Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enabling Interlaminar Fracture Testing of MULTIdirectional composite LAMinates for safe and efficient structures (IFT-MultiLam)

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,Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175166.76
EU funding (EUR): 175166.76
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at solving long-standing problems affecting the characterisation of interlaminar properties of high-performance fibre reinforced polymer matrix composites. For these materials, interlaminar fracture, known as delamination, represents one of the most critical damage mechanisms. Standard procedures to characterise interlaminar fracture toughness exist, but their scope is restricted to use with unidirectional specimens, in which delamination is propagated along the fibre direction. On the other hand, real components and structures are made using multidirecitonal laminates, where delamination may appear at any interface and propagate in any direction; under such condition, interlaminar fracture toughness may be different from that obtained in standard tests. This results in uncertainties in structural design, and thus to oversized, inefficient structures. Until now, problems caused by elastic couplings, residual thermal stresses and delamination migration have prevented an effective interlaminar characterisation for multidirectional laminates. Recently, however, a new class of delamination specimens (Fully-Uncoupled Multi-Directional, FUMD) eliminating elastic couplings and reducing problems related to residual stresses has been proposed; also, new insight on the migration phenomenon has emerged. These developments open new possibilities. This project will combine the experience of the participating organisations on delamination migration and that of the researcher on FUMD specimens to explore these possibilities and achieve, for the first time, an effective, problem-free, characterisation of interlaminar fracture in multidirectional laminates. Possibly, this will contribute towards the creation of standard procedures, with an impact on the composite industry on a global scale. Lightwight structural design practices will benefit from this, contributing toward a more efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly transportation sector.

Keywords: composites,interlaminar fracture,delamination
EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations (EDGAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Germany,Italy,Switzerland
Call: EGNSS applications for Smart mobility (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2296892.25
EU funding (EUR): 1886658.84
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

EDGAR (EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations) Project aims at contributing towards the development of an improved, more liable, and accurate GBAS solution that responds, on the one hand, to the increasing demand for enhanced approach and all-weather operations in the ever-growing volume of air operations; and on the other hand, to sustainability requirements towards the compliance with EU Green Deal objectives. Being GBAS an enabler of enhance approach and optimised descent operations permits the reduction of noise footprints, fuel consumption and emissions, thus contributing to greener flights. Moreover, this project pursues to contribute to the goal of an early Dual-Frequency Multi-Constellation, or DFMC, GBAS adoption that allows facing ILS CAT III rationalization thanks to the increased robustness and thus rendering benefits to the aviation community. Therefore, the application of GBAS alongside EGNSS will technically improve the current system and will have a positive impact on the economy and society. Hence, the main objectives of this proposal are: to further develop and validate the GBAS DFMC solution so as to modernise and improve air operations, with emphasis on providing safety, availability, and robustness in all situations, including during challenging to ionospheric conditions; to analyse the distinguishing features of Single-Frequency Multi-Constellation, or SFMC, GBAS brought by the addition of Galileo; and to facilitate CAT II service to GAST C airborne users based on a GAST D ground station with EGNSS integration (GAST C and D correspond to standardized single-frequency single-constellation equipment able to provide CAT I and III performances respectively).

Keywords: gbas,dfmc,egnss
The Mosaic Design Strategy: Application to Underwater Acoustic Functionalities (MDS-APP-UAF)

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: Spain,France
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): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The MDS-APPThe MDS-APP-UAF action is supervised by Professor Vicente Romero-García at Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada (IUMPA) at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. This proposal is on the implementation of a novel "mosaic design strategy" to the fabrication of an underwater acoustic impedance tube prototype, as well as the realization of an underwater acoustic absorber with a broadband absorption spectrum and thickness that can surpass the causal constraint. The proposed project combines theoretical modelling, simulations, and experiments. The successful completion of this project can have commercialization implications with the attendant effect of propelling the research and development activities in the underwater acoustics area. The proposed action is seconded by the Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Mans at Le Mans Université (LAUM). LAUM represents one of the largest acoustics laboratories in the European Union. Therefore, it will complement the mathematical and physical skills provided by IUMPA with the acoustics and mechanics needed for the project. Both IUMPA's and LAUM's activities range from basic research to industrial collaborations, with connections with many of the leading universities and research institutions in Europe. Both offer an ideal environment for the successful completion of this proposed project (including scientific management, dissemination and exploitation activities) and its subsequent trials prior to commercialization considerations. This inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary action is also actively seeking cooperation with European acoustic companies, aims to extend the development of underwater acoustics in academic research and industrialization. It would also contribute to broadening the applicant's horizon in the European Research Area, strengthening her multidisciplinary skills to grow into a mature researcher and enhancing host's international influence in the relevant fields.

Keywords: underwater acoustics,mosaic design strategy,experimental test,finite element simulation,portable underwater acoustic measuring device,ultra thin underwater sound absorbing metamaterials
Touch Detection Through Autocatalytic Transmission of Mechano-Chemical Signals (TactoChem)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2101250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2101250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Life would be unthinkable without a sense of touch, for which we rely on densely distributed (mechano)sensors as part of our sensorimotor system, allowing us to grab objects and manipulate tools. From early on in life, reflexive movements (i.e., baby grasp reflex) ensure tight integration of sensing, signal processing, and movement. Such high-density local integration poses a fundamental challenge for robotics, as robotic sensing remains limited and expensive. Advancements in tactile sensing technologies based on new chemistry will be key enablers for future robots, particularly based on soft materials that are at the helm of a materials revolution for medical and general purpose robotics. With TactoChem, I will develop an artificial reflex arc for soft materials based on chemical mechanosensors that initiate chemical signaling cascades for movement. Chemical mechanosensors, similar to biological ones, are inherently nanoscale, scalable, and integrate with a material´s chemistry. Yet current mechanochemical tools are not designed for repeated production of strong signals and eliciting motion. Moreover, diffusive signaling is slow. TactoChem will establish new mechanophores – molecules that respond to mechanical force – and use autocatalysis to amplify their signal. To enable selective, even parallel signaling, and rapid movements of soft materials, we will leverage autocatalytic reactions locally delivered through networks of channels (synthetic vasculature). The resulting chemical analog of basic movement reflexes, akin to the knee-jerk or to baby grasp reflexes, will provide a first integrated chemical system for touch-based movement control. Mastering a sense of touch by chemical means will enable the design of novel robotic components made from soft materials without the need for electronic circuits and external power. As such, it has the power to fundamentally change how we think and design materials and robots.

Keywords: stimuli responsive materials,hydrogels,soft actuators,mechanophores,mechanochemistry,signal amplification,systems chemistry,microfluidics,soft robotics,organic synthesis
Improving QMRI By Realizing trustworthy integration of AI in Neuro-imaging (IQ-BRAIN)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Belgium,Portugal,Netherlands,Germany,Norway,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4318902.51
EU funding (EUR): 3982140.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

MRI is a key methodology in modern neuroimaging, but conventional MRI relies on visual interpretation of intensity differences in the images, which is heavily dependent on scanner settings. Quantitative MRI (qMRI) is an attractive alternative MRI method that allows quantitative measurement of physical tissue parameters, enabling objective comparison between patients and across time. Moreover, qMRI facilitates early detection of pathological changes in the brain resulting from neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Unfortunately, and despite the demonstrated potential in research settings, the implementation of qMRI in routine clinical practice remains limited due to long scan and post-processing times. While recent developments in artificial intelligence have the potential to accelerate and improve medical imaging pipelines, reduced transparency about the underlying processes, the lack of training data sets and limited information about the accuracy of the results has limited its use for clinical qMRI applications so far. In IQ-BRAIN, we propose a unique research and training programme that tackles this urgent need for improved and accelerated qMRI methodology for neuroimaging applications. By integrating both physics-based models and trustworthy artificial intelligence methods along the qMRI pipeline, our innovative approach combines the best of both worlds. IQ-BRAIN will prepare the next generation of qMRI specialists trained in the different aspects of the qMRI-neuroimaging pipeline, that can bridge the gap between qMRI method development and clinical need. Through a training programme of network-wide events, international secondments, and strong interaction between partners from academia, industry and hospitals, IQ-BRAIN offers early-stage researchers a rich combination of knowledge, expertise and essential transferable skills that prepares them for a thriving career as R&D professionals in the qMRI field.

Keywords: quantitative mri,diffusion mri,mr relaxometry,asl
Reconstructing social memory through Moroccan women's writing: female prison literature between the 1970's and the 2010's (RESOMFEM)

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,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

The project proposes an innovative analysis of writings by women in Morocco published between the 1970s and the 2010s that deal with prison experiences during the period known as the Years of Lead (c. 1965-1999). The project’s general objective is to analyse how Moroccan women’s prison writings contribute to incorporating women’s participation in social and political issues in accounts about Moroccan history. The texts studies will include the different genres (testimonies, poetry, letters and fiction) and languages (Arabic and French) in which they are written. The project aims at localising and analysing the different texts of this thematic published by women in Morocco between the 1970s and the 2010s. Taking a feminist perspective, this project considers that prison writings by women can constitute examples of alternative history and contribute to the reconfiguration of social memory by bringing women’s experience to the centre and claiming their role in in the movement of political prisoners as structural rather than as exceptional or secondary. In addition, the project also intends to shift Moroccan women’s position from objects to producers of discourse to challenge orientalist constructions that prevail in hegemonic cultural perspective and to break stereotyped images about the “Moroccan woman” that portray them as passive rather than as active individuals.

Keywords: contemporary arabic literature,moroccan literature,prison literature,women s writing,feminism
Co-creating a blueprint of a harmonised European Forest Multifunctionality Monitoring System - MoniFun (MoniFun)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Spain,Italy,Czechia,Germany,Norway,Denmark,Sweden,Austria,Switzerland,Netherlands,Belgium
Call: Monitoring the multi-functionality of European forests (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

MoniFun will use a multi-actor approach to co-create a blueprint for a harmonized European Forest Multifunctionality Monitoring System (EFMMS), which consolidates currently fragmented information about the forest multifunctionality into a comprehensive, interoperable information system that integrates existing platforms and data sources, and fulfils the needs of diverse stakeholders, policies and society. First MoniFun will map the information needs of different stakeholders. Then experts in different fields of forest ,multifunctionality will co-develop these information needs into harmonized indicators and co-create a technical description of EFMMS and proposals for its permanent governance and funding. Smooth routines are developed and validated using datasets of project beneficiaries for (a) using of field plot data (e.g. from NFIs) with remote sensing data (e.g. Copernicus) for mapping of forest multifunctionality without compromising the confidentiality of the plot coordinates, (b) using artificial intelligence for real-time monitoring of rapid changes in forests, (c) producing harmonized statistical estimates with accuracy and granularity meeting the stakeholder information needs and (d) forecasting ecosystem services related to climate and biodiversity for various timespans to evaluate the effects of forest policies. Grants to third parties will be used for validating the developed methods and analysing the possibilities for using blockchains for updating information from existing datasets to EFMMS. Efficient information sharing with several past and ongoing projects (DIABOLO, PathFinder, FORWARDS, ForestPaths) is ensured by including project coordinators as partners in MoniFun. The blueprint will respond to the urgent need for the development of European Forest Monitoring system and after being implement, support successful planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based policies, as well as mitigation and adaptation measures at the European level.

Keywords: forest resources,multifunctionality,field data,remote sensing,multi actor approach,information system,forest policy,ecosystem services,biodiversity,bioeconomy,forest soils,climate change
Systemic Physical climate risk in complex adaptive economies (SPHINX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Globally climate change already manifests via physical risks – damages from floods, storms, wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and sea-level rise. Concerns are rising that these risks may become systemic, adversely affecting the entire socio-economic system. Yet, there is no comprehensive understanding of key processes driving systemic physical climate risks, and surprisingly few quantitative assessments. Scientific progress is hindered by limitations of past data to represent future choices in a changing climate and by the inability of conventional economic models to capture non-linear tipping. To address this gap, SPHINX will fundamentally advance simulation methods and consolidate novel data to understand how systemic physical climate risks emerge in the socio-economic system, and to explore strategies to curtail their spiraling costs. The ground-breaking nature of SPHINX stems from its unique combination of: 1) Theory-based mechanisms hypothesizing causal links in socio-economic systems and decisions under risk; 2) Novel microdata on forward-looking expectations of households and businesses, including diverse views on a fair distribution of public adaptation resources; 3) Advances in agent-based modeling to trace dynamics of cross-scale risk contagion and feedbacks under adaptive expectations of heterogeneous agents; 4) Pioneering methods to integrate bottom-up risk transmission channels into established macroeconomic models conventionally used to trace cascading cross-sectoral and cross-border effects but able to handle marginal changes only. SPHINX lays the scientific foundations for a new way to account for non-linear tipping in socio-economic systems, significantly advancing methods to elicit systemic physical climate risks, while exploring proactive strategies to avert them for archetypes of European regions. Foreseen impacts reach beyond the domain of physical climate risks to other applications where socio-economic tipping points are crucial.

Keywords: climate change adaptation agent based model complex socio economic systems survey
Learning Digital Humans in Motion (LeMo)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are taking part in a revolution of how people perceive each other and how they communicate in the digital space. Emerging technologies demonstrate how humans can be digitized such that their digital doubles (digital humans) can be viewed in mixed or virtual reality applications. Especially, for immersive telepresence these 3D digital humans are of high interest since people can see each other in augmented (AR) or virtual reality (VR), and can interact with each other. For an immersive experience this requires a high-quality level of appearance reproduction as well as the estimation of subtle motions of the human. Besides quality aspects, digital humans need to be reconstructed and driven by consumer-grade hardware solutions (e.g., a webcam) to enable a wide applicability of digital humans for immersive telecommunication, virtual mirrors (e-commerce), or other entertainment purposes (e.g., computer games). In this proposal, we concentrate on the computer vision and graphics aspects of capturing and rendering (realizing) motions and appearances of photo-realistic digital humans reconstructed with commodity hardware and ask the question: Can we leverage natural language for the reconstruction, representation, and modelling of the appearance, motion, and interactions of digital humans? As the face and gestures play an important role during conversations, we focus our research on the upper body of the human, aiming at capturing and synthesizing complete, contact-rich digital humans with life-like motions. We will analyze how humans move and will develop data-driven motion synthesis methods that learn how to generate talking and listening motion with interactions of the hand with the face.

Keywords: neural rendering,motion synthesis,language driven reconstruction,3d reconstruction,appearance modelling