Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Knowledge-driven fine-tuning of perovskite-based electrode materials for reversible Chemicals-to-Power devices (KNOWSKITE-X)

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: France,Switzerland,Greece,Austria,Italy,Portugal,Spain
Call: Advanced materials modelling and characterisation (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5168000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5168000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

We target a knowledge-based methodological entry to the finding of new generation electrode materials based on perovskites for reversible SOFC/SOEC technologies. The latter are archetypal complex systems: the physico-chemical processes at play involve surface electrochemical reactions, ionic diffusion, charge collection and conduction, which all occur timely within a very limited region. Hence, true in-depth understanding of the key parameters requires characterisation at the right place, at the right time frame and under the proper operating conditions. The price to pay for achieving this multiply-relevant characterisation is the involvement of non-trivial, advanced characterisation techniques. Multi-scale modelling will contribute to turn experimental datasets into a genuine scientific description and make time-saving predictions. In KNOWSKITE-X, the coupling between theoretical and experimental activities is made real by the choice of partners, who are all active in genuinely articulate theory and practice to understand active systems. To provide unifying concepts and to widen the project’s outcomes, intensive collaboration with knowledge discovery using machine-learning and deep learning methods is planned and AI-enabled tools will be used to compensate the smallness of relevant datasets. Such efforts are intended in view of building strong correlations capable of establishing robust composition-structure-activity-performance relations and hence, lead the way to knowledge-based predictions. By doing this, we also target the implementation of simplified testing protocols and tools operable by industrial stakeholders, which results can be augmented thanks to the knowledge-based pivotal correlations implemented during the project. To this end, dedicated efforts will be made in certifying the interoperability and usability of the project’s advances in the form of harmonised documentation and open science sharing.

Keywords: spectroscopy,multi scale modelling,adaptative ml methods,ai,oxides,fuel cells
BioBar: Biological barriers for a sustainable landfill design (BioBar)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Waste management and final disposal cause severe environmental impacts. Even in modern landfills, installed engineered barriers worsen their hydraulic performance after 8 years of landfill operation, which can lead to leachate leakage and environmental pollution in the medium to long term. In addition, the use of clay as landfill barriers relies on a non-renewable resource and entails high economic and environmental costs when such a resource is not locally available. Therefore, it is necessary to develop barriers made of renewable and/or recycled sources, which not only promote leachate containment but also enhance its in-situ treatment and attenuation. This project will take advantage of the bacteria naturally occurring in leachate that grow and form biofilms by consuming the organic compounds. We will apply the biofilm-forming bacteria in a novel liner made of the rejected fraction of fine aggregates and plastic waste. Adopting such a bio-barrier between the liner and the drainage system could reduce both the leachate flow and the contaminants concentrations that actually reach the liner. This is because the natural clogging of the bio-barrier would reduce its permeability, and the physicochemical and biochemical processes would enhance their attenuation. In this regard, the proposed project will 1) develop bio-barriers for landfill design, combining the rejected fraction of fine aggregates, plastic waste and biofilm-forming bacteria, 2) verify the long-term performance of these new designs for representative conditions, and 3) develop guidance for real-world implementation to reduce barrier permeability and increase contaminant attenuation. The bio-barrier (BioBar) approach has not been quantitatively tested for landfill barrier design and merges innovative geochemical concepts and biofilm engineering. The effectiveness of the developed bio-barrier could enable the reduction of clay liner thickness, in a renewable and sustainable design perspective.

Keywords: bio barrier landfill design biological clogging geochemical modeling
Data and METAdata for advanced digitalization of manuFACTURING industrial lines (MetaFacturing)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Portugal,Slovenia,Germany
Call: Optimised Industrial Systems and Lines through digitalisation (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5768142.75
EU funding (EUR): 4997759.13
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

MetaFacturing focuses on a digitized toolchain for metal part production which will lead to a more resilient production process with respect to the raw materials used (e.g., recycled materials), reduces operator effort and cost, and reduces scrap due to out-of-specification parts. The vision is to create a widely-applicable Digital Twin based process setup and control framework, fulfilling the requirements of industrial scale parts manufacturers (with a specific focus on metal parts) whose central hurdle is the effective use of available part and process data to improve the time-to-market and product quality. This framework will strongly leverage on a range of state-of-the-art technologies in the field of model-based data fusion, efficient process simulation, and data standardisation, and continuous Life Cycle Assessment in order to efficiently develop solutions which are tailored for deployment in industry. MetaFacturing project brings together 6 market leaders (FRONIUS, NEMAK, FILL, VITRONIC, BENTELER and LTH) which will closely cooperate in order to reach a new level of leadership in sustainable manufacturing while maintaining their respective market dominance. The envisaged approach will exploit all available data in the process, starting from material data, in-process measurements, end-of-line quality control and sampling-based product validation. The Digital Twin based approach will enable the holistic consideration of this data in order to provide automatic feedback for the process control, as well as providing novel (meta-)data on the materials used which will be valuable to train the engineers working with these materials.

Keywords: digital twin,data analytics,artificial intelligence,sensor fusion,material characterization,scrap reduction,life cycle assesment,interoperability,casting and welding
Hyperforce correlations in ionic soft matter (Hyperion)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Developing a comprehensive microscopic understanding of electrolytes is relevant for a wide range of physical, chemical and biological problems, including battery technology, adsorption of pollutants in soils and the topical area of iontronics, where ions are used for signalling. Characteristic electrolytic behaviour arises from the response of both ions and solvent molecules to the presence of external electrical fields. Fundamental physical description can be based on analysing the equilibrium and dynamical fluctuations that occur in a given system. Relevant fluctuating observables include the particle concentration, the charge, and the electrical current, all of which directly relate to experimentally accessible observables. The concept of forces, despite being fundamental for physical model building, has received far less attention in statistical mechanics. Here we intend to introduce a systematic correlation framework based on the forces and hyperforces, which correlate forces with further physical observables, in ionic systems. Hyperion combines analytical theory with simulation work and it comprises three main tasks: (i) We will first develop and validate the static and dynamic force and hyperforce correlations in bulk, thereby investigating how these relate to number and charge fluctuations. (ii) We will study the influence of external confinement on the electrical fluctuations measured in finite observation volumes as is relevant for transport through channels and nanopores. (iii) We will consider the nonequilibrium correlations that occur during transport induced either by shear flow or by an external electric field with the aim to rationalize the emerging electrophoretic phenomena and the nonequilibrium ion kinetics. As understanding the electrolyte sheds light on the kinetics of individual ions, Hyperion aims to provide a new point of view for ionic structure and the associated nonequilibrium transport in complex environments.

Keywords: force force correlations hyperforce correlations ionic solutions classical density functional theory
Genome topology and mechanical stress (TOPOMECH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493665.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493665.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The nucleus is the stiffest organelle in the cell and is constantly challenged by intrinsic and extrinsic forces that deform the nuclear envelope. Chromosomes are mechanical objects that can sense, transduce and adsorb mechanical forces. Inter-chromosomal contacts and nuclear envelope-associated domains contribute to transduce mechanical stress when cells experience compression, stretching or interstitial migration. We aim to study the mechanical properties of the chromosomes and how genome integrity and the chromatin topological landscape are affected by nuclear deformations. We will combine mechanistic, genetic and genomic studies in yeast (WP1) with genomic, imaging and microfluidic approaches in mammalian cells (WP2). In WP1 we will investigate i) how the topological context influences nucleosome chirality and the epigenetic landscape; ii) how the inter-chromosomal connections mediated by topoisomerase activities influence genome mechanics; iii) how chromosome topology contributes to generate aberrant DNA structures and how DNA damage induces topological changes; iv) how the nuclear envelope and the nucleolus influence chromatin topology and histone modifications; v) how nuclear deformation affects genome integrity and the topological landscape. In WP2 we will study: i) the ATR and ATM-mediated mechanisms controlling nuclear and genome integrity and mechanics, under unperturbed conditions or in response to mechanical stress; ii) how the topological context of the genome responds to mechanical forces generated by cell compression or stretching and the implications for fragile site expression; iii) how mechanical stress generated by interstitial migration influences genome topology, chromosome instability, and those mechanisms causing amplification of specific chromosomal loci. The expected results may contribute to elucidate the mechanisms controlling nuclear and genome mechanics and those pathological processes promoting certain mechano-diseases.
Cavity-Integrated Electro-Optics: Measuring, Converting and Manipulating Microwaves with Light (CIELO)

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: Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2548532.5
EU funding (EUR): 2548532.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Electro-optic technologies have emerged as one of the leading platforms in both classical and quantum communication landscapes. The advent of circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) based on low-loss Josephson junction circuits has led to spectacular scientific breakthroughs in quantum science and technology. In recent years, these breakthroughs have been translated into commercial quantum computing efforts worldwide, targeting a market with an estimated value of 1 billion Euro. Despite these achievements, there are fundamental limitations to quantum technologies based solely on microwaves. Operating in a millikelvin environment, the space required for wiring and electronics as well as the associated heat loads are barriers for scaling up the quantum processors to the size needed to address societal challenges. Electro-optic interconnects capable of coherently distributing and transferring quantum information from superconducting processors to a room temperature environment would address this challenge. Such devices would enable quantum processors to be scaled up in a modular fashion, which will be key to realizing complex and capable quantum machines that remain controllable and error-correctable. Moreover, these microwave-optical interfaces would also form the basis for efficient laser-driven microwave technologies relevant to sensing applications, such as microwave astronomy or robust and low-noise microwave amplification. In CIELO, we aim to lay the foundation for laser-based manipulation of microwave fields using cavity electro-optics, enabling amplification, quantum-limited optical detection, interconversion, qubit readout, laser cooling and masing, in stark contrast to the commonly used electrical techniques. We will leverage a combination of unique expertise in integrated photonics, advanced materials, and superconducting qubits to realize cavity electro-optic devices operating in the quantum regime.

Keywords: microwaves,electro optic modulation,pockels effect,cryogenics,superconducting qubits,quantum computing,maser,quantum entanglement,standard quantum limit
Better Biobased Polymer Network (B3PO)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,France,Portugal,Croatia,Slovenia,Denmark,Netherlands,Sweden
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): 4458586.17
EU funding (EUR): 4342536.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The transition of the historically established chemistry toward biobased feedstocks and integrated biotechnology will reinvent the chemistry of the 21st century. New chemistry processes will not simply repeat fossil-based reactions but offer fully new opportunity spaces for coming up sustainable materials. The research focuses on biobased polymers and materials with superior product properties, thus making a significant contribution to achieve the GREEN DEAL goals of the European Union. The consortium joins leading academic partners with high- tech SMEs and world-class producers of enzymes, adhesives and coatings. The research explores two highly relevant strategies for the future biobased polymer industry: the direct modification of biopolymers and biotechnological production of monomers. Work on the direct enzymatic modification of lignin combines extraction and blending of lignin with selective chemoenzymatic functionalization. Metabolic, enzyme and bioprocess engineering is combined to develop routes towards biobased lactones, whose sustainable ring-opening-polymerization leads to new co-polyesters. B3PO studies the application of the biobased polymers in adhesives, coatings and biomedical 3D materials, and their biodegradation. Conversion of biomass to high-value functional polymers requires very different methods and thus highly trained scientists withinterdisciplinary skills. B3PO’s double degree program offers unique interdisciplinary training at the interface of industrial biotechnology and polymer science, complemented by transferable skills with emphasis on creativity and an ntrepreneurial mindset. B3PO ths offers a unique, highly intersectoral and interdisciplinary environment to provide 15 double degree PhD candidates with outstanding employability profiles for the European industry.

Keywords: biobased polymers functionalized lignin biobased lactones hybrid materials biodegradation
A SCALABLE AND PRACTICAL PRIVACY-PRESERVING FRAMEWORK (ENCRYPT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Cyprus,France,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom
Call: Scalable privacy-preserving technologies for cross-border federated computation in Europe involving personal data (HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4392540.0
EU funding (EUR): 4392540.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The deluge of big data, accompanied by developments in software and hardware technologies leveraging them, has created new opportunities for research and industry. Europe The main challenges, though, faced by researchers and service providers working with personal data, are stemming from the fact that these data need to be processed in a privacy-preserving way, as they contain sensitive information. Although several technologies have been developed to facilitate the processing of data while preserving privacy, they have not made significant inroads into real use cases, due to several reasons. ENCRYPT will develop a scalable, practical, adaptable privacy-preserving framework, allowing researchers and developers to process data stored in federated cross-border data spaces in a GDPR-compliant way. Within this framework, a recommendation engine for citizens and end-users will be developed, providing them with personalised suggestions on privacy preserving technologies depending on the sensitivity of data and the accepted trade-off between the degree of security and the overall system performance. The ENCRYPT framework will be designed taking into consideration the needs and preferences of relevant actors, and will be validated in a comprehensive, 3-phase validation campaign, comprising i) in-lab validation tests, ii) use cases provided by consortium partners in three sectors, namely the health sector, the cybersecurity sector, and the finance sector, that include cross-border processing of data, and iii) external use cases including privacy preserving computations on federated medical datasets. ENCRYPT will be realised by a multidisciplinary consortium of 14 partners, comprising six companies (including three SMEs, one start-up, and two enterprises), and eight research institutes/universities, and covering the value chain for privacy-preserving computation technologies.

Keywords: fully homomorphic encryption,trusted execution environment,differential privacy,hardware acceleration,co creation,ai recommendation system,gdpr compliance
Digital Observatory of Political Discourse (DIGIPOL)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 277159.2
EU funding (EUR): 277159.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

At a time when online discourse is increasingly controlled by private platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and when fake news risks affecting elections and public health in Europe and the United States, there is a growing need for more transparency in online discourse. DIGIPOL argues that misinformation is one attribute of a larger digital information ecosystem over which we urgently require oversight. It launches a digital observatory of political discourse in the form of an online dashboard that tracks Twitter discourse in real-time. It is highly innovative - instead of an opinion poll, it models political science and media studies concepts (populism, expertise, echo chambers, and political identity) to present complex information on online discourse to policymakers, citizens, platforms, and researchers.

Keywords: social media,twitter,misinformation,disinformation,political discourse