Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Models with cross interactions between partial dynamical processes aiming to understand significant or abrupt dynamic changes. (CrossInteractions)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150438.72
EU funding (EUR): 150438.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bifurcation analysis of nonlinear models is a powerful tool that has a practical use since it detects and explains dynamical changes. It allows a description of generally emerging phenomena dependent on parameters. This project aims to understand significant or abrupt changes in dynamics of models related to cross-interactions between partial dynamical processes and study how these cross-interactions affect the system's behavior as a whole. The project covers three fields of applied nonlinear dynamics: population biology, neuroscience and epidemiology. Uncovering the dynamics of coupled prey-predator models (population biology), which includes persistence and extinction of the populations in cross-interacting patches, the emergence of periodic and aperiodic attractors, emergence of chaos, comparison of dynamics of the coupled model and the uncoupled one. Uncovering the dynamics of coupled neuronal subsystems with respect to possible/impossible abrupt dynamical changes and synchronized dynamics. Uncovering dynamics of coupled epidemic subsystems with emphasis on dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics to understand connections between dynamics of local and global outbreaks, interacting of sub-populations of various mutations and even seasonal effects. I expect following exploitation of the results: theoretical in mathematical biology (new knowledge in population biology, neuroscience and epidemiology), applied (new knowledge of suitable/unsuitable models with respect to bifurcations, qualitative dynamical changes and emerging nonlinear phenomena in real world systems), educational (models attract attention of students and facilitates study of difficult passages of abstract mathematics), and practical in applied mathematics. Part of the project is to strengthen the team of Prof. Přibylové (MU), including connection with the research group of Prof. Meijer (UT) in the field of applications in models of neuronal synchronization towards their focal epilepsy research.

Keywords: neuronal dynamics,neuronal interactions
Leading the way to energy autonomous edge computing (EPEAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7161060.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The number of internet of things (IoT) nodes is exploding and is expected to reach trillions by 2035. The biggest logistical challenge of an IoT device is its finite battery life. In response, we develop disruptive ultra-low power semiconductor technologies. Our energy harvesters allow IoT devices to use ambient energy (solar, thermal, vibration, radio) to recharge batteries while our sensing solutions and our microcontrollers optimize/reduce the energy consumption. This enables designers to substantially reduce IoT device battery requirements while eliminating the labour costs of replacing and environmental hazard of disposing of used batteries. With EIC support, we will deliver/industrialize the World's first integrated IoT platform uniquely combining energy harvesting, edge computing and computer vision with ultra-low-power consumption. This will position e-peas as a European based global leader to address the imminent needs of energy autonomous IoT and edge-computing devices.

Keywords: environmental and green technologies,internet of things,embedded pervasive systems,network infrastructures,energy efficiency,micro system engineering
ALPA Kids e-learning platform expansion to the Polish market (ALPAWomenTechEU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ALPA Kids is an Estonian educational technology start-up that is developing e-learning games for children aged 3-8, including provide a personalised learning experience. With the help of machine learning and learning analytics, ALPA Kids has created an AI-based personalised learning path, which will be available for every child. ALPA Kids innovation is unique because of its learning algorithm, distinguishable learning platform, and research collaboration. Creating a positive impact with our work is the leading vision in our company. Developing our content and promoting innovation has a wide positive social impact, which means that more teachers and parents can provide e-learning content in their native language and personalised learning experiences to children. For that reason, we are planning to expand into the Polish market and localise ALPA Kids games into Polish, so we could provide quality e-learning opportunities in the Polish language for kids aged 3-8. In addition to that, we will implement an AI-based learning path, to provide personalised learning opportunities for kids and learning analytics for Polish preschool teachers and parents. During this 10 month project we will launch new ALPA Kids Poland app, scale in AI-based learning path and reach the first 100 000 non-paying users.

Keywords: e learning,children aged 3 8,personalised education,less spoken languages
Molecular Mechanisms for Construction of Protective Mucus Hydrogels (MOLECULAR MUCUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2162383.0
EU funding (EUR): 2162383.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our bodies produce copious mucus daily to shield vulnerable epithelial cell surfaces in the lungs, intestines, and other organs. Mucus is crucial for defense against pathogens and other environmental hazards, but the mechanisms by which mucus hydrogels assemble and execute their functions are poorly understood. The main obstacle has been that the enormous, heavily glycosylated, and flexible mucin proteins constituting mucus are not readily amenable to structural and molecular approaches. However, I contend that mucin glycoproteins have exquisitely specific abilities and interactions that are ultimately understandable on the molecular level. By carrying out the research plan described herein, we will crack the code that transforms the primary building blocks of mucins into diverse three-dimensional, dynamic, and active hydrogels. Specifically, we will test the hypothesis that glycosylated mucin regions are tunable entropic spacers that influence the positioning and adhesion of neighboring folded domains, thereby controlling mucin assembly and hydrogel formation. We will solve the first high-resolution structures of respiratory mucins and will develop an experimental and theoretical framework for analyzing the spans and dynamics of O-glycosylated mucin domains. Perhaps most exciting is our recent discovery that the redox set-point of the Golgi apparatus influences sialic acid decoration of O-glycans during mucus biosynthesis, with potential implications for mucus biophysics and viral penetration. We will explore the benefits of this regulatory pathway for mucin self-assembly, hydrogel properties, and mucus barrier function. Together, this work will pave the way toward rationally manipulating mucus hydrogels, offering new avenues for the treatment of inflammatory, fibrotic, and infectious diseases.

Keywords: mucus,mucins,sialic acid,cryo em,filament,polymer,disulfide bonds,colon,lung,fret,qsox1,glycosyltransferases,natively disordered proteins
On the evolutionary significance of wild animal reproductive microbiomes (EvolSWARM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2130739.0
EU funding (EUR): 2130739.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our view of microbes has recently undergone a paradigm shift (the so-called ‘microbiome revolution’). Previously seen as unwanted harbingers of disease, it is now widely recognised that microbes can be beneficial and that the millions of microbes living in and on the bodies of animals and plants (i.e., the microbiome) can have profound effects on host biology. However, with the exception of the human vaginal microbiome, the microbiome revolution has largely overlooked the reproductive microbiome. This is especially true for wild animals. Yet, if we are to understand the evolutionary significance of host-associated microbiomes it is critical to study them in natural populations, where hosts exhibit greater genetic variability and are exposed to greater levels of environmental and microbial complexity. The aim of this proposal is to determine whether reproductive microbiomes impact host fitness and evolution in wild animals, and reveal the role of host genetics and immune functioning in shaping reproductive microbiome variability. I will leverage a unique wild system – the house sparrow – that can be studied in natural populations and in the lab, and for which I have recently pioneered the use of microbiome transplant techniques that allows me to disassemble and reconstitute natural microbiomes of nestlings. First, I will determine the fitness consequences and heritability of reproductive microbiomes in a wild population. Second, I will validate the impact of reproductive microbiome variability for reproductive success using novel in vivo microbiome transplants. Third, I will uncover the genetic basis of reproductive microbiome variation. Fourth, I will establish whether host immune functioning shapes reproductive microbiome composition. Altogether, I will significantly advance our understanding of the causes and – more importantly – the consequences of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and evolution.

Keywords: reproductive microbiomes,bird,reproductive biology,sperm biology
Two-dimensionally multiplexed on-demand quantum memories (2DMultiMems)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A long-distance quantum network requires quantum repeaters dispersed between the end nodes. At intercity distances, the entangling rate of quantum repeaters may be limited by the photon travel time and the classical communication time. Quantum repeaters and memories based on rare-earth-doped crystals overcome this limitation, as the atomic frequency comb (AFC) protocol preparing these memories allows for temporal multiplexing. Besides temporal multiplexing, spatial and frequency multiplexing are also possibilities for rare-earth-doped crystals. Entanglement between these quantum memories is generated in a hybrid and heralded scheme by entangling each memory with a telecom photon and detecting a single photon after a beam splitter. Thus, the key element for quantum repeaters with rare-earth-doped crystals is the quantum correlations between the telecom photons and the memories. In this project, I will extend the storage capabilities and the entanglement generation rate of rare-earth-doped crystals such that realistic quantum repeater applications at intercity distances are within reach. The research project is divided into three research objectives: First, I will establish quantum correlations between a long-lived on-demand quantum memory and telecom photons. The correlations will be stored in spin waves for over milliseconds. Second, I will implement spatial multiplexing and store quantum correlations between telecom photons and 100 spatial modes of a single crystal. The spatial multiplexing is realized with acousto-optical devices in a crossed configuration. Third, I will entangle two on-demand quantum memories in 1700 modes with temporal and spatial multiplexing. I expect that spatial multiplexing will become a standard tool for solid-state crystal memories. Entanglement of two on-demand memories in 1700 modes will mark a shift in paradigm, as this is the first demonstration of entanglement of two solid-state memories with multiplexing in two degrees of freedom.

Keywords: quantum networks,quantum repeaters,rare earth doped solid state quantum memories,quantum memories,spatial multiplexing
In-situ & operando organiC electrochemical transistors monitored by non-destructive spectroscopies for Organic cmos-like NeuromorphIc Circuits (ICONIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Croatia,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2664940.0
EU funding (EUR): 2664940.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Ultra-flexible, conformable and implantable artificial intelligence organic electronic devices hold promise to revolutionize the real-time monitoring and treatment of chronic diseases. Such devices are based on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) exploiting polymeric mixed ion-to-electron conductors (PMIECs) as active layers. However, the development of efficient and stable devices is hindered by limited knowledge about structure-property relationships of PMIECs. ICONIC combines macromolecular synthesis with in situ and operando non-destructive spectroscopic methods in an innovative way to investigate with unprecedented accuracy ion-to-electron transduction in OECTs, from the molecular to the micrometre scale. This provides the key knowledge to make a technological leap in development of smart therapeutic devices. As a proof of concept, ICONIC develops an intelligent closed-loop device for drug-delivery activation. In a long-term vision, healthcare devices will enable signal recognition with body-friendly electronics and administer medication without the risk of human error. ICONIC is a multidisciplinary high-risk/high-gain project engaging 8 partners from 6 countries covering the academic and industrial worlds (including 1 SME). The implementation is facilitated through 4 work packages (3 technical). The complementary scientific skills brought in by the partners and stakeholders maximizes ICONIC’s impact.

Keywords: polymeric mixed ion to electron conductors organic electrochemical transistors non destructive spectroscopies organic neuromorphic circuits iontronic pump closed loop and predictive device
Fishers of Corpses: An Anthropological Archive of Border Communities and their Responses to Migrants' Death in the Central Mediterranean through Art and Ethnography. (FC)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 284179.68
EU funding (EUR): 284179.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

What is left of migrants’ death at sea, and how do migrant corpses (bodies and body remains) enter the lives of those who encounter them? Are such remains lost forever, or do they live through the narratives of the borderland communities who accidentally receive them? As ethnography reveals most powerfully, border deaths primarily affect the families of the dead and/or missing at sea. The aftermath of this violence is however manifold and its impact on the neighbouring communities remains an important yet neglected topic in both scholarship and practice. Fishers of Corpses begins to fill this gap by addressing how the remains of the migrants who die in the Central Mediterranean routes to Europe affect borderland communities, leaving traces in their stories, practices, and memories. By doing so, the main objective of the project is to re-frame border deaths from a local perspective, focusing on its border-less reverberations and exploring it as a pervasive phenomenon that concerns not only the dead and their families, but also the Mediterranean societies at large. This inclusive shift of attention from border death to its manifold effects requires an epistemic change in conventional perspectives and debate that incorporates the lived experiences of borderland inhabitants in this tragically normalised dimension. To do so, the project sensitively bridges a more traditional participant observation approach on board a fishing vessel (ethnographic dimension), with art methods (artistic dimension) to explore novel methodological and conceptual approaches to better comprehend and communicate the pervasive effects of border death and its aftermaths. This methodological advance is a key element of the project, as it will allow to produce an anthropological archive of border death in the Mediterranean based on pictures, videos, oral histories and artwork produced during the research and digitally stored to be made available in open access (archival dimension).

Keywords: border death,migration,memory,archive,art,mediterranean
Former unaccompanied minors and the transition to adulthood: Perspectives and insights from the lived experience in Finland (UAM Adulthood)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-02
End date: 2026-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of the proposed research is to better understand the perspectives of former unaccompanied minor youth in Finland regarding their transition to adulthood. An unaccompanied minor is a person (under 18) who has sought asylum without a parent or guardian. This study utilises a qualitative single-site case design underpinned by a voice-centred relational methodology (VCRM) approach that champions the voices of participants. Participants will be approximately 20 young refugees who were once unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors. There are two research objectives linked to the action of this research. Research Objective 1 (RO1) is to better understand the transition to adulthood of former unaccompanied minor youth in Finland. The participants of this study sought asylum as unaccompanied minors but are now young adults – as such, are now technically former unaccompanied minors. RO1 will address the following research questions: ‘How do former unaccompanied minor youth in Finland conceptualise the transition to adulthood?’; ‘What do former unaccompanied minor youth in Finland identify as barriers and supports to the transition to adulthood?’ Research Objective 2 (RO2) is to innovate new ways of co-constructing knowledge and art with participants, addressing the following research question: ‘How does the collaborative creation of knowledge through a participatory arts-based method amplify the voices of former unaccompanied minor youth in Finland?’ The findings of this study will have the capacity to influence the informing of needs-based policies and supports to aid in a smooth transition to adulthood for these youth, as well as advancing the state-of-the-art of our current knowledge on the transition to adulthood.

Keywords: transition to adulthood unaccompanied minors youth finland voice centred relational methodology vcrm pronoun poems arts based methods participatory paradigm