Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovation Procurement. Sardinia model (GPI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Innovation Procurement Awards
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EUIPA cat 1 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-EUIPA-PRIZES-03, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposal aims to illustrate the Sardinian case through a description of the rationale behind it and a governance model tested for strengthening the link between innovation and public procurement. From the beginning, the crucial goal was as follows: how to render innovation procurement more attractive for public buyers and for SMEs. In the combination of public procurement and innovation, Sardegna Ricerche has tried to move on two guidelines. A) First of all, Sardegna Ricerche has implemented numerous activities aimed at satisfying specific needs and requirements of public administrations and enterprises through the acquisition, development and/or dissemination of solutions that are not necessarily new to the market or that exceed the frontier of technology, but that represent organizational or process or service innovations for the contracting authorities and enterprises, such as e-procurement, digitalization, skills strengthening, Green Public Procurement, (innovation of the procurement). B) Secondly Sardegna Ricerche has planned and implemented an integrated action plan that pursues the crucial goal of stimulating and disseminating skills and tools on innovation public procurement (or public procurement for innovation), supporting regional public administrations in purchasing research and development services. The response of Sardegna Ricerche working group has been to suggest a non-centralised cooperative pathway for innovation procurement provided on a tailor-made basis.

Keywords: innovation procurement pcp procurement model innovation partnership foresight capacity building networking
Improving forest drought resilience through tree xylem eco-physiological mechanisms (RESILFOREST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999831.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999831.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Trees play a major role in Earth’s water and carbon cycles. Climate change puts trees under a growing threat of drought-induced mortality. This already happens in Europe, where summers are becoming hotter and drier, and across global forest biomes. Due to their large size and long lifespan, trees need time to adapt and migrate, time they lack under the fast rate of global change. On the other hand, foersts are amog the most important ecosystems we simply cannot afford to lose. Loss of xylem hydraulic conductivity due to eruption of air bubbles is termed xylem embolism. Despite many years of studying tree responses to drought, it is still debated whether xylem embolism actually kills trees. Simultaneous processes like carbon starvation, leaf desiccation and heat damage make it harder to pinpoint the direct effects of drought on xylem enbolism. Further, while the extent of embolism avoidance has been characterized in many tree species, embolism tolerance has been rarely studied, and recovery processes are mostly unknown. Finally, a wide research gap exists between eco-physiological mechanisms at the tree scale and implications at the forest scale. This research proposal portrays a clear roadmap to resolving the open questions in tree hydraulic mechanisms under drought, and to integrating them at the forest scale. Increasing drought resilience in forests through eco-physiological mechanisms requires (1) in-situ field measurements, (2) controlled experiments to decipher tree mechanisms, and (3) advanced modeling to upscale tree-level measurements into the forest scale and support future forest management. We will combine novel techniques (custom-made micro-CT, field detection of xylem embolism and water potential, spatial mass spectrometry imaging, and more); field measurements and manipulations on mature trees; greenhouse experiments on diverse tree species; and computational modeling, to test new hypotheses aimed at increasing drought resilience of forests.

Keywords: tree physiology,drought,hydraulic conductance,forest productivity,forest management
A molecular and cellular mapping of the fenestrated vasculture of the circumventricular organs: from physiology to pathology. (VesselCVO)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-04
End date: 2026-09-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the brain, the blood vasculature harbours a unique specification: the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), which restricts blood/brain exchanges to a select set of molecules. This particularity makes neurons blind to most peripheral signal. However, the peripheral organs and the brain have to communicate to maintain homeostasis and body functions such as metabolism, reproduction or growth. This dialog occurs in specific brain regions, the circumventricular organs (CVOs), characterized by a fenestrated vasculature allowing the free diffusion of blood-borne factors and secretion of neurohormones in the blood stream. Thus, CVOs are crucial for the periphery/brain dialog. Despite the apparent pivotal role of the fenestrated vasculature of the different CVOs in the blood/brain exchanges, little is known about their organisation, cellular composition and transcriptomic profile. Unlike the BBB vasculature, the fenestrated vasculature of the CVO is poorly described and the role of mural cells, known to support BBB vessel development and maintenance, in CVO remains undetermined. Equally unknown is how pathological contexts such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), showed to alter BBB vessels integrity and function, impact the CVO vasculature. In the VesselCVO project, we set out to fill in the void of information about the molecular and cellular anatomy of the CVO vasculature, the similarities and differences amongst CVOs and other fenestrated vasculature of the central nervous system, the relative role of mural cells present in these regions and translate this knowledge in the pathological context of Alzheimer’s Disease. These ambitious objectives will be achieved through the use of a multidisciplinary and complementary set of transcriptomic, bioinformatic, neuroanatomic and vascular biology approaches. This project will result in a better understanding of the brain's fenestrated vasculature, pivotal for its dialog with peripheral organs, in physiological and pathological contexts.

Keywords: vascular biology,fenestrated vessels,circumventricular organs,pericyte,fibroblast,alzheimer s disease,transcriptomics
Ye wha’? Class, Gender, Race and Age: Fixing Diversity in Text-to-Speech Accessibility Readers (YEWHA)

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,United Kingdom
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): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Title: Ye wha’? Class, Gender, Race and Age: Fixing Diversity in Text-to-Speech Accessibility Readers Abstract: Ye wha’?* is a creative-critical multidisciplinary project researching normative digital voice and developing alternatives. Research into voices used by chatbots, accessibility programs and text-to-speech readers in English-speaking digital technology shows narrow representation in terms of gender, race, age, class, and regional accent, with most voices presenting as young, white, RP (received pronunciation), and middle/upper class. Prompted by research into the negative impacts of underrepresentation, Ye wha’? will use practice-based research to achieve three outcomes. I will develop an open-source web-based text-to-speech reader app using an alternative range of voices in terms of gender, age, class, race and regional accent, for freely available practical and creative use, in collaboration with my industry secondment partner, Promising Trouble/Careful Industries. I will produce a creative-critical monograph furthering the autotheoretical techniques I have successfully employed in previous award-winning projects, delineating my research, considering issues of representation, and reflecting on voice, technology, and self. Drawing on my previous practical and theoretical investigations into the post-medium and hybrid practice, a key aspect of my project will be to develop, extend and evaluate methodologies that draw together creative research, social interventions, and critical writing. Bringing the fields of art, academia, and social practice into conversation via the creation of a presentation that will allow the exhibition of the app and monograph as an art piece in a range of settings (online, galleries, conferences, festivals, and bookshops) will create a positive interdisciplinary feedback loop as well as ensuring that my project has high cultural, social and academic impact. * Ye Wha’? is an Irish/Dublin colloquialism: “you [said/did] what?

Keywords: feminist,queer,practice based research,text to speech reader,accessibility,digital arts,digital humanities,anti ageism,gender,class,race,open source,creative critical,autotheory
Unravelling the evolutionary origin, architecture, development and regulation of neuromuscular systems (EvoNEUROMUSCLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499076.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Muscles and neurons are a major hallmark of animals and given their impact on the organisms’ motility, the emergence of an interacting neuro-muscular system has tremendously shaped the evolution of animal body plans and behavioral repertoire. Neurons and muscle cells closely interact and likely have co-evolved. Yet, the evolutionary origin of different neuronal and muscular cell types remains elusive, mainly due to a lack of thorough studies in basal metazoans. In this project, I aim to unravel the evolutionary origin, architecture, regulation and systemic properties of the neuro-muscular system by a broad comparative approach among non-bilaterians, and by a deeper functional dissection in two model cnidarians, the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis and the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica. By comparing single cell transcriptomes, we will reveal common or distinct molecular profiles of neurons and muscles in early branching, non-bilaterian species (i.e. Porifera, Ctenophora, Cnidaria) and bilaterians (i.e. all other animals), allowing us to identify ancestral versus independently evolved neuro-muscular modules comprised of specifically interacting cells. We will then use genome editing, transgenics and newly developed functional tools to unravel the architecture of the cnidarian neuro-muscular system on single cell resolution, the function of specific neuronal and muscle populations, their plasticity and regenerative capacity. We hypothesize to identify common cellular network modules allowing for fast and slow neuro-muscular regulation in bilaterians and non-bilaterians, which may be ancestral or convergently evolved in different animal lineages. The expected outcome will impact our understanding of the evolution of organisms with complex body plans.
Recycling renewable hydrogen for climate neutrality (RecHycle)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Clean Steel (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Italy,France
Call: Adjustment of Steel process production to prepare for the transition towards climate neutrality (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 28419720.0
EU funding (EUR): 6226743.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

RecHycle's goal is to implement a gas hub, capable of mixing metallurgic gases produced on site with or without external (green) hydrogen sources. This is to be fed ultimately into the Blast Furnace and a future DRI furnace to sustainably produce green steel. The project will demonstrate a cost-efficient solution to decrease carbon emissions by initiating a new industrial symbiosis between and within the steel industry, chemical industry and renewable energy sources (e.g. wind or solar to obtain green electricity or hydrogen). The project will contribute in the shift towards a circular economy where waste products are valorised to the maximum of their potential. Furthermore, the project is to serve as a stepping stone towards further development of synergies between companies within the North Sea Port industrial area, thus creating new opportunities for innovation and economic activities. Challenges to be addressed are the dynamic optimization of gas mixtures and flows, minimizing risks of hydrogen on material embrittlement, ceramic feed-inlet (Tuyeres) within the furnaces, the quality of the produced steel and the (future) material scrap streams of the DRI. RecHycle is to be executed through a consortium of 6 partners from 4 different countries including an industrial partner that is world leading in the steel manufacturing industry and 5 research partners specialized in hydrogen-based studies.
The End of Petroleum and the Global South - Ethnographies of Oil Extraction and Policy Futures in a Decarbonising World (S-OIL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

S-OIL is a transregional investigation into the nature, roles and developmental footprints of national oil companies (NOCs) facing the urgency of decarbonisation and the challenges of the global energy transition. Its significance and timeliness have been highlighted by growing academic and policy debates around the resurgence of the state, changing world geopolitics and the phasing out of fossil fuels. State-owned oil companies will make or break the energy transition. To date, however, there have been no systematic research efforts nor attempts to theoretically engage with the restructuring of NOCs and its broader social, economic, political and environmental implications. Other studies have refocused the research agenda on the ‘greening’ of the oil industry; still, most of the recently published scientific literature has been framed by the specific conditions of a few countries and companies. My project, instead, will focus on the concrete significance and challenges of NOCs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The overall goal is to critically assess the nature, roles and impacts of NOCs, charting a likely evolution and examining these companies’ opportunities, limitations and challenges while exploring alternatives to market-driven economics and politics in oil-producing countries. The research will be structured around three intertwined objectives: 1. To appraise national oil companies' shifting nature and significance in the Global South. 2. To assess the societal and developmental footprint of national oil companies. 3. Critically evaluate whether and how national oil companies can be transformed in the face of climate change and the urgent need to decarbonise the energy sector. The work plan has been structured around an exhaustive mapping and characterisation of NOCs, an in-depth analysis of transformative experiences, processes and trends in three world regions, and ethnographic research on transformative cases of public ownership in the oil industry.

Keywords: just transition state owned enterprises energy transition hydrocarbons oil africa asia latin america
Automated Synthesis of Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems: A Robust Approach (Auto-CyPheR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993756.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993756.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are complex systems with tight interactions between cyber elements and physical components. The cyber elements are control algorithms implemented by computer-based software. Developing the embedded control software for CPS is currently ad hoc and error-prone, which has created costly undesired behaviours, particularly in safety-critical applications. Examples of such undesired behaviours include frequency deviation in power networks causing outages or blackouts (e.g., in Jan 2021 in EU, affecting 200k households), crash of airplanes due to software bugs (Boeing 737 Max, costs 15.9 billion euros) or autonomous cars having software bugs (Toyota recalled 65,000 cars in 2015). Nowadays, most of the costs of CPS design is spent on ensuring that the system meets all the requirements especially when it is working in uncertain conditions. In order to design reliable CPS and to reduce the costs of such a design, I propose a novel robust synthesis approach that computes automatically the control software from high-level requirements. This novel approach creates a paradigm shift in CPS design as it computes control software in a push-button manner and eliminates time-consuming, costly post-validation steps. The approach tackles the CPS complexity by developing new abstraction techniques that are compositional and robust to model uncertainties, which will be integrated in a unified framework for automating the design of the control software. This synthesis paradigm is founded on novel compositional similarity relations with coupled uncertainties and coupled computations on abstract models. My project is high-risk because it requires merging and re-thinking different design methodologies from multiple disciplines including control theory, computer science, and probability theory. It is high-gain since it will transform the design principles of CPS to enable designing large-scale yet reliable and safe CPS working autonomously in uncertain conditions.

Keywords: hybrid systems,stochastic systems,controller synthesis,abstraction based design,probabilistic model checking,temporal logic
REVOLUTIONising WIND blade life-cycle through circular design and Condition-Based Monitoring using multifunctional self-sensing 3D printed bonded structures and a multi-modal machine learning approach (REVOLUTION_WIND)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The challenge of climate change poses a significant threat to humanity. It is essential to prioritise renewable and cost-effective energy sources while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of future generations. One of the primary solutions lies in the new generation of larger, segmented and more efficient wind blades. The REVOLUTION_WIND project aims to enhance the circularity and damage tolerance of the new generation of larger and segmented wind blades by embedding a multifunctional self-sensing 3D printed structure within a reversible adhesive layer. The project will use a combination of supervised machine learning and experimental characterisation to devise a multi-modal monitoring system that can accurately predict the remaining useful life of the reversible adhesively bonded joints. The most cutting-edge outcome of REVOLUTION_WIND is a multifunctional 3D printed self-sensing structure that will work as an embedded reinforcement and generate input data for a machine learning framework for in-situ life assessment of the structural integrity of reversible adhesively bonded joints. Finally, the successful implementation of REVOLUTION_WIND will contribute to achieving the European Green Deal's objective of establishing wind power as Europe's primary energy source while promoting a circular economy.

Keywords: reversible adhesive 3d printed self sensing meshes fracture mechanisms structural health monitoring