Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Solar Weather Forecasting Mission (STORM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,France,Luxembourg,Netherlands
Call: Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4709089.36
EU funding (EUR): 3549793.55
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

In STORM, satellite constellation operation in interplanetary space shall be demonstrated, preferably in a fixed position with reference to Earth, at the example of extending current solar storm warning capabilities by significant factors. Solar storms comprise electrically charged particles typically generated by Coronal Mass Ejections from the sun. Consequences on Earth can be devastating, as all vital systems depending on electricity (GPS, radar, traffic management and financial systems), may be impaired. Even worse damages can be caused in space, leading to complete system failure. The proposed Solar weather forecasting mission (STORM) is intended to extend current warning time of 30-60 minutes by factor up to 5 which will enable authorities to prevent severe damage, e.g., by powering down critical systems. STORM will place a constellation of multiple sensing spacecraft at various positions closer to the sun well beyond L1. The geometric distribution of the SensSats (e.g., a V-shape as proposed in earlier work) will allow for accurate prediction of the time, strength, velocity, and extent of the solar storm. Solar sails are envisioned as a propulsion system to hold the position of the constellation satellites without using propellant mass, and high-efficiency electric propulsion shall be used to carry the small constellation satellites to their final positions. Multiple challenges of optimizing the propulsion system performance clearly beyond current capacities, complex orbit mechanics, communication over long distances in satellites as small as possible to minimize the requirements for the propulsions system, and autonomous operation of the carrier spacecraft will have to be overcome. The proposed work will yield an optimized mission design in terms of number and position of sensing spacecraft and a technology roadmap with clear assessment of technology maturation needed to conduct the final mission.

Keywords: space weather,solar storms,advanced space propulsion,advanced telecommunication,artificial intelligence,space data,advanced orbit mechanics
Generation of Nonclassical States of Light in Silicon Nitride Photonics by Second-Order Nonlinearity (GLINT)

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: Italy
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): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Harnessing the quantum properties of light on-chip is the ultimate aim of Integrated Quantum Photonics, bearing the promise of novel quantum technology functionalities to the microscale. A critical step in this process is the generation of quantum light, typically achieved through nonlinear processes such as spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in second-order (χ(2)) nonlinear media or spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM), through the third-order (χ(3)) response. While the silicon nitride (SiN) integrated photonics platform has proven extremely reliable, low-loss, and compatible with large scale fabrication, its centrosymmetric nature of SiN prevents χ(2) interactions, hindering the implementation of low-noise, highly efficient SPDC-based sources. Lithium Niobate and III-V materials are valid alternatives, but they lack the technological maturity provided by the CMOS fabrication process. Recent research has shown that the coherent photogalvanic effect can endow SiN with a χ(2) response, a photoinduced nonlinearity that automatically satisfies the quasi-phase matching condition, enabling highly efficient frequency conversion. Such “all-optical poling” technique has proven suitable to enable a wide range of functionalities based on χ(2) interactions. The purpose of GLINT is to investigate the potential of all-optical poling in SiN for the generation of quantum light via χ(2) processes. The project will specifically focus on the study of SiN microring-resonator-based SPDC sources, owing to their capability to enhance the efficiency of spontaneous processes and to generate, thanks to their peculiar spectral response, narrow-band states. This will be achieved by i) theoretically modelling a resonator-based SPDC source ii) realizing a chip-scale prototype using commercial-grade technology and providing a full characterization of the generated quantum states iii) demonstrating a proof-of-concept quantum communication protocol using the developed chip-scale source.

Keywords: quantum technologies,photonics,nonlinear optics,integrated photonics,quantum optics,quantum photonics,silicon nitride,photoinduced nonlinearity,all optical poling
Outdoor space self-calibrating thermoelasticity-based fatigue damage identification (ARTEMIDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155559.36
EU funding (EUR): 155559.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Bridge and civil infrastructures maintenance, inspection, and monitoring are essential to economics and public safety. Thousand kilometres of road bridges over 100 metres in length in the Trans-European Transport Network. Many of the bridges were built during the 1950s and are now nearing the end of their useful life, as recent tragical events showed. Over the last twenty years, a large amount of research has been funded by European Research Framework Programmes for investigating materials, components, and software tools. However, in Horizon 2023 FP the focus has been already pointed to visual inspection techniques. With this perspective, ARTEMIDE points to create two fundamental methods to develop an innovative approach for the full-field identification of fatigue damage in outdoor-space structures, based on infrared imaging. The first method consists of a self-calibration and motion compensation tool for image conditioning, while the second method allows thermal measurements to be performed consistently and reliably in outdoor environments. In this way, damage assessment can be performed more efficiently and effectively than is possible today. The research will be developed at the University of Ljubljana, while three months are planned as secondment in DRI Investment Management Ltd., the largest consulting and engineering company in Slovenia. In the long term, ARTEMIDE will be fundamental for reaching a relevant academic position in Europe, with an eye to industrial collaborations with economics and social impacts.
An AI-powered, individualised e-learning infrastructure as the emotional operating system for Europe’s social care and inclusion workforce (DIINGU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1750000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1750000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diingu GmbH is a Frankfurt-based impact technology company developing Europe’s first AI-powered infrastructure to enhance qualification, career development, and long-term retention of professionals in the social care sector. Across the EU, frontline workers often enter roles without structured onboarding or tailored training, leading to high turnover, poor outcomes for vulnerable individuals, and rising pressure on institutions. Diingu’s modular B2B SaaS platform combines AI-personalised e-learning, job matching, documentation, and compliance tools in one ecosystem. Its curriculum spans a wide range of topics, from trauma-informed care and neurodiversity to inclusive pedagogy and psychosocial support, delivered through over 70 certified courses co-developed with LMU Munich and Universität Regensburg. The AI Social Guide provides 24/7 assistance, helping underqualified staff make informed decisions and improving care quality. Integrated monitoring tools support case tracking and enable data-driven recommendations for children and vulnerable persons. Institutions can embed onboarding and monitoring modules to align learning with practice. The platform also supports cross-border recruitment, easing access for Eastern European workers and reducing administrative burden by up to 80%. By fostering professional growth, resilience, and role clarity, Diingu improves retention and addresses Europe’s growing care workforce shortage. It also helps prevent burnout and frequent job changes by offering continuous support and career development. Validated at TRL 6, with 95 B2B clients and over 5,000 professionals trained, Diingu cuts qualification costs by 85%. With EIC support, Diingu will scale to TRL 8-9, integrate predictive analytics, multilingual capabilities, and enable EU-wide deployment by 2027. Its long-term vision is to become the digital backbone of Europe’s social sector – fostering sustainable careers and making social care a future-ready profession across borders.

Keywords: ai,edutech,social innovation,workforce training,inclusive education,b2b saas,learning support,digital inclusion,care economy,pedagogical quality standard,skilled labor shortage
Aventur is powering financial Inclusion through a transformative AI-powered financial operating system (SmartTrack)

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 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aventur is a deeptech company delivering a transformative solution through its flagship project, SmartTrack, an AI-powered financial operating system that autonomously diagnoses, plans and executes users’ financial decisions. SmartTrack is not a banking interface or a personal finance dashboard. It is the first high-autonomy financial co-pilot capable of real-time financial action, built with agent-based artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning and regulatory-grade safeguards. SmartTrack enables the shift from passive advice to automated action. At its core is a proprietary Financial Health OS that integrates multi-agent systems, goal-based modelling and adaptive behavioural learning. SmartTrack interprets and executes financial planning on behalf of individual and institutional users with real-time regulatory compliance, explainability and auditability. Every decision in SmartTrack is governed by Aventur’s proprietary Financial Health Score, a multidimensional metric capturing liquidity, resilience, long-term goal alignment and stress response. This score drives all autonomous execution, forming a transparent foundation for benchmarking, risk profiling and regulatory validation. Aventur addresses a critical and underserved global gap in financial advice. More than 1.5 billion people lack access to affordable, regulated financial planning due to adviser shortages, labour costs and legacy business models. SmartTrack breaks these constraints through AI-native design, enabling scalable advice delivery, continuous monitoring and just-in-time interventions.

Keywords: financial inclusion wealthtech
Shaping the transcriptome through autophagy (TranscriptShape)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2025-COG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2031-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999965.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999965.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the face of environmental stress, autophagy plays a crucial role in stress adaptation through the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. While extensively studied for its ability to degrade proteins, pathogens, and organelles, the potential of autophagy to degrade RNA remains largely unexplored. Recent findings from my team uniquely reveal that specific subsets of RNA are selectively sequestered and degraded by autophagy in a stress-responsive manner. However, the molecular mechanisms driving this process and its biological implications remain unknown. Based on our preliminary results, I hypothesize that autophagy represents a previously unrecognized, highly regulated RNA decay pathway capable of dynamically shaping the transcriptome in response to cellular stress. Here, I propose a comprehensive approach to investigate autophagy's impact on transcriptome remodeling in response to hypoxia and UV irradiation in cellular models and during melanoma development in mice. To this end, I will integrate state-of-the-art sequencing technologies with subcellular proteomics, high-content screening, advanced biochemistry, and single molecule RNA imaging. In doing so, we will dissect the molecular signals and regulatory factors guiding this previously overlooked RNA decay pathway. Furthermore, we will determine the biological consequences of pathway dysfunction on transcriptome integrity, cellular fitness, and the shaping of cellular identity. Together, this work will provide crucial insights into the mechanisms governing RNA homeostasis during cellular stress. The findings will challenge our current view of autophagy and uncover fundamental new understanding of gene expression regulation in health and disease, with broad implications across the biological sciences.

Keywords: selective autophagy,rna biology
Combined CO2 reduction and biomass valorization (BiovalCO2red)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-08
End date: 2027-09-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 236340.0
EU funding (EUR): 236340.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Using CO2 as a raw material for the production of fuels and chemicals plays a crucial role in achieving an environmentally friendly and circular economy. The objective of this project is to create a (photo-)electrochemical process that converts CO2 into methanol at the (photo-)cathode while simultaneously utilizing biomass for the anode reaction. Methanol is one of the top five chemicals produced in large quantities, historically relying on fossil fuel-derived feedstocks. Its well-established supply chain makes storage and transportation convenient. Traditionally, water oxidation has been the primary anode reaction, but its slow reaction kinetics and the low-value product (oxygen) make it less economically attractive. As an alternative, we propose replacing water oxidation with the oxidation of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). HMF oxidation offers a range of valuable products and more favorable reaction kinetics. This project encompasses various aspects, including material development, catalytic testing, optimization of reactor parameters, and advanced characterization techniques to establish the photophysics and reaction mechanisms involved. This comprehensive approach enables the rational design of photoelectrocatalytic systems and advances our understanding of how to harness light and electricity for catalytic processes, ultimately contributing to a greener industry and sustainable development.
Women agencies, knowledge of normativity and sexualities: uses of justice in the Río de la Plata (17th-18th centuries) (WOMEN JUSTICE)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project will investigate the uses of justice by women in the colonial contexts of the Río de la Plata, between Spanish and Portuguese Americas through lawsuits of moral crimes. The ultimate aim is to untangle the trials by detecting features both in and beyond the descriptions registered in the lawsuits, seeking to discover which were the uses of justice by women, what were their agencies to the different types of crimes, which knowledge they had, shared and manipulated, which behaviors reveal ways of resistance, and which were the strategies they developed to achieve their interests through justice institutions. The focus is on women's agencies and the knowledge of normativity they carried and shared, addressing the norms that circulated across and were produced by interpersonal conflicts prosecuted by the secular and ecclesiastic courts. It will be possible to access the processes of retro-influences between different sorts of knowledge and how they were used by women in a colonial frontier space. The research will produce new empirical knowledge regarding women and justice by developing an interdisciplinary approach between History, Law and Criminology: it will further develop the cut-crossing bias from Women’s History, Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist Criminology. The concept of knowledge of normativity will be used in accordance with Thomas Duve’s perspective, the analysis of the lawsuits will be guided by the method of the indiciary paradigm (Ginzburg) and the nuances of double fragmentation (Farge). The sources that will be analyzed are from both the secular and ecclesiastical courts from the platina region in the 17th and 18th centuries: from the village of Paranaguá (Brazil) and the city of Asunción (Paraguay) until the villages of Colony of Sacramento and Montevideo (Uruguay), encompassing Santa Fe, Chaco, Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, and part of the Buenos Aires region (Agentina).

Keywords: early modern history,women s legal history,uses of justice,women s agencies,secular and ecclesiastical institutions,crimes against the moral order,sexualities,r o de la plata
EMpowering People living with NCDs and frOntline health Workers and levERaging digital health technology, to tackle the burden of chronic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. (EMPOWER) (EMPOWER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Benin,Togo,Luxembourg,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD) (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-13, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3940560.0
EU funding (EUR): 3940560.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

With 74% of deaths and over 75% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), primary care providers often lack sufficient training and resources to effectively diagnose and manage NCDs, while health centres and information systems are poorly organised to ensure continuity of care. Consequently, treatment gaps—defined as the proportion of individuals with a disease who are not treated—are alarmingly high: 82% for hypertension, 80% for diabetes, and 75–85% for epilepsy and mental disorders. The situation is even more critical for individuals with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs). EMPOWER aims to reduce the burden of MLTC NCDs in Benin and Togo by closing treatment gaps through interventions previously validated in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The project will optimise existing human resources, such as community health workers (CHWs), nurses, midwives, and GPs, by training them in evidence-based NCD management strategies (WHO-PEN and WHO mhGAP) and equipping them with a digital tool. The android-based app will streamline the collection of key indicators for screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of NCDs, while enhancing communication among healthcare providers. CHWs will coordinate a comprehensive package of community-based activities, including NCD screening (targeting cardiometabolic diseases, mental disorders, and epilepsy), risk factor assessments, health education, regular care and follow-up. The 4-year project comprises 3 phases: Phase A, a mixed-methods assessment to gather insights from patients, CHWs and healthcare providers, guiding the adaptation of intervention and tools; Phase B, the implementation of the intervention; and Phase C, a hybrid evaluation of effectiveness outcomes (treatment gaps, NCD-related events, clinical parameters, quality of life, stigma, cost-effectiveness - intervention vs control) and implementation outcomes using the RE-AIM framework. This will inform future scaling-ups.

Keywords: community health workers,digital health