Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Superconducting cables for sustainable energy transition (SCARLET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Portugal,Slovakia,Italy,France,Ireland,Germany
Call: Demonstration of superconducting systems and elpipes (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19602668.75
EU funding (EUR): 14999959.75
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Superconducting medium-voltage cables, based on HTS and MgB2 materials, have the potential to become the preferred solution for energy transmission from many renewable energy sites to the electricity grid. Onshore HTS cables provide a compact design, which preserves the environment in protected areas and minimizes land use in urban areas where space is limited. Offshore HTS cables compete on cost and – compared to conventional HVDC cables – have the clear benefit of eliminating the need for large and costly converter stations on the offshore platforms. MgB2 cables in combination with safe liquid hydrogen transport directly from renewable energy generation sites to e.g., ports and heavy industries, introduce a new paradigm of two energy vectors used simultaneously in the future. Both HTS, cooled with liquid nitrogen, and MgB2, cooled with liquid hydrogen, MVDC superconducting cables will be designed, manufactured, and tested, including a six-month test for the MgB2 cable. For grid protection, a high-current superconducting fault current limiter module will be designed and tested. Furthermore, the technology developments will be supported by techno-economic analyses, and a study of elpipes, large cross-section conductors for high-power transfer, will be performed. The superconductor technology developments will accelerate the energy transition towards a low-carbon society by the direct key impacts of the project: • 30% LCOE reduction for offshore windfarm export cables • 15% reduction in total cost of entire offshore windfarms • Possibility to transfer 0.5 GW in the form of H2 and 1 GW electric energy in one combined system • Installation of cables for 90 GW transmission capacity by the consortium partners by 2050 • Creation of 5 000 European jobs within the field of sustainable energy

Keywords: superconducting cables,renewable energy,medium voltage cables,fault current limiter,offshore cables,bulk transmission
MAXIMIZING THE TAX REVENUES FROM THE AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM (TAXFAIR)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Norway,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Tax evasion represents a pervasive phenomenon and a substantial portion can be attributable to income held abroad. The general consensus at global level is that cross-border tax evasion can be fought effectively by further increasing information exchange between countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that introducing a system for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) is extremely costly. Yet, we lack a direct assessment of the related benefits. TAXFAIR aims to analyze the effectiveness of the AEOI system to mobilize tax revenues and to determine the characteristics of an AEOI system that maximizes tax revenue extraction. Specifically, 1. I will create a high-quality novel dataset based on administrative data on Norwegian residents and a dataset containing institutional information on locally implemented AEOI systems; 2. I will apply state-of-the-art regression models to the administrative dataset to quantify the tax revenue recovered from the introduction of a AEOI system; 3. By combining the institutional information dataset and the administrative dataset, I will empirically analyze the traits that maximize the tax revenues recovered from the local AEOI systems. Overall, TAXFAIR will provide a knowledge based framework for governments and policymakers which will allow them to increase the monetary resources highly needed for financing the recovery from the massive negative economic shock induced by the COVID19 pandemic. While working on the action, I will develop new methodological skills (especially on machine learning), cross-sectorial skills (through the research stay at the IMF), stronger communication skills (by presenting at international conferences and via video clips), and further teaching and organizational skills (especially by organizing a case study competition joint with the industry). Overall, the MSCA fellowship will undoubtedly jump-start my career allowing me to emerge as an independent researcher with multiple attractive career pathways.

Keywords: tax evasion,administrative cooperation,automatic exchange of information,fatca,crs,financial accounts
Reliable biomeTric tEchNologies to asSist Police authorities in cOmbating terrorism and oRganized crime (TENSOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Fighting Crime and Terrorism
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Cyprus,Netherlands,Greece,Moldova, Republic of,Portugal,United Kingdom,Czechia,Germany,Austria,Spain,Belgium,Finland
Call: Modern biometrics used in forensic science and by police (HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5739724.99
EU funding (EUR): 4562975.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

TENSOR will provide LEAs a platform that facilitates the biometric evidence extraction, sharing and storage in cross border environments allowing them to share best practices in an automated, robust, secure, privacy-preserving and scalable manner. In addition, the full potential of biometrics technologies will be exploited and their fusion in case of partial evidence gathered in the crime scenes by forensic institutes strengthening their acceptance in the court of justice. More particularly, TENSOR will equip security practitioners with novel tools focusing on (a) Extraction of biometrics and other more or less distinctive features validated in forensic conditions that assist LEAs in identification, identity verification, intelligence and investigation processes and can be leveraged to identify the owner of mobile devices found at crime scenes; (b) Sharing of biometrics through secure, automated, scalable exchange of biometric intelligence and court-proof evidence among LEAs in a cross-border manner, enabling seamless collaboration among existing systems used by security practitioners and Forensic Institutes; and (c) Storage of biometrics in a privacy-preserving way through a biometric data protection mechanism enabling revocability of biometric templates. TENSOR will also introduce the one-of-its-kind European Biometric Data Space creating a common ground among LEAs, Forensic Institutes and Security Researchers assisting in the faster adoption of modern biometric solutions.
Monetising performance culture in French North and West Africa (MPA) (MPA)

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: Sweden,Benin,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 238478.25
EU funding (EUR): 238478.25
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Monetising performance culture in French North and West Africa (MPA) investigates how the implementation of authors’ rights systems affected the production of African performance culture in the period from 1850 to 1960. MPA bridges the field of French colonial history and intellectual property history by analysing the establishment of performing rights societiey offices in North and West Africa and the consequences that these had for local artists and creative production. The goal of the research is dual: first, I aim to develop a historical theory of the legal acknowledgement and monetisation of music, drama, and other performance practises in North and West Africa. Secondly, I aim to provide an account of historical alternatives to the organisation of creativity that did not fit into the rights-oriented performance culture that developed in Europe. MPA is a historical analysis of archival sources that will be collected and cross-referenced from a number of institutions in France, Senegal, and Benin. One major outcome will be an open digital map outlining when and where performance rights society offices opened and closed in the region between 1850 and 1960. This will be done in collaboration with supervisor and host, Ashleigh Harris, who is the PI for the African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project at Uppsala University. Other outcomes will be the publication of two peer-reviewed articles, one on local resistance to authors' rights systems, the other on IP-literacy among African artists. To be able to undertake the archival analysis and to expand the research into African cultural history, the outgoing phase will be carried out at the Université d’Abomey-Calavi in Benin where Didier Houénoudé will supervise and host me. In addition, I plan a three-month secondment at the Institute des mondes africains (IMAF) in Paris, under the supervision of Mbodj-Pouye Aïssatou. Here, I will collect archival material and participate on IMAF seminars.

Keywords: cultural history of law,french colonial post colonial history,intellectual property,collective management,performance,north and west africa,music and theatre
Higher Observational Type Theory (HOTT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1897375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1897375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recent advancements have enabled proof asistants to formally verify world-class mathematics: the liquid tensor experiment, the four colour theorem and the odd order theorem were formalised. Computer checked arguments are important for mathematicians who want to be certain their reasoning is sound, and for computer scientists to prevent bugs in safety critical software. Examples are formally verified parts of Google's Chrome web browser and verified implementations of the C and ML programming languages. At the core of these formalisations lies type theory, upon which proof assistants are built. Type theory is both a functional programming language and a foundation of mathematics. Recently, models of type theory built on higher dimensional spaces emerged, where elements of a type are points in the space, and elements of an equality type are paths in the space. Based one these, type theory was extended to homotopy type theory (HoTT), featuring the principle that isomorphic types are equal. This moves formalisation close to actual mathematical practice where isomorphic structures are being treated as the same. While HoTT is successful among academics, it hasn't been widely adopted. This is because type theories implementing HoTT rely on an explicit syntax for higher dimensional geometry, which is conceptually difficult and hard to use in practice. This creates a substantial barrier for formalisation, which is treated as a low-level, bureaucractic process. Our project will develop a radically new type theory where homotopical content is emergent, rather than built-in. The idea is to define the equality type via computation. This makes HoTT explainable and conceptually simple. It also improves pragmatic aspects: with more computation, proofs become less tedious. Our theory will contribute to a new era in formalisation of mathematics and verification of software, where developing proofs in abstract, reusable ways becomes standard, accelerating progress in both areas.

Keywords: type theory,proof assistants,foundations of mathematics,logic
Label-free multimodal real-time imaging of phage-induced bacterial lysis (COBLIM)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215841.07
EU funding (EUR): 215841.07
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The fast-growing number of multidrug-resistant bacterial strains is one of the biggest threats to public health. 5 million deaths and billions of euros are associated with drug-resistant bacterial infections per year. Lately, bacteriophages have become an alternative way to increasingly failing traditional direct-acting small antibiotic molecules. However, a deep and detailed understanding of the processes connected to bacteriophage-induced bacterial lysis is still missing. This project aims to develop a unique optical-based multimodal imaging technique for high-speed real-time imaging of phage-induced lysis of bacteria. The suggested tailored combination of coherent brightfield microscopy allowing for fast, label-free, and long-term single bioparticle imaging with advanced electro-optic fluorescence lifetime imaging allowing for dynamic molecular proximity sensing will be a worldwide unique prototype. For the first time, the technique will allow for direct label-free tracking of bacteriophages and simultaneous detection of changes in the inner bacterial environment (e.g., change in pH) and bacterial metabolism during all stages of infection. This will provide a great pool of information currently lacking, that will facilitate and accelerate phage and antimicrobial research. The method can be easily adapted for other bacterial or mammalian cells and single-bioparticle and particle studies, finding its place in drug delivery, cell interaction studies, or tracking particles in cells. Due to the uniqueness of the set of information that currently cannot be gained (under the same conditions) with any other technique, we expect the technology to become standard in future life science imaging.

Keywords: real time single bioparticle imaging,bacteriophage induced bacterial lysis,biophysics,optics
The Urban Dynamics of Late Antique Antioch (270-438 CE) (UrbAnt)

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: Poland,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-12
End date: 2028-01-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163166.16
EU funding (EUR): 163166.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Late Roman cities were multifaceted and possessed several social and political networks which contributed to its urban dynamics. Antioch – a major military base, ecclesiastical centre, and imperial residence in the East of the later Roman Empire – saw the coming and goings of the imperial retinue, external ecclesiastical appointments, and the introduction of many external political networks which meant that its urban dynamics were consistently in flux and often contested. Simultaneously, the internal climate of Antioch saw local responses to these external pressures, and the Antiochene local elites would also interfere in these transfers of power, often being obstinately opposed to the emperor or the externally appointed officials and bishops. The significance of these intersections and interactions has been hitherto downplayed, despite the major role these played not only on the internal political climate of Antioch, but also its external role in the political events of late antiquity, with many Antiochenes also possessing great influence in other major cities like Constantinople. UrbAnt will both create a framework for understanding the urban dynamics of Antioch, and will help scholars understand the role of a non-capital city in the contests, negotiations, and transfers of civic, ecclesiastical, and imperial power in the Late Roman world. It will adopt a prosopographical and social network analysis approach for the framework. It will create a holistic prosopographical database, which will collate information about individuals regardless of secular or ecclesiastical career, gender, or political class. It will then use a form of network analysis involving ego-networks to investigate the shifting political and social networks of Antioch. It will be shown that Antioch’s political networks closely intersected and that there was a continuous negotiation of power both internally and externally, and that these heavily influenced the urban dynamics of the Late Roman city.

Keywords: prosopography administration social network analysis database
Intermediate-mass black holes in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy (IMblack)

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: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497403.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497403.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses ranging from 10^2 to 10^5 solar masses, are crucial for understanding the growth of supermassive black holes across cosmic ages, but their formation mechanisms remain an open question, despite being in the spotlight for several years. The recent detection of gravitational-wave (GW) events in the IMBH regime demonstrates the potential of GW astronomy to discover IMBHs, and underscores the need for new models to interpret this emerging population. IMblack aims to develop the theoretical framework to probe IMBH formation by exploiting both electromagnetic and GW data. My models will address i) whether, when, and where very massive stars collapse to IMBHs, ii) whether, when, and where runaway stellar collisions in clusters lead to IMBH formation, and iii) the properties of IMBHs born from hierarchical mergers of stellar-sized black holes. This will be key to reconstructing the IMBH mass function, predicting their formation efficiency, and estimating their merger rate density across cosmic time. To achieve these goals, I will implement new methods across various astrophysical domains, including stellar evolution, GW population analysis, star cluster formation, and dynamics. Specifically, I will interface an ambitious suite of stellar collision simulations with advanced stellar evolution calculations, direct N-body models of star cluster dynamics, a population-synthesis semi-analytic approach to explore the multi-dimensional parameter space, and a new framework for the hierarchical assembly of star clusters. I will use GW and electromagnetic data to set constraints on the models. The results of IMblack will pave the way for interpreting GW data from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA and next-generation interferometers, such as the Cosmic Explorer, Einstein Telescope, and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.

Keywords: intermediate mass black holes star clusters binary black holes n body simulations binary population synthesis gravitational wave sources massive stars
Research Data Alliance facilitation of Targeted International working Groups for EOSC-related Research solutions (RDA TIGER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Netherlands
Call: Support for initiatives helping to generate global standards, specifications and recommendations for open sharing of FAIR research data, publications and software (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999999.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The RDA TIGER aims to provide services to facilitate and support well-defined Working Groups between key European and international initiatives, resulting in concrete alignment, harmonisation, and standardisation of Open Science developments and technologies globally. In particular the project will directly contribute to the European Open Science Cloud Partnership, by supporting (via the Working Groups) the international engagement and alignment of policies, technologies, methodologies, practices and other outputs of EOSC-related and other European Open Science developments; and develop and offer a service platform for these Working Groups, effectively identifying key partners for the groups, and increasing their work efficiency by facilitation and other support actions and ultimately maximising the impact WG results have on the EOSC, global Open Science, and society. RDA TIGER leverages the demonstrably effective instrument of community-driven RDA Working Groups and the foundations of EOSC, RDA, CODATA, Research Software Alliance (ReSA), and the Open Science movement in general, and provides a way to efficiently use the RDA platform for internationalisation and standardisation of research outputs that allow science to be reproducible and scrutinised. RDA TIGER service platform includes planning, engagement, communication, facilitation and finalisation services to the Working Groups, maximising the WG outputs, and their impact. Most of the RDA TIGER services have been tested in one form or another in earlier RDA-related projects both in Europe and internationally, demonstrating that they are realistic and achievable. RDA TIGER’s ambition stems from the concentrated use of these services, together with systematic quality control and improvement mechanisms, and via the careful selection of Working Groups which will maximize the impacts relevant to the Work Programme.

Keywords: data standards,policy harmonisation,software standards,research evaluation,research outputs,open science