Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Closing the immunization gap by reaching zero-dose children through improved equitable and cost-effective vaccine delivery strategies (REACH-OUT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Rwanda,Kenya,Nigeria,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland
Call: Improving modes of delivery, deployment, and uptake of vaccines through phase IV/implementation research (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2023-02-two-stage, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5214140.5
EU funding (EUR): 5214140.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

In spite of high immunization coverage in many countries, pockets of zero-dose (ZD) children still exist as well as communities neglected by current immunisation efforts. The Immunization Agenda 2030â€™s goal of reducing the global count of ZD children by 50% remains unfulfilled and has faced setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The REACH-OUT project endeavours to contribute to this crucial goal by developing and testing enhanced strategies for the delivery of essential routine vaccines to ZD children in Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda. The project has delineated four specific objectives. First, we will gather and analyze survey data on vaccination behaviour factors to better comprehend ZD children. Also, advanced geospatial and epidemiological methods will enrich existing geographical information systems (GIS) and create precise risk maps for immunization support. Second, by employing a human-centered approach, we will design GIS-augmented vaccine delivery strategies tailored for ZD children. Innovative geospatial decision-support tools will optimize micro-planning, implementation, and monitoring. Third, in each target country, we will conduct thorough implementation studies and scenario analyses via epidemiological models to assess the interventions' (cost-)effectiveness, financial sustainability, and equity impact. Fourth, we will strengthen the capabilities of in-country partners and stakeholders. We'll explore scalability to ensure sustainability beyond the project, fostering wider adoption. This endeavour will be taken forward by a robust consortium of eight partners, including five from the EU and three from sub-Saharan African countries, providing a multidisciplinary expertise in public health, health service research and health policy, medical science, epidemiology, statistics and health economics.

Keywords: geospatial modelling,equity,universal coverage,zero dose children,vaccine delivery,vaccine hesitancy,vaccine behaviour,human centred design,implementation science
EdTech Talents (EdTech Talents)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Serbia,Hungary,Spain,Germany,Austria,Lithuania
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Talents (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999585.63
EU funding (EUR): 2999585.63
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The recent COVID-19 era demonstrated the need for seamless education, accessible under most challenging circumstances. It was revealed that while the technologies for facing these challenges exist, more work is needed to adapt these in modern education – a task that requires significant collaborative effort from academia and the rapidly developing Educational Technology Sector (EdTech) in order to involve best practices and validate novel products and services for the real world classroom use. For various reasons, this collaboration has been meagre so far. The goal of the EdTech Talents project is to strengthen academia/non-academia cooperation and reinforce the EdTech innovation ecosystems of Estonia, Hungary and Serbia by conducting a long-term knowledge transfer process for (a) the researchers and their support staff of these widening countries to learn from the EdTech spin-offs and consulting companies of Austria, Germany and Spain; and (b) the researchers of these advanced countries to share their relevant intellectual capital with the EdTech start-ups of these widening countries. During this process, knowledge transfer is supported via dedicated mentoring and training that aim at establishing continuous and more impactful flow of innovation, ideas, knowledge, know-how and relevant services among all involved, corresponding with the scope of ERA Policy Agenda and ERA Talents call for cross-sectoral talent circulation and academia-business collaboration, with the focus on widening countries.

Keywords: digital education innovation educational technology innovation education and training it skills and competence
Short-time analysis of large-scale structures in unsteady flows (STALSUns)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206641.2
EU funding (EUR): 206641.2
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

State-of-the-art investigations of the hydrodynamic stability of flow fields of industrial significance are limited to time-invariant or time-periodic flows. This is due to the lack of a robust and affordable methodology capable of obtaining the stability and sensitivity information of complex aperiodic and chaotic flows. Ground-breaking theoretical and numerical concepts are necessary to provide new insight into the dynamic behaviour of unsteady flow systems and develop models for their physically founded control. This project aims to develop a theoretical/numerical methodology that enables the effective study of the stability and the sensitivity of aperiodic and chaotic flow systems of industrial relevance. A new computational tool will be developed to perform finite-time Lyapunov exponent analysis in three-dimensional compressible unsteady flows, which will allow to characterize the perturbations producing chaos in a given flow system. This tool will be combined with a novel computational methodology based on adjoint shadowing techniques, which will enable the study of the sensitivity of aperiodic and chaotic flows to long-term averaged objectives. The developed tools will be applied to two problems of practical interest in the aerospace industry: the unsteady separated flow in a low-pressure turbine blade and the unsteady flow induced by a real wing undergoing fast variations in the pitching angle. These analyses will allow to extract useful dynamical information about the most relevant coherent structures in the studied flow fields and exploit it to exercise flow control. For the first problem, experimental investigations will also be performed at Purdue Experimental Turbine Aerothermal Laboratory to test flow-control concepts devised during the numerical analyses. For the second problem, the investigations will be performed during a placement at Airbus Defence and Space.

Keywords: hydrodynamic stability,sensitivity,unsteady flows,chaotic systems,coherent structures
Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour (IDILAB)

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: Norway,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-08-15
End date: 2026-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

Keywords: migrant workers,digitalisation,automation,platform work
Electron Nose: Acquisition and Modification of Hierarchically Nanostructured Oxide Active Materials for Advanced Biological Gas Sensor (E-NOSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Türkiye,Poland,Portugal,Italy,Uzbekistan,Azerbaijan,Serbia,Ukraine
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1910971.43
EU funding (EUR): 1619200.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The project represents a pioneering endeavor in the realm of gas sensor development, harnessing the latest advancements in powder nanotechnologies and adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary scientific approach. By pushing the boundaries of current sensor capabilities, the project aims to create a new generation of gas sensors that excel in sensitivity and response time, outperforming existing prototypes. Through the intricate integration of multiparametric signal processing algorithms and state-of-the-art nano powder metal-oxide sensors, the project endeavors to fabricate miniature devices akin to an "Electronic Nose." These devices will not only mimic the sophisticated capabilities of biological analogs but also exhibit a high level of component integration, setting new standards in sensor technology. Furthermore, the project's scope extends beyond mere sensor development. It envisions the creation of a novel global security system, leveraging the envisioned sensors embedded within mobile communication devices. This innovative system holds the promise of revolutionizing security measures by enabling highly localized detection of various threats, including epidemic outbreaks, fires, and terrorist activities. As a culmination of these efforts, the project aims to generate patentable outcomes, ranging from novel sensor materials to groundbreaking analytical methodologies. These outcomes have the potential to drive significant advancements not only in sensor technology but also in the broader fields of security and public health monitoring.

Keywords: nanomaterials,gas analysers detectors,hierarchically structured sensitive oxide nanostructures
An interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine for science (interTwin)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Poland,France,Switzerland,Czechia,Italy,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,Greece,Estonia,Portugal,Slovenia,Lithuania
Call: Interdisciplinary digital twins for modelling and simulating complex phenomena at the service of research infrastructure communities (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-TECH-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11731666.75
EU funding (EUR): 11731664.96
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

interTwin co-designs and implements the prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE), an open source platform that provides generic and tailored software components for modelling and simulation to integrate application-specific Digital Twins (DTs). Its specifications and implementation are based on a co-designed conceptual model - the DTE blueprint architecture - guided by the principles of open standards and interoperability. The ambition is to develop a common approach to the implementation of DTs that is applicable across the whole spectrum of scientific disciplines and beyond to facilitate developments and collaboration. Co-design involves DT use cases for High energy physics, Radio astronomy, Astroparticle physics, Climate research, and Environmental monitoring, whose complex requirements are expected to significantly advance the state of the art of modelling and simulation using heterogeneous distributed digital infrastructures, advanced workflow composition, real-time data management and processing, quality and uncertainty tracing of models, data fusion and analytics. As a result, a consolidation of software technologies supporting research will emerge. The validation of the technology with multiple infrastructure facilities, will boost the accessibility of users to technological capacity and the support of AI uptake in research. interTwin builds on the capacities of experts from pan-European research infrastructures and the long tail of science, an open source community of technology providers that will deliver TRL 6/7 capabilities to implement the interdisciplinary DTE, experts of the European Centre of Excellence in Exascale Computing, and infrastructure providers from the EGI Federation, PRACE and EuroHPC supporting data and compute intensive science. interTwin key exploitable results will be continually co-developed and aligned with the contribution of external initiatives such as Destination Earth, EOSC, EuroGEO and EU data spaces.

Keywords: digitaltwin co design simulations ai hpc interoperability
Precision vision: hyperacuity in bee flower detection and its effects on the evolution of plant signalling (PreciVision)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The spatial resolution of insect eyes has historically been regarded as implausibly poor. Considering only the static optic apparatus of the compound eye, many scholars thought that insects could only see as many “pixels” as the eye had ommatidial lenses – depending on species, some dozen to a few thousand. If true, this would render insects virtually blind to many fine-grained biological signals supposedly directed at them, such as the intricate patterns on many flowers. However, the postdoctoral researcher discovered in field experiments that bees’ ability in detecting and identifying flowers from a distance far exceeds these theoretical limits. Correspondingly, recent breakthroughs in visual physiology indicate that active-sensing strategies, scanning algorithms and photoreceptor movements can render insect vision an order of magnitude sharper than the optical apparatus suggests. For the first time, we explore such hyperacuity in a real-life setting: the detection and identification of floral colour patterns by pollinating bees, using state-of-the-art laboratory experiments of hyperacuity. The ecological validity will be tested using the colour patterns of iconic food-deceptive orchids and other conspicuously-patterned flowers. This interdisciplinary approach, linking the fellow’s expertise in wildflower pollination with the host’s track record in insect sensory biology, makes use of cutting-edge methodologies such as lab-based psychophysics experiments, AI based-analyses of insect flight, radar-tracking and motion-sensitive cameras at wildflowers to unravel the enigma of why flowers exhibit the striking fine-grained patterns they often do. The project will generate a major step change in our understanding of biological signalling and interspecies communication, unveiling how active sensing can generate hyperacute vision, its benefits in the economy of nature, and explaining the evolution and diversity of floral colour patterns.

Keywords: plant pollinator interaction,plant animal communication,multimodal signals,long range communication,plant ecology
Decolonizing International Biodiversity Law : Digital Sequence Information as a revealer (DecoLawBiodiv)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499842.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499841.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Access & benefit sharing (ABS) mechanisms - where access to genetic resources (generally in developing countries) is bargained against benefits used for conservation actions – were formed to mitigate deep inequalities between countries and biodiversity actors originating in the colonial history of plant genetic resources’ collection and use. However, these inequalities are currently under threat by technological innovation such as Digital Sequence Information (DSI), which alter the nature of bio-based R&D. DSI revives the past ABS fight between the Global North and South over the control of genetic resource. It is thus urgent to unpack the issues at stake by listening to all actors involved in biodiversity conservation and DSI innovation. In response, DecoLawBiodiv proposes a novel approach to explore how a decolonial reading of biodiversity conservation law can contribute to reach the international objectives of biodiversity conservation laws, sustainable use and fair and equitable ABS. DecoLAwBiodiv will dig to the roots of the ABS North/South divide and (1) account for actors’ interactions, including power games in negotiation arenas; (2) highlight the multiple actor groups’ understandings of key ABS concepts, rights and obligations; and (3) scrutinize the negotiation processes using a decolonial lens. DecoLawBiodiv’s theoretical ground-breaking nature lies in the holistic study of DSI within the ABS market-based, legal and institutional frameworks using conflict transformation theory. The methodological originality is to spell out the decolonial lens through the circle of dialogue of wisdom method in 3 case studies (Bolivia, India, South Africa) in order to transform the ABS/DSI conflict into mutual understanding and support between actors and lead to a decolonized co-creation of knowledge for an effective international biodiversity conservation legal regime.

Keywords: access and benefit sharing multilateral system of access and benefit sharing digital sequence information biodiversity conservation law international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture decolonial approach farmers rights
Ultrafast Picoscopy of Solids (ULPIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Material science, quantum chemistry, electrical and quantum engineering in the 21st century focus on manipulating and harnessing the properties of matter at the level of atoms and electrons. Advancing these technological capabilities to their ultimate limit calls for novel imaging techniques that can allow us to peer into matter at the level of valence electrons and follow their dynamics in space (tens of picometers) and time (femtosecond to attoseconds). Here we propose the development and use of ultrafast picoscopy to attain this grand goal of ultrafast and microscopy sciences. Intense laser fields can drive the coherent motion of electrons inside crystals to emit high harmonics of the fundamental whose spectral characteristics embody critical information about the spatial arrangement of electrons and atoms in the sub-angstrom scale. By combining this capability with state-of-the-art laser pulses whose field waveform is confined to a fraction of a femtosecond (optical attosecond pulses), it should be possible to record movies of electrons in solids in picometer space and attosecond time scales. Ultrafast picoscopy aims at enabling the three-dimensional visualization of the chemical bond in condensed matter, the detailed visualization of structural changes in crystalline materials and the real-time tracking of atomic and electron motion in ordinary and correlated materials. We anticipate the technique and the results of this endeavour to yield benefits to a broad range of scientific disciplines ranging from physics and quantum chemistry to material science and information technology.

Keywords: attosecond physics,nonlinear optics,high harmonic generation in solids,strong field physics