Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
In-Space Manufactured Solar Array providing highly cost-efficient power generation for SmallSats and In-Orbit Servicing; enabling European non-dependence and competitiveness in space technologies (ISM4Europe)

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: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In-space manufacturing (ISM) is the key for overcoming the “tyranny of launch”, i.e., the restriction that all space (sub)systems are pre-built on earth and thus must be made to withstand the extreme mechanical loads at the launch of the rocket all while fitting into tight volumetric restrictions. ISM will save material and circumvent the limits in dimensions and mass. DCUBED leverages ISM for making solar arrays for satellites directly in space. This is especially important for small satellites (SmallSat), such as in internet-from-space constellations, to satisfy increasingly high power demands at a fraction of the cost of conventional solar arrays. SmallSats play a big role in the growing NewSpace economy and the global space market, which is expected to reach $ 1879B by 2032. With our advanced ISM technology for building solar arrays in-orbit we will become technology and market leader based in Europe, thus ensuring European competitiveness and non-dependence in space technologies.

Keywords: in space manufacturing,in space assembly,solar array,space,smallsat,pv,addititve manufacturing,photopolymer extrusion
Generative AI for healthcare data processing (CogStack24)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1990000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1990000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Problem: Substantial amounts of electronic healthcare record data (~80%) is in unstructured text formats which require manual specialist human labour to read and transcribe into structured standardised data formats. This substantial manual effort lies behind all seemingly modern digital functionality: hospitals hire staff to read and transcribe codes for billing purposes, public health agencies hire data entry clerks to read and transcribe into disease registries, life sciences organisations hire analysts to re-input data onto their data collection systems and so on-an-on. This is extremely expensive (>€45B), error-prone and slow, and a major bottleneck for all data-driven technologies and future AI. Opportunity: Modern Language AI technologies offer the real near-time possibility of significantly disrupting these suboptimal market conditions. Through the implementation of NLP and LLM assisted workflows, language models “read” and “write” at a scale and accuracy level not possible through manual effort alone. Lower value-add activities such as manual transcription are greatly reduced through use of AI-assisted workflows. Instead, human intervention is required for much higher value-add activities such as language model fine-tuning and validation. Most competitor models, however, are designed for North American health systems and do not provide interoperability with international norms and do not conform with the European regulatory landscape and the planned European Health Data Space (EHDS). Opportunity for CogStack: CogStack Ltd is the only non-BigTech entity with healthcare generative language AI products and solutions already embedded in real-world health systems. Outside the UK-tested products, we have an extensive open-source community internationally (Europe, Australia and India) and we can leverage this network to produce an international technology solution to transform global healthcare.

Keywords: generative ai llm large language model healthcare
Integrated modelling for sustainable and optimized steel manufacturing processes (ProcTwin)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Clean Steel (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Sweden,Spain,Germany,Austria,Belgium
Call: Digital transformation and ensuring a better use of industrial data, which can optimise steel supply chains (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5467022.53
EU funding (EUR): 4825924.55
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

ProcTwin aims to develop a demonstration platform to predict and visualize best use of multiple processing steps in a steel manufacturing chain. The methodology includes intelligent coupling of interconnected processing steps by numerical simulation, soft sensors, process data and distributed machine learning. Integrated numerical modelling that captures the interactions, relations, and feedback loops between various processing stations enables prediction for smart optimization of energy efficiency and product quality in the steel manufacturing. Continuous casting, reheating, hot metal working, quenching and leveling processes are examples that are controlled separately but strongly interconnected in terms of parameters. These processes serve as objective functions in two parallel use cases at Celsa (ES) and SSAB (SW). It is well known that process optimization can have a significant effect on reducing carbon footprint in steel production, and implementing new digital tools will enable a faster transition towards sustainable industry. ProcTwin is divided in clear work packages to reach the objectives: one is adaption of existing physically based numerical models of each process step to generate critical data that is impossible to measure or observe. Another is development of novel sensors and data integration for a secure and effective sharing industrial data. The innovative concept of ProcTwin is development of distributed machine learning to predict the process chains with large amounts of parameters. Lastly, these technologies will be combined through a demonstrator platform to model the manufacturing processes and enable control for increased product quality, energy efficiency and operator support.

Keywords: distributed machine learning integrated process modelling
Extreme confinement of topologically protected slow light (TOPEX)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Light-matter interaction in nanophotonic waveguides is enhanced by tightly confining and slowing down light. However, both these strategies have had their own limitations. Firstly, the spatial confinement has traditionally been thought to be bound at the diffraction limit and more recently limited by nanofabrication resolution. Secondly, backscattering due to unavoidable structural disorder has limited progress in the field of slow light. TOPEX will overcome these limitations by merging two recent developments in photonics: topological protection against disorder and extreme subwavelength confinement of light. Based on theoretical predictions of the applicant and cutting-edge nanotechnology only at experimental reach at the host institution, TOPEX will design, build, measure, and explore topological slow-light nanophotonic waveguides exhibiting extreme dielectric photon confinement. The project is motivated in part by the urgent need for enhancing light-matter interaction in order to reduce the energy consumption of information technologies and in part by the fundamental quest towards understanding how slow and small a photon can be. It represents an extraordinary training opportunity on complementary scientific and soft skills for the applicant and has transformational impact potential on photonic integrated devices, optical data processing, quantum technologies, and beyond.

Keywords: slow light topological photonics extreme confinement of light light matter interaction nanophotonic waveguides
Tackling the Astringency Enigma in Mouthfeel via Mechanosensation: a Biophysical Approach. (TASTeM)

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: Germany,Portugal
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): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

An unhealthy diet is a major contributor to chronic disease and mortality worldwide. A shift toward healthier food choices is therefore essential to reduce the burden of diet-related diseases. A critical factor driving food choices and ultimately dietary habits, is flavour, which is a complex combination of sensory properties, including taste, aroma, and mouthfeel. Astringent mouthfeel is a tactile sensation characterised by a puckering, rough, or drying feeling in the mouth, often associated with foods and beverages with significant health benefits, including plant-based products. While plant-based diets are generally considered healthier and more sustainable than animal-based diets, their astringent properties frequently lead to consumer rejection. Overcoming these sensory barriers is key to promoting plant-based foods for both health and environmental sustainability. Previous studies show that astringency is triggered by the interaction between phenolic compounds in plant products and salivary proteins or oral epithelial cells. However, the exact mechanosensory pathway for astringency perception remains unclear. This project aims to uncover the fundamental mechanisms behind astringency perception, focusing on mechanosensation, through an interdisciplinary approach that combines molecular, biophysical, and physiological strategies. The study will identify specific mechanoreceptors on oral cells and investigate how phenolic compounds interact with components of the oral cavity. Atomic force microscopy will be the core technique to investigate mechanoreceptor activation, while sensory studies will explore ingredient replacements or additives to improve mouthfeel without compromising health benefits. As such, this project aligns with the Sustainable Development Goal number 3 – “Good health and well-being” – set out by the United Nations, by providing valuable insight into the development of more sustainable dietary patterns, while promoting long-term health benefits.

Keywords: flavour,mouthfeel,astringency,atomic force microscopy,afm,ion channels,mechanoreceptors,piezo2,perception mechanisms,phenolic compounds,astringent compounds,mechanosensitive,biophysics
ISLANDS: Integrated Sensing and communications for future vehicuLAr systems – a Network of Doctoral Students (ISLANDS)

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: Italy,Greece,United Kingdom,Sweden,Finland,Germany,Cyprus,France,Israel,China
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2953730.06
EU funding (EUR): 2619223.2
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

For decades communication systems have been developed independently to radar systems, leading to a duplication of systems and devices that exploit the electromagnetic spectrum in common ways. Yet, the future wireless infrastructure will need to do more than just communications to support smart cities, intelligent mobility, infrastructure monitoring, security. It will need to perform multiple functions and will rely on high-reliability communication and sensing. The independent growth of radar and communication systems is no longer sustainable and will lead to a congestion of devises, emitters and sensors. There is a skills gap in the community to address this as communication engineers work isolated to radar engineers, and a new set of skills need to be developed. ISLANDS is a doctoral network that focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of integrated sensing and communication for the automotive sector, with the objective of developing new physical-layer and network-level solutions, to explore the fundamental limits of such technology, and to provide experimental validation and testing for the developed techniques. Specifically, ISLANDS will: 1) develop new transceiver algorithms, capable of integrating and leveraging the communication and sensing functionalities, with the purpose of achieving superior performance and energy and hardware efficiency; 2) investigate the ultimate network performance limits that the integration of communication and sensing can achieve in environments with extreme mobility; and 3) provide experimental validations of the developed techniques with proof-of-concept testbeds and realistic system-level simulators. ISLANDS will train the next generation of EU experts and leaders with specific interdisciplinary expertise, combining sensing and communications, with the aim of reinforcing European leadership in the automotive sector of the next decades.

Keywords: wireless networks,integrated sensing and communications,connected vehicle,simultaneous localization and mapping,signal processing,resource allocation,millimeter wave
Towards a SYstems-Based, holistic Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals (SYBERAC) (SYBERAC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Portugal,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,Denmark,Spain
Call: Better understanding of routes of exposure and toxicological and ecological impacts of chemical pollution on terrestrial biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4771293.75
EU funding (EUR): 4746138.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

TOWARDS A SYSTEM BASED, HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICALS (SYBERAC) Biodiversity is key to modern society, sustaining natural resources and providing essential ecosystem services. According to the UN Sustainable Development goals, the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity strategy and other European and national level Directives and strategic regulations, pollution is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. The risks resulting from the use, release and effects of chemical on the environment is addressed in a plethora of EU-level Directives and regulatory strategies, each with specific (chemical) targets and protection aims. There is, however, concern that such a fragmented approach does alleviate the threats of chemicals to biodiversity and ecosystem services. To protect genetic and functional biodiversity from pollution impacts, a paradigm shift is needed. This transformation should move beyond the current fragmented Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) performed in specific regulatory silos, e.g., Plant Protection Products (PPPs)regulation for pesticides, REACH for industrial chemicals and Biocides framework for Biocidal chemicals, towards a harmonised and systems-based ERA applicable to all chemicals, species and land use functions. To make this advance, SYBERAC will provide ways forward to rationalise the current silo-based Protection Goals into high-level system-based Protection Goals and to operationalise their use within systems-based ERA robust and broadly applicable ERA structures. Six case studies, overarching different silos of current ERA will provide proof-of-concepts of the developed approaches. Based on targeted stakeholder engagement, in close cooperation with other relevant projects on the topic, results and outcomes will be disseminated towards a wide audience, including national and EU level regulatory institutions, industrial partners but also land managers, farmers and conservation bodies.
Shielding food safety and security by enabling the foresight of fungal spoilage and mycotoxins threats in the Mediterranean region under climate change conditions (FunShield4Med)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1028062.5
EU funding (EUR): 1028062.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the FunShield4Med project is to strengthen the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products (ITAP) of Hellenic Agricultural Organisation – DIMITRA (ELGO-DIMITRA) from Greece in the field of food safety against mycotoxigenic spoilage fungi and mycotoxins under climate change challenges. The strategic collaboration of advanced partners from Italy (University of Parma/Dept of Food and Drug), Spain (University of Lleida/Food Technology Dept), and UK (Cranfield University/Soil and Agrifood Institute), and an internationally-leading University from Greece (National Kapodistrian University of Athens/Dept. of Chemistry) will ensure the knowledge and expertise transfer, help build new research alliances, and enrich, apart from Institute’s personnel, as well as young researchers' capacities from all members of the consortium. In order to achieve the Twinning call’s specific objectives the consortium of FunShield4Med will implement a comprehensive set of measures and activities, such as Short term staff exchanges and expert visits, Training workshops, Seminars, Summer schools, and Dissemination and outreach activities. In addition to the specific objectives of Twinning, a comprehensive research project is foreseen focusing on mycotoxigenic spoilage fungi and mycotoxins in relation to one main EU entry point (Greece) for imports from the South and East (African and Asian countries), to facilitate appropriate surveillance of commodities where mycotoxin contamination may increase because of climate change (CC) factors. This will minimize exposure of consumer to these toxins and will provide benefits in traceability of both emerging and modified forms of mycotoxins in staple food and drink chains in the context of CC scenarios.

Keywords: climate change,ecophysiology,mycotoxigenic spoilage fungi,mycotoxins,detection,risk assessment
Aerospace Composites digitally sensorised from manufacturing to end-of-life (INFINITE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Austria,Ireland,United Kingdom,Germany,France
Call: Next generation digital aircraft transformation in design, manufacturing, integration and maintenance (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5535286.25
EU funding (EUR): 5535285.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

INFINITE aims to develop sensors and analyser based on the usage of ferromagnetic microwires to be embedded in aerospace composite structural parts, in order to monitor manufacturing and structural health throughout the whole life cycle of the component. The wireless monitoring system will permit producing digital signals and vast sets of data linked with the specimen to create an as-built digital twin of the structure that will also account for the whole history since it was manufactured through all maintenance operations performed, until being optimally recycled. INFINITE intends to deliver improvements in composite manufacturing and structural health monitoring (SHM) by the development of functional sensorised Non-Crimp fabrics (NCF). These fabrics will provide an efficient real-time monitoring system through a self-sensing fibre by wireless monitoring of the fibre position, orientation, strain-stress and temperature. This will be achieved by applying a safe magnetic signal, providing a volumetric information during the manufacture process (temperature and fibre control) but also during the life of the component. In service, the new SHM system will provide information about component integrity, performance and safety; therefore informing and improving maintenance operations. The new sensorised NCF will also enable a new repair capability for complex parts. Integration of microwires in the fabric opens new possibilities in the design of future functional composites using existing sensoring technologies. This advanced quality monitoring has the potential to deliver a significant impact on cost and safety reliability of composite components, providing a competitive advantage of European manufactures and MROs. INFINITE also aims to assess the effect of sensoring hardware on the current methods for composite recycling, investigating the potential for re-using (other applications, sectors, etc.) both sensors and components to provide useful end of life functionality.

Keywords: aerospace composites,wireless monitoring,digital twin,new design possibilities,non crimp fabrics,manufacturing,structural health monitoring,maintenance,repairing,recycling