Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Identities - Migration - Democracy (We-ID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Croatia,Sweden
Call: The interrelation between social, cultural and political identities, as well as the sense of belonging, and democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2949817.75
EU funding (EUR): 2949817.75
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union's promise of prosperity and security is based on the principle of "unity in diversity" and the guarantee of fundamental freedoms, rights and democratic participation of its citizens. The vast majority of EU citizens share these values. At the same time, democracies are in crisis. Populist parties are fuelling fears and spreading the narrative that migration leads to a loss of identity. There is no doubt that migration always raises the question of identity and belonging. How do we organize integration and participation in such a way that cohesion is created despite diverse identities? The project "Identities - Migration - Democracy" (We-ID) is therefore concerned with the transformation of individual and collective identities, social and territorial cohesion and democracy under the conditions of demographic change, particularly with regard to migration and growing population diversity. We-ID follows an innovative research path by a) analysing the impact of migration on identities, belonging, cohesion and democracy, taking into account both the impact on host communities and the changes in the identities of migrants and their descendants, and b) elaborating the interrelationship between identities, cohesion, resilience and democracy. In addition to quantitative data analysis, we will use qualitative methods at the local level (e.g. pilot study in a border region, content analysis, case studies) to look for factors that strengthen resilient democratic communities. By consistently pursuing a transdisciplinary approach within our Policy, Advocacy and Research Lab (We-PARL) throughout the project, we will create a platform for mutual learning between different stakeholders from the European to the local level, while at the same time contributing to evidence-based and thoroughly discussed policy recommendations. In addition, based on our findings, we will develop materials such as toolboxes that can be used by practitioners and local actors (We-SCOUTS).

Keywords: identities,belonging,cohesion,demographic change,resilience
Essential Asymmetries of Nature (ASYMMETRY)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Japan,United States,Brazil,Iran, Islamic Republic of,Peru,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Rwanda
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1384600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1384600.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The symmetries identified in Nature, explicit or hidden, are at the root of our knowledge in depth of its fundamental laws. Nevertheless, observed asymmetries –departures from that exact pattern-- are at the very heart of its beauty and of the explanation of how the visible Universe came to be, and what we are made of. Well known examples include the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and the violation of parity and charge conjugation observed in particle physics. ASYMMETRY focuses on the deep understanding of those asymmetries and also on revealing the new fundamental (a)symmetries yet to be discovered to explain major open questions, and the particles on which they act, in particular in the invisible sector, made of neutrinos, dark matter, possibly axions and other elusive particles. The team is strongly focused on this quest within a multidisciplinary approach: mainly phenomenological studies although we bundle in leadership on key experiments such as SuperKamiokande, GERDA, XENON and key laboratories such as Fermilab, DESY and LBNL.

Keywords: neutrinos,cp violation,matter antimatter asymmetry of the universe,asymmetric dark matter,axions and alps,flavour puzzle,astroparticle physics,hidden asymmetries
Politics of the Periphery’ in Urban Latin America: Reconceptualising Politics from the Margins (POPULAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Existing theory on how residents of urban peripheries engage with the state is largely state-centric. Political anthropology and urban studies have generally conceptualised periphery-state engagements as non-standard citizenship, informal politics, or protest. Such conceptualisations risk contributing to inequality, as they understand the politics of marginalised city residents as ‘less than’ or only as ‘anti’ formal state policies and citizenship regimes. POPULAR will counter this disparity by developing a theory of politics that reconceptualises periphery-state engagements from the vantage point of the periphery. This reconceptualisation will connect the concepts and practices residents use as part of their political praxis to recent anthropological debates that pluralise and decentre our understandings of politics. It will approach the variety of practices inherent in periphery-state engagements as a politics of the periphery, a diverse politics in its own right and on its own terms that emerges from local modes of agency, subjectivities, and the social configurations of urban populations which are marginalised on a daily basis. POPULAR will ethnographically study the politics of the periphery in three domains: governance, electoral politics, and activism. It will compare these politics in low-income neighbourhoods in three cities in Latin America—Medellín (Colombia), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), and Recife (Brazil)—a region known for its urban poverty, popular mobilisations, and the diversity of government engagements with marginalised populations. The three city governments can be characterised as, respectively, neoliberal capitalist, socialist and moderately neoliberal with a socialist legacy. Each case represents a distinct approach towards the urban periphery. Through a new theory of politics that centres upon the periphery, POPULAR will move the fields of anthropology and urban studies beyond the inequalities inherent in current theories.

Keywords: anthropology of the state ethnography informal politics political anthropology brazil
Dark Matter Phenomenology in Strong Gravity (De Tenebris)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-10-01
End date: 2031-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499763.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499763.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A new era has come in the quest for dark matter, due to the absence of evidence for the most popular candidates, despite the enormous effort that has gone into searching for them. Here, I argue that the advent of precision gravitational wave astronomy offers a new extraordinary opportunity to discover DM in the strong gravity regime, and to uncover its particle properties. In a series of recent breakthrough studies, my team has shown that upcoming gravitational interferometers will be sensitive to the characteristic features in the gravitational waveforms induced by matter, and in particular dark matter, in the extreme environment around black holes, as long as our models are accurate enough. The aim of the De Tenebris project is to formulate clear and accurate predictions of the dark matter phenomenology in strong gravity, to enable the discovery of dark matter with gravitational waves. To achieve this goal, we will build relativistic waveforms of binary black holes in presence of dark matter; determine the merger rate of binary black holes in presence of dark matter; assess the gravitational wave signature of dark matter self-annihilation and self-interaction. Discovering dark matter in the strong gravity limit would be an extraordinary achievement per se, as it would validate a central prediction of Standard Cosmology. But my dream is to identify its nature by studying its signature on the observed gravitational waveforms, and find the path to extending the Standard Model of particle physics.
Unpacking Mixedness for an Inclusive History of the Red Sea, 1800s-2000s (REDMIX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1864059.0
EU funding (EUR): 1864059.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The debate on mixed-race people is gaining momentum, and the Red Sea – located at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean – stands as a privileged venue to investigate mixedness. Focusing on a timeframe (1800s-2000s) marked by increasing mobilities and mixed-race unions and offspring (e.g. Afro-Arabs, Afro-Asians, Euro-Africans), REDMIX investigates the roots and routes of mixed-race people and groups through a bottom-up, long-term, and interdisciplinary perspective, to create a digital archive about mixedness in the Red Sea. African and Middle Eastern Studies have examined the Red Sea, its mobilities, and its entanglements, but mixedness has remained marginal in their thematic and methodological debate. Critical Mixed Race Studies has explored mixedness as a broad concept referring to individuals of mixed descent, yet without ever digging into case studies from the Red Sea. Thus, an extensive analysis of when, how, and why mixed-race people and groups have negotiated their position at political and social turning points in the history of the Red Sea is still lacking. REDMIX aims to fill this methodological and knowledge gap by overcoming the partitioned approach to the Red Sea and promoting a perspective centred on mixed-race people. The project intertwines African, Middle Eastern, and (Critical) Mixed Race Studies; brings together a rich corpus of archival and oral sources scattered across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; resorts to the digital humanities; and contributes to the conceptual framework of mixedness by applying global microhistory and comparatively investigating different case studies through synchronic and diachronic analyses. As the first comparative investigation into the history of mixedness in the Red Sea, REDMIX will take an active part in the mission of writing a more inclusive history of the area, one that firmly establishes the centrality of mixed-race people.

Keywords: mixedness red sea global microhistory
The Arabic Roots of European Biology (AREB)

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,Lebanon,France,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 282046.08
EU funding (EUR): 282046.08
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

This three-year research and training project will throw new light on Avicenna’s creation of an influential yet neglected model for biological investigation, which centres on the organic body, i.e. the material constituent of living beings. In his biology, Avicenna (d. 1037) combines a medical and a philosophical approach to the body. On the one hand, in a medical fashion, he favours a bottom-up approach to the organic body, which is no longer considered the elusive substrate of the soul in the hylomorphic compound, nor taken in an abstract or general sense, but capable of acquiring its primary determination as a result of chemical interactions. On the other hand, the principles on which Avicenna grounds his investigation of the organic body are still philosophical. This combination brings to light the other crucial novelty of Avicenna’s biology: its cutting-edge methodology, which combines direct observation with theoretical assumptions. To implement his new biology, Avicenna revives botany and zoology by introducing the medical approach to the various forms of organic life into these sciences, thereby using empirical observational methods within a philosophical model governed by theoretical truths that are, in principle, non-negotiable. This new paradigm for life sciences remains operative far beyond the Middle Ages. The centrality of Avicenna’s new biology and its relevance for the subsequent tradition has never been emphasized in scholarship. The proposed project will fill this gap. An accurate examination of primary sources is essential to disentangle the relevant theoretical issues at the core of this project. Thus, the methodology of the proposed research will consist of a jointly philological and philosophical approach. Concretely, this means that the study of the relevant philosophical and scientific issues will be based on first-hand acquaintance with untranslated, unedited or poorly edited, and understudied Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts.

Keywords: avicenna,biology,aristotle,galen,history of philosophy,islamic philosophy,medieval philosophy,history of medicine,albert the great
Advanced Multidisciplinary Research for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMRAMR)

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: Italy,Spain,Portugal,China,United States,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276000.0
EU funding (EUR): 276000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

We are proposing a 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between academic institutions [University of Leicester (UK), University of Valencia (Spain), International Iberian Nanotechnology Lab (Portugal), University of Bologna (Italy), University of Aveiro (Portugal), Fudan University (China), and Alfred University (USA)] and industrial partners [Teer Coatings Ltd (UK)]. The objective of the proposed joint exchange programme is to establish long-term stable research cooperation between the partners with interdisciplinary expertise and knowledge to develop Advanced Multidisciplinary Research for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMRAMR), including the development of novel antibacterial nanomaterials and nanostructures, novel antibacterial thin films coatings, upconversion technology for AMR applications, photonics technology for AMR application, and evaluation of the antibacterial performance and antimicrobial resistance; the synergetic effect for the above approaches to understanding antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) refers to the ability of microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, to resist the effects of antimicrobial drugs, such as antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics. AMR is a serious global public health threat that could lead to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of AMR as it has led to increased use of antimicrobial drugs, particularly antibiotics, which can contribute to the development of AMR. People with COVID-19 may develop secondary bacterial infections, such as pneumonia, and may be prescribed antibiotics to treat these infections. However, unnecessary use of antibiotics can lead to the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria, making it more difficult to treat infections in the future.

Keywords: materials,antibacterial,microbiology,
Chirality inversion in colloidal self-assembly (CINCOS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The chiral self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks offers a scalable route to functional materials, but understanding and controlling this process is a persistent challenge. A notable example is cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), elongated nanoparticles extracted from natural cellulose that assemble into a cholesteric liquid crystal phase in aqueous suspension. This helicoidal self-organisation can be preserved into the solid state to create structurally coloured films, offering a sustainable way to produce next-generation pigments and colourants. However, the CNC cholesteric phase is always found to be left-handed due to the presence of "bundles", a sub-population of CNCs that act as colloidal chiral dopants and induce left-handed ordering. Inspired by the naturally-occuring CNC bundles, this project aims to produce cellulose polycrystals (CPCs), a new class of clustered nanoparticles produced by the aggregation of CNCs in the presence of a chiral "glue" provided by hemicelluloses. These CPCs will then be used as synthetic chiral dopants to induce a right-handed cholesteric phase in CNCs suspensions for the first time. This inversion of the handedness of CNC self-assembly will result in films that reflect RCP light in the visible range, enabling the creation of structurally-coloured materials with near-ideal optical performance. These findings will deepen our understanding of chiral colloidal self-assembly and open up new avenues of enquiry for research on bio-sourced nanomaterials.

Keywords: colloidal self assembly,nanocellulose,structural colour
Interplay of epithelial mechanics and neutrophil activation as a pathomechanism in refractory IBD and colorectal cancer patients (INTERCONNECTIONS)

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: Germany
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): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by gastrointestinal tract inflammation, being Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, the most clinically abundant. IBD affects around 6.8 million people all over the world, being Europe the continent with the highest prevalence. Although anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibodies are a breakthrough therapy, almost 40% of IBD patients do not respond to therapy or acquire resistance. This leads to uncontrolled inflammation that, prolonged in time, constitutes a higher Colorectal Cancer risk. This justifies the current efforts to identify innovative therapy targets for IBD understanding of the molecular processes behind (personalized medicine). The fact that an increased intestinal permeability precedes the onset of inflammation possesses epithelial disruption as a potential etiological factor in IBD. Moreover, in recent years, several publications have highlighted that an impaired epithelial barrier is linked to resistance to therapy. Nevertheless, how altered epithelial mechanics can influence the structural properties of the extracellular matrix and immune cells migrating through it is not fully understood. On the other hand, the role of neutrophils as resistance-to-therapy players has emerged very recently. Then, we hypothesize that an alteration in epithelial cell mechanics constitutes a primary event that impacts the proliferation and behavior of the first immune cell responders: neutrophils. This would further contribute to ECM remodeling and fibroblasts polarization to IAFs (another mechanism implicated in therapy resistance). Then, INTERCONNECTIONS aims to elucidate how an altered epithelial dynamics constitutes a primary event that directly (through an altered transepithelial migration) or indirectly (affecting the mechanical framework) could promote the accumulation of activated neutrophils.

Keywords: epithelial dynamics,neutrophils,extracellular matrix,resistance to therapy