Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ARISTOS Postdoctoral Program in Biomedicine and Health Sciences (ARISTOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA COFUND 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-COFUND-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3868560.0
EU funding (EUR): 3868560.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

ARISTOS aims to be the next Postdoctoral Program in Biomedicine and Health Sciences cofunded by the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND scheme and the Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red M.P. (CIBER) in Spain. With a total duration of 60 months, it will offer 27 postdoctoral positions for three years each, at CIBER groups led by distinguished principal investigators. Through an open and merit-based recruitment procedure, it will provide excellent opportunities for international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research and training under attractive working conditions. CIBER is a public research consortium that embraces 511 research groups which belong to more than 100 different Affiliated Institutions (universities, research centers and hospitals) around Spain. It is currently employing more than 800 researchers and clusters some of the most important facilities of biomedicine research in Spain directly participating in more than 17 technology and research platforms. As a network of excellence is tasked with being a reference in research and innovation in Spain and internationally. Fellows participating in the ARISTOS Program will have the opportunity to carry out a research project in on a topic related with disease prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment and come closer to the private sector by collaborating with medical and healthcare companies during their secondments or special events like the Entrepreuners Dissemination Days. Beyond the Fellows' training through their own research, the ARISTOS Program will also provide to the Fellows career enhancing opportunities through training courses in research techniques, complementary workshops for transferable skills, scientific meetings and conferences and the access to international scientific and clinical networks, with the final aim to promote knowledge exchange and the mobility among the academic, clinical and private sectors.

Keywords: biomedicine bioengineering nanomedicine biomaterials oncology obesity diabetes cardiovascular,respiratory,neurodegenerative,infectious and rare diseases mental health epidemiology
Investigating Models of Ideological and Delusional Belief Systems (IN-MIND)

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,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-06
End date: 2028-04-05
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 325434.9
EU funding (EUR): 325434.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

IN-MIND is a pioneering project that addresses the challenge of distinguishing between delusions and strongly held beliefs, such as religious and political ideologies, which, while not pathological, can still manifest in disruptive ways. This distinction has long posed difficulties for researchers and mental health professionals due to overlapping characteristics among these belief systems. To overcome this, IN-MIND will systematically compare delusions with political and religious beliefs across key dimensions traditionally used to define delusions. The project will integrate advanced methodologies from clinical and social psychology to identify the socio-psychological mechanisms that differentiate these belief systems. A large, representative sample from the UK will be recruited and assessed online, utilising validated psychometric tools and statistical techniques such as network analysis to compare belief structures. IN-MIND will also explore how mechanisms of belief transmissibility, social identity, and belief alignment differentiate delusional beliefs, which tend to be non-shared, from political and religious beliefs, which are widely propagated. Thus, participants with strong or weak ideological systems will be compared with a clinical sample with delusions to determine the transmissibility of each belief system. This research will provide new insights into these belief systems, targeting the mechanisms that distinguish delusions from strongly held beliefs, aiding mental health professionals in diagnosis and laying the foundation for innovative interventions. By investigating how ideologies are highly transmissible, the project will also provide crucial insights for shaping future policies, including those aimed at countering polarisation and extremism. Through a non-academic placement at the European Public Health Alliance, the fellow will gain interdisciplinary training to translate research results into impactful public health policies.

Keywords: mental health schizophrenia psychotic disorders delusions socio cognitive processes psychopathology
Innovations and Capacity building in Agricultural Environmental and Rural Uav Services (ICAERUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Lithuania,North Macedonia,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Estonia
Call: Potential of drones as multi-purpose vehicle – risks and added values (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5436911.25
EU funding (EUR): 5436911.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

ICAERUS proposes an “application-oriented” approach, through the selection of five (5) specific drone applications, to explore the multi-purpose application potential of drones in agricultural production, forestry and rural communities. The selected drone applications represent the most important sectoral and societal drone usage purposes in Europe and cover multiple applications that are interconnected within the complex rural European landscape. The ICAERUS vision is to explore opportunities and provide a more complete and interconnected account of the potential and impact of drones as multi-purpose vehicles in EU agriculture, forestry and rural areas. The aim is to showcase and support, through application, the effective, efficient and safe deployment of drones as well as, identify the risks and added values associated with their use. “Taking off” from the current state-of-the-art in the drone ecosystem, ICAERUS will “rise up” by advancing existing software technology, platform components and knowledge in regard to drones, to exploit the potential of drones and strengthen capacities to reduce their risks, achieve better informed decision-making, enhance sustainability performance and competitiveness in agriculture, forestry and rural areas. This will be showcased in two directions: fundamental applications representing an “eye-in-the-sky”, using the drone as a positioning system for optical observation and recording, and a “hand-in-the-sky” applications, for spraying and goods delivery. ICAERUS plans to scale-up through research, technology optimisation, demonstration and education about drones to create an efficient, trusted and safe enabling environment for the EU drone services market to achieve the EU’s decarbonisation, digitalisation and resilience ambitions. ICAERUS consists of a balanced, multi-actor, cross sectoral and well-experienced consortium, including research organisations, SME technology providers, associations and non-profit organisations.

Keywords: drone,plant health,livestock health,tree health,biodiversity
Rethinking everyday integration spatially: How do young Russian-speaking adults negotiate their belonging in the shrinking ethnocentric geography of Latvian society? (SPAGINTEG)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252180.0
EU funding (EUR): 252180.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SPAGINTEG is a two-year fellowship at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a dramatic aftermath beyond the battlefield. Specifically, it has resurfaced concerns about the allegiances of a large Russian-speaking population in Latvia and the pressing need for their integration into Latvian and European society. The project speaks to the gap in the studies about the everyday integration of young Russohpones in Latvia by foregrounding their agency in defining and enacting integration through their lived experiences beyond the state-centric narratives. Drawing on the critical debate in the field of minority integration and spatial studies the proposed research takes an original approach by focusing on spatial dimensions of how young minoritised Russian speakers pave their everyday trajectories through the ethnocentric geography of the Latvian society. Beyond the empirical contribution, the project contributes to the critical literature on minority integration in multiethnic societies, as well as to the policy on minority integration in Latvia and the wider post-socialist context. The main outputs of the research will include two academic articles and a policy recommendation report, which will be disseminated targeting scientific and general public, as well as the third sector. The success of the project, as well as the fellow’s further formation as an independent and prominent scholar, will be ensured through the professional guidance of colleagues at IRES in the area studies, cultural anthropology and geography, supplemented by pertinent training, teaching, and supervisory experience. The fellow will bring her interdisciplinary and innovative perspective on the area studies, rooted in the knowledge of political studies, expertise doing ethnographic research in post-Soviet contexts, as well as a critical perspective on the area studies and the minority politics in the Baltic region.

Keywords: russian speaking minority post soviet context baltic states ethnocentrism integration
Visual Impairment Screening using Images from Ophthalmology and Novel pathways for Structural Analysis and Fast Evaluation (VISIONSAFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497873.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497873.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Clinical eye images could be explored in an entirely new way to provide early detection of serious eye diseases that currently affect thousands worldwide yet could be preventable. The objective of VISIONSAFE is to extract macro- and microstructure biomarkers from real-world clinical images depicting the retina, lens, and cornea, thereby facilitating early disease detection and personalised management. While macrostructural biomarkers related to ocular shape are well-established, microstructural biomarkers related to tissue remain largely unexplored. The project's foundation rests on the preliminary work of the PI, which demonstrated the feasibility of deriving disease-related microstructure biomarkers from low-resolution clinical eye images. The approach combines data science, advanced image processing, and rigorous experimental validation to better understand the interplay between macro- and microstructural biomarkers in prevalent sight-threatening eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, cataracts, and corneal ectasia, using efficient, cost-effective, and accessible tools. VISIONSAFE covers several ground-breaking aspects: clinical eye data is already available but underused (can we use data science for vision preservation?); the acquisition and combination of macro- and microstructural biomarkers from clinical images have not yet been considered (is this combination a key for the early diagnosis of eye diseases? Are we missing out essential information from already available data?). The project's potential gains are significant. It enhances knowledge on eye disease biomarkers accessible through routine eye exams, shifts the paradigm toward macro- and microstructural biomarker synergy, and represents an important step towards a future where eye diseases are identified and managed earlier, offering hope and improved quality of life to countless individuals.

Keywords: ophthalmology
Multi-level wave-based identification framework for the inverse characterization and inverse design of acoustically high-performance lightweight structures under realistic conditions (MuInSE)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The development and promotion of lightweight vehicles is a crucial part of the comprehensive strategy of the EU to address global warming. Over recent decades, layered composite structures and porous materials have been the most attractive acoustically high-performance lightweight structures for designing lightweight vehicles. However, the design of these structures remains challenging in the vibroacoustic field due to the lack of advanced inverse characterization methods to overcome the limitations of various realistic conditions. To this end, the proposed research will provide a robust, efficient, and accurate multi-level wave-based identification framework for cross-scale material characterization, real material modeling, and inverse design of new materials with tailored properties by coordinating cutting-edge research and integrating advanced multidisciplinary techniques. In terms of macro-scale characterization, a new wave-based identification technique will be proposed for the first to characterize wave propagation of structures with complex shapes, such as open-cell porous materials and curved structures, under realistic complex sampling conditions. In terms of micro-scale characterization and real material modeling, this work will deliver a novel wave-based model fitting method to overcome limitations of the strict assumption of materials properties and external conditions of existing model fitting methods, allowing us to identify dynamic elastic modulus of fluid-saturated porous materials and structural properties of each layer of layered composite structures. Moreover, this work will bring a low-cost new material inverse design chain that integrates characterization, modeling, design, testing, and verification, only requiring structure response as input. This research will be a key step for manufacturers in the early design stage of lightweight vehicles, making a significant contribution to achieving the climate goals of the EU Green Deal and Fit for 55.

Keywords: inverse characterization of composite structures and porous materials,cross scale structural identification,wave propagation identification,real material modeling,inverse design of new materials
Investigating Fictional Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture: Myths and Understanding (CSAReps)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
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

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a critical issue facing contemporary societies, and one which inspires many fictional representations in creative cultural works. Despite CSA's prevalence and potentially serious consequences, it remains relatively taboo and stakeholders refer to a societal 'flinch', or aversion, from engaging with the issue, which hinders survivors' wellbeing. This avoidant response seems to have been inadvertently replicated in literary and cultural studies, in which CSA as a theme is almost completely overlooked, meaning that its full cultural implications are currently unknown. The CSAReps project will address this by exploring the culturally significant but neglected body of works which depict CSA, examining not only their representational strategies but also their potential role in shaping people's understandings of CSA. The objectives are: 1. To analyse the themes, form and emotional cues in CSA fictions from key genres (crime, horror, young adult, popular general) in the culturally prevalent forms of literature, film and television, providing a foundational mapping of these representations and opening a new and long-overdue research horizon in literary and cultural studies. 2. To explore how CSA fiction may inform social attitudes by performing the first ever empirical investigation of audience responses to it (including the general public and CSA survivors). Identifying influence will be challenging, but could transform our understanding of how public views on abuse are formed, impacting disciplines like psychology and social work for which such knowledge is key. 3. To develop a new conceptual framework which interlinks thematic and empirical approaches to cultural scholarship to allow the mapping of CSA fictions to be related to the audience response findings, ultimately yielding a model suggesting the relationship between CSA fictions and their effects. This transferrable framework will support explorations of abuse representations across cultures and media.

Keywords: cultural studies literature film television child sexual abuse
Youth hEAlth from a Holistic perspective (YEAH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Romania,Denmark,Spain,Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Netherlands
Call: Towards a holistic support to children and adolescents’ health and care provisions in an increasingly digital society (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10045436.16
EU funding (EUR): 9992936.16
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Empowering children and adolescents to adopt healthy lifestyles while tackling health inequalities is crucial. Person-centred interventions have been developed to this end but face several challenges: they are often restricted to one specific actor of children’s environment (teachers, parents, or peers) and rarely target several significant others simultaneously, they are often restricted to one specific behaviour (e.g., physical activity) or life domain (e.g., school), their effectiveness may differ according to socio-economic or socio-spatial conditions, and they are rarely both large-scale and personalised to individuals' needs. To address these challenges, and in line with the call, the ambition of YEAH! is to develop an innovative personalised person-centred digital intervention that: (1) promotes children (8-10 years) and adolescents’ (14-16 years) social interactions with multiple actors of their environment, (2) targets multiple health behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviours, diet, sleep), (3) combines in a novel manner evidence-based knowledge of optimal intervention features (theory-driven approach), with co-creation with end-users and stakeholders (data-driven approach) to tailor the intervention to the local context and target group, and (4) relies on a state-of-the-art method of intervention development to rigorously measure and verify its impact, optimise its sustainable implementation in the community and its equity, and evaluate its cost-effectiveness. To do so, YEAH!, which is coordinated by a woman researcher, will articulate interdisciplinary methods and concepts from psychology (health, social, developmental), public health, psychiatry, social marketing, geography, geomatics, environmental epidemiology, IT and computer sciences, statistics, physiology, and medicine, and on the participation of stakeholders (children and adolescents, parents, teachers, healthcare professionals, educators, local and national authorities).

Keywords: behavioural sciences,health behaviour change,person centred intervention,personalised approach