different cortical networks which facilitate the integration of information and the execution of complex tasks. We propose a novel framework, designed to introduce new tools to the study of some of the most fundamental questions in social neuroscience: are there dedicated brain mechanisms for the processing of social information? What goes wrong in social information processing disorders, and how does social information processing relate to social anxiety? Do these abilities fluctuate over long time scales (years)? Can we predict their change? We will create new behavioral tasks to tease apart social task elements, and objectively estimate individual social processing abilities using our innovative measure of typicality. We will quantify individual differences in performance on social tasks, and identify the variance in neural activity which predicts them from a wide range of network features at the high resolution of ultra-high field 7 Tesla fMRI. This will yield testable hypotheses about the links between networks and social behavior. Finally and most crucially, to test these hypotheses, we will use covert neurofeedback, a cutting-edge technique which I have been developing, to perturb the networks, establishing their causal contribution to behavior. The combination of novel behavioral, neurocomputational, and above all perturbation tools for testing causality, will provide insights which will profoundly impact our understanding of social information processing in health, and advance the reality of personalized treatment of social disorders.

Keywords: cognition,individual differences,plasticity,neural networks
Vertical Bridge Deck Acceleration Investigation Considering Ballasted Track Stability and Train Running Safety (VIBRATS)

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,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 236340.0
EU funding (EUR): 236340.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The VIBRATS project aims to provide additional background for revising criteria for vertical bridge deck acceleration limits, contribute to more economical designs and maintenance practices for both bridges and ballasted track, and promote the sustainability of railway transport. Through a combination of full-scale experimental studies, numerical simulations using the Discrete Element Method (DEM), and an advanced vehicle-track-bridge model, the research will explore the dynamic interactions among bridge deck acceleration, ballast interlock, track stability, and train running safety. This project involves significant multidisciplinary research, leveraging collaboration with top-tier experts in railway engineering. The applicant will conduct VIBRATS under the supervision of world-renowned bridge experts at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and railway track experts at University of Birmingham. We will fully utilize their respective expertise and resources in the fields of ballasted track and bridge dynamics research, combined with my own experience in DEM simulation of ballasted track and vehicle-track coupled dynamics. This project will not only enhance the applicant's research capabilities and professional skills but also provide a platform for expanding networks within the railway engineering community, facilitating future collaborative research. VIBRATS will also offer valuable technical guidance for updating bridge design standards and maintenance practices, reducing reliance on empirical decision-making and optimizing railway infrastructure performance. The project is expected to reduce life-cycle maintenance costs by up to 10% in specific use cases and potentially lower construction costs by an estimated 5%(expected). These outcomes will contribute to more sustainable and economical designs for railway bridges and tracks, aligning with the European Green Deal's goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing the sustainability of rail transport.

Keywords: railway engineering railway infrastructure ballasted track bridge dynamics railway granular media