Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Force-Responsive Heterogeneous Catalysts (FORECAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999582.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999582.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Efficient catalytic materials are essential for the sustainable energy transition. To design such materials, we have a lot to learn from Nature, where bio-catalysts enzymes can perform many reactions that are virtually impossible for chemists to replicate. Enzymes operate by dynamically confining reactants and transition states, during the catalytic reaction, with high geometric and chemical precision. While we can mimic static confinement with existing nanoporous catalysts, we do not have in-situ control over the confinement geometry inside these generally rigid materials. I aim to bridge this material gap by developing the first catalytic system with externally tunable confinement. My original approach is based on soft graphene-based materials – zeolite-templated carbons (ZTC). The unique property of these materials is that their pore size can be finely tuned within the sub-nanometer range by external mechanical force. This feature enables the precise modulation of the confinement geometry by simply varying the compression degree. In FORECAT, my team and I will: ▪ Synthesize a library of catalytic transition metal nanoparticles inside the pores of ZTCs ▪ Explore the force-responsive performance of these catalysts in selective CO2 hydrogenation and N2 fixation ▪ Link the geometry of confinement with i) diffusivity of reactants, intermediates, and products; ii) their adsorption strength and coverage on active sites; and iii) reactivity and selectivity of the catalysts ▪ Utilize oscillatory compression–release of ZTC-based catalysts to drastically enhance their performance through catalytic resonance The new field of force-responsive catalysis will provide unique fundamental insights and deep understanding of the chemistry of confinement. This understanding will enable designing better functional porous materials for catalysis and other applications. Eventually, the results of this project will contribute to bridging the gap between artificial and natural catalysts.

Keywords: catalytic resonance theory zeolites microporous catalysts operando spectroscopy nanoconfinement heterogeneous catalysts co2 hydrogenation
REctenna in Millimeter-Wave frequency range for High-POWer Energy Reception (REMPOWER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Italy
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: In-space solar energy harvesting for innovative space applications (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3989045.83
EU funding (EUR): 3989045.83
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The REMPOWER project embarks on a pioneering journey to harness the untapped potential of space-based solar power (SBSP) through innovative rectenna technology and sub-THz wireless energy transmission. However, SBSP also faces many challenges, such as high launch costs, technical difficulties, and potential safety and security issues. At its core, REMPOWER is driven by four pivotal technical objectives associated with the capture and rectification of a sub-THz high energy beam: 100 GHz Modular, Flexible and Lightweight Rectenna: REMPOWER will develop rectenna technologies capable of capturing energy at 100 GHz. These modular rectenna technologies will provide modularity, flexibility at panel level and will allow the reduction of the weight of the final solution. High Efficiency and high power rectification: REMPOWER’s advanced diode and rectifier modeling and design will allow tackling high rectification efficiency, and high power handling capability, despite the sub-THz constraint. This will yield high output DC power while limiting the cost related to the number of required non-linear devices. Nonlinear Rectifier and Rectenna Characterization: REMPOWER will introduce a novel approach by subjecting rectifiers to wideband signals, enabling a comprehensive analysis of amplitudes and phases across multiple intermodulation frequencies. This breakthrough will unveils intricate nonlinear behaviors for heightened efficiency. Scalable Rectenna Arrays for Large Surfaces: REMPOWER will focus on scalability to enable high-power transmission, to reduce design and manufacturing costs and to improve modularity and flexibility. The progress within REMPOWER transcends current technological boundaries, offering promise for sustainable in-space mobility solutions and renewable energy generation. By conquering the challenges of high-frequency energy capture, REMPOWER will reshape the future of space exploration, energy generation, and sustainability.

Keywords: space based solar power rf power transmission rectenna array millimeter wave solar power harvesting energy sustainability wireless power transmission
LegumeLegacy – Optimising multiple benefits of grass, legume and herb mixtures in crop rotations: modelling mechanisms and legacy effects (LegumeLegacy)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Denmark,Poland,Germany,Canada,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2224461.6
EU funding (EUR): 2224461.6
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

With the European Green Deal, the EU has committed to transition to carbon-neutral and sustainable systems of agriculture. LegumeLegacy aims to adapt existing mixed or ruminant based production systems, using state of the art knowledge from ecology, agronomy, statistics and other fields to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient inputs and leaching (and costs), while increasing carbon stocks, biodiversity and yield stability. To achieve this, an exceptional and distinctive strategy of LegumeLegacy includes a common experiment across multiple LegumeLegacy sites; 10 Doctoral Researchers (DRs; two funded by the Swiss Government) will collaborate on the common experiment and have their own distinctive and complementary research objectives. To develop a model system of crop rotation, in the common experiment grassland plots of varying diversity of six species (two grasses, two legumes, two herbs, selected for complementary functional traits) will be established as a grassland ley, grown, and terminated; the grassland leys will be followed by a wheat crop. The effect of the diversity of the grassland ley on the performance of the crop rotation will be evaluated by measurement of yield, quality and environmental performance. LegumeLegacy will recommend the design of grassland leys within crop rotations that optimise agronomic and environmental performance; the multi-site experiment will generalise the conclusion and its implementation potential across Europe. LegumeLegacy will train a cohort of 10 DRs into a new generation of future leaders who will have the capacity to develop and deploy interdisciplinary and data-driven sustainable practices in the agricultural sector. With a training programme that includes statistics, specialised research skills, targeted transferable skills and scientific co-operation within a global network, this cohort of future leaders will be equipped with professional skills for a range of associated disciplines in industry or academia.

Keywords: crop rotation species interactions legacy effect multispecies mixtures grasslands leys nitrogen sustainability sustainable agriculture grasses legumes herbs
Automated Compliance Checks for Construction, Renovation or Demolition Works (ACCORD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Netherlands,Italy,France,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Bulgaria,Estonia
Call: Digital permits and compliance checks for buildings and infrastructure (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4318945.43
EU funding (EUR): 3825657.0
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

ACCORD's objective is to digitalise permitting and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes, support the design of climate-neutral buildings and advance a sustainable built environment in line with the EU Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative. These digitized processes must be human-centred, transparent and cost-effective for the permit applicants and authorities. Another objective is to develop and integrate technical solutions for automating compliance checking of buildings in their design, construction and renovation/demolition lifecycle phases. All this will be based on open and neutral data exchange standards. ACCORD will develop a semantic framework for European digital building permitting processes, regulations, data and tools. This framework will drive rule formalization and integration of existing compliance tools as microservices. Solutions and tools are to be developed, providing consistency, interoperability and reliability with national regulatory frameworks, processes and standards. The solutions are implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Spain. ACCORD supports work programme KSOs, expected outcomes and impacts by 1) developing open APIs allowing local authorities to choose their digital services without a lock-in, 2) automating the checking of environmental regulations (CO2 emissions, LCA and circular economy) by developing machine-readable rules, thus steering the digital and green transition, and involving relevant stakeholders through co-creation, and 3) creating information guidelines for structured data models to increase the value of buildings and reduce their operating costs and 4) providing the open ACCORD framework based on microservices allowing businesses to connect and develop solutions resulting in a scalable, durable and flexible permitting ecosystem.

Keywords: building permitting,building compliance checking,digital tools,automation,standardisation,nlp,machine readable rules,integrated building processes,bim,gis,semantic data,linked building data
Mediterranean and pan-European forecast and Early Warning System against natural hazards (MEDEWSA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Sweden,Slovakia,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Cyprus,Israel,Switzerland,Georgia,Ethiopia,Austria,Egypt
Call: Improved impact forecasting and early warning systems supporting the rapid deployment of first responders in vulnerable areas (HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5328560.42
EU funding (EUR): 4999874.0
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

Natural hazards, such as extreme weather events, are exacerbated by climate change. As a result, emergency responses are becoming more protracted, expensive, frequent, and stretching limited available resources. This is especially apparent in rapidly warming regions. MedEWSa addresses these challenges by providing novel solutions to ensure timely, precise, and actionable impact and finance forecasting, and early warning systems (EWS) that support the rapid deployment of first responders to vulnerable areas. Specifically, MedEWSa will deliver a sophisticated, comprehensive, and innovative pan-European–Mediterranean–African solution comprising a range of complementary services. Building on existing tools MedEWSa will develop a fully integrated impact-based multi-hazard EWS. This call contained five expected outcomes, all of which will be specifically addressed by MedEWSa. Led by WMO, MedEWSa will be an exemplar of the UN Secretary General’s March 2022 call to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from extreme weather and climate-related hazards by EWS within the next five years. Through eight carefully selected pilot sites (areas in Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and Africa with a history of being impacted by natural hazards and extreme events with cascading effects), four twins will be created: ● Twin #1: Greece (Attica) – Ethiopia (National Parks): wildfires and extreme weather events (droughts, wind) ● Twin #2: Italy (Venice) – Egypt (Alexandria / Nile Delta): coastal floods and storm surges ● Twin #3: Slovakia (Kosice) – Georgia (Tbilisi): floods and landslides ● Twin #4: Spain (Catalonia) – Sweden (countrywide): heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. The twins will bridge areas with different climatic/physiographic conditions, yet subject to similar hazards, and are well positioned to deliver long-term bi-directional knowledge transfer. They will demonstrate the transferability and versatility of the tools developed in MedEWSa.

Keywords: multi hazards cascading effects impact assessments societal support
Urban Economic SEGregation: integrating explanatory mechanisms across geographical scales to compare remediatory policies in silico (SEGUE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The uneven concentration of people and economic resources in cities hampers the well-being and opportunities of poorer citizens and represents a threat to social cohesion. It is considered a major policy challenge by researchers and international institutions alike. My aim with the SEGUE project is to identify and model the combination of economic, geographical and demographical drivers of urban economic segregation in order to better understand its dynamics and to better assess possible remediatory policies. The existing literature on urban segregation mainly explains urban economic segregation with sociological and intra-city factors (resource accessibility, social networks, contextual effects and the urban form) but also acknowledges a link with the evolution of economic inequality. The existing literature on economic inequality, by contrast, mainly focuses on factors operating at the national and individual levels (selective migration, assortative mating, family inheritance, education). My project addresses this gap by spatialising the national and individual explanations of economic inequality relating to residential mobility or the tax and education system, and by integrating these into a simulation model of urban segregation. This model will be calibrated with a uniquely rich source of exhaustive and longitudinal individual data from the Netherlands. Its analysis will produce new insights about the interaction between drivers of economic inequality and segregation in cities and will provide a cost-effective tool to compare policies to reduce urban economic segregation at different scales of action (local, urban, national), ex ante (i.e. within the virtual laboratory of a simulation) instead of in situ with costly and risky experiments. The results obtained from the research should also open new perspectives to study various forms of inequality and facilitate the study of economic segregation in other national contexts.

Keywords: urban segregation,economic inequality,agent based modelling,cities,policy,multiscale
The missing link: inhibitory interneurons as the core of anxiety and depression comorbidity (ZoomINs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2012500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2012500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Rates of depression and anxiety are constantly surging, resulting in a growing global mental health crisis. These two disorders have a remarkably high prevalence of comorbidity, with anxiety generally preceding depression. However, the biological basis of these disorders and their comorbidity is poorly understood, leaving millions of patients with inadequate treatments and thus an urgent need for improved medications. Accumulating evidence suggests that both disorders involve GABAergic deficits, but the nature of these deficits is undefined and may be the holy grail for cracking the mysteries of depression and anxiety comorbidity. Here, I will apply cutting-edge technologies to focus on hippocampal GABAergic interneurons (INs) and propose a data-driven hypothesis for the cellular and molecular basis of anxiety and depression comorbidity. I suggest that INs selectively recruit microglia to reshape inhibition in the depressed brain. This hypothesis may provide the missing link between major hallmarks of depression: GABAergic deficits, synaptic loss, and neuroinflammation. I seek to unravel the molecular adaptations of INs to stress that lead to microglia recruitment and connect them with anxiety preceding depression. Finally, I will elucidate a novel model for innate anxiolysis mediated by local dendritic translation in INs. I will combine, for the first time, the robustness of two analytical methods: translating ribosome sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to identify the involved genes, the INs subtypes expressing them, and their hippocampal location. These data will be complemented by calcium imaging, behavioral tests, imaging, connectomics, and electrophysiology. ZoomINs targets an urgent public health concern by providing a novel hypothesis for a long-standing question: what causes anxiety and depression comorbidity? The results of this ambitious project will set the ground for the development of INs-targeting medications, giving hope to millions worldwide.

Keywords: depression,anxiety,hippocampus,interneurons,gaba
Phase-space-inspired numerical methods for high-frequency wave scattering: from semiclassical analysis through numerical analysis to open-source software (PSINumScat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8725537.0
EU funding (EUR): 8725537.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Designing fast and reliable algorithms to numerically simulate the behaviour of high-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic waves is a longstanding open problem in computational mathematics. Furthermore, these waves underpin a plethora of communication and imaging technologies; therefore any progress towards solving this problem will have wide impact. The project aims to design, analyse, and implement in open-source software new methods for the numerical solution of high-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic wave scattering problems. These methods will be faster, more reliable, and more widely applicable than current state-of-the-art methods, with this improvement achieved by exploiting techniques from pure mathematics specifically designed to study high-frequency problems; these techniques are from the area of semiclassical analysis and are based on studying functions in phase space (the combination of physical and frequency space). Since both numerical analysis and semiclassical analysis of high-frequency wave scattering problems are mature areas of mathematics, it is surprising that these two fields have operated largely in isolation from each other, with essentially none of the deep insights about high-frequency waves from semiclassical analysis used in the design of numerical methods for these problems. This project will exploit this untapped potential and implement the resulting methods in the open-source multiphysics finite-element software FreeFEM (https://freefem.org/) in easy-to-use packages. These packages will be designed for researchers in the applied sciences and industry seeking to simulate the behaviour of high-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic waves. These goals will be achieved by combining the expertise of the three PIs: JG, an expert in semiclassical analysis, ES, an expert in the numerical analysis of high-frequency scattering, and PT, an expert in scientific computing and the lead developer of FreeFEM.

Keywords: high frequency,scattering,helmholtz,maxwell,finite element method,boundary element method,domain decomposition