Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hop-On Entangled Flying Electron Quantum Technology (Hop-On ELEQUANT)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Latvia
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 494411.25
EU funding (EUR): 494411.25
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ELEQUANT project pioneers a novel quantum computing paradigm based on flying charge qubits, offering a scalable alternative to stationary qubit platforms like superconducting circuits. Flying qubits enable the reuse of quantum gates across multiple qubits, reducing hardware overhead and unlocking new paths toward miniaturized, scalable quantum processors. The Hop-On ELEQUANT project aims to strengthen ELEQUANT by integrating a leading theoretical partner from a Widening Country, strategically enhancing the project’s experimental foundation. This contribution introduces a new objective (O5): “Development of architecture for computing with flying charge qubits”, and deepens existing objectives O2 and O4 with physics-informed theoretical modeling. The Hop-On team will design scalable architectures and hardware-aware quantum algorithms tailored for the flying charge qubit platform. These efforts bridge the gap between generic quantum algorithm design and the specific capabilities of flying qubit hardware — a critical step toward practical quantum advantage. Theoretical models of intermediate-scale circuits will support the development of high-fidelity quantum operations and help guide experimental efforts. This architecture-aware co-design approach will inform technology trade-offs, guide commercialization pathways, and provide insights applicable to other quantum platforms like ion traps and neutral atoms. Ultimately, Hop-On ELEQUANT will drive innovation in quantum hardware-software co-design — a key enabler for the next generation of quantum technologies.

Keywords: quantum technology,quantum algorithms,quantum information,flying qubits,quantum nanoelectronics
Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network (ROOTED)

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: Ireland,Germany,Estonia,Netherlands,Denmark,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2740521.6
EU funding (EUR): 2740521.6
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

A deeper understanding of the interactions between soils and plants, especially at the root zone, where they take up water and nutrients may support sustainable intensification of agricultural production. Research is indicating that a greater understanding of roots and soil functions may lead to increases in crop yields, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soils, enhanced productivity in grasslands and reductions in fertilizer requirements to land. However, data gaps remain in our understanding of how plant roots interact with their environment from a physiological and phenotypic perspective. Plant Phenotyping has been described as the bottleneck to food security, yet the real bottleneck to plant phenotyping is thought to be image analysis and processing. The challenge of ensuring food security provides the impetus for ROOTED (Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network). ROOTED will apply deep learning and artificial intelligence to speed up data generation in root phenotyping. Agriculture is increasingly using digital technologies, but currently 44% of the European workforce do not have these basic skills. This is a severe skills gap that Europe needs to close urgently to avoid economic downturn. ROOTED will consolidate the complimentary expertise of an international, interdisciplinary, multisectoral team to train a new generation of creative, resilient, adaptive multi-skilled scientists capable of innovating the fields of plant and soil sciences to actively contribute to the goal of doubling food production in a sustainable manner by 2050. Soil health and food is one of the 5 mission areas for Horizon Europe and the findings from ROOTED would be directly applicable to the EU’s Green deal and a Soil Deal for Europe. ROOTED graduates will have a level of scientific, communication and digital skills mastery that enables them to move straight into employment in agri-food businesses, seed and breeding companies, advisory and scientific roles.

Keywords: plant roots soil science plant phenotyping image analysis
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EASY-TO-USE INTERACTIVE PLATFORM TO RENOVATE TRAINING EXPERIENCES AND NETWORKING FOR FARMERS IN THE FIELD OF SUSTAINABLE CROP MANAGEMENT (RENOVATE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,Portugal,Belgium,Poland,Cyprus,Czechia
Call: Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3454419.08
EU funding (EUR): 2999998.05
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The RENOVATE project will develop an attractive knowledge sharing platform that provides farmers and agro-foresters with unique access to both new and existing training tools and renovated educational programs. This platform is designed to increase the exchange of practical knowledge and enhance farmers' capacities to achieve sustainable crop management through the uptake of innovation. Built on attractive and motivating technologies, such as serious games and gamified contents, the RENOVATE Platform will provide farmers, agro-foresters and advisors with a centralized access to new and existing training resources, legislative information applicable, best practices, practical and real data (including costs info) about the implementation of innovations in the field of Plant Protection optimisation. RENOVATE will feed the platform with resources from tools and materials developed by previous EU projects, including 14 EIP Agri Operational Groups. Moreover, RENOVATE will implement 15 different Advanced Knowledge Transfer Actions (AKTAs) around Europe, which will generate knowledge ready for practice to be shared through the platform. RENOVATE will then be aligned with the Green Deal, the Farm to Fork Strategy and the new CAP, as well as the UN SDGs for 2030. The consortium involves 16 partners from 8 EU countries, that will work together for 48 months, with a total budget of € 2.999.998 requesting an equal amount of EU contribution with a total of 444 Person Months. The RENOVATE platform, as a unique source for practical knowledge sharing and training material, is expected to become a reference for local and national administrations encouraging local farmers and agro-foresters to adopt innovation and new technologies for sustainable crop management.

Keywords: knowledge sharing,ppp,agro forestry,ipm,mobile app,online training,serious games,farm to fork,innovation,cocreation,specialty crops,farmer,digitalization,sustainability,akis
Pilot line for European Production of PEROvskite-Silicon taNdem modules on Industrial scale (PEPPERONI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Austria,France,Slovenia,Lithuania,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Denmark,Italy,Sweden
Call: Demonstration pilot lines for alternative and innovative PV technologies (Novel c-Si tandem, thin film tandem, bifacial, CPV, etc.) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17020325.0
EU funding (EUR): 12950825.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

To prevent the worst outcomes of climate change and increase Europe’s energy independence, urgent and massive efforts are required to transform Europe’s energy production to renewable and secure sources. Photovoltaics (PV) has emerged as a key technology in these efforts with projected annual growth rates of 30-35% over the next years. A strong base of PV industry across the entire value chain is, therefore, of strategic importance for Europe to support this strong market growth. Since the currently dominating silicon (Si) PV technology is approaching its efficiency limit, PEPPERONI aims to 'spice up' cost-efficient industrial Si cells with a thin perovskite top cell in a monolithic tandem device. This technology promises the best ratio of performance over manufacturing costs and therefore enables to push solar module efficiencies beyond the limit of Si at lowest CO2 footprint. The key objective of PEPPERONI is to enable large-scale production of such tandem PV modules in Europe by (i) demonstrating 26%-efficient modules on industrial scale; (ii) developing fabrication processes for high-volume manufacturing; (iii) extending the operational stability of tandems to meet market expectations (>30 yr); and (iv) removing any human health or environmental risk. To reach these objectives, PEPPERONI capitalises on the world-leading tandem PV expertise of a strong and complementary consortium: 4 equipment suppliers, 2 material suppliers, 1 service provider, 9 R&D institutes and universities that hold tandem efficiency world records, and one of the world's largest PV module manufacturers: PEPPERONI coordinator Q CELLS. When joining forces, their excellence puts PEPPERONI in the unique position to set up a tandem pilot line in Europe by 2026. This will establish a robust and competitive European innovation base and PV supply chain, putting all involved partners well on track towards GW-scale production of solar modules in Europe by 2030.

Keywords: perovskite,photovoltaics,tandem,solar cell,pv module,manufacturing,interconnection,encapsulation,outdoor monitoring,socio economic analysis,life cycle analysis
Geomagnetic field excursions: revealing the extreme states of Earth's outer core (EXCURSION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
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): 1970508.0
EU funding (EUR): 1970508.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

EXCURSION resolves around fundamental questions concerning the operational mechanism, causation, and predictability of the most frequent transitional events of the Earth's magnetic field. Geomagnetic excursions are episodes of low field intensity globally with no complete polarity reversals but anomalous magnetic directions that do not reflect a dipolar field. They reduce the shielding against solar and cosmic radiation, thus triggering significant technological and potential environmental and climatic impacts. Our understanding of geomagnetic excursions is severely limited. The urgency to study these events arises from several facts, including the substantial decrease in geomagnetic field strength over the past centuries, certain future events considering the dynamic nature of excursions, and harmful effects on modern technology. To advance in this subject, we must understand the core dynamics and global and regional characteristics of as many of these events as possible. This project focuses on the geomagnetic excursions in the Brunhes Chron (past 780,000 years). I will build the first data-based model of the geomagnetic field over the Brunhes Chron, complemented with high-resolution reconstructions of excursions. These models will be assimilated into state-of-the-art 3D dynamo simulations to infer the excursional state of the core and geodynamo. Furthermore, novel machine learning methods will be applied to the new models to assess past field configurations that resemble the present-day and identify common characteristics and potential precursors of the excursions. This ground-breaking synthesis of multi excursional events analyzed with data-based reconstructions, data assimilation by 3D numerical simulations, and machine learning techniques will create a holistic framework and will advance our knowledge beyond the current understanding of the Earth's outer core dynamics.

Keywords: geomagnetic field,paleomagnetism,paleosecular variation,geomagnetic excursions,geomagnetic reversals,geodynamo,data assimilation,core dynamics
Quantum Monte Carlo for Ultracold Dipolar Molecules (Q-UDiM)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214344.72
EU funding (EUR): 214344.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Q-UDiM aims to advance the understanding of ultracold dipolar molecules by overcoming key challenges in their manipulation and exploring their potential to form novel phases of matter. Ultracold dipolar molecules, with their rich quantum structure and strong, long-range interactions, offer exciting new possibilities in quantum sensing, metrology and computing, beyond what has been achieved with ultracold atoms. However, these same features make them difficult to cool and control. Q-UDiM will address these challenges by exploring theoretically innovative techniques to minimize molecular losses while maximizing interaction strength. This involves studying new quantum optics setups, utilizing advanced microwave shielding techniques, and implementing temporal control methods. At the same time, the project will focus on creating efficient computational models, particularly a tailored Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method, to simulate the behavior of strongly interacting dipolar molecules. This will allow the exploration of the phase diagram in regimes of strong confinement and interactions strength, investigating many-body phenomena and the emergence of novel phases of matter, such as self-assembled crystals and the defect-induced supersolid. The environment at TU Wien provides a perfect combination of deep theoretical knowledge in quantum optics and many-body physics, from the host group of Thomas Pohl, and experimental expertise in ultracold molecules at the Atominstitut. It also provides the necessary computational resources through the Vienna Scientific Cluster, with accompanying technical competences.

Keywords: bose einstein condensate,cold molecules,microwave dressing,path integral monte carlo,supersolidity
MAPPING EMERGING GENDER ARTIVISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ARAB PUBLIC SPACE (MEGAMAPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1478750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1478750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MEGAMAPS aims to produce a transnational in-depth study on Artivism for gender equality in the Mediterranean Arab public space after the 2011 uprisings, by using an interdisciplinary novel methodology, where History and Social Movements Theory intersect Gender studies, Visual Arts and Digital Humanities. By focusing on 4 countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia) the project aims to innovate the global academic knowledge on the Arab region by the writing of an unprecedented history from below which investigates the interplay between gender, public aesthetic dissent and social change. Based on fieldwork and digital ethnography, MEGAMAPS aims to frame, explore and map emerging Artivism for gender equality, conceived as a political incubator which revitalizes an egalitarian project of society in the post-2011 authoritarian ebb. In addition to academic publications, the project aims at producing the first open access and participative digital platform which will consistently document, systematize and interconnect a corpus of living sources (visual and performative arts, oral interviews, and cartographies, maps, graphic tools) and will: a) innovate the traditional approaches of History and Social Movements Theory on the Arab region; b) provide the first research platform dealing with Artivism, gender and social change in the Arab region; c) make this corpus FAIRly accessible to academics, stakeholders and to the general public. MEGAMAPS also involves a set of dissemination activities aimed to improve activists’ participation in a transnational network of artists, researchers, policy-makers and civil society stakeholders in order to promote mutual exchanges of best practices in the field of gender equality, arts and democratic governance, and to contribute in reversing the victimization paradigm on women and sexual minorities in the Arab region by proposing an agency paradigm, which can also overcome orientalism and islamophobia within the Western public opinion.

Keywords: artivism gender equality middle east and north africa public space social movements
European Network to Empower Research on CAPacitors (ENERCAP)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Poland,Spain,Germany,Estonia,France
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2353434.17
EU funding (EUR): 2251216.8
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Supercapacitors are a promising solution for fast charging and regenerative energy acquisition, with potential market applications in the near future, incl. e-vehicles and space applications. A deep analysis of the supercapacitor technology and market state of the art was undertaken by ENERCAP as a sound basis for a training network that meets academic and industrial needs. The results revealed that the lack of novel materials and electrolytes that meet the industrial requirements of higher energy densities and the lack of new industrially compatible materials, processes and prototypes are major challenges towards a successful market introduction of the supercapacitor technology. It became evident that Europe currently lags behind the USA and Asia in supercapacitor innovation and market performance due to the lack of intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry, a clear barrier for technology transfer and bringing innovation to the market. As a response to these challenges, ENERCAP gathered for the first time the most renowned academic players in the field together with driving force companies in order to create a European Network to Empower Research on the field of CAPacitors, ensuring technology transfer. Furthermore, ENERCAP aims to, by means of an innovative training network, create a critical mass of future top-class researchers able to respond to innovation challenges in the field of supercapacitors. ENERCAP is devoted to provide future researchers with the skills to produce innovative ideas that can be transferred to market applications. Through a comprehensive training programme driven by the needs of industry, ESRs will not only be provided with necessary interdisciplinary knowledge and research techniques but become entrepreneurially spirited researchers who own a broad range of transferable skills and are able to envisage the needs of markets and end-users while being at the frontier of research.

Keywords: supercapacitors,edlcs,hybrid capacitors,li ion capacitors,nanoporous carbons,2d materials,mxenes,organic electrolytes,ionic liquids,prototyping,post mortem analysis,ageing,graphene
Amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer's disease: Unravelling the role of endocytic pathways of endothelial cells (ClearPath)

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: Greece,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169326.72
EU funding (EUR): 169326.72
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-associated, irreversible neurodegenerative disorder. Α fundamental neuropathological hallmark of this disease is the accumulation of the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide in the extracellular space and its aggregation in the brain. Interestingly, critical role for a healthy brain is played by clearance mechanisms of endothelial cells, which traverse the Αβ peptide through the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), a highly selective semipermeable border. Studies in recent years have shown that endothelial cells remove Aβ by endocytosis, and that impairment of this function is key to AD progression. However, the exact contribution of the distinct individual endocytic routes, as well as the involved molecular mechanisms, are largely unexplored. Hence, the main objective of ClearPath is to undertake a holistic approach that will shed light into the unexplored endocytic routes involved in brain Aβ clearance and to identify the relationship between endocytic abnormalities and clinical pathologies of AD. To this end, ClearPath aims to: a. develop an in vitro co-culture BBB model system using endothelial and neuronal cells derived from established isogenic hiPSCs; b. screen the distinct endocytic routes to identify their contribution in Aβ clearance; c. undertake bioinformatic analysis of genome-wide datasets from AD patients, to reveal novel disease-associated genes implicated in the endocytic routes; d. use transgenic animal models to validate the role of endocytic pathways in Αβ clearance. The multidisciplinary nature of this project warrants accomplishment of the research objectives, as well as advancement of the research capacity of the Post-doctoral fellow, thus boosting her career in the field. Besides, the results of the study will improve our understanding in Aβ clearance mechanisms, thus contributing to novel strategies aiming to reduce the load of Aβ peptide in the brain, thereby preventing or delaying the onset of the disease.

Keywords: neurovascular dysfunction,alzheimer s disease,amyloid peptide,endothelial cells,endocytosis