Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Spatially resolved luminescence to date human prehistory in Early and Middle Pleistocene Spain (S-IRLum)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Iberian peninsula contains many sites essential to the current understanding of human evolution and population movement, including some of the oldest evidence of hominin occupation in Europe at over a million years ago. However, many of these late Early and Middle Pleistocene sites are challenging to date due to their old age and the scarcity of applicable methods. The main aim of this project is to develop luminescence-based dating tools targeted to such sites, thereby addressing this chronological gap. The S-IRLum project consists of a combination of method development on two complementary luminescence-based dating techniques―infra-red radiofluorescence (IR-RF) and infra-red photoluminescence (IRPL)―at single-grain resolution and their application to three important sites of Early and Middle Pleistocene age in Northern and Southern Spain. Development of an automated spatially resolved analysis through an ultra low-light imaging detection system is the only possibility to isolate grains with appropriate characteristics and avoid contamination by unwanted signal from other minerals. By analysing individual sediment grains, such methods will also be sensitive to natural sediment re-working events, a common occurrence in cave environments, thus increasing the accuracy of resulting ages. The research output will provide (i) an efficient and reproducible analysis pipeline for spatially-resolved luminescence dating and (ii) robust multi-method chronostratigraphies for the three dated sites, providing further insight into the timing of hominin arrival in Spain and the technological developments of these populations, such as the use of fire.

Keywords: geochronology,luminescence dating,human evolution
ENTANGLED FREEDOMS: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s (ENTANGLEDFREEDOMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ENTANGLEDFREEDOMS studies how practices and discourses of artistic modernism from the decolonizing worlds of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East entangled with plural and contesting notions of freedom during 20th-century decolonization and Cold War. Taking scopes of ‘freedom’ out of hegemonic Cold War binaries of western ‘First World’ vs. socialist ‘Second World’ values, I read it instead, in dialogue with its resonant global vocabularies of independence/liberation/emancipation, and via visual art. I argue that during Cold War decades of 1940s-1980s, decolonial modernisms from ‘Third World’ contexts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East – with their visions of freedom as anti-colonial independence and liberation movements – both engaged with and resisted ‘First World’ notions of freedom as universalist individualism and socialist ‘Second World’ notions of freedoms as revolutionary struggle. Drawing from the Caribbean theorist Édouard Glissant, I call these ‘relations’ of resistance, whereby decolonial modernisms relate with First/Second World ideas of freedom via difference – not in unilinear assimilation or resistance, or in pure refusals via ‘non-alignment’. In ENTANGLEDFREEDOMS, I lead a Project Team to answer collectively a research question not yet asked in the expanding fields of global (art) histories, postcolonial studies or even 21st-century decolonial theories: How did 20th-century decolonial modernisms visualize, entangle, and transform plural visions of freedoms across and beyond geographies of Cold War and decolonization? With its empirically rooted historical and relational methods, and a theoretically generative research plan for comparative decolonial aesthetics from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East – in relation with Euro-American histories – ENTANGLEDFREEDOMS is an ambitious, transnational project that puts entangled artistic and political imagination from the decolonizing world at the heart of a potential global historiography of art and freedoms.

Keywords: cold war decolonization entanglement freedoms modernism relation visual arts
Performing Lyric, East and West: A Comparative Study of the Ancient Greek and Japanese Traditions (PERLY)

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,Japan
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 266318.4
EU funding (EUR): 266318.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project proposes the first comparative analysis of ancient Greek and classical Japanese performed lyric poetry (Nō) ever to be undertaken. It will explicate the fragmentary Greek lyric poetry as textual traces of a now extinct performance tradition against the still living Japanese lyric performance tradition that is Nō, harnessing the insights of cognitive performance studies. In so doing it will produce a proof of concept for the comparison between Greek lyric and Nō, a demonstration of the application of novel approaches drawn from cognitive performance studies to both the Greek and the Japanese material, a novel set of comparative readings for the benefit of both Classicists and Japanologists, and an impetus for renewed dialogue between scholarship and performance practice. The successful completion of this project will establish me as a comparatist in addition to a classicist, extending my scholarly reach beyond my native discipline and even beyond the academic world by allowing me scope for engagement with the performing arts and the public at large. The research will be carried out in universities in Japan and Italy, straddling the respective departments of Classics/Humanities and Japanese and Comparative Literature/Asiatic Studies at the University of Tokyo and Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Keywords: greek lyric poetry,lyric performance,japanese n
Identification of chemicals in edible fish containing microplastics as potential source for human exposure (ChemFishPlast)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Microplastics (MPs) are extremely persistent, ubiquitous and have the ability to adsorb/absorb chemicals from the surrounding environment. Marine organisms ingest microplastics and the chemicals are transferred through the food chain, and may potentially reach humans through the consumption of fish and shellfish. Therefore, the identification of chemicals arising from this potential human exposure source is of great interest for ensuring food safety and establishing the appropriate legislative framework. FishConPlastic proposes a simple and robust methodology, based on the combination of supramolecular solvents (SUPRASs) with liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS), that will allow to detect and identify chemicals associated with the intake of microplastics in edible marine species through suspect and non-target analysis. FishConPlastic will provide the first overview on chemical-microplastic contamination in edible marine species from the Mediterranean Sea. In a second stage, the relationship between the chemical present in marine organisms and the microplastics will be investigated. For this, the quantity, size, integrity and polymer-type of the microplastics found in the marine species analysed will be determined. Finally, all the identified chemicals will be prioritised in a list according to the level of confidence of the identification, frequency of detection, human risk exposure to chemicals and toxicity. FishConPlastic will offer to public authorities a comprehensive list of chemicals to be monitored for ensuring food safety, which is expected to have a positive impact on net fishery exports in the European Community. FishConPlastic is in line with the European Mission on healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters, deepening the knowledge of the mechanisms of chemicals migration and microplastics contribution to the marine species contamination.

Keywords: microplastics,emerging contaminants,edible fish,food safety,human exposure assessment,high resolution mass spectrometry
Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering and Dark Matter with Spherical Proportional Counters (neutrinoSPHERE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-02
End date: 2028-02-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

neutrinoSPHERE, following a multidisciplinary synergic approach, will comprehensively investigate the wider aspects of astroparticle physics. It will exploit the potential of Spherical Proportional Counters (SPC) developed by NEWS-G Collaboration and will develop novel tools based on Machine-Learning (ML) techniques to conclusively respond to long-standing puzzles in particle physics such as the nature of neutrinos and the existence of dark matter (DM). The ultra low-threshold capabilities of SPCs are ideal to explore neutrino magnetic moments through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), and sub-GeV boosted-DM signatures induced by: cosmic rays, Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background and solar reflection. Furthermore, neutrinoSPHERE will open new directions expanding the scientific programme and physics reach of NEWS-G to additional components of the dark sector via the dark boson portal: dark photons, dark scalars, and axion-like particles. To address these challenges, neutrinoSPHERE will develop NEWS-ML, a novel simulation framework based on ML, offering rapid and fully validated state-of-the-art simulations of CEvNS, DM and hidden sector signals in SPCs. The performance of NEWS-ML will be accelerated with GPU technology and MPI-parallelisation, facilitating statistical inference and accurate constraints extraction. neutrinoSPHERE offers the ideal template to achieve the required breakthroughs in astroparticle physics by investigating previously-unexplored regions of BSM scenarios, in which existing rare-event searches have limited sensitivity, thus complementing them. The research team has diverse expertise, ranging from instrumentation and detector R&D to beyond the Standard Model phenomenology. The scientific results will be disseminated in different target groups through journal publications, conference announcements, public talks, outreach activities and social media.

Keywords: coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering,spherical proportional counters,dark matter direct detection,reactor and astrophysical neutrinos,neutrino interactions beyond the sm,hidden sector searches
Does standardization matter? Evaluating the potential of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for reducing employment discrimination faced by immigrants. (DISCEFRN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140607.36
EU funding (EUR): 140607.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Around 57 million people in Europe are foreign-born. Developing strategies for inclusive growth and devising actions to promote immigrant integration through non-discrimination are among Europe’s current priorities. This project will evaluate if the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), which is used to standardize host country language requirements for different professions throughout Europe, can serve as an effective tool to reduce hiring discrimination against immigrants. Employers have been shown to discriminate against immigrant applicants based on language-related bias, which can be reduced when language requirements are specified in CEFR terms. Based on a novel design that combines real-world variation in the inclusion of CEFR requirements in job ads with a factorial survey experiment and in-depth interviews among employers, the project will address three objectives: 1) Examining if the inclusion of CEFR requirements reduces differential treatment of immigrant applicants on aggregate; 2) Identifying labor market areas and ethnic groups that benefit most from the introduction of CEFR requirements; 3) Assessing the current implementation of CEFR requirements in relation to uninformed or inadequate use. Results and the collected data set will be distributed among the scientific community (open access), among the general public (science fairs) and among employers and county governors (webinars, roundtable discussions) and can serve as a stepping-stone for developing comprehensive and adequate language requirements for different professions at the (inter)national level. The projects unites expert researchers in sociolinguistics and language test development with an early career researcher (ecr), specializing in immigrant integration and language-based discrimination into an interdisciplinary team. This will provide impactful training to the ecr, who will benefit from methodological training, project management experience, and network ties.

Keywords: anti discrimination strategy,ethnic discrimination,ethnic inequalities,immigrant and refugee integration,
Deeptech startup support programme to facilitate ventures thriving in the European Widening area (VENTURES THRIVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Malta,Bulgaria,Poland
Call: Enhancing synergies between the EIC and Startup Europe (HORIZON-EIC-2021-STARTUPEU-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

European startups face barriers when scaling due to the cultural, legal and economic fragmentation of the market. While the EU demonstrates high performance in “the lab”, this does not translate proportionally into thriving commercial ventures. For deeptech startups, the key challenge is the lengthy time needed to reach a maturity level adequate for adoption, making investing risky. In the case of Widening Countries, commercialization of deeptech is even more challenging. The EC has made a substantial effort to support deeptech with initiatives aiming to invest in and connect entrepreneurs at a pan-European scale (EIC Accelerator and the Startup Europe initiative). VENTURES THRIVE inherits the spirit of these initiatives, concretely building on three waves of Startup Europe with a novel approach targeted at deeptech startups in Widening Area countries. This unique open innovation startup programme will provide up to €100K (cash and vouchers) each to a total of 32 startups. Along with equity-free funding, the core programme offers value-add services aimed at: fostering access to markets via corporate challenges, improved investment readiness, and greater visibility, investment and networking opportunities. The project consortium and external associates comprise venture builders, event organisers, VC & Angel Investors, corporates and expert mentors. Overall, the startups are expected to unlock +€18M via investment, grants and corporate procurement. The secret ingredient is the consortium and their extensive networks. ACCELER8 (Malta) is a venture builder commercialising top-level scientific innovations. ANTHOLOGY VENTURES (Bulgaria) is a venture studio, incubating early-stage teams and business angels. WOLVES SUMMIT (Poland), the major event for startups in the CEE region, offers the perfect connection with investors, corporates and the tech community. Notably, they have already facilitated over 37,000 meetings between startups and investors from +60 countries.

Keywords: open innovation,venture builder,business angels,female entrepreneurship,research to business,business coaching and mentoring,research exploitation,scale up,innovation in smes,business plan
Live biotherapeutics to potentiate cancer immunotherapy (LiveBioThx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has revolutionized the treatment of multiple cancers. Anti-tumor responses are often durable but overall only a subset of patients receiving ICIs has exhibited sustained tumor shrinkage, whereas a substantial fraction receiving these therapies develops immune-related adverse events. The absence of dramatic responses is attributed to several factors, including abnormalities in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Specifically, many tumors such as subsets of colorectal, breast and pancreatic cancer, become stiff as they grow. Tumor stiffening causes compression of intratumor blood vessels, impairing blood flow/perfusion and oxygen supply. Hypoperfusion reduces ICIs delivery to the tumor and hypoxia induces immunosuppression, compromising immunotherapy. To restore these abnormalities, a novel therapeutic strategy to normalize tumor stiffness prior to ICIs has been tested in preclinical studies and in the clinic. This strategy repurposes clinically approved drugs to target the factors contributing to tumor stiffening, leading to a new class of therapeutics, known as mechanotherapeutics. However, drug-repurposing poses certain limitations as adding a new drug to the treatment regimen of patients with cancer is not feasible in many cases. As an alternative to these approaches, we propose here to test the ability of engineered live biotherapeutics in the form of programmable bacteria that offer unique advantages for delivering enzymes to normalize the TME. Even a small fraction of bacterial dose reaching the tumor is sufficient to colonize it and allow therapeutic concentrations of tumor-remodeling enzymes to be maintained for a long period of time. We propose to evaluate the ability of a novel live biotherapeutic product to improve perfusion and potentiate ICIs in preclinical tumor models of colorectal and breast tumors. This bacterial product has great potential for commercialization, and a plan is proposed.
Lviv The European Capital of Innovation (LVIViCapital2023)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Capital of Innovation Awards
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Ukraine
Call: The European Capital of Innovation Awards iCapital 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lviv is an ancient Ukrainian city that is moved through the centuries by innovations. Its history, cultural heritage, successful reforms, innovations, startups, projects, and initiatives improve the quality of life of Lviv citizens and ensure economic stability and democracy. These amenities of Lviv's heritage, culture, and innovations can be compared to a strong and unbreakable tree. This mighty tree gives strength not only to Lviv residents but to all Ukrainians. We compare Lviv with a tree that has deep roots and stands strong despite all storms of crises, pandemics, and full-scale war. Reforms and changes in the fields of medicine, ecology, education, infrastructure, economics, and the development of self-government formed today’s city. Thanks to the strong roots of Lviv, new opportunities began to appear in the form of various innovations, projects, and startups. All of them formed the strong trunk of this tree. The crown of the tree is the UNBROKEN rehabilitation ecosystem. Its innovative methods and approaches change the city. Right now the physical and mental treatment are the most important for people affected by war. We, as the city, are focused not only on the healing of body and soul, but we also strive to return people to a normal life, give them a second chance and teach society to live in a changed postwar reality. The UNBROKEN ecosystem has become a platform for new ideas, goals, and missions, bearing fruits in the future, particularly successfully implemented projects, startups, and technologies that will be useful not only for the Ukrainian community but also for the WORLD. This innovative ecosystem gives hope for the next generations and makes humanity UNBROKEN

Keywords: lviv icapital ecosystem humanity unbroken citizens resilence tree startup