Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Molecular characterization of insecticide resistance and transmission competence in sand flies, major vectors of leismaniasis (LeVec)

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: Greece,Czechia
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): 153486.72
EU funding (EUR): 153486.72
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Leishmania, transmitted by sand flies, comes second only to malaria in terms of parasitic causative fatalities globally. Tunisia, as well as the Mediterranean region are endemic for the disease, reporting hundreds of cases annually. In the absence of human vaccines, controlling the population size of sand flies using insecticides is a key component of leishmaniasis control efforts. Nevertheless, the reliance on insecticides has triggered the selection of resistance, which is threatening the efficacy of sand fly vector control programs. The molecular aetiology behind the insecticide resistance status of sand flies, unlike other insect vectors, remains largely unknown. The aim of LeVec is to unravel the mechanisms that underpin resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in sand fly populations, collected in Tunisia. I will use comparative transcriptomic analysis to identify genes differentially expressed in resistant individuals and functionally validate their role using state of the art in vitro (biochemical assays) and in vivo (transgenesis and CRISPR genome editing) approaches. The outcomes will substantially improve our ability to track the phenomenon of sand fly resistance in the field and design mitigation strategies. Furthermore, LeVec aims to identify genes that determine the ability of sand flies to transmit the Leishmania parasites. For that I will focus on the sand fly’s midgut, the site where the complete development of the Leishmania parasites takes place, and perform comparative expression analysis, using a unique collection of 12 sand fly species with different degrees of vector competence. Silencing of candidate genes followed by experimental infections will allow me to validate their role in Leishmania transmission. The outcomes of this analysis will help the design of novel Leishmania control tools, based on disrupting the adherence and/or development of parasites within the sand fly vector.

Keywords: leishmania,sand flies,insecticide resistance,comparative transcriptomics,midgut,parasite transmission
NewWorkTech Hop-On: Augmenting Different Abilities of People in the World of Work (NewWorkTech Hop-On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Estonia
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

NewWorkTech examines how individuals with disabilities and diverse abilities can engage meaningfully in increasingly digital and cognitively demanding labour markets. TalTech’s Hop-On contribution expands the consortium’s scientific, disciplinary and geographical scope by introducing an economics- and data-driven agenda focused on mental health-related and neurodevelopmental diversity. The ambition is to combine Estonia’s world-class longitudinal registry data with rigorous econometric methods to generate novel, policy-relevant evidence on how institutional, technological and socio-environmental contexts shape labour market outcomes, entrepreneurship, and long-term financial well-being for individuals with diverse abilities. TalTech’s addition enhances NewWorkTech by (1) integrating economics as a new discipline, (2) leveraging Estonia’s advanced digital infrastructure to access linked population-wide data on health, employment, entrepreneurship and pension plan investments, (3) applying quasi-experimental methods to strengthen causal inference, and (4) broadening outreach by connecting Eastern European perspectives to the wider EU research landscape. The new work package (WP7) investigates four themes: labour market participation in digitalised occupations, exposure to job separation, re-employment outcomes, and entrepreneurship as a pathway to inclusion. Key complementary activities in synergy with NewWorkTech include an inclusive digital Hackathon, an international conference, and a stakeholder workshop to ensure co-creation, dissemination and uptake. With proven success in leading Horizon 2020 projects, securing data access, and strong interdisciplinary partnerships, TalTech team brings capacity for immediate implementation. Its participation reinforces Horizon Europe’s goals of scientific excellence, digital inclusion, Widening participation, and evidence-based policymaking, while providing transferable insights from Estonia’s pioneering digital ecosystem.

Keywords: inclusion,mental health,neurodiversity,labour market outcomes,entrepreneurship,investments
Bio Methanol Production via Chemical Looping Gasification Coupled with Membrane Reactors (Bio-MeGaFuel)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Denmark,Norway
Call: Development of next generation advanced biofuel technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3797326.25
EU funding (EUR): 3797326.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Besides being an important chemical commodity, methanol is a multipurpose fuel that can be used directly in internal combustion engines, blended with other fuels or for producing fuel additives, which improve engine performance. Methanol has great potential to be one of the selected low-carbon fuels for heavy road and transportation and marine freight. Technologies that are using methanol as fuel are gaining more momentum and attention globally. However, two key issues may challenge the further uptake of methanol in energy systems: i) methanol is today produced from fossil resources, and ii) methanol is used mainly by chemical industries, leaving small room for the energy sector to count on it. Bio-MeGaFuel is proposing a novel route that converts low value biomass to methanol via an intensified process with a minimum carbon footprint comparable to conventional methods. Bio-MeGaFuel uses chemical looping gasification to produce clean syngas from biomass, and membrane reactor technology to directly produce methanol from syngas. A key feature of Bio-MeGaFuel is the possibility to maximize the conversion of hydrogen and carbon (via CO2 recirculation) from biomass waste to methanol with the minimum number of process steps. The process is based on the conversion of biomass waste aimed at increasing the capacity of biomethanol production in a sustainable way and addressing the increasing demand for biomethanol as a fuel. Bio-MeGaFuel is underpinned by technologies that are being developed to TRL 5 by an expert consortium. Besides, it is backed by a strong reference group including the business leaders and market players in biomass supply, whole methanol production value chain, potential end users, and potential future players in the production, management, and distribution of biomethanol. This greatly ensures the quality of the research and appropriate exploitation of the results predicted in Bio-MeGaFuel.

Keywords: biomethanol,gasification,biogenic residues and wastes
Vortices with massive cores in quantum matter (Vortexons)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-09
End date: 2025-01-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In quantum matter, vortices are topological excitations characterized by quantized circulation of the velocity field. They can be found in contexts as diverse as superconductors, Bose-Einstein condensates, laser beams, and even in the recently detected gravitational waves emitted during the merging of two spinning black holes. Quantum vortices are often modeled as funnel-like holes around which the quantum uid exhibits a swirling ow. In this perspective, vortex cores are nothing more than empty regions where the superuid density goes to zero, and their motion is governed by first-order differential equations. In the last few years, this simple view has been challenged and it is now increasingly clear that, in many real systems, vortex cores are not that empty. In these cases, the hole in the superuid is lled by particles or excitations which dress the vortices and provide them with an effective inertial mass. This feature opens the door to exciting new scenarios where inertial effects compete with the usual inter-vortex interactions. In this way, well-established results about vortex dynamics, binding-unbinding phase transitions, and robustness of superuidity are challenged. The project “Vortexons” will provide a complete description of the physics disclosed by quantum vortices with massive cores, addressing these crucial open issues from both the theoretical and the experimental sides. The resulting theory aims to be not only the gold standard in all those phenomena where quantum matter features massive topological excitations, but also the necessary foundation for the development of new high-performance superconductors. In this perspective, our theory will thus possibly be the seed of major breakthroughs having a disruptive impact on society, economy, and environmental policies, such as higher-resolution magnetic resonance scanners, low-power microprocessors, and high-speed transportation.

Keywords: vortices,quantum gases,bose einstein condensates,bkt transition,mott superfluid transition
Compressing many-body quantum states in continuous space-time with tensor networks (QFT.zip)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1227455.0
EU funding (EUR): 1227455.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Many-body quantum systems with strong correlations are particularly difficult to understand in the continuum, where non-perturbative techniques are in scarce supply. Direct diagonalization methods are not available, since the Hilbert space is simply too large to be manageable. This inhibits progress in high energy physics, nuclear physics, and in the study of exotic topological phases of matter. On the lattice, tensor network states, a variational class of wavefunctions coming from quantum information theory, have allowed to compress exponentially large Hilbert spaces down to a smaller numerically manageable corner. This has allowed substantial theoretical and numerical advance on the many-body problem on the lattice. This project will develop continuous tensor network states, a new framework to extend the recent lattice progress to the continuum and quantum field theory (QFT). The originality of the approach is that it will not rely on any discretization of space-time. I will work directly in the continuum, without any cutoff. Low energy states of quantum field theories, which a priori live in a continuously infinite dimensional Hilbert space, will be compressed down to a finite and small number of parameters. This will then allow to solve numerically very generic (non-integrable) strongly coupled theories in a fully non-perturbative manner. Such a compression was long thought to be impossible, in particular in the relativistic case, but I overcame crucial theoretical hurdles in the past year, making the proposal particularly timely. I will construct this framework with 3 main applications in mind: i) non-relativistic problems in 2 space dimensions and more, including e.g. fractional quantum Hall states, ii) relativistic QFT, starting with 1+1 dimensional toy model and gradually increasing complexity to get closer to nonabelian gauge theories, iii) critical quantum systems (and classical statistical mechanics).

Keywords: tensor networks,quantum field theory,variational wave functions,entanglement
Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (FINDHR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Greece
Call: Tackling gender, race and other biases in AI (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3341637.5
EU funding (EUR): 3341637.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

FINDHR is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to prevent, detect, and mitigate discrimination in AI. Our research will be contextualized within the technical, legal, and ethical problems of algorithmic hiring and the domain of human resources, but will also show how to manage discrimination risks in a broad class of applications involving human recommendation. Through a context-sensitive, interdisciplinary approach, we will develop new technologies to measure discrimination risks, to create fairness-aware rankings and interventions, and to provide multi-stakeholder actionable interpretability. We will produce new technical guidance to perform impact assessment and algorithmic auditing, a protocol for equality monitoring, and a guide for fairness-aware AI software development. We will also design and deliver specialized skills training for developers and auditors of AI systems. We ground our project in EU regulation and policy. As tackling discrimination risks in AI requires processing sensitive data, we will perform a targeted legal analysis of tensions between data protection regulation (including the GDPR) and anti-discrimination regulation in Europe. We will engage with underrepresented groups through multiple mechanisms including consultation with experts and participatory action research. In our research, technology, law, and ethics are interwoven. The consortium includes leaders in algorithmic fairness and explainability research (UPF, UVA, UNIPI, MPI-SP), pioneers in the auditing of digital services (AW, ETICAS), and two industry partners that are leaders in their respective markets (ADE, RAND), complemented by experts in technology regulation (RU) and cross-cultural digital ethics (EUR), as well as worker representatives (ETUC) and two NGOs dedicated to fighting discrimination against women (WIDE+) and vulnerable populations (PRAK). All outputs will be released as open access publications, open source software, open datasets, and open courseware.

Keywords: algorithmic fairness,artificial intelligence,explainable ai,online recruitment,fairness aware ranking,data protection regulation,digital ethics,intersectionality,discrimination
The quest for oceanic sediments within the Ancient Martian sedimentary record (OCEANID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1970000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1970000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Martian missions have gradually revealed that Mars abounds with evidence of a full ancient hydrological system favourable to life emergence. If so, there is every reasons to believe that Mars has hosted a hemispheric ocean covering the northern lowlands. This hypothesis is as old as Mars exploration, but has been repeatedly challenged over the past two decades. The case of primitive Martian ocean remains one of the planet’s most controversial and unsolved issue. Recent discoveries are re-opening this question mainly highlighting that the main oceanic activity may be older than we thought with related deposits partly exhumed and two rovers (Mars2020/NASA arrived in 2021 and ExoMars/ESA-Roskosmos to be launched in 2022) have landing sites in the oldest terrains never explored on Mars, displaying sediments possibly linked with an ocean system. To wind up the debate, the identification of ancient deposits of the same age, same composition with a global distribution in agreement with a possible ocean level is required. But such clues are small scale exposures solved only by high-resolution orbital data set (>10 To of data) or by in situ exploration preventing a forward link to the global context. Oceanid proposes to face this challenge by investigating at different scale: global, mesoscale and microscale using complementary dataset (orbital, in situ and experimental data). Oceanid will also lie on innovative methodology of orbital data mining: geological object recognition by artificial intelligence, erosion/deposition evolution models, clustering from multi-type of data… Oceanid objectives are to describe the early Martian sedimentary record accumulated below possible global ocean levels, to establish a fine-scale chronology of primitive events, to contextualize Mars2020 and ExoMars missions within the global ancient hydrological system and to correlate the oceanic context, the transient water cycle, and the mineralogy observed both from orbit and in situ.

Keywords: remote sensing,martian geology,landing sites
Promiscuous Print: Legal Deposit Libraries, Rejected Texts, and New Methods for Negative Bibliography (PromPrint)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1476014.0
EU funding (EUR): 1476014.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PROMPRINT will uncover and analyze the rejects of legal deposit: the printed texts excluded from the ostensibly universal archive promised by copyright libraries. Legal deposit works to preserve every text published in a specific group of libraries. While this principle is egalitarian, the cultural promiscuity of print has often troubled the prestigious deposit libraries, as deposit brings such historically controversial forms as novels, children’s books, almanacs, and pamphlets into elite collections. The project asks: (1) Which textual forms and genres do deposit libraries reject? How and why does this change over time? (2) How can digital tools and quantitative analyses help to map absences and gaps in deposit collections? (3) What are the best models for using these tools and analyses in relation to particular texts and types of texts, as in the examples of obscene books, colonial texts, and children’s literature? (4) How does the process of putting together local and centralized records to uncover deposit rejects lead to generalizable methodologies for finding texts absent from other archives and collections? (5) What does a focus on rejection, relegation, and negative bibliography (the study of gaps in the bibliographical record) add to book history, including current debates over digitization? The project answers these questions by focusing on a particular case study: deposit in the nineteenth-century United Kingdom. In this period, an unprecedented increase in the production of printed texts led to high pressure on the deposit system at the same time that cultural interest in deposit as a system for knowledge preservation grew. Beyond the case study, though, the project will drive forward wider understandings of how literature is canonized and forgotten, collected and destroyed.

Keywords: legal deposit of books,libraries,literary canon,nineteenth century literature
Group Stability and Quantum Information Theory (GRPSTABQIT)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main focus of the project will be on stability properties for groups and their connections with quantum information theory. Intuitively, the term stability refers to the phenomenon of when approximate properties are "close" to actual properties. Concretely, the project will introduce for the first time stability with respect to quantum groups, and provide a systematic approach towards different important notions of stability for various classes of groups, notably "graph product-like" groups and amenable groups. For the latter, stability is also connected to character theory and dynamical systems, which will allow for different techniques from these areas to be applied towards our results.

Keywords: hilbert schmidt stability,permutation stability,quantum groups,graph products of groups,character theory of amenable groups,quantum information theory