Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
cycling to care - Integrating Emotional Well-being for Pro-environmental Behavior Change (c2c)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In an era marked by the "global boiling" phenomenon, there's an intensifying emotional toll from concurrent crises, manifesting in heightened anxieties and depressive feelings. They are especially palpable among the youth, where the intersection with rising climate anxieties often stymie proactive environmental actions due to a nexus of psychological complexities, societal dynamics, knowledge disparities, and infrastructural impediments. Responding to this multifaceted predicament, the "Cycling to Care" (c2c) project intertwines emotional resilience with eco-conscious actions. The project anchors its philosophy on the understanding that emotional health and environmental awareness can be mutually reinforcing. Central to c2c's approach is the "Cycling Without Age" (CWA) initiative, a unique program that bridges generational divides by enabling young volunteers to offer trishaw bike rides to older individuals in urban green spaces. Through a longitudinal study held at the Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), c2c assesses the evolution of mental health states and environmental perceptions among young CWA participants in Barcelona. Drawing from these findings, the project then crafts and tests an avant-garde sustainability education module at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), enriching CWA encounters with ad hoc seminars and facilitated safe spaces to foster emotional robustness and sustainability literacy in young participants, envisioning them as the torchbearers of a better tomorrow. Ultimately, "Cycling to Care" stands out as an inventive confluence of mental health support and environmental stewardship, holding promise for scalability and adaptability across various CWA chapters and academic institutions across Europe.

Keywords: sustainability education,transformative learning,mental well being,emotional resilience,pro environmental behaviour,climate anxiety,regenerative urban sustainability,transdisciplinarity
Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe (EV4EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Portugal,Slovenia,Denmark,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: System approach to achieve optimised Smart EV Charging and V2G flexibility in mass-deployment conditions (2ZERO) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8989683.0
EU funding (EUR): 8989682.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe (EV4EUThe Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe (EV4EU) project will propose and implement bottom-up and user-centric Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) management strategies creating the conditions for the mass deployment of electric vehicles. The strategies will consider the impact on batteries, the needs of the users, power systems, the integration with energy markets, and cities’ transformation. The proposed V2X management strategies will be tested in four demonstration sites, allowing an evaluation of the proposed methodologies and tools, the definition of the appropriate implementation conditions, and a consolidation of the most promising solutions and business models. Technology providers will test different V2X management approaches, evaluating their feasibility and adequacy for the existing conditions in cities. System Operators will estimate the impact of V2X on transmission and distribution levels, proposing new services to profit from V2X flexibility, mitigating the effect of V2X, and supporting the development of both V2X and renewables. Tools and Apps for electric vehicle users will be developed to provide valuable information about the use of electric vehicles and available energy services. An open platform that considers interoperability, scalability, security, and privacy requirements will ensure the information exchange between stakeholders and systems. The impact of V2X management strategies in different cities will be evaluated in a co-simulation tool considering different perspectives, namely, the power network, cities constraints (existing parking lots, buildings characteristics, etc.), electric vehicle use patterns, and, finally, V2X management strategies. New services (Green Charging, Sharing Charging, and Surge Pricing), Demand Response programs, and flexible capacity contracts will be designed and a regulatory framework promoting user adoption will be proposed.

Keywords: electric vehicles vehicle to everything v2x power system flexibility energy transition user adoption cities
The cognitive primers of human culture: a comparative approach to the emergence of innovations (PRIMERS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1502400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A hallmark of human culture is our unsurpassed innovative ability, which allowed us to expand into almost all environments on the planet and build the cultural world we inhabit today. By identifying the conditions driving innovations across primates, we can provide new insight into when and how humans developed this unique culture. PRIMERS will address this need by adopting a systematic and holistic approach to testing the catalysts of a watershed behaviour in our evolutionary history: the ability to make and use sharp stone tools (flakes). The advent of intentional flakes in the human lineage marks the first clear divergence between animal and human technology. With tools to access high-value calories, our ancestors now had the physical and cognitive resources to lay the groundwork for our culture. PRIMERS will use a triangulation approach to follow the emergence of flaking in appropriate proxy models: wild and captive chimpanzees, capuchins, and macaques. Objective 1 will define the baseline stone manipulation propensities of these species using novel artificial intelligence coding methods. Objective 2 will test two other major drivers of innovations: exposure and experience. An experimental paradigm with in-built controls, large sample sizes (N =350), and long-term testing protocols (approx. 4 years) will be used to empirically evaluate the cognitive and developmental primers of innovations. Objective 3 will systematically compare primate assemblages to some of the oldest human stone tools, allowing for inferences to be made on when cognitive capacities diverged between humans and other primates. Structural Equation Models will then determine the relative contributions and interactions between the measured factors. By testing three species, combining and upscaling experimental paradigms and implementing powerful modelling tools, PRIMERS will radically enhance our understanding of the conditions required for innovations, and with it, the primers of human culture.

Keywords: innovation,technology,evolution of tools,cognition,human culture,primate behaviour,comparative cognition,stone tools,flakes,ontogenetic development,propensities,experience,exposure,stone handling,early hominin evolution
Documenta Coranica Byzantina (DoCoByz). Byzantino-Islamica in the Age of Digital Humanities (DoCoByz)

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 States,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276681.6
EU funding (EUR): 276681.6
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

To understand the evolving role of Islam in Europe, it is important to comprehend the forms and contents of intellectual exchange between the Latin and Byzantine world. Research to date has mainly focused on the Latin impact on the Christian perception of the Qur’an and Islam. Documenta Coranica Byzantina (DoCoByz) will address a significant research gap by diachronically exploring Greek translations of the Qur’an and anti-Islamic argumentation in Byzantine polemics (7th–13th century) before the first Latin translation appeared (12th century). This way it will be possible to synchronously compare their possible impact on the later Latin tradition. DoCoByz will trace the exact transmission lines of (I.) the Greek Qur’anic translation(s) (Testimonia Coranica Graeca), in order to (II.) document their reception and (re)use within Greek-Orthodox polemics (Episteme Islamica Orthodoxa), and to (III.) distill diachronically the common topoi and stereotypes of anti-Islamic argumentations as well as to synchronously study them with the pre-12th century Latin translations (Traditio Islamica Medievalis). The project is based on a genuine interdisciplinary approach: it combines Greek, Latin, and Arabic philologies with paleographical, historical, and theological work and methods of digital humanities. DoCoByz will create big data corpora giving open access to them as TEI XML files. It will process them into an online database which will contain a synoptical digital edition of all sources reaching out to both researchers and the broader public. After the project’s lifetime, the database can be continuously enriched with sources from (Early) Modern Times as the project's methodology especially focuses on reproducibility and interoperability with other projects. This will contribute to broaden our perception of Islam and of Christian-Muslim relations. DoCoByz's multidisciplinary approach will enable scholars to tackle urgent questions of hitherto unstudied intellectual interactions between the Latin and Byzantine anti-Islamic tradition and Qur’anic knowledge in Medieval Christianity.

Keywords: christian muslim relations,byzantium,qur an,translations,digital humanities
FlexiForm - Structurally and materially informed design and fabrication strategies for knitted textile formworks for concrete structures (FlexiForm)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Romania,Germany
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: AEC digitalisation for a new triad of design, fabrication, and materials (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1322281.25
EU funding (EUR): 1322281.25
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The FlexiForm project is set to transform the construction industry by substantially reducing material usage and embodied carbon in new buildings through an innovative design and construction approach for concrete structures. By leveraging the structural and material efficiency of double-curved geometries and lightweight 3D knitted textile formworks, the project seeks to create sustainable, cost-effective, and reliable structural solutions. To achieve this challenging goal, the project will develop a unified computational design and fabrication workflow that optimizes material usage and accurately predicts the mechanical properties of knitted textiles. By incorporating knitted textiles material and fabrication constraints into the workflow, the project will reduce reliance on specialized knowledge and physical testing. Moreover, the FlexiForm project will establish an open-source material database and a form-finding method for knitted textile formworks that will facilitate the widespread adoption of sustainable practices in the construction industry. Ultimately, the project’s outcomes will contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus, promoting transparency, collaboration, and dissemination of research findings. Through reducing raw material consumption and introducing innovative construction techniques, the FlexiForm project will pave the way for a more sustainable and efficient future in the construction industry.

Keywords: knitting,3d knitted textile,textile formworks,algorithmic design,computational design,structural form finding,macro and mesoscale,digital fabrication,metamaterials,concrete,material reductio
Delivering a useable method for mapping groups in attitude networks by developing a robust prototype, development community, and exploitation model to maximize the social value of the breakthrough (Attitude-Maps-4-All)

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: Ireland
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

Our ERC project developed a mathematical method to construct bipartite graphs directly from surveys of attitudes and opinions, providing a network representation of opinion-based groups. This approach reveals group structure, locates individuals in the space, allows the application of network methods to analyze their relations, and can detect ideological polarization, even without extremism. Like the invention of a new instrument for observing the physical world (e.g. a telescope), the method gives a new view on social attitudes and opinions, with huge value for detecting partisan dynamics in a wide range of disciplines interested in modelling attitudes and human behaviour. Understanding these processes is essential for tackling urgent social issues which require cross-partisan synchronization of core attitudes/opinions (e.g. climate change; vaccine hesitancy; cohesive democracy). Applying these methods currently requires high-level mathematics and coding skills. To realize the social value of the method we must get it into the hands of end-users in useable form. We will (1) prototype a robust software architecture; (2) prototype training resources; (3) implement end-user testing and evaluation of the prototype software and training; (4) build a community of early adopters and developers to test, validate and evaluate the method across a range of multidisciplinary applications; (5) explore synergistic commercialisation opportunities; and (6) determine the optimal IP strategy for maximizing the social value of the innovation. Our intention is to maximize the value of the advance already achieved in our ERC project by completing the groundwork to make the innovation maximally accessible to the interdisciplinary scientific community and to identify synergistic commercialization opportunities.
SWEEPICS: SWEPT LASERS FOR NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS (SWEEPICS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Hungary,Sweden,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Versatile light sources and systems as tools for manufacturing and medical application (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5255694.08
EU funding (EUR): 4823332.9
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Swept lasers have enabled paradigm-shifts in biomedical imaging and diagnostics. The SWEEPICS project will research and develop the next generation of swept source lasers with flexible pulse modulation capability, high power output, multi-wavelength coherent output and multi-application potential. SWEEPICS will develop new laser-based systems: a high-speed, high resolution multiphoton high content screening system, a multimodal non-invasive imaging system based on high-speed photoacoustics and multiphoton microscopy, and a smart microscope for accelerated acquisition&diagnostics. The inter-disciplinary consortium of European partners will showcase the SWEEPICS technology in cutting-edge use cases based on novel vascular organoids for animal-free drug-testing and infection studies. This disruptive SWEEPICS technology will rapidly generate high-resolution diagnostic imaging in three-dimension, where the high imaging depth permits penetrating millimeter deep into tissue-like organoids and imaging at high temporal and spatial resolution in order to allow for a drastic reduction of animal testing and increased speed of diagnostic results. It will allow the study of dynamic processes in real-time and at multiple length scales, enabling researchers to observe how cells and tissues respond to viral infections or pathogen-induced inflammation, while also permitting a high-throughput enabled discovery of novel diagnostic biomarkers. Overall, this technology represents a major breakthrough in capable laser technology for high accuracy and throughput medical diagnostics and is poised to make significant contributions to the European laser and biomedical technology landscape.

Keywords: swept lasers,multiphoton microscopy,organoid imaging,microfluidics,vascular models,cancer diagnostics,infection studies,drug discovery
Revitalising Languages and Safeguarding Cultural Diversity (RISE UP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Estonia,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Safeguarding endangered languages in Europe (HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1872192.5
EU funding (EUR): 1872192.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Languages have always played an important role when groups of people were living side by side. Speakers might be suppressed or take up a new language. But as much as a language says a lot about individual identity, it also carries a large reference to the culture and history of the group in which it is spoken and the cultural background. It is tightly interwoven with emotions and traditions, which are worth keeping up, as they stand for personal roots. RISE UP interconnects all relevant knowledge actors including citizens, civil society and end users. It collects and analyses background information, it identifies good practices and develops new methods with the help and support of people being concerned and interested in the topic. Thus, RISE UP aims at the empowerment of these endangered language communities, fostering their self-confidence and overcoming past trauma. In the understanding of the RISE UP consortium these endangered language communities include learners, new speakers, people who have not had the chance to learn their heritage languages, supporters, and other interested parties as well as actual speakers. RISE UP explores and deals with (a) Context, reasons and policies for endangered languages within Europe (b) Collecting and creating a set of tools to support local communities (c) Interconnecting relevant groups of stakeholders and (d) Involving and attracting especially young people and other stakeholders, e.g. by using digital tools.

Keywords: linguistic minorities,language revitalisation,endangered language communities,gamification,language policy
Attosecond nanoscopy of electron dynamics instrongly correlated materials (ANACONDA)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997105.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997105.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In 1929, one year after the formulation of his world-famous equation, Paul Dirac wrote that "the fundamental laws (…) of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, (…) but lead to equations that are too complex to be solved". While Dirac was referring to analytical solutions to his equation, numerical approaches have made tremendous progress over the past century. Nonetheless, the so-called strongly correlated materials continue to defy a common experimental and computational access to some of their intriguing exotic properties in solids. In this proposal, I will investigate correlated transition-metal oxides, which undergo a phase transition upon external perturbation, such as temperature, pressure, strain or laser excitation. I will develop a unique table-top ultrafast soft-X-ray absorption and holographic imaging experiment. The measurements will follow the attosecond to picosecond dynamic switching between metallic and insulating phases after laser excitation of transition metal oxides with element-specific absorption measurements, and simultaneously spatially resolve the ultrafast emerging nanometer texture of the phase transition. The unprecedented measurement of attosecond nanoscale dynamics will enable to unambiguously identify the mechanism and ultimate speed of phase transitions. I will use the fundamental insight from attosecond nanoscopy to test the hypothesis, that structural and electronic IMTs coexist and can be steered through both sample engineering and attosecond light-field control, which will pave the way towards PHz oxide electronics. Controlling the currently absent spatial uniformity of phase transitions on the nanoscale and the concomitant order-of-magnitude resistivity changes are key ingredients to guide transition-metal oxides towards their long-heralded usage in future oxide electronics as thin-film transistors, which will finally enable ReRAM memory to enter high-volume manufacturing.

Keywords: attosecond,strongly correlated materials,transition metal oxides,phase transitions