Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Heat Exposure and Antihypertensive Treatment: Unravelling causal Pathways (HEAT-UP)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-05
End date: 2027-05-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Heatwaves have increased in frequency, duration, and intensity over the past decades, placing individuals with cardiovascular diseases at higher risk of hospitalisation and death. Hypertension affects a third of adults and is a key risk factor for these diseases. Blood pressure control through medication is essential to prevent adverse cardiovascular events during and between heatwaves. However, concerns arise that antihypertensive drugs may increase the risks of hospitalisation and mortality during heatwaves. Certain antihypertensive drugs or their combinations may worsen dehydration, inhibit thirst perception, and interfere with heat adaptation. There is a lack of clinical guidelines for hypertension management during heatwaves. To address this, I propose the HEAT-UP project, which aims to use expertise from environmental epidemiology, clinical practice, urban planning, geography, and causal inference to i) measure how the causal effects of heatwaves on emergency hospital visits vary across individuals taking different antihypertensive drugs, ii) map how heatwaves contribute to orthostatic hypotension when standing blood pressure drops, potentially leading to dizziness and falls, injury, and death across people with different antihypertensive treatments, and iii) develop a heat vulnerability index to support counselling interventions for hypertensive patients in areas with overheating risk. This project will integrate advanced causal inference methods (causal random forest, case time series) and complementary data sources (French, Dutch administrative databases, and hospital databases). The findings will inform stakeholders creating safe treatment guidelines for hypertensive patients during heatwaves, as well as improve monitoring in vulnerable areas with limited medical access. This project will broaden my scientific expertise (technical and transferable skills) and my international network for pursuing an academic career and becoming an independent researcher.

Keywords: heatwaves,hypertensive disease complications,antihypertensive drugs,clinical guidelines,clinical practice,epidemiology,causal inference,advanced statistical methods
Magneto-ionic data-security device integrated on flexible substrates (SECURE-FLEXIMAG)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Traditional methods of safeguarding data often fall short in today’s rapidly evolving information technology landscape. Passwords are vulnerable to hacking, and while encryption offers enhanced security, it significantly increases data processing costs and slows performance. Storing secret keys in battery-backed memory is also inefficient in terms of energy consumption. The advent of physical unclonable functions (PUFs), which create unique device fingerprints based on random physical properties, marked a significant leap in hardware-level data security. Despite recent progress in PUF technology, challenges such as energy efficiency, cost, scalability, randomness, and reconfigurability remain. Overcoming these hurdles requires innovative materials and designs. SECURE-FLEXIMAG aims to strengthen data security and promote technology transfer by building on the PI's recent research in three key areas: (i) magneto-ionics, (ii) exchange coupling to lock access to data and (iii) stochastic magnetization reversal phenomena in arrays of magnetic dots. These effects can be synergistically combined to develop an advanced data-security device that will largely surpass conventional password methods and current PUF approaches. The project will explore market prospects and business development strategies in collaboration with various stakeholders and potential end users.

Keywords: magneto ionics,magnetic,energy efficiency,data security,physical unclonable function
Revolutionary microalgae photobioreactor (PBR) with modular scaling for Decarbonisation as-a-Service targeting small and mid-sized industrial CO2 emitters (Algiecel)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Algiecel is at the forefront of combating climate change by innovating a groundbreaking technology, patent protected and driven by sustainability goals. Our mission is to achieve CO2 neutrality by annually removing millions of tons of CO2 from industrial production. The heart of our approach lies in a compact, modular, plug & play microalgae photobioreactor (PBR), strategically located near CO2 sources. Algiecel instals, owns, and operates the PBRs on-site to capture and transform CO2 emissions into valuable algae-based biomass and bio-oil products that are sold to off-take clients. The interaction with the partner owning the site and CO2 stream centres around the offtake agreement for the CO2. The PBR, housed in standard shipping containers, facilitates scalable and easy deployment with minimal technical expertise. The CO2 feedstock suppliers (e.g. biogas plants equipped with biogas upgrading units, delivering a concentrated and pure source of biogenic CO2) provide their emissions and receive reimbursement. The main revenue source is the sale of these sustainable products, either through one-time sales or long-term contracts with agreed-upon prices and volumes. Heightened societal awareness for environmental issues and increasing demand for carbon capture technology due to green transition policies positions Algiecel favourably, providing a timely and essential solution amidst a growing demand for carbon reduction solutions among small and mid-sized CO2 emitters. Algiecel’s transformative Decarbonisation as-a-Service concept not only efficiently eliminates CO2 emissions but also empowers businesses to turn regulatory challenges into strategic advantages. Our solution creates a sustainable financial model by generating revenue through valuable derivative products like oil for feed, food, and cosmetics, as well as biomass for feed or fertiliser. This provides economic incentives for clients, making the adoption of the technology an economically viable decision

Keywords: microalgae photobioreactor,carbon capture utilisation and storage,small and mid sized industrial co2 emitters,sustainable products,biomass,bio oil,food and feed,decarbonisation as a service
Wandercraft has developed the first autonomous, self-balanced exoskeleton for people with severe impairment to walk at home and outside: let's bring it to market for millions of people who need it! (MOBILITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

At Wandercraft, we are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of people who face mobility impairments. After 10 years of intense R&D, our personal self-balancing exoskeleton is ready and has been revealed to the world during very emotional Olympic torch relays in Paris, viewed by over 300 million people worldwide. Building on our extensive expertise and the success of our first product ATALANTE - a rehabilitation exoskeleton – we are now ready to disrupt the PERSONAL MOBILITY market with the launch of EVE early 2026. Our personal exoskeleton incorporates cutting-edge AI, and deterministic algorithms for self-balanced dynamic walking, advanced biomechanical interfaces for intuitive control, and proprietary mechatronics that enhance mechanical efficiency while reducing overall dimensions. Its extended battery life, lightweight and ergonomic design, and advanced vision algorithms, enable users to navigate various terrains, overcome obstacles, and maintain stability in unfamiliar environments. EVE empowers individuals with mobility challenges to regain their freedom and independence, also drastically improving health outcomes. EVE’s potential is huge, starting with the 228k SCI patients in the US, where Medicare has approved a $91k reimbursement code, and Medicaid has started to pay in some States, thus opening a $17Bn addressable market. Wandercraft is able to serve this market with a product and service cost that make the business model very attractive and sustainable. Our exoskeletons are developed and manufactured in Europe. Through our extensive portfolio of international patents and strategic collaborations with esteemed research groups, we are a leading player in the field of autonomous walking exoskeletons. Wandercraft has raised 70M€ to date and is backed by EIB with a 25M€ loan; a new 50M€ funding round is underway, with a lead already identified. With the help of EIC, this round will easily close and allow Wandercraft to execute on its bold vision.

Keywords: disability,wellbeing,corporate social responsibility,regaining quality of life,reduction of commorbidities,dynamic walking,mobility,humanoid robotics,reinforced learning
MANUFACTURING AS A SERVICE FOR THE EU'S TWIN TRANSITION UNTIL 2040 (MASTT2040) (MASTT2040)

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: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Poland,Italy,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Foresight and technology transfer for Manufacturing as a Service (Made in Europe Partnership) (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1188641.07
EU funding (EUR): 971087.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The MASTT2040 project aims to (1) Use strategic foresight methods in an inclusive and participatory manner to build a shared understanding of which changes, opportunities or disruptions are present and emerging both inside and outside of the Manufacturing-as-a-Service domain to guide decision making, strategies and actions for the EU manufacturing sector in the context of twin transition up to 2040. (2) Actively engage key stakeholders within the MaaS and CE communities, manufacturing industry as well as standards developing organisations to jointly elaborate a strategic roadmap and action plan addressing short-term (5 years), medium-term (10 years) and long-term (15 years) timescales to identify and track desired developments in order to advance digitalisation, circularity, decarbonisation and sustainability of industrial production. We strive to guide European industry community to assure that: - MaaS can become a key enabler for speeding-up and scaling-up circularity and the provision of R-cycle services. - Sustainability becomes an integral part of MaaS approaches, leading to optimal sustainable industrial production and supply for all new products (in linear and circular economy). - MaaS increases resilience of supply by strengthening local European production networks of SMEs. - Europe scales up MaaS to create a critical mass of expertise and the right supporting policy measures to accelerate the uptake of MaaS in strategic areas of importance for the TWIN transition in Europe and to ensure strategic autonomy in MaaS and CE strengthened by leading the development of key digital, enabling and emerging technologies. MASTT2040 combines the expertise of industrial umbrella organizations specialized in manufacturing strategy development and foresight: SIRRIS (Belgium), Cluster COMET (Italy), Future Industry Platform (Poland), Steinbeis (Germany), Thhink (Netherlands) and 4CF The Futures Literacy Company (Poland).

Keywords: twin transition,circular economy,sustainability,manufacturing as a service,strategic foresight,industry roadmap,policy recommendations,vision,participatory engagement,knowledge transfer
Zsquare's Single-Use Endoscope Product Line: A Modular Platform for Multiple Indications (Zsquare)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
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

Zsquare is a cutting-edge medical technology company pioneering advancements in endoscopic innovation. Founded as a spin-off from Bar-Ilan University by Dr. Shahmoon and Prof. Zalevsky, Zsquare specializes in single-use endoscopes featuring a revolutionary platform that combines proprietary fiber optic technology with advanced image processing software. This unique blend delivers superior image quality in a compact, low-profile design. At the core of Zsquare's offerings is a versatile single-use endoscope product line. This modular platform enhances precision, efficiency, and patient safety across various procedures. With advanced imaging and a compact design, Zsquare delivers superior image quality, elevating the standard of care in multiple medical specialties. Zsquare's initial focus is ureteroscopy for kidney stone ablation, a strategic choice to showcase the platform's unique advantages. The company's ureteroscope features an external illumination source that comprises multi spectral imaging for AI capabilities in a cost-effective hybrid design utilizing fiber optics, and reduced waste through partially reusable components. Zsquare boasts a robust IP portfolio with 13 granted patents and additional pending applications. It has raised €28M to support product development and commercialization, reflecting strong investor confidence in its vision. Zsquare has achieved FDA clearance for its ENT device and is using this approval to fast-track clearance for additional indications. It upholds strict medical standards, ensuring device safety and effectiveness. Zsquare's innovative technology has won the Edison 2020 and CES 2022 awards. The company aims to shift from reusable to single-use endoscopy, enhancing visualization and accessing previously unreachable areas. This commitment to innovation and patient care drives Zsquare's mission to revolutionize endoscopy.

Keywords: single use endoscope,ureteroscopy,endoscope,endoscopic procedures,diagnostic imaging
Vascular Reduced Order Modeling (VascularROM)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Austria,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 332299.44
EU funding (EUR): 332299.44
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, and risk factors for numerous pathologies of the circulatory system are continuously increasing. Medical treatment options and diagnostics improve, where especially the recent advances in data-driven numerical methods for clinical support bear great potential. Computational fluid and solid mechanics play a key role in gaining insight into the complex physics, but even highly efficient traditional schemes do not fit into the clinical timeframe. This project aims to develop reduced order models targeting the vascular system, considering for inter-patient variability. Following this approach, a compute-intense offline phase constructs suitable physics-consistent surrogate models, which deliver faithful approximations in near-real-time to be queried by the user in the online phase. The state of the art in model order reduction of the vascular system is extended by considering for global geometric variability, advanced material models and parameter fields for blood and tissue as well as their coupling to derive patient-specific biomarkers of clinical relevance within seconds. These developments will not only open the path to transforming the role of numerical modeling in clincial practice, but will further build a starting point for the computational science and engineering community by providing open-source implementations based on highly efficient, modern finite element codes and accompanying tutorials to foster future developments and initiate momentum. The proposed project encompasses an outgoing phase at the Oden Institute, UT Austin, where the ambitious project goals are persued together with advisors Prof. K.E. Willcox and Prof. T.J.R. Hughes, two of the most influential experts in computational science and engineering. The developed reduced order models are then further tailored to the clinical scenario at TU Graz’s Institute of Biomechanics, validating their applicability.

Keywords: model order reduction,continuum mechanics,computational fluid dynamics,cardiovascular diseases,patient specific simulation,non newtonian fluid,hyperelasticity,fluid structure interaction
Green Intelligent Affordable New Transport Solutions (GIANTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,France,Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Czechia,Germany,Malta,Kenya,Philippines,Italy
Call: Frugal zero-emission vehicles concepts for the urban passenger challenge (2ZERO Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15103522.51
EU funding (EUR): 11959732.51
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

To provide affordable and accessible mobility solutions to both emerging and advanced markets the GIANTS (Green Intelligent Affordable Nano Transport Solutions) project aims to develop a completely new electric vehicle platform. The platform is based on user demands and will be demonstrated and validated in use cases in both emerging and advanced markets showcasing the practicality of GIANTS technology. Rather than focussing on the development of a typical skateboard-solution common in the automotive sector, GIANTS offers a much more flexible and mission tailored approach: It is built on a set of technology solutions, which together allow to produce light electric vehicles (L5, L6 and L7) suited for urban traffic solutions. It offers modularity, scalability, and interoperability, and features innovative charging and energy optimization solutions. The platform will include a lightweight, blind mating and portable 48 V battery, a scalable e-drivetrain, a standardized vehicle control system, and roof solar panels. A vehicle configuration tool will also be available to enable 3rd parties to design vehicles based on the platform. The success of the platform will be assessed in terms of platform usability, manufacturability, vehicle operation, user acceptability, environmental benefits, and business viability. Additionally, a concept for recycling, reuse and refurbishment will be developed. GIANTS will reduce the cost of ownership for electric vehicles and provide climate-neutral solutions for urban transport that are user-friendly, energy efficient, and can improve air quality, thus the project will increase the user acceptance and lead to EU leadership in world transport markets. Demonstration activities with prototypes are expected to raise awareness of the GIANTS technology and facilitate its uptake by major original equipment manufacturers. The potential for the GIANTS technology is 1.5 million vehicles sold annually from 2028 onwards.

Keywords: electric vehicle platform,modular platform approach,urban traffic solutions,light electric vehicles,innovative charging and enery optimization,demonstrator vehicles in emerging and advanced markets
Diversity in the United Nations Peacekeeping Bureaucracy (DIVUNPKO)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Diversity in the United Nations Peacekeeping Bureaucracy (DIVUNPKO) addresses two critical issues. On the one hand, geographical diversity is a peculiarity of International Organizations’ staff like the United Nations (UN) and the European Union. Yet, in the literature, we have little knowledge about the impacts of staff diversity on the functioning of International Organizations (IOs). On the other hand, scholars have started to acknowledge the importance of diversity in peacekeeping operations but have studied it only for military staff. The present project fills these gaps by examining the impact of staff geographical diversity in the case of peacekeeping operations, the main tool of the UN for maintaining international peace and security. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective by bridging diversity research in Public Administration and the literature on IOs and peacekeeping in International Relations. This two-year project has three objectives: (1) to collect socio-demographic data on civilian staff working in UN peacekeeping operations, 2) to develop an analytical framework to study diversity effects within IOs, and (3) to examine empirically the effects of geographical diversity among civilian peacekeepers along three dimensions: throughput, output and legitimacy. This project will make key contributions to the research on peacekeeping, international bureaucracies, and diversity. At the societal level, this project hopes to impact the work of international civilian missions and sensitize the public to issues of diversity in public organizations more broadly.

Keywords: peacekeeping,diversity,united nations,international organizations