Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Excited-State Dynamics of Molecular Solar Thermal Fuels (DynaMOST)

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: Austria
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): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sustainable energy generation, conversion and storage are among the most challenging goals of this century. DynaMOST is concerned with MOlecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy storage and release systems that can convert solar energy into chemical energy. Currently, very few MOST organic and organometallic systems are reported in the literature. Few simple yet elegant approaches are applied to improve their storage capacity and applicability. They rely on mostly trial-and-error variations of metals, alkyl chains, and photoactive units. Advance is hampered by the lack of mechanistic studies, particularly molecular-level information after light excitation. The ambitious goal of DynaMOST is to unravel the fundamental working principles of several MOST pushing ab initio dynamics simulations and quantum chemical methods beyond the state-of-the-art. Systems to study include dimeric transition metal complexes and large organic cyclophanes, which have demanding electronic structures and routine methodological techniques cannot be readily applied. Ultimately, DynaMOST is expected to deliver a rationale for designing new and efficient MOST systems. The experienced researcher will transfer knowledge in the transition metal chemistry, reaction mechanisms, and theoretical spectroscopy to the host group, and gain expertise in emerging quantum chemical methods and time-resolved chemical phenomena. A cross-sectoral workshop will increase the researcher's and host's networks. DynaMOST will provide the applicant with the basis to pursue an independent career, a unique and highly competitive research profile, excellent training, an increased scientific network and a comprehensive box of soft but essential skills, such as communication, management, dissemination and public engagement skills.

Keywords: quantum chemistry,ab initio excited state dynamics simulations,computational photochemistry,theoretical spectroscopy,transition metal chemistry,organic cyclophanes
Compact binaries as strong gravitational wave sources and progenitors of type Ia supernovae (CompactBINARIES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1685375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1685375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The accelerated expansion of the universe was one of the most striking discoveries in the 20th century and was only possible by using type Ia supernovae (SN Iae). Only the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf (WD) following the interaction in a binary system can explain the observed features. Several different binary scenarios are discussed including the merger and subsequent explosion of an ultracompact double white dwarf (double degenerate) or an explosion triggered by helium accretion from a helium star donor (double detonation). The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, which is currently being built by ESA. LISA will be sensitive to measure GWs directly of thousands of Galactic binaries, allowing for multi-messenger studies. The PI proposes to conduct a detailed observational study to identify and classify at least a few hundred SN Ia progenitors and LISA GW sources to 1) derive compact binary space densities and predict rates for different SN Ia formation channels to solve the supernova Ia progenitor problem 2) provide the first observationally derived population of resolvable LISA sources and Galactic LISA foreground sources To achieve this ambitious project the PI will use ongoing and upcoming sky surveys such as ZTF, BlackGEM, Gaia, Vera Rubin Observatory and SDSS-V combined with large-scale multiwavelength surveys. The large number of sky surveys combined with recent developments in data processing, including dense Galactic Plane regions makes this project very timely. The results will calibrate theoretical models for SN Ia, common envelope evolution and will help to find the optimal data analysis methods for LISA so that its mission requirements can be achieved. The PI will successfully lead this project because of his i) profound experience in large-scale sky-surveys, ii) proprietary data access to BlackGEM data and iii) direct involvement in multi-messenger projects for LISA.

Keywords: compact binaries,white dwarfs,hot subdwarf stars,interacting binary systems,supernova ia progenitors,gravitational wave sources,late stellar evolution
Research Facility 2.0: Towards a more energy-efficient and sustainable path (RF2.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Sweden
Call: New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of RIs (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-TECH-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5574354.36
EU funding (EUR): 4999625.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Research in many cases requires large infrastructures, which often use significant amounts of energy. In particular, research at some of the large-scale facilities, such as particle accelerators, which are either hosted or used at European Level are very energy intensive. Power usage may reach 100 MW or more, with energy consumptions comparable to small towns. To make progress in science, these large-scale infrastructures are essential despite their energy consumption requirements. At the same time, our society is faced with the enormous challenge to transition into a carbon-neutral economy, and to minimize our footprint in terms of energy usage from non-renewable sources, and our output of substances which burden the environment. For this reason, research infrastructures need to develop and use energy efficient technologies. The way we operate our infrastructures needs to be re-evaluated. Intelligent solutions which reduce energy consumption need to be developed. Through intelligent algorithms the energy usage of our infrastructures needs to be adjusted to the available resources, such as renewable energy, and should help in providing an overall stable energy supply to society. The RF2.0 consortium vision is to design and operate accelerators in the way that they can run safe and stable anytime on 100% renewable energy supply, i.e., almost independently from the public power grid. To achieve this vision, comprehThis project’s originality lies in the comprehensive analysis of large research infrastructures’ energy management problem, from component to system level, both at experimental physics and energy engineering level, and in developing and testing in realistic environments of possible corrective actions. The RF2.0 project will involve 6 world renowned research infrastructures for the acceleration of particles, of which 5 of European Interest, an energy technology lab, and 4 SMEs focused on the (co-)development and technology transfer of new energy solutions.

Keywords: research facilities research infrastructures energy efficiency sustainability
Photoredox catalytic metathesis of TT-salts and aryl bromide/chloride via multicatalysis (MultiCat-Metathesis)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Sulfonium salts emerge as unique synthetic intermediates in recent years. Versatile exciting transformations have been developed since the breakthrough works by Procter’s and Ritter’s group. Progress made within just 4 years since thesee seminal works showcased their broad utilities surpassing that of organic halides. Depending on the conditions, sulfonium salts engaged in various types of transformations such as Suzuki coupling, Sonogashira coupling, Negishi coupling, Heck reaction, carbonylation, boronation, chlorination, iodination, cyanation, photocatalysis, etc., and realize the constructions of various C-C, C-N, C-O, C-X and C-S bonds. Therefore, they are considered “Skeleton Key” in Late state Functionalization thanks to excellent compatibility. However, compared with organic halides that widely exist in nature and are commercially available, the synthetic methods for thiananthenium salts are still very limited. Currently, the direct C-H activation is the rare method showing efficiency for constructing aryl thianthranium salts. Although this synthetic method showed a remarkable advantage in exquisite remote regioselectivity, it also uncovered a challenge in making other sulfonium salts with other substitution patterns impossibly, such as on ortho- and meta-positions. Herein I propose to explore the potential of preparing synthetically omnipotent diversative aryl thianthranium (TT) salts from available aryl halides via functional group metathesis. Attractively, the method will overcome the current limitation to the para-derivatives of TT-salts, giving access to any substitution pattern of TT-salts (ortho-, meta-, para-, bissubstituted, etc.). The target TT-salts will open up a vast realm of transformations and construction of useful skeletons in fine chemical synthesis and development.

Keywords: photoredox,multicatalysis,metathesis,sulfonium salts,late state functionalization
Cognitive computational neuroscience approach to the development of mathematical competence (MathDevCCN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Learning the association between numerals (symbolic numbers) and quantity (nonsymbolic numbers) is the initial step toward comprehending symbolic mathematics. According to the symbolic estrangement hypothesis, extensive experience of exposure to numerals and their manipulation may significantly weaken any preexisting relation between symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers. Previous studies have independently reported representational shifts of brain activity patterns in young children and simulation of number processing systems using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Nonetheless, it has remained largely unclear how such brain representations and ANN features are related to each other in terms of development. The current project aims to address these issues by constructing computational models that integrate multimodal neuroimaging data of young children and ANN models for symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG) data will be collected while children engage in number perception tasks at the outset (5-year-olds) and after two years (7-year-olds) of formal education. In parallel with the neuroimaging experiments, I will implement ANNs that learn the association between symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers. To determine whether ANNs exhibit a similar developmental trajectory as the human brain, I will construct voxel-wise encoding models based on the latent ANN features. Encoding models based on the fMRI and EEG data will be further integrated into fine-scale spatiotemporal data showing functional dynamics across multiple brain regions. Finally, I will investigate how these dynamics change with formal education by comparing data from 5- and 7-year-olds. This project integrates interdisciplinary knowledge from cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and artificial intelligence to establish a novel computational approach to understanding the development of mathematical abilities.

Keywords: development,mathematical cognition,computational neuroscience,artificial intelligence
A revolutionary technology platform for providing life-saving treatment for end-stage heart failure patients (Biventricular Epicardial Augmentation Technology)

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: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3912949.25
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Over 500K patients in the EU and US suffer from end-stage heart failure (HF), with a life expectancy of <1 year in 38% of cases. The prevalence of HF has increased recently, mainly due to improved survival after heart attacks. Such patients require mechanical support of their hearts. Available treatment options are heart transplantation (HTX) and ventricular assist device (VAD). Today, <3% of these patients are treated due to donor heart shortages and restrictive employment of VADs. VADs can cause severe complications, such as bleeding and strokes, and typically only support one side of the heart. reBEAT is a revolutionary technology to mechanically support both sides of the heart, does not directly contact blood and can be easily implanted (~40 minutes). It presents virtually no contraindications for the patient population described. reBEAT offers high cost effectiveness at <50% of the cost of heart transplantations and VADs. AdjuCor expects revenues of 69M€ by 2027 with reBEAT.

Keywords: design innovation,heart failure,mechanical circulatory support,minimal invasive
Modernist Authors' Reading: Genesis in Authors' Libraries (MARGINAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2448053.0
EU funding (EUR): 2448053.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MARGINAL examines authors’ creativity through the traces of their own reading. The project starts from the idea that knowing what and how a writer read can help us understand the origins of their work. A work of literature often starts in the margins of another book. The project focuses on the reading habits of three modernist authors – Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. The rationale behind the selection of these case studies is based on a twentieth-century crisis of ‘encyclopedism’ – in the sense of comprehensive learning or knowledge. Many modernist and late-modernist writers problematized the encyclopedic ambition that marked their time, but the paradox is that they were only able to do so because they were so knowledgeable themselves. As key representatives of their period, Woolf, Joyce and Beckett read a wide range of European authors and left substantial personal libraries that have largely been preserved. Traces of authors’ reading have so far often been considered a ‘marginal’ phenomenon in textual scholarship. MARGINAL uses recent advances in digital scholarly editing to reverse this formal priority between centre and margin and shift the attention from the authors’ output to their input. It digitally reunites the books they once owned, which are dispersed over dozens of archives and collections (the ‘extant’ library) and reconstructs the parts of their libraries that have been lost (the ‘virtual’ library). The three resulting online, open-access editions of Woolf’s, Joyce’s and Beckett’s libraries will establish and annotate the connections between source texts, reading notes and the authors' own works to see how their multilingual reading informed their writing. By mapping this marginal zone between reading and writing, the purpose is to consider modernist authors as readers in the first place and examine which books they read, how they read, what records they made of this reading, and how this translated into their own works.

Keywords: genetic criticism,textual scholarship,scholarly editing,samuel beckett,james joyce,virginia woolf,authors libraries,modernism
Staff Mobility to Action Resilient, Restorative, and Regenerative Transitions & Societies (SMAR3TS)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Finland,Portugal,Norway,Lithuania,Germany,Estonia,Italy,Romania,Serbia,Australia,Switzerland,Mauritius,Thailand
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1945311.43
EU funding (EUR): 1803600.0
Participants: 35
Project status: SIGNED

The SMAR3TS project arises as a response to climate change and environmental degradation. It orchestrates an ambitious international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral staff exchange program for research and innovation, aimed at accelerating sociotechnical transitions for inclusive and sustainable growth. It actively tackles grand societal challenges that endanger global stability and prosperity, and adversely impact fundamental human needs such as food, mobility, energy, and housing. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, loss of biodiversity, and disruptions to ecosystems all have far-reaching consequences that transcend borders and require collaboration to develop timely and innovative solutions. SMAR3TS builds a Powerhouse Consortium with amplified network effect by uniting cross-disciplinary expertise of researchers and practitioners from 23 beneficiary partners, and 13 Associate/Third Country Partners working on research excellence through secondments, conferences, workshops, summer schools, knowledge-sharing platforms and activities to transform research outputs into tangible outcomes. United in diversity, SMAR3TS network spearheads innovations across various sectors to support resilient, restorative, and regenerative futures. By leveraging Open innovation strategies, SMAR3TS facilitates knowledge exchange, capacity building, and the co-creation of actionable solutions. By enabling a Quadruple-Helix approach (i.e. university-industry-government-civil society collaboration) and offering advanced training opportunities on research translation, futures thinking, foresight and other necessary tools and techniques, it equips researchers with key skills to design pathways for societal impact. Overall, SMAR3TS pursues a proactive strategy to build a fair, inclusive and regenerating world by collectively advancing science, technology, and innovation, triggering behavioural, organization and policy changes.

Keywords: open innovation,resilience,regeneration,restoration,quadruple helix,climate change,circular economy,technology management
Microwave-Driven Closed-Loop Utilization of Carbon-Reinforced Plastic Composites using CNMs/TMO Catalysts (MiCLuP)

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: 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): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The exigent challenges posed by climate change and increasing plastic waste pollution necessitates the development of innovative scientific solutions, processes, and technologies. Conventional thermal treatments for plastic waste (e.g., pyrolysis) require high power consumption and cannot meet the requirements for sustainability and net zero. This project aims to promote sustainability and circularity by utilizing plastic waste-derived carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) to prepare carbon-reinforced plastic composites. These CNMs will serve directly as microwave (MW)-active catalysts or be modified using transition metal oxide (TMO)-based catalysts, for converting the plastic composites back into virgin monomers at the end of their lifecycle, hence, to form a net-zero MW-initiated upcycling process. Leveraging the unique features of MW catalysis, this project will explore cost-effective solutions for the entire lifecycle of plastic-based products, from waste to value-added materials. Key objectives include: (i) producing microwave active CNMs from waste plastic; (ii) designing novel plastic composites incorporating these CNMs; and (iii) developing a sustainable upcycling process for depolymerizing the resulting plastic composite back into its original monomers using plastic-derived CNMs or modifying/ functionalizing CNMs using TMO-based catalysts. To gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of CNMs and TMO catalysts for MW-initiated catalytic reaction, a hypothesis-driven approach will be employed to investigate the interactions between CNMs and TMO catalysts and MW irradiation. This newly acquired knowledge will be crucial for enhancing catalytic performance and expanding the application of MW catalysis. Addressing the urgent need of utilizing recycled plastic in new products to reduce the demand for virgin plastics, as reported by European Environment Agency (EEA) 2024, this research aligns with the EU’s circular economy for plastic waste and UN's SDGs.

Keywords: microwave assisted catalysis,heterogeneous catalysis,transition metal oxides