Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bridging Sustainability and Ubiquity in Next-Gen IoT (GAIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,France,Germany,Finland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997152.5
EU funding (EUR): 2997152.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

GAIA reimagines the Internet of Things (IoT) by leveraging breakthroughs in biodegradable electronics and ambient communication to deliver a transformative vision: a seamless, sustainable, and circular IoT ecosystem. It introduces a new class of transient, ultra-low-power microelectronic systems that combine sensing, computation, and communication in a single biodegradable architecture--free from batteries, active radios, or persistent microcontrollers. Using 6G Ambient IoT backscatter concepts, GAIA devices operate autonomously and interface natively with existing cellular infrastructure. Designed to degrade naturally after use, they offer a battery-less, zero-waste solution that unites infrastructure compatibility with environmental responsibility. This marks a key step toward an infrastructure-aligned IoT that avoids long-term ecological impact while maintaining advanced digital functionality. Over three years, GAIA follows a phased strategy--from component validation to system-level verification--culminating in a disruptive proof of concept. This demonstrator, focused on smart logistics and cold chain tracking, will showcase a fully transient IoT system with ultra-low cost, power consumption, and seamless cellular interoperability. GAIA enables transformative applications in human and industrial contexts requiring (near) real-time tracking, sensing, and identification, without compromising sustainability. The project adopts a vertically integrated approach--from biodegradable materials to system design and telecom infrastructure--paving the way for digital objects at near-zero cost and minimal environmental impact. GAIA aligns with the EU’s strategic goals, advancing high-impact innovation, strengthening sovereignty in critical technologies, and pioneering a new class of IoT. Its expert consortium builds on a strong record of collaborative research to shape Europe’s sustainable digital future.

Keywords: biodegradable electronics,ambient iot,cellular iot,passive sensing
BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENT SYSTEM THROUGH SHORT AND LONG SPECTRUM THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE (BEST-Storage)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Estonia,Switzerland
Call: Thermal energy storage solutions (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5472550.0
EU funding (EUR): 4797535.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Buildings consume most of the world’s electricity and as much as 50% of their consumption is used to cover thermal demands. Some actual developments, such as the growing use of electrical vehicles and the usage of heat pumps, are affecting electricity consumption and peak demand, and their impacts will only increase in the future. The excessive high energy demand entails significant negative environmental and economic impacts. Consequently, it is imperative to increase use of demand response strategies that shift electricity use from peak to off-peak periods. The BEST-Storage project is an important step to achieve the goal of peak load reduction and shifting, energy saving and energy cost minimization. Moreover, technologies for storing renewables for longer time-spans of months or seasons are scarce and costly and thus not widely used yet. Large amounts of energy are needed for heat supply of buildings in cold winter months, when solar energy is scarce and in general when renewable sources cannot cover the demand. Thus, seasonal storage solutions will be a necessary technology for a full decarbonisation of the energy supply system. In BEST-Storage, long and short-term high-energy density storage solutions will be developed and demonstrated in four demo cases around Europe. A thermo-chemical and loss-free storage technology will be developed as a seasonal storage. Two phase change materials slurry concepts and a vacuum insulated water storage will be developed, for cold and warm applications respectively, with the aim of shifting peak load demands. Finally, storage solutions will be integrated within smart building energy management systems featuring model predictive controls to reduce operation cost for short-term applications.

Keywords: thermal demands electricity peak shifting energy saving cost minimisation,long and short term storage thermos chemical seasonal storage,phase change materials slurry storage vacuum insulated wa
Excellent peripheries for a strong European Research Area (EXPER)

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: Spain,Germany,Portugal,Italy
Call: Capacity building to strengthen networks of higher education institutions and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-05, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1975312.5
EU funding (EUR): 1975312.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The EXPER project aims at supporting the institutional transformation of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Azores University through capacity building activities and through international cooperation with the leading Universities of Rostock University (DE) and Calabria (IT). EXPER will enhance the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the partnering universities with a focus on research fields addressing challenges and opportunities offered by the blue economy and circular economy. The project specific objectives are: • To raise the excellence profile of ULPGC and UAC and increase their attractiveness towards local and international talents. • To design and plan the institutional transformation of the Widening universities. • To organize supporting and capacity building activities to learn from leading organizations on how to increase research excellence and unlock the innovation potential of Widening Universities with a focus on knowledge transfer. • To set the basis for a European University Alliance which realises an integrated cooperation between the research and innovation dimension with the education and training dimension. EXPER will deploy a community-based approach to outline a modernization strategy of the Widening Universities which involves representatives of the surrounding ecosystem. The EXPER strategy will aim at stepping up and stimulating scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the Widening universities and their role as drivers of economic and social transformation in their territories.

Keywords: modernization,capacity building,open science,knowledge transfer,spin offs,researchers career,university alliances
The many faces of prejudice: the “What”, the “Why”, and the “How” of inferences we make from membership in social groups (PREJUDICE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1709681.0
EU funding (EUR): 1709681.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Prejudice and discrimination have undeniable consequences for people’s lives and well-being. Our knowledge of stereotyping and prejudice is predominantly based on studies of simple dichotomies of “us” vs. “them”, whereas every person we interact with in real life will simultaneously belong to multiple social groups. In this project, I introduce the differential information processing (DIP) model of intergroup attitudes to explain how we process information about others’ multiple group memberships to form impressions of them. The key proposition of the model is that the mechanisms of impression formation depend on inferences we make from social categories: categories that are seen as informative of beliefs (e.g., religion) give rise to ingroup bias, whereas categories that are seen as informative of status (e.g., education) give rise to status bias. I propose to comprehensively test this new model by addressing three essential questions: what inferences do we make from people’s membership in different social groups? why do we make them? and how do we make them? The proposed set of studies will utilize diverse methodological approaches, including cross-cultural survey experiments to capture variation in inferences people make and type and strength of biases they show across the globe; text analysis of children’s literature and experimental work with children to understand how socialization experiences shape children’s beliefs about differential informativeness of social categories; and neuroimaging work to understand if distinct neural processes can be linked to belief and status inferences and the corresponding biases. If supported, this new theoretical model will connect disparate strands of literature and bring a step-change in how we study stereotyping and prejudice, opening new avenues for more generalizable interventions for prejudice reduction.

Keywords: prejudice,bias,social cognition,beliefs,status,intersectional stereotyping,impression formation
Low-Cost Seismic Isolation for the Developing World (Low Cost Isolation)

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: Greece
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Even though earthquakes are a global phenomenon, their impact is tremendously disproportionate, with most deaths concentrated in the developing world. The main reason is that structural codes are not followed. However, this is not due to a “propensity for delinquency” but because earthquake-resistant methods developed in high-income countries are highly expensive. Therefore, there is an urgent need for cost-effective methods tailored to the financial resources of the developing world. Seismic isolation is a mature yet expensive design method applied in high-importance structures in wealthier countries. This project explores an innovative, low-cost seismic isolation method based on rubber balls rolling on concrete conical surfaces. A variation using cement-filled, upcycled tennis balls will also be examined, as this would be of extremely low cost while promoting circular economy practices. This rolling isolation system could be a viable solution for the seismic design of masonry structures. The project aims to demonstrate the efficiency of the method, address weaknesses identified in our ERC StG tests, and further engage engineers from developing nations. Specifically, it will: a) conduct shake table tests on a masonry structure isolated with rubber and tennis balls; b) explore ways to increase the vertical bearing capacity of cement-filled tennis balls; c) study the durability and aging behavior of the system; d) draft design guidelines and code chapters, as well as provide engineers with analysis tools for implementing this seismic design method; and e) Build a prototype structure in Cuba. This concept will be shared with Cuba’s engineering community—a country with limited material resources, where the high seismicity in the east prevents masonry construction. Providing a way to design earthquake-resistant masonry structures will help address the challenge of safe, affordable housing, aligning with the sustainable development goals of Agenda 2030.

Keywords: seismic isolation,affordable housing,low cost seismic design,developing world
Personalized disease prediction and prevention in chronic inflammatory disorders (PerPrev-CID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Israel,Lithuania,Netherlands,Italy
Call: Personalised prevention of non-communicable diseases - addressing areas of unmet needs using multiple data sources (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11311711.04
EU funding (EUR): 11000246.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Background: Chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) are a group of non-communicable disorders of the immune system with a lifetime prevalence of over 10% in the EU. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are two archetypal CIDs with a particularly high unmet medical need and impact on European health care systems. Objectives: The PerPrev-CID consortium aims to set up new standards for decision support tool development for preventive and early therapeutic interventions in RA and IBD. Selected main aims are: (i) To define actionable predictors from longitudinal multi-level Omics and clinical data integration In RA and IBD. We will identify markers indicating progression from pre-symptomatic to manifest disease and signatures predicting early disease relapse (ii) To develop new tools for home-based and continuous assessment of patient-related data dimensions using digital health apps/wearables, including more innovative, objective parameters, such as movement patterns, physical activity, and sleep. (iii) To assess the health-promoting effects of interfering with the tryptophan pathway in a proof-of-concept nutritional study in early RA and IBD. (iv) To study ethical, legal and economic consequences of risk assessment and early low-threshold preventive interventions. Important aspects are the communication of the risk concept, economic implications of broad testing and interventions as well as patients´ perception of the concept of risk prediction. Expected impact: We will develop prototype solutions for privacy-preserving AI-based data analysis for research and clinical application and will test a first proof-of-concept low threshold intervention in RA and IBD. Our approaches will provide a clear health benefit to the citizens of the EU by improving health outcomes, empowering joint decision making and contributing to appropriate action plans to reduce the avoidable burden of the diseases.

Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis,inflammatory bowel diseases,decision support tools,multi omics,patient reported outcome measures,digital health apps
Innovating the Next-generation Specialized CBCT for Adaptive Proton thErapy (INSCAPE)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Proton radiotherapy has better healthy tissue sparing than conventional photon therapy due to protons' peaked depth-dose profile. However, the sensitivity of protons to anatomical and setup variations can result in delivery errors, potentially leading to tumor underdosage or healthy tissue overdosage. Online adaptive proton therapy (OAPT) improves delivery accuracy by daily adapting the treatment plan based on newly acquired images. Despite the well-established advantages and recent scientific advances through the H2020 MSCA International Training Network RAPTOR, OAPT has not yet become clinical practice, primarily because the quality of current onboard imaging is insufficient for proton dose calculation. This project aims to design the next-generation onboard cone-beam CT (CBCT) for proton therapy gantries to achieve sufficient image quality for proton dose calculation. Hardware upgrades for a current CBCT will be tested in silico by developing a Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation platform in Gate. First, the current CBCT will be modeled in collaboration with a manufacturer and the model will be validated experimentally. Then, an image reconstruction software will be implemented, using open-source libraries, which can be extended to support the hardware upgrades (e.g. reconstruction for dual-energy). Lastly, hardware upgrades will be simulated in the MC platform, including dual-energy CBCT, dynamic collimation, photon counting detectors and systems speeding up CBCT rotation to avoid motion artifacts. All upgrades will be evaluated with various virtual phantoms and evaluation will be performed in image space and dosimetrically. The project will show the dosimetric impact of these CBCT hardware upgrades, allowing the proton therapy community to understand the changes required to make on-board CBCT ready for online adaptation. Overcoming this critical step will enable widespread clinical adoption of OAPT, enhancing the clinical benefits of proton therapy.

Keywords: proton therapy,particle therapy,online adaptive radiation therapy,cone beam computed tomography,monte carlo simulation,photon counting,ct,dual energy
The Ancient’s Affective Perception of the Past: Shaping a Philosophical Framework for Archeology (AAPP)

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: 2025-02-10
End date: 2027-02-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This interdisciplinary research project aims to construct a philosophical framework for understanding how ancient civilizations, particularly the residents of Pompeii, emotionally engaged with their past through material culture. Building upon theories from situated affectivity, cognitive science, philosophy of emotions, archaeology, philology, history, Roman law, and nostalgia studies, the project will use Pompeii as its main case study. Specifically, it will focus on the city's history between two catastrophes—the earthquake of 62 A.D. and the Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. Utilizing the principles of upcycling, affective scripts, and niche construction theory, the project explores how material culture influenced human cognition and emotions. Through a comprehensive examination of literature and historical texts, the research aims to identify and reconstruct affective scripts supported by material culture, offering new insights into the emotional experiences of ancient peoples. This project will not only refine current archaeological conceptualizations but also extend the application of situated affectivity theories in innovative ways. As an early-career researcher, I see this project as the next evolutionary step in my scholarly journey. Undertaking this research under the supervision of Prof Haug at Kiel University will enable me to deepen my expertise in archaeology and extend the boundaries of situated affectivity. Beyond technical expertise, this fellowship with Prof Haug at Kiel University will provide comprehensive training in soft skills like scientific communication, grant writing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. These skills will not only augment my research capabilities but also enhance my employability in both academia and public sector, especially museums and the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Keywords: emotions,affectivity,pompeii,archeology,material engagement theory,situated affectivity,nostalgia,ancient civilisations,affective scripts,4e cognition,4e affectivity,affective niche
Post-pandemic resilient communities: is the informal economy a reservoir for the next generation of digitalized and green businesses in the Global South? (PRESILIENT)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Croatia,Albania,Italy,Netherlands,Czechia,Spain,France,Latvia,Georgia,Slovakia,Romania,Kenya,Morocco,Senegal,Zambia,Indonesia,Kyrgyzstan,Papua New Guinea,Thailand,Viet Nam,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Brazil,Colombia,Chile,Ecuador,Mexico
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3823509.6
EU funding (EUR): 3823509.6
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

In addition to the almost 2bln workers already active in the informal sector, World Bank and ILO estimate that the pandemic might have put at risk of precarious employment 500mln-1.5bln more. These losses, and related consequences, are not evenly distributed given that Africa, Asia and Latin America is where 93% of the world’s informal employment is located and where post-pandemic crisis is likely to hit harder (especially women, migrants and young people). Yet, the concern is global. Indeed, besides vulnerability and precariousness at individual and community levels, informality also eventually reduces state capacity and the ability of institutions to design and implement policies that properly address social, economic and environmental issues (i.e. SDGs) in a long term perspective. Accordingly, informality-related challenges have been devoted a great deal of attention and political statements. But seldom have these statements been followed by concrete instructions, guidelines or evidence-based policies to tackle informality across the world. Starting from this gap, PRESILIENT is a large network comprising 14 partners (of which 7 non-academic) and 15 associated partners located in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America committed to delivering the a world class cross-regional training on informality in the Global South to: measure it, address it, find viable and sustainable alternatives. By doing this, we have committed to four main objectives: O.1 train the next generation of experts on informality in the global south. O.2 carry out a research spanning 15 different countries and to produce novel data and significant theoretical advancements in the field. O.3 produce strategic intelligence that can be used to provide practical policy recommendations O.4 enable multi-directional knowledge transfer through network events, pairing of academic and non-academic partners (who will jointly supervise each fellow), secondment and task-based teamwork.

Keywords: informality,resilience,development,global south,informal labour,recovery