Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Assembly Lines In CIrculAtion – smart digital tools for the sustainable, human-centric and resilient use of production resources (ALICIA)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,France,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Greece,Spain,Italy
Call: Digital tools to support the engineering of a Circular Economy (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5859526.25
EU funding (EUR): 5859525.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

A large part of production assets such as robotic arms, conveyor belts do not reach their maximal lifetime and become prematurely obsolescent. Anecdotal evidence from the automotive industry suggests that 60% to 70% of production resources is prematurely taken out of operation, scrapped, or at best sold for spare parts. The aim of ALICIA is to create and demonstrate a Circular Manufacturing Ecosystem (CME) for production resources, such as robotic arms or conveyor belts. The underlaying vision is that within five to ten years, production resources will be traded and reused to their maximum utility in-between factories in Europe, ultimately contributing to “closing the loop” of production assets as circular economy subjects. The project aim will be achieved by integrating and demonstrating in two real industrial environments (at Continental and Comau) a combination of innovative and symbiotic digital tools as key enabling technologies behind the ALICIA CME, ultimately enabling to design, deploy, run, decommission and re-circulate second-hand production lines 40% faster, reduce material consumption by up to 80% and reuse up to 100% of the assets. The innovations behind ALICIA include a machine-readable ontology for mapping factory owner requirements, an AI-matchmaking engine for combining incumbent factory assets with second-hand assets coming from the ALICIA online marketplace, a Plug & Produce middleware for seamlessly connecting the production assets and a Digital Shadow/Digital Twin to ramp-up and operate the ALICIA second-hand line. Novel Circularity-as-a-Service business models will be evaluated. ALICIA addresses the EU “machinery and equipment” as well as “machinery repair service” market segments, which together contributed 288 Billion EUR in value added to the EU economy in 2018. ALICIA is expected to contribute to increasing the EU’s resilience against disruptions in global supply chains and significantly contribute to the creation of a circular economy.

Keywords: circular economy,production resources,human centrism,digital twin,ai
Biomass to bio/E-methanol by Breakthrough SOEC-based Process: the BeBOP innovation (BeBOP)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Finland,Estonia,Germany,Austria,France,Poland
Call: Breakthroughs to improve process industry resource efficiency (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13118505.99
EU funding (EUR): 11166415.71
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Methanol is a crucial commodity in the chemical sector and a potential building block of the future sustainable chemical industry. To date, the majority of methanol is produced from fossil fuels (either natural gas or coal) with associated CO2 emissions of 0.3 Gt/year (about 10% of total chemical sector emissions). Biomass is a sustainable alternative to conventional hydrocarbon feedstocks. However, due to its high carbon and oxygen content, conventional second-generation biomass-to-methanol processes achieve 40-45% of carbon efficiency and result in venting most of the carbon back to the atmosphere as CO2. BeBOP is a 4-year project that aims to develop a novel versatile, disruptive, and multi-product biomass and power to methanol plant, that can transform the methanol industry. Thanks to the integration of an electrolysis cell within the syngas conditioning line, the BeBOP concept can double the methanol productivity ans achieve >95% of total carbon efficiency and recover high value components from biomass gasification residues. The BeBOP project will showcase a first-of-a-kind TRL6 pilot plant ready to be scaled-up and replicated by the European biomass-based industry. BeBOP will enhance market opportunities in the short to medium term bringing the methanol production costs below 250 €/t (with long-term low-cost renewable electricity and including 150 €/tCO2 carbon credits) and shifting the 10% of the production from fossil-based to BeBOP configuration allowing to avoid the emission of more than 30 Mt of CO2 per year (3% of CO2 emissions in chemical industry). Preserving the quality of the end product at competitive costs, decreasing the GHG emissions, decreasing the costs of methanol production and creating new direct and indirect jobs, BeBOP will have a decisive impact in increasing the circularity of the European chemical sector.

Keywords: bio methanol,carbon efficiency,power and biomass to x,gasification,electrolysis
DEEP-sea MARine protected areas as climate shelters for the conservation of Vulnerable marine Ecosystems facing periLS (DEEPMARVELS)

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,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 341898.72
EU funding (EUR): 341898.72
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

In the face of emerging and pronounced global environmental change, identifying adaptive measures to prevent the irreversible marine biodiversity loss and associated ecosystem services is increasingly urgent. Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and Spatial Closures to Fishing (SCF) are key tools for preserving fragile benthic biodiversity hotspots in the deep-sea, particularly Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME). However, MPA and SCF have been created without considering that VME distribution will likely change in both depth and latitudinal range due to climate change (CC), limiting effective long-term protection. DEEPMARVELS aims to predict VME distribution under present-day and future CC scenarios to inform adaptive management strategies. By integrating VMEs presence data from underwater imagery with local-scale bathymetric and oceanographic datasets into Species Distributions Model, DEEPMARVELS will provide a comprehensive understanding of how changes in the large-scale circulation patterns in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, driven by CC, will affect the composition and distribution of VMEs. The project focuses on 3 small-scale studies across a broad range of environmental variability in the Northern Hemisphere to assess how VMEs shift spatially and in depth in terms of foundation species and density. Models built under 2 future simulated CC scenarios will identify potential climate refugia, where projected conditions will remain similar to those of the at-present reference period, offering critical insights for future spatial biodiversity management. New methodological guidelines will be developed and presented to policy-makers establishing a design that can be replicated in other MPAs and characterized by a conceptual shift from static to dynamic climate-smart management measures, to ensure the success of the EU network of MPAs. DEEPMARVELS will greatly enhance my skills and expertise in VME dynamics, a blue-ocean niche with high scientific growth potential.

Keywords: vulnerable marine ecosystems,benthic habitats,species distribution models,deep sea,remotely operated vehicle rov
Towards a holographic approach for gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes (FlatHolo)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Progress in quantum gravity over the past decades has been to a large extent triggered by the holographic principle, the proposal that bulk regions of spacetime in quantum gravity are dual to non-gravitational, quantum theories living on the boundary. While a precise realization in AdS string theory was found by Maldacena, the universal scaling law of black hole entropy with area suggests that similar dualities should exist more generally, for example in our own universe which is flat to a good degree of approximation. Nevertheless, an understanding of the nature of the holographic duality in flat space is still missing. The goal of this proposal is to study aspects of a recently proposed two-dimensional holographic formulation of four-dimensional asymptotically flat quantum gravity, broadly defined as any theory that reduces to general relativity at long distances. In this framework, the fundamental observables live on a two-dimensional sphere at infinity and are in one-to-one correspondence with bulk scattering amplitudes. These new observables known as celestial amplitudes compute scattering in a basis of asymptotic boost as opposed to the usual energy momentum eigenstates and obey a wide range of constraints. During this fellowship I will investigate two main aspects of flat space holography. On the one hand, I will study the celestial imprints of black hole scattering by computing celestial amplitudes with massive particles and analyzing their symmetry properties. On the other hand I will exploit the flat space limit of AdS holography and apply conformal bootstrap techniques to derive new constraints on the observables of four-dimensional asymptotically flat gravity. These results will provide insights into non-perturbative aspects of gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes and will establish new connections among different fields and communities including asymptotic symmetries, scattering amplitudes and holography.

Keywords: gravity,quantum field theory
Gaining Insights and Improving Workplace Performance and Workers’ Well-Being through Wearable Smart Sensor based Devices (Wearable Sensors)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-20
End date: 2028-01-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of this study is to investigate the utilization of wearable smart sensors as a means to enhance employee well-being and performance within the workplace. This research proposal introduces a comprehensive approach, aiming to employ wearable smart sensors for the empirical examination of the factors that impact employees' well-being and productivity during operational tasks. The study will focus on specific sectors, such as manufacturing and services, utilizing data from these sensors to monitor individual actions, group behaviors, and environmental influences. In certain instances, the study will also consider the attitudes and behaviors of customers as relevant contributing factors. Overall, this research seeks to provide valuable insights into the potential of wearable technology in comprehending and improving the work-related factors affecting employees. This study adopts a qualitative case study design, specifically employing a multiple case study approach to explore and compare various strategies and approaches employed in assessing the well-being and productivity of workers. The significance of this research lies in its emphasis on often overlooked human factors that exert a substantial influence on employee well-being and productivity within the workplace. By harnessing the capabilities of wearable smart sensors, the study is poised to offer real-time data on individual attitudes, group dynamics, and environmental variables that shape employees' experiences while on the job. In essence, this study endeavors to contribute to workplace improvement by comprehensively understanding and addressing these pivotal human dimensions. The findings of this study will be disseminated through publication in reputable research journals, along with presentations at seminars, workshops, and the authoring of book chapters to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and its impact on the wider academic and professional community.

Keywords: wearable smart sensors,workers well being,industry 5 0,modern hrm,productivity
The Shelterin-chromatin interplay in telomere homeostasis and genome stability (ShelChromTelo)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The linear ends of eukaryotic chromosomes are formed by telomeres, nucleoprotein structures containing double-stranded TTAGGG repeats, ending in a single-stranded DNA 3’-overhang. In mammalian cells, the six-subunits Shelterin complex binds telomeres and is critical for telomere homeostasis. Shelterin ensures faithful replication of telomeric DNA, hides linear ends in a looped structure to prevent their recognition as DNA breaks and ensures control over telomere length. Telomeres are packed into nucleosomes, and therefore Shelterin binds in a chromatin context. Interactions between individual Shelterin subunits and nucleosomes have been investigated in vitro, as well as their impact on chromatin organisation. Despite increasing evidence of a Shelterin-chromatin interplay, many questions remain unanswered. The dynamics, affinities and consequences of full Shelterin complex binding to chromatin are unknown. I will employ single-molecule experiments with optical tweezers and bulk assays to monitor the binding of Shelterin on telomeric chromatin and its impact on nucleosomes (and vice versa). The physiological role of this interplay, as well as its regulation, is also largely unknown. I will investigate the impact of an impaired Shelterin-chromatin interaction on telomere and genome stability, as well as its impact on the telomeric proteome and the epigenetic landscape of telomeres. Lastly, I will examine how the Shelterin-chromatin interaction is regulated during the cell cycle. Altogether, this work will provide fundamental new knowledge on Shelterin recruitment and functions at telomeres. Considering that in recent years Shelterin gained interest as an anti-cancer therapeutic target, this basic knowledge has the potential to guide future research aimed at targeting Shelterin for induction of telomeres dysfunction in cancer cells.

Keywords: shelterin,chromatin,telomeres,genome stability
Quantum Vortex Simulator: from fundamental properties toward engineering mobility (QUAVADIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Vortices lie at the heart of classical fluid dynamics in both nature and technology. Likewise, vortices play an essential role in quantum fluids and solids, determining their fundamental transport properties. This project will explore both fundamental and practical aspects of quantum vortices at a new level using the platform of quantum gases, expanding the horizons of vortex research. It aims at experimentally addressing intractable vortex problems by taking the best advantage of the latest quantum technologies and the favorable time and length scales of vortex dynamics in ultracold atomic superfluids. First, I will explore both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) vortex dynamics in a homogeneous box potential, with an emphasis on the universal characteristics of vortex dynamics on macroscopic length scales. Changing the vortex length inside a uniform trap will allow us to cross freely from 2D to 3D vortex physics. Second, I will study vortex dynamics in sophisticatedly tailored pinning landscapes. The unprecedented controllability of these arbitrary pinning potentials and vortex configurations will enable us to shed new light on many elementary aspects of vortex dynamics, paving the way for engineering vortex mobility and thus directly impacting superconductor research.

Keywords: superfluid,quantum vortex
Neutron Experiments join Muon Experiments for Synergy in Investigation and Search for new physics (NEMESIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Poland,Germany,Switzerland,United States,Portugal,France
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1820777.14
EU funding (EUR): 1803600.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

NEMESIS aims to conduct groundbreaking, high-sensitivity searches for particle physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) by combining the high-intensity frontiers of muons and ultracold neutrons while developing a new generation of detectors and high-intensity beams. This goal is pursued by strengthening and expanding the collaboration between EU, Swiss, and US researchers across three international laboratories: FNAL and BNL in the United States, and PSI in Switzerland. The search for the still unobserved Charged Lepton Flavour Violation (cLFV) processes in the muon sector will be pursued at Mu2e at FNAL and MEG-II and Mu3e at PSI, utilising the most intense muon sources available worldwide. The synergy among these experiments significantly enhances the discovery potential, improving sensitivity by up to four orders of magnitude to explore mass scales up to 10^4 TeV across most BSM models. This partnership also strengthens the physics interpretation should a cLFV discovery occur. PSI beams will be leveraged to enhance current measurements of the Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) by several orders of magnitude in both muon and neutron systems. muEDM will employ the new frozen-spin technique, while n2EDM will utilise high-intensity, ultra-cold neutrons. NEMESIS, playing a leading role in both experiments, will combine expertise and efforts to precisely determine the EDM. A non-zero value would provide unambiguous evidence of new physics related to the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. An ambitious platform for studying novel beam generation and detector technologies is also planned across the network, focusing on the development of innovative silicon and gas detectors and improving the handling, monitoring, and quality of high-intensity muon and cold neutron beams. The project’s innovations will extend to higher energy and intensity fields and beyond particle physics, with applications in material science, medical physics, and homeland security.

Keywords: muon,neutron,charge lepton flavour violation,electric dipole moment,neutron lifetime,particle detectors,muon beams,beam cooling,boron neutron capture therapy,homeland security
Grenoble Alpes, The Deeptech and Climate Policy Lab to embrace the future (Embrace the Future)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: France
Call: The European Capital of Innovation Award (iCapital) (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PRIZE-2, 2025)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Grenoble Alpes Métropole (GAM) embraces the future. For us, tackling climate change, building an open and inclusive democratic framework, and taking the responsibility for shaping tomorrow’s economy have a common point; all these must have innovation at core because it’s the most powerful way to get ahead to shape a better world! In GAM, an Alpine city warming twice as fast as the European average rate, global warming is a tangible reality. The Métropole has become a climate lab, at the forefront of experimental environmental policies. Together with the local stakeholders, GAM adopts an experimental approach for climate, investing in innovative policies and infrastructure, and involving residents as active participants in this dynamic. With its contrasting territories, GAM also must rise to the challenge of building an open and inclusive democratic framework. This is pursued through initiatives such as the Citizens’ climate convention and the pioneering “right of continuation”. As Métropole of solidarity, GAM also implements pioneering policies to help its most vulnerable residents find their place in society. Thanks to its extraordinary innovation output and the deeptech breakthrough solutions born in local research labs, GAM holds a responsibility in shaping tomorrow’s economy. In line with its commitments, GAM prioritises its numerous support initiatives to start-ups and innovative solutions that have a positive environmental or social impact. By creating physical and intangible spaces to foster interaction within the innovation ecosystem, GAM strengthens the development of these solutions. GAM seeks to share its innovation model, raise awareness and inspire as many people as possible. It embraces collaboration not only internationally but also with its close neighbours. The EU iCapital Award is a way to make concrete this will and to embed many cities in the spirit of innovation.

Keywords: pioneer,climate responsability,climate lab,inclusive democracy,deeptech for good