Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
InSilicoHealth- Training the virtual twin professionals to support healthy ageing (InSilicoHealth)

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: Belgium,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Spain,France,Poland,Austria,Norway
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3944784.0
EU funding (EUR): 3944784.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

InSilicoHealth aims to train doctoral candidates in the field of virtual human twin technology, with a specific focus on addressing challenges related to healthy aging in Europe in three core domains: heart, musculoskeletal, and brain. There is a two-way transfer between the research projects and the interdisciplinary training programme, in which candidates will receive a broad education that spans different fields relevant to digital health. A compelling interdisciplinary joint degree-DN programme for 11 DCs is proposed answering four interdisciplinary research objectives, shouldered by intersectoral training components (i.e., academic and non-academic secondments) to prepare a new generation of outstanding digital health professionals. InSilicoHealth will provide a comprehensive and forward-looking programme that combines research, interdisciplinary training, and collaboration with industry to address the complex challenges of healthy ageing, using virtual human twin technology. The DCs will be actively encouraged to surpass the technology-driven focus and to explicitly addressing the ethical, legal societal implications of VHT technologies. By providing the DCs with a 360° view on the methodological, technological, ethical, social, and regulatory challenges associated with this digital revolution of healthcare, InSilicoHealth is conceptualized as a steppingstone for a sustainable EU-based, doctoral programme on in silico health.

Keywords: virtual human twin,in silico models,in silico health solutions
Towards lossless electrical energy converters (TolleConverter)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499177.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499177.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Electrical energy is typically converted four times between source and load, by over 100.000 GW installed converters. Over 99% efficiency is already reality, e.g., in PV inverters, however in a trade-off with power-density and complexity. Thus, most converters stay below the technical performance limits. Incremental advances in semiconductor technology will continuously push these limits’ values, but does not fundamentally change it. This project takes a disruptive approach, investigating partial-power-processing (PPP): Recently, we operated a 99%-efficient 2-level half-bridge in a multilevel topology, increasing the external capacitive-load charging voltage and power 6-times, while keeping the inner losses almost constant. From 2 to 7 level operation monotonically improved the system efficiency from 99% to over 99.7%. A global maximum was not yet reached. PPP theoretically reduces the losses by a factor of N, if only 1/N of the power is converted by a lossy converter while most power is delivered directly to the load by almost-lossless bypass switches from energy buffers. The question is: "How can electrical conversion efficiency be further increased with partial-power-processing, targeting 99.9% for selected loads?” To approach this “lossless” energy conversion, we will (1) theoretically further investigate PPP and many-level converter topologies, semiconductor devices, and operation parameters, (2) design and characterize converters with two cascaded stages of internally already PPP converter-submodules in a novel way to further improve the system efficiency 3 times (to 99.9%). We will investigate (3) low-voltage (< 100 V), medium-voltage (< 1000 V) and high-voltage (< 10 kV) PPP converters, and cascade them to multiply their benefits. (4) Application to selected, initially capacitive-load applications (electrocaloric heat-pump, pyroelectric harvester, dielectric actuators). The project will push electrical energy conversion further towards the “lossless” limit.

Keywords: electrical efficiency,power electronics,dc dc converters,energy conversion,power semiconductors,circuit topologies
Energy Divides in Europe: Closing Gaps in Understanding for Transformative Alleviation of Energy Poverty (EnCUENTA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998869.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998869.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite emphatic political rhetoric promising just energy transitions, the harsh reality of energy poverty in Europe remains a stark contradiction. Vulnerable communities are not only largely excluded and sometimes negatively impacted by the energy transition but are increasingly facing a reality where living without energy is their new norm due to worsening socioeconomic and infrastructural conditions, with significant societal impacts. These energy divides manifest in the use of alternative fuels for heating (such as firewood and household waste), forced energy rationing, and dangerous coping strategies. However, these issues are absent from mainstream indicators due to the dominance of narrow techno-economic frameworks that fail to account for the complexities of energy poverty, leading many people to fall through the cracks of measurement and policy. Drawing on an unprecedented combination of complexity theory, energy justice, policy science, phenomenology, behavioural science, data feminism, and intersectionality, EnCUENTA pursues five objectives: 1) Create a ground-breaking new multi-dimensional, multi-scalar theoretical framework of energy poverty that considers individual, institutional, and infrastructural factors; 2) Document a diverse range of energy poverty drivers and adaptive coping strategies across ten European locations; 3) Assess the gaps and data injustices found within official energy poverty indicators, and trial innovative new lived experience-derived indicators across 5 national surveys; 4) Trace the path dependencies that give rise to the current energy policy landscapes at the pan-European and national scales, and explore policymaker views and biases; 5) Accelerate inclusive policy design across Europe via experimental randomised controlled trials of policymaker debiasing interventions, alongside recommendations for institutional reforms and new indicators that are fit for purpose in ensuring no one is left behind in European energy policy.

Keywords: energy poverty,fuel poverty
STACKABLE SURFACE RATIONALIZATION FOR FREEFORM ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN + (STACK-Hop-On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Hungary
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 598835.0
EU funding (EUR): 598835.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

While the STACK project advances innovative geometric logic for stackable surface systems, a key barrier remains in translating exploratory design workflows into structurally validated, constructible outputs. Current tools lack real-time feedback on physical constraints, and the absence of engineering-aware modelling hinders uptake in architectural and industrial contexts. Seamless collaboration between designers and structural engineers is not yet fully supported. To address this, SOFTIC introduces an integrated suite of real-time design feedback and engineering validation tools. The approach embeds simplified FEM-based logic and elastica simulation directly into the STACK environment, enabling immediate, visually accessible feedback on curvature, joint forces, and load-bearing behaviour. This supports decisions balancing geometric freedom with physical feasibility. The same tools assess decomposition into stackable assemblies—strips, panels, blocks—linking design choices to transportation and assembly constraints. As lead partner of WP10, SOFTIC will develop lightweight modelling modules and browser-accessible demonstrators that visualize structural and stackability feedback in real time. These will build on T4.3 outcomes and integrate with STACK’s core logic. In parallel, an “Engineering Collaboration Toolkit” will be created, comprising data formats, workflows, and interface specifications to enable communication with engineering stakeholders and simulation platforms. All tools will be modular, reusable, and released as open-access resources. The outcomes will strengthen STACK’s relevance to construction and fabrication. Designers gain early-stage insights into feasibility, enabling smoother concept to prototype transitions. Structural engineers engage via shared workflows and data. By embedding material and engineering awareness into geometric design, SOFTIC’s contribution elevates STACK from theoretical research to deployable, industry-ready solutions.

Keywords: computational design,freeform architecture,digital fabrication,stackability,elastica,hot blade cutting,fem
Resilience Enhancement of Essential Infrastructures Safety and Telecommunications (RESIST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Resilient Infrastructure
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Cyprus,Italy,Portugal
Call: Open Topic (HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6710110.01
EU funding (EUR): 4957678.76
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the RESIST project is to enhance the resilience of large scale interconnected critical infrastructures, thanks to the combination of the Skydweller, a versatile ultra-persistent sustainable platform fitted with high end performing sensors and the Copernicus satellite imagery (optical and radar imagery (Synthetic-aperture radar, SAR)). This solution will support critical infrastructures operators and crisis managers across EU territories before, during, and after disasters. The project will involve key European Civil Protection Authorities, Critical Infrastructure Operators, technology providers, universities and security foundations to build the most relevant and effective solution. RESIST will provide (i) a multi-missions capacity, (ii) the ability to perform a persistent or an aleatory monitoring of critical infrastructures, (iii) relevant data to actualize emergency plans and strengthen critical infrastructures security, (iv) a reaction and coordination capacity, in case of the occurrence of a disaster, (v) support climate adaptation strategies and plans in place at different levels across Europe and neighbour countries (whenever applicable). The resilience enhancement of large scale interconnected critical infrastructures will be approached through three particular use cases dealing with transmission lines monitoring in Spain, electricity production and distribution infrastructure monitoring in Portugal and surveillance of a strategic hydrocarbons site in Cyprus (simulated use case).

Keywords: haps
Compliant and fully AUToMATed circular solutions for multiple battery and battery embedded device enhanced by digital solutions (AutoMat)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,France,Poland,Switzerland
Call: Recycling technologies for critical raw materials from EoL products (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5251799.99
EU funding (EUR): 4234846.88
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing need to find alternative energy sources, combined with the general urgency to decarbonise the way we produce, store and consume in order to meet the EU's climate and sustainability targets, is stimulating a massive and rapid use of critical raw materials, which are fundamental to the production of electrical and electronic equipment and batteries, pillars of the green and digital transition that the EU is called upon to achieve. The challenges are increasingly important given the rapidly changing geopolitical environment. AutoMat is responding to these cross-cutting and urgent challenges through the timely introduction of disruptive, holistic, circular and sustainable target-driven concepts and solutions, driven by the implementation of the following key aspects: i) High value-added recycling technologies, mainly focused on preparing batteries and EEE components (battery packs, modules, cells, parts and materials) for re-use, through the most advanced collaborative-adaptive and flexible disassembly, sorting and material recovery technologies and integrated solutions, in order to drastically reduce the amount of non-reusable parts and materials, and to return to the market with new products (including chemicals) able to meet the needs of the market ii) Transversal digitisation of solutions towards a multi-level and continuous digital data exchange and elaboration able to support new strategies of advanced and compliant separate collection to increase the quality and availability of target streams, support in real time the efficiency of recycling-reuse processes through the homogenisation of external inputs, provide always personalised and predictive information on the most appropriate operations to be applied, aiming at a massive reduction of risks and waste during handling, collection and recycling operations, provide digital passports to second life applications, to strengthen the efficiency of the outputs coming from the AutoMat global value chain.

Keywords: batteries circular economy digital solutions crm
Polar-to-mid-latitude climate linkage effects on cold air outbreaks (Polar2MidLat)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Cold air outbreaks are a typical feature of the mid-latitude climate during the cold season. Their relevance relies on the threat to life caused by the long-lasting periods with abnormally low temperatures as well as on the potential of damage to crops and the occurrence of high-impact weather events such as heavy snow and low visibility during blizzards. Previous studies have documented the linkages between climate variability at high latitudes with that at mid-latitudes mainly through modulation of the storm tracks, jet streams and patterns of stationary waves which promote blocking events. The role of other components of the climate system, like sea ice, is much less understood and remains an open question. This becomes even more challenging under the current conditions of fast sea ice reduction in the Arctic and the significant trends observed in sea ice around Antarctica, which leads to an increase in uncertainty in the area of sub-seasonal to interannual climate predictions as well as for climate projections for the coming decades. Furthermore, significant biases currently exist in the representation of sea ice in state-of-the-art climate model simulations. The main objective of this proposal is to analyze the physical mechanisms linking variability at high latitudes (including that of sea ice) with climate variability at mid-latitudes. Special focus will be driven onto the mechanisms promoting cold snaps at mid-latitudes and on their variability. To this aim, this project will make use of a data set of very-high-resolution coupled global climate model simulations (at around 10 km) which is expected to bring significant improvements to the representation of sea ice as well as to its linkages with other components of the climate system. Outcomes of this project are expected to become useful for decision makers and stakeholders, as well as to researchers working in the field of climate predictions and projections.

Keywords: cold air outbreaks polar regions sea ice global warming climate dynamics
Mapping, understanding, assessing and predicting the effects of remote working arrangements in urban and rural areas (R-Map)

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 Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Italy,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Austria,Belgium,Estonia
Call: Remote working arrangements and their economic, social and spatial effects (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2798323.75
EU funding (EUR): 2798323.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

R-Map aims to analyze the impact of remote working arrangements (RWAs) on the disparities between urban and rural regions in Europe. The project bases its research on the premise that understanding and shaping the trends related to the emergence of RWAs provides an opportunity to bridge the urban-rural divide affecting its multiple facets. To achieve its goals, R-Map will produce an Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (powered by the R-Map model) that will allow the assessment of individual, social, economic, environmental and spatial impacts of RWAs. A visualization platform will be developed leveraging the R-Map model to provide visualization and interactive services allowing decision-makers to monitor and assess how remote work arrangements affect people, communities, space, economy, and environment in urban and rural regions. The developed tools will be applied at local level to monitor and assess current remote working trends across six representative use-cases in the EU and the AC, in regions within Greece, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, Netherlands-Germany, Austria-Switzerland (two cross-border cases). Using scenario building and forecasting methodologies, R-Map will move on to explore the potential future impact of remote work in these regions for the next 5-10 years and formulate policy recommendations on how to create environments conducive to remote work, that are tailored to the needs of local governments in both urban and rural settings. Cross-regional exchanges between stakeholders and policy roundtables will help move beyond the regional focus ensuring the replication of results across areas with different characteristics in Europe and beyond. By taking a comprehensive approach to research on RWAs, R-Map addresses the role and the needs of policymakers, employers, workers, researchers, and civil society, providing capacity to urban and rural regions to seize the opportunities and cope with the challenges brought by remote work.

Keywords: remote work,urban rural divide,impact assessment framework,scenario building,forecasting,regional policies,interactive visualisation
SHIFT to Direct Current (SHIFT2DC)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Spain,Germany,Estonia,Netherlands,Austria,Czechia,Hungary,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstration of DC powered data centres, buildings, industries and ports (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11322202.5
EU funding (EUR): 8999345.25
Participants: 35
Project status: SIGNED

SHIFT2DC project aims to propose and implement a top-down application-agnostic approach for the design, simulation, test, validation, and application of both medium (MV) and low voltage (LV) direct current (DC) solutions. Thirty-two partners, including affiliated and associated partners, from twelve countries, will join expertise to develop, test and demonstrate the technical feasibility, cost-benefit, life cycle and environmental impact of the proposed DC solutions in Data centres, Buildings, Industry and Ports across Europe (Germany, France, and Portugal). The field-tests and demonstrators will allow an evaluation of the advanced control methodologies and tools, the definition of the appropriate implementation conditions, and a consolidation of the most promising solutions and corresponding business models for MV and LV DC systems. Beyond the DC solutions that will be tested and demonstrated, SHIFT2DC will also evaluate the consumers´perspective regarding DC solutions and propose new tools that promote the faster adoption of DC solutions. All the solutions and tools that will be developed in the SHIFT2DC project will be case-agnostic allowing the use of its results in most applications. In a second stage of the development, specific libraries for buildings, datacentres, industry and ports will be proposed allowing a better and more detailed simulation of the mentioned environments. The DC solutions proposed and developed in the SHIFT2DC project will be designed taking into consideration the interoperability requirements, the scalability opportunities and the security and privacy needs. In addition, the project results will contribute to the development of standards in compliance with the needs of DC solutions. Finally, a regulatory framework that promotes the adoption of MVDC and LVDC solutions and assures secure and economic power systems management under hybrid AC/DC grids will be proposed.

Keywords: dc systems,mvdc,lvdc,ac dc grids,data centres,ports,buildings,industry,dc living labs,digital twin,dc cables,standardisation,guidelines,dc energy hubs,electric vehicle charging station