Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Leading edge Semiconductor, Integration, and Control System Technologies for highly compact and smart eDrive Components towards more sustainable Power Electronics 5.0 (HiPower 5.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Austria,Croatia,Germany,Slovenia,Italy,Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands,Slovakia,France,Czechia
Call: HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-2-RIA Topic 1Global call according to SRIA 2023 (HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-2-RIA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 58183107.75
EU funding (EUR): 16526886.85
Participants: 46
Project status: SIGNED

HiPower 5.0 is driven by the challenges and ambitions addressed in the Green Deal and in the Chips Act, to develop new power electronics solutions to ensure Green Deal targets and to foster a resilient and leading edge all-European Value Chain, for tomorrow’s mobility solutions. Therefore, HiPower 5.0 aims for developing highly integrated eDrive components for the automotive and maritime domain using leading edge wide bandgap semiconductors and power electronics integration technologies. This includes the development of new GaN wafer materials with superior performance, first time 850 V monolithically integrated bidirectional GaN switches, enabling new topologies and unprecedented efficiency levels of 99%, as well as 1200 V GaN switches fitting the needs of 800 V battery electric vehicles. When developing these solutions, a resource-efficient and reliable design is considered to minimize CO2 footprint and extent the lifetime of power electronics components. Firstly, multi-physics simulation with its ability to model the complex interactions between electrical, thermal, electro-magnetic, and mechanical phenomena will be used. By simulating these interactions, the system design can be optimized while performances can be predicted under various operating conditions, reducing the need for prototyping, and cutting both time and costs of development. Secondly, new ageing models and prognostics concepts will be developed to finally enable an according evaluation of the set targets of the single applications. Supported by innovations in power electronics control and cooling the lifetime and reliability will be further enhanced. To achieve these targets, the HiPower 5.0 consortium is composed along the whole value chain, starting from the GaN wafer and chips development, up to automotive and maritime Tier1/OEMs. This is accompanied by leading European universities and research organizations, guaranteeing a significant economic and scientific impact of the proposed work.

Keywords: electromobility,design and optimization,reliability,wide bandgap semiconductors,digital twin
innovative STructures for improvEd Light colLection in ARgon-based TPCs (STELLAR)

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: Poland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-27
End date: 2026-06-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 139953.6
EU funding (EUR): 139953.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

STELLAR (innovative STructures for improvEd Light colLection in ARgon-based TPCs) goal is to boost the advancement of noble gas and liquid optical Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detectors for rare-event searches, with Dark Matter (DM) being one of the most compelling puzzles of todays fundamental physics. STELLAR plans to contribute to the development of novel amplification structures based on Micropattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) technology incorporating wavelength-shifting materials, capable of providing improved light collection and greater operating stability at higher gains. STELLAR programme can further contribute to the understanding of underlying mechanisms of signal formation in TPCs, opening the possibility of studying the electron extraction efficiency and electroluminescence in electronegative gas mixtures. This is a specially relevant topic considering the recent technological developments observed in DM searches with the use of Negative Ion TPCs, eventually optically readout. It is anticipated that the floating wavelength-shifting Field-Assisted Gas Electron Multipliers (FAT-GEM) mechanical characteristics and performance, can be a valuable alternative to current amplification structures used in noble-element TPCs for DM searches, for instance DarkSide-LowMass, or currently planned for long baseline neutrino experiment DUNE.

Keywords: dark matter optical amplification structures wavelength shifting materials electroluminescence light collection efficiency micropattern gas detectors mpgd dual phase time projection chambers
Synthesis of RoHS-Compliant Fluorescent 2D Nanocrystals for Fabrication of Display Pixel (SYROCO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-15
End date: 2028-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216240.0
EU funding (EUR): 216240.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Through the SYROCO project, my objective is to successfully synthesize RoHS-compliant 2D core/shell nanoplatelets (NPLs) of ZnSe/ZnS and ZnTe/ZnS. These nanoplatelets will exhibit predetermined emission colors (violet, blue, cyan, and green), narrow emission peaks (below 15 nm), and near-unity Photoluminescence Quantum Efficiency (PL QE), characteristics that have not yet been achieved. This endeavor aims to introduce a novel generation of Cd-free luminescent NPLs while offering valuable insights into the mechanisms underlying photoluminescence broadening and quenching in 2D nanomaterials. By transcending the current limitations in color range and emission line width imposed by conventional colloidal quantum dots, this research will pave the way for groundbreaking materials suitable for displays, lighting, and other optoelectronic devices. The outcomes of this project are expected to significantly advance my academic career by providing me with unique experiences in the convergence of multiple disciplines and positioning me as an emerging leader in the field. Achieving these objectives hinges on the supervisor's extensive expertise and my own diverse experience working with various colloidal NCs exhibiting strong emission characteristics, such as InP/ZnSe/ZnS, ZnCdTeS, ZnSe/ZnS, InAg(Cu,Zn)S/ZnS NCs, perovskite NPLs, and transition-metal dichalcogenide nanowires. Over the course of thirteen years, I have honed my skills through collaborations in different laboratories and with various supervisors and partners in the fields of physics (solid-state, optics), photonics, and chemistry (physical chemistry), focusing primarily on functional luminescent NCs. This diverse experience has equipped me with the necessary tools to tackle multidisciplinary challenges in the field.

Keywords: nanoplatelets,colloidal quantum dots,colloidal synthesis,cryogenic measurements,photoluminescence,displays
Go To Market Plan for Blue Lice (GTMBL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The world’s population is growing and in need of sustainable food sources without a big environmental impact. By 2050 the world's population is estimated to grow to 9 billion people. Currently, we are only utilizing only 3% of the food resources in the ocean. Fish farming of salmon is a sustainable resource with little impact with a potential to grow five folds by 2050, but there is a problem. The parasite sea lice is killing over 50 million salmon each year in Norway alone, and the problem costs over 1 bnEUR each year. Blue Lice develops a system that prevents sea lice infestations in salmon farming in a sustainable way. By only using a light source and the scent of salmon as attractants the company has made a system of traps attracting and capturing sea lice before it can infest the salmon. This reduces the levels of sea lice at the fish farm, increasing welfare and reducing the cost by removing treatments against sea lice. Blue Lice plans to use 8 months on building our go to market strategy for commercialization. The plan will be as follows: An overall market analysis to segment our market (approx. 1 month) Make a sustainable business model that is both sustainable and profitable fundamented in ESG’s (approx. 2 month) Make an updated business plan (approx. 2 month) Make a go to market plan based on the updated data (approx. 2 month) Make a plan for how to be a female lead company through the scaling and growth of the company (approx. 1 month) Our innovation will create positive societal and environmental impact by bringing more sustainable salmon to the world’s growing populations, creating more jobs in the districts of Norway and internationally. The mortality of salmon will be lowered and the salmon industry will be able to grow again in a more sustainable way.

Keywords: aquaculture,sustainability,innovation,biotech
The subjective effects of oppression: Anna Julia Cooper and Black Existentialism (AJ Cooper)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

By going back to Anna Julia Cooper — an important though understudied figure of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries —, the present project draws on my doctoral research in critical phenomenology of lived oppression and applies it to the analysis of the transatlantic constitution of Black existentialism. The importance of issues related to intersectionality within existing feminist movements led me to question the history and conditions of emergence of these issues; it made a decentering necessary in order to illuminate the present from another geographic space (the United States) and according to a longer history. By tracing the genealogy of intersectional thought, I wish to make feminist thought more complex from its margins, and from a philosophical perspective (Black existentialism) in which women's figures are still under-represented.

Keywords: feminist philosophy philosophy of race black feminism african american history oppression subjectivity oppression
A Revolution in Rotation Sensing (GyroRevolution)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Rotation sensors, also called gyroscopes, are ubiquitous in consumer electronics, navigation, and environmental sensing. The most advanced gyroscopes are ring lasers that are based on the Sagnac effect. All current compact and transportable devices, however, show significant drift and limited sensitivity, which precludes their usage in fields of application where extremely small rotation rates in the nrad/s to prad/s range need to be measured. These limitations are of purely technical origin: they derive from residual movement of the gaseous laser medium, light scattering, and acoustic fiber noise. Within the scope of an ERC Starting Grant, we have implemented a disruptively different design of a ring laser gyroscope that circumvents these limitations, now allowing for a compact and transportable device with near-zero drift and improved sensitivity. Such a device is in high demand for example in seismology, where it would benefit earth quake and tsunami early warning systems. Sensing of environmental ground motion is imperative in the context of climate change. Monitoring the structural health of bridges and other large-scale constructions is another pressing task, where highly precise acquisition of rotation and distortion will have a massive impact on the early and reliable detection of structural fatigue. Within GyroRevolution, we will demonstrate the supremacy of our concept and show operation outside of the laboratory. We will develop an IPR strategy and prepare a patent application. A detailed competitor and market analysis will constitute the first step on the pathway of deployment via a spin-out company. We will intensify contacts with companies to prepare for future partnerships. Importantly, we will get involved with potential end-users early-on to adapt our innovative technology to their needs. GyroRevolution marks the first and decisive step in technology transfer from fundamental research to a scalable device with a wide range of applications.
IBeCHANGE - ADDRESSING PSYCHOSOCIAL AND LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS TO PROMOTE PRIMARY CANCER PREVENTION: AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM TO PROMOTE BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE (iBeCHANGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Cancer
Destination: Cancer
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Estonia,Belgium,Netherlands,Slovenia,Romania,United Kingdom
Call: Enhance primary cancer prevention through sustainable behavioural change (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5749950.0
EU funding (EUR): 5749950.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan set has ambitious goals addressing key behavioral risk factors for cancer development, such as tobacco (target reduction of 30% by 2025), alcohol consumption (target reduction of 10% by 2025), unhealthy diets and physical inactivity (see also the HealthyLifestyle4All campaign). As “about 40% of cancer cases in the EU are preventable”, health promotion and preventive measures for cancer can benefit from the implementation of behavioural change (BC) and emotional management (EM) in the general population. However, previous research and practice have generally failed to achieve sustainable BC due to two factors: 1) not taking into account recent BC concepts showing the need of personalizing interventions and techniques; 2) not considering psychosocial features and emotions (e.g. anxiety and depression), which can interfere with effective BC and increase the risk of developing cancer. The main objective of this project is to design, develop, and test the iBeChange platform, a user-focused management system that empowers people to achieve healthy and sustainable behaviors and emotions. The iBeChange innovative system will be developed by experts from clinical and health psychology, oncology, epidemiology, ICT, data science, and the health policy. The iBeChange project will go beyond the state of the art of sustainable BC and EM by combining practice- and evidence-based knowledge coming from clinical psychology and BC theories with the potentialities of adaptive digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Thus, the iBeChange system will be able to dynamically observe, learn about user behaviours, and then deliver tailored and effective health interventions in a dynamic learning process. The final goal of the iBeChnage project is to contribute to the goals of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and European Code Against Cancer by improving long-term primary cancer prevention through informing, supporting, and empowering EU citizens. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on "Prevention & early detection (behavioural change)".

Keywords: emotional management reinforcement learning digital intervention co design
A Holistic Approach to Sustainable, Digital EU Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Rural Development based on Reconfigurable Aerial Enablers and Edge Artificial Intelligence-on-Demand Systems. (CHAMELEON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Spain,Greece,Estonia,Portugal,Lithuania,Austria,Belgium,France
Call: Potential of drones as multi-purpose vehicle – risks and added values (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5949746.25
EU funding (EUR): 5949746.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

CHAMELEON's vision is to introduce, develop, test and evaluate an integrated network of collaborating agents, equipped with advanced sensing and cognitive capabilities that can support multiple - missions at tactical level. While UVs are highly specialized systems manufactured by different providers, they all implement the CHAMELEON specifications, enabling all common features necessary to take part in the surveillance tasks foreseen by the use cases. As such, CHAMELEON aspires to exploit already well-established technologies and tools that have reach adequate maturity, towards offering a complex interoperable and reconfigurable system capable of supporting a wide set of heterogeneous missions in diverse environmental conditions. CHAMELEON innovation lies on a novel reconfigurable drone, the CHAMELEON drone, able to modify its configuration and sizing upon demand, which can be deployed in homogenous or heterogeneous groups to support complex scenarios, as well as a set of existing heterogeneous, modular, interoperable, networked UVs systems. CHAMELEON Drones will be able to adapt its operation from a number of available services or application through CHAMELEON App-store. CHAMELEON will organize two open calls to attract and select the best SMEs from across the continent. SMEs will be funded to generate AI supported products, processes, and business models with strong market potential across the proposed clusters. Besides a total financial support of ~€600.000, CHAMELEON will provide technical and business mentorship to the selected SMEs. Open Calls will also lead towards the industrial applicability of the proposed tools and services without EC funding: it is envisioned that an estimated of 10 applications will be submitted through CHAMELEON and will be enriched with AI components. The CHAMELEON solution will be demonstrated and validated under relevant operating conditions in 3 pilot sites in 3 European countries.

Keywords: reconfigurable drones,innovation platform,app store
Single-protein mechanochemical regulation of cell function (ProtMechCell)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2428850.75
EU funding (EUR): 2428850.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mechanical stimuli regulate an increasingly large number of cellular and tissue functions. However, the effect that those macroscopic forces have on the underpinning proteins is poorly understood. Most of our knowledge of protein dynamics under force is still restricted to in vitro single-molecule experiments. Collectively, these molecular measurements have revealed that, when denatured with force, proteins unfold and stretch along their end-to-end length, following a completely different pathway from that sampled in biochemical denaturation. Yet, we are still lacking fundamental understanding of how mechanical unfolding of proteins occurs in the cell, and how it impacts cellular function. Here, we propose to develop and apply a combination of state-of-the-art mechanical techniques across scales aiming to correlate the nanomechanical properties of proteins measured in vitro with their behaviour in their physiological cellular context. We will first study how the regulation of protein elasticity –through dynamic force-induced unfolding and refolding, protein binding and post-translational modifications in cryptic sites of key mechanosensors– affects cellular mechanotransduction. We will also examine, using single-cell optogenetic experiments, how the mechanical unfolding of mechanosensitive transcription factors regulate their import rate into the cell nucleus across the nuclear pore complex, and the potential physiological implications. We will then test the hypothesis that the mechanical stability and local structure of proteins emerge as a general master regulator of their translocation kinetics across pores of varying sizes and functions, including those present in proteasomes, peroxisomes and lysosomes. Finally, we will harness the natural specificity of the distinct cellular pores to inspire an intracellular force spectrometer to measure changes in the mechanical stability of a single protein under its functional pulling velocity inside the cell.

Keywords: mechanobiology,single molecule biophysics,protein nanomechanics,protein dynamics,mechanotransduction,chemical biology