Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
CEItec Postdoctoral EXperts (CEIPEX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: MSCA COFUND 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-COFUND-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3196000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3196000.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The mission of the CEITEC Postdoctoral EXperts (CEIPEX) program is to provide an attractive environment for postdoctoral fellow mobility by focusing on a scientifically excellent and thematically compact academic research institution embedded in a dynamically developing regional innovation ecosystem: the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) consortium in Brno. CEITEC is an undisputed success story of EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic and a role model of research excellence in Central and Eastern Europe. State-of-the-art research infrastructures combined with the excellence of 55 research groups operating at the interface of life and materials science created a high-technology hub that cannot be found anywhere else in Europe. CEITEC is an integral part of the innovation ecosystem of the South Moravian Region (SMR), represented in CEIPEX by 26 associated partner companies. Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to perform cutting-edge research and connect to application partners in fields such as electron microscopy, where SMR is a world leader, in nanotechnology, sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, IT, and more. CEIPEX will be coordinated by the South Moravian Centre for International Mobility (JCMM) which will leverage its extensive experience gained in previous COFUND programs to support researchers in SMR, spanning over a decade. CEIPEX offers postdoctoral fellows excellent up to 3-year research training and career development program in the disruptively interdisciplinary environment of CEITEC. The incoming CEIPEX fellows will propose projects that build bridges across disciplines covered by the CEITEC consortium, span across academic and industrial sectors, and will receive training to propel their careers in both worlds. In Brno, the high-end science can be transformed into world-changing products offering the fellows access to a complete value chain to address outstanding European challenges.

Keywords: mobility,research and development,innovation,smart specialization
Advancing Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Proteins Simulation (MLP4ProSim): From Development to Application (MLP4ProSim)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Atomic simulation of the proteins is one of the main tools in understanding the functions, interactions, and dynamics of these vitally important biomolecules and plays a pivotal role in numerous cutting-edge researches such as elucidating the pathways of diseases, drug discovery and so on. The limited accuracy of the classical force fields specially in approximating non-bonded interactions as well as in capturing kinetics of proteins has attracted attentions towards more advanced alternatives. MLP4ProSim aims to develop next-generation transferable all-atom machine-learned potentials (MLPs) for computer simulation of proteins. To assure the applicability of the developed potentials for more realistic and biologically relevant simulations, training of the MLPs is carried out using a critically assessed dataset containing both quantum-mechanically computed and experimentally determined reference data. Enabling transferability of the developed MLPs and their applicability for the simulation of different proteins without requiring demanding retraining processes will be addressed by considering training sets containing proteins with diverse shapes, functions, and sizes. The resulting MLPs, after being validated for reliability and transferability via extensive benchmark tests, will be implemented in LAMMPS as an extensively applied molecular dynamics simulation code to make it openly accessible to the community. The successful completion of the project objectives is expected to have significant impacts in a broad range of scientific and technological areas. In addition to the anticipated outstanding scientific impacts, this project encompasses comprehensive trainings planned for the experienced researcher Dr. Amin Alibakhshi in accordance with the objectives of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. This training aims to equip him with the essential skills and innovative capabilities required to emerge as a future leader at the forefront of academic excellence.

Keywords: molecular dynamics,protein simulation,neural network potentials,machine learning,atomistic simulation
At the ‘roots’ of motor intentions (ROOMors)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3148411.0
EU funding (EUR): 3148411.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Research in cognitive science has revealed that intentions become “visible” in the surface flow of agents’ motion. An example is that humans adopt different kinematics when reaching for an object to either displace it (i.e., individual intentions) or interact with a partner (i.e., social intentions). This phenomenon has been shown in humans and other animal species, but no studies have investigated whether it extends to the “green” kingdom. ROOMors aims at investigating for the first time motor intentions in plants. It capitalizes on recent findings of my research group that make this a timely and tractable issue. By focusing on the kinematic signatures characterizing the movement of climbing plants we observed that plants can program their movement in advance and they move the tendrils according to the specific characteristics of the to-be-grasped support. This result reverts the general consensus that plants’ movement is only driven by cause-effect mechanisms and hard-wired reflexes and gives rise to a number of questions that only a few years ago might have considered absurd: to what extent plant can intentionally plan a movement? Is plant movement fine-tuned according to the motor intentions exhibited by the surrounding plants? ROOMors will answer these questions by blending experimental psychology techniques to study intentional actions (i.e., kinematics) with plant physio-molecular approaches to identify the (mostly unknown) signalling pathways at the basis of the implementation and the decoding of motor intentions by plants. ROOMors will open a new path in psychological research that is more than about scientific discovery, it is about revolution that will compel us to see the green kingdom through a completely new lens. So open your mind, set aside your biases, and be prepared to welcome plants in the domain of comparative psychology for going at the ‘roots’ of intentions.

Keywords: comparative psychology,intentions,motor intentions,plant cognition,social interactions,kinematics,social cognition,perception and action
Scribal Understandings of Norse Eddic Metres (SUNEM)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Old Norse poetry, particularly the corpus of narrative and gnomic verse known as Eddic poetry, forms one of the richest contributions from Scandinavia to the literary heritage of Europe. This poetic corpus survives only through a chain of manuscript copies which separate our extant texts from the original compositions. The aim of SUNEM is to investigate the changing understandings of metrical forms possessed by the scribes who copied and recopied Eddic poetry. Specifically, the project will create digital texts and metrical annotations of the poems in one particular source, Hervarar saga, and use the various surviving manuscripts of this work (14th-17th centuries) as a test-case to evaluate scribal engagement with metrical norms during the Late Norse and Early Modern periods. These poems are in three different alliterative metres, each of which shows specific rules concerning features such as syllable weight or the placement of unstressed syllables. As scribes make changes to the texts they copy, they are sometimes careful to continue to adhere to these rules, and sometimes disregard them. SUNEM will investigate these patterns of change with respect to these rules in order to assess copyists' varied understandings of and commtiments to older rules of Eddic metres. These models of how scribes copied Eddic texts and conceived of the poetic forms they reproduced will be of practical use to future editors of Norse poetry, extend our understandings of traditional Norse metres beyond the Classical Norse period, and provide new perspectives on the transmission of verse.

Keywords: old norse,eddic poetry,poetic metre
Colonization, Early Institutions and the Origin of State Capacity and Democratization (ORIG_STATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2370000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2370000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

My research project proposes studying the origin of state capacity, democracy and political dynasties using the colonial conquest of Latin America as a natural experiment. Much of the recent work on comparative politics and development uses large historical events as fruitful experimentation laboratories. However, the colonial experience looks more similar to a "bundle treatment" than a single treatment. It is difficult to disentangle the role of differences in legal origin from the influences of human capital, etc. To try to overcome this problem, past empirical approaches use a variety of methods like case studies, panel data, country-fixed effects, and instrumental variables. I will try to move one step further in this debate by considering the initial years of the Spanish colonization of Latin America as a natural experiment. My methodological approach has four advantages. First, since I only analyse the initial years of colonization, my empirical strategy is based on the fact that the initial conquerors had no knowledge of the land that they intended to conquer. The second advantage is that, in working with the colonization of Latin America, we only have one colonial power, Spain, which avoids the traditional problems of diversity of legal origins. The third advantage is that the contracts (“Capitulaciones”), that the conquerors signed with the King before embarking to America, and before even knowing anything about the land that he would conquer, and other documents from the Archivo de Indias, provide very rich details on the rules that governed the early institutions (power to tax and rule, the use of military power, the treatment of indigenous groups, etc.). Finally, these documents contain information to locate the initial settlements at the subnational level. The colonization of the Americas and the information contained in the “Capitulaciones” found in the Archivo de Indias provides a unique opportunity to advance the debate on these crucial questions.

Keywords: colonization,early institutions,state capacity,democracy,dinasties,natural experiment
Manifolds and functor calculus (MaFC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499601.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499601.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The study of smooth fibre bundles of compact high-dimensional manifolds connects several areas of mathematics such as algebraic and geometric topology, differential geometry, and number theory. From the perspective of homotopy theory, it amounts to the study of the homotopy type of the moduli space of manifolds. The two projects this proposal investigate this and related moduli spaces in using techniques from homotopy theory, especially different flavours of functor calculus. Classically, the moduli space of manifolds was related to homotopy-theoretic objects by considering a forgetful map to a moduli space of homotopy types and analysing the difference. Recent work of Kupers and I considered a moduli space of more refined homotopy-theoretic objects---which does not only remember the underlying homotopy type of a manifold, but also of all its configuration spaces---and showed that this homotopy theoretic moduli space is likely to be very close to the moduli space of manifolds. The first project in this proposal systematically studies these two moduli spaces and their difference, which will lead to deep new results both on the manifold as well as the homotopy-theoretic side. As an example, one of the objectives is to show that the passage from manifolds to the homotopy-theoretic objects is closely related to the cyclotomic trace from algebraic K-theory to topological cyclic homology. The second project develops a new approach to the relation between the moduli space of manifolds and algebraic K- and L-Theory using methods from parametrised surgery theory, homotopy calculus, and Grothendieck--Witt theory. In addition to providing simultaneously a new proof of the pseudoisotopy-stability theorem and the stable parametrised h-cobordism theorem, this approach has the potential to go far beyond what was known from the traditional approach and in particular answer long-standing questions on the pseudoisotopy stable range.
Artificial Intelligence and Competition (AI-Comp)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1877793.0
EU funding (EUR): 1877793.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

AI algorithms are increasingly being used in markets. It is generally agreed that they create a wealth of value by facilitating economic interactions. However, there are also concerns that when applied to market environments, they could lessen competition and harm consumers. This proposal sets forth an important first step of an articulated research program on AI and Competition. The proposal is structured as three organic projects focusing on two important classes of AI algorithms. The first class, price-setting algorithms, are tools that are used by online merchants to set retail prices. As the algorithms of each merchant interact in a common market, they can mutually learn to defeat competition. We plan to study how these collusive conducts are learned to propose a direction for potential regulation. The second class, recommender systems (RS), are ubiquitous online algorithms that suggest products and content to consumers that are based on their current and past behaviour. For example, Amazon.com uses recommender systems to rank products on search result pages, or to suggest other products that the user may be interested in. The aim of the proposed research project is to assess whether RSs are pro-competitive or anti-competitive by studying how firms endogenously react to RSs in terms of price, product design and entry/exit decisions. Methodologically, these projects rigorously combine ingredients from economics and computer science (CS), departing from the stylized modelling approach of the literature and instead are aimed at analysing state-of- the-art algorithms developed in the CS literature. Algorithms and their impact on market outcomes naturally require an interdisciplinary approach. Dealing with actual algorithms calls for new tools, to supplement the economist’s traditional analytical toolbox. For this reason, an essential part of this research proposal is the creation of a joint research agenda via a “research pod” with an associated scientific program.

Keywords: competing with ai,recommender systems,algorithmic pricing,algorithmic collusion,
Hybrid living bioengineered hierachical constructs with self-oxygenating capability for bone engineering (O2CELLS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tissue engineering (TE) is a multi-disciplinary field that allows the fabrication of hybrid constructs to repair, replace, or induce tissue regeneration. Cells encapsulated in 3D scaffolds have been widely employed; however, encapsulation limits the homogeneous perfusion of vital soluble factors and oxygen. This results from the failure to stabilize a vascularised network within the scaffold and can lead to reduced cell proliferation, gene expression, and extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition. With this, O2CELLS aims to develop cutting-edge advanced devices by employing an integrative strategy with natural-based biomaterials that combine with self-oxygenating microalgae and tissue progenitor cells in original multiscale structural arrangements that will stimulate the regeneration of high-quality vascularised microtissues. For this, perinatal tissues will provide human structural proteins and stem cells with unique features that will be used for the fabrication of bioinks enriched with liquefied microcapsules (“Pockets”) containing the microalgae and mesenchymal cells, and endothelial cells (HUVECs). These biomaterials hierarchical features and angiogenic and osteogenic potential will be fully characterized in vitro and in vivo. O2CELLS will combine a diversity of individually pioneering concepts that could be used in the bioengineering of distinct human tissues, both for therapies and for disease model development. This ground-breaking concept is expected to pave the way to solve one of the significant challenges faced by in vitro bioengineered constructs and devise a broad disruptive platform for tissue engineering or other biotechnology challenges. The technology developed on O2CELLS has the potential to be exceptionally rewarding to the scientific and medical communities which are in line with Goal 3 of UN 2030 Agenda (healthy life and well-being for everyone of all ages).

Keywords: tissue regeneration,hybrid constructs,human proteins,hydrogels,3d bioprinting
Concrete matrices for high-cycle-fatigue resistant, eco-efficient infrastructure (FATRESCON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Czechia,Germany,Austria
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2031-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9993698.0
EU funding (EUR): 9993698.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The necessity to meet the rising global demand for mobility and energy supply and, at the same time, the urgency to minimize the carbon footprint, leads to the challenging scientific question of the fatigue resistance of emerging eco-efficient concretes. Since existing knowledge of the traditional Portland-clinker-based binders is largely empirical, it cannot be directly transferred to new binder systems, exhibiting complex chemical and mechanical interactions within the heterogeneous material structure. In contrast to the well-established insight into the high-cycle fatigue of metals, a complete understanding of the fatigue degradation processes in concretes is still lacking. In this research, we are committed to pioneering an innovative approach that establishes a universally applicable link between the chemical/microstructural composition of novel concrete materials and their fatigue resistance. To create an interdisciplinary methodology for the scientific analysis of fatigue-resistant eco-efficient concretes, complementary competences of a multidisciplinary research team will be combined in a concerted application of physico-chemical modeling approaches of hydration processes and advanced methods of multiscale and multifield computational mechanics supported by machine learning and accompanied by a rigorous experimental validation program. The developed coherent methodical framework will include innovative theoretical and numerical as well as tailored experimental approaches covering all relevant spatial and temporal scales to enable realistic predictions of the fatigue behavior of existing and future eco-efficient concrete formulations. This is necessary to give design engineers confidence in the new materials, and to enable design concepts, optimally satisfying requirements for sustainable, economical, and reliable future transportation and energy infrastructure.

Keywords: high cycle fatigue,eco efficient concrete,thermodynamics,physical chemistry,multiscale modeling,probabilistic computational mechanics,structural engineering science,material characterization