Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)

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: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1439265.0
EU funding (EUR): 1439265.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Top private law firms increasingly offer their services as advocates for societal needs at no or low cost—big law pro bono. This work changed significantly over the past decade: firms take on more pro bono activities, professionally organize those in-house, and do so over a wider geography, in particular the Global South. While traditionally engaging in litigation, pro bono lawyers have now expanded towards the full range of activities of transnational advocacy: they train and educate stakeholders, they advise international institutions and non-profit organizations, and they engage in institution-building. To do so, they rely on powerful resources, not least lawyers who went to the best law schools, ever-increasing revenues, and highly influential networks. However, we lack systematic knowledge on how big law does good and with which implications for transnational advocacy. PROBONO is the first project to tackle this key research question at a crucial point in time. The project’s claim is that big law pro bono is crowding NGOs and local organizations out of their traditional advocacy space. These firms are not affected by the shrinking space observed for traditional human rights defenders and they are both accustomed to and better equipped for navigating democratic backsliding and authoritarian contexts. As these firms gain exclusive influence on law- and policy-making across levels, they change the organizational ecology of the field—with as yet unknown consequences. This project studies the patterns, practices, and consequences of private law firms as transnational advocates. It collects and analyses unique quantitative data and conducts in-depth qualitative case studies on big law pro bono for women’s rights and the right to a healthy environment. PROBONO significantly advances our knowledge of big law pro bono and its empirical and normative implications for transnational advocacy, bridging debates in International Relations and International Law.

Keywords: transnational advocacy,private actors,relational theory,women s rights,environment,case studies
Detecting stress in early-forming teeth: Advancing, optimising and interpreting dental cortisol methods and data for archaeology (DE-STRESS)

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: Austria,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Stress influences health and wellbeing throughout the human life course, from prenatal to final stages. However, there are multiple methodological challenges to assessing past occurrences of stress. In studies of living populations, typical measures of stress only reflect recent experience. In archaeological populations, stress markers in skeletons are often challenging to interpret as they are non-specific and indirect measures of stress. Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone produced in response to stressors, stimulating changes in multiple bodily systems. Therefore, cortisol acts as a primary channel through which external stressors become internalised within the body. Although cortisol is commonly assessed in blood, saliva and hair from living humans and animals as a sensitive indicator of recent stress experience, new research has successfully detected cortisol in teeth from living and archaeological populations. Teeth begin development in-utero, providing a record of early life experience, and also preserve well archaeologically, overcoming some of the difficulties in retrospective analyses of stress. Further research is now needed to correlate variation in dental cortisol concentrations with stress experience. Using 200 early-forming teeth from archaeological and living populations, the aims of this project are 1) to validate the current methods for assessing dental cortisol; 2) to assess potential sex-based differences in cortisol in primary teeth; and 3) compare dental cortisol data with known episodes of stress in living individuals and plague-related mass graves in the St. Pölten-Domplatz cemetery. The emphasis on exploring cortisol embedded in teeth during prenatal and early life stages is due to the dramatic and enduring effects of maternal and early-life stress on health and wellbeing throughout the life course. This research has the potential to provide new ways to understand the skeletal embodiment of stress in past, present and future populations.

Keywords: bioarchaeology,palaeopathology,stress,pregnancy,childhood,motherhood,early life adversity,maternal stress,black death
Excellent Laser Technologies for the Sustainable Prosperity of Europe (LASER-PRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Czechia,Lithuania,Ukraine
Call: Excellence Hubs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-07, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999987.5
EU funding (EUR): 5999987.5
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Central Bohemian Region (Czech Republic) and Lithuania represent European regions, where researchers in the photonics, resp. laser technologies sectors are internationally recognised, and the business has a high added value. The interaction between science and business is intense and promotes development, so there is great potential to create new companies. There are opportunities to create a new generation of industry based on laser technologies, and there is an increasing potential to create more integrated solutions. The inclusion of laser technologies in the priorities of smart specialization of both regions shows that this sector has a huge potential for further development and improvement. On the other hand, the main challenge in this area is the creation of the photonics and laser technology sector, where operating companies would produce products with higher added value and exceptional functionality. Thus, the Excellence Hubs initiative represents a unique opportunity for a teaming up of two laser-based innovation ecosystems creating a real-place-based innovation culture in the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Through activities such as the creation of a joint R&I strategy, the realization of joint research projects, setting up action and investment plans as well as mutual learning and skills development, the linkages between academia, business, government, and society will be strengthened, and sustainable R&I ecosystem in the cutting-edge domain of lasers and their applications will be created. Excellence Hub LASER-PRO is centered around key academic institutions HiLASE Laser Centre in the Central Bohemian Region and the Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology in Lithuania. Complementary stakeholders include innovation centers, research clusters, and industry associations. Ukrainian partners are also involved through a mentoring scheme to enhance collaboration and innovation opportunities.

Keywords: laser technology,innovation ecosystem,smart specialisation strategy,investment plan,joint randi projects
Safe and efficient storage of ammonia within ships (NH3CRAFT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Enabling the safe and efficient on-board storage and integration within ships of large quantities of ammonia and hydrogen fuels (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12862888.75
EU funding (EUR): 8497104.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

NH3CRAFT aims at fully designing, engineering, developing and demonstrating a next generation sustainable, commercially attractive and safe technology for high-quantity on-board storage of NH3 as marine fuel. Two innovative modular and scalable steel and composite storage tank configurations for 1,000 m3 liquid NH3 at 10 bar and the corresponding auxiliary systems will be installed on a 31,000 Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) multi-purpose vessel. The exact vessel has been designated and provided by a participating major ship management company Additionally, five different types of vessels and corresponding fuel-storage tank concept adaptations will be studied and documented: a SSS bulk carrier, a tanker and a container ocean going vessels, a typical RoPax ferry, and a small Inland Waterways Transportation passenger vessel. An innovative digital platform will integrate all core simulations and models through digital interfaces and will develop an engineering system matrix and specifications for the fuel storage, supply, and piping, monitoring and venting subsystems. Safety and risk assessment for all vessels will lead to the development of safety guidelines and classification rules. NH3CRAFT will showcase the entire NH3 supply chain in order to increase confidence in its use and promote its uptake. LCA and techno-economic evaluation will prove the sustainability and will support further exploitation and commercialization of the innovative solutions. The vision is to pioneer the reduction of GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 and the eventual “elimination of total GHG emissions and air pollution” from shipping (SRIA for ZEWT goals) remaining consistent with the Paris Agreement. NH3CRAFT aspires to help Europe serve societal needs, maintain global maritime leadership, and support an innovation-driven industry with highly skilled jobs, safe, efficient, and sustainable technological solutions, with new international standards, rules, and regulations.

Keywords: ammonia,safe storage,clean fuels,demonstration,steel and composite tanks,sss and ocean going vessels,lca,digital platform
Fostering Carbon Farming Practices through LIving LAbS in the Mediterranean and Southern EU for the healthy future of European SOILS (LILAS4SOILS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,France,Italy,Greece,Israel,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany
Call: Carbon farming in living labs (HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11619420.75
EU funding (EUR): 11619420.75
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

Agriculture soils are being heavily affected by climate change and are highly vulnerable to degradation and desertification, particularly in the Mediterranean and southern regions of the EU. If climate change is not mitigated, yields of crops like wheat, maize and sugar beet could decrease in southern EU by up to 50 % by 2050. Although agriculture has been signalled as a significant contributor to GHG emissions (13% of EU total emissions), it is also one of the sectors with the biggest potential to adapt to and mitigate climate change. In this sense, Carbon Farming appears as a promising solution for soils’ health and for the sustainability of EU agriculture. LILAS4SOILS will put in place 5 Living Labs (LLs) in 6 countries to co-create the adoption of Carbon Farming solutions within farmers, agri-food businesses, researchers and local authorities, and implement Carbon Farming Practices -CFPs- (peatland management, agroforestry, livestock and manure management, and nutrient management, maintaining soil organic carbon) in 85-100 demo-sites. CFPs impact on soil carbon sequestration and environmental co-benefits will be assessed through the adoption of homogeneous Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) technologies. The 5-year project involves 24 expert partners, +25 stakeholders will part of each LL for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange (20 co-creation workshops to be held) and +71 farmers will be engaged in CFPs implementation, ensuring the multi-actor approach. 10 training workshops (supported by 21 materials), 10 policy workshops (supported by 2 sets of recommendations per LL), 8 cross-fertilisation and synergies workshops and 2 replication workshops within other regions in EU are envisaged as part of the project's focus on knowledge transfer. Through directed Open Calls, LILAS4SOILS will encourage the participation of 35-50 additional farmers and support the testing of 15 MRV innovative technologies that overcome the limitations of the conventional ones.

Keywords: carbon farming living labs soil health mrv technologies
Ultralow power ferroelectric spintronic components for logic and artificial intelligence (UPSPRING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

UPSPRING aims to reduce the energy consumption of microelectronics chips by a factor of 1000, to unlock their performance potential. This energy consumption is both an environmental problem and a crucial industrial issue, as the associated heating is nowadays the limiting factor of the performance of the chips. Nellow is a company targeting the market of microelectronic chips for logic operations and artificial intelligence (AI), thanks to the invention of a new type of component with ultra-low energy consumption: the FerroElectric Spin-Orbit (FESO) device. Protected by a portfolio of more than 5 patents, FESO results from 15 years of collaboration between two world-leading research institutions in new microelectronic solutions: the Spintec laboratory (CEA Grenoble, Univ. Grenoble Alpes & CNRS) and the Albert Fert laboratory (Paris-Saclay). This technology has the potential to become the global solution for computing and AI. The UPSPRING project will enable us to advance the FESO technology, which has already garnered interest from key industrial players. It will also refine and implement the optimal business strategy for Nellow, and enable access to the rapidly growing semiconductor market (CAGR 10%, $1 trillion by 2030). The goal of UPSPRING is to create a new industrial player in Europe in the field of microelectronic component manufacturing. The founders of Nellow invented within their research institutes the core intellectual property, and developed a unique knowhow. Nellow possesses a world-class scientific team, and benefits from an exceptional technological environment. The question of energy consumption, at the heart of UPSPRING, addresses priority EU public policies relative to environmental sustainability. UPSPRING will also contribute to the EU objective of reaching a semiconductor market share of 20%, with the long-term goal of inducing a geopolitical shift in the semiconductor supply chain, and thus to ensure the European digital sovereignty.

Keywords: spintronics ferroelectrics microelectronics
Controlling Chirality Transfer for Efficient Circularly-Polarized Perovskite Light Emitting Diodes (CP-PeLED)

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: 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): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to realise high-efficiency circularly polarized perovskite light-emitting diodes (CP-PeLEDs) by developing chiral perovskite emitters with efficient chirality transfer. The proposed approach involves the design of chiral perovskite emitters using anionic chiral ligands for direct and efficient chirality transfer and advanced circularly polarized spectroscopic techniques to unveil the fundamental mechanisms behind chiral transfer and emission process. The outcome will be the realization of the first CP-PeLEDs that simultaneously achieve high emission efficiency and strong chiroptical activity, paving the way for next-generation applications such as three-dimensional displays, quantum information processing, and spintronic devices.

Keywords: materials science,engineering,light emitting diode,chirality,circularly polarized light,metal halide perovskite,photonics,three dimensional display,quantum information,spintronics
Laser for Magnesium: the influence of laser wavelength, and feedstock quality on the optical properties of Mg alloy for industrial needs (LASER4Mg)

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: Latvia,Poland,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-15
End date: 2026-04-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162499.2
EU funding (EUR): 162499.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the project is to obtain the most optimum laser characteristics that will improve the ability to process Mg alloys for laser based additive manufacturing method, which currently suffers immensely due to excessive evaporation of the powder feedstock. Lasers are a form of monochromatic electromagnetic radiation, that interact with each metal differently. In selective laser melting (SLM) process, when laser energy is applied to the Mg powder, two primary processes occur: absorption and reflectance. The laser wavelength determines the degree of absorption in the metal powder. Due to low absorbance of traditional yttrium doped fiber laser in infrared range, and low thermal conductivity, Mg processing requires using high power lasers that leads to rapid evaporation of Mg when the laser hits the melt pool. To accomplish these goals, optical spectral absorbance properties of magnesium and its alloys in various forms (plate, block, powder) will be studied using UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy. Effect of laser characteristics such as mode, power and wavelength on the absorbance response and process stability will be characterized. The impact of powder particle size distribution, plate thickness, surface quality, alloy compositions on laser-material interaction will be studied. The results will be used to obtain the highest success process window. The project will create valuable knowledge for use in the field of SLM of Mg alloys. The existing scientific gaps and technological challenges associated with laser treatment of Mg alloys will be filled and sustained by commercialization by the researcher's current employer. The research plan is designed to solve an outstanding problem in the industry and will improve the long term employability of the researcher with his employer in Europe. The potential resulting technology will be a leap in the field of laser treatment of magnesium, increasing industrial capacity in EU and stimulate further R&D&I efforts. host name

Keywords: laser material processing,selective laser melting,magnesium alloys,aerospace applications,spectral absorbance reflectance
T cell regulation by fed state bacterial metabolites (T Cell Feedback)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: Austria
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): 1499548.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499548.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Intestinal microbial communities expand the functional capabilities of the host via their metabolic attributes. From energy harvest to the production of vitamins, the gut microbiota shapes mammalian physiology and is often considered a postnatally developed “organ”. Yet, the microbiome poses a formidable challenge to the immune system: How can we host trillions of bacteria without mounting an inflammatory response? Gut immune homeostasis relies on the balanced action of suppressive and inflammatory T cell subsets. I discovered that bacterial metabolism of bile acids and dietary fibers promotes the differentiation of suppressive T cells. Given the complexity of the microbiome, finding other immunoregulatory cues deployed by gut bacteria and their mechanisms of action remains a major challenge, and the logic behind these tolerance mechanisms is not understood. I will use a novel conceptual framework to bridge this gap: based on my previous findings, I postulate that immunoregulatory bacterial molecules are produced in response to food intake. Within this emerging paradigm, I selected two new groups of bacterial molecules for immediate investigation and developed a strategy to identify novel putative immunoregulatory candidates based on a careful examination of microbial metabolism after food intake. I will find the molecular targets of active molecules using chemical screening and chemoproteomic methods and test metabolites in vivo by colonizing germ-free mice with genetically manipulated bacterial strains. The proposed work is grounded on my strong expertise in host-microbe interactions and takes advantage of the state-of-the-art biochemistry facilities at my hosting institution and of the complementary skillsets of my collaboration network. This synergistic combination will allow for a comprehensive interrogation of immunological tolerance to gut commensals: from metabolites and their molecular targets to their functional relevance for intestinal health.

Keywords: bacterial metabolism immunological tolerance,cd4 t cells