Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
UPCYCLING OF NdFeB MAGNETS IN THE EU FOR GREEN APPLICATIONS (NEO-CYCLE)

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: Spain,Germany,Italy,Poland,Lithuania,Hungary,Ukraine,Austria,Romania,Portugal,Greece,Switzerland
Call: Circular economy in process industries: Upcycling large volumes of secondary resources (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12484702.19
EU funding (EUR): 11466868.19
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

The NEO-CYCLE project aims to demonstrate at TRL6 the sustainable upcycling of spent NdFeB magnets comings from hard disks drives (HDDs), reaching high quality end products for 4 case studies: pharmaceutical, ammonia, fertilizers, and polymers industries; and will include necessary paths to reach the market uptake. To reach this aim, NEO-CYCLE involves all the relevant actors in the value chain, from public authorities to WEEE recycler companies, technology developers, associations, NGOs, SMEs and commercial companies in the targeted sectors. A summary of the main activities in provide below: 1) Demonstration of a Solid-State Chlorination, Electrochemical and Purification processes at TRL6 to separate Nd, Fe and B reaching market needed purities. 2) Demonstration of upcycling approaches for Nd, Fe, and B at TRL6 by developing industrial catalysts for the four case studies. 3) Validation of the quality and performance of final products by leading commercial companies 4) Including processes and products digitalisation: mathematical modelling and optimisation, monitoring and digital twins of plants, and digital product passports. 5) Sustainability assessments (LCA, LCC, s-LCA, circularity, risk and energy efficiency, green logistics and TEA) to demonstrate the techno-economic and social viability of solutions, including a guide to consider the gender dimension in the different project stages. 6) Paving the way to the market uptake by a) assessments of current legislations and future development, b) performing a standardisation roadmap, c) plan and develop communication, dissemination and exploitation activities including clustering with other projects and at least 13 stakeholder engagement events, d) creating new business models for at least 11 Key Expected Results, and e) development of 13 training courses targeting soft and technical skills to promote inclusion and new jobs in the value chains.

Keywords: critical raw materials,upcycling,circular economy,sustainability,inclusion,training,digital product passport,neodymium,boron,iron,ammonia,polybutadiene,fertilizer,catalysts,corey lactone
Mutualism abandonment in land plants and the origin of novel adaptations (SYMBIOLOSS)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Evolutionary outcomes are constrained by lineage history. Episodes of drastic shifts in selection, as in cases of radical environmental change, often lead to the loss of traits that were once essential. While the loss of such traits may narrow niche breadth, it also creates opportunities for adaptive innovations. Whether trait losses are compensated by novel adaptations, and the extent to which similar outcomes evolved independently in unrelated lineages is largely unknown. In this project, I will investigate this problem by capitalizing on the recurrent loss of mutualism in land plants. Mutualism with soil microorganisms is ancestral in land plants, and provides plants with facilitated access to nutrients. Instances of secondary loss of mutualism are often linked to novel resource acquisition strategies, such as carnivory or parasitism. Some lineages, however, including vascular and non-vascular plants, have not undergone drastic niche shifts, and yet have largely diversified across the ecological space over time after losing mutualism. In this project, I will use comparative genomics and experimental approaches to test the hypothesis that mutualism abandonment was associated with adaptive genetic changes that compensated for the loss of mutualism. To determine whether the loss of mutualism operated as a source of selection on functions formerly facilitated by the mutualistic association, I will identify gene family expansions and genomic signatures of adaptive evolution that preceded and followed mutualism abandonment. I will then experimentally test this hypothesis in a comparative framework using closely related mutualists and non-mutualists of the liverwort genus Marchantia in conditions expected to differentially affect fitness according to mutualism status. This work will determine how novel adaptations evolve following the loss of a widely conserved trait, and reveal the extent to which similar outcomes originate in lineages with widely different histories.

Keywords: mycorrhizae,symbiosis,evolutionary ecology,land plants
Youth co-Production for sustainable Engagement and Empowerment in health (YiPEE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: United States,Finland,Belgium,Kenya,India,South Africa,Sweden
Call: Non-communicable diseases risk reduction in adolescence and youth (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD) (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3711083.75
EU funding (EUR): 3711083.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Most traditional youth mental health interventions fail to achieve sustainable impact at scale because they overly rely on individualized, medical illness-focused models and treat youth as passive beneficiaries. citiesRISE, a multi-stakeholder initiative founded in 2017 to address these gaps, has worked with youth, communities, and professionals across five cities, as well as social innovators in over twenty countries, to develop a set of evidence-based, scalable youth mental health interventions and implementation models. The YiPEE project aims to provide robust evidence on the feasibility, adaptability, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a multi-component intervention targeting the inner, social, and environmental dimensions that underpin mental health and broader NCD risk reduction outcomes, when implemented using a youth-informed and -activated approach. This will be achieved through a a mixed-methods approach, conducting a realist evaluation across the four sites (Chennai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Cape Town, South Africa; Stockholm, Sweden) to study key implementation outcomes following the Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) as well as the mechanisms underlying why the intervention works, for whom, and under what real-world conditions. In Chennai, YiPEE will conduct a randomized controlled trial for more robust evaluation of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in achieving key mental health and other NCD related lifestyle behavioral outcomes. YiPEE focuses on the combination of a school-based multicomponent intervention targeting positive disruption in the inner, social, and environmental dimensions of adolescents’ mental health and a youth-informed and -activated implementation model that puts young people at the centre of transformation, working collaboratively with a range of other stakeholders.

Keywords: mental health,non communicable diseases,youth centered approach,mixed methods,rct
Valorization of undervalued recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) by supercritical CO2-assisted extrusion foaming CO2-assisted extrusion (R-PETFOAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-02
End date: 2026-03-01
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 135864.72
EU funding (EUR): 135864.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During the last century, the unique properties of plastics have enabled human civilization to continuously improve its living conditions. An example is the polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) that has become the primary packaging material of beverage containers. However, the short life cycle of these materials created a significant environmental problem, as they tend to end up in landfills or occasionally in the environment. In this project, the mechanical reprocessing method of colored PET is going to be combined with extrusion foaming assisted by supercritical carbon-dioxide (sc-CO2) that presents high advantages as a high dissolution in polymers (enables foamed products with very low density) and a green process since CO2 is an environmentally friendly physical foaming agent. The project is fully in line with the interests of the Researcher, Dr. Daniel Vadas. He has been studying the CO2-aided extrusion foaming technology for 7 years, firstly he successfully produced and characterised flame-retarded poly (lactic acid) (PLA) foams in 2015 and managed to secure 1st place on the Conference of Student Research Societies at both University and National level. The project proposed herein will enable him to acquire and reinforce unique research-related experiences and transferable skills in mechanical recycling of lower value post-consumer PET waste as well as in Management and entrepreneurship. The intersectoral industrial relationships of the host organization whom the candidate will closely and intensively collaborate with, would significantly improve his leadership competences. The project results will improve the recyclability of almost non-recyclable colored PET, thereby reducing the volume of plastic materials sent to landfill or incineration.

Keywords: recycled pet,foams,extrusion foaming,polymer circularity
Health, Embalming and Dating: Investigating Life and Death in Ancient Egypt (HEADS)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In ancient Egypt, death was the beginning of a new life, and the body was the anchor for the soul. Complex mummification practices and burial rituals were needed to ensure a successful transition to the afterlife. These have so far mainly been explored through the study of texts and archaeological contexts, which are principally focused on the elites. However, thanks to scientific advances in the study of human remains, it is possible to make the life of underrepresented categories of Egyptian people come to the fore. HEADS, through a collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin (MAET), offers the unique opportunity to study a relatively unexplored section of society, including adult and juvenile males and females from the low and middle classes of two key archaeological sites in Egypt (Assiuit and Gebelin). Four methods will be employed to generate a clearer picture of their past and provide the MAET with new datasets: lipid residue analysis, palaeoproteomics, CT scanning, and radiocarbon dating. These will be applied to 1) identify the ingredients and procedures used in embalming and how these differ based on body parts, 2) characterise the health of the deceased, and 3) date the remains. Identification of biological sex and age-at-death will further elucidate how gender and age influenced treatment in death and health. In answering these questions, HEADS will be the first comprehensive biomolecular study on the mummified remains from the MAET, using an innovative multidisciplinary approach that goes beyond the current state-of-the art. The combined methodologies will allow HEADS to paint a detailed picture of mummification practices and the past health of an ancient lower- and middle-class Egyptian population and place these within a robust chronological framework, filling lacunae in our knowledge of the non-elite Egyptian community.

Keywords: cultural heritage,lipid residue analysis,palaeoproteomics,ct scanning,radiocarbon analysis,mummification,health,ancient egypt
Oncogene-driven immunosuppression via glyco-immune checkpoint modulation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. (DiscoverableTumor)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) stands out as one of the most aggressive tumors, ranking as the third leading cause of cancer-related death. Glycosylation has emerged as a critical regulatory mechanism contributing to tumor progression and immunosuppression, a hallmark of PDAC tumor microenvironment (TME). Recent studies have shown that tumor immune evasion programs can be facilitated by the activation of immunosuppressive glyco-immune checkpoints (GICs), governed by interactions between cell-surface glycans and glycan-binding proteins (GBPs). While oncogene mutations are known to have immunosuppressive effects and impact protein glycosylation, their effect on GIC modulation remains unexplored. This project aims to investigate how oncogene mutations affect GBP-glycan interactions acting as GICs in PDAC, potentially identifying new therapeutic targets. To identify relevant GICs, I will examine how the most frequent KRAS oncogene mutations in PDAC affect glycosylation and GBP activity, leading to the creation of immunosuppressive functions. Using co-culture experiments with primary pancreatic duct epithelial cells and key TME cellular components, such as cancer-associated fibroblasts, as well as lymphoid and myeloid immune cells, I intend to uncover alterations in the cell surface glycome and changes in GBP binding activity that contribute to immunosuppressive pathways. I will employ unbiased glycan-targeted proximity labeling techniques to uncover novel oncogene-driven GBP-glycan axes and simultaneously analyze the activities of GBPs previously associated with cancer and immune evasion, such as galectins (galectins 1/3/9) and siglecs (particularly Siglecs 7/9/15). The findings will be validated using cellular and organoid models of PDAC to assess candidate GICs as therapeutic targets for this challenging disease.

Keywords: pdac,glycosylation,glycan binding proteins,kras,glyco immune checkpoint,immune evasion,immunotherapy,biomarker
Building the First Automated Causal Discovery Platform (AUTOCD)

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: Greece
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Causal Discovery is desperately needed in both science and the industry, but it is largely inaccessible to non-experts. AutoCD proposes to create the first automated causal discovery software engine and explore its commercial exploitation. AutoCD will largely boost the productivity of experts as well as allow the application of causal discovery with minimal expertise. It will provide functionalities such as (a) induction of causal models and causal relations from data by automatically tuning the algorithmic causal discovery choices and their hyper-parameters, (b) inferences regarding the strength of causal effects and exploration of what-if scenarios of possible interventions. Such automation has only become recently possible due to research performed of the origin ERC named CAUSALPATH. We will work with two industrial partners, namely Gnosis Data Analysis and Huawei to validate AutoCD on real data and problems. Gnosis commercializes the JADBio product, which is a SaaS AutoML platform with obvious synergies to AutoCD. It has an expressed interest in AutoCD for a potential licensing deal (see letter of intent). AutoCD parallels the development of automated machine learning (AutoML) libraries and platforms that is growing to a $14bil industry. The project will create an MVP at TRL 5 and a business plan to commercialize the product. The research team (2 Profs, 1 Ph.D. student, 1 scientific programmer) have extensive collective experience not only inventing and designing novel causal discovery algorithms. In addition, the PI is also the co-founder of Gnosis with extensive experience in creating deep tech AutoML products and commercializing them. He will devote 70% of his research time to the project.
INCREASING EQUITABLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR MEMBERS OF ROMA COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC (EquitableChance)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-15
End date: 2027-11-14
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To escape racial violence and discrimination, many Roma people moved from the Czech Republic (CR) to the United Kingdom (UK) in the 1990s. Using an interdisciplinary, phenomenological approach, the Fellow will conduct up to 30 in-depth, personal interviews with Roma people who hold higher education degrees, and whose life-chances improved significantly as a result of their migration. Compared with similar data recently collected in the CR, and complemented by a documentary review of relevant policies and practices in the UK and the CR, the findings will highlight strategies that Roma people use towards inclusion in educational and social settings, and how institutional/policy approaches may aid or hinder this in both countries. This study goes beyond state-of-the-art research by counter-balancing the large body of deficit-focused literature, which pathologises marginalised groups. It will use the intersectionality lens, and novel cultural psychology insights to explore not only how structural and systemic conditions that create inequalities increase vulnerability, but also how policies which leverage the potential inherent in Roma cultures and identities can facilitate resilience, well-being and educational attainment. Understanding how strengths-based models can be built on target populations’ perspectives, and interventions designed in culturally consonant ways, is of interest not only to practitioners and policy-makers, but also to racialised/marginalised minority individuals. By facilitating educational attainment of marginalised persons, to enhance their employment prospects, this project will contribute to fulfilling the Europe 2020 Strategy for New Skills and Jobs. It will enable UK education professionals to better understand their students’ socio-cultural backgrounds, and aid higher education institutions in promoting diversity across Europe. The proposed research, training and knowledge transfer will enhance the future prospects of both the Fellow and ARU.

Keywords: roma education social inclusion social mobility cultural psychology resilience well being identity united kingdom diversity,inclusion,belonging in education and employment
AI-Powered Platform For Automating Scope 3 Emissions Reporting (BARDO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bardo Technology is a Swedish deep-tech company developing AI-powered software that enables enterprises to measure, verify, and manage Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions - the indirect emissions that typically represent over 75% of corporate climate impact. Most companies still rely on generic spend-based estimates that are inaccurate, unauditable, and incompatible with upcoming EU sustainability regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Bardo’s innovation, the Emissions Intelligence Platform, automates carbon accounting at the financial-transaction level. By integrating with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and accounting systems, it extracts invoice data and applies proprietary AI and natural-language-processing models to match each transaction with verified Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) emission factors. This generates audit-grade, supplier-specific emissions data, a capability not achievable with existing tools. The system continuously learns from new transactions, forming a self-improving infrastructure that scales across industries and value chains. The project aims to advance the platform from TRL 6 to TRL 9, industrialising the AI engine, expanding the emission-factor database, and validating large-scale deployments with partners such as Scania, Skanska, and Elekta. Bardo operates a SaaS business model with tiered enterprise subscriptions (€25–75k/year), achieving recurring revenue growth through network effects in verified carbon data. Led by an experienced founding team with backgrounds in AI, enterprise software, and sustainability, Bardo combines strong technical execution with commercial traction. The project directly supports the EU Green Deal and CSRD implementation, establishing Europe’s first Emissions Intelligence infrastructure. EIC Accelerator funding will bridge the gap from pilot validation to market scale, positioning the EU as a global leader in verifiable, AI-driven sustainability reporting.

Keywords: carbon accounting,emissions intelligence,ai,big data,scope 3 emissions,csrd compliance,traceable carbon data,digital sustainability reporting,audit read data,decarbonisation,green data