Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Things that Matter: Mobility and Agency of Everyday Objects in Late Medieval Italy (ThiMa)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

ThiMa challenges the assumption that action is a human prerogative by examining how everyday objects served as agents of transformation in late medieval societies. Investigating the boundary between material and human agency is particularly critical for the present, where new artificial intelligences call into question the very essence of being human. ThiMa reflects on these matters from another watershed moment in the redefinition of European material culture. Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, everyday goods diversified and there was a significant increase of objects in circulation. This period can thus serve as a crucial laboratory to explore the impact of ordinary things on people’s social behavior and emotional life. For the first time, ThiMa examines objects as agents that interacted with individuals, mediating social relationships and moving emotions, (ways of) thinking, and perceptions through their peculiar material language. To investigate these questions, this project employs a bold new comparative framework in the richly documented but diverse environments of Tuscany and Sicily. This critical move away from siloed approaches to material culture allows us to better understand how socio-economic, institutional, and legal contexts influenced the complex relationship between human and things. The project interrogates a broad range of textual and material sources, using quantitative and qualitative methods, cutting-edge digital tools and drawing on a ground-breaking theoretical framework on material agency. Thanks to this novel approach, ThiMa will profoundly advance our understanding of how humans perceive and interact with their material environment from the medieval past to the present day.

Keywords: objects material culture material agency social relationships gender roles emotions cognition italy north south socio economic divide late middle ages
A touch of Blue in the EU Research Nights for a more Sustainable Use of the Ocean (BlueNIGHTs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Finland,Romania,Portugal,Malta
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 691085.0
EU funding (EUR): 622835.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the proposal is to bring the many facets and faces of people working in ocean science & research to the general public of Europe by organising a series of interconnected EU Blue Researchers Nights (BlueNIGHTs) to demonstrate that the ocean can be a source of inspiration, an object of interest/study, and a field of investigation for people with very different backgrounds, hobbies and passions, including science, history, technology, sociology, pedagogy, economics, art, design, etc. By doing so, this collective project will: - Bring people to key objectives, principles and priorities of the European Green Deal that relate to the ocean: delivering a healthy and resilient ocean that can support sustainable Blue Growth and respond to Societal Priorities of Europe. - Contribute to make European citizens Ocean Literate in line with the objectives and priorities of EU4Ocean Coalition, an initiative supported by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). The project will build on the following principles: - Collective and truly European - mobilising organisations from each EU RSAs to prepare activities and events for presenting their own research/scientific activities. - Interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary - the partner organisations from different EU MS will represent a diversity of disciplinary fields and research skills/experiences that are focusing on the ocean, and on the complex connections between human activities and ocean ecosystems. - Immersive, inclusive and interconnected - by combining: (a) an interactive and practical experiences on the spot (in each of the partners location) building on doing, touching, gaming, trying, exploring; (b) an interactive virtual experience, by way of an innovative virtual reality technology, that will allow the public to explore both the ocean and researchers activities by simulating real life working conditons.

Keywords: public engagement ocean literacy ecological and climate transitions dissemination and edutainment gender balance virtual reality green deal sustainable ocean management researchers
A digitised approach to the political history of early modern critique (1500-1700) (DEPICT)

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: France,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

“Critique” represents a fundamental notion of modern European societies. It is, at least according to our own self-understanding, by thinking and acting critically – that is, by “thinking for ourselves” and by “resisting authority” – that we distinguish ourselves from societies that came before us and from those with which we continue to co-exist. However, in stark contrast to critique’s contemporary political importance, exemplified by its enthronement in educational institutions and its consecration by the labour market, the specifically political aspects of critique’s history remain either taken for granted or acutely underexplored. How did it come to be that the concept of critique self-evidently implies the emancipatory ability to “think for oneself”? When and how did the concept of critique become inseparably tied with the revolutionary imperative to “resist authority”? What were the general ideological assumptions and specific political implications of these conceptualisations? Which social groups championed such a comprehension of critique and which historical struggles structured its conceptual elaboration? Against which rival comprehensions, antagonistic social entities, and conflicting political agendas, did this version of critique establish itself as the legitimate and the dominant one? Amid growing theoretical concerns related to critique’s intellectual, social, and political efficiency, answers to these historical questions are urgently needed if critical thought and critical action are to maintain their central role in the functioning of modern European societies. DEPICT will contribute to this endeavour in a timely manner, by providing an original account of the socio-economic, confessional, and political coordinates of the emergence of the concept of critique in the early modern period and of the various ideologies structuring its mobilisation in the 16th and 17th century.

Keywords: critique,early modernity,ideology,digital humanities,religion,politics,sociology of knowledge,conceptual history,book history
Dissecting the molecular regulation of hematopoietic stem cell emergence using pluripotent stem cells to improve ex vivo therapies (HSC-reNEW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Although hematopoietic stem cell (HSCs) transplantation is routinely used to treat blood disorders, immune incompatibility and donor shortage remain critical clinical barriers. Likewise, since high number of HSCs are needed for successful transplants, the absence of reliable expansion protocols prevents the wider application of this cell therapy. In fact, while HSC-based gene therapy represents a revolutionary treatment also for novel and unexpected indications, the ex vivo manipulation required for HSCs engineering results in loss of their stemness potential. Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) could serve as a solution to these problems, as they would provide a potentially unlimited, easy to engineer, source of immunologically matched HSCs. However, despite recent advances, the robust de novo generation of HSCs remains unrealized due to an incomplete understanding of how HSCs are generated during embryonic development, a process that, as such, cannot be accurately recapitulated in vitro. To tackle these issues, in this proposal we will leverage on our proven expertise in PSC differentiation and hematopoietic development. In particular, we will use innovative in vitro assays and systematic measurements to determine at the molecular level how HSC precursors control their gene expression to generate blood cells (Aim 1). Combining the study of the highly proliferative emerging embryonic HSCs with a CRISPR-based gain-of-function screen, we will uncover the molecular regulators of the extensive embryonic self-renewal, thus enabling robust specification of HSCs from PSCs (Aim 2). We will design strategies to resurrect this embryonic self-renewal program in postnatal HSCs for their in vitro expansion (Aim 3). The successful completion of these studies will accomplish the long-standing goals of generating and expanding HSCs in vitro, allowing the fully exploitation of the transformative therapeutic potential of HSC-based cell and gene therapies.

Keywords: hematopoietic stem cells hscs,hsc expansion,pluripotent stem cells,hematopoietic development,hemogenic endothelium,endothelial to hematopoietic transition
Third wave of AI: Neuro-symbolic AI and Large Language Models (THIRDWAVE)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Greece,Malta,India,United States,Saudi Arabia,South Africa,Viet Nam,Cameroon
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1874455.71
EU funding (EUR): 1803600.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming research, industry, and society, with Large Language Models (LLMs) playing a central role. While LLMs excel in natural language understanding, reasoning, and content generation, they also exhibit hallucinations, security vulnerabilities, ethical concerns, and regulatory issues. These challenges are particularly critical in healthcare and education, where accuracy, reliability, and fairness are essential. Addressing these shortcomings requires AI paradigms that enhance interpretability, robustness, and compliance. THIRDWAVE aims to establish an international, interdisciplinary network to advance LLM-driven neuro-symbolic AI, integrating symbolic AI with LLMs to create interpretable, reliable, and domain-aware systems. This approach enables AI to leverage structured knowledge, improve decision-making, and comply with domain-specific constraints, making it more applicable to real-world challenges. The project is structured around four key objectives: O1) Understanding LLMs: Analyzing capabilities and limitations to improve performance, usability, and trustworthiness. O2) Enhancing LLMs: Improving fairness, factual accuracy, and robustness through external knowledge sources and human collaboration. O3) Advancing LLM-driven Neuro-Symbolic AI: Developing hybrid systems that combine LLMs with symbolic reasoning for structured knowledge representation and better decision support. O4) Use Cases & Evaluation: Applying LLM-driven neuro-symbolic AI in healthcare, education, geodata, and food information engineering, validating scalability and societal impact. By fostering collaboration among AI researchers, domain experts, and industry partners, THIRDWAVE will bridge the gap between data-driven and knowledge-driven AI, ensuring LLMs become interpretable, ethically aligned, and domain-aware. The project’s findings will inform AI regulation, advance research, and drive innovation, contributing to responsible AI development.

Keywords: arge language model driven neuro symbolic ai systems health,medical search food information engineering geodata,education
Crop Protection Strategies for the Transition to Environmentally-Friendly Agriculture (CROPSAFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,United Kingdom,Belgium,Switzerland,Denmark,Italy
Call: Sustainable, bio-based alternatives for crop protection (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5236542.75
EU funding (EUR): 4893904.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The withdrawal of the most harmful pesticides from the EU market is necessary to mitigate major environmental harm, but is leaving many farmers in a desperate position. CROP-SAFE has identified 3 critical cases of food crops under threat from rapidly spreading pests, whilst go-to pesticides are identified by ECHA as candidates for imminent withdrawal, i.e. Candidates for Substitution (CfS) and Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). 1. Potato crops, widely threatened by Potato cyst nematode (PCN). The approval period for the leading active against PCN, Fosthiazate (CfS), expires in 2027. 2. Tomato crops, suffering from losses up to 65% due to Root knot nematode (RKN). The approval period for Metham sodium (CfS, SVHV), one of the most widely uses actives against RKN, expires in 2025. 3. Banana crops, suffering from the European emergence of Banana Weevils (BW). Growers are using Lambda-cyhalothrin (CfS, SVHC) to manage BW, but the approval period lapses in 2026. CROP-SAFE will develop a holistic package of tools (bioactives, delivery materials, formulations and decision support models) for effective and sustainable management of PCN, RKN, and BW in these crops. Using scalable supplies of bio-based residues (aquatic biomass, forestry residues, spent coffee grounds and fungal waste) and three biorefining partners, CROP-SAFE will down-select the most effective boiactives and delivery materials as a basis for new, SSbD crop protection products. Field trials will be supported by decision support models, overcoming challenges associated with the variable performance of bioactives in different environmental conditions. The CROP-SAFE consortium combines the expertise of 3 Universities (UA, CNR, IQS-URL) and 4 RTOs (CPI, VITO, LEITAT, JHI) with material processing capacity in 3 biorefineries (BOR, ABA, KB) a leading developer of precision agriculture solutions, SE, and a cooperative, COPLACA, representing 3,200 farmers.

Keywords: potato cyst nematode,root knot nematode,banana weevils,fusarium wilt,banana,potato,tomato,seaweed extracts,polyphenols,bark extracts,melanoidins,vocs,chitosan,digital decision support
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH UNDER ALGORITHM SURVEILLANCE (THELMA)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fertility data can be misused to increase women’s inequalities, affect their reproductive autonomy, and violate their rights. THELMA will explore such impacts on women’s rights due to algorithm surveillance in reproductive health by Femtechs, the tech industry focused on women’s health and well-being, which can provide statistical analyses enough to control fertility on a mass level. Several concerns about this industry have been reported in scientific studies: gender biases; enforcement of gender binary stereotypes; sharing users’ data with third parties without consent; data collection for profit and advertising; unwanted pregnancies, etc. However, the invisible power relations that drive the use of fertility data with multi-level effects on women’s rights due to their - social, economic, and political – body value in producing human capital have not been explored until now. THELMA will provide critical analyses about this industry producing data-driven analysis and insights that will contribute to developing an EU regulatory framework for Femtechs based on interdisciplinary, intersectional, and gender-sensitive approaches. Combining social science methods with legal analyses, THELMA will be carried out in the Gender and ICT Research Group (GenTIC) from the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) – Spain focused on gender studies in the digital age. The research findings will contribute to enriching the current state-of-art on fertility data and digital surveillance in the EU with end-user experiences as focal points. Success in my multi-dimensional training with my Host will position me as an intranational expert combining quantitative research and legal theoretical expertise that will contribute to innovative EU research on fertility data.

Keywords: femtech fertility data biopolitics fertility surveillance
Multilingual and Multimodal Approaches in EMI for Enhancing Disciplinary Literacies (MultiAp-EMI)

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: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226276.8
EU funding (EUR): 226276.8
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Language-related challenges in English Medium Instruction (EMI) affect academic outcomes in disciplinary courses in higher education, as students who use English as a second language are often found to struggle with discipline-specific discourse. Although the need for a more integrated approach to content and language in EMI and the usefulness of multilingual and multimodal practices are recognized in research, there has been little exploration of their impact on learning as perceived by students. More specifically, the patterns of the use of various linguistic and semiotic resources and their role in the moment-by-moment construction of subject-specific knowledge remain underexplored. This project seeks to investigate the use of multilingual and multimodal resources by EMI instructors across disciplines and their impact on students’ learning within the classroom. It aims to refine the concept of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies, developed in a recent COST Action, CLILNetLE, by incorporating perspectives from tertiary-level EMI content specialists and students. To this end, the project will employ an innovative combination of Multimodal Conversation Analysis, Epistemic Network Analysis, and the Idiodynamic Method, which allows the exploration of interactional details of teaching, the constellations of linguistic and multimodal resources, and students’ self-assessed understanding of discipline-specific content. The project outcomes will contribute to EMI teacher training, inform educational language policies, and promote inclusive teaching practices that address the needs of EMI students from diverse backgrounds—all increasingly important as EMI programs expand across Europe and beyond.

Keywords: content and language integrated learning english medium instruction disciplinary literacies multimodality translanguaging transsemiotics
Wholistic and Integrated digitaL tools for extended Lifetime and profitability of Offshore Wind farms (WILLOW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany
Call: Integrated wind farm control (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5816861.25
EU funding (EUR): 5816861.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Wind energy takes on a large share in the energy market and will play a crucial role in securing the stability of power grids in the future. However, operation of wind farms, and especially offshore wind farms, are not yet ideal. The operation in fluctuating conditions of wind availability and power grids demand as well as the harsh environmental condition where the offshore wind farms are built, have a negative effect on the structure health of the wind turbines, and therefore on their useful lifetime. In this context, WILLOW will develop an integrated system that will provide an open-source, data-driven smart curtailment solution to the Wind Farm Operators with the basis of an integrated Wind Farm Control system looking for a trade-off between the power production and the lifetime consumption. With this aim, WILLOW pretends to design a novel Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System able to provide high quality data to perform a reliable fleet life assessment using physical models and data-based AI methods which will be used for decision-making and maintenance scheduling. This will contribute to the reduction of the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and to the increase of the Annual Energy Production (AEP) towards the current trend of design and operating life of offshore wind farms with up to 20 MW turbines beyond 50 years. The WILLOW consortium consists of 12 partners with complementary assets and founded expertise, capable to take on the challenge set out by the topic.

Keywords: offshore wind energy,wind farm decision making,oandm cost reduction,lcoe reduction,shm system,lifetime extension