Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
AI-powered early warning and surveillance system to identify the risks within the food supply chain (iComplai)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A product recall is the process of retrieving defective and/or potentially unsafe goods from consumers. It is the result of safety concerns over a manufacturing defect in a product that may harm its user. It can tarnish a company's reputation leading to multi-billion euros in losses. For small companies, it may lead to the end of their operation because they operate without robust cash flow and brand recognition. In the F&B category, mycotoxins, pathogen contamination and pesticide residues are the most common reasons. Alone in 2021 there has been a YOY increase of 19% in the global recalls. iComplai helps companies assess, monitor, and predict product risks worldwide for consumer goods, with a focus on food. iComplai provides services in the area of product benchmarking and virtual testing, helping companies better assess the risks and opportunities for their products, as well as what the customers like and dislike. iComplai solution differentiates itself through deep analysis on product features, helping companies understand the preferences of the consumers for instance in regard to sensorik, packaging specifications or microbiological quality of the products. This platform helps manufacturers assess, monitor, and predict the risks of their products and supply chain. It is currently focused on food. iComplai platform is intended as an early warning system to help food manufacturers bring safe products to the market. The platform is updated daily with new information which is fed into the machine learning algorithm. The results are then sent to the users, based on their customisation. The daily alerts include both the current as well as the future potential risks.

Keywords: risk management sourced ingredients food manufacturing private label ai powered
Empowering Early Career Researchers with new Opportunities and Skills (ECROS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania,Spain,Germany,Latvia,France,Cyprus,Italy,Ireland,Bulgaria
Call: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers – pilot (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000816.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000816.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Driven by a powerful consortium, composed of nine EUt+ partner universities, two young researcher associations (FJI from Spain and LJZA from Latvia), and two strong industrial partners (ATIT from Romania and ABG from France), the ECROS project aims to revolutionize the professional development of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) across Europe. The project will establish a cohesive talent ecosystem designed to empower R1 and R2 researchers, equipping them with the necessary skills to thrive in both academic and industrial settings. ECROS will deliver a range of impactful outcomes, including structured career guidance, enhanced collaboration frameworks, and comprehensive support systems for ECRs. By fostering academia-industry partnerships, offering mobility opportunities through industrial PhDs and placements, and providing entrepreneurial training, the project supports the diversification of research careers. The ecosystem will include the creation of the Young Researchers Statute and industry collaboration guidelines, ensuring researchers receive continuous support and recognition throughout their careers. Leveraging the strength of the consortium, the project aligns with the EU's Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) and the Charter and Code for Researchers, promoting policy recommendations for improving ECR conditions across Europe. By integrating these frameworks with a tailored talent toolbox, ECROS contributes to shaping future talent within the European Research Area (ERA), positioning ECRs for success in both academic and industrial sectors.

Keywords: research talent ecosystem,early career researcher ecr,structured career paths,sustainable academia industry collaboration,dynamic talent ecosystem,career development,stem and non stem integration
Facilitating personalised Lung Treatment Decisions through a Deeptech AI Clinical Decision Support System (LungQ-Care)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4756250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

With the support of EIC funding, Thirona aims to transform their innovative thoracic AI imaging system, LungQ, into an end-to-end clinical decisions support system (CDSS) called LungQ-Care. The current information workflow of thoracic imaging makes it exceedingly complicated to personalise lung treatments. However, LungQ-Care tackles this challenge by enabling radiologists to quantify medical imaging and disease phenotypes to deliver structured analyses to lung doctors. This empowers them to interpret medical imaging effectively and offer personalised treatments to their patients for optimal disease management while reducing costs. LungQ displayed clinical impact by reducing anaesthesia induced bronchoscopic interventions by 81.5% for COPD cases. Additionally, LungQ reduces the time to analyse cystic fibrosis images from days to minutes. With medical and technical expertise, Thirona has the capabilities to lay the foundation for a scalable and ground-breaking AI platform in lung care.

Keywords: personalised treatment,lung disease,computerized tomography,scientific computing,simulation and modelling
WI-CHARGE: THE FUTURE OF POWER (WI-CHARGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5512250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2299750.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wi-Charge is developing a paradigm-shift in wireless power systems that overcomes current limitations, allowing charging devices over the air with a range of 10 meters and available power that is 100X more than batteries. All this preserving health and safety requirements. Our technology will enable the appearance of many new devices and functionalities that today are simply not possible. Imagine devices can enjoy 100X-500X more power than they have today and still work permanently in a wireless mode. It will enable a huge breakthrough in many industries and will take User Experience to the next level. Our goal is developing proprietary transmitters and receivers, designed to operate for the 1st time at a specialized Infrared (IR) spectrum that we found to be the best one to optimize power, distance, efficiency, and most important, safety; while providing more than 100X better performance compared to solutions based on magnetic induction, radiofrequency (RF) or ultrasound beaming.

Keywords: wireless power,infrared,wireless charging,long range wireless power
Burden of Adult Mortality in India: Socioeconomic Inequality and Impact on Household Wellbeing (AMI-SEI)

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: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The record of vital events such as births and deaths are the most critical social statistics that have been increasingly used for monitoring social and health development. Most developing countries do not have a complete and robust vital registration system, leading to a lack of mortality data. Therefore, a rigorous assessment of adult mortality and disparities is limited. The research project: AMI: SEI (Burden of Adult Mortality in India: Socioeconomic Inequality and Impact on Household Wellbeing) as a case study of India aims to investigate adult mortality in order to fill in knowledge gaps and strengthen evidence-based policies for tackling potentially avoidable adult deaths at working ages (15-59 years). Rising deaths due to non-communicable chronic diseases and violent deaths such as traffic accidents and suicides pose new challenges for sustainable health progress in Low-middle income countries (LMICs). These emerging health threats primarily affect disadvantaged population groups with lower socioeconomic status. Therefore, this project focuses on adult mortality by socio- economic characteristics from a demographic and public health perspective. First, the proposed study will explore regional inequality in adult mortality by gender across the different Indian regions during 1990-2023 and impact of COVID-19 in 2020-21 on adult mortality. Second, a systematic assessment of adult mortality disparities by socio- economic group will be conducted in order to identify commonalities and differences in the magnitude and patterns of disparities in India. Finally, the economic impact of potentially avoidable adult deaths on the well-being of households will be examined. The expected scientific outcomes of this project will provide new policy-relevant knowledge about adult mortality patterns and mortality disparities in developing countries contributing the biggest share of global adult deaths.

Keywords: mortality,adult health,health gradients,sample surveys,determinants of mortality,economic impact
Danube Region Water Lighthouse Action (DALIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Czechia,Slovakia,Germany,Romania,Serbia,Bulgaria,Ireland,Switzerland
Call: Danube river basin lighthouse – restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems (HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8627861.25
EU funding (EUR): 8499236.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

In the Danube River Basin lives 79 million inhabitants. As the Danube River Management Plan indicates the majority (52%) of all rivers do not meet the criteria of good chemical status, moreover all monitored indicators deteriorated. The Danube River is an artery of the ecosystems of the whole DRB and the region with significant environmental impact. The river also has an important economic utilization supporting SMEs, and creating jobs for locals as well as having a cultural importance. To properly manage this complex and fragile ecosystem we must think of a river basin and harmonize our actions from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. DALIA (Danube Region Water Lighthouse Action) is comprised of 22 expert organizations – including universities, authorities, SMEs and NGOs – from 8 different Danube EU and Associated countries accumulating an outstanding set of knowledge, covering not only the basin geographically but all different fields of expertise necessary to deal with the multidisciplinary issues from source to sea. The project brings to DRB integrated DALIA tool, which will be integrate into DAnube Mission Hub for better decision making to improve DRB restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems; it provides options for strategies and policies that concern freshwater ecosystem protection and ecosystem connectivity in DRB and improved protection of local communities and ecosystems from extreme events and pollution threats. The DALIA project will contribute directly to the establishment of EU and UN initiatives, related to the further execution on the Water Framework Directive by the execution of innovative actions across a variety of geographies, their scaling and the multiplication of outcomes with a wider network of ecosystems and related EU Missions and project actions throughout framework .

Keywords: danube rive catchment,restoration,knowledge managent,stakeholder management
Wind Energy Harvesting for Ship Propulsion Assistance and Power (WHISPER)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Iceland,United Kingdom,Austria,France,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Exploiting renewable energy for shipping, in particular focusing on the potential of wind energy (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8991483.0
EU funding (EUR): 8991483.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Long-distance maritime transport provides 80-90% of global trade, but strict regulations around NOx, SOx and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are set to cause major technological shifts. Whilst the pathway to achieve the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) target of 50% GHG reduction by 2050 is unclear, what is clear is the need to drastically reduce the industry’s dependence on fossil fuels. Liquified natural gas (LNG) is reaching mainstream and provides 20-30% CO2 reduction and other alternative fuels such as ammonia, hydrogen or biofuels could decarbonise much further but face significant barriers concerning financials, resource potential and acceptability. In tandem, considerable fuel and GHG savings could be attained by implementing efficiency measures such as slow-steaming, improved ship design and utilising renewable resources. With wind being a truly maritime feature, the onboard harnessing of wind energy will play an important role in the decarbonization of the long-distance maritime transport industry. However, its uptake has been slow and there are significant challenges to its widespread adoption in the commercial shipping sector. WHISPER will develop a novel modular retrofit solution comprising a wind-solar hybrid power system to significantly reduce auxiliary engine emissions and a tilting wing sail system to provide wind-assisted propulsion significantly reducing main engine fuel consumption and emissions. Wind power will be harnessed through novel containerised turbines which will be demonstrated on an in-service container ship with efficiency savings of 15.3%. WHISPER will prove the technical and financial viability of the complete retrofit solution on in-service bulk carrier vessel, demonstrating efficiency savings of 29.8%.
Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles for biological drug delivery toward healing chronic wound (BioCaPHeal)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing number of chronic wound cases, most frequently attributed to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, has set an urgent alarm since it causes low quality of life and even fatal complications to thousands of patients as well as burdens the healthcare systems globally. Antimicrobial biological drugs, also called biologics, are proposed to address the emerging and unmet threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in wound infections by developing antibiotic-free treatments with low immunological risk. Despite having maximal antimicrobial effect, biologics efficiency in infection treatment and wound healing is compromised due to their limited circulation half-life and susceptibility to environment and wound related factors. Hybrid nanoformulations (HNs) based on inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) are developed to perform biologics delivery by securing the integrity of their vulnerable structure and efficiency while they exhibit great potential in biomedicine as drug nanocarriers due to their stability, small size, and extremely high surface area. Here, we propose the synthesis of biocompatible and healing-promoting Calcium Phosphate (CaP) NPs with a nanomanufacturing process famous for its scalability and reproducibility, Flame Spray Pyrolysis. The as-prepared CaP NPs will be loaded with the biologics, peptide LL-37 and enzyme Lysozyme, to form novel hybrid drug delivery nanosystems. Synthesis parameters of CaP NPs and HNs nanomanufacturing protocols will be studied and their physicochemical characterization will be performed. The stability, the antimicrobial activity and the cytocompatibility of the HNs will be examined with in-vitro assays. Finally, the effectiveness of HNs in wound infections treatment and wound healing promotion will be tested ex-vivo. This project will provide fundamental insights on biological drug loading parameters on nanocarriers to facilitate rapid translation to clinics, after the intellectual property is protected.

Keywords: flame spray pyrolysis,nanocarrier,biologics,infection
Physics, politics and gendered imaginaries: for a new history of the «via Panisperna boys», 1926-1975 (PANISPERNA)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 420751.08
EU funding (EUR): 420751.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

PANISPERNA focuses on the so-called “via Panisperna boys”, a group of young Italian scientists led by E. Fermi who, in 1934, discovered the slow neutrons, paving the way for the construction of the nuclear reactor and, eventually, the first atomic bomb. Over time, they reached legendary status in their country, to the point where their myth became an obstacle for historians. The goal of this project is to write a new, inclusive, and accurate history of the group from its birth in the late 1920s to the publication of L. Sciascia’s bestselling novel on the disappearance of the “boy” E. Majorana (1975) – the most influential book in shaping Italian collective memory of Fermi’s team. For this purpose, the ER will take into account a new set of sources, paying attention to transnational circulations and using an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on three major issues. 1) The relationship between science and power in different (and seemingly incompatible) political regimes such as American democracy and Italian fascism. 2) The transnational networks that allowed the “boys” not only to correspond with the top physicists of their time but also to find refuge abroad when political persecution, racism and war forced them to flee their country. 3) The presence of women in the group, the gender dynamics within it, and the gendered dimension of scientific work, communication and memory. Because of the topic and the innovative methodology, the project has the potential to have a considerable impact at both a scientific and a societal level, during the fellowship and beyond. On the one hand, it will produce new, high-quality knowledge on a relevant case study, making it available through open-access, free-of-charge publications as well as communication activities. On the other hand, it will raise awareness of the importance of both gender equality in science and innovative scientific practices under political and societal constraints.

Keywords: modern and contemporary italy,science and politics,intellectual migration to the us
Resolving Evolving Aspects of Crystal Structure Transformations (REACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2463858.0
EU funding (EUR): 2463858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Knowing the crystal structure at unit cell level is crucial for understanding and controlling the physical properties of materials and thus for advancing the various fields of materials science. However, for many materials, the arrangement of the atoms within the unit cell varies over nanoscale domains, especially after reactions or under the influence of external factors. Current techniques, such as three-dimensional electron diffraction, X-ray diffraction and atomic resolution imaging techniques, cannot determine unknown crystal structures for phases that are mixed at nanoscale. Therefore, in REACT, I develop a new method to precisely quantify crystal structures varying at nanoscale, and even unit cell scale, across multiphased particles. The new method will significantly impact materials science by providing, for the first time, the crystal structure of previously unknown phases that occur in functional materials during operation. It will accurately and precisely reveal how their structural parameters - such as chemical bond angles and lengths, and the coordinates and occupancy of atom sites - vary across the particles and change under external influences or reactions. This will give the field of materials science new critical insights into the structural changes accompanying processes like intercalation, degradation and diffusion. To demonstrate its potential, I apply the technique to open questions in materials science: the phases appearing in Li- and Na-ion battery materials during charge-discharge cycling and the changes in the local structure of metal organic frameworks (MOF) during CO2 intercalation. This project will generate a whole new research direction in crystal structure analysis. It will open new doors to understanding material behaviour at the nanoscale, contributing to technological advancements and scientific discoveries across the entire field of materials science.

Keywords: electron crystallography,3ded,4d stem,in situ,electron diffraction,phases,multiphase,structure solution,crystal structure