Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
widerAdvance Facility – the Dissemination and Exploitation Facility for Widening projects (widerAdvanceFacility)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Italy,Greece,Portugal,Tunisia,Lithuania,Czechia,Hungary,Slovakia,Armenia,Spain,France,Belgium,Malta
Call: Dissemination and Exploitation Support Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-05, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Building upon the priorities set by Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020, the widerAdvance Facility emerges as our strategic solution to the European Commission’s emphasis on optimizing research outputs, particularly within the Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (WIDERA) sector. This area, marked by significant disparities in innovation across Europe, especially in Widening countries and Outermost Regions, is the focal point of our initiative. Drawing upon our extensive experience garnered through previous Horizon projects, specifically Horizon Results Booster, this initiative is meticulously crafted to support and emphasize the research outcomes from these identified regions, while seamlessly aligning with the existing frameworks and tools laid out by the European Commission. The Facility is not merely a supportive platform but a comprehensive learning environment for researchers, research management entities, and tech transfer specialists. Our tailored approach includes the deployment of 50 individual academies focusing on 750 Key Exploitable Results, complementary webinars, extensive training modules, insightful study visits to renowned research centres, follow-up synergies and fostering collaborative environments through networking events. By enhancing the visibility of these regions and making impactful contributions to policy-making at local/ national and EU level, we aspire to reinforce and enrich the European research and innovation ecosystem, ensuring the equitable dissemination and utilisation of research breakthroughs across Europe. The service part is underpinned by active outreach performed by NCPs and local partners to organisations having direct/ indirect research results from Widening actions, which maximes the pathways towards objectives and ensure the sustainability of the actions.

Keywords: widening participation,dissemination and exploitation,academy,horizon europe,innovation disparities,key exploitable results,tech transfer,research management,european research ecosystem
EmotAI: Emotion Driver State Monitoring System based on AI (EmotAI)

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: Spain
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): 258789.94
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 3
Project status: TERMINATED

According to the European Union (EU) statistics, in Europe alone road crashes kills around 500 persons every week, more than 25000 people die every year, and more than 135000 are seriously injured, with a monetary cost of around 280 billion EUR. To halt this uncovered pandemic, the EU has declared its ambitious long-term goal call ‘Vision Zero’ to reduce the number of casualties and accidents to zero by the year 2050. To advance towards this goal, a General Safety Regulation (GSR), has been recently mandated to install driver assisting devices by 2030 focusing on the major factors causing crashes: driver distraction, fatigue and drowsiness. To comply with these regulations automobile companies are eager to install advanced driver assistance technologies in vehicles for driver assistance and alerting. Current solutions however are limited to some specific aspects (e.g., sleeping, phoning, looking off,), without having a holistic understanding of the whole situation of the driver, and with a big rate of false alarms that generate more distraction and annoyance to the driver, that ultimately prefers to switch it off to avoid having continuous false alarms without any benefit. To tackle this important challenge, in this fellowship, we propose to develop EmotAI (Emotion Driver State Monitoring System based on AI) a non-invasive tool that aims to address driver state monitoring and alertness challenges, to maximize driver attention and safety. We will be doing this by integrating novel AI-based technology using deep neural networks with non-invasive sensors and cameras with the novel theories in cognitive psychology in driving that aim to combine the information from 4 main pillars: the attention level, the activation level, the performance level, and the external factors. Our unique innovative solution aims to provide for the first time a comprehensive, holistic understanding of the driver’s behavior and emotional status to provide timely alerts to prevent accidents.

Keywords: intelligent vehicle advanced driving assistance systems adas
Muscular Faith: The Interplay between Sport and Religion in Africa (MFA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: United Kingdom,South Africa,Egypt
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2278936.0
EU funding (EUR): 2278936.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Many young African lives are paused in ‘waithood’ (Honwana 2012): no longer children but unable to become independent adults. Many manage this situation through sport, religion, or both. The question at the heart of MFA is how sport and religion in tandem provide a way out of ‘waithood’. Sport and religion alternately reference each other as performance enhancers. Both have been posited as catalysts for development and integration, however, their interplay remains under-theorised. Social science views sport through a secular lens, while religious studies have been slow to recognise the ‘religious’ elements of sport. If they do, studies are limited to a Western, Christian context. MFA will span existing academic siloes by taking a multidisciplinary approach, considering the interplay between sport and religion from a non-Western, non-Christian perspective. Africa is known as the ‘sporting continent’ and Africans as the ‘most religious people’, making it a unique setting to investigate i) the ‘sport-religion nexus’ – how each appropriates the other’s values and practices and how they affect each other; and ii) how this nexus enables meaning and purpose. MFA will 1) deepen understanding of the sport-religion nexus; 2) innovate an Afrocentric, actor-oriented approach focused on lived experience; 3) centre Africa’s global sporting prowess, redressing misconceptions of Africa as peripheral; and 4) assess the potential of the sport-religion nexus as a catalyst for youth development. This will be achieved through case studies that document sports appropriating elements from different religions (Christianity, Islam, and African Endogenous Religions): boxing in Nigeria; soccer in South Africa; karate in Egypt; long-distance running in Kenya. MFA’s dissemination and open-access academic, creative, and policy outputs will contribute to decolonising knowledge production about Africa, fostering South-North collaborations, and enhancing capacity development in Africa.

Keywords: sport,religion,youth,gender,faith based development,africa,ethnography
Anticipating the impact of armed conflict on human development (ANTICIPATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499155.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499155.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Armed conflict is human development in reverse. The full scale of conflicts’ impacts remains unknown, however, and fragmentation of research into multiple academic fields limits our understanding. This multidisciplinary project brings together scholars from economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict research to study the impacts in much more detail and comprehensiveness than earlier studies. It takes a risk analysis perspective, assessing the expected impact as a function of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, and consider effects at both the macro and micro level, on economies, health, and political institutions. It will model exposure to conflict events by accounting for how effects of observed, overt violence are transmitted to locations far from the violence itself and over time, identify conditions that make local communities, marginalized groups, and women particularly vulnerable to the effects, and study how conflict increases their vulnerability to other shocks such as natural disasters. The objective of the project is to model hazard as a probability distribution over the predicted number of direct deaths from violence in locations across the world, exposure as a model for how local populations will be affected by this likely violence, and vulnerability how exposure is translated into adverse human development impact for these populations. The results will be coordinated in the form of a monthly updated early-warning system, expanding the well-established ViEWS model, to also alert observers to particularly detrimental occurrences of violence. Throughout, the project will study how the various impacts and vulnerabilities identified work to reinforce each other, and formulate policy recommendations for parties seeking to reduce the impact on human development.
Parents and Technology in Cyberbullying: Intervention and Prevention for Future Experts. (PARTICIPATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,Austria,United Kingdom,Denmark,Norway,Greece,Finland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2855455.2
EU funding (EUR): 2855455.2
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Cyberbullying is a significant social, health and behavioural concern throughout the EU and worldwide, yet crucial areas in its prevention and intervention have largely been side-lined, namely the key role of parents, as well as the role of gender, disability, ethnicity and sexuality. PARTICIPATE will address this research and action gap, by delivering a world-class multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary doctoral training program incorporating plans for substantial networking and exchange of information, expertise and action potential regarding the nature and extent of cyberbullying across Europe. By focusing on parents, as well as on gender, disability, ethnicity and sexuality, the project aims to empower both parents and young people, creating a safer space online for our youth, while placing Europe firmly at the forefront of cyberbullying research and practice. This DN brings together many of the foremost world leaders and cutting-edge researchers in the areas of cyberbullying prevention, and is grounded in scientific excellence provided by academic partners across Europe (N=6) with extensive previous experience of collaborating together. This partnership, in conjunction with a strong and diverse range of non-academic partners, including NGOs, youth foundations and internet safety organisations (N=8), will provide a robust multi-disciplinary and inter-sectoral approach to finding solutions to cyberbullying. The objectives will be achieved through a unique combination of individual and collaborative research work, non-academic secondments and workshops on scientific and applied skills facilitated by the academic/non-academic composition of the consortium. The findings generated will produce both practical, research-based programs, and European guidelines on cyberbullying in relation to gender, disability, ethnicity and sexuality. We will generate approximately 40 scientific publications and engage the public with our findings through a Marie Curie Ambassador program.

Keywords: cyberbullying,online bullying,parents,teachers,gender,diversity,social media,technology,digital safety,ethnicity,social class,migration,cross national analysis
JAM-A and HER2/3 Antagonistic Strategy In Targeting breast cancer (JAM-HAS-IT)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy, and a leading cause of death. Although molecular technologies have led to new therapeutic targets for breast cancer, much remains to be done to reduce its societal and economic impact. This project focuses on an emerging cancer drug target – Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A), an adhesion protein that Dr Hopkins (Supervisor; RCSI) and others have implicated in breast cancer. This proposal centres around recent data suggesting that JAM-A controls the expression of HER2 and HER3, key tyrosine kinases associated with aggressive breast cancer. I will test the novel hypothesis that combining a JAM-A antagonist and an anti-HER2/HER3 drug (Pertuzumab) exerts synergistic anti-tumour effects in breast cancer settings. This will be accomplished by: Testing the combination of a JAM-A antagonist and an anti-HER2/HER3 antibody for anti-tumor efficacy in 2D and 3D models of breast cancer in vitro; Using chick embryo xenograft assays (cell line-based and patient-derived xenograft-based) to test the combination of a JAM-A antagonist and an anti-HER2/HER3 antibody in vivo; Identifying new JAM-A antagonists and test them for synergism with an anti-HER2/HER3 antibody in breast cancer settings;Validating a possible JAM-A-HER2/HER3 signalling axis in breast cancer patient datasets and samples. Combining an innovative, multi-faceted approach, and offering an academic multidisciplinary environment which will both complement my industrial skills and enable me to transfer valuable industry-centred knowledge, this project presents a wealth of opportunities to enhance by career prospects and enable a transition back to academia. As there are currently no anti-JAM-A drugs on the market or in clinical trials, this is a timely and important project which will give valuable new translatable knowledge into the treatment of certain aggressive breast cancer phenotypes.

Keywords: breast cancer,tight junction,junctional adhesion molecule a,jam a,her2,her3,antagonist,pertuzumab,peptide synthesis,perjeta,3 dimensional cell culture,organoids,chick embryo xenograft
The Survival of Damaged Medieval Polychromed Heritage in the Nordics (POLYCHROME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Norway,France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2632975.0
EU funding (EUR): 2632975.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

POLYCHROME will study the shifting fortunes of richly painted and gilded (polychromed) Christian images that have survived in the Nordic countries since the Reformation. How have wooden sculptures, panel paintings, shrines, and winged altarpieces transformed from potent objects of devotion to cultural heritage? To what extent is this category of cultural heritage at risk? Values attached to Catholic devotional objects have fluctuated dramatically since Gustav I of Sweden and Christian III of Denmark-Norway declared a break with the church in Rome (1527 and 1537, respectively). However, documentary sources shed little light on changes in status, volatility, and repairs. POLYCHROME will take an ambitious leap that scholars concerned with polychromy in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have been reluctant to make: to determine the extent to which losses of noses, eyes and limbs are tied to iconoclastic acts. To date, historians and most conservators have attributed damage to accidents or unspecific vandalism, but not to targeted violence. This is due in part to a lack of archival evidence, but also because secondary paints often mask critical information on surfaces and in internal structures. POLYCHROME will harness technologies from the natural sciences to create, from the ground up, the first analytical overview of c. 150 polychromed objects that are (or potentially were) partially mutilated. The material data will offer essential foundations for determining whether damages and losses can be linked to violence, accidents or inherent weakness. The data will guide the mapping of restorations and repairs, and will establish foundations for multidisciplinary studies and cross-cultural debates about heritage values and the future care of religious heritage in the Nordics. The outcomes will complicate conversations about the preserving effects of Lutheranism on medieval devotional objects, and will influence training priorities for years to come.

Keywords: medieval,nordic,heritage,material culture,damage,history,polychrome,paint,wood,reformation,lutheran,devotion,violence,mutilation,disempowerment,fragment,loss,overpaint,repair,survival
Fostering Artificial Intelligence Trust for Humans towards the optimization of trustworthiness through large-scale pilots in critical domains (FAITH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Norway,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Estonia,United Kingdom,Romania
Call: Large Scale pilots on trustworthy AI data and robotics addressing key societal challenges (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8628146.0
EU funding (EUR): 7455585.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing requirement for trustworthy AI systems across diverse application domains has become a pressing need not least due to the critical role that AI plays in the ongoing digital transformation addressing urgent socio-economic needs. Despite the numerous recommendations and standards, most AI practitioners and decision makers, still prioritize system performance as the main metric in their workflows often neglecting to verify and quantify core attributes of trustworthiness including traceability, robustness, security, transparency and usability. In addition, trustworthiness is not assessed throughout the lifecycle of AI system development so developers often fail to grasp a holistic view across different AI risks. Last, the lack of a unified, multi-disciplinary AI, Data and Robotics ecosystem for assessing trustworthiness across several critical AI application domains hampers the definition and implementation of a robust AI paradigm shift framework towards increased trustworthiness and accelerated AI adoption. To address this critical unmet needs, FAITH innovation action will develop and validate a human-centric, trustworthiness optimization ecosystem, which enables measuring, optimizing and counteracting the risks associated with AI adoption and trustworthiness in critical domains, namely robotics, education, media, transport, healthcare, active ageing, and industrial processes through seven international Large Scale Pilots. Notably, cross-fertilization actions will create a joint outcome, which will bring together the visions and specificities of all the pilots. To this end, the project will adopt a dynamic risk management approach following EU legislative instruments and ENISA guidelines and deliver tools to be widely used across different countries and settings while diverse stakeholders’ communities will be engaged in the each pilot delivering seven sector-specific reports on trustworthiness to accelerate AI take-up.

Keywords: robust trustworthy ai related risks,trustworthiness assessment framework,human centered approach,traceability,robustness,security,transparency,usability,large scale pilots in critical d mains