Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
TWINNING OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING RESEARCH INSTITUTES (MRITwins)

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: Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1375000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1375000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is known as the most versatile and advanced medical imaging modality capable of producing tomographic images emphasizing different tissue (material) properties and hence facilitating the diagnosis of a wide range of anomalies. The complexity and the importance of MRI make it a specific research field with dedicated research centers throughout the world. Bilkent University’s National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM) in Turkey is an established MRI research center with an excellent research track record but limited access to European research networks. The HE Twinning program aims at networking research institutes from the Widening countries (such as Turkey) with their advanced counterparts in Europe to integrate Widening countries into the European research network. In order to integrate UMRAM into the European research networks, Bilkent University-UMRAM as the coordinating partner, together with German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ (Germany), Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (Germany), and University of Nottingham (UK) as advanced partners are forming a team to conduct an EU Horizon Twinning Project (MRITwins) in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The project team’s research expertise lies in the field of “MR Engineering,” where novel hardware and enabling software is developed for MRI. Beyond the short-term goals of the twinning project, this team is formed to make a long-term impact on MR Engineering research by joining their complementary expertise. To initiate a long-term research collaboration between the project participants, the twinning program allows for an exploratory research component limited to 30% of the total budget. The scope of the MRITwins Project includes research work where highly credible project partners will explore the topic of “re-engineering MRI scanners with open-source hardware and software” with a specific focus on the novel gradient and radiofrequency array technologies.

Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging,mri,mr engineering,twinning
Diagnostic of chronic kidney disease and renal transplant pathologies through the direct and kidney-wide mapping of microvascular anomalies with sensing-volumetric Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (KidneyScope)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health issue, with peripheral kidney microvascular damage being a hallmark feature that is challenging to assess and often requires renal transplant. Current diagnostic methods for monitoring microvascular complications in renal grafts, such as biopsies, lack the practicality needed for regular assessment. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) and sensing-ULM (sULM) present a promising approach, providing detailed metrics on the microvascular network. We have demonstrated that sULM can visualize glomeruli in a patient's kidney in 2D by observing the peculiar swirling behavior of clinically common microbubbles within them. Such a technique could be used to characterize the kidney's microcirculation and its modifications by pathologies like CKD, but was severely impaired by its planar character. A sensing-volumetric-ULM, 3D, technique could transform renal transplant management by offering a non-invasive, portable solution to monitor vascular health and detect early graft dysfunction in entire kidneys at the microscale. This innovation builds on the ERC Cog ResolveStroke and ERC POC StrokeMonitor projects. The KidneyScope project, combining volumetric ULM and this glomerular insight, represents a promising approach to address the urgent need for high-resolution renal microcirculation assessment.
Heterogeneous Integration for Connectivity and Sustainability (HICONNECTS)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Austria,Italy,Türkiye,Netherlands,Finland,Sweden,Belgium,France,Denmark,Hungary,Switzerland,Romania,Greece
Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 101900657.84
EU funding (EUR): 24573772.08
Participants: 69
Project status: SIGNED

The challenges and major HiCONNECTS objectives are to transform the centralized cloud platform to decentralized platforms which include edge cloud computing in a sustainable, energy-efficient way. This will bring cloud services including Artificial Intelligence (AI) closer to the IOT end-users, which enables them to really use the COT and IOT efficiently. The technologies underpinning this revolutionary step include the development of high-performance computing, storage infrastructure, network interfaces and connecting media , and the analysis of IOT sensors and big data in real-time. This major step forward will enable, for example, the mobile clients (during the 5G deployment phase and 6G exploration) to move among different places with minimum cost, short response time and with stable connection between cloud nodes and mobile devices. The main underlying technology to be developed by the HiCONNECTS consortium, comprising large industrial players, universities and RTO’s, and many SMEs, can be summarized under the title: ’heterogenous integration’ (HI) which is needed to meet the computing power, bandwidth, latency and sensing requirements for the next generation cloud and edge computing and applications. The HI revolution brings the electronic components and systems (ECS) into a new domain, which combines traditional silicon wafers integrated circuit (IC), InP based high speed electronics , and Si and InP photonics devices and interconnect. The HiCONNECTS ambition is to demonstrate, through HI development, a leap in computing and networking reliability and performances across the full vertical and horizontal ECS value chain (i.e. essential capabilities and key applications) in a sustainable way. In addition, HiCONNECTS will focus on the development of next generation design, algorithms, equipment (HW/SW), systems and Systems of Systems (SOS).

Keywords: cmos,inp,automotive,5g,6g,health,safety,smart,cities,media,it
Auto-Steer Taxi at AIRport (ASTAIR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Italy,Belgium
Call: Fundamental Science and Outreach for Connected and Automated ATM (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1121105.0
EU funding (EUR): 986483.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

ASTAIR - Auto-Steer Taxi at AIRport - aims at designing a support tool for fully automated ground operations supervision. Increasing the level of automation has the potential to increase airport ground traffic capacity while mitigating the impact on human workload and the environment. For example, AI will be able to initiate timely actions, such as giving clearances to vehicles on the airport aprons and taxiways according to optimal routes, and to control fleet of autonomous tugs to increase ground capacity even more. Human-centered designed tools are needed to supervise, predict, and take over the automation to take full advantage of its potential. ASTAIR aims at defining automation capable of performing complex tasks involved in the management of surface engine-off and conventional taxiing while maximizing human engagement. The key to optimize the overall performance of the collaboration between humans and AI is to adapt intelligent systems to operators’ modus operandi. This will ensure logical consistency across manual and automated control. In ASTAIR, we will propose interactive tools and adaptative AI algorithms that take advantage of operators’ expertise for controlling and engaging with the automation at diverse levels.
Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response (AUTHLIB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Czechia,Italy,Poland,Belgium,Austria,United Kingdom
Call: The future of liberal democracy in Europe (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2523765.0
EU funding (EUR): 2523764.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

To protect the future of liberal democracy in Europe, we must first understand its challengers. AUTHLIB is a multidisciplinary project that aims to explore the varieties of neo-authoritarian, illiberal ideologies in Europe, their social, psychological and historical causes, their organisational background and their political implications. The study aims to capture the dynamics of ideological change in the European Union as a whole, but it will particularly focus on Poland, France, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, the United Kingdom and Austria. We will map ideological configurations by analysing textual data and social media, and by organising surveys of citizens and experts. The mapping of ideological structures will be complemented by a study of emotional triggers and rhetorical strategies pursued by illiberal actors. The contemporary ideological configurations of illiberalism will be embedded within their historical-cultural context, and the study of ideas and preferences will be supplemented by investigation of illiberalism in power, and the co-operation of illiberal political actors. To develop interventions that effectively target these new challenges, AUTHLIB will define the normative limits for actions that democracies may take in their own defence. In order to identify the mechanisms behind the support of illiberalism, and the susceptibility of citizens towards changing their attitudes, we will conduct laboratory and online panel-based survey experiments. Finally, in order to observe how ideological and emotional stimuli work in co-operative settings, we will set up deliberative fora, involving both ordinary citizens, ideological opponents, and individuals responsible for educating future generations and operating the intricate procedures of liberal democracy. The research will provide policy-makers with a comprehensive toolbox to improve support for liberal democracy.

Keywords: ideologies,authoritarianism,digital text analysis,social media analysis,survey experiments,laboratory experiments of emotions,deliberative fora,international cooperation of illiberal forces
EndocartoScope: Transforming any Endoscope into a Smart Device for Intraoperative 3D Localization, Navigation and Mapping (EndoCartoScope)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2688871.43
EU funding (EUR): 2498425.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Endoscopes traversing cavities, such as the colon, larynx or bladder, are routine in diagnostic and therapy. However, today endoscopes have no geometric understanding of the explored cavities. The unique EndoCartoScope value is a real-time intraoperative 3D cartography for endoscopy, i.e. a per-patient 3D map of the cavity simultaneous to the localization of the endoscope within the map, using only the video from a standard endoscope. In the short term, EndoCartoScope unlocks the detection of missing areas (coverage), AR navigation to improve coverage and measurements of polyps or stenoses. In the long term, it will be the key component for autonomy in any robotized endoscopic device. Our core technology is VSLAM: Video-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Our starting point are the medical VSLAM key components developed by the UNIZAR team in the previous FET EndoMapper, that reached TRL3. These components will be assembled in a working system at TRL4 to provide the base technology for coverage, navigation and measurement. To reach TRL5, IISA will lead the clinical validation of these applications, using as benchmark the standard metrics used in clinical practice. We will achieve TRL6 for coverage with an extensive test on ODIN vision’s commercial cloud system for endoscopy. From a business perspective, out-of-body VSLAM is a rapidly growing market. However, there are no commercial applications of medical VSLAM. Now is the right time to pioneer medical VSLAM and secure a strong position in this highly promising market. We will develop the business model and identify the regulatory environment for commercialization. By the end of the second year, the UNIZAR team will create a spin-off company with the technological know-how and exclusive IP rights, to start the path to the market. After the project, the company will take over the goal of transforming standard endoscopes into smart 3D intraoperative devices at TRL9.

Keywords: medical vslam,medical robotics,endoscopy
Exploring the Multilingual Advantage in Phonological Acquisition (MultiPhon)

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: 2025-12-15
End date: 2027-12-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project will assess bilingual, trilingual, and quadrilingual speakers of different combinations of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages on their phonological acquisition of an entirely foreign language- Modern Hebrew. This will be the first study to compare phonological acquisition of consonant clusters in a typologically distinct language between speakers of two, three, and four languages, allowing us to contribute to a long-standing debate in the field: do multilinguals have a cognitive advantage in subsequent language learning, or are they only transferring knowledge from previously acquired languages? This study will yield valuable theoretical implications in language acquisition and applications in the field of foreign language learning. First, from a theoretical perspective, it will allow us to tease apart mechanisms of language acquisition to understand whether phonological acquisition is a general language function (wherein more acquired languages lead to a greater ability to acquire new phonologies) or specific to the known languages (wherein the ability to acquire a new phonological system depends on the phonologies of previously learned languages). Second, although studies on bilingualism are now abundant, and L3 acquisition is a steadily growing field, little work has been conducted on the acquisition of further languages, and less still within the field of phonology. Thus, this study will pave the way in understanding how increasingly multilingual systems may differ amongst each other and facilitate the acquisition of new languages. In the field of language learning and pedagogy, this research will elucidate the ways and extent to which prior language experience can be harnessed when acquiring a new language. As part of the dissemination aspects of this project, the researchers will collaborate closely with local teachers and language instructors, as well as language-learning companies, to maximize the practical impacts of our findings.

Keywords: multilingualism,language assessment,phonology,hebrew
Children as Agents of Cultural Evolution (ChACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499640.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499640.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cultural evolutionary theory is quickly gaining traction as a unifying framework for the social sciences. However, research into culture acquisition paints a picture of children as vessels for inheriting evolved culture from adults, rather than cultural producers in their own right. ChACE aims to overturn this long-established orthodoxy by taking child and adolescent peer cultures as a focal point. Neglected by cultural evolutionary theorists, peer cultures are incredibly well conserved across generations despite threats to social transmission inexistent in adult cultures, challenging our understanding of how cultures are maintained and changed across generations. By intensively studying children’s peer cultures, ChACE thus stands to discover novel causal mechanisms for cultural evolution. ChACE specifically advances two ground-breaking hypotheses built upon firm theoretical and empirical foundations in folklore, cultural evolution, human life history, and cognitive development: (1) Peer cultures evidence distinct cultural evolutionary mechanisms from adult cultures; (2) Knowledge produced as part of peer cultures helps communities adapt to social and ecological change. ChACE will develop a robust and transferable methodology to jumpstart the study of peer cultures. Reflecting best-practice workflows for causal analysis, ChACE will first build ethnographically informed agent-based models to derive testable and falsifiable predictions. These will be empirically evaluated via experiments, observations, surveys, and interviews with children and adolescents aged 4-16 years, and their caregivers, at four globally representative field sites undergoing rapid culture change: the Likouala (Republic of the Congo), the Omo Valley (Ethiopia), Toledo (Belize), and County Durham (U.K.). In doing so, ChACE will initiate a disciplinary course correction by driving forward an explicit and holistic account of children’s adaptive contributions to culture change.

Keywords: cultural evolution peer cultures child development cross cultural research culture change ethnography innovation social learning
Highly Efficient and Low-impact InnOvative TheRmal stOrage system for enhanced disPatchability in concEntrated solar tower plants (HELIOTROPE)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Germany,Denmark,France,Belgium
Call: Novel thermal energy storage for CSP (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499631.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499631.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

HELIOTROPE is a groundbreaking research and development endeavor dedicated to advancing Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology to unprecedented heights. This project focuses on developing state-of-the-art molten salts and materials technologies for thermal energy storage systems, pushing the boundaries of operational temperatures beyond the current industry standard of 600ºC. A holistic approach is at the heart of HELIOTROPE's mission. Sustainable novel molten salts as thermal energy storage mediums and the remarkable ability to withstand absorber surface temperatures of up to 850ºC are introduced, promising to enhance CSP plant efficiency and dispatchability. This technological advancement aims to redefine the capabilities of CSP plants. Furthermore, HELIOTROPE aligns closely with key European energy policies and initiatives, contributing significantly to energy security, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The project supports the vision outlined in the European Green Deal, Clean Energy for All Europeans, and the Fit for 55 legislations, fostering sustainability and competitiveness in the energy sector. HELIOTROPE aspires to reshape the CSP plant landscape, making them not only more efficient but also inherently environmentally friendly. The project represents a significant stride towards a sustainable energy future, where CSP technology leads the way in innovation and progress, redefining the boundaries of what is possible in the pursuit of a cleaner, more sustainable energy world.

Keywords: csp thermal energy storage,sustainable molten salts,energy efficiency improvement,cost effective and reliable solutions,circularity by design,environmental sustainability,socio economic impact