Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Gender Equality and Populist Upsurge (GEPU)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The GEPU (Gender Equality and Populist Upsurge) research project delves into the interplay between gender equality, cultural dynamics, and electoral outcomes, focusing on the rise of populist radical right (PRR) parties in contemporary Western societies. Drawing from the "cultural backlash theory," it investigates whether the increasing gender equality, gender policies, and salience of gender issues have contributed to a cultural backlash affecting the electoral success of PRR parties. Spain and Italy serve as the primary research contexts, examining parties like Spain's Vox and Italy's Lega and Fratelli d’Italia. The project's central aim is to explore whether the presence of women in politics significantly influences electoral outcomes, specifically the rise in the vote shares of extreme-right parties. It seeks to establish a causal relationship between gender equality and PRR party support. Three specific research objectives guide the study: 1) Estimate the impact of electing a female mayor on extreme-right party vote shares, using a regression discontinuity design; 2) Assess the effect of increased female representation in municipal councils and government, leveraging gender quotas; 3) Conduct an online experiment to understand the influence of gender equality information on electoral support for PRR parties. The project addresses gaps in economic and political science literature, where gender equality's role in explaining the upsurge of extreme-right parties remains underexplored. It employs a multifaceted methodology, combining quasi-experimental econometric techniques and online experiments, with data from Italy and Spain. The study's findings promise to shed light on the intricate relationship between gender values, political movements, and societal change, contributing to a nuanced understanding of the cultural backlash phenomenon.

Keywords: gender equality,gender quotas,cultural backlash,silent revolution,populism,far right,voting behaviour
Nanoscale X-ray tissue imaging: understanding the pathophysiology of hepatitis E infection (NanoX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom
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): 6073099.0
EU funding (EUR): 6073099.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

A driving force behind biomedical innovation lies in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. This requires a comprehensive understanding of how pathogens exploit living organisms across molecular, cellular, organismal, and population levels. Treatment of disease often relies upon interventions that restore the normal structure and function of cells. However, it is currently challenging to visualise and quantify detailed cellular changes within whole tissues in response to disease. Soft X-ray microscopy is a novel, exciting imaging modality which enables detailed structural and chemical imaging of whole cells without fixation or dyes. This technique is currently used to image cultured cells, but has yet to be applied to the examination of cells within the intricate 3D architecture of tissue with its complex cell-cell interactions. Imaging of diseased tissue in this way is crucial to gain meaningful insight into disease mechanisms, while remaining complementary to other imaging modalities and biological assays. Project NanoX aims to tackle this challenge, by merging the skillsets of a world-leading team with synergistic expertise in infectious disease, physics and structural biology to pioneer several innovations – (i) a targeted micro-biopsy tool for rapid tissue extraction for soft X-ray microscopy, (ii) high-throughput nano-resolution 3D imaging of tissues, (iii) novel integrative data mining approaches, and (iv) unprecedented insights into the pathogenesis of hepatitis E virus (HEV), an important emerging zoonotic viral infection with no specific therapies or vaccines, in healthy and immune-compromised individuals. The scientific and technological innovations that will be developed and deployed by NanoX will revolutionize clinical diagnostics and research by providing new ways to directly image, characterise, diagnose, and treat diseases in any species at a level of detail and complexity that was previously unattainable.

Keywords: soft x ray microscopy,tissue imaging,disease mechanisms
Omitted from history: How workers on India's building sites mediated twentieth-century modernity (OMHI)

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: France,India
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265694.4
EU funding (EUR): 265694.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

OMHI aims to complicate hegemonic and linear understandings of ‘modernisation’ in India’s 20th-century urban and architectural historiography by tapping into the experience of lesser studied and often marginalized actors who built India’s modern cities. Investigations of urban transformation as it occurred on the ground, rather than on the drawing table, will provide new insights into how building practice was (or was not) shaped by the interplay between local building traditions and aspirations, and (neo)colonial influences, as they intersected with the major social, economic, and political developments of high modernity, including India’s Independence in 1947. The project focuses on the city of Pune (1917-1992) and involves uncelebrated architects, building contractors, engineers, and construction workers (and their descendants) in a process of participatory knowledge making that examines two unusual datasets: photographs and oral recollections. The historiographical objective is to identify changes and continuities in construction work and their implications for architectural change. Methodologically, the project will advance the state of the art in construction historiography by testing novel participatory techniques for data collection and interpretation, both in digital and analogue form. Such methods are highly needed to reveal more plural histories that include perspectives ‘from below’. OMHI integrates research and training, while ensuring reciprocal knowledge transfers. It is shaped by interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations that will significantly expand my global network and train me in new, cutting-edge skills in the field of (post)colonial architectural history: digital humanities, visual analysis, and open science. Collected data will be digitally archived to stimulate long-term cooperation between South Asian and European scholars from different research fields related to the built environment, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.

Keywords: construction history,construction photography,post colonial architecture,british india,community archiving
Establishing a Chair for the Study of Imagination and Society at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ULisboa (IMAGINE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497787.9
EU funding (EUR): 2497787.9
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ERA Chair on Imagination and Society at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) aims to establish the first permanent chair in Europe dedicated to interdisciplinary research on the social dimensions of imagination. As new technologies defy established understandings of the world, the Chair will steer innovative research and explore the critical role of imagination in addressing societal issues. Under the direction of Prof. Ramon Sarró (University of Oxford) IMAGINE will drive organisational development and capacity building, securing ICS-ULisboa as a centre of excellence attracting and retaining international talents. This proposal results from the collaboration with the designated Chair holder in an endeavour to (re-)imagine the Institute’s role for the years to come. The project builds on a solid assessment of ICS contribution to defining social science research in Portugal, and brings forward an ambitious coordination and support programme, framed into 4 strategic objectives. The ERA Chair will 1) Recruit and mentor an outstanding team, including the future Group leader, three early career researchers, two doctoral students and one technical staff; 2) Enhance strategic institutional reforms in line with the ERA priorities; 3) Develop an interdisciplinary research agenda on Imagination and Society feeding on ICS’s mission; 4) Increase competitiveness in international R&I funding. The plan of activities sets out the strategies and intermediate steps to maximise impact and provide sustainability in the long term. Research carried out under the interdisciplinary ERA Chair will embed gender as a core dimension, adopt best Open Science practices, and implement principles of FAIR data management and sharing. IMAGINE will engage with different publics and players to foster imagination literacy, promote cultural events and debates, and integrate “critical imagination” and creativity in education and training.

Keywords: imagination social sciences interdisciplinarity research careers creative research methods futures crises
How Do Trees Stand? Legal Viability and Efficacy of Rights of Nature and Implications for the European Union (HRoN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project ‘How Do Trees Stand? Legal Viability and Efficacy of Rights of Nature and Implications for the European Union’ (HRoN) asks: How does the conceptualisation of Rights of Nature (RoN) inform a more consistent EU policy and legal response to RoN? Despite the growing awareness of RoN, little research has examined the relationship between its legal viability and efficacy. The fact that two European Union (EU) bodies received contrasting advice from recently requested studies on whether and how the EU should respond to RoN underscores a need for conceptualising RoN. HRoN addresses this gap by investigating three aspects of RoN: conceptualisation, legal practice, and policy and legal implications for the EU. First, I will devise a conceptual framework that charts the legal composition of RoN, based on which its legal viability can be evaluated. Then, I will conduct seven case studies in three countries (i.e., Australia, New Zealand, and the US), using interdisciplinary methods combining legal interpretation, qualitative research, and law-in-context analysis to identify the relationship between the legal viability of RoN and its efficacy in legal practice, and to what extent contexts play a role. Finally, based on the theoretical and empirical research, I will analyse their policy and legal implications for the EU in responding to RoN. HRoN is an interdisciplinary project that combines the expertise at the University of Southern Denmark and the Centre for Law, Sustainability, and Justice on innovative legal approaches to sustainability, with my multidisciplinary research experience in law, philosophy, and social science over the past fifteen years. HRoN will be pioneering in conceptualising RoN that is supported by qualitative study with policy-relevant outputs. It will be particularly valuable for the EU’s decision making on RoN. This research directly contribute to achieving Horizon Europe, European Green Deal, and Sustainable Development Goals.

Keywords: rights of nature legal philosophy argumentation theory sdgs sustainability indigenous perspectives rights european union law and policy
Statistical and probabilistic properties for weakly chaotic systems (ErgodicHyperbolic)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Poland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 139953.6
EU funding (EUR): 139953.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The purpose of the project is to study limit laws and mixing properties for weakly chaotic systems. The theory of strongly chaotic systems has been extensively developed in the last decades and there are now methods that can be used in studying their statistical properties: e.g. a functional analytic approach (transfer operators, anisotropic Banach spaces) or a geometric approach (distribution of stable and unstable foliations). However much less is known for systems which do not have such a strong chaotic behavior and in particular are of zero entropy. In the project I plan to develop general methods to study many natural classes of systems which exhibit slower (or weaker) notions of randomness (or chaos), e.g. suspension flows. I plan to study mixing and statistical properties of such systems with the goal of characterizing their chaotic behavior and compare it with strongly chaotic systems. In particular, I also plan to study the infinite measure case where the theory has not yet been developed and where possibly other notions of mixing have to be developed.

Keywords: mixing,ergodic systems,stochastic limit laws,infinite invariant measure
Sustainable Intelligent Management of Indoor Air Quality for the Culture and Creative Industries (SIMIACCI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Denmark,Italy,Belgium,Czechia,Germany
Call: Cultural and creative industries for a sustainable climate transition (HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4293749.47
EU funding (EUR): 3999627.59
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Climate transition is imposed to all sectors of the EU economy, including CCI, especially through more efficient use of resources. Amongst CCIs, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) require large quantities of energy for controlling Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) and humidity for cultural heritage (CH) artifacts conservation due to the absence of smart and efficient Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) control technologies. SIMIACCI improves traditional IAQ solutions, such as CH storage/showcases conditioning, heating ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), by developing a portfolio of innovative solutions reducing related energy demand by 30-50%) and extent CH conservation time. SIMIACCI will demonstrate: i) Metal Organic Framework (MOFs) adsorbents to efficiently capture noxious VOCs; ii) MOFs to mitigate NOx in real scenarios; iii) MOFs to capture H2S, iv) Predictive modelling to forecast contaminants concentrations evolution coupled with monitoring sensors and conservation/maintenance recommendations; v) Modular designs that fulfil the technical and environmental requirements of controlling IAQ; vi) New business models for the solutions portfolio that integrate the developed pillars, supported by market analysis and economic, environmental and social sustainability analysis. By demonstrating first-of-a-kind energy- and resource-efficient solutions for strict IAQ management, CCI will inspire climate transition of 5 new sectors where transferability potential will be assessed and disseminated, including through the creation of the SIMIACCI label. Dedicated exhibitions, reaching 30,000 visitors, will consolidate GLAMs leadership for climate transition. SIMIACCI brings together world renowned academic materials and conservation scientists, deep tech SME’s, big-sized companies, and one association to develop 20 prototypes demonstrated in 7 GLAMs of different sizes in different contexts in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: galleries,libraries,archives and museums glams indoor air quality energy saving metal organic frameworks modular prototype volatile organic compounds nox life cycle assessment policymakers
Eyes for Information, Communication, and Understanding (Eyes4ICU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Slovakia,Denmark,Finland,Switzerland,Czechia,Sweden
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2605759.2
EU funding (EUR): 2605759.2
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Gaze is an important communication channel to be captured remotely which works even without language. It thus holds great potential for universal inclusive technologies. Eyes for information, communication, and understanding (Eyes4ICU) explores novel forms of gaze interaction that rely on current psychological theories and findings, computational modeling, as well as expertise in highly promising application domains. Its approach of developing inclusive technology by tracing gaze interaction back to its cognitive and affective foundations (a psychological challenge) results in better models to predict user behavior (a computational challenge). By integrating insights in application fields, gaze-based interaction can be employed in the wild. Accordingly, the proposed research is divided into three work packages, namely Understanding Users (WP1), Gaze Communication (WP2), and In The Wild (WP3). All three work packages are pursued from three different perspectives: a psychological empirical perspective, a computational modeling perspective, and an application perspective, ensuring a unified and aligned progress and concept. Along these lines, training is also divided into three packages of Empirical Research Methods (WP4), Computational Modeling (WP5), and Transferable Skills (WP6). Consequently, the consortium is composed of groups working in psychological, computing, and application fields. All Beneficiaries are experts in using eye tracking in their respective areas ensuring best practices and optimal facilities for research and training. A variety of Associated Partners from the whole chain of eye tracking services ensures for applicability, practical relevance, and career opportunities by contributing to supervision, training, and research. This will advance communication by eye tracking as a field and result in European standards for gaze-based communication in a variety of domains disseminated through research and application.
The Politics of Urban Regime Construction in Spain: 2015-2019 (PURC)

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: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Politics of Urban Regime Contestation provides the first systematic assessment of attempts by Spanish New Municipalist movement-parties to consolidate progressive urban regime change between 2015 and 2019. New Municipalism represented a political wave of astonishing proportions, unseating neoliberal regimes led by traditional political parties in eighteen cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, including key urban centres such as Barcelona and Madrid. Municipalist administrations experimented with the co-operative economy, sustainability initiatives, feminism and democratic revitalization. They produced multiple cases of attempted urban regime change: understood as the process of creating resource coalitions capable of transforming urban governance and political economy. This study provides novel and timely data and theory to understand the politics of urban regime contestation. The success of municipalist platforms in 2015 provided inspiration for an international movement, but is marked nationally by widespread electoral defeat in 2019. Municipalist administrations achieved electoral continuity in just two cases: Barcelona and Cadiz. Outcome variation provides opportunities for comparative analysis into the dynamics of urban governance continuity and change. Theoretically, urban regime theory is used in-order-to understand how New Municipalist coalitions and agendas interacted with urban governance relationships and institutions. The project builds on empirical pilot research into two cases, using a tried and tested methodology, recently published in Urban Studies, adding Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explain varying degrees of success across the entire population of cases. In using this theory and method the project promises to provide an over-arching yet detailed assessment of the topic. It will develop knowledge critical for deepened urban democracy, sustainability and social justice: a valuable contribution to Horizon Europes' strategic ambitions.

Keywords: urban regime theory,new municipalism,urban political economy,participatory democracy,qualitative comparative analysis