Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A multidisciplinary investigation for the survival of pristine molecules information (DIAGENESI)

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,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 332913.72
EU funding (EUR): 332913.72
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The DIAGENESI project primarily aims to provide a deeper understanding of bone preservation related to ancient DNA (aDNA) survival. This will be crucial for developing, through an intersectorial transfer of knowledge, a rapid, precise, cost-effective, and affordable pre-screening protocol, enabling the precise selection of promising bone samples for genetic investigations, thus preventing unnecessary destruction of valuable samples. Post-mortem changes are complex multifactorial processes that act on the bone structure in a variable and unpredictable way over time. To date, the DNA-bioapatite or DNA-collagen interactions are poorly investigated and preferential sites for DNA preservation are still debated. This has only been partially addressed in the literature, and there is not full agreement on the topic or how the site-specific variability of aDNA yields occurs. With an innovative archaeometric methodology by means of a multianalytical approach, I will carry out a transdisciplinary study on fossil, subfossil and modern bones, their intimate interaction with soils, and their response to different paleoenvironmental conditions. Different burial and environmental conditions diagenetically affect in different ways the preservation of the bones and, consequently, of the biomolecules. Thus, various archaeological contexts subjected to different climate conditions will be selected and contextualized temporally and spatially, enabling the formulation of models and prescreening protocols of general validity. This study will provide fundamental advances in genomic, forensic, and paleoanthropological studies, allowing the profitable exploitation of the bone collections with archaeological, cultural and hystorical-medical values. The project entails a broad range of opportunities, favoring the development of new interdisciplinary research initiatives and consolidating the networking and cooperation with European and global research institutes.

Keywords: human remains preservation,bone structure investigation,fossil and subfossils diagenesis,development of prescreening protocol,organic inorganic interaction bone sediment interaction
Arctic carbon awakening: Evaluating the reactivity of organic carbon remobilized by past Arctic ice sheet retreat (ARCTIVITY)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-02
End date: 2027-06-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change is primarily driven by atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, making it crucial to identify the Earth system processes that regulate these gases in order to better predict and mitigate climate impacts. While the ocean has long been considered the primary driver of atmospheric CO2 fluctuations, oceanic processes alone cannot fully explain the magnitude of the variations or the observed carbon isotopic signatures. In this context, the vast ancient carbon reservoirs stored beneath Arctic ice sheets, which reconfigured in sync with glacial-interglacial climate cycles, likely represent an additional carbon source released during past ice sheet retreats. The overarching aim of ARCTIVITY is to evaluate the reactivity of organic carbon remobilized by Arctic ice sheet retreat, focusing on its impact on the carbon cycle and paleoclimate change. ARCTIVITY will utilize multiple advanced techniques and methodologies to investigate different aspects of the reactivity of glacially-derived organic carbon, archived in marine sediments. These assessments include: (1) thermal reactivity – assessing carbon reactivity in response to thermal decomposition by applying RPO-14C on Northeast Greenland shelf sediments; (2) bioavailability – determining carbon reactivity through its accrssibility to microbial assimilation by leveraging CSRA of IPLs in Northeast Greenland shelf sediments; (3) weathering intensity – evaluating carbon reactivity in response to environmental exposure using sedimentary δ187Re analysis in Beaufort Sea sediments. These analyses will generate new insights into the linkage between Arctic ice sheet retreat and the global carbon cycle, as well as its potential impact on past climate change.

Keywords: arctic carbon cycle organic carbon carbon reactivity radiocarbon rhenium isotope
Mechanisms of Soil Restructuring by Bacterial Aggregates: towards a more efficient and resilient Agriculture (AgriGate)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Soil bacteria are of critical importance to soil health. Soil pore-size distribution over multiple length scales, which facilitates nutrient transport, depends on the presence of soil aggregates, cohesive organo-mineral assemblies formed by bacterial activity. Aggregates support plant health and increase soil stability. Although restoring aggregate structure in degraded soil can yield great benefits for extreme-weather resilience and agricultural productivity, we lack any mechanistic understanding of how aggregates are formed by bacteria. This knowledge gap hampers the deployment of promising bio-augmentation strategies for soil restoration, such as inoculation of soil with aggregate-promoting bacteria. The objective of AgriGate is to narrow this gap by elucidating the biophysical mechanisms of bacterial aggregate-formation. I will focus on the reciprocal mechanical interactions between bacteria and soil grains, using interdisciplinary methods over multiple spatial scales. I will first develop a novel microfluidic chip granting real-time optical access to bacterial dynamics inside a three-dimensional bed of model soil grains. AgriGate’s hypotheses are that (1) there exists an optimal grain size and inoculant richness for bacteria-led aggregation, and (2) that bacterial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are necessary for aggregation. I will test these hypotheses by varying grain size, inoculant richness, and bacterial EPS-production in the chip. Microfluidic experiments will be combined with experiments in bacteria-loaded soil columns observed by X-ray tomography, to extend results to the macroscopic scale and link microscale structure to macroscale function. The search for optimal aggregation conditions will be formalized mechanistically and extended by a numerical model of bacterial colony growth in a cohesive granular medium. Together, AgriGate’s new tools and results will provide a strong basis for fundamental and applied studies on soil bio-augmentation.

Keywords: soil microbiome,microfluidics,bacterial biophysics,granular mechanics
HYbrid TEChnologies for sustainable steel reHEATing (HyTecHeat)

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: Clean Steel (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,France
Call: Modular and hybrid heating technologies in steel production (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999261.25
EU funding (EUR): 3357137.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, NG is normally substituted by hydrogen in upstream processes (both blast furnace and DRI), or limited application in finishing lines. Current downstream processes totally rely on NG burning as thermal source. Therefore, the massive usage of hydrogen in steel industry, as envisioned in the Carbon Direct Avoidance pathway of the ESTEP/EUROFER masterplan, requires a transformation of entire steelmaking process from liquid production process (UPSTREAM) to the rolling and finishing line (DOWNSTREAM). This research project is aimed at adopting hybrid heating technology (based on NG with progressive and increasing H2 utilization) in downstream processes. Thermal treatment and reheating processes, which are common to both BF and EAF route have a significant NG demand (about 50 Nm3/t of produced steel). also utilization for ladle preheating has a relevant NG demand (in the range 5-15 Nm3/t). In order to allow the shift from NG to H2 and consequently to reduce the environmental impact by using innovative combustion technologies (like flameless and oxyfuel combustion), impacts on steel quality, refractory and furnace must be assessed at high TRL (7). The general objective of this project is to exploit the hybrid heating technologies by evaluating the effects of the steel products, on the refractories and also on the combustion systems. Three Demo cases testing innovative multifuel burner and testing the limit of current systems at TRL 7 will facilitate the hydrogen transition of the steel sector. Achieved results will bring to a CO2 saving in the range 7.5-25Mt/year. Regarding the steel quality, the project activities will individuate the optimum processing parameters to ensure that primary scale and associated scale defects do not persist through to the final product.

Keywords: hydrogen,reheating furnace,natural gas,decarbonization,scale,descaling
Building EU-Africa partnerships on sustainable raw materials value chain (AfricaMaVal)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Namibia,Belgium,Uganda,Portugal,Switzerland,United Kingdom,South Africa,Ghana,Italy
Call: Building EU-Africa partnerships on sustainable raw materials value chains (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7268629.75
EU funding (EUR): 7268627.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Secure the access to raw materials represents a critical issue for European ambition to deliver the Green Deal and perform the energy and digital twin transition. As future demand of primary critical raw materials will continue to be largely met by importations, EU needs to diversify its supply chain and engage strategic partnerships with resources-rich third countries covering extraction, processing and refining such as African countries. In this framework, AfricaMaVal project aims to develop EU-Africa partnership ensuring a responsible sourcing of mineral resources for the European industry while granting a sustainable local co-development in the best Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) conditions and leading to a long-terms business environment for European and African companies. The consortium, created with partners coming both from Africa and Europe, is based on experienced organizations and networks deeply anchored and involved in the raw material domain with a specific expertise and knowledge of the African culture, organisations, difficulties and resources. The mineral, financial, environmental, social, institutional and economical aspects will be studied along with all the value chains, including the ASSM activities, to the project completion to reach its operational targets: - Building an EU and Africa business networking on the whole CRM value chains. - Developing a strategy on the integration of identified and emerging EU and African raw materials value chains for the energy and digital transition. - Assessing responsible investment opportunities. The AfricaMaVal project will conduct ten case studies in African countries and an evaluation of 100 investment opportunities, a wide dissemination within Europe and Africa to promote responsible sourcing and will implement a sustainable organisation after the completion of the project.

Keywords: africa,artisanal and small scale mining,business network,crm value chain,energy and digital transition,environmental social and governance,europe,gender,mineral potential,responsible sourcing
TRANSFORMING ADVANCED WATER SKILLING THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NETWORK OF EXTENDED-REALITY WATER EMULATIVE CENTRES (WATERLINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Malta,Czechia,Serbia,Türkiye,Italy,Norway,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Ireland,Netherlands
Call: Capacity building to strengthen networks of higher education institutions and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-05, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1741737.5
EU funding (EUR): 1741737.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

WATERLINE aims to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, leading to the development of the Alliance’s research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities. This shall leverage the individual, institutional and regional resources required for a transformative structural and sustainable learning and innovation environment. To achieve this, WATERLINE has five specific objectives: (1) support consolidation of the Alliance by co-creating a common governance framework, and a Research & Innovation (R&I) capacity building plan; (2) co-create a portfolio of water components for Master level and transform emulative laboratories in partner Widening HEIs into assisted and virtual reality. These structural changes will lead to transformed and more competitive R&I HEIs; (3) strengthen WATERLINE researchers’ R&I capacity excellence by implementing activities, such as summer schools to enhance education and R&I skills, and proposal writing workshop; (4) build a European network of academics/researchers who, together with quadruple helix actors, will allow knowledge flow in water domains and extended reality technologies. This allows greater involvement of regional actors in the R&I process and enhances one of the major societal challenges: water-related education. Moreover, it will strengthen academic and business links through academia-to-business meetings and a hackathon to mainstream entrepreneurship mindsets. WATERLINE will, finally, (5) sustain the alliance by, (i) establishing ambassador networks, (ii) identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and the mobilisation of resources in the water sphere, and (iii) creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and networks.

Keywords: digital water skilling and capacity building learning environments quadruple helix alliance governance technology and knowledge transfer entrepreneurship ecosystem mapping randi extended reality
Miniaturized Devices for Single-Atom Quantum Technologies (MiniAtomQ)

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: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
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: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to realize a new and fully integrated approach for the manipulation of single neutral atoms, which has the potential to transform the complex, room-sized, multi-million-euro experiments currently used to manipulate these atoms in academic laboratories, into user-friendly, economical and robust commercial devices the size of a shoebox. As a proof-of-principle application we propose to realize an integrated single photon source based on a single trapped atom, which has immediate commercial potential in quantum communication and computing.
Disrupting Musical Time, c. 1300–1600 (FeelTheBeat)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-16
End date: 2027-11-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The organization of time is fundamental to how we perceive and understand music. Different aspects of musical time have been extensively studied (such as how meter and rhythm relate, the connection between musical time and memory, the continuity of musical time, etc.), but so far limited scholarly attention has been given to syncopation, a way of disrupting the regularity of musical time. Specifically, modern scholars and musicians understand syncopation as the shifting of a stressed beat before or after its normal position. But the definition and perception of syncopation actually underwent dramatic changes between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries. This project will reevaluate the early history of syncopation (c.1300–1600) in notated Western music, exploring the relevant theoretical sources and connecting them to musical practice in contemporaneous compositions, in order to create a more detailed and accurate representation of the phenomenon. Thus it will broaden our knowledge of how musical time was conceived and will further our understanding of meter and rhythm in music as a whole.

Keywords: syncopation,musical time,music theory,rhythm
Portable Spectrophotometer: Technological development and customer validation of a novel method to detect defects in the silicon wafers (SLP-1300)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Semiconductor chips have wide range of applications in smartphones, digital televisions, communication infrastructure etc, making them one of the most crucial and valuable invention in the past decade. Semiconductor wafers serve as a substrate for microelectronic devices and are the foundation for these semiconductor chips and are prone to defects during manufacturing and production. Several wafer inspection methods have been developed but are limited in terms of image signal processing, machine learning, and deep learning leading to losses amounting to billions of euros. SuperLight photonics has developed SLP-1300 under our series of wideband lasers that will be used to develop portable spectrophotometers for the wafer industry. Our novel and innovative technology allows the customers to pick any pure colour at high energy from the spectrum using a frequency comb leading to multiple applications for our users, especially in wafer inspection where different colours will be able to detect different defects. our unique PADTM (Patterned Alternating Dispersion) technology that results in superior low-noise, wideband and fully coherent laser, which offers a high-quality, stable spectral output. We offer our clients an innovative solution that will eliminate spectral distortions and noise and offer unparalleled clarity in defect detection. We have also significantly reduced the apparatus cost, size, and energy input and have generated a far superior quality of wideband laser. The EIC accelerator grant will be crucial for completing our next steps which are product optimization and testing of SLP-1300, customer validation, and market expansion at a global scale.

Keywords: electrical and electronic engineering photonics production technology,process engineering
Low Carbon Cloud (LoCaCloud)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Qarnot is an innovative SME, gathering sixty high skilled people, located in France and acting at the European level. Thanks to the EIC-Accelerator, Qarnot aims at being the champion of the green cloud providers in Europe, a booming market with a double digit growth, in demand for sustainable technologies. To support its ambition, Qarnot relies on proprietary innovative technological bricks, both software and hardware. Qarnot IT infrastructures are natively designed to reuse waste heat, easily and efficiently, offering high performance computing and low environmental impact at the same time. Based on its successes and prestigious customers, Qarnot intends to promote a paradigm shift in the cloud services industry, by bridging performance and impact, security and European sovereignty, by considering IT as an energetic topic. With Qarnot, the more projects you install, the more impact you have: EIC will help us scaling, take an industrial turn and reach our high business ambitions.

Keywords: circular economy,digital services,environmental protection