Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
robust Privacy-preserving biOmetric technologies for Passengers’ identification and verification at EU external borders maximising the accuracY, reliability and throughput of the rEcognition (PopEye)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Border Management
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Norway,Sweden,Netherlands,Romania,Switzerland,Belgium,Germany,Luxembourg,Greece,Finland
Call: Beyond the state-of-the-art “biometrics on the move” for border checks (HORIZON-CL3-2023-BM-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3598403.4
EU funding (EUR): 3212589.63
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

PopEye unique value proposition focuses on a) strengthening the security at the external EU borders through fusing robust biometric technologies for verification and identification, b) maximising the travellers’ experience when crossing the external EU borders through unobtrusive on-the-move biometric technologies, c) improving the productivity of Border Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies in performing identification and verification of people on the move and without stopping them, at up to 200m distance, when multiple travellers cross borders, on foot or inside the same vehicle, in different nature e.g. open-air conditions, night, time, time constraints, space constraints, etc. PopEye will introduce novel and robust biometric technologies in the five areas identified by the aforementioned Frontex report combined with gait recognition, in order to maximise the impact and the return on investment in short term. PopEye through the proposed technologies will support both EU and Third Country Nationals (TCN) citizens, will be compliant with existing and upcoming regulations such as GDPR and AI Act, will comply with the Ethics Guidelines on Trustworthy AI (2019), will empower the EU values and fundamental rights, including on data protection and avoid bias and discrimination.
Personalised Bioelectronics for Epithelial Repair (ProBER)

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: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Care of chronic wounds constitutes an enormous socioeconomic burden to the European Healthcare system calling for new strategies to support healing for wounds at risk. As a restored epithelium will outperform any artificial scaffold in protecting the underlying tissue, fast re-epithelialization is the primary goal. In culture models of wound healing, we have shown that direct current stimulation (DCs) makes epithelial ruptures close up to three times faster, and that the key to success is dosage. This aspect is overlooked in previous clinical studies. Typically, DCs thresholds established in cultures are lost in translation, because of the lack of technologies able to support DCs on the skin. In ProBER we will change this. We will exploit technologies for making conformal, metal free, biocompatible DCs electrodes for skin developed in the ERC StG SPEEDER. By focussing on personalisation of the bioelectronic wound dressing we will ensure that the same efficient parameter space established in culture models can be precisely replicated on actual wounds. Our goal is a fabrication pipeline with wound dressings tailored to the wound. We will collect information on wound size and shape using LIDAR 3D scanning, and feed this, as well as impedance measurements, to an automated personalisation algorithm. Personalisation extends beyond fabrication as the ProBER wound dressing will include integrated impedance sensors to ensure that DCs is adapted to the healing progress. In ProBER, we will prepare our promising concept for subsequent clinical studies, which requires a functional concept for fabrication and proof-of-concept demonstration. We will co-develop our wound dressing together with stakeholders in healthcare, and work to protect IP, recruit strategic partners and form alliances for clinical translation.
SKILL BILL: Skill to Boost Innovation and professional fulfiLLment in a sustainable economy (SKILL BILL)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Belgium,Spain,Finland,Netherlands,Slovakia
Call: Sustainability and educational aspects for renewable energy and renewable fuel technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493640.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493640.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

SKILLBILL’s overall objective is to develop a large and strong foundation for the growth and acceleration of renewable energy’s deployment, thanks to engaging with stakeholders of the whole chain, diffusing scientific culture and skilling multi-level workers. The basic idea underling the project is that the knowledge should be diffused at several different levels and qualitatively appropriate both to train the adequate number of workers and to increase RES awareness and to reach a more social and inclusive Europe The project aims at creating several pathways to induce target groups to get interested or involved in RES besides their initial level of education and their working position: the technological RES potential can be reached by increasing hard and soft skills of potential users and stakeholders, developing interest in the topic and having clear and appropriate approaches, such as tools and learning modules using suitable language. It’s important, beside the creation of instruments for the upskilling and reskilling of workers, technician and designers, to have awareness modules for unspecific public in order to fight against ignorance, fake news, gender gap and the phenomenon of functional illiteracy: it is widely documented that lifelong suitable learning process is the fundamental driver to support the development, maintenance and update of skills. SKILLBILL proposes concrete actions to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy at different levels: 1. Stakeholder community engagement 2. Knowledge sharing and peer learning 3. Skilling, upskilling, reskilling SKILLBILL will i) analyse and involve all the interested parts in open discussion using adequate language; ii) create several different pathways to increase skills after having mapped knowledge gap and without gender prejudice; iii) develop and implement innovative learning method; vi) evaluate the work performed.

Keywords: skill,european master,vocational educational training,stakeholder engagement
Offering combined HPV vaccination and HPV test-based cervical screening to vulnerable populations. A hybrid efficacy and implementation study. (HPV-FASTER-Implement)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health-care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Spain,Romania,Denmark,Estonia,Sweden,Ireland
Call: Access to health and care services for people in vulnerable situations (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-04-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6754394.58
EU funding (EUR): 6602444.87
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

HPV-FASTER-Implement aims to improve cervical cancer (CC) prevention. Although human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and CC screening programmes have significantly reduced mortality, they have reached a plateau because they remain largely inaccessible and underused by vulnerable populations, creating inequalities in the European healthcare system. This adds to the difficulties already faced by vulnerable populations in their efforts to maintain their mental and physical health. HPV-FASTER-Implement will create a Europe-wide knowledge framework on vulnerabilities and the health challenges they pose, as well as the tools to monitor their evolution. HPV-FASTER-Implement will work with stakeholder representatives, primarily from vulnerable populations, to identify context-specific strategies to deliver combined HPV vaccines and HPV-based CC screening to eligible vulnerable populations, thereby reducing the burden of CC in Europe. HPV-FASTER-Implement will develop health education interventions, communication activities and other services to meet the need of vulnerable population with high risk of CC and inadequate access to health services. Through stakeholder engagement, health literacy promotion, mathematical modelling, implementation research, and vulnerability mapping, we will collect, analyse and share knowledge on gaps and opportunities to improve CC prevention in Europe, and progress FASTER towards CC elimination. We will work to ensure that the data we produce are translated into policy recommendations aimed at strengthening national prevention programmes with interventions tailored to vulnerable populations. In this way, we can leverage limited resources to rapidly reduce CC mortality. We aim to reduce health inequalities by offering an innovative prevention intervention to women at risk, with the hope that 50% of those offered the intervention will take it. HPV-FASTER-Implement will make the necessary improvements to European CC prevention policies.

Keywords: cervical cancer,vaccination,screening,human papilloma virus,co creation,empowerment,implementation,ethics,stigma,lgbtq,decision models,digital tools,human rights
Constructing the Danish Colonial State in Global Contexts (CoDaCo)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project provides the first global intellectual history of Denmark as a colonial state. Utilising an innovative methodology combining global intellectual history and the history of knowledge, the project will show how a series of reforms in Denmark and the Danish colonies 1784-1807 aimed at (re)constructing Denmark as a coherent colonial state, an empire in global contexts. It will show how the discourses of natural law and statistics were a key intellectual resource in this endeavour, drawing on networks circulating and producing colonial knowledge. Thus, the project will make an innovative contribution to global intellectual history, the history of Scandinavian colonialism, and the history of knowledge, as well as a path-breaking re-inscription of Denmark into its early modern global history. It will be carried out at a university that is the most thriving research environment on Scandinavian colonial and global history, and history of knowledge. Finally, it is specifically designed to provide the scholarly output and training needed to advance my career onto the next, crucial step.

Keywords: state building,empire,global intellectual history,denmark,greenland,india,west africa,caribbean
Soil condition and capability mapping for sustainable forest management (SELVANS)

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: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-15
End date: 2025-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The conservation and improvement of forest soil resources is essential for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal. Policy-makers and land managers need detailed information -quantitative and spatially explicit- on the effects of management strategies on soil condition and capability for supplying ecosystem services. The rise of digital soil mapping (DSM) and integrative modelling approaches have brought powerful tools for generating data-driven knowledge that can guide the decision-making process. SELVANS will implement an innovative DSM framework for assessing the effects of contemporary forest management on soil change, expressed as biogeochemical processes and microbial functions. The hypothesis is that the response of indicators of soil condition to management practices will differ by soil class depending on the biophysical environment, inherent soil properties and the legacy of land use history. Furthermore, SELVANS will investigate the links between anthropedogenesis and soil microbial functional diversity, and its effects on carbon and nutrient cycling. Soil classes and the degree of anthropogenic pressures on soil will be generated using data-mining algorithms, environmental covariates, time series of satellite imagery, national forestry inventory data and legacy soil data. Soil condition will be characterized with a comprehensive set of physical, chemical and biological soil properties (e.g., soil organic carbon, nutrients, soil microbial diversity and functioning) originating from completed and ongoing projects evaluating the functioning of forest soils. SELVANS' outputs will identify thresholds for decline in soil condition and risk of soil degradation, with an impact for forest management and conservation of soil resources. Finally, the capability of soils for delivering ecosystem services will be quantified applying the integrative modelling framework ARIES.

Keywords: digital soil mapping,soil security,soil condition,soil capability,anthropedogenesis,forest management,soil functioning,biogeochemical cycling,microbial functioning,forest ecology
Commercialization Pinova, a welfare technology start-up (Pinova WTS Startup)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our innovation addresses the societal challenge and market opportunity the ageing of the European population represents. Our innovation makes it possible to continue live safely at home for an extended period, despite age-related functional and mental impairment (UN Sustainable Development Goal #3). Using a non-intrusive system of sensors, algorithms, and artificial intelligence we identify incidents in elderly’s homes. With activity out-of-the-ordinary their loved ones automatically get alerted by a digital generated phone call, explaining the incident. Our innovation is user friendly; no alarm button, application or video surveillance is necessary. We want to penetrate the consumer marked with affordable welfare technology solutions. We are disrupting the industry with deep tech innovations and by using easily accessible sensor technology in a rapid growing market. The current stage of our innovation is testing the beta-version in private homes. After the test period the greatest challenge for our startup and innovation is commercialization and market growth. By participating in The Woman Tech EU program, we aim at bringing our startup closer to commercialization, making proof of concept, product-marked-fit and go-to-market-strategy. The program will be a valued partner pursuing our goals. We believe that mentors from the program will be an important contribution in knowhow of business development. The opportunity to build an international network of experienced mentors and founders will both be inspirational and important. This program will also give us the opportunity to speed up activities. I’m an experience I’m an experienced top-level manager, especially within organizational development, operations, and corporate finance, all at a national business level. Consequently, coaching and mentoring in marketing, growth strategy, and business development into international market would be of utmost value to me personally, and of great importance for Pinova.

Keywords: welfare technology solutions
Experimental Search for Quantum Advantages in Thermodynamics (ESQuAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2124089.0
EU funding (EUR): 2124089.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The technology advances of the last decades are forcing us to re-think laws and concepts of thermodynamics. An intense theoretical effort is underway to understand the role of quantum mechanical ingredients in thermodynamic processes. This effort might ultimately lead to more powerful engines, less energy waste, faster-charging batteries. However, despite pioneering experimental work, progress is hindered by the lack of a comprehensive experimental testbed for quantum thermal machines. In this project I aim to provide the most ambitious and systematic experimental search for quantum advantages in thermodynamics thus far, based on a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture. I will first complement the toolkit of circuit quantum electrodynamics with a novel arrangement, which I term the engineered physical bath. This bath has a broadband, Ohmic spectral density. It can be populated with any spectral distribution and coupled to quantum thermal machines with arbitrary strengths. Finally, heat flows between the bath and the machine can be detected deep in the quantum regime and in a spectrally resolved way. Based on this augmented architecture, I will implement three types of novel quantum refrigerators. I devised each refrigerator to pinpoint the utilization of a specific quantum resource: quantum coherence, measurement backaction, and collective effects. I will measure the cooling power of the refrigerators while in situ exploring an unprecedently large space of parameters and connect my results to the most recent theoretical frameworks. From this investigation, I expect two kinds of scientific breakthroughs: (i) observation of features that are unambiguously nonclassical in thermodynamic observables, and (ii) determination of advantages enjoyed by quantum thermal machines when fairly compared to their classical counterparts. Broadly, this project will deepen our understanding of quantum thermodynamics while establishing a new standard for experiments in the field.

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics
COMputational Models FOR patienT stratification in urologic cancers – Creating robust and trustworthy multimodal AI for health care (COMFORT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Greece,Spain,Sweden,Netherlands
Call: Computational models for new patient stratification strategies (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-12-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5906596.25
EU funding (EUR): 5906596.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

In the EU, treating patients with prostate (PCa) and kidney cancer (KC) costs more than €6.6 billion annually. Yet, PCa and KC are often managed inadequately, which is associated with high costs and negative consequences such as hospitalisation, psychosocial stress and poorer chances of survival. Diagnostic and therapeutic effectiveness depends on multimodal information, including cancer type, stage, and location as well as the patient’s age and health. Current clinical methods do not effectively use the large amount of mostly unstructured data. The main challenge in developing multimodal models is the lack of access to data sources and missing joint validation of data through collaboration between clinicians and computer scientists. A strength of our consortium is access to multiple sources of medical data, including the largest expert-annotated database for PCa and KC to date. Our overall goal is to develop and deploy marketable data-driven multimodal decision support systems to improve clinical prognosis, patient stratification and individual therapy for patients suffering from PCa or KC, defining a new state-of-the-art for the development of multimodal medical AI applications. We will develop AI models for PCa and KC that incorporate multimodal data, e.g., image data, unstructured medical text notes, laboratory information and biomarkers, and perform a prospective validation of the models in a large prospective multicentric international study. At the same time, we will assess the trust of healthcare professionals and patients in such AI tools and explore how this trust can be increased. By providing improved, personalised diagnosis and prognosis assessment, the multimodal models will ultimately contribute to better patient outcomes and quality of life. The models developed in this study can be used as basis for any use case where imaging and electronic medical records are relevant, as they are easily adaptable and can help combat different types of cancer.

Keywords: multi modal artificial intelligence prospective validation kidney cancer prostate cancer