Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
riSk-based Approach For the protEction of public spaces in European CITIES (SAFE-CITIES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Fighting Crime and Terrorism
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Cyprus,Netherlands,Greece,Poland,Finland,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call: Improved preparedness on attacks to public spaces (HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3367420.18
EU funding (EUR): 2752617.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Over the past decades, Europe has experienced several terrorist attacks, proving that this threat is still real and serious, while perpetrators are finding new methods to penetrate current security measures. Although grave attacks have so far been rather infrequent, it is still a reality that EU citizens may be suddenly caught up in a terrorist incident, while at the stadium, shopping in a mall, commuting, visiting a cultural venue, or in any other public space. Besides, more terrorist attacks are associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and happiness among the EU population. One in five people in the EU are indeed very worried about a terrorist attack in the next 12 months. Terrorist attacks also lower EU citizens’ trust in fellow citizens, national political, legal and police institutions. SAFE-CITIES aims to support excellence in the protection of public spaces, by delivering and demonstrating a Security and Vulnerability Assessment framework, empowered by a decision-support platform for its implementation, in 4 use-cases across 5 EU countries. This will allow for simulation of complex scenarios, crowd behaviour and attacks in any space within a realistic virtual 3D environment, enabling end-users to perform comprehensive and dynamic risk and vulnerability assessments of the site investigated, to identify potential vulnerabilities against a wide number of threats and support the full engagement and cooperation of public and private actors, including citizens, into the elaboration of strategies, to make public spaces secure while preserving their open nature. The Consortium brings together 17 partners from 9 countries (Italy, Cyprus, Netherlands, Greece, Poland, UK, Belgium, Finland, Slovenia). To effectively carry out the 32 months project, the project team includes local and regional authorities, Police authorities, First Responders organizations, RTOs and academia, CSO, security industry cluster association, and high-tech SMEs specialised in security.

Keywords: security,terrorism,vulnerability,risk assessment,simulation,urban design,citizens
The Structure of Normativity (REASONS F1RST)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499477.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499477.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Some of the core fields of philosophy – including moral philosophy, value theory, and epistemology – are, at their heart, concerned with normative questions: questions about what is good or bad, right or wrong, justified or unjustified. These questions concern the content of judgements that human beings are constantly making and that structure our way of thinking, feeling, and acting. But while there is wide agreement in contemporary philosophy that normative judgements form a unified and important category of human thought, philosophers still struggle to understand what normativity actually is. One highly attractive hypothesis is that normativity can be analysed in terms of reasons – i.e. in terms of the factors that count in favour of or against actions or attitudes. But the systematic exploration of this Reasons-First Approach is still lacking. REASONS F1RST aims to undertake this much-needed investigation. Fostering multidisciplinary conversations, the project will explore the Reasons-First Approach on a large scale. It seeks to address recent challenges to the Reasons-First Approach and to show that it prevails over alternative approaches to understanding normativity. REASONS F1RST thus pursues a twofold objective: (i) to assess the merits and demerits of the Reasons-First Approach compared to alternative proposals and (ii) to work out in detail how different normative phenomena – including values, obligations and rights, the justification of beliefs, as well as appropriateness norms for emotions – can be explained in terms of reasons. Building on the work of a multidisciplinary research team, REASONS F1RST aims at nothing less than a fundamental understanding of one of the most important concepts of contemporary philosophy.

Keywords: analytic philosophy,conceptual analysis,normativity,meta ethics,meta normativity,meta epistemology,epistemology,moral philosophy,ethical theory,value theory,philosophy of mind,philosophy of language,philosophy of emotions
Mutations of mtDNA - inheriting without perishing (TransMit)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mutations of mtDNA cause mitochondrial diseases and are heavily implicated in the pathophysiology of age-associated diseases and ageing. Low levels of mtDNA mutations are universally present in somatic tissues of all humans and mtDNA mutations have been reported to contribute to age-associated diseases. Somatic mutations of mtDNA often arise during the massive mtDNA replication in embryogenesis and can accumulate postnatally by clonal expansion. Furthermore, ongoing mtDNA replication during adult life also contributes to the burden of mtDNA mutations in mammalian somatic tissues. Mammalian mtDNA is maternally transmitted without germline recombination and this asexual mode of transmission should theoretically lead to a mutational meltdown over generations, the so-called Muller ratchet. At least two poorly understood mechanisms in the maternal germline counteract the transmission of mutated mtDNA from mother to offspring, i.e., the bottleneck mechanism and purifying selection. The bottleneck mechanism ensures that only a fraction of the pool of mtDNA variation in the mother is transmitted to the offspring. The purifying selection functionally tests mtDNA and decreases transmission of mutations. In this proposal we will use powerful mouse models and completely new experimental strategies to study how mammalian mtDNA mutations are inherited and how somatic mtDNA mutations contribute to age-associated disease and ageing. Maternally inherited pathogenic mtDNA mutations often cause life-threatening incurable diseases with failure of multiple organs in humans. Unfortunately, the principles for inheritance of pathogenic mtDNA mutations are often unclear and the knowledge generated in this proposal will give a better basis for genetic counselling. Furthermore, the mechanisms counteracting a mutational meltdown of the non-recombining, maternally transmitted mtDNA is a central question in biology of great basic scientific interest.

Keywords: mitochondria,mtdna,maternal transmission,oxphos
Dynamic Markets with Information Asymmetries: Strategic and Non-Strategic Information Transmission (DynamicInfoAsym)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1136046.0
EU funding (EUR): 1136046.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims to advance our understanding of information transmission in dynamic markets by examining two specific scenarios: (i) information transmission by strategic agents and (ii) information transmission by algorithms. Its core focus revolves around the analysis of competition in dynamic markets with asymmetric information. The proposal encompasses both positive and normative analyses, offering insights into the ongoing discourse on predatory and algorithmic pricing. The project comprises three ambitious tasks: The first part develops a state-of-the-art theoretical workhorse model. Unlike the previous literature, it does not follow the “reputation” approach, which assumes the existence of a type committed to playing specific behavior. Instead, it adopts a fully strategic model, which, in turn, enables a thorough examination of the impact of policy and regulatory decisions on consumer welfare or market efficiency in a variety of markets since the equilibrium predictions do not depend on the endogenously specified behavioral types. The second part showcases the applications of the tools developed in Part 1 across different environments and how the resulting insights can inform policy debates on regulation. When applied to dynamic limit pricing, the model reveals a novel tradeoff: strategic delay. Entrants may opt to delay their entry decisions to gather more information about market conditions, which potentially could lead to a decrease in consumer welfare. This suggests that antitrust policies should also consider strategic delay, rather than solely focusing on the occurrence of entry when deciding whether limit pricing negatively affects consumers or not. The final part of the project examines decisions made by algorithms rather than strategic agents and draws comparisons with Part 2. This part holds the potential to contribute significantly to the regulation of Artificial Intelligence, particularly within the framework of the EU AI Act.

Keywords: asymmetric information,dynamic games,signaling,oligopoly,algorithmic pricing,regulation,limit pricing
Interdisciplinary Model for Understanding Climate Change Adaptation (IMUCCA)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Social scientists have generally treated climate change (CC) vulnerability as homogeneous across social space, underestimating the serious social distortions and conflicts it produces. Previous research conducted by the Fellow suggests that CC impact is unevenly distributed, even within small social units such as Indian villages and Fijian islands. This project is guided by a hypothesis based on the Fellow's earlier work: economic and social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, religion, caste, etc.) have an overwhelming impact on CC vulnerability and adaptation practices. Examining one of the regions in the world where the impact of CC is most advanced – rural India – the proposed project aims to generate detailed empirical data for tracing the connections between CC and existing social hierarchies. Under the supervision of a leading expert in modelling, the result of empirical project will be turned into a generalisable model that can be used to understand and predict other agrarian societies’ experiences of CC, and their differential modes of adaptation. Drawing on debates in economic sociology, socioecology and environmental economics, the project's empirical research will take place in two villages in Maharashtra, India, where agriculture is in the midst of an ongoing crisis caused by biophysical processes. The Fellow will employ mixed methods, using structured quantitative household surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews, which will be collected during two visits to India. The development of an evidence-based framework will be a pioneering contribution to our knowledge about the differing ways in which different members of a society are impacted by, and respond to, CC. As such, it addresses core EU objectives, such as “preparedness for the impact of climate change to protect lives and assets,” so helping confirm the EU as leading developer of knowledge solutions for the most pressing problems of humanity.

Keywords: climate change,climate change adaptation,climate change vulnerability,agrarian societies,rural india,climate change perception
Modulation of complex lipids to promote healthy aging (LipidAge)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Aging has long been considered a passive process that could not be reverted. Fortunately, it is now clear from genetic and pharmacological intervention studies that aging is actively regulated and can be influenced to reduce the burden of age-related diseases, such as neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Studies in various organisms established the importance of dysregulated lipids in the development of aging and age-related diseases. It remains unclear, however, how complex lipids and lipid metabolism causally affect aging, and the mechanisms are poorly understood. In my preliminary lipidomics analysis in ten different tissues of aged mice, I found a striking accumulation of bis(monoacylglycero)-phosphate (BMP) in all tissues. While little is known about BMPs, one lysosomal enzyme that has been described to contribute to its production is PLA2G15. Remarkably, knocking down Pla2g15 in worms leads to a significant lifespan extension. Together, these findings suggest a causal involvement of Pla2g15 in aging. I hypothesize that targeting complex lipid metabolism could promote healthy aging. Therefore, the main goal of LipidAge is to unravel the role of complex lipids, specifically BMPs in the development of aging, and how these pathways and their downstream effects impinge on lysosomal functions and healthy aging. I will use human and mouse lipid data profiles, worm C. elegans, and apply a combination of molecular, biochemical and phenotypic experiments with a focus on lipids and aging. These experiments will lead to a better understanding of conserved complex lipid changes, and the role of Pla2g15 in the BMP synthesis cascade relevant for health and disease during aging.

Keywords: lipids,lysosomes,aging,phospholipids
Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics in Europe (TRACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999930.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999930.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sexual and gender diversity are constitutive elements of democratic societies which have been targeted by extreme-right populism and other anti-democratic forces. Taking queer citizenship as a set of criteria through which democracies can be evaluated, TRACE explores the extent to which the EU has influenced local political and socio-legal advancements in LGBTI+ rights, narratives and experiences over time. To respond to this aim, TRACE develops an innovative age-sensitive, analytical lens focused on ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics through which progress and backlash in countries that experienced substantial changes in their intimate citizenship regimes will be investigated. TRACE uses a multiscale life-course approach centred on gendered/sexed processes of ageing in the context of a rapidly changing Europe. LGBTI+ elders carry a unique embodied knowledge of struggle and resistance, offering a precious lens through time, from once criminalized outlaws to the intimate citizens of today’s EU LGBTI-freedom zone, who outlasted a variety of challenges, including the AIDS pandemic and related stigma. The countries included in this research are Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta and Slovenia, offering a comprehensive overview of changes across time and space in Europe, including the impacts of religion and secularism, traditional and advanced intimate regimes, and the relation to the EU LGBTI+ evolving framework. With a focus on the South as an imagined political space of silence and resistance, the research enables an in-depth portrait of different regions of Southern Europe today, grounded on the life stories of older adults whose lifespan accompanies these changes. Their shared and untold past of oppression will inform scholarly knowledge regarding current and future policymaking, particularly timely in a rapidly changing Europe grappling with the expansion of populism and anti-gender backlash.

Keywords: life course biographic narrative interpretive method bnim lgbtqi ageing democracy embodied memory european union populism and anti gender backlash
Algorithmic Auditing for Music Discoverability (AA4MD)

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: Italy,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The evolution of online platforms over the past decades has radically transformed the way people discover music, and nowadays thanks to social media and music streaming services listeners have access to an ever-increasing amount of tracks and artists. Within these platforms, one of the goals of Recommender Systems (RSs) is to help users discover music without making them feel overwhelmed while exploring the huge catalogues available. However, RSs have come under scrutiny from the scientific community, policy-makers, and civil society due to their potential negative societal impact, notably with regard to issues of fairness, non-discrimination, inclusion and diversity. Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a tool to analyse the problematic behaviours exhibited by RSs, and to offer remedies that can limit their negative impact. The AA4MD project aims to advance this area of research by crafting auditing techniques tailored specifically for music RSs. The objective of the project is to demonstrate how the involvement of end-users in the auditing process can contribute to the recognition, analysis, and mitigation of problematic behaviours which may arise while discovering music. The focus will be on highlighting how RSs, by influencing the discoverability of music, can impact listeners' exposure to culturally diverse content. In essence, AA4MD will provide 1) qualitative and quantitative insights into how users experience problematic behaviours of RSs when discovering music, 2) a web-based auditing tool that enables large-scale audits, developed following human-centred design practices, and 3) recommendations for policy-makers to enhance the discoverability of culturally diverse content on online platforms. Ultimately, the AA4MD project seeks to contribute to addressing the challenges posed by music RSs' problematic behaviours and to foster a more inclusive and diverse environment for music discovery within the digital landscape.

Keywords: recommender systems music information retrieval algorithmic auditing critical algorithm studies cultural diversity
White-label shop for digital intelligent assistance and human-AI collaboration in manufacturing (WASABI)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Lithuania,Norway,Greece,France,Belgium,Spain,Austria
Call: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing Sustainability in SMEs (I4MS2) (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8828395.19
EU funding (EUR): 7710053.53
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

WASABI aims at providing SMEs with the tools and knowledge to improve workers capacities and performance, providing advanced user interfaces for continuous augmented hybrid-decision-making. Such interfaces assist employees in interacting with complex software, effectively reducing its skill floor. In consequence, humans will find using software easier and be more open to applying it effectively at work. WASABI’s advanced interfaces will cover, for instance, situation analysis, intervention identification, action planning and execution, and impact monitoring and mitigation. One of the key technologies in WASABI’s solution portfolio is the digital intelligent assistant (DIA) - an anthropomorphic, task-oriented AI with a conversational interface. A network of DIHs that will help boosting impact by guiding SMEs in this new path will be created and integrated within other existing DIH networks. Our customized, federated, white-label shop will include such DIAs and skill-packages to help organizations reach their sustainability goals. Blue-collar and white-collar workers will be capable of using it for hands-free or eyes-free computer-interaction, AI-based advice and guidance, and augmented analytics.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,ai,manufacturing,modules,smes,midcaps,digital assistance