Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sustainable aviation and shipping fuels from microalgae and direct solar BES technologies (ALGAESOL)

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: Norway,Spain,Denmark,Austria,Türkiye,Czechia
Call: Development of microalgae and/or direct solar fuel production and purification technologies for advanced aviation and /or shipping fuels (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3997156.25
EU funding (EUR): 3997156.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

ALGAESOL will develop and evaluate several solutions for the sustainable conversion of sunlight into fuels. The project will advance current state-of-the-art by creating and consolidating new value chains for shipping and aviation fuels based on micro-algae and direct solar renewable fuel technologies. ALGAESOL will reduce production costs by 25%and improve efficiency of converting solar energy, carbon dioxide (CO2) and organic wastes into renewable methanol (CH3OH), methane (CH4) and biooils, forming the basis for aviation and shipping fuels. Various systems (biologic, photoelectrochemical, electrochemical and bioelectrochemical) will be evaluated and smart reactor design will be combined with process improvements. Targeted are microbial contamination control strategies, the increase solar to chemical energy conversion efficiencies, and improved algal strains to generate lipid superproducers will facilitate extraction, followed by innovative purification and hydro-processing technology to deliver the fuels. Enhanced sustainability of the developed fuels, is also based on a circular bio economy approach by using waste streams and about 80% of residual biomass generate in the ALGAESOL value chain will be re-circulated as input for the conversion process. The economic and environmental, as well as social sustainability will guide the design and scale-up at process level and for the whole value chain in alignment with the European Green Deal priorities. Used will be computational modelling and process simulations, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Life Cycle Costs (LCC), and Social Life Cycle Analysis (S-LCA) as well as practical engineering approaches. Through this approach is the overall reduction of the environmental impact when producing biofuels expected to be about 20% relative to today's processes. The project will reinforce the European scientific basis, technology leadership and competitiveness through international collaborations.

Keywords: photosynthetic bio conversion,bio electrochemical technologies,microalgae,biofuel,aviation,shipping,circularity,sustainability
Electrification of ceramic industries high temperature heating equipment (ELITHE)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Greece,Portugal,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands,Sweden,Czechia
Call: Electrification of high temperature heating systems (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13460134.0
EU funding (EUR): 11193684.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

eLITHE aims to support decarbonisation of the ceramic industry through the demonstration of sustainable and cost-effective pathways to electrify high temperature thermal processes (i.e. melting, calcination and firing). This is crucial for the EU to achieve its 2050 target of climate neutrality as energy-intensive industries (EIIs) are responsible for a large portion of greenhouse gas emissions. eLITHE will demonstrate three different electric furnaces (a frit smelter based electrodes and induction, a microwave-powered alumina calciner and a hybrid brick firing tunnel kiln for combined use of electricity and hydrogen burning) at three pilot sites. Besides, eLITHE will develop novel material compositions compatible with the electric heating, research circular materials for their use high temperature energy storage applications and create digital tools to enhance process energy management and enable a safe and sustainable operation. The project consortium consists of 18 partners from 9 EU countries, with diversified expertise and knowledge in the addressed processes. The project will have a significant impact on the clean energy transition of EIIs and will lead to a reduction of over 97,000 tons of CO2 per year and over 505 GWh/yr of natural gas use for a full-scale unit replaced, contributing to reducing EU dependence on fossil-fuels imports. In addition to the direct impact on the clean energy transition of the ceramic industry, eLITHE will also have broader societal and economic impacts. The project will contribute to the development of a sustainable and circular economy, supporting the creation of green jobs and improving the competitiveness of European industries. The project's focus on electrification technologies and renewable energy integration will also contribute to the development of a more resilient and secure energy system for the EU, reducing its dependence on imported fossil fuels.

Keywords: ceramic industry,melting,calcination,firing,digital twin,induction,microwaves,electrodes,hybrid heating
CIRCULAR SYSTEMIC SOLUTION FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN EUROPEAN ISLANDS BY MOVABLE PLANT ON A BOAT AND CO-CREATION WITH ISLAND STAKEHOLDERS (ReBoat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Lithuania
Call: Systemic circular solutions for a sustainable tourism (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CIRCBIO-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5923562.5
EU funding (EUR): 4998325.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Islands are characterized by massive touristic flows concentrated in specific high-season Islands are characterized by massive touristic flows concentrated in specific high-season peaks, temporarily amplifying the local consumption of products and the consequent generation of waste materials. ReBoat aims at designing, developing and demonstrating a novel decentralized systemic circular solution focused on plastics and textile, exploiting a mobile, modular, sorting, recycling and reprocessing plant on a Boat that will transform local waste into new products, meeting the needs of island citizens, tourists and local artisans and workers. Three complementary pilots at Eolian, Ioninan and Azores islands, will CoCreate new objects, spaces and experiences through an Island Participatory Approach supported by Collaborative Digital tools, by the Boat technical infrastructure with recycling and reprocessing machineries onboard, and by Artists, working-holidays Students, and Designers who will animate a 2 weeks event in each pilot engaging people. Newly designed Tourism Packages will empower the engagement and enrich the offering, promoting conscious and sustainable holidays in European Islands. 15 partners from 7 Eu Member States, experts in heterogeneous and complementary sectors will cooperate to demonstrate the feasibility of the 6 innovation pillars and to provide a concrete experience to citizens and tourists that will be made publicly available through training materials, success stories, open access data. Replicability will be studied with the objective to obtain a concrete exploitation after the project ends. The project will obtain results in the following innovation pillars: a Boat for local recycling, the digital solutions for the CoCreation and scheduling in exploitation, the new touristic packages and signed agreements, the generation of new circular products to be sold, the engagement of local stakeholders and PAs, and the definition of the final business model.

Keywords: cocreation tourism islands recycling demanufacturing sorting design plastic
Intelligent Ingestible Devices for Gastrointestinal Therapeutics, Diagnosis or Intervention. (INTELLI-INGEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Poland,Italy,United Kingdom,France,Greece
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2686665.6
EU funding (EUR): 2686665.6
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The Intelli-Ingest Doctoral Network will train 13 researchers in the development of minimally invasive, orally delivered miniaturised devices. This ingestible technology has the potential to unlock significant advances across the medical sciences, whether it is enhanced diagnosis through the application of artificial intelligence or the integration of multiple sensors into these devices, surgery through less invasive biopsy or treatment through targeted drug delivery direct to the site of interest or the development of therapeutic form factors that can safely reside within the gastrointestinal tract for extended periods, removing the need for daily treatment and improving the adherence of patients to the treatment regimen. However, to achieve this potential, several scientific challenges must be addressed. These include needing more accurate localisation, improving our ability to know where the devices are along the gastrointestinal tract at any time for better treatment and repeated diagnosis. The second challenge is the need to integrate more advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technology, which is vital for more accurate identification and treatment of pathology. The third challenge is environmental sustainability; more sustainable designs are crucial due to the single-use nature of most ingestible devices and their growing use post-pandemic. Finally, to rapidly innovate in the ingestible device field, we need better tools to advance translation at low cost, reducing the use of costly animal models. The 13 doctoral candidates will tackle these challenges, advancing the state of the art in ingestible device technology while benefiting from multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral, international training provided by leaders in this field. This training will provide these candidates with extensive technical, translational and transferable skills training that will enhance their future career prospects in this growing field of research.

Keywords: robotics,microsystems,drug delivery,healthcare technology,ingestible devices,capsule endoscope
Consequences of warming-driven vegetation change for Arctic carbon cycling and feedbacks to the global climate system (ArcticEDGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499264.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499264.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ArcticEDGE will identify the consequences of warming-driven vegetation change for the functioning of Arctic ecosystems, particularly the cycling of carbon, and the impact on the global climate. The Arctic is the fastest-warming region on Earth, and Arctic soils contain more than double the amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere. Changes in the vegetation can influence whether this carbon is released into the atmosphere, thus contributing to additional climate warming, or stored in soils and plant biomass. Until now, we have lacked the ability to scale up from site-specific, local-scale studies to generalizable vegetation-function relationships relevant for the entire Arctic. ArcticEDGE will: 1) quantify the relationships between widely-measured plant functional and phenological traits and three key ecosystem processes related to global carbon cycling: litter decomposition, primary production, and fire dynamics, using field and laboratory experiments, 2) predict the rate with which these traits are likely to change in response to warming by identifying the relative contribution of turnover in species identity, shifts in abundance, phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation to trait variability and change over time, 3) determine the contribution of Arctic vegetation change to global-scale vegetation-climate feedbacks by combining knowledge from aims 1 and 2 with multi-decadal records of vegetation change and responses to experimental warming and precipitation at hundreds of locations across the Arctic, and 4) produce quantifiable outputs that will feed directly into Dynamic Global Vegetation and Earth System models to determine the consequences of Arctic vegetation change for the global climate. The knowledge generated by ArcticEDGE will contribute both to our theoretical understanding of how plants influence and are influenced by their environment as well as inform urgent efforts to project future changes in the global climate with greater precision.

Keywords: global change ecology,arctic,vegetation change,ecosystem functioning,carbon cycling,decomposition,primary production,fire,plant functional traits,plant phenology
Extended zero-trust and intelligent security for resilient and quantum-safe 6G networks and services (XTRUST-6G)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Bulgaria,Cyprus,Italy,Estonia,Spain,Norway,Slovenia,Switzerland
Call: Reliable Services and Smart Security–Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8480395.23
EU funding (EUR): 7998595.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to establish a robust security framework for 6G ecosystems, underpinned by the zero-trust principle and emphasizing core tenets like resilience, privacy, and dependability. Dynamic access control via a context-aware risk-based policy engine, leveraging rich cyber-threat intelligence and behavioral insights gathered from the 6G infrastructure, is at the core of the proposed approach. Micro-segmentation of vulnerable virtualized functions from critical O-RAN assets is a primary goal to prevent attackers’ lateral movement capabilities and minimize damage. Proactive security measures, will be deployed alongside sophisticated AI tools to optimize attack surface reduction and enhance intrusion detection capabilities. An intelligent extended detection and response solution will be developed, covering all layers of a 6G network; this entails the integration of collaborative intrusion detection networks and graph-based threat models, facilitating real-time and optimal responses to sophisticated multi-stage attacks targeting the 6G ecosystem. Automation will be pivotal in various aspects, including threat modeling, and response orchestration, aided by blockchain to secure integration and lifecycle management of 6G applications. Moreover, the project will prioritize supply chain security by implementing automated vulnerability scanning and introducing O-RAN application certification. Quantum-safe technologies (QKD and PQC) and AI-driven solutions will be employed to safeguard against physical layer attacks, ensuring uninterrupted and secure data transmission in 6G networks. Additionally, privacy-preserving and trusted AI/ML schemes will be developed upholding principles like fairness, explainability, and sustainability to ensure high energy efficiency and minimal environmental footprint of the proposed solutions. These efforts aim to ensure that critical 6G communications infrastructure achieves high security and resilience of against evolving cyber-threats.

Keywords: 6g zero trust security o ran detection and response cyber resilience energy efficiency security automation and orchestration quantum safe technologies cyber threat intelligence trusted ai blockchain
Solar Artificial Trees for Hydrogen on-Demand Production (SOLAR-H2)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169285.71
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The SOLAR-H2 project introduces a groundbreaking artificial tree (AT)-like technology for distributed, on-demand H2 production, designed for zero-carbon communities and off-grid applications. Unlike conventional electrolysers requiring high-purity water and grid electricity, this system has near-zero operational costs, leveraging solar energy and capture of reactants from the ambient. The aim is to develop a showcase prototype for the Solar Hub under development at the Univ Messina to present to stakeholders the potential of AT technologies. The innovative approach integrates photo-electrocatalysis, where CO2 and H2O are converted into H2 and formic acid (FA) using sunlight. The latter acts as a hydrogen storage medium, enabling on-demand or continuous H2 production, even during the night, through catalytic decomposition. Additionally, the system ensures a closed-loop CO2 recirculation, with minimal losses compensated by external CO2 sources, making it a highly sustainable and carbon-efficient solution. Building upon the ERC Synergy SCOPE project, SOLAR-H2 aims to advance the technology to TRL4. This will involve scaling up to a small-scale demonstrator, improving performance and gas-diffusion electrodes as well as the cell for stable continuous operation, and integrating the systems for capturing reagents and the storage/decomposition-on-demand of FA. The project assesses techno-economic and socio-environmental aspects, along with a market analysis to identify key barriers and opportunities. The exploration strategy is to build a first demonstrator for the Solar Hub to foster this important area of solar-to-chemical conversion and lay the foundation for a spin-off company, positioning formic acid as a breakthrough hydrogen vector in the clean energy transition. By bridging the gap between lab-scale research and industrial feasibility, SOLAR-H2 will de-risk the transition paving the way for large-scale adoption of sustainable H2 production technologies.

Keywords: solar h2 artificial tree hydrogen solar hub formic acid
Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings (SWEB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Latvia
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2471875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2471875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Smart windows for zero energy buildings (SWEB) will rely on a variety of innovative smart windows (SW) solutions and products to meet the market growth potential and address the global environmental challenges faced by the EU to achieve and sustain zero energy buildings market. We propose the development of non-toxic, abundant, long-term functional SW materials (photochromic, thermochromic, electrochromic, transparent conducting), implemented in parallel with cost-effective, robust, and industrially scalable technologies for fabrication of low-cost thin-film SW and chromogenic devices with flexibility in design, such as photochromic, thermochromic, electrochromic and self-powered SW – the basis for zero energy buildings in smart cities. SWEB aims to recruit members of the ERA-Chair team that will bring complementary knowledge to the existing core team, thereby enhancing scientific excellence, increasing visibility, and bridging the gap between research to technology transfer. This will positively contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, European targets for Clean Energy for all Europeans, the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Latvia, and contribute to the European Research Area. The short-term aim is to create a functional ERA Chair team that can implement the strategies defined in the scope of the ERA Chair, and ensure sustainability after the end of the project. The long-term goal of the SWEB is to strengthen the Thin Films Laboratory and the Institute of Solid State Physics in achieving high scientific and innovation results and enhance stakeholders’ networks. With the support of the ERA Chair, ISSP is planning to establish the Briefing Demo Centre for renewable energy in Latvia as well as the EU joint graduate school on SW and zero energy buildings. Completion of these tasks will contribute to the EU becoming a climate neutrality flagship. The main task of the ERA Chair is to converge R&D&I, stakeholders, policymakers, and society.

Keywords: smart windows,zero energy buildings,chromogenic materials,energy efficiency,sustainable research