Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Co-designing a Home with Dementia (HOMEDEM)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Ireland,Italy,Portugal,Sweden,Luxembourg
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2122747.2
EU funding (EUR): 2122747.2
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The Doctoral Network “Co-designing a Home with Dementia” (HOMEDEM) is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions' Innovative Training Network that will provide high-level training in design and dementia caregiving, to high achieving, early-stage researchers. HOMEDEM focuses on the recent move across Europe towards supporting people with dementia (PwD) living at home (if that is their desire) for as long as possible with appropriate care. This move towards a reliance on care constellations (the dynamic informal care relationships with and around the person with dementia) calls for the Training Network to carry out research at several levels: the micro level, how dementia affects relationships between PwD and their care constellations; the meso, understanding the changing needs of the home living environment and at the macro level, understanding how care constellations navigate the complex care ecosystem of community-based support and services. By equipping doctoral candidates with the transferable skills required for succeeding in careers at the crossroads of design and disciplines like psychosocial health sciences, economics and policy evaluation, the training in HOMEDEM will enable these researchers to respond to current and future care contexts and will result in their being able to influence the way community-based care for PwD and their care constellation is organised, and how products, services and tools are co-designed and implemented within care contexts across Europe. Achieved by a unique combination of collaborative and practical research training, non-academic industry-based secondments, and through schools and seminars that cover transferable interpersonal, communication, cognitive and entrepreneurial skills facilitated by the selected composition of academic and non-academic consortium members, the result will be a new infrastructure of care that draws on the fusion of care and design leading to emerging models of care for PwD and their care constellation.

Keywords: dementia,design,co design,dementia care,informal care,community based care
Network epistemology in practice (NEPI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1992181.25
EU funding (EUR): 1992181.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The present project will contribute to research in the history and philosophy of science through extensive use of state-of-the-art tools from the digital humanities. The project will focus on an investigation of recent research practice in particle physics at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to gain a better understanding of how knowledge is generated and validated in very large scientific collaborations. The main working hypothesis of the project is that collective research processes can be characterized, in epistemologically relevant terms, through a bird’s eye view analysis of the collaboration’s internal communication. The internal communication will be reconstructed from born-digital documents (e-mails, internal wiki pages, etc.) which accrue in the research practice of the collaboration. Abstracting from the case study, the project will also develop historiographic guidelines that can be transferred to future epistemological studies of modern scientific collaborations. Last but not least, the project will contribute to the philosophy of collective knowledge generation, in particular to recent issues in “network epistemology”, by adapting the theoretical models to better fit important real-world cases. Until recently, it was nearly impossible to capture large-scale and complex research processes, such as the ones at CERN, and make them accessible for epistemological analysis. Almost all the studies of the research practice at CERN or similar cases have so far been restricted to the analysis of published articles, selected interviews and participant observation. Accompanied by historiographic guidelines and practical strategies (both of which are lacking at the moment) for best practices in the history and philosophy of science based on born-digital sources, the application of digital tools and computational methods may finally help us attain a maximally comprehensive picture of recent research practice in particle physics and beyond.

Keywords: integrated history and philosophy of science,history of modern physics,digital humanities,social epistemology,history of recent science,scientific collaborations,discovery and justification,machine learning,social network analysis,high energy physics
Analysis of Biofilm Solid Interactions Underpinning Wastewater Treatment (ABSOLUTE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Ireland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496268.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496268.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Wastewater treatment (WWT) processes that use biofilms as their biocatalyst have been in use for over 100 years. Over the past few decades, a greater understanding has emerged on how biofilms can be exploited for enhanced nutrient removal and this knowledge has been translated into new technologies representing about one-third of all WWT processes in a multibillion-euro global wastewater technology market. Despite the success of these technologies, there is significant need for enhanced efficiencies in these processes and the development of new technologies that are more energy efficient and are capable of better resource recovery from wastewater are needed. To achieve this, there is need for new mechanistic insight, in particular the interaction between biofilms and particulate organic matter in the influent wastewater. The knowledge-gap spans three key areas: (i) non-oxidative interactions, (ii) hydrolysis and (iii) bioflocculation. This research project will develop an enhanced multispecies biofilm model that better incorporates new understating of these areas. We will go significantly beyond current state of the art by first building an experimental platform that exploits recent developments in advanced imaging, nanosensors & particle-tracking to probe the fundamentals of these mechanisms. To achieve this, the platform will be uniquely based on fluorescently tagged monospecies biofilms, rather than on conventional multispecies biofilm in a first phase of the project. This work will then inform the development of new mathematical model relationships, which will be implemented in an extended multispecies model and validated against data from a pilot plant operating with conditions representative of a real WWT plant. The transformative approach in this project will lead to a more fundamental insight into the mechanisms underpinning particle-biofilm interactions and pave the way to new application of biofilms for advanced wastewater treatment.

Keywords: wastewater,biofilm,biofilms,process engineering,aerobic,environmental,modelling
Intent-driven NaTive AI architecturE supporting Compute-Network abstraction and Sensing at the Deep Edge (6G-INTENSE)

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,France,Ireland,Romania,Italy,Spain,Finland,Cyprus
Call: System Architecture (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4248308.75
EU funding (EUR): 3999819.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The 6G Smart Networks of the future will provide the high-performance and energy-efficient infrastructure on which next generation internet and other services can be developed and deployed. 6G will foster an Industry revolution and digital transformation and will accelerate the building of smart societies leading to quality-of-life improvements, facilitating autonomous systems, haptic communication and smart healthcare. To achieve the aforementioned objectives in a sustainable way, it is well understood that new approaches are needed in the way the telco infrastructures are architected, federated and orchestrated. These new approaches call for multi-stakeholder ecosystems that promote synergies among MNOs and owners of all kinds or computational and networking resources that will share the extraordinary costs of yet another generation upgrade from 5G to 6G, while facilitating new business models. It is clear, that the new architecture paradigms bring unprecedented complexity due to the sheer scale and heterogeneity of the orchestration domains involved, that should be matched by equally capable automation capabilities, thus 6G is aiming for the “holy grail” of pervasive AI-driven intelligence, termed as Native AI. However, the multi-stakeholder infrastructures foreseen in 6G as per the “network of networks” concept, will add a level of unprecedented management complexity due to the sheer scale and heterogeneity of the orchestration domains involved. 6G-INTENSE aims to abstract and federate all kinds of computational and communication resources under an internet-scale framework, that is governed by an intelligent orchestration paradigm, termed as DIMO.

Keywords: dimo,network compute fabric,resource pools,native ai,intent,sensing
Soft magnetoactive metamaterials for remote tunability of elastic waves (MetaMagic)

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: Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Due to striking advantages such as rapid response and reversible change in the shape and properties under remotely applied magnetic fields, soft magnetoactive materials have become an attractive material platform for human-technology interfaces, soft robotics, actuators and sensors, and biomedical devices. However, a systematic understanding of their dynamic behaviors in the extreme regime is still lacking, creating a bottleneck to innovation and limiting their tremendous potential in nondestructive testing, energy harvesting, and smart soft wave devices. MetaMagic aims at developing an experimentally-informed framework to design and discover novel Soft Magnetoactive Metamaterial systems with tunable and unusual elastic wave characteristics beyond the wavelength limit, with a view to industrial applications in the design of smart wave manipulation devices. The project proposes to exploit the Unique Transformative Ability of soft magnetoactive materials integrated into the Neat Metamaterial Design incorporating the local resonance and topological phase transition, polar and asymmetric, and nonlinear vector solitary effects. The action mixes ad-hoc theoretical modelling with experimental tests and numerical simulations, by fully leveraging the host and secondment institutions' expertise and facilities, and experience in scientific management. The training programme is structured to strengthen my interdisciplinary skills and will allow me to grow as a world-class leader in the emerging field of tunable and reconfigurable metamaterials. The output of this action will open new levels of performance in a variety of advanced applications, from broadband vibration isolation at challenging low-frequency ranges to robust energy harvesting with ultra-high transmission rates. Ultimately, MetaMagic will advance the frontier of knowledge about reconfigurable soft metamaterials – contributing to Horizon Europe's policy and strategy in the key area of "Advanced Materials".

Keywords: soft magnetoactive metamaterials magneto mechanical coupling reconfigurable microstructures tunable wave manipulations nonlinear magnetoelasticity
Financing and Innovation Ecosystems for SMEs to innovate for Raw materials and Circular Economy solutions and using downstream space technologies (FIERCE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Poland,Hungary,Bulgaria,Belgium,Spain
Call: 'Innovate to transform' support for SME's sustainability transition (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5589612.86
EU funding (EUR): 4999329.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The European Space Programme (EUSpace) holds vast potential to fulfil the EU green and digital (twin) transition, but SMEs’ limited uptake and technological capacity is preventing them from fully unlocking the green and digital transformation. FIERCE aims to address these limitations by mobilising 140 SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups with specialised technical and business advisory to design business solutions and engage in process innovation using downstream space data in areas such as circularity, raw materials, environmental monitoring and corporate sustainability (space-enabled green solutions). We mobilise 2.5 million EUR in financial support providing 70 SMEs with access to market services and key infrastructure to realise their vision through Transformation Projects, supporting ideation, scaling up and commercialization of space-enabled solutions, accelerating SMEs journey to the market. We complement our support for SMEs with 10+ Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives driven by innovation intermediaries and business support networks (DIHs, clusters etc.) aimed creating more SME opportunities for space-enabled green innovation through synergies with regional industrial, research and market actors and infrastructure providers (OITBs). We reach further to key EU-wide networks (EEN, SME Alliance, EARSC) through our Strategic Partnership Network to create synergies and joint activities to navigate SMEs and innovation intermediaries towards exploiting high-impact opportunities for funding, collaboration and knowledge exchange, as well as jointly organized FIERCE investment tracks in the frame of key industry and business events. We deploy the FIERCE digital toolbox to enrich our support with 50+ learning resources, 10+ practical tools and 70+ qualified service providers to create a vibrant dedicated community. Finally, we monitor our performance and impact to design practical replication handbooks to inspire wider application and recommendations for enabling policies.

Keywords: space tech,sustainability,resilience,green sme transformation,space driven business innovation,critical raw materials,circular economy,sme alliance,twin transition,green deal,sdgs
Improving patient outcomes and reducing cognitive load of clinical staff in intensive care through medical-device interoperability and an open and secure IT ecosystem (SASICU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Health Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IHI (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Austria,Spain,Italy,Sweden
Call: Combining hospital interventional approaches to improve patient outcomes and increase hospital efficiency (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2022-03-single-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17621997.5
EU funding (EUR): 8808922.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Over the decades, technical developments have resulted in a variety of different medical devices that dominate today's intensive care work environment. Beside all the clinical capabilities and benefits these technologies provide, devices also contribute to an increasing complexity in care. Using technology stresses the cognitive strain put on healthcare providers in critical care. Combined with a big lack of clinical staff the complexity leads to an enormous workload. To tackle these challenges the consortium consisting of four Universities and their clinics and four industrial partners plans to demonstrate the benefits in clinical outcomes and workflow efficiency through standardized, bi-directional interoperability of medical devices based on the new standard ISO/IEEE11073 SDC. During the project SDC solutions will be provided for different use-cases to reduce the quantity of alarms around the patient bed and securely distribute them to the responsible caregiver, allowing to keep the alarms silent at the bedside. Furthermore, algorithms shall be provided to analyse the root cause and urgency of an alarm. The latter is supposed to support in decision making whether immediate action is necessary. The IT infrastructure and algorithms will be evaluated in four different clinics. In addition, AI-based pattern recognition will used for early detection of patient deterioration in order to prevent negative long-term outcomes and prolonged ICU stay. Key deliverable will be a Targeted Alarm System (TAS) including several IT tools on the industrial side and study reports on the effectiveness of the TAS from the clinical partners. Realising this, a standardised IT-solution for monitoring ICU patients should be the next step after the project. On the long run it is intended to reduce alarms at ICUs significantly, decrease stress for patients and care takers and as result enhance the quality of intensive care. New technologies for data analytics will be developed and clinically tested to enable more reliable and individualised clinical decision support. Positive results and developments in this ICU-centred project may also be transferred to other areas in the patient care workflow.

Keywords: post intensive care syndrom,alarm fatigue,silent icu,clinical decision support,service oriented device connectivity,data analytics,
Human health effects of micro-nanoplastics and their degradation products within BMRex reactor (BMRex-Hopon)

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: Spain,Portugal
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 424707.5
EU funding (EUR): 424707.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Although plastic production, demand and waste has been continuously growing over the last five decades, there is still poor knowledge on micro-nanoplastics (MNPs) toxicity to human health, mainly due to the lack of standardized hazard testing and characterization methods. As MNPs have been identified as persistent contaminants of emerging concern and a global threat, further research on the extent of microplastic intake and the potential effect on human health is needed. To address this pressing challenge, the BMRex-Hopon proposal was designed to join the BMRex consortium and extend its mission by rigorously assessing the human health risks posed by MNPs, their degradation products and biocatalytic membrane reactor (BMR) components, ensuring the safety of the new BMR technology designed to capture and degrade MNPs from WW streams. To achieve these objectives, BMRex-Hopon will employ an array of methodologies, including characterization of MNPs and their degradation products, assessment of cytotoxicity, oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, genotoxicity, evaluation of the effects on intestinal epithelium integrity and inflammatory response, and comprehensive data analysis for human risk assessment. BMRex-Hopon will bridge the gap between environment and human health and has the potential to provide groundbreaking insights that are critical to the evolving MNP research and management landscape. As a result, it will expand scientific knowledge, foster transdisciplinary interaction and promote long-term impact by validating methodologies for future risk assessment. In conclusion, the BMRex-Hopon represents a critical step in advancing our understanding of the environmental and human health impacts of MNPs aiming to drive a positive change in plastic waste management, protecting both the environment and human well-being.

Keywords: plastics microplastics,nanoplastics,degradation products toxicity,detection and identification human health ingestion,in vitro toxicity,co cultures,risk assessment monitoring health effects