Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Socioeconomic Impact of Equids in the Iron Age Near East (CENTAURIA)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Since the late 2nd millennium BC, the area between the Caucasus and Zagros mountain ranges has served as a crucial hub for horse breeding. A significant challenge in studying this region has been the methodological bias favoring historical sources, which emphasize Eurasian nomadic rider groups as the exclusive drivers of horse breeding and trade in the Near East during the Iron Age. By thinking through the concept of horse economy, an interconnected system of activities spanning animal husbandry, trade, military uses, metallurgy, animal training, and artistic practices, CENTAURIA seek to emphasize the multiplicity of horse breeding centres and how the development and expansion of this mobility technology relates to changes in socioeconomic relations within and beyond the mountainous regions neighbouring the advanced civilizations of Mesopotamia. Using a combination of archaeological and archaeogenetic data, the research seeks to uncover the complex social structures in which equids played a critical socio-economic role. CENTAURIA relies heavily on archaeological evidence, particularly horse burials in the South Caucasus and northwestern Iran, to examine how the evolution of the significance of horses and other equids impacted social dynamics during the Iron Age. While drawing insights from historical records of empires like the Neo-Assyrian and Urartian kingdoms, as well as from the Eurasian nomadic groups, CENTAURIA's primary focus is on material culture. By integrating archaeogenetic data with archaeological evidence, the project contextualizes genetic information within specific cultural, historical, and geographic frameworks. In doing so, CENTAURIA challenges the dominant view of Eurasian nomadic rider groups as the sole drivers of horse breeding and trade in the Near East, emphasizing instead how horse economies reshaped social, symbolic, economic, and more-than-human relations in the region during the Iron Age.

Keywords: iron age,near east,equids,burials,ancient dna,horse economy
Sustainable and digitalized GIGAfactory for BATtery production with made-in-Europe machinery (GIGABAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Sweden
Call: Towards creating an integrated manufacturing value chain in Europe: from machinery development to plant and site integrated design (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10766709.67
EU funding (EUR): 7999613.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Europe needs to consolidate efficiently its battery manufacturing value chain for large-scale cell production to enable a sustainable and ecological transition, minimizing the associated emissions, optimizing the battery performance and cost, and ensuring circularity. Emerging Gigafactories will enable increasing EU cell battery production capacity from the current 60 GWh to 900 GWh to meet the EU’s 2030 targets and ensure EU prosperity. For this purpose it is essential to promote EU-based machinery and providers to gain technological and industrial independence. It is also needed to integrate the local energy and materials supply chains to build a seamless, efficient and dynamic local ecosystem. GIGABAT aims at strengthening the EU cell manufacturing industry and its value chain, by engaging its key players, for the development of GEN3b (Li-ion) batteries. This will require the development of new, energy-efficient, cell manufacturing machinery adapted to Gigafactory needs, as well as the validation in pilot plants to ensure correct functioning in real environments. Optimization of Gigafactories via sector coupling is also targeted, promoting sustainability, improving carbon footprint and energy management, and digitalizing made-in-Europe machinery. New Gigafactory design also including logistic and recyclability targets the whole digitalization of the production plant. GIGABAT brings together existing suppliers ofthe battery value chain and will incorporate new companies to the market. It also contributes to integrate actors delivering cost competitive and optimized production machinery. The consortium involves academia, technology centres, equipment manufacturers, experts in LCA/LCC, recycling, logistics and digitalization, and two cell manufacturers: Volkswagen via its affiliated company PowerCo and Verkor. The EU battery ecosystem will also be reinforced with cooperation activities between the consortium and a stakeholder group comprising several Gigafactories.

Keywords: gigafactories,equipment manufacturers,pilot plant,gen3b li ion battery,cell production,made in europe machinery,digitalization,lca sustainability,energy reduction,battery value chain
Implementation of sustainable heat upgrade technologies for industry (SPIRIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Denmark,Germany,Belgium,Italy,Czechia,Norway,Switzerland
Call: Full-scale demonstration of heat upgrade technologies with supply temperature in the range 90 - 160°C (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11157709.78
EU funding (EUR): 8901668.75
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

SPIRIT (Implementation of sustainable heat upgrade technologies for industry) will demonstrate three full-scale (>0.7 MWth) industrial heat pump systems that upgrade industrial waste heat to valuable temperatures (135-160°C). The demonstration covers sites in the paper & pulp and food & beverage industry, covering 63% of the potential high-temperature heat upgrade market. SPIRIT achieves technology scaling by designing modular heat pumps with standard components covering a large portion of the industrial heat upgrade market. The standard components allow a straightforward and cheaper manufacturing, thereby achieving improvement in economic performance. Compared to regular heat pumps, technical performance improvements of 30% are validated with advanced working fluids (zeotropic mixtures). SPIRIT will develop standard heat pump integration methods for industry to allow easier integration. New business models and contractual agreements for upgrading heat technology are developed considering single and multi-stakeholder environments, mainly through considering heat as a service. To ensure sufficient capacity is available to carry the innovation of SPIRIT, a competence framework is developed to identify which skills are needed (and missing) in the market. The missing skills are used as input for two summer schools, where SPIRIT will educate and train engineers, maintenance staff, and other critical enabling stakeholders. The learnings from the demonstrations, market analysis, technical and non-technical barriers analysis are captured and communicated to raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of heat pumps in the industrial sector. SPIRIT has a strong partnership consisting of technology suppliers, end-users, knowledge providers, business and market experts, and dissemination and knowledge transfer partners. A multi-sectoral advisory board guides the SPIRIT project and its partners with representatives of the district heating, chemical and refinery sector.

Keywords: industrial heat pump waste heat full scale demonstration business models modelling tools modular concepts
Artificial Intelligence for Image Data Analysis in the Life Sciences (AI4LIFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Services and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Italy,Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom,France,Portugal
Call: Enabling research infrastructure services for better use of imaging data to address challenges in thematic research areas (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4141167.53
EU funding (EUR): 4141166.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Machine learning (ML) has enabled and accelerated frontier research in the life sciences, but democratised access to such methods is, unfortunately, not a given. Access to necessary hardware and software, knowledge and training, is limited, while methods are typically insufficiently documented and hard to find. Furthermore, even though modern AI-based methods typically generalize well to unseen data, no standard exists to enable sharing and fine-tuning of pretrained models between different analysis tools. Existing user-facing platforms operate entirely independently from each other, often failing to comply with FAIR data and Open Science standards. The field of AI and ML is developing at a staggering pace, making it impossible for the non-specialist to stay up to date. To enable the life science communities to benefit from AI/ML-powered image analysis methods, AI4LIFE will build bridges, providing urgently needed services on the common European research infrastructures. We will build an open, accessible, community-driven repository of FAIR pre-trained AI models and develop services to deliver these models to life scientists, including those without substantial computational expertise. Our direct support and ample training activities will prepare life scientists for responsible use of AI methods, while contributor services and open standards will drive community contributions of new models and interoperability between analysis tools. Open calls and public challenges will provide state-of-the-art solutions to yet unsolved image analysis problems in the life sciences. Our consortium brings together AI/ML researchers, developers of popular open source image analysis tools, providers of European-scale storage and compute services and European life sciences Research Infrastructures -- all united behind the common goal to enable life scientists to fully benefit from the untapped but potentially tremendous power of AI-based analysis methods.

Keywords: bioimage analysis,artificial intelligence,machine learning,image processing,user facing services,standards and formats
Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparation Phase (GUIDEPREP) (GUIDEPREP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Belgium,Estonia,Greece,Hungary,Latvia,Luxembourg,Malta,Norway,Portugal,Italy,Slovakia,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Croatia,Finland,France,Germany,Spain,Netherlands
Call: Preparatory phase of new ESFRI research infrastructure projects (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2379738.75
EU funding (EUR): 2379738.25
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparatory Phase (GUIDEPREP) project further develops the research infrastructure (RI) necessary to implement the GUIDE birth cohort study. This preparatory work will take place across 2022 to 2025 to ready the RI for the full-scale piloting of the GUIDE in 2026 and the first full wave of data collection in 2027. Once operational, GUIDE will collect data about individual children growing up in Europe until those children are aged 24-years in approximately 2053. GUIDE will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort study of children’s and young people’s wellbeing. The aim of the GUIDE study is to track children’s personal wellbeing and development, in combination with key indicators of children’s homes, neighbourhoods, and schools, across Europe. GUIDE will be an accelerated cohort survey including a sample of infants as well as a sample of school age children. Each Member State and Associated Country will provide nationally representative samples that are designed to retain statistical power throughout the lifetime of the study. The harmonized design will create the first internationally comparable, nationally representative, longitudinal study of children and young people in Europe. Currently the GUIDE RI is in its preparatory phase, which involves the establishment of necessary operational procedures and further crystallisation of the study concept and design. To realise the GUIDE full-scale pilot in 2026 and first wave of fieldwork in 2027, the RI needs to develop administratively, technologically, financially, scientifically, and legally. This GUIDEPREP proposal lays out clear aims for these developments in an interlocking system of activities that are shared across consortium partners and managed by the GUIDE leadership team.

Keywords: guide,european cohort study of children s wellbeing
Multi-level policies and theories on how to leverage - Work Integration Social Enterprises for inclusive and sustainable socio-economic transition (WISESHIFT)

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,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Ireland,France,Serbia,Latvia,Croatia
Call: The role of social economy in addressing social exclusion, providing quality jobs and greater sustainability (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999692.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999692.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

WISESHIFT aims to provide evidence-based and theoretically sound rationales, actionable strategies, and multi-level policy architecture to Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), national federations, European networks, and policymakers. The goal is to enable them to become dynamic agents of inclusive and sustainable transitions within their respective ecosystems. To achieve this, WISESHIFT will develop a scientific conceptualization at the crossroads of social economy studies, sustainable transition studies, and multi-level governance policy analysis. The project will start with a comprehensive analysis of the landscape of WISEs and their implementation of work integration pathways for vulnerable workers across the 27 EU Member States and Serbia. Next, WISESHIFT will conduct an in-depth analysis of 24 WISEs and their contributions to inclusive and sustainable transitions within their respective ecosystems, focusing on three domains: repair, reuse, and recycling; agrifood; and community/home care for the elderly. The third objective of WISESHIFT is to perform a comprehensive cross-cutting analysis using the Multi-Level Perspective to identify the organizational factors specific to WISEs that make them potentially "inclusive and sustainable by design." The fourth objective is to develop a comparative and multi-level framework of analysis to address challenges posed by policies and regulations to the WISEs and, through their lenses, to the social economy. Overall, the ambition of WISESHIFT – is to contribute to strengthening the tangible role of social economy organisations as catalysts for transformative and systemic change towards more inclusive and sustainable practices within their ecosystems as envisioned by the EU social economy strategy.

Keywords: wise,inclusive and sustainable transition
Malaysian Reclaimed Landscapes: Urbanization, Heritage, and Sustainability along the Littoral (MaReLand)

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: Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150438.72
EU funding (EUR): 150438.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MaReLand is an interdisciplinary project and ethnographic study of land reclamation along the Malaysian littoral. Reclamation is the act of creating new land and artificial islands from the sea. The approach that the state and developers are taking is reminiscent of neo-colonial and neoliberal conceptions of the mare nullius (‘nobody’s sea’), an empty space to be transformed by large-scale construction projects. Many are concerned about the socio-ecological effects for the environment and coastal communities. On the one hand, reclaimed landscapes are being planned for the development of high-tech fantasies of a luxurious lifestyle in a greener and smarter environment. On the other hand, such projects are intended to transform spaces that nevertheless represent enduring heritage such as fisheries, seascapes and biodiversity. Reclaimed landscapes thus emerge as contested spaces where what is not considered heritage becomes attractive for development. MaReLand explores the competing discourses of sustainability and cultural heritage held by a variety of actors. Situated at the intersection of urban anthropology and critical heritage studies, the project will examine two under-researched themes: a) environmental activism and the critique of heritage hierarchies, and b) the study of urbanization at sea. Through ethnographic research in two field sites, interviews and the organization of co-design activities with local stakeholders, the project seeks 1) to advance empirical knowledge on practices related to the right to the city/right to the sea, and the ways environmental activism and discourses on sustainability and heritage conservation unfold on the ground; 2) to advance theoretical knowledge on the masterplans and compensation policies at work around yet-to-be-built-islands; and 3) to develop a Toolkit that disseminates solutions to conflicts over land reclamation, by using ethnographic evidence to reshape policy-oriented practices in land reclamation.

Keywords: critical heritage studies,urban anthropology,land reclamation,environmental activism,sustainability,malaysia,southeast asia
FULLY RECYCLABLE HYBRID BIO-COMPOSITE FOR TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS (FURHY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Türkiye,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Advanced lightweight materials for energy efficient structures (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3860178.5
EU funding (EUR): 3860178.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims at the development of a new, bio-based, smart and completely recyclable composite material, obtained by fast and low energy consumption out-of-autoclave process. The matrix will be made by a new bio-based epoxy resin formulation filled by expanded graphite (EG), that will have a multiple role in the enhancement of both material and manufacturing process, providing smart-functions. A hybrid composite will be developed, by the use of hemp and recycled carbon fibers (rCFs), thus maximizing the environmental benefits with a life-cycle perspective. The hybridization will let to exploit the advantages offered by both fibers, minimizing the relevant drawbacks. The manufacturing process will consist in a low energy version of the prepreg compression moulding (PCM). Aeronautics and automotive field are the main sectors of interest.

Keywords: bio based,epoxy resin,hybrid composites,prepreg compression molding,expanded graphite,smart composites
South Marmara Hydrogen Shore (HYSouthMarmara)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Türkiye,Morocco,Italy,Germany
Call: Hydrogen Valleys (small-scale) (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 37798575.0
EU funding (EUR): 7999937.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The region of South Marmara is ideally placed, geographically, economically, and politically to take up the challenge of developing and implementing a hydrogen valley in 2023 and help to build towards the national Turkish goal to be carbon free by 2053. South Marmara is situated between the largest metropolitan areas of Türkiye (Istanbul to the north, Izmir to the southwest and Bursa to the east. It is bordered by the Aegean Sea to the west and the Sea of Marmara to the north which gives it unlimited access to water. The South Marmara region has set a clear vision to reach a carbon-neutral economy by 2053 by phasing-out fossil-fuel utilization in all sectors and green hydrogen will play a critical role in this path. The HYSouthMarmara project is the first step of this vision and it will; - Create a detailed roadmap which sets out recommendations up to 2035 and beyond in terms of establishing a regional hydrogen economy - Design, deploy and install a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) electrolyser with a minimum 4MW of power to reach annual hydrogen production of 500 tonnes - Develop and implement a digital twin of the hydrogen production system that will create the flexibility for renewable energy usage and efficient production of green hydrogen - Create the South Marmara Hydrogen Backbone by determining the infrastructure requirements for the storage, transport and deployment of the green hydrogen - Demonstrate the uptake and replacement of grey hydrogen with green hydrogen in two industries, hydrogen peroxide production and glass manufacturing - Conceive and build a kiln to use hydrogen as a fuel in energy-intensive ceramic industrial processes - Develop Sodium Borohydride plant and use it as a basis for a power supply - Explore and create new markets for the use of green hydrogen and its liquid and solid derivatives - Create a meaningful communication plan to show to public and stakeholders the benefits of green hydrogen and help other regions to creat

Keywords: south marmara,roadmap,polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser,replacement of grey hydrogen,ceramic manufacturing,sodium borohydride power supply,green methanol,green ammonia