Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models for Efficient and Long-Horizon AI (AToM-FM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499453.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499453.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The recent revolution in generative AI is powered by the ever-growing scale of Foundation Models (FMs). This, however, causes a series of harmful ramifications, such as their unsustainable energy demand and environmental pollution, which accelerate climate change. Moreover, the scale of FMs jeopardises data privacy, as it compels users to deploy them on third-party servers rather than edge devices. AToM-FM sets out to reverse this trend by remedying a fundamental source of inefficiency in FMs: the granularity of the "atomic" units for representing information in current FMs is fixed, as it entirely depends on how they update their memory and segment input data (a process known as tokenization). Instead, AToM-FMs will couple their granularity with the complexity of each task, allocating only as much computing effort as needed. As its key technical breakthrough, AToM-FM will make memory and tokenization adaptive, elevating FMs to unprecedented levels of efficiency. To facilitate the swift adoption of this new technology, I will repurpose state-of-the-art FMs into adaptive architectures and release them to the public. This will not only drastically cut the carbon footprint of FM deployment and uphold data privacy, but also foster the emergence of new FM capabilities. In fact, compressing the FM representations will effectively broaden their horizon, i.e., the amount of input and output they can perceive and generate, respectively, without exhausting their memory. This will unlock 1) permanent memories, which are a prerequisite for lifelong learning; 2) longer reasoning chains, perfecting the mathematical and planning skills of FMs; 3) modality-agnostic and fine-grained inputs, facilitating the integration of low-resource modalities and grounding agentive FMs onto physical spaces. Overall, AToM-FM's ambitious agenda will usher in the next generation of FMs, paving the way for efficient and long-horizon AI.

Keywords: foundation models,transformers,state space models,memory,tokenization,efficiency,green ai,data privacy,long sequence modelling,lifelong learning,chain of thought reasoning,multimodal,grounding
Reinventing Power Electronic Architectures for a Fully-Integrated Power Converter-on-a-Chip (ENRICH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Greece
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1965063.0
EU funding (EUR): 1965063.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the world undergoes an unprecedented transformation towards de-carbonized energy generation and electrification of the transportation sector, there is an increasing need for efficient, compact and lightweight power electronics. However, miniaturization of contemporary energy conversion systems is hindered by the performance limitations of the power devices and the size and weight restrictions of the passive components. The ENRICH project proposes a fundamental reconsideration of the entire electric power conversion chain, by co-design novel multilevel converter topologies with new semiconductor structures, based on wide band gap materials, mainly Gallium Nitride (GaN). The envisioned system is inspired from the high-power equivalent of a digital-to-analogue converter, directly controlled by a single reference signal (pseudo-analogue control). This is the first attempt to demonstrate the concept of a solid-state selector switch, which is free from magnetic components and allows all switching elements to be connected in parallel with a common source reference, avoiding the burden of multiple voltage-isolation zones. This radical approach paves the way for true monolithic integration of the entire multilevel inverter on a single chip, in the form of a power processor. The proposed parallel architecture addresses all current integration challenges, such as the crosstalk and back-gating effects, and overcomes the limitations regarding the maximum number of levels. The GaN power processor has huge potential to reach record power densities that are beyond what is currently possible. The ambitious research spans across the fields of Power Electronics, Material Science and Control Theory, and aims to bring numerous benefits with important technological and socioeconomic impact in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy generation sectors.

Keywords: power electronics,wide band gap semiconductor devices,monolithic integration,multilevel converters,power density,miniaturization,energy conversion system,converter control
An eco-evolutionary guided approach to improve edible insect nutrient and feed conversion (EvoCricks)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-16
End date: 2026-02-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The production of edible insects is often presented as a solution to the current environmental and food security challenge of feeding a growing human population, but faces major technical and cultural limitations. While cultural limitations can be overcome by convincing people about the importance of shifting our diets to a more sustainable one, many technical limitations can be overcome by using existing methods and theory from the biological sciences. In this regard, it is critical to understand how a variety of biotic and abiotic conditions affect the quantity, nutritional quality, safety and sustainability of insect production. It is currently recognised that the gut microbiome plays a fundamental role in driving the viability of animal food production, with the EU recently investing 1.4 billion € into exploring this relationship further in vertebrate systems. However, I argue there is almost certainly also a strong association between microbiomes and the production of insects as a food resource, hence the focus of my application. Using wild crickets of the commonly farmed species Acheta domesticus, this project aims to decipher the relationship between the environment, microbiome composition, and the nutritional quality (essential nutrients) of edible insects as human food. The knowledge gained from wild animals will be contrasted to controlled experimental results to dissect the production conditions that best reflect the findings from the field. This project will provide key insights about the best quality wild populations in Europe and the corresponding optimal laboratory/industry rearing conditions that maximise edible cricket production and quality.

Keywords: crickets,essential nutrients,metagenomics,food security,evolutionary ecology
Opto-Electronic Neural Connectoid Model Implemented for Neurodegenerative Disease (OpenMIND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2992203.75
EU funding (EUR): 2992203.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

A major challenge facing Europe is its ageing population and associated increase in diagnosed cases of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with tremor and loss of motor functions due to progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the brain. This can lead to memory loss and dementia, which is associated with short- and long-term injuries and disabilities with emotional, financial, and social burdens for patients, families, and society. The exact causes and mechanisms underlying PD are still unknown and existing treatments focus on alleviating symptoms and increasing quality of life, but do not halt or reverse disease progression. Although animal models give unique possibilities to study physiological and behavioural mechanisms, drug development fails due to lack of translation to humans. Alternative non-animal NDD models is needed both in terms of better translation, but also to replace expensive and problematic animal experiments. We will move disease modelling to a new level and replace animal models, by creating a new concept we call connectoids. We will develop an ex-vivo-type in vitro human opto-electronic multi-regional brain-organoid disease model in which connectoids are formed by precise spatial arrangement of brain organoids connected via hydrogel tracts that promote axonal pathfinding, functional connection, and signalling. By developing 1) light controllable sub-type specific neurons within regionalized brain organoids, and 2) electrodes and waveguides that can penetrate the organoids able to monitor neurotransmitter signalling inside and between the organoids, we will for the first time be able to sense how a particular brain region responds to a certain therapy and watch in real time how signals are transmitted to other brain regions. Our model will not only have health benefit, but will relieve a heavy economic burden on society, and open up for new possibilities for technological and economic development.

Keywords: light controlled,interconnected brain organoids,3d biosensors,3d waveguides,embedded 3d printing,bioprinting,parkinson s disease,disease modelling,pluripotent stem cells,neurotransmitter
Disentangling processes controlling trophic connectivity between coastal and oceanic pelagic food webs (PelCon)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261380.64
EU funding (EUR): 261380.64
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The pelagic food web plays an important role in nutrient recycling and the production of food for commercially harvested species, especially in highly productive marine ecosystems. However, processes controlling the structure, function and connectivity of inshore-offshore pelagic food webs in these systems are far from understood, although it is well-known that food supply is a key factor driving these processes. Therefore, a better understanding of nutrient sources and dynamics, as well as trophic connections modulating the pelagic food web in these ecosystems is required to design effective conservation and management strategies in a changing ocean. While analytical techniques to quantify and track nutrient fluxes across the food web were previously lacking, recent advances in compound-specific stable isotope (CSIA) biogeochemistry provide a unique opportunity to assess and quantify trophic linkages between inshore-offshore pelagic food webs. The main aim of my proposal (acronym: PelCon) is to distinguish the input of different sources of production associated with inshore productive and offshore oligotrophic pelagic food webs in Hawai’i (oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre) using stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in bulk tissues and individual amino acids (i.e. CSIA-AA). I also aim to develop indicators of trophic inshore-offshore connectivity based on stable isotope signatures that can be used to help predict global patterns in horizontal carbon and nitrogen flux in the coastal-ocean system. For this, I will compare the mechanisms coupling coastal-oceanic food webs between Hawai’i Island and a dynamic region in the NE Atlantic Ocean (Galicia, NW Spain) influenced by seasonal upwelling, for which I will apply the same isotopic techniques. Importantly, this proposal will allow me to gain new skills and learn the latest isotopic techniques, further developing my research portfolio, while advancing our knowledge of food web dynamics.

Keywords: pelagic environment,trophodynamics,habitat connectivity,basal production sources,zooplankton,fish
Cohomology and the transfinite (CatT)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain
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): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Outstanding problems in a variety of mathematical fields have been shown to reduce, in essence, to questions about the combinatorial structure of the transfinite; this was the case, for example, in Shelah's solution to the Whitehead Problem in group theory, Farah's solution to the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Problem in operator algebras, Solovay and Woodin's solution to Kaplansky's Conjecture on the automatic continuity of Banach algebras, and Moore's solution to the $L$ Space Problem in general topology. At the same time, cardinality and transfinite closing-off arguments play a critical role in many of the most fundamental constructions of contemporary category theory --- in the small object argument, the themes of local presentability and accessibility, or the invocation of Grothendieck universes, for example. Considerations of this latter sort play an insistent role in the 50-year-old problem of the existence of cohomological localizations in the categories of simplicial sets or spectra, a question which the work of this application's sponsor (among others at the University of Barcelona) suggests may well turn out, much as above, to be set theoretic in essence. Work on this problem forms the core of the present proposal, both for its instrinsic interest and bearing on multiple related conjectures (Hovey's Conjecture on Bousfield classes, most prominently), and for its relation, via the phenomenon of $\kappa$-phantom maps, to the researcher's accumulating results on the higher derived limits of large inverse systems. In its course, a number of related questions, for example on the cohomology of small cardinals, will receive close attention as well. This is, in short, a proposal to bring researchers from the divergent fields of algebraic topology and set theory together for work on a well-known problem which they may be uniquely well-suited to solve, and in the process to considerably extend the lines of research for which they are already known.

Keywords: combinatorial set theory and higher dimensions therein,derived limits,localization of categories,walks on the ordinals,borel complexity
Measuring Illegal Online Pharmacies' Impact and Co-evolution (MIOPIC)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214285.71
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The pharma analytics market reached $60B in revenues in 2021 and is expected to grow at a 20% annual rate in the coming years. The data and business intelligence provided by pharma analytics companies around drug sales is of outmost importance for multiple stakeholders in the pharma industry (e.g., manufacturers, distributors, and regulators), who rely on this data for their decision-making. However, this data is becoming increasingly biased and myopic: it only accounts for drug sales from legal pharmacies, overlooking sales from illegal pharmacies. This limitation is becoming more and more problematic since sales from illegal pharmacies (mainly operating online) are growing at a substantive pace. The goal of this PoC is to address this limitation through the development of a web service that will provide data and business analytics on drug sales by Illegal Online Pharmacies (IOPs). This web service will allow potential users to visualize market trends, download data, and develop customized reports on IOPs The goal of this PoC is to develop a web service API that will provide data and business analytics on drug sales by Illegal Online Pharmacies (IOPs) through a web portal. This web service will allow potential users to visualize market trends, download data, and develop customized reports, and will be provided following a pay-per-use commercial structure. While multiple stakeholders in the pharma industry are potentially interested in this data (e.g., manufacturers, distributors, pharma analytics companies, policy-makers, and law enforcement authorities), this data is currently unavailable due to the obscure nature of IOPs’ activities. The web service proposed in this PoC will generate such data through the algorithms designed in the ILLEGALPHARMA ERC-funded project. Accordingly, this PoC outlines the technological and commercial processes that will be implemented to transform the research generated in ILLEGALPHARMA into a business innovation with market potential.
Extending the scope of Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory for bosons (RDMFTforbosons)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The one-body reduced density matrix plays a fundamental role in describing and predicting general quantum features of bosonic systems, such as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) or mode entanglement. The recently proposed reduced density matrix functional theory for bosonic ground states establishes the existence of a universal functional that recovers quantum correlations exactly. So far, this novel theoretical framework has been used to study the universal properties of homogeneous BECs, to prove the existence of the so-called Bose-Einstein repulsive force, which explains quantum depletion in a geometrical fashion, or to efficiently compute well known ground-state properties of translation-invariant homogeneous bosonic systems. Our main purpose in this project is to extend the scope of this reduced density matrix functional theory to systems with broken symmetries, heterogeneous mixtures of bosonic systems, dipolar gases, and bosonic systems at finite temperatures. Our methodology combines analytical approaches and machine learning implementations, in which we have already gained strong expertise. We believe that the achievement of these objectives will offer a range of fascinating possibilities. Just to mention a few, any trap potential could be considered and linear response coefficients become easily accessible. Furthermore, in analogy to many-body localization for electrons, the influence of disorder and interparticle interactions on BECs can be studied in a more direct manner. Universal properties of dipolar gases and bosonic mixtures in the relevant regimes of supersolidity and droplets can potentially be unveiled.

Keywords: reduced density matrices,non perturbative approaches,highly correlated quantum systems,bose einstein condensation,machine learning,machine learning for quantum systems,ultra cold gases
ONTOLOGY-BASED DECENTRALIZED SHARING OF INDUSTRY DATA IN THE EUROPEAN CIRCULAR ECONOMY (ONTO-DESIDE) - Widening (Onto-DESIDE Hop On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Czechia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 229536.25
EU funding (EUR): 200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Onto-DESIDE aims to develop and study technologies and methodology for allowing data sharing and semantic interoperability about materials and products at a global scale, to support the setup, management and execution of new and innovative circular value networks, and thus accelerate the European transition to a Circular Economy (CE). This proposal describes an extension to the ongoing Onto-DESIDE project, by adding a new partner from a widening country. The project has identified a large number of existing ontologies in this area, and also noted a diversity in modelling patterns of CE-related concepts. Currently Onto-DESIDE only targets manual methods for managing ontology and data transformations, however, with the proposed extension novel methods and tools will be developed to automate parts of those processes. The addition of the widening partner, VSE, will therefore significantly contribute to the quality of the first core project outcome; the network of ontologies that is to serve as a shared vocabulary for semantic interoperability in the CE. In addition, it will enhance the usability of the project results, by providing tools and guidelines for managing ontology dynamics and data transformations, and thus greatly increase the exploitability of results.

Keywords: ontology,data documentation,ontology patterns,ontology transformation,ontology alignment,circular economy