Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cybersecurity for AI-Augmented Systems (Sec4AI4Sec)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France,Hungary,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: Trustworthy methodologies, tools and data security “by design” for dynamic testing of potentially vulnerable, insecure hardware and software components (HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4283037.5
EU funding (EUR): 4283037.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

With AI-enhanced components being deployed everywhere, including the very toolchains used for secure software development, the traditional security focus on software and hardware assets can no longer guarantee “secure services, processes and products, [and] digital infrastructures” in the EU Strategic Plan 2021-2024. Sec4AI4Sec wants to develop security-by-design testing and assurance techniques for AI-augmented systems, their software and AI assets. AI-augment systems provide an opportunity to democratize security expertise and give access to intelligent, automated secure coding and testing, by enabling novel capabilities, lowering development costs and increasing software quality (AI4Sec). They are also a risk: AI-augmented systems are vulnerable to new security technical threats specific to AI-based software, in particular where matters of fairness or explainability are important (Sec4AI). Sec4AI4Sec addresses these challenges to the fullest extent: “AI for better security, security for better AI.” The Sec4AI4Sec project will address these two facets of AI to achieve a deep scientific, economic and technological impact, while contributing to addressing key societal issues. It will validate its approach on three key scenarios of the EU Digital Compass towards Digital Sovereignty: 5G core virtualization, Autonomy for safety systems in aviation and security and Quality for 3rd party software assessment and certification. Sec4AI4Sec assembled a team with 5 leading Universities (Amsterdam, Cagliari, Hamburg, Lugano, Trento), 2 innovative SMEs (FrontEndART, Pluribus One), 3 Large Enterprises (Airbus, SAP, Thales) and 1 Center for digital innovation (Cefriel). The project will generate a set of innovative techniques and open-source tools, new methodologies for secure design and certification of AI-augmented systems, as well as reference benchmarks that can be used to standardize the assessment of research results in the secure software research community.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,fairness and robustness testing,security of ai components,intelligent secure development tools
Rail for Sustainable and High-Performing Industrial Freight Transport (RailSHIFT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3937750.0
EU funding (EUR): 3937750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main challenge for any Supply Chain is to be able to guarantee delivery times to its customers, while remaining competitive and emitting as few greenhouse gases as possible. While road transport, is still the preferred mode of freight transport, the rail sector is struggling to offer a competitive alternative to the road transport mode. Everysens, an innovative French SME, offers a collaborative Software as a Service (SaaS) platform specialised in predictive planning and real-time visibility of freight transport. The solution called “TVMS (Transport Visibility and Management System)” has been designed with a collaborative approach to enable shippers to interact more effectively with rail operators. The next step, which is the core of the RailSHIFT project, is to support shippers to think about modal shift at the strategic level and to consider rail transportation as the backbone of their journey to decarbonation. In order to do that, the TVMS operational software will be upgraded with a Route Design Module to: ● Make simulations and bring insights to build their modal shift strategy, ● Support the adopted strategy in term of execution. With the RailSHIFT project Everysens’ objective is to help shippers shift 4 millions trucks from road to rail by 2028, thus contributing concretely to the European modal shift target and to freight decarbonization. This is in full line with the European Green Deal that aims at increasing rail modal share from 18% to 30% by 2030. Everysens raised 6M€ in May 2023 and was supported by the French institutions. A grant from the EIC Accelerator program will allow Everysens to deploy their solution much faster. The equity will optimize their chances to attract other investors (leverage effect). A new fundraising amounting to 10M€ is indeed planned in 2025-2026. Both financial supports (grant and equity) will allow them to go faster and stronger in their ambitions, i.e., to be a global leader in rail freight digitization

Keywords: saas,freight transport,modal shift,shippers,decarbonization
Kinetic selectivity in molecular sieve sensors (KISSIES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2480500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2480500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Detecting and monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is an important task with applications ranging from disease diagnosis via breath analysis to monitoring exposure to toxic chemicals. However, in all such applications, selectively measuring specific VOCs is challenging due to their low concentrations and the presence of a multitude of interfering compounds. Since current miniature sensors cannot efficiently distinguish between VOCs, there is a need for a novel technology capable of distinguishing a VOC of interest from a complex background. KISSIES will address this challenge by bridging the worlds of porous crystalline materials and sensor technology. For the first time, kinetic selectivity in the tailored nanopores of metal-organic frameworks will be leveraged to mimic nature’s approach to olfaction and enable selective sensing. This way, KISSIES will not only enable cross-fertilization between research fields that have thus far been separated by traditional subject boundaries but also open up perspectives on solving unaddressed real-world challenges. Moreover, the novel methodology that will be developed will have an impact beyond the scope of the project, in domains such as separation technology and adsorption measurements.

Keywords: metal organic frameworks,chemical sensors,adsorption,diffusion
Lifting stellar structure and evolution to higher dimensions in the era of space asteroseismology (4D-STAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,United States
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9938446.0
EU funding (EUR): 9938446.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Stars are the source of radiation, chemistry, and life in the Universe. Models of how stars live are key ingredients in planetary, astrophysical, and cosmological research. A star is a hot plasma rotating around an axis. Small stars like the Sun rotate slowly but bigger ones with more mass rotate faster, shaping them as flattened spheroids. Yet, current stellar models simplify the flattening or treat stars as spheres during their lives, using 1 spatial and 1 time dimension (1+1D). Rotation and magnetism induce transport processes in 3 spatial dimensions, which change over time, requiring a 3+1D treatment. Current age-dating of stars is done from 1+1D models, with uncertainties up to 1000%. Accurate ages of stars are the dominant missing ingredient to understand stellar and planetary evolution, the emergence of life, and the chemistry in our Universe. 4D-STAR will answer the fundamental question of how rotating spheroids evolve in time and build up their chemistry during their lives. We will develop a new 3+1D theory of stellar rotation for flattened spheroids evolving over millions to billions of years, from birth to death. Lifting stellar models to 3+1D can only be done now, using asteroseismic data of thousands of stars in all life phases. Such data reveal nonradial oscillations, or starquakes, allowing us to infer internal stellar rotation, magnetism, chemistry, and the ages of stars with 10% accuracy. 4D-STAR will provide open-source modules to compute the evolution of rotating magnetic stars in 3+1D, calibrated to asteroseismic observables of single stars and stars in binaries and clusters. 4D-STAR brings a paradigm shift based on mathematical modelling, astrophysics, and computational science. Its breadth, challenges, and goals require a transdisciplinary integration of four teams led by an asteroseismologist, a theoretician specialised in transport, a hydrodynamicist, and a stellar evolution software developer, each with proven track records.

Keywords: stellar evolution,stellar structure,asteroseismology,scientific software development,high performance computing,differential algebraic equations
Teaching Greek in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Schedography and Its Methods (TeaGre)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar that was popular from the eleventh century to the early modern period. The study of this method enables a better understanding of 1) which kind of Greek was taught and how its teaching was conducted in medieval schools; 2) the influence of school curriculum on writing and reading practices in Byzantium; 3) the purposes of Byzantine education and cultural politics. The existent studies offer sound, but general, overviews and several schedographic sources are unedited. Furthermore, there is the lack of a consistent approach to the study of the edited schedographic sources. My project addresses this issue by looking at the eleventh century, when this method began to spread. I will frame schedography within the context of eleventh-century Byzantine culture and of contemporary school practices. Furthermore, I will examine the most relevant source for this period, the handbook by Longibardos, to describe its teaching method through a linguistic and stylistic analysis. My project will also lead to a critical edition of Longibardos’ handbook and other unedited eleventh-century schedographic remnants. TeaGre will offer both the first study of schedography and its early evolution as well as a consistent linguistic and stylistic approach to schedographic sources. The simultaneous presence of the ERC-funded projects MELA and EVWRIT at Ghent University places my MSCA Fellowship within a context of substantial and innovative research on Classical, Late Antique and Medieval Greek language and education. The edition of Longibardos and eleventh-century schedographic texts will also expand the database for the study of Greek literature and language that is currently being developed at Ghent University. Through this fellowship, I will improve my professional profile into a more complete Greek scholar and my project will provide me with the proof of concept for my further research on this topic.

Keywords: byzantine literature greek linguistics greek philology teaching in middle age
Mesoscopic understanding of supported catalysts with overlapping electric double layers (MESO-CAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1441000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1441000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A defossilized global energy ecosystem hinges on efficient conversion between renewable electrical energy and chemical energy stored in molecules. This conversion requires precious catalysts to drive relevant reactions at practical rates. Many catalysts are employed in the form of nanoparticles (NP) dispersed on support materials. All relevant reactions occur in a nanoscale region at the interface between the solid catalyst and an electrolyte solution, i.e., an electric double layer (EDL). Our current knowledge of EDL is essentially limited to planar electrodes with a single EDL, whereas supported NP catalysts (SNPC) exhibit radically different EDL characteristics, featuring overlap of individual EDLs around the NPs and the adjacent support material. This knowledge gap, concerning crucial local reaction conditions within the EDL, prevents effectively transferring knowledge obtained at planar electrodes to performance improvements of SNPC. MESO-CAT aims at launching the mesoscopic (1~100 nm) science of overlapping EDLs in SNPC and unravelling the influence of overlapping EDLs on structure-activity relationship of SNPC. MESO-CAT will address three foundational questions in electrocatalysis of SNPC using theoretical methods in an interaction loop with experimentalists. First, how are the overlapping EDLs formed under realistic conditions? This will be studied using a unique theoretical approach for mesoscale EDLs with both quantum mechanical electrons and classical electrolyte particles treated on equal footing. Second, how do overlapping EDLs influence elementary electron transfer kinetics? This will be unravelled using a model Hamiltonian for proton-coupled electron transfer considering various EDL effects. Third, how do overlapping EDLs influence the overall structure-activity relationship? This will lay the groundwork for transformative advancements in electrochemical energy conversion via regulating the mesoscale EDL effects.

Keywords: supported nanoparticle catalysts electric double layer electrocatalysis
A Radical access to S(IV) compounds via modular coupling with alkyl halides using boryl radicals (SULBOR)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sulfur(VI) compounds like sulphonamides, sulfonimidamides and sulfondiimidamides are increasingly used for the design and development of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. However, despite their societal relevance, the preparation of these derivatives, especially sulfonimidamides and sulfondiimidamides, is still very challenging. Current methods relys on the use of toxic and pyrophoric reagents and often offer minimum versatility for divergency and diversification. The development of a general, sustainable and divergent approach to these molecules has the potential to impact the discovery and the evolution of high-value materials. In this work we propose a fundamentally novel approach to access sulfonimidamides and sulfondiimidamides by developing an innovative three-component coupling reaction between commercial alkyl halides, N-nucleophiles and sulfur(VI) linchpin reagents. The methodology will use boryl radical-mediated halogen-atom transfer to convert the alkyl halide into the corresponding radical for a sequential reaction with the sulfur(VI) linchpin and then, aided by a copper catalyst, with the N-nucleophile. The development of this strategy will provide an innovative and streamlined approach towards molecules of high academic and industrial interest but that are still very difficult to access. This research squarely fits within the expertise of the Leonori group in the generation and use of boryl radicals in synthesis and catalysis. The completion of such an innovative and ambitious project at RWTH Aachen University will be facilitated by generating, transferring, sharing and disseminating knowledge, and will enhance the Researcher future career following the training plan envisioned.

Keywords: halogen atom transfer boryl radical,sulfur vi molecules,radical cascade,copper catalysis
Gender diversity on managing boards (GEMBOARD)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The GEMBOARD project aims to explore the effects of gender diversity in top management teams, specifically focusing on the role of women in CFO positions, within the context of German listed companies. Despite the EU directive and national laws in Germany promoting gender balance on company boards, women in top management positions remain under-represented. Prior studies suggest that gender diversity in leadership influences company performance, financial reporting, and decision-making processes, though empirical evidence has been mixed. This project seeks to address these ambiguities by examining the impact of female representation in upper echelons on various dimensions of company performance, including stock prices and forecasting behaviour. Based on longitudinal data and advanced research methods such as difference-in-difference analyses, this study will provide valuable insights into how gender diversity in corporate boards unfolds over time, particularly in response to evolving legal frameworks. This research will contribute to understanding the effectiveness of the EU directive and German legislation in promoting gender balance and its implications for corporate governance and performance, specifically in a low-discretion environment like Germany. The GEMBOARD project, which will last 24 months, will be conducted at the Department of Accounting of the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), under the supervision of Professor Bjørn Jørgensen. Building on an existing database built by the applicant, the project duration will be used for some complementary data collection, and focus on data analysis and maturing findings into research publications. GEMBOARD results will be disseminated and communicated to a wide audience, including the academic community, policy makers and the general public.

Keywords: gender diversity,managing boards,financial accounting,forecasting behaviour
Bridging Gaps in Mental Health Support: A Comprehensive European Strategy (YOUTHreach)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,Estonia,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Australia
Call: Comparative effectiveness research for healthcare interventions in areas of high public health need (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-03-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8604334.46
EU funding (EUR): 8501477.32
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Europe should be prepared for a mental health crisis that will last for decades, impacting on long-term health outcomes and economic productivity of our current generation of youth. Unfortunately, the present mental healthcare system fails to match their needs: 50% of European youth have unmet mental health needs, and only ~30% receive appropriate care. Therefore, YOUTHreach aims to tackle the expanding European youth mental health crisis by bridging gaps in mental health support and provide a comprehensive European strategy. YOUTHreach will evaluate (cost-)effectiveness of 3 existing and accessible innovative interventions for prevention and early intervention of mental ill-health in youth, that have been developed and tested in co-creation with youth: 1) walk-in youth mental health support centres, operational in 6 European countries and Australia; 2) a guided self-help mHealth intervention operational in 1 European country; 3) clinical and peer-moderated digital treatment platforms, operational in 2 European countries and Australia. In addition, feasibility and acceptability at new sites across Europe will be tested. Best practice recommendations will be developed and built with existing and new data, into an integrated European youth mental health framework. Finally, awareness and accessibility of these interventions among policymakers (including HTA bodies), sociologists, ethicists, healthcare professionals, citizens and the target group will be increased. YOUTHreach activities will benefit from engagement of and co-creation with young people and their support network for the whole duration of the project and a lasting privacy protected accessible (FAIR) research data infrastructure and an Open Science framework in the field of youth mental health and health services research. YOUTHreach will impact by transforming the present traditional mental healthcare system, tackling the current crisis and offer perspective, health and productivity to the next generation.

Keywords: youth,mental health,interventions,framework,reform