Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe (WeLaR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Luxembourg,Poland,Austria,Italy,Germany,Serbia
Call: Providing support in a changing world of work and social protection (HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999742.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999742.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Four megatrends - technological transformations, globalisation, climate warming and demographic changes - reshape labour markets, redefine opportunities and risks, and pose new challenges for welfare states in the EU. WeLaR aims to fill knowledge gaps about these processes by pursuing two main goals: (i) provide a comprehensive and comparative diagnosis of the effects on megatrends on labour market risks and challenges for welfare states; (ii) develop policy recommendations to adapt welfare states. WeLaR contributes to the destination’s goal of promoting inclusive growth, fair distribution of its productivity gains, and boosting economic and social resilience. In measuring effects, we account for interactions between megatrends, and disentangle their impacts of on labour supply, labour demand, and labour market allocations, which are also shaped by institutions. We pay particular attention to groups that often face higher labour market risks: women, young workers, people in atypical jobs or in in-work poverty. In developing policy proposals, we combine simulations with lessons from recent welfare state interventions and social innovation experiments, while accounting for political economy of reforms. We use an interdisciplinary approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods and adopts a cross-country perspective, covering the entire EU, which allows us to understand the role of country-specific institutional settings for the effects of megatrends and challenges for welfare states. To ensure relevance of policy ideas, we engage in extensive consultations and set up feedback loops with stakeholders, which complement and validate the quantitative and qualitative studies. These stakeholder consultations help to develop concrete policy proposals aimed at resilient, inclusive growth. We deliver research papers and policy briefs. To maximise WeLaR’s impact, we disseminate the lessons learned and policy proposals to policy-makers, stakeholders and the public.

Keywords: megatrends,labour supply and demand,labour market institutions,welfare states,public finance,stakeholder engagement,evidence based policy advice,social innovation,inclusive growth,resilience
Scaling the largest VPP made of EVs (VPPofEVs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Energy storage (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3764750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Deftpower will develop, bring to market and scale across Europe an innovative plug-and-play virtual power plant of electric vehicles. To its customers, Deftpower offers a SaaS platform as a white label charging app for normal and smart charging, connecting EV drivers to charge points and energy markets in Europe. The platform can influence the charging cycle, enabling demand response and peak-shaving, which will make grid management for DSOs and TSOs more cost efficient. Through developing the platform with a machine-learning based forecasting model, Deftpower can extract and trade flexibility from EVs. Grid operators can access this flexibility and use it to maintain a stable and reliable grid. EV owners can monetize their vehicles by providing them for grid balancing, being rewarded through Deftpower’s service. By ensuring that EVs are not only a cleaner mode of transportation, but also a key player in providing flexibility to the grid, Deftpower is helping to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future by reducing the costs of EVs, avoiding costly grid investments and shifting the demand of electricity to moments in the day where electricity is cleaner. The latter will also improve the ROI on green energy investments such as wind and solar power generation.

Keywords: business model innovation,energy management,vehicle technology mobility,virtual power plant,electric vehicle,smart charging,demand response,energy system flexibility,distribution system operat
MUSAE: a human-centred factory for a future technological sustainable development driven by arts (MUSAE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Belgium,Ireland,United Kingdom,Serbia
Call: Art-driven use experiments and design (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3088475.5
EU funding (EUR): 3088475.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The European economy's Digital Transformation (DT) is crucial for preserving and boosting international competitive advantages (Digital European Programme). A green and sustainable transformation is a vital step for protecting the health and wellbeing of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts where digital techs are considered a critical enabler for attaining the European Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is urgent to define innovative R&D models to systematically integrate artistic collaboration in Digital Innovation Hubs to provide companies with new forms of transdisciplinary collaboration aiming to explore future scenarios for technologies application using artistic practice to anticipate innovative products and services to meet the SDGs for innovation towards a sustainable and healthy planet. The project aims to set up the MUSAE Factory Model based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method to be included in the (E)DIHs to strategically guide digital technology innovation and address future challenges in the food domain to improve people and planet wellbeing. MUSAE will build on a DFA method that merges the Design Futures method by POLIMI with Art Thinking approach by STARTS partner Gluon and UB - School of Art. The DFA will help artists envision future scenarios (5-10 years), critically reflect on them, and collaborate with technology providers to develop new technological solutions that meet the future humanity needs with a human-centred approach, opening up new markets and activities. Four technological partners will empower the approach by bringing relevant expertise in Artificial Intelligence-UB, wearables-ABACUS, robotics-PAL, human-machine-interaction-UoM. To validate replicability, the MUSAE project will set up and activate one factory within the DIH partner (MADE) and create the Factory Model Pack that will allow other DIHs to adopt it. The project focusing on Food as Medicine includes an expert in food and wellbeing themes (UCD)

Keywords: design futures art driven food as medicine digital and sustainable transformation health and wellbeing
Photonic metasurfaces for resource-efficient ultrathin high efficiency tandem solar cells (PHASE)

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: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2676875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2676875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The transition towards a society based on 100% renewable energy requires massive deployment of photovoltaics of 30-70 TW until 2050. This requires huge amounts of resources, while their limited availability is already becoming apparent. A major lever to reduce resource consumption is to increase the solar cell efficiency. As best single junction solar cells approach their fundamental limits, higher efficiency can only be reached with so-called tandem solar cells, made of two or more subcells. All tandem technologies so far are based on relatively thick absorber layers, reducing resource demand compared to single junction devices by efficiency increase. There, light trapping strategies are used to maximize absorptance close to the band gap of the materials and improve efficiency by few percent relative. However, by applying advanced light trapping techniques such as nanophotonic metasurfac-es, ultrathin single junction devices with a 5-10-fold decrease in semiconductor material were realized. To reduce resource demand further, the concept of ultrathin solar cells must be extended to tandem devices. This introduces severe challenges, as not only absorption needs to be maximized within the active part, but a spectrally dependent light guiding strategy is required. Metasurfaces have shown the ability to manipulate light e.g. spectrally dependent; however, they have never been implemented into tandem solar cells. Thus, the overarching goal of PHASE is to generate a deep physical understanding of metasurfaces for ultrathin tandem solar cells and to develop process flows to implement nanopho-tonic structures into such devices with efficiencies above 30%. This will proof that the chosen tech-nology pathway can support the urgently needed energy transition. More specific, the goal of PHASE is to realize tandem solar cells, where the resource demanding semiconductor part is 10 times thinner (and thus needs 10 times less semiconductor material) than similar existing devices.

Keywords: tandem photovoltaics,ultrathin solar cells,wave optical modeling
Long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges: are these catastrophic events related to climate change phenomena? (RIDGES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges are amongst the most catastrophic type of mass movements and the least understood. Only ancient (i.e., ~60 ka/7 ka) long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges are preserved in the terrestrial geomorphological record. This geomorphological record is critical to understanding where, when, and how these catastrophic events occurred, thus critical to addressing a key question in hazard assessment: how likely events of similar magnitude to those of the past are likely to occur in the future? The RIDGES project aims to answer this important question: are long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges related to climate change phenomena, i.e., deglaciation and permafrost degradation? This project will study well-preserved long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges in Iceland, a unique region for its high spatial density of well-preserved long-runout landslides with and without longitudinal ridges, not seen anywhere else on Earth. By using an original combination of interdisciplinary methods and a multi-scale approach to understand the chronology and the complexity of large slope instability in deglaciated areas, which remain major geomorphological issues worldwide, RIDGES will directly reconstruct paleo-climatic and paleo-environmental conditions during which landslides with longitudinal ridges formed in Iceland. The results from RIDGES will help better understanding whether the occurrence of catastrophic landslides with longitudinal ridges is related to climate change phenomena. If a correlation is found, it will help mitigating the risks associated with mass movements in rapidly deglaciating regions due to climate change, such as Greenland and Alaska.

Keywords: geomorphology longitudinal ridges landslides paleoenvironment earth
Superheated steam drying for sustainable and recyclable web-like materials (SteamDry)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Finland,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,France,Italy
Call: Energy efficiency breakthroughs in the process industries (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11193262.23
EU funding (EUR): 9843168.48
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

SteamDry develops and pilots superheated steam drying technology (SSD) for weblike materials such as paper, board, tissue, and nonwovens. SSD is expected to reduce the consumption of energy radically, leading to 60% energy savings in a drying process, representing ~40% energy savings on the entire production line. It also demonstrates a concept that can lead to CO2 emission-free paper and board manufacturing, and an increase in the share of renewable energy. In a long term, the energy savings potential in Europe is 127 TWh or 6 B€ annually for paper and board manufacturers. In addition to pulp and paper sectors, the developed concepts are expected to be suitable for chemical industry and wood processing applications. Through the developed SteamDry concept, the technology suppliers can increase their market share revenue 230-345 M€ annually in Europe. The global annual energy savings potential is 870 TWh, almost 7x of European energy savings and market potential. The developed solution can be installed on either existing infrastructure or on newbuilt machines with low CAPEX and OPEX creating new opportunities for technology suppliers and savings for the users of this technology. Results ultimately lead to the prosperity of these companies and the CO2-savings targets of the EU. Exploitation potential will be validated through the business cases calculated by technology suppliers and product manufacturers. The piloting of SSD increases knowledge of a) keeping two gas phases, air and steam, separate, b) cleaning superheated steam from biobased particles, c) operating these safely and d) AI-supported advanced control platform. This approach builds on the consortium with strong capabilities to perform the action. The consortium consists of four R&D institutes and two universities - with piloting, technology upscaling, AI, and modeling expertise - two leading technology suppliers and five product manufacturers that are potential end users for the developed technology.

Keywords: drying,superheated steam drying,papermaking,technology development,piloting
Sensory Endovascular Robot (SER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call: Strategic Digital and Health Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3559093.75
EU funding (EUR): 2491365.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We have developed a smart, sensory, teleoperated robotic system for endovascular procedures – Sentante. It allows an endovascular procedure to be performed without exposure to harmful X-rays. Using a robotic system doctors may perform the full endovascular procedure from a different room, in the future – even a different hospital. Intuitive controls and universal compatibility with marketed endovascular instruments make Sentante ideal for fast implementation into the routine clinical workflow with almost no additional training. Patients will benefit from better treatment availability, particularly in urgent cases with no need for patient transportation from a local hospital. Hospitals will benefit from cheaper 24/7 service, the ability to retain experienced doctors, attract more patients. AI implementation and partial automatization of some of the procedures are planned for the future.
Transport layer engineering towards lower threshold for perovskite lasers (TLTL)

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 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-15
End date: 2024-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Towards demonstrating new electrically pumped lasers based on the emerge metal halide perovskite, it is necessary to sandwich the perovskite thin film into transport layers for the integration of electrical devices. However, it is challenging to maintain the low threshold when introducing transport layers. The appearance of perovskite/transport layer interfaces, which is absent in most optically pumped perovskite lasers, is even considered as detrimental factors to lasing actions. By carefully integrating the perovskite films into electrical device structures, though reaching very high injection current densities (> 1 kA/cm2), often fails to realize lasing actions. The next urgent milestone towards electrically pumped perovskite lasers would be realization of low threshold when incorporating transport layers. This project has the goal to reduce lasing threshold of perovskite devices through transport layer engineering, a strategy which is the key step towards realizing perovskite lasers. I will take a holistic approach, where two novel strategies are proposed independently. Two objectives will contribute to solve an important challenge on interface engineering towards electrically pumped perovskite lasers. Objective 1: To reduce the surface recombination loss for low threshold. I will seek effective approaches to passivate perovskite films through transport layer engineering, leading to suppressed radiative and nonradiative recombination loss at perovskite boundaries. Objective 2: To reduce recombination loss channels caused by hot carriers for low threshold. I will achieve this objective by hot carrier management via selective transport layers, aiming at suppressing hot carrier injection and facilitating hot carrier cooling.

Keywords: transport layer engineering low threshold hot carrier management reduce recombination loss perovskite lasers
Early and sensitive detection of renal involvement and treatment responses in lupus patients using non-invasive biomarkers (EARLINESS)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226441.2
EU funding (EUR): 226441.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune connective disease in which the immune system attacks its own structures, causing widespread inflammation and tissue damage in the affected organs. The kidney is one of the main organs affected by SLE, and lupus nephritis (LN) concerns 30–60% of adult SLE patients, being significantly associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality. The definitive diagnosis of LN can only be achieved by histological analysis of renal biopsies, but the invasiveness of this technique is an obstacle for early diagnosis of renal involvement and a proper follow-up of LN patients under treatment. Our aim to identify minimally invasive biomarkers of renal involvement and non-response to therapy in SLE using body fluid (urine and blood), using cutting-edge technologies related with flow cytometry: blood mass cytometry, urinary inflammatory mediators, extracellular vesicle analysis and urinary microbiome. The tissue/fluid correlation will be assessed using kidney biopsy samples following a liquid biopsy approach. We will apply this analysis to longitudinal samples of LN patients recruited in 3TR consortium, and finally design a prototype kit for LN diagnosis and prognosis. With this project EARLINESS participate in the efforts of the scientific community to develop effective strategies for personalized rheumatology.

Keywords: non invasive biomarkers systemic lupus erythematosus nephritis extracellular vesicles inflammation precision rheumatology
IoRT Data management and analysis for Sustainable Agriculture (GreenFieldData)

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: France,Poland,Italy,Denmark,Belgium,Ireland,Portugal
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4220298.72
EU funding (EUR): 4220298.72
Participants: 40
Project status: SIGNED

GreenFieldData will train a new generation of researchers able to tackle digital and green transition challenges using a human-centric approach to ensure the robustness and relevance of the solutions responding to the specific needs of the EU market in a context of climate change and increasing socio-economic constraints. At a policy level GreenFieldData outcomes will feed in directly to the aims of the HE Strategic Plan 2025-2027, EU Partnership Agriculture of Data and Digital EU Program. GreenFieldData proposes a high-level interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral and international (triple ‘i’) research project and training network on new IoRT (Internet of Robotic Things ) based solutions for sustainable agriculture. GreenFieldData will mobilize 14 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) enrolled in Double Degree Doctorate programmes with 12 academic main beneficiaries partners, across 7 EU countries. Moreover, 21 non-academic associated partners, and 3 academic associated partners will provide support to the DCs. The partners form a high quality network, Academic partners have previous research collaborations as outlined in a common vision paper. The ambitious project will provide the DCs with a unique toolbox of cutting-edge knowledge, tools and strategies which will boost their employability and benefit the next generation operational workforce (researchers, Digital Technologies (DTs) and agricultural stakeholders). The project results will also benefit EU innovation as the human-centric IoT devices&robotics data-based solutions tailored to EU context will enable the agricultural sector to assess and mitigate the impacts of climate change, and define new sustainable low input practices, thus increasing resilience and competitiveness.

Keywords: advanced database management systems ai edge fog cloud architectures iot sustainable agriculture efficient low input gender inclusivity