Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Development and diversity of root suckers (CLONAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and R egeneration
Panel description: For all organisms : Structure and function of the cell, cell -cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Germany
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): 2477005.0
EU funding (EUR): 2477005.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Clonal reproduction provides certain seed plants with the opportunity to spawn large numbers of clonal individuals in the absence of fertilization. Root sucker formation is a mechanism by which somatic cells of the root spontaneously change their developmental path and give rise to hundreds of clonal offspring. This trait is understudied owing to the scarcity of systems where genetics and advanced imaging can be employed for in-depth studies. Here, I propose to address this problem by developing a diploid Cardamine species as a powerful experimental system for this purpose. This species reproduces not only sexually, but also asexually via root suckers. How root suckers form and how the plant determines the balance between sexual and asexual reproduction is unknown. Close relatives include Arabidopsis thaliana, the best-characterized plant genetic system, and Cardamine hirsuta, a model system that we developed for comparative studies. Yet, neither of these two species form root suckers. I propose to leverage this difference between closely related species to elucidate, at single-cell level, the molecular genetic basis for root sucker development. To jump-start this work, I have in place a genome assembly, genetic transformation and resources for forward and reverse genetics approaches. I will also take advantage of intra-specific natural variation to identify the genetic basis for root sucker diversity and the basis for trade-offs between sexual and asexual reproduction. Ultimately, I aim to reconstruct the root sucker trait from its constituent genetic elements, and transfer it between species. Overall, I will deliver one of the most advanced studies in complex eukaryotes on the genetic basis for development and diversity of clonality – a key trait with significant effects on life history. I will also produce a wealth of resources for the community to further exploit this novel model system.

Keywords: plant development,asexual reproduction
Development of Ultra Speed, resilient, cost-effective LiFi-based Free Space Optical Communication to connect Hospitals Departments -clinics and home care patients for next generation Hospitals (lifiFSO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Malta
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177251.52
EU funding (EUR): 177251.52
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The development of high-speed communication requirements due to explosive growth of subscribers each year has directed researchers to plan the next generation communication systems that can manage the current growing demand. The millimeter microwaves waves, which function within 30 GHz to 300 GHz, can become prospective carriers for delivering large amounts of data. But, in hospital setups, these radio waves are exposed to strict guidelines due to their direct impact on patient's health as well as high interference with other medical equipment which again imposes severe challenges for patients. The Free Space Optical System might become an attractive solution to transmit medical data over light waves as a carrier. LiFi (light fidelity) is a bidirectional wireless system that transmits data via LEDs or infrared light. LEDs are much cheaper than LASER, making the FSO link cost-effective. LiFI does not interfere with the hospital equipment that relies on radio waves. LiFi is one of the future wireless communication technologies, which will help to develop next-generation hospitals with ultra-high-speed transmission. The overall objective of this research proposal is the development of Ultra Speed, resilient, cost-effective LiFi based Free Space Optical Communication to connect Hospitals Departments -clinics and home care patients for next generation Hospitals. However, fading due to atmospheric turbulence is the main problem affecting the FSO communication system performance. Therefore a case study on how the atmosphere around Malta affects light transmission in free space will be carried out to take measures to improve connectivity. After that the researcher will analyses developed FSO link performance on the ground considering different weather conditions(fog, haze, rain) of Malta and internal system parameters (Transmitter divergence angle, Receiver aperture diameter and link range on data rate, power received and SNR).

Keywords: optical wireless,atmospheric effects,led
Photo-thermo-electric materials for combined water desalination and electricity generation (PHOTEM)

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 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): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Among the different global challenges that we are facing today, the energy crisis and freshwater scarcity represent two of the most critical ones, according to international institutions such as the World Health Organization and the International Energy Agency. Moreover, they are expected to worsen with rising populations and the industrialisation of emerging countries. To address these, sustainable and eco-friendly solutions are imperative. In this context, solar energy, an abundant and green resource, can be leveraged to meet both needs. PHOTEM will do so with an innovative approach that efficiently combines photothermal desalination with thermoelectric generation, driven by the development of novel high-performing and environmentally friendly materials. In this approach, photothermal materials (PTMs) directly convert solar energy into heat, facilitating the evaporation of clean water from seawater. Concurrently, the thermoelectric generator (TEG) uses the radiated waste heat from photothermal conversion process to generate electricity through the Seebeck effect. The project’s ambitious goal is to design, synthesize, and integrate these novel materials into a unified system that optimizes water evaporation rates and electricity generation while minimizing environmental impact. PHOTEM focuses on three key components: the PTM, the TEG, and the engineering of their integration (EOI). By advancing the efficiency of these components beyond the current state-of-the-art, the project aims to achieve high evaporation rates, improved solar evaporation efficiencies, and cost-effective, stable TEG. PHOTEM’s innovative approach aligns with global sustainability goals, offering a scalable and impactful solution to the intertwined issues of water and energy scarcity.

Keywords: perovskites,lead free,mechanochemistry,thermoelectrics,photothermal,desalination
Centre Of Excellence For Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies (COPE-Nano)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,France,United Kingdom
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14200000.0
EU funding (EUR): 14200000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

COPE-Nano is a highly ambitious project that aims to the foundation of a new Centre of Excellence for Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies by leveraging the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) to establish a new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence for Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies (COPE-Nano). This CoE will become a leader in EU in basic, applied and industrial research in the rapidly growing fields of Flexible Printed Organic Electronics (FPEs), Bioelectronics and Advanced Nanomaterials for applications in Green Energy, Electronics, ICT, Medicine and Agriculture. COPE-Nano will enhance scientific and technological capacity of Greece, raising the research profile of the Greek and EU scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs based on close and intensive collaboration, networking and know-how exchange with the University of Bordeaux (UBx/ADERA) (LCPO & ELORPrintTec), and the University of Cambridge (CAM), which are institutions worldwide acknowledged for excellence & leading in OE and Nanotechnology. COPE-Nano is strongly supported by the Greek Government (GSRI) to expand the Nanotechnology Ecosystem of LTFN and turns them into purely growth initiatives and business activities, strengthens and highly impacts the regional, national and EU scientific, technological and economic growth to lead in the Green Energy and Digital transformation priorities. COPE-Nano will: i) establish a non-profit CoE with financial and administrative autonomy, ii) install state-of-the-art facilities for R&I, iii) Recruit & Retain talented new researchers to advance the R&I culture, iv) Establish the Technology Transfer & Innovation Office to develop strategies that facilitate innovation and commercialization for the socioeconomic impact maximization, for bridging the gap between academia and Industry in Greece & EU ,and to induce institutional and systemic reforms and increase of the R&I investments.

Keywords: organic and printed electronics,nanotechnology,ict,bioelectronics
Managing Uncertainty in Disaster Risk Reduction ─ An Ethnography of Data Practices in Ghana’s Emergency Preparedness and Early Intervention Infrastructure (MUNDI)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The MUNDI MSCA project explores the uses of digital innovations for the predictive anticipation, real-time analysis, and early intervention in multiple and intersecting threats to human security in Ghana. Specifically, the project takes the focal areas of Ghana’s multi-sectoral emergency preparedness and response effort – that is, the spread of infectious disease, climate-change related flooding, and man-made disasters in the context of mining activities – as case studies to explore data practices in the country’s national disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategy. Central tools of DRR, including strategic and evidence-based risk assessment, operational plans and risk communication, are directly tied to the systematic and standardized production and analysis of data about populations and their environs. This has raised concerns about data quality in contexts characterized by historically incomplete and fragmented population registers and statistical reporting systems. The MUNDI project seeks to answer the research question how innovations in data practices anchor the acceleration of interventions in human security in spite of multiple and layered uncertainties about data sources, models and predictions. Exploring this question in the context of Ghana will advance our empirical understanding of the base processes and material foundations of building “real-time” datafication in emerging data systems, develop new theoretical approaches to evidence-production under conditions of sustained uncertainty, and add to our methodological toolkit new frames for the comparative analysis of digital population data infrastructuring for the purpose of impact forecasting, early warning, and rapid deployment of first responders.

Keywords: disaster risk reduction
Accurate Computational Tools for Biomolecular Vibrational Spectroscopy (ActBio) (ActBio)

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: Czechia,Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166278.72
EU funding (EUR): 166278.72
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Vibrational spectroscopy has evolved into many branches and proved to be increasingly efficient in studies of biomolecules and their functions in living organisms. To further increase its potential, in this project we will develop and apply user-friendly tools (ActBio) for simulation of the spectra beyond the harmonic level. We will focus on vibrational optical activity (VOA), because this spectroscopy reveals unique information about chiral molecules. Thanks to the recent instrumental developments in the hosting institute, nonfundamental bands can be captured with a high precision, and the simulation methods for these complex bands will help us to understand many molecular properties. The project tightly combines both experiment and the theory, based world-recognized expertise in this field of the hosting institute and secondment laboratories. I will receive experimental training, further develop the extended perturbational approach to deal with the challenges of complicated biomolecular systems, such as large amplitude motions and solvent effects in polar and flexible molecules. Melanocyte-inhibiting factor is selected as a testing system for the developed computational models and protocols. In summary, ActBio will deliver accurate theoretical basis for spectroscopic biomolecular studies and will provide us with knowledge of molecular behavior needed for applications in chemistry, medicine, and biology.

Keywords: vibrational optical activity,anharmonicity,vibrational spectroscopy,chirality,molecular modeling,vibrational circular dichroism,raman optical activity,vibrational perturbation theory
Ethno-regionalist movements in the contemporary EU (ERMoCEU)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242054.1
EU funding (EUR): 242054.1
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Ethno-regionalist movements (ERMs) are civil society organisations seeking greater regional self-government as well as protection and promotion of the regional territory and community. Although hundreds of ERMs operate in the Member States of the European Union (EU), ranging from student unions to paramilitary groups, with new ones emerging, defunct ones resurging, and many radicalising their demands, we lack knowledge about these actors’ objectives, strategies, and structure. This project, carried out at the School of International Studies of the UniTrento, investigates ERMs as neglected actors of regional emancipation in the contemporary EU. Drawing on Political science, Political geography, and Media communication for this interdisciplinary phenomenon and using innovative mixed-methods methodology, this project (i) identifies all relevant ERMs in the EU regions and generates novel, time-sensitive data on their territorial objectives, member base, internal organisation, and radicality of actions; (ii) explains these characteristics using region-specific factors; and (iii) evaluates the content and nature of ERMs’ social media communication as the most tangible and comparable expression of their behaviour. These findings are triangulated with (iv) interviews with these movements’ members, completing a comprehensive inquiry into ERMs’ role in times of increased ethno-territorial contestation. Project outputs comprise three original articles, a synthesising monograph, and an interoperable dataset containing ERMs’ characteristics. Intersectorality will be exploited through cooperation with Istituto Camillo Bellieni, a regional cultural organisation involved in public policy-making. Project results will be popularised through news articles, public events, and social media. This project incorporates substantial methodological training to enhance my career development while adhering to Open Science and research sustainability.

Keywords: ethno regionalist movements,ethno regionalism,regional emancipation,civil society organisations,european union
Overcoming barriers for the adoption of alternative substrates with less peat content to support the Green Transition in horticulture (PEATLESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Overcoming barriers and delivering innovative solutions to enable the green transition (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3358475.0
EU funding (EUR): 3358475.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Peatlands are crucial in climate change resilience as critical habitats for biodiversity, ecosystem services, and Carbon storage. Today, 50% of the EU peatland area is degraded due to peat extraction, with a high environmental impact associated and poses a high risk for the Green Transition goals. The horticultural industry depends entirely on peat for growing media, as current alternatives face technical, socio-cultural, and economic barriers. PEATLESS aims to contribute to overcoming these barriers to promote the uptake of sustainable and locally available substrates blends with reduced peat content in selected horticultural systems: mushrooms, seedlings and ornamental. These blends will be designed through co-creation and will be tailored to sectorial needs. The performance of these alternative media will be demonstrated and showed to growers at commercial facilities across 4 key regions for horticulture. To demonstrate performance and support decision-making, a digital sensoring system for results monitoring will be developed. To overcome socio-cultural barriers, social innovation, educational and innovative dissemination activities will boost knowledge exchange to raise growers’ confidence in alternatives to peat. To overcome economic barriers, an integral feasibility assessment will be developed (e.g., LCSA) followed by new business and organisational models’ creation. Furthermore, an upscaling plan to replicate the PEATLESS approach at national and European levels will ensure project continuation. This 3-year project involves 12 partners from 4 countries, including RTOs, universities, industry, end-users’ representatives and decision-makers, following a multi-actor approach. By 2050, significant long-term impact is expected, predominantly: 1) Environmental: 2.5m m3 of peat saved with a reduction of 900k t CO2eq); 2) Socio-economic: 5,000 horticultural business with PEATLESS substrates across 40 regions; 3) Policy: +30 recommendations.

Keywords: peat reduction,sustainability,alternative growing media,horticulture,alternative substrates,multi actor approach,green transition,local value chains,circular economy,peatlands conservation
Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality (UTTER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Portugal,France,United Kingdom
Call: eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4074791.0
EU funding (EUR): 4070321.89
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of UTTER is to leverage large language models to build the next generation of multimodal eXtended reality (XR) technologies for transcription, translation, summarisation, and minuting. We will make these technologies scalable, adaptable, contextualised, robust, explainable, and emotion-aware. We will increase the context-sensitivity of the technologies, so they can take into account the full history of the conversation, as well as its wider context. We will introduce confidence-aware models, which can take into account their own limitations. We will develop explainable models, so the human user can know why the model made the decisions it did. We will improve adaptation, so that domain-specific and language-specific models can be quickly rolled out. For these advances we will make use of pre-trained eXtended reality (XR) models, which optimally combine text and speech signals, and are trained efficiently with adapters and prompting. We will also develop efficient methods to deploy such large and complex models, so that they can put into production in an energy-efficient manner. Our use-case prototypes will cover (i) A personal assistant for meetings that can improve communication in the online world and (ii) an advanced customer service assistant to support global markets. These prototypes will be developed and tested throughout the project, with annual releases and evaluations. Through our cascaded grant programme, and our release of tools to facilitate the use of pre-trained XR models, will enable the take-up and development of these technologies throughout Europe.

Keywords: large multimodal multilingual pretrained speech dialogue customer assistant