Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Vessel Advanced Clustered and Coordinated Energy Storage Systems (V-ACCESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Estonia,Germany,Greece
Call: Innovative energy storage systems on-board vessels (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4237872.5
EU funding (EUR): 4237872.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

New energy storage technologies can significantly improve the performance of batteries for zero-emission waterborne transport and reduce R&D and operational costs. V-ACCESS brings together expertise on supercapacitors, superconductive magnetic energy storage systems (SMES), design and control of shipboard power systems, power electronics, lifetime cycle analysis, and ship classification to increase the technology readiness level (TRL) of hybrid storage systems, i.e. combining a battery with either supercapacitors, SMES, or both. They will be integrated into an innovative DC shipboard microgrid to control flexibly the power sharing between the different energy storage technologies. The proposed technologies are analysed from the components levels, already tested and validated at TRL3, and modelled into the vessel's power system, also using control hardware-in-the-loop simulators. Then, the individual components are assembled together and integrated into a realistic shipboard power system available at the ETEF facility of the University of Trieste to reach TRL5. Business models and standardisation needs will be deeply analysed and measures to unlock existing barriers and will be promoted in parallel to the technical knowledge generated from the project to ensure further exploitation of the project results and the definition of the steps to upscale the design of the V-ACCESS system, paving the ground for a full-scale demonstrator to be developed after the end of this project and bringing the proposed technologies closer to market.

Keywords: supercapacitors,superconducting magnetic energy storage,shipboard power systems,hazard identification and analysis,system integration
Ultracold polyatomic molecules for controlled chemistry and precision physics (QuantMol)

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: Poland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ultracold atoms have been successfully used in quantum simulations and precision measurements. Molecules possess a richer internal structure promising new applications. However, only relatively simple molecules have been produced and employed at ultralow temperatures. This project aims to understand and harness the increasing complexity of ultracold polyatomic molecules to probe the fundamentals of chemistry and physics. We will extend the range of ultracold polyatomic molecules and their applications in controlled chemistry and precision spectroscopy. We will propose and theoretically investigate two paths: 1) association of ultracold deeply-bound diatomic molecules into ultracold weakly-bound polyatomic molecules and 2) direct cooling deeply-bound polyatomic molecules carefully selected and manipulated with electromagnetic fields. The first approach will build on established atomic techniques, which we will extend to molecular systems. The second one will employ strong fields, short pulses, and structural modifications to engineer closed transitions suitable for laser cooling. We will combine and develop novel electronic structure and quantum scattering methods enhanced by machine learning and high-performance computing. Next, we will study new applications exploiting features emerging from single-molecule and coherent control, conical intersections, and non-trivial electronic states and geometries absent in simpler systems. Applications will range from quantum-controlled chemical reactions and molecular dynamics to precision measurements of fundamental constants and their spatio-temporal variation. The realization of the project will push cold chemistry into the quantum realm and bring unprecedented complexity to ultracold physics, thus, give new insights into the physical basis of chemistry and the fundamental laws of nature. A unique experience of the PI in both quantum chemistry and ultracold atomic physics will be instrumental in achieving these goals.

Keywords: ultracold molecules,ultracold collisions,quantum molecular dynamics,quantum control,intermolecular interactions,electronic structure,precision measurements
Co-designing a PhysicaL Activity policy TOolkit (PLATO) with key policymakers from 27 EU member states (PLATO)

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: Ireland,Denmark,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269418.0
EU funding (EUR): 269418.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Physical inactivity is a global problem, causing more than 5.3 million premature deaths per year worldwide. Both WHO and EU recognize the importance of public policies and recommend specific policy actions to promote physical activity (PA); however, these policies remain ineffective if they are not implemented properly. To collect data on PA policy development, different tools are currently in use; most prominently EU’s PA Monitoring Framework. However, there is a lack of knowledge on how to use PA policy monitoring as a lever to impact policymaking to reduce inactivity. This fellowship aims to co-design a toolkit for improving the impact of PA policy monitoring on national policymaking. As I have an interdisciplinary research profile with a dissertation in political science and a track record in PA policy research, I am in an excellent position to advance the state of the art by (1) co-assessing the impact of PA policy monitoring on the policy-making process, (2) comparatively mapping PA policy monitoring tools based on political science theory and (3) co-designing a PA policy toolkit with key policymakers from all 27 EU member states. My host team at the University of Limerick has a high expertise in PA policy research and recently led the development of a new tool for PA policy monitoring. I will have access to training programmes that enhance my interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary skills, e.g. with regards to the co-production of knowledge. I will also gain relevant insights into PA policymaking in Ireland (secondment at a government agency) and Europe (non-academic placement at WHO). As WHO is tasked to coordinate data collection within the EU PA Monitoring Framework, this is an ideal opportunity to exploit the results of the fellowship. My further dissemination, exploitation and communication activities will also highlight the societal impact of PA promotion (e.g., in the context of the EU4Health programme, the European Green Deal, and UN's SDGs).

Keywords: physical activity policy policy monitoring health promotion public health
Innovation and documentation: Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up (GROUNDOC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transitional justice (TJ) is the field of scholarship and practice that examines how societies deal with the consequences of massive human rights violations. A decade of critical TJ scholarship may create an impression of a field in crisis. Yet, TJ practice seems to be thriving: TJ language and initiatives are travelling to increasingly diverse contexts, which are often very different from those in which TJ emerged. Examples are TJ initiatives to address ongoing conflict or historical injustice. The manifestations of TJ in these ‘aparadigmatic’ cases are often so distinct that they challenge the foundation of the TJ paradigm. Notably the innovations, ambitions, and experimentation happening in these cases invite for a rethinking of TJ's standard mechanisms and objectives, which currently revolve around the pillars of justice, truth, reparation, non-recurrence and memorialisation. This project goes beyond definitional debates over whether these processes are ‘real’ instances of TJ. Instead, I argue that properly theorizing the innovations happening in these aparadigmatic cases is crucial to close the emerging gap between theory and practice, and that it can even be a way to address some of the most pressing critiques of paradigmatic TJ. I will use a mixed-method actor-oriented approach to analyse the practices and ambitions of grassroots justice actors in 6 aparadigmatic cases. This analysis will foreground documentation initiatives because there is significant innovation happening in this realm, and because documentation’s central role across all TJ initiatives means that this innovation has the potential to amend the entire paradigm. I will adopt an eco-systemic analytical framework to examine how (innovations in) documentary practices interact with and affect other (transitional) justice initiatives. I then build on this empirical analysis to reconstruct the TJ paradigm from the ground up. The envisioned outcome is a practice-informed & future-oriented TJ paradigm

Keywords: transitional justice,transformative justice,historical injustices,accountability,mixed method approach
Skeletal Alteration of Bioactive Polycyclic Molecules by Catalytic Ring-Opening/Cross-Metathesis (METEDIT)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Catalytic olefin metathesis is a transformative transformation with many unique attributes, one being the possibility of converting a ring to a modifiable acyclic diene by ring-opening cross-metathesis (ROCM). However, the existing methods are rare and limited to those that generate E-enoates. To the best of our knowledge, there are no available methods for ROCM reactions that can be used to access Z-alkenes from reactions involving five- to eight-membered rings. To address this, we will develop a ROCM method for converting the small rings to readily alterable acyclic dienes efficiently and in high Z:E ratios. On the basis of preliminary (unpublished) results, a set of molybdenum alkylidene complexes recently designed by the host group will be utilized. We will investigate and develop a method for ROCM of cyclohexene with several commercially available Z- and E-alkenyl halides. The strategy will then be extended to five-, seven- and eight-membered ring alkenes. The diene products can be used for rapid synthesis of bioactive compounds, such as antitumor tetrahydrosiphonodiol, and their specifically altered analogs. Another notable aspect of the project will be application to precise skeletal alterations of polycyclic bioactive compounds. We will exploit the presence of an olefin within a bioactive compound as the launching point for brief sequences leading to various specific modifications. This will obviate the need for lengthy and tedious de novo synthesis of each analog. More specifically, we will develop the “open ring → modify → close ring” (OMC) strategy, and by using it prepare an assortment of specifically modified analogs of androstadiene and vindoline. Through collaboration with experts, these compounds will be tested for in vitro bioactivity. Catalyst and method development will thus be applied to accessing formerly uncharted chemical space, which is central to new lead discovery and drug development.

Keywords: framework editing,polycyclic natural products,olefin metathesis,alkenyl halides,cross coupling,ethenolysis,drug discovery
Strategies for the Evaluation and Assessment Of Ocean based Carbon Dioxide Removal (SEAO2-CDR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Poland,Spain,Italy
Call: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4443275.0
EU funding (EUR): 4443275.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

SEAO2-CDR is an ambitious multidisciplinary project that unites expert scientific, economic, legal, political, social and ethical researchers with industry leaders and regulators to establish and assess the evaluation pathways and methodologies required for sustainable and effective operationalisation of Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (OCDR). The implementation of appropriate CDR strategies is regarded as an essential component of most Net Zero emission pathways, yet the mechanisms and processes needed to facilitate their deployment remain largely unexplored. Notably OCDR approaches have generally received less attention than terrestrial CDR technologies despite offering equivalent, or greater, sequestration potential. SEAO2-CDR addresses critical gaps in our techno-economic understanding of archetypal OCDR approaches in order to define the operational spaces in which they are environmentally and economically viable, and will establish robust Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) strategies for different approaches using state-of-the-art Earth System Models (ESMs) and autonomous sensor technologies. Stakeholder-oriented governance frameworks will be developed that define the multi-dimensional interaction points through which responsible and effective governance of OCDR could be implemented and support the business development and investment needed to scale up OCDR. Finally, the parameterisation of ecological synergies and system-level trade-offs will enable OCDR to be incorporated into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) that identify which techniques are best positioned to support the transition to a climate-neutral and resilient society. Together these activities will enable SEAO2-CDR to advance the implementation potential of OCDR by supporting the characterisation and development of environmentally safe, socially acceptable, and economically viable approaches that can help realise global climate policies.

Keywords: ocean based carbon dioxide removal climate mitigation climate policy monitoring reporting verification integrated assessment modelling governance frameworks
Recycling technologies for circular ALuminium (RecAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: Circular economy in process industries: Upcycling large volumes of secondary resources (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11815929.87
EU funding (EUR): 10645921.82
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Recycling aluminium from existing End of Life (EoL) and production scraps uses only 5% of energy compared to primary material production, making it mandatory for exploiting its global decarbonisation potential and meeting the demands of the European Green Deal. However, once aluminium is alloyed with other metals, it is virtually impossible to remove these elements again. Extensive mixing of different EoL alloys therefore inevitably leads to downcycling. This practice has been a successful strategy due to high demand for cast aluminium alloys in combustion engines, a universal recycling “sink” that will dry up in the coming years. Europe possesses a rich potential of secondary aluminium resources with an expected share of 49% of total aluminium production by 2050. The RecAL project (Recycling technologies for circular ALuminium) provides a balanced approach to fully exploit this valuable resource. It synergistically addresses all stages of circular production and tackles problems of the entire value chain: - Increase impurity tolerance in alloy design at level or superior performance - Exploit the benefits of digitization and robotic assistance in sorting and dismantling - Create recyclate streams with vastly enhanced purities - Adapt production paradigms to unfold the full potential of secondary resources - Harmonise communication between all sectors of the aluminium industry The project will mature an envelope of 14 crucial technological solutions towards these goals up to TRL6 and embed them into a digital, “socio-technical ecosystems”: the Aluminium HUB for circularity. This interactive platform will directly link stakeholders along the value chain for full scale industrial and technological symbiosis and circular economy closing energy, resource and data loops at regional and European scale.
Single cEll guided polygeniC Risk prEdicTion of ASCVD (SECRET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide. Aside from asymptomatic manifestations, the first sign of clinically significant ASCVD is often a severe clinical event, such as stroke or myocardial infarction. Thus, identification of people at high risk is central to battle the deadly consequences of ASCVD. The usefulness of current risk prediction models such as SCORE2 is unsatisfactory most likely since the score is built on prevalent risk factors rather than mechanistic changes occuring along the disease path. Especially, genetic risk factors acting already early in life and diverse longitudinal exposures accumulating during the lifetime of a person, lead to disturbance of gene regulatory networks which are not considered in the current risk models. In addition, the current models predict the combined risk of coronary and peripheral artery disease and ischemic stroke despite mounting evidence of ASCVD heterogeneity. To capture these missing aspects of ASCVD risk, we leverage the predictive ability of genetic variation provided to us by the world’s largest meta-analysis of GWAS for ASCVD and introduce a new disease mechanism-based stratification. In work package (WP) 1, we will map the transcriptomic and epigenetic effects of risk variants using single cell multiomics profiling of 500 human atherosclerotic tissue samples. In WP2, we infer disease associated genes, gene-gene interactions and gene regulatory networks using an innovative CRISPR-based experimental approach. In WP3, we will make use of the generated information to develop novel functionally informed polygenic risk models which are benchmarked against the conventional risk prediction models for predictive accuracy. Ultimately, this information will provide us with a mechanistic understanding of the genetic basis of disease while allowing construction of new gold standard polygenic risk prediction models for prevention of ASCVD events.

Keywords: single cell,atherosclerosis,functional genomics,polygenic risk score
Tree Urban Cooling Capacity through Analysis and Simulations (TUCAS) project (TUCAS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-09
End date: 2028-02-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Tree Urban Cooling Capacity through Analysis and Simulations (TUCAS) project addresses an urgent environmental concern, Urban Heat Islands (UHIs), by developing enhanced cooling models for Urban Plant Canopies (UPCs). Building on cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and LiDAR, the project aims to improve Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models, contributing significantly to the field of urban ecology. The project will focus on two cities with contrasting climates, Palencia in Spain and Freising in Germany, to study the interplay between urban climate and UPC cooling capacities. A planned secondment at the Technical University of Munich will provide valuable knowledge exchange in Green Technologies and UPC Management. The project is expected to have a significant impact on the fellow, enhancing leadership skills, expanding international networks, and deepening understanding of urban ecosystems. The outcomes of the TUCAS project are poised to contribute to scientific knowledge, societal engagement with climate change issues, and efforts to combat global warming.

Keywords: urban heat islands uhis,urban plant canopies upcs,artificial intelligence,lidar,computational fluid dynamics models,urban ecology,climate change,green technologies,and knowledge exchange