Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Euclid Legacy Science Advanced analysis tools (ELSA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Scientific exploitation of space data (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1076873.75
EU funding (EUR): 1076873.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Euclid is an ESA space telescope launching in July 2023, designed to understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter. To achieve this, Euclid will observe over a third of the sky with high resolution imaging and spectroscopy, which will establish “the” reference map of the extra-galactic celestial sphere for decades to come. The giant archive produced will be a goldmine to study the history of the formation and growth of galaxies over the age of the Universe, driving answers to many fundamental science questions on the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, the interaction between stars, gas, and galactic nuclei in galaxies at cosmic noon, and excelling in the discovery of rare objects including gravitational lenses. However, the richest gold veins are also the most difficult to exploit: the tools developed for Euclid’s primary science will not be enough to open the rich legacy for the astronomical community. We therefore propose ELSA to explore new methodologies and create cutting-edge pipelines, tools and algorithms. Our ambitious goal is to push the boundaries of spectroscopic analysis to the limits, uncovering hidden details of even the faintest and rarest galaxies measured by Euclid. We will leverage state of the art machine learning to efficiently handle the high-dimensional data and reveal the underlying physical processes they encode. This will need dedicated computing resources and highly motivated researchers versed in the most advanced techniques, that will work with our team of leading experts in the field of galaxy evolution to reveal the treasures preserved in the Euclid vault. Our machine learning will be supplemented by citizen science, enormously extending the reach of ELSA’s impact. ELSA will be a forge of knowledge and advanced tools that will not be confined within the boundaries of our teams, but shared with the whole scientific community and beyond to foster new projects and unforeseen discoveries.

Keywords: spectroscopy machine learning visualisation tools citizen science euclid mission galaxy evolution
PRESIDENCY EVENT (DK) - CONFERENCE “HUMAN VALUES AND GRAND CHALLENGES: SSAH CONTRIBUTIONS TO EUROPEAN TRANSFORMATIONS AND RESILIENCE” (Human Values)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Other Culture, creativity and inclusive society destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Presidency event (DK) - conference “Addressing the potentials of Human values by SSH designs to achieve human-centred sustainability”. (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DK-PRES-03-IBA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 11.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The world is facing rapid and profound societal change and grand challenges in the coming decade. If Europe is going to respond efficiently to these challenges, research into possible ways of addressing the challenges ahead must effectively integrate knowledge from both STEM and SSAH in order to support long-term solution. In such turbulent times it becomes more critical than ever to understand how human values are evolving in parallel, and the ways in which they continue to shape our collective and individual decision-making, rational and emotional preferences, and moral and affective judgements –as citizens, consumers and communities. The presidency conference will support a shared vision of human-centric R&I for a more sustainable, inclusive Europe by bringing together policy-makers, research funders and researchers in order to discuss ways in which this goal can be achieved.
Awakening Soil Curiosity to catalyse Soil Literacy (CURIOSOIL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Belgium,Spain,Slovenia,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Germany,Austria,Norway
Call: Foster soil education across society (HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999126.25
EU funding (EUR): 5999126.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

CURIOSOIL ambition is to trigger Soil Curiosity and create connections between people and soil. In line with the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”, CURIOSOIL aims to contribute to transforming the way soil is valued, perceived, taught and communicated. The project will build upon actual knowledge and will work to change the vision of soil from mere substrate to an ecosystem that should be researched and protected. This will be achieved through the development of multisensorial Soil Experiences to raise soil literacy, building of a Soil Optimism narrative and through the co-creation of a set of educational products, curriculum standards, and teacher’s training programmes. The co-design and multi-actor approach will promote student and citizen engagement in the Mission Soil as well as in other European, national, and international soil health initiatives and will incentivise behavioural change towards an increased perception of soil value and its sustainable use. CURIOSOIL will promote multilingualism and work in soil educational settings across 15 European countries. In order to address the expected outcomes and deliver impact beyond the project’s lifetime, CURIOSOIL will work across four impact pathways: IP1. Triggering soil curiosity; IP2. Prototyping multiple educational journeys to increase soil literacy; IP3. Empowering communities and initiatives dedicated to soil education; IP4. Influence policymaking through a soil optimism narrative.

Keywords: soil literacy soil awareness soil health
EU visa diplomacy in world politics (VISADIPLO)

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,United Kingdom,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The EU visa policy, also known as the Schengen visa policy, relies on a “positive” list of third-country nationals (TCN) exempted from visas to travel to the EU, and on a “negative” list of TCN subject to visa obligations. Visa requirements play an essential role in international relations but are overlooked in the case of the EU, whose visa policy has mostly been studied as a tool to limit irregular immigration. This project “VISADIPLO: EU visa diplomacy in world politics” consists in an innovative and comprehensive study of the making of the visa requirement lists. It addresses a series of three research objectives. The first objective is to map the priorities linked to EU visa diplomacy, not only border enforcement but also trade, tourism attractiveness, energy supplies or sanctioning foes, as the recent suspension of EU-Russia visa facilitation agreement demonstrates. The second objective is to understand how these priorities are negotiated by the Member States’ representatives, in spite of concurring national interests. The last objective is to question the distributional effects of EU visa diplomacy and bring evidence of the global travel inequalities resulting from EU visa requirements. This project adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing inspiration from Migration Diplomacy and Sociology of the EU. It relies on an original multi-method approach combining a quantitative study of the evolutions of visa requirement lists, qualitative semi-directed interviews with EU decision-makers and geovisualization analysis, since the findings on the unequal distribution of global mobility resulting from EU visa diplomacy will be represented in the form of an interactive map, published and available online. VISADIPLO aims to have a societal impact by bringing awareness and transparency to a policy whose opacity and negative impact on human mobility are often criticized.

Keywords: visa policy eu diplomacy eu studies border control migration diplomacy
Resounding Ships: Sound and Music of Sacred Sea Travel between Venice and Jerusalem (c. 1450-1650) (SOUNDSHIP)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-06
End date: 2027-10-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The maritime route between Venice and Jerusalem testified to an incredible exchange of thousands of people in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among these were pilgrimages, which gathered transregional, multiethnic and multireligious communities, brought together through sound in spite of their language, cultural and religious differences. Pilgrims’ diaries narrate a sense of community that was initiated and preserved by sound phenomena such as noise and silence, sonic practices such as sounding trumpets or whistles, and various music practices, including chanting. In the current time, marked by intensifying interethnic, intercultural and religious tensions, my project advocates for and fosters multicultural cohesion within modern society. Despite being naturally prominent in general early modern travel, sound’s meaning for the travelling community remains under-researched, and has rarely been considered within in-between, transitional spaces of mobility and cultural exchange. SOUNDSHIP offers a new, far more more nuanced understanding of sound perception in early modern communities, their formation and preservation, and will be the first systematic study of sound and music in early modern travel. It will do so through an innovative application of sound studies, auditory history, historical musicology, religious studies, and performance practice research on pilgrims’ narratives, philosophical, music, medical treatises, and music practices. With a strong track record in assessing music historiographies through sound studies, Dr Cugelj will work with Prof James Mansell, an international expert for sound methodology and innovative practices in sound research at the University of Nottingham. The MSCA will establish Dr Cugelj as an independent sound scholar with international reach, advancing the field of historical sound studies through the investigation of sonic identities.

Keywords: sound studies,auditory history,early modern history,transnational history of music,semiology of sound,temporal communities,pilgrimage studies,historical performance practice
The impact of global warming on the soil organic matter decay of world mangroves. (MangC)

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: France,Australia,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-15
End date: 2025-03-14
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 233696.72
EU funding (EUR): 233696.72
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The world’s vegetation acts as a large carbon sink, absorbing ~30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Ecosystems at the interface of terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems – including mangroves – have been little studied. Yet, mangroves contribute disproportionally to this sink capacity relative to their aerial extent, as they have up to ten times higher burial rates than terrestrial forests. Under global warming, it is nevertheless unclear whether mangroves will continue to store carbon and absorb CO2 emissions at the same rate or become a net source of CO2. This is because higher temperature may accelerate soil biogeochemical processes. Here, I will track the carbon decay in mangrove soils under warmings using a novel combination of mesocosm experiments coupled with isotopic analysis. The results will provide the first quantification of soil organic matter (SOM) decay under global warming scenarios in mangroves (research objective 1-RO1), reveal its underlying mechanisms (RO2) and potential feedback loop with vegetation (RO3). This will be a step-change in understanding how mangrove carbon stocks and sink capacity will respond to global warming.

Keywords: mangrove,coastal wetland,carbon cycle,blue carbon
ECOSAF: technology to produce new biobased surfactants for cleaning products from waste biomass (ECOSAF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2278080.0
EU funding (EUR): 2278080.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

LAS is the main surfactant used in cleaning products, specially in laundry detergent due to its high performance and low cost. Only in Europe and the US, LAS annual consumption is about 800k tonnes with a market value of about €1 billion. However, LAS is derived from fossil fuels, meaning that it has negative environmental impact. There are green alternative surfactants in the market to replace LAS, but they are more expensive than LAS and exhibit a much lower performance in cleaning applications. To address this issue, Bioataraxis has developed a new technology called Ecosaf. Ecosaf allows us to produce a new green biobased surfactant from waste biomass called SAF. SAF exhibits a cleaning performance like LAS and a production cost similar to current green alternatives, meaning that SAF can be a game-changer in the cleaning industry as the only cost-effective replacement of LAS. In this project, we aim to continue the development of SAF from the laboratory to industrial level, and sort out the initial regulatory approvals for the commercialization of SAF in Europe.

Keywords: biobased surfactant,waste biomass,furan,cleaning products,detergents
Concrete Innovation for Recycled Content and Low Environmental impact (CIRCLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Viet Nam,Malaysia,Thailand,Korea, Republic of,China,Indonesia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1503000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1503000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete is the world’s second most-used material in construction, after water. It comprises three main ingredients: cement, water and aggregates. The latter constitute 60-70% of concrete’s total volume, representing a heavy environmental burden. Presently, the use of recycled aggregates (RA) in concrete production (reusing their embodied energy and decreasing waste dumping) is still marginal, even though its feasibility has been demonstrated at the research level. The overarching goal of the CIRCLE project is to form an international network of 11 organisations working to tackle the challenges in upscaling recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). The CIRCLE team includes interdisciplinary researchers renowned in this area, which will integrate their expertise towards the project’s overarching goal, following a carefully planned flowchart of activities: enhancing existing knowledge on bio-based self-healing and carbonation of RAC; fostering high-performance RAC; optimizing the quality of RA and RAC, and evaluating the potential of RAC through multi-criteria life cycle assessment; and assessing RAC in full-scale real applications. The intercontinental 342 PM planned in secondments within CIRCLE will be the vehicle for joint research, training and networking, which will benefit the institutions’ staff at all levels of seniority, as well as PhD students. CIRCLE spans European and Asian countries with a massive need for concrete infrastructure development. Given the overwhelming dominance of concrete worldwide as a structural material, the potential environmental, economic and social positive impacts of upscaling RAC are priceless. This has been perceived by authorities and stakeholders and there are ongoing initial efforts in some of the consortium countries to regulate this possibility, which makes CIRCLE very timely in terms of guidelines contribution. Promoting RAC through CIRCLE will foster sustainability and a circular economy, aligned with European and UN policies.

Keywords: concrete recycled aggregates quality control carbonation self healing performance based design social,economic and environment life cycle assessment upscaling
Dissecting the role of the immune microenvironment in the onset of myelodysplastic syndromes (DRIMMS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are heterogeneous clonal hematopoietic stem-cell malignancies of the elderly. MDS remain uncurable by existing pharmacological therapies, aimed at eradicating mutant clones. Clonal cytopenias of undetermined significance (CCUS) occur in elderly patients harboring MDS-driver mutations in their bone marrow cells and almost always preclude MDS, representing an optimal setting for studying the mechanisms driving the onset of MDS. In a preliminary study, I discovered that innate immune cells from patients with CCUS are transcriptionally rewired toward their activation but have signs of functional exhaustion and dysfunction. Therefore, I hypothesized that dysfunctions in the immune microenvironment favor clonal expansion and disease progression in early stages of MDS and, therefore, therapeutic approaches enhancing the immune response in CCUS or MDS patients may effectively prevent or arrest disease onset. To test my hypothesis, in this project I will dissect the role of the immune microenvironment in the expansion of premalignant clones in early-stage MDS. To do so, I will 1) transcriptionally and immunophenotypically characterize the immune microenvironment in MDS patients with low clonal burden at the single-cell level, including interactions between immune and non-immune cells; 2) assess the functionality of the immune cell repertoire in CCUS and MDS patients through the analysis of their secretome and the cells’ secretory and cytolytic functions; and 3) test the feasibility of targeting immune responses in MDS by performing proof-of-principle drug testing assays with new-generation immune checkpoint inhibitors and identifying and validating novel therapeutic targets. I expect the results of this project to shed light on the cell-extrinsic mechanisms eliciting MDS pathogenesis and provide a biologic rationale for the development of pharmacologic or cellular therapies to prevent or early-treat MDS before outcomes become dismal.

Keywords: myelodysplastic syndromes aging clonal expansion immune microenvironment multiomics immune cell function early therapeutic intervention
RESORBABLE MAGNESIUM IMPLANT WITH COMPRESSION (REMAGIC) (ReMagic)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ReMagIC project aims to revolutionize trauma and orthopedic care by developing and commercializing the first fully biodegradable magnesium-based intramedullary implant system for small tubular bone fractures. The innovation eliminates the need for implant removal surgeries—one of the most common follow-up interventions in orthopedics—by enabling controlled degradation aligned with the bone healing process. This reduces patient burden, healthcare costs, and surgical complications while improving clinical outcomes and sustainability. The project will achieve this by advancing the current TRL 6 prototype through preclinical validation, first-in-human clinical trials under ISO 14155, and CE certification according to MDR 2017/745. A strong interdisciplinary team with decades of MedTech experience will drive product development, regulatory strategy, and early market access in Europe. Aligned with the goals of the EIC Accelerator and the EU’s strategic focus on deep-tech and healthcare innovation, ReMagIC addresses a clearly underserved market and supports responsible consumption (SDG 12) and good health and well-being (SDG 3). The project lays the foundation for a scalable product platform that meets clinical needs and advances Europe’s leadership in sustainable medical technology.

Keywords: magnesium implant,bioresorbable implant,intramedullary fixation,osteosynthesis innovation,biodegradable metal