Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
First early warning system for food safety to predict raw material contamination with up to 96% accuracy and 12 months in advance, to increase food supply chain safety and prevent product recalls (iComplai)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

iComplai, founded in 2020, has rapidly evolved into an essential risk prediction tool for the food industry, directly aligning with the European Green Deal and Europe's digital transformation. Our innovative system uses advanced machine learning and big data analytics to offer early warnings against food contamination, pesticide misuse, and fraud with up to 96% accuracy and 12 months in advance. We train our model on 25,000 data combinations of raw materials and places of origin, 330M test results, 1.1M food suppliers, 300k news and 400k notifications (from public authorities) from 2,300 data sources (including translations from 8 different languages as well as macroeconomic indicators that could increase food fraud risk are also included). With iComplai’s early warning system, customers can avail 85% time saving for risk analysis and regulatory reporting. This approach not only aids in sustainable food production but also significantly diminishes the ecological footprint of the food industry, a cornerstone of the European Green Deal. With a diverse team from Germany, Turkey, Italy, and India, we've fostered a unique multicultural perspective, enhancing our global reach and understanding. Our digital prowess, showcased through sophisticated algorithms, has set new benchmarks in the food sector, contributing to Europe's Digital Age agenda. We've achieved notable success, securing the WomenTechEU grant in 2023, and partnerships with food industry giants. With a vision that extends beyond mere compliance, iComplai aims to revolutionize food safety, promote sustainability, and advance digital innovation in the European food industry. Our commitment to these goals demonstrates our capability to be a key player in shaping a safer, more sustainable, and digitally forward European food sector.

Keywords: ai powered food safety,early risk detection,supply chain contamination prediction,pesticide risk analytics,sustainable food supply,predictive analytics,big data,raw material contamination
Barbara Oliveira: Female-led innovation for the quality-of-life of cancer patients (Barbara Oliveira)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: EU Prize for Women Innovators
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Rising Innovators Category (HORIZON-EIC-EIT-2023-WomenInnovatorsPrize, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bárbara Oliveira is an award-winning entrepreneur and engineer, who co-founded Luminate Medical to improve patients’ quality-of-life during cancer treatment. Bárbara and Luminate have raised over €11M to date, and their mission has been recognised internationally, most notably with the Alex Casta Award at EIT Health Catapult in 2021, and the Irish Medtech Association Emerging Medtech Company of 2021. Bárbara has seen her personal efforts recognised with the MIT Innovators Under 35 award in 2023, while also having recently been shortlisted for the WMB Female Newcomer Award. Bárbara is a Portuguese native rooted in Ireland. A biomedical engineer by background, Bárbara completed a PhD in the University of Galway, Ireland in the exploration of a new pain-free breast cancer diagnosis technology. Bárbara also led the first-in-human clinical trial of the same technology, through which she became familiar with the harsh reality cancer patients face daily. Her first-hand knowledge of how quality-of-life needs, and specifically those experienced by female patients, are so poorly understood in healthcare led her to co-found Luminate Medical in 2019 and create a groundbreaking compression-based technology for the side effects of chemotherapy for cancer treatment. With this breakthrough innovation, Luminate aims to disrupt an untapped €36B market worldwide, by giving patients access to affordable and effective devices for chemotherapy side effects. Luminate’s first products are the Lily and the Lilac devices to reduce hair loss and peripheral neuropathy (loss of sensation in the hands and feet) during chemotherapy, respectively. Under Bárbara’s leadership, the team has swiftly moved through device development, pre-clinical testing, and most recently, through the inception of patient clinical trials of both devices. With both trials underway, the team is now rapidly accelerating towards market launch and expects to get clearance to market their first device in 2025.

Keywords: medical devices cancer patient quality of life
Skeletal Muscle-Endothelial Cell Crosstalk in Muscle Plasticity and Disease (SMECC)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The maintenance of skeletal muscle mass and function is critically important in various conditions, including aging, cancer, muscular dystrophies, and more. It presents a considerable societal concern, impacting not only individual health but also imposing substantial healthcare expenditures. Despite its clinical relevance, there are currently no fully effective treatments to prevent or reverse muscle wasting due to an incomplete understanding of the involved mechanisms. While much attention has been given to intracellular signalling regulating muscle size, such as the Akt-mTORC1 pathway, the role of muscle perfusion and paracrine interactions between muscle fibers and endothelial cells (ECs) remains poorly understood. Recent studies point to the strong interconnection between muscle fibers and ECs, highlighting their reciprocal influence on each other's function. This project aims to illuminate these interactions, exploring how changes in muscle mass influence protein homeostasis in ECs and how alterations in ECs' proliferation and permeability impact muscle physiology. To address these questions, we will utilize cutting-edge technologies including molecular biology, animal phenotyping, histology, omics, and advanced bioimaging techniques such as tissue clearing and light sheet fluorescence microscopy, while employing innovative models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying in vivo changes in a cell-type specific manner. We will use novel tissue-specific mouse lines, such as MetRS mice, to monitor protein homeostasis within defined time windows, allowing for the study of muscle-EC crosstalk. The anticipated outcomes of this project include a deeper understanding of how ECs and muscle fibers communicate during changes in muscle size and function. By exploring these interactions, we aim to uncover key molecular mechanisms that govern muscle-EC interplay, enhancing our knowledge of ECs' role in muscle biology and guiding future therapeutic strategies.

Keywords: cellular signalling crosstalk endothelial cell skeletal muscle tissue specific transgenic mice angiogenesis muscle wasting aging
Parcel and Letter Security for Postal and Express Courier Flows (PARSEC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Border Management
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Hungary,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Greece,Sweden
Call: Advanced detection of threats and illicit goods in postal and express courier flows (HORIZON-CL3-2021-BM-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3194442.25
EU funding (EUR): 3185442.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

PARSEC is a project about parcel and letter security in the context of postal and express courier services. The project delivers an ambitious set of solutions by developing, configuring, customising, and piloting innovative tools, services and security management views to fight the abuse of postal and express courier flows for criminal and terrorist purposes. The four PARSEC innovation areas and three use cases strengthen risk analysis and redefine threat detection and resilience capabilities of parcel service providers, customs authorities, police agencies, and other relevant stakeholders. PARSEC develops and tests three next-generation non-intrusive detection technologies (multi-energy photon counting detector, neutron-induced gamma-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction) and combine them into a detection architecture (= system-of-system) for optimal detection accuracy, speed and reliability. With PARSEC solutions postal and express operators, customs, and police authorities will be more capable to fight crime and terrorism, put in place a stronger deterrent, and to ensure safe and undisrupted postal and express services.
AI-driven multiscale methodology to develop Transparent Wood as sustainable functional material (AI-TranspWood)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Spain,Italy,Austria,France,Latvia,Switzerland,Türkiye,Germany
Call: Computational models for the development of safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7377897.8
EU funding (EUR): 6955522.23
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

AI-TranspWood ambition is to create an AI-driven multiscale methodology for new Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), and functional wood-based composites and demonstrate the concept for Transparent Wood (TW), a promising composite with potential applications in several industrial fields, such as construction, automotive, electronics and furniture. By developing AI supported SSbD framework for TW, we contribute to European Green Deal by providing innovative sustainable materials and cost-effective tools for European industries paving the way towards green and sustainable transition. SSbD tools used by the chemicals and materials community with new transparent wood materials, increases the innovation capacity of SMEs and industry for future sustainable products. With the help of AI-tools and advanced experiments we develop multiscale models from the atomistic scale to continuum for the manufacturing process and the mechanics of the transparent wood allowing for virtual screening of bio-sourced alternatives for hazardous and petrochemical-based chemicals required for manufacturing Transparent Wood using the current solutions. The built computational models are openly shared within the European environment for scientific software (EESSI). The user-friendly surrogate model is also made available in the VTT Modeling Factory environment, along with an LCA tool, for industrial use. Four TW business cases are conducted, with the aim to be commercialized in the construction, automotive, electronics and furniture industries. The SSbD framework will guide the whole creation of the TW products providing a competitive advantage to the European manufacturers interested in introducing the TW composites in the European market, also as substitutes of glass and plastic in various applications. This can considerably increase the European share in the global production of sustainable TW composites.

Keywords: wood based composites,numerical modeling,artificial intelligence
V4F (V4F)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland,Czechia,Germany,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2659996.25
EU funding (EUR): 2659996.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

V4F aims to show proof-of-principle of a new technology capable of unprecedented control over interactions with specially synthesised targets to significantly improve the energy balance of aneutronic fusion reactions. New concepts and advanced simulations of inertial confinement of aneutronic fusion reactions and particle acceleration will inform pioneering experiments in high-energy matter-interactions. Results could offer the prospect of breakthrough increases in alpha-particle yields from fusion reactions and mitigate the instabilities found in conventional fusion reactions. This work offers the tantalising possibility of aneutronic fusion as a waste-free nuclear energy source and radical new configurations of particle accelerators, leading to an efficient positron beam acceleration. The results will benefit society with game-changing new approaches to clean, safe energy production and significant downscaling of positron accelerators with dramatic impacts in medicine, industry and fundamental science.

Keywords: usp laser,light votices,orbital angular momentum,fundamental interactions and fields,borane synthesis,particle acceleration,aneutronic borane fusion reactions
Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy in Europe (FIERCE)

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: Greece,Denmark,Italy,Spain,France,Poland,Slovenia,Türkiye
Call: Feminisms for a new age of democracy (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2490220.0
EU funding (EUR): 2490220.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

FIERCE aims at providing sound theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers in a context of growing social inequalities, political disaffection and strengthening of populist radical right anti-gender actors and discourses. The research uses an interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional and multi-level framework, that aims to overcome the limitations of both disciplinary scholarships and nationalist methodologies. FIERCE develops in-depth understanding of feminist and anti-feminist/anti-gender movements, activities and discourses, and their impact on the institutional arena and on policy outcomes, focusing on the period 2010-2021. These actors, and especially the feminist movement, will be studied through framing, political ethnography and Social Network Analyses on the background of key gender debates and controversies prefigured to be situated in the areas of: labour market; health and reproductive rights; LGBTQ+ rights; migration; and gender-based violence. FIERCE will cover eight case studies (France, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Turkey, Denmark, Poland, Spain) representing a wide variety of country contexts in socio-political, geographical and welfare terms. FIERCE moves beyond a country-based approach and provides a cross-cutting comparative analysis of the way debates and controversies on gender have influenced the dynamics and output of the policy process. Building on co-creation methods and on a strong alliance with civil society organisations, FIERCE proposes pilot actions that can reinvigorate democratic practices, in line with feminist inclusive visions for the future of democracy. FIERCE thereby sets out a bottom-up, problem-driven and impact-oriented approach, bridging academic knowledge, policy-making and bottom-up democratic strategies.

Keywords: feminism,feminist movements,intersectionality,radical right wing populism,anti gender,anti feminists,alliances,social network analysis,policy impact,democratic practices,pilot actions
High-Performance Computational Photochemistry and Spectroscopy (HIPERCOPS)

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: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488013.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488013.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The future of modern sustainable technologies lies in the exploitation of solar energy and in harnessing the sun’s practically infinite energy. For fundamental as well as target-oriented research in this direction, computer simulations of the ongoing photochemical processes and electronic spectroscopy of the underlying molecular materials are indispensable. While for smaller molecules, computational photochemistry can nowadays provide highly accurate results and reliable predictions, the limit in applicable molecular system size is quickly reached, and the obtained results often come with an unpredictable error requiring a posteriori validation. Indeed, we are lacking efficient and sufficiently accurate and reliable excited-state ab initio methods reaching out for organic molecular systems with more than 500 second-row atoms. In HIPERCOPS, we aim at closing this gap by deriving highly efficient and genuinely parallel ab initio methods for the calculation of excited electronic, electron-detached and electron-attached states for execution on modern high-performance computer architectures, whose full potential is impossible to leverage by existing standard quantum chemical program packages. To address this problem, we choose the algebraic-diagrammatic construction (ADC) family of methods, since these schemes offer clear advantages, for instance, numerical stability, easy to use, predictable accuracy. We will exploit novel genuinely parallel concepts and solution strategies for ADC schemes to enable them for HPC architectures. Our developed methods and resulting easy-to-use software will thus push the boundaries of accurate and predictable computational photochemistry to unprecedented molecular system sizes enabling and promoting research in, for example, the areas of functional optoelectronic devices and photovoltaics, molecular solar thermal energy conversion, solar-driven nanomachines, towards efficient molecular harnessing of sun light.
Accurate and efficient ab initio Quantum Chemistry calculations on current and near-term noisy intermediate-scale Quantum Computers for relevant chemical problems (QC-SQUARED)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Sweden,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum computing has the potential to provide an exponential speedup compared to classical computers, but the practical implementation is still in its infancy. Two central questions are: (1) in which field the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware can provide benefits compared to classical computers and (2) which methods and algorithms enable this advantage? The aim of this project is to answer these questions by enabling accurate and efficient Quantum Chemistry calculations on current and near-term Quantum Computers for relevant chemical and physical problems. This paves the road to simulate strongly correlated electron systems of high scientific and economical interest, where accurate approaches are needed to understand groundbreaking chemical and physical phenomena, like high-temperature superconductivity, photosynthesis or nitrogen fixation. It will be achieved by developing and implementing novel quantum algorithms based on the combination of the transcorrelated (TC) method and a complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) embedding approach. The TC method will reduce the necessary quantum resources by providing accurate results for a small strongly correlated region already with small basis sets. While CASSCF will allow to target more realistic systems by embedding the correlated region self-consistently in a larger environment, which is efficiently described by inexpensive mean-field approaches. This project has the potential to go beyond the state-of-the-art by: (a) pushing the boundaries of currently possible quantum chemical calculations, allowing further theoretical understanding and practical design of quantum materials and (b) pave the road toward scientific and economical relevance of quantum computing already in the NISQ era.