Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Coordination and Support Action to prepare UNCAN.eu platform (4.UNCAN.eu)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Cancer
Destination: Cancer
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Italy,Austria,Czechia,Estonia,Denmark,Spain,Finland,Ireland,Lithuania,Malta,Portugal,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Luxembourg,Germany,Netherlands,Hungary
Call: Preparing UNCAN.eu, a European initiative to understand cancer (HORIZON-MISS-2021-UNCAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2989634.0
EU funding (EUR): 2989634.0
Participants: 31
Project status: CLOSED

The 15-month coordination and support action “4.UNCAN.eu” will generate a strategic agenda to launch UNCAN.eu, a European initiative to UNderstand CANcer proposed by the Mission Board and the European Beating Cancer Plan. This research agenda will be built with the final aim of achieving a new breakthrough in cancer prevention and treatment that will contribute to saving European citizens’ lives and help ensuring an optimal quality of life to disease survivors. To reach a new level of understanding, UNCAN.eu will take advantage of recent advances in research data generation and data sciences. Reliable, high-quality cancer research data generated by experimental model analysis and collected from longitudinal follow-up of cancer patients will be shared and integrated at an unprecedented scale within a Federated Cancer Research data hub, in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation. This information will be used by relevant players in Europe and beyond to address urgent and essential scientific and medical challenges in cancer prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and survivorship, in males and females of various ages. These challenges, identified in close interaction with European patients and citizens, will be tackled through competitive, ambitious and innovative, cross-border and trans-disciplinary research programmes built in a problem-solving manner. The definition of challenges will integrate inequalities in cancer research across regions and member states in order to boost the research potential of less-developed regions in Europe. Players will be committed to open science principles, including FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) guiding principles for scientific data collection, management and stewardship. The new understanding gained from the collection and analysis of this wealth of data will apply secondarily to other diseases.

Keywords: understand cancer cancer research prevention of cancer early diagnosis of cancer therapeutic resistance in cancer gender and age in cancer survivorship in cancer
Climate-smart rewilding: ecological restoration for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity support in Europe (wildE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Spain,Finland,Sweden,Portugal,Slovakia,Belgium,Czechia,Ireland
Call: Let nature help do the job: Rewilding landscapes for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8555016.25
EU funding (EUR): 8555016.25
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union aims to reduce net carbon emissions by 55% in 2030, and become climate neutral by 2050. These goals can only be met if it boosts carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems, preferably while fostering socio-environmental co-benefits such as conserving biodiversity, adapting to climate change, and safeguarding socio-economic and cultural values. Both the IPCC and the IPBES have emphasised the great potential of ecosystem restoration and related nature-based solutions (NbS) for addressing the challenge. wildE introduces ‘climate-smart rewilding’ as an innovative restoration approach to create climate benefits while also addressing other socio-environmental needs. The project gathers a multi-disciplinary team of leading European experts to develop a research and innovation programme addressing the climate-biodiversity nexus in tight association with the socio-economic dimension of large-scale restoration. The team will also project scenarios to assess Europe’s rewilding potentials under diverse land-use and climate change futures. wildE will (i) generate comprehensive case-comparative data on European rewilding trends and outcomes, (ii) quantify the net social, economic and environmental benefits, synergies and trade-offs related to rewilding and alternative land-use options; (iii) develop cutting-edge projections for future land use and climate scenarios; and (iv) develop tangible and readily accessible decision-support and management guidelines to enable policymakers, conservation managers, communities, and the private sector to co-construct climate-smart rewilding strategies as effective NbS for meeting the EU’s climate and biodiversity targets. Embedded within an ambitious stakeholder engagement, communications programme, wildE research will enable climate-smart rewilding as operational large-scale NbS to effectively foster the natural capacity of Europe’s ecosystems for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity support.

Keywords: carbon sequestration,ecosystem services,land abandonment,land use and climate scenarios,nature based solutions,social perception,stakeholder engagement,trophic rewilding,wildfires
Circular & Sustainable Textiles & Clothing (CISUTAC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Sweden,Austria,Spain,Italy,Germany,Ireland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Czechia,Portugal
Call: Increasing the circularity in textiles, plastics and/or electronics value chains (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9199678.0
EU funding (EUR): 7972753.0
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

CISUTAC will tackle current bottlenecks in the transition to circular textiles and clothing. For scale and significance, we focus on polyester, cotton & cellulosic fibres (together ca. 90% of textile materials) and products from 3 sub-sectors: garments, active goods and workwear. In this way, we will have a representative view on the challenges the textile sector is facing for circular transition. CISUTAC follows a holistic approach covering the technical, sectoral and socio-economic levels. We will provide systemic innovations at these levels and perform 3 pilots to demonstrate their feasibility and value: (i) Repair and disassembly; (ii) Sorting for reuse and recycling; (iii) Circular garments through fibre to fibre recycling and design for circularity. To realise these pilots, we will develop semi-automated workstations, analyse infrastructure and material flow, digitally enhance sorting operations and setup interventions with consumers. After the piloting phase, attention will be on the uptake of the results, by the sector, by the wider stakeholder group as well by the consumers. With (worldwide) leading brands and companies, CSOs, RTOs and EU associations, CISUTAC is truly EU-wide and covers the full novel circular value chain. Through the consortium, and further supported by the Transition Support Group with zz members, CISUTAC is strongly linked to ongoing initiatives allowing synergies and joint activities. This is essential for our implementation but also for leveraging the impact and enabling the shift towards a sustainable EU textiles & clothing, underpinned by circular material flows and supported by the wider stakeholders. CISUTAC will bring significant impact of scale via its innovations on repair, dismantling, sorting and fibre-to-fibre recycling. Realising this impact will lead to a reduction of ca. 975ktonCO2eq yearly and to new business activities and markets that together have a value of ca. €250mio and lead to ca. 1300 FTE, also social economy.

Keywords: polyester,cotton,repair,textile sorting,textile recycling,dismantling,social economy,ai,digital product passport,consumer interaction
OPEN PLATFORM FOR REALIZING ZERO DEFECTS IN CYBER PHYSICAL MANUFACTURING (OPENZDM)

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: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Luxembourg
Call: Zero-defect manufacturing towards zero-waste (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10875885.0
EU funding (EUR): 8268146.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

This project addresses the challenge of mfg industry to deliver high-quality products at the necessary production rates while minimizing waste and energy consumption, maximizing efficiency and ROI. openZDM project is an Innovation Action that will develop and demonstrate in 5 representative production lines an open platform designed to realize ZDM. The platform integrates advanced ICT solutions & innovative non-destructive testing, setting the foundations for an innovative solution applicable to a large variety of mfg industries. The 5 pilots represent the largest part of the EU's manufacturing sector, geographically (including plants in northern and southern areas of Europe), technologically (fully & semi automated, and manual processes) and from their value chain positioning (including Tier 1, Tier 2 suppliers, technology suppliers and OEMs). Furthermore, the choice of partners has been done considering strategic sectors for the green transition, in particular two energy intensive production processes (glass bottles, steel suspension arms), one process strategic for the electrification (production of batteries), one process consuming renewable materials (wood based panels) and one highly digitalized automotive assembly plant. The project aims to develop a digital platform that builds on the state-of-the-art RAMI 4.0 and Asset Administration Shell (AAS) to implement intra-factory quality management practices, applicable to these different production environments. In addition several non-destructive inspection (NDI) methods and data-driven quality assessment techniques are considered for online defect identification and quality assessment, distributed at various stages along the manufacturing line. Finally, the Digital Twin and the related services is a key enabling technology for online process adaptation & prediction/prevention of defects, to achieve waste reduction and improved efficiency, aiming to significantly improve the production sustainability of CPPSs.

Keywords: non destructive testing,digital twin,asset administration shell,data platform,quality assessment,production control and reconfiguration
Optimal Local Algorithms via Topology-Sensitivity (OLA-TOPSENS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
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): 1499456.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499456.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Considering the rapid growth of data sets and network sizes over the past decade, there is little doubt that the future of computation is distributed. One central aspect lying at the heart of distributed algorithms is the question of locality: what can be computed using only local information, and how much information is needed? While answering this question is essential for obtaining highly efficient algorithms for many important distributed problems—such as load balancing in massive networks—, locality is a fundamentally important concept also in many other fields of algorithmics, such as classical sequential algorithms, massively parallel algorithms, dynamic algorithms, sublinear algorithms, streaming algorithms, or online algorithms. In the context of distributed algorithms, a careful analysis of recent research on impossibilities reveals the key challenges in understanding locality—and therefore in designing optimal algorithms—for many graph problems: understanding 1) how to solve tree-like structures efficiently and 2) how to explicitly exploit any deviations from a tree-like topology algorithmically. The goal of this proposal is to gain a fundamental understanding of locality via the novel concept of topology-sensitive algorithms that precisely addresses these key challenges by explicitly exploiting local topological features in the input instance. Such an understanding will result in optimal algorithms and tight complexity bounds for many important distributed problems, thereby resolving central questions in distributed algorithms that have been open for decades, laying the foundations for highly efficient and scalable algorithms in massive networks, and implying significant improvements over the state-of-the-art in a variety of other algorithmic fields. In a nutshell, the proposed project aims at a world in which everything that can be done locally will be done locally.

Keywords: distributed graph algorithms,locality,topology sensitive algorithms,optimal algorithms,time complexity,theory of distributed computing
PrepApp: An Embodied Scenes approach for the teaching and learning of English prepositions (Embodied Scenes)

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: Norway,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-15
End date: 2027-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Prepositions play a critical role in communicating spatial relations that involve real-world physical entities (e.g., The keys are on the dresser) and abstract concepts (time after time), yet teaching their usage patterns can be tricky (Tyler, 2012). The research question addressed by this project deals with how we can teach prepositions in a systematic way. The purpose of this study is to address five scientific problems surrounding the teaching and learning of prepositions by bridging the divides between: (1) psychology and linguistics, (2) the laboratory and the real world, (3) native speakers and students, (4) educational professionals and accessible tools, and (5) disciplines by bridging a methodological gap via a novel theoretical framework. We can bridge these divides by implementing principles from cognitive psychology that tap into the mechanisms that scaffold thought processes. The main objective is to produce profiles for high frequency prepositions, to build lessons combining these profiles with an Embodied Scenes (ES) framework, and to test the lessons in the classroom. While new methods in preposition teaching are slow to be adopted, research is moving fast. An ES approach that is compatible with Cognitive Linguistics (CL) research may increase traction for preposition course materials. This study would provide data about real world behavior and provide an accessible tool for students.

Keywords: cognitive linguistics
Phenomenology of War: Imagining the Future, Interrupting the Present (POW)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of “Phenomenology of War: Imagining the Future, Interrupting the Present” (POW) is to offer the first systematic phenomenological treatment of war. Is war a phenomenon pertaining to the state of nature or the most extreme manifestation of the human potential for technological destruction? One of the working premises of POW is that both the naturalism and anti-naturalism of much contemporary philosophy are unable to account for the war-phenomenon since both tend to eliminate the human factor from their considerations of human relations. Naturalism tends to assimilate any distinctive human feature to impersonal natural dynamics. Anti-naturalism tends to interpret the human condition according to artificial human productions. The question whether war pertains to nature or culture remains essentially open today. As a central part of the project, POW will pay close attention to contemporary strategic and security studies. The multidisciplinary nature of these studies shall offer the empirical foundation to counter naïve and dogmatic presuppositions about what war should or should not be. POW aims to account for the war-phenomenon by recovering the original diversity of data in the realm of human warfare and by exploring war as a liminal phenomenon between nature and culture. To achieve the project objectives, the support of my supervisor at the UniTo (Prof. Gaetano Chiurazzi) and training in strategic studies at the Interdepartmental School in Strategic Studies (SUISS) at UniTo and at the National Defence University (NDU) in Helsinki will be crucial. By deepening my philosophical background and branching out to military studies, POW will enable me to recover the full originality and complexity of the human factor that lies at the heart of the war-phenomenon, resulting in the first phenomenological account of the historical and anthropological particularity of this characteristic mode of human relations.

Keywords: phenomenology,nature,culture,strategy,history
Stem Cell Therapy Development for Corneal Epithelium Regeneration (STEM-CORE)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,Italy,Türkiye,Spain,Germany,Sweden,France,Hungary,Norway
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4270031.13
EU funding (EUR): 4051541.88
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Corneal disease ranks as the fourth major cause of blindness, imposing a significant medical, social, and economic burden. Effective therapeutic options for corneal disease are unfortunately limited. The development of regenerative treatment has proven more complex than anticipated. Bridging the gap between cutting-edge scientific and technological advancements and their clinical applications in ocular regenerative medicine requires equipping the next generation of (medical) researchers with comprehensive training to drive innovation and facilitate clinical translation. STEM-CORE aims to reshape European doctorate education, through ‘training through innovative research’, nurturing future leaders in ocular regenerative medicine and beyond. This training program offers doctoral candidates (DCs) a comprehensive training trajectory to develop a robust, affordable, and sustainable cell therapy for treating corneal blindness caused by stem cell deficiency. Key components include in-depth understanding of stem cell differentiation, developing (genetically corrected) cell products and biomaterials, and evaluating regenerative function of the cell products in corneas. Through innovative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research, STEM-CORE provides training of a full set of transferable and other complementary skills to DCs that enhances their career prospects across academia and industry. To achieve this, STEM-CORE has assembled a team of leading European researchers and dedicated supervisors from academic and non-academic sectors, whose expertise spans all facets of the training program. We envision that STEM-CORE will not only establish a novel paradigm for cell therapy development but also empower aspiring researchers to tackle broad challenges in future regenerative medicine, advancing European innovation and contributing to societal progress.

Keywords: ophthalmology,cornea,hipsc,biomaterials,immune compatibility,genome editing,mouse models
Safe Transition to Digital Assistants for Aviation (SafeTeam)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Sweden,Türkiye,United Kingdom
Call: Safe automation and human factors in aviation – intelligent integration and assistance (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4031420.0
EU funding (EUR): 3760182.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of the project SafeTeam is to progress on the human factors aspects on the use of digital assistants to aviation, including a deeper understanding on the technology and processes that will facilitate the adoption of AI tools and integration into operations, enhancing human cognitive abilities and potentially automation. SafeTeam is not purely concerned with the technical development of AI applications for aviation but rather focuses on those aspects and characteristics of integrating such digital assistance / AI tools that will ensure efficient and safe interaction with human operators. The efficiency / accuracy of the ML algorithms and AI solutions is of course of relevance to the research, but the core objective of SafeTeam is to facilitate the transition to digital assistants and ultimately AI-run operations from a Human Factors and safety perspective. The project will also look into approval and certification issues, concretely on aspects related to the human ability to operate sophisticated AI tools and explainability of AI operations. The project main goal of developing new human-machine interaction concepts will run along important technical challenges required to reach TRL6, demonstrating several concrete use cases in relevant environments placen human operators at the core or the research. Particularly, leveraging the past work done on data infrastructures, the SafeTeam project will provide relevant environments integrated with the use cases, to be able to demonstrate the different ML algorithms and the human interactions with the enhancing awareness or automation case studies presented.

Keywords: digitalisation,human factors,ai,artificial intelligence,aviation,automation,digital assistants