Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Complex chemical reaction networks for breakthrough scalable reservoir computing (CORENET)

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,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2047125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2047125.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The brain is the world’s most amazing computer and it runs entirely on chemical reactions. The vision of CORENET is to construct brain-mimicking computing devices that utilise networks of chemical reactions as molecular information processing systems. To achieve this vision, we will implement reservoir computing (RC) on microfluidic chips using chemical reaction networks (CRNs) that convert input feedstock molecules and environmental conditions into a pattern of product molecules. This pattern can be monitored on a chip using a combination of high-throughput mass spectrometry analysis, algorithmic cheminformatics and AI tools. CORENET will generate a breakthrough in highly scalable and functional chemical RC by integrating our partners’ new knowledge and state-of-the-art methodologies in systems and analytical chemistry, microfluidics, cheminformatics and machine learning. CORENET will produce microfluidic chip devices that perform high-level computing with molecules, synthesising and analysing a pattern of output molecules in situ. This molecule-based computing power enables truly sustainable AI and speaks the language of living systems, which constantly process information about their molecular environment. Future applications of our chemical RC system lie in implantable devices, brain-machine interfaces and personalised medicine. CORENET brings together 4 leading scientists with complimentary expertise that covers all fundamental aspects of this project. Their expertise is combined with the world-class knowledge in AI/ML modelling of a high-tech global industry partner with unique research and computing infrastructure, while an SME specialised in the communication and dissemination of results will ensure maximised impact. Our highly interdisciplinary team will generate new scientific knowledge and breakthrough technologies to achieve essential priorities for Europe`s future and its support to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Keywords: systems chemistry,reaction networks,microfluidics,cheminformatics,artificial intelligence,chemical computing
AI-BASED TESTING PYRAMID TOWARDS VIRTUAL CERTIFICATION OF NEXT-GEN COMPOSITE AEROSTRUCTURES (pAIramid)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Portugal,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Netherlands,Belgium
Call: Competitiveness and digital transformation in aviation – advancing further composite aerostructures (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5757206.57
EU funding (EUR): 4999940.22
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The aerospace industry faces significant challenges in bringing new aircraft designs to market, as this concerns a complex certification process that relies heavily on expensive and time-consuming physical tests based on a pyramidal framework (from base to top: material, coupon, element, aerostructure). This approach has notable drawbacks, including a lack of insight into how changes at one level impact the overall aerostructure performance and the need to repeat much of the certification process if changes are made at distant levels. To address these challenges, the pAIramid project proposes a revolutionary approach based on high-fidelity virtual tests interconnected across the different levels of the certification pyramid. A digital tool is being created, which works by leveraging data-driven simulation methods and Artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to optimize the certification process, reducing computational time, and promoting fast decision-making. This AI-driven hybrid pyramid approach breaks down barriers between different testing levels, easing knowledge transfer and faster design iterations. The pAIramid project is completed with several industrial demonstrators, which will help to check the proper performance of the digital tool while proving that it is able to effectively bring in new solutions to the aerostructures’ field. Four different use cases, all of them focused on advancing technologies related to composites’ properties (functionalized thermosets and thermoplastics) and manufacturing processes (one-shot LRI and FDM with continuous fiber reinforcement) are analyzed. All of them will be matured up to TRL4, counting with relevant collaboration of RTOs and industrial partners, which give these technologies the potential to be deployed in the market in the coming years, as well as representing valuable information for the tool learning, which will continue growing thanks to already existing and newly created data, while spreading in the market.

Keywords: aviation,aerostructures,composites,functionalised thermosets,functionalised thermoplastics,digital models,simulations,multiphysics,artificial intelligence
Business-driven systemic solutions for sustainable plastic packaging reuse schemes in mass market applications (BUDDIE-PACK)

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: France,Germany,Spain,Ireland,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: Innovative solutions to over-packaging and single-use plastics, and related microplastic pollution (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7212931.5
EU funding (EUR): 5960131.13
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

BUDDIE-PACK is a circular economy project aiming at implementing a systemic approach for the large-scale deployment of reusable plastic packaging (RPP) based on a multidisciplinary approach combining social, technological and economic innovations. The project will take advantage of behavioural innovation to promote consumers' acceptance of RPP by analysing drivers and analyzing consumers’psychology of reuse. Sound synergies with technological innovations will be developed to manufacture packaging fulfilling the demanding requirements of RPP based on innovative designs and recyclable materials. The project will focus on innovative cleaning solutions to guarantee the safety of consumers against the possible contamination and ageing of RPP during their repeated use, and the durability of the functional properties up to 300 cycles. Viable economic models will ensure the sustainability of the proposed solutions thanks to the profitability of stakeholderss throughout the value chain, including solutions based on social & solidarity economy models. The project outcomes will be demonstrated under the supervision of RPP manufacturers and users, logisticians, cleaning and recycling experts through 6 mass market business cases in real environment at TRL8. An unprecedented cleaning pilot line dedicated to RPP and allowing scale economies will be set up. Policy recommendations and pre-standardisation activities on RPP designs and cleaning protocols will prepare the markets for the mass deployment of RPP. Preventive measures will be put in place to eliminate any release of microplastics during RPP use. The project will avoid each year the production of nearly 544M of single-use packaging, reduce the consumption of virgin plastics by 103ktons, of water by 1B to 18.5B litres, avoid 303 660ktons of CO2 emissions, 37ktons of microplastics leaking in EU seas.

Keywords: reusable plastic packaging,social innovation,circular business model
Mouthing in PJM under Observation: Structure and Typology (MOST)

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: United Kingdom,Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The MOST project (Mouthing in PJM under Observation: Structure and Typology) investigates the use of mouthing in Polish Sign Language (PJM), focusing on its structure, functions, and typology within the context of PJM’s contact with spoken Polish. Mouthing is a cross-modal language contact phenomenon where elements of spoken words are articulated alongside manual signs during signing. The project aims to fill two significant research gaps: (1) the lack of a systematic description of mouthing in PJM, especially given the inflectional morphology of spoken Polish, and (2) the limited typological understanding of mouthing across sign languages. The project hypothesizes that mouthing in PJM is influenced by Polish morphology, potentially resulting in inflected mouthing patterns not observed in other sign languages, contributing to language processing and comprehension. MOST will be carried out through two interconnected studies: a corpus-based study to describe the overall properties of mouthing in PJM, focusing on usage patterns, functions, and sociolinguistic factors; and an experimental study to test how mouthing aids language comprehension by reducing cognitive load. Both approaches will allow for a detailed investigation of mouthing’s functions in PJM. Project results will be compared with existing research on mouthing in other sign languages to expand the typological landscape of mouthing in sign languages globally. By bridging corpus-based and psycholinguistic approaches, MOST offers a unique perspective on the interaction between signed and spoken languages, enhancing our understanding of language contact phenomena. Conducted at University College London with a secondment at the University of Bergen, the project aligns with the European Commission’s priority of promoting social fairness and inclusion by contributing to the understanding of minority languages, improving accessibility, and fostering inclusive communication.

Keywords: mouthing,polish sign language,corpus based study,psycholinguistics,sign language,triangulation,mouth gesture,mouth action
INNOVATIVE, SUSTAINABLE AND CIRCULAR PRODUCTION OF PURPLE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA AS HEALTH-PROMOTING INGREDIENT FOR FOOD AND FEED APPLICATIONS (Purple4Life)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Norway,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Portugal,Italy,Slovakia
Call: Innovative bio-based food/feed ingredients (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3754818.75
EU funding (EUR): 3721693.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Europe’s food security and Farm2Fork strategy ambitions require the development of innovative, healthy and bio-based food and feed ingredients. Promoting the Circular Economy also implies using by-products as feedstocks that are currently poorly valorised. Purple4Life will harness the extraordinary metabolic versatility of purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) to upcycle those by-products into a high-quality innovative feed/food ingredient. PNSB are phototrophic bacteria capable of converting various carbon substrates, such as sugars, alcohol, CO2 or volatile fatty acids, into biomass with interesting nutritional properties. Among the variety of compounds produced by PNSB, the Purple4Life project will specifically focus on coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), carotenoids. PNSB contain a very large amount of CoQ10, which is at least a hundred times higher than in regular food. This coenzyme has been associated with numerous physiological benefits in human. The antioxidant properties of carotenoids are also important for human health and have been well documented. In aquaculture, the use of the natural carotenoid astaxanthin for fillet colour improvment but also for fish health currently relies on the production of Haematococcus pluvialis. Thanks to its huge antioxidant capacity, astaxanthin is also increasingly used as a food supplement. PNSB contain alternative carotenoids which were poorly investigated regarding feed/food applications but for which preliminary data were promising. The composition of PNSB thus suggests it could become a very powerful health-promoting ingredient for food and feed applications. The results of Purple4Life, while valorising bio-based by-product, will pave the way for the circular production of these spectacular microbes as innovative healthy feed and food ingredients.

Keywords: health promoting ingredient,microbial food
Symmetries and Spectra (SYMSPEC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999876.25
EU funding (EUR): 1999876.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. It is a fundamental concept and organising principle in quantum field theory, the common language of modern theoretical physics. The past few years have witnessed a radical evolution in the notion of symmetry that transcends the paradigm of groups and representation theory and marches into the realm of higher mathematics. This is known as categorical symmetry. The field has experienced a period of rapid discovery and exploration but the underlying mathematical structure remains poorly understood and this hinders progress on the most pressing open problems. Now is the time to take stock of recent developments and establish new mathematical foundations and computational tools in order to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to explore novel symmetries and gain new insights into physical systems described by quantum field theory. The purpose of this research programme is to establish a coherent mathematical framework for categorical symmetry. The research programme introduces and explores the notion of ``categorical spectrum", which compiles topological quantum field theories of all dimensions into a mathematical structure that opens up powerful conceptual and computational advances. This is applied to the exploration of categorical symmetries, 't Hooft anomalies and gapped phases of matter, catalysing a step change in the discovery of new examples and applications.

Keywords: symmetries,quantum field theory
Cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering distinct critical metals and industrial minerals as by-products from key European hard-rock lithium projects (EXCEED)

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: Finland,France,Portugal,Spain,Belgium,Greece,Germany
Call: Innovative solutions for efficient use and enhanced recovery of mineral and metal by-products from processing of raw materials (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12268115.71
EU funding (EUR): 11178103.51
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Europe is 100% reliant on imports of Li for the Li-ion batteries that are central to decarbonising the energy and mobility sectors. Some fraction of our needs can come from recycling the batteries already in use, but realistically, primary supply will still have to cover 90% of the Li requirement. Paradoxically, Europe hosts 27 Li hard-rock (pegmatite & Rare-Metal Granite) deposits, representing vast lithium resources (8.8–21.7 Mt Li2O). However, the identified potential remains largely untouched, which is partly due to a reluctant attitude towards primary (Li) mining in Europe. Europeans are very enthusiastic about EVs, but rather less so about the necessary mining & refining of Li-bearing ores to realise them. By upscaling and integrating results from earlier projects, EXCEED’s 15 partners develop a new mining paradigm, i.e. zero-waste, multi-metal/mineral mining. This will be combined with sustainable mineral processing to provide us with additional critical raw materials (CRMs: rare earths, Nb, Ta, W, Be) and industrial minerals (quartz, feldspar and micas), coming from 4 lithium mines (as case studies) in Finland (Keliber), Portugal (Savannah), France (Imerys) and the UK (Imerys). The project adopts a mineral-centric, integrated methodology based on an innovative predictive and forensic geometallurgy, supported by enhanced in-line characterisation tools and the development of digital twins. EXCEED develops, upscales and demonstrates cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering CRMs and industrial minerals (the latter for use as low-carbon ceramics and cements), as by-products from the 4 Li-bearing hard-rock ores. EXCEED’s long-term impact includes the replication of the EXCEED solutions to the other 23 European pegmatite and Rare-Metal Granite deposits, thus boosting domestic CRM production (up to 21.7 Mt Li2O & 1.5 Mt of other CRMs), in a way that gains public support by respecting the environment and creating local jobs.

Keywords: zero waste mining mineral processing critical raw materials lithium industrial minerals rare metal granite pegmatite geometallurgy by product recovery separation refining digital twins
Improving last-kilometer navigation & transportation of emergency personnel, equipment and relief items in hazardous and challenging environments (ForeSight)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Greece,Türkiye,Switzerland,Italy,Cyprus,Bulgaria
Call: Increased technology solutions, institutional coordination and decision-support systems for first responders of last-kilometer emergency service delivery (HORIZON-CL3-2023-DRS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3499923.75
EU funding (EUR): 3499923.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Considering response operations and relevant tasks in an urban fire or wildfire, performance of first and second responders is dramatically affected due to the low-, or even zero-, visibility conditions. ForeSight will design, develop, integrate, deploy, test, evaluate and demonstrate a set of bespoke re-sponse tools and services, at the service of civil protection agencies (fire brigades, civil protection organisations and emergency medical), which ensures a catalytic upgrade when managing urban fire or wildfire. These tools and services: a) effectively allow FRs to see unobtrusively through fire, smoke, fog and dust; b) boost situational awareness, tactical reconnaissance and last-kilometre logistics related not only to heavy equipment and emergency relief items delivery but also comprehending the entire route from start point of resources to entering and navigating to the “hot” zone; c) enhance decision and sense making of individual responders and teams from the onsite to the closure of an incident. Notably, the tools and services delivered by ForeSight shall be evaluated against a rich tech-nology inventory created within the project that extensively analyses existing technologies supporting first and second responders in their immediate response to natural disasters, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, the ForeSight technologies follow by design privacy, ethical, security and legal constraints to expedite their inclusion in response tasks and their abidance to standard operational procedures. Finally, a rich Integration, Testing and Vali-dation Activities Programme is followed– of Round Tables (RTs), Technical Integration Workshop (TIWS), Com-ponent Field Tests (CFTs) and System Field Tests (SFTs) – towards empowering collaborative response and han-dling of complex incidents to its fullest whilst facilitating implementation of most promising user-centred technologies in real-world conditions.

Keywords: improved last kilometer logistic,transport heavy equipment and relief units,frs apparel to see through fire smoke dust fog,ar and head up display,lidars,illuminators,beacons,c3i