Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Combining DISsimilar materials into functional large-scale and light-weight COmponents and structures (DISCO2030)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Austria,Finland,Belgium,Switzerland,Poland
Call: Functional multi-material components and structures (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6555819.75
EU funding (EUR): 6555819.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The DISCO2030 project aims to develop two innovative hybrid manufacturing methods for joining dissimilar metal-metal and metal-polymer materials. Both proposed methods are underpinned by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies from the emerging technology families of Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) and Directed Energy Deposition (DED). DISCO2030 combines the advantages of PBF and DED to enable the manufacturing of multi-material lightweight, complex geometry components/structures that are able to operate in harsh environments. The process is expected to achieve a ≥20% lead time reduction compared to state-of-the-art manufacturing processes (such as die casting and brazing) and manufacture multi-material parts that have a 50% lower weight compared to reference products and a 30% higher performance (achieved among others by graded materials). The three use-cases to be demonstrated in the project are of high relevance to the EU economy and include a rocket engine, a marine engine and a cryogenic hydrogen tank for primary applications in the automotive sector. All components manufactured using the novel DISCO hybrid manufacturing methods will be subjected to rigid testing according to the respective industry standards. DISCO2030 is expected to generate significant impact by paving the way for the creation of new dissimilar material joining and testing standards, strengthening the EU’s leadership in AM technologies and increasing the EU’s resilience against global supply chain disruptions. Finally, DISCO2030 will contribute to the reinvention of the European aerospace, marine and automotive sectors, ultimately providing EU citizens with better, more sustainable and cost-effective transportation.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,directed energy deposition,powder bed fusion,multi material,dissimilar metals,metal polymer,lightweight design
Using Adoptees and Personality to Re-Examine Neighbourhood Effects on Important Life Outcomes (PAN)

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: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Childhood outcomes across a range of domains are correlated with the socio-economic characteristics of the child’s neighbours. Yet, work on the topic is dominated by observational designs that do not consider the confounding effect of genetics. Although experimental designs exist, these are extremely expensive and usually rely on a restricted range of people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Consequently, the overarching aim of the PAN project is to estimate the plausible effect of neighbourhoods, absent genetic confounding and restricted socio-economic range, by examining neighbourhood effects on adoptees. Danish registry data provides a unique opportunity to pursue this aim due to its combination of adoptees placed pseudo-randomly with non-relatives across the full socio-economic spectrum, and the availability of annual personality assessments as well as classic outcomes data throughout the childhood years. The use of registry personality data allows me to explore neighbourhood effects on pertinent child characteristics from a young age, as there are domains for which the classical outcome data primarily apply at later ages even if dispositions towards particular outcomes are detectable earlier—e.g., behavioural disinhibition as a precursor to crime. The integration of adoptees and childhood personality is, therefore, a distinctively powerful and practical approach to clarify where (in the socio-economic distribution) and when (in children’s development) effects of neighbourhoods are most potent. Given the potential importance of neighbourhoods in intergenerational inequality, answers to these questions may inform effective government policies. By completing the project under the supervision of Associate Professor Steven Ludeke at University of Southern Denmark, I will gain valuable training as well as experience on registry data, adoptees, and ‘big data’, which will make me more competitive in my pursuit of a career in academia or as a data scientist.

Keywords: personality neighbourhoods adoptees mental health academic achievement
The Uncharted Margins of Philosophy: An AI-Enhanced Material History of Arabic Logic Across Time (12th-19th c.) and Frontiers (from Spain to India) (UnMaP)

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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1417204.0
EU funding (EUR): 1417204.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Contrary to the popular belief that philosophy in Arabic declined around the 12th century, it has actually thrived in forms that are largely unexplored. Arabic philosophical manuscripts present a wealth of textual and visual annotations by students, teachers, and individual scholars who have kept selecting, manually copying, teaching, and studying philosophical texts until the 19th century. Well after the printing revolution, the margins of manuscripts served across the Arabo-Islamic world as material platforms – akin to today’s academic journals – for this choral philosophical enterprise. With a few notable exceptions, this “real-life” philosophy is cut out of historico-philosophical accounts, in which the spotlight is often on a selection of great minds. The views shared by professors, students, and scholars have hitherto remained on the uncharted margins of manuscripts and on the fringe of the global history of philosophy. “The Uncharted Margins of Philosophy” (UnMaP) aims to bring those contributions from the margins of manuscripts into the forefront of philosophical discourse. By delving into the paratextual annotations within 207 manuscripts of the Logic of Avicenna’s (d. 1037) Book of Healing, spanning seven centuries and three continents, UnMaP promises to broaden the horizons of the global history of philosophy. It will (1) shed new light on the uncharted routes of cultural transfer in the pre-modern, globalising world; (2) provide a generalisable model of research on neglected sources for the history of philosophy; (3) challenge the paradigm of knowledge as the product of a few soloists and their intellectual hegemony by bringing to light marginalised traditions from the past. With innovative techniques, including AI-driven handwriting analysis on manuscripts with Convolutional Neural Networks, this project pioneers a new “Material History of Philosophy”, bridging the gap between Material Philology, Philosophy, History, and Digital Humanities.

Keywords: arabic philosophy history of logic medieval studies philosophical manuscripts arabic manuscripts marginalia
CARBON FIBRE PRODUCTION VIA LOW ENERGY MICROWAVE ABSORPTION (CARBOWAVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain,France,Italy
Call: Alternative heating systems for efficient, flexible and electrified heat generation in industry (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5132999.89
EU funding (EUR): 4561951.07
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

CARBOWAVE deploys alternative heating sources i.e. plasma or microwave heating to replace conventional heating in energy intensive industries. The conversion of microwave electromagnetic radiation to heat relies on a high dielectric loss tangent (DLT). This is of importance as many of Europe’s most energy intensive industries utilise low dielectric loss raw materials. Carbon fibre (CF) which is used to produce carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP), is produced from poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN) which exhibits a low DLT (0.007). CF is designated as a strategic material for Europe as it is deployed in many crucial sectors which underpin Europe’s future energy security e.g. in manufacture of light weight wind turbines for wind energy generation; in manufacture of light weight automobiles and electric vehicles for a more energy efficient Transport sector; and similarly for a more energy efficient Construction sector. Hence, CARBOWAVE will have vast economic and environmental impact. Europe dominates the advanced carbon materials market supplying 37% of the global market, which is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% to reach US$7.9 billion by 2027. Currently, the industry uses large amounts of electricity and natural gas to generate the heat necessary for conversion of PAN to CF (100–900 MJ per one kg of CF produced), limiting the industrial use of CF to high end and expensive applications. In this context, CARBOWAVE aims to drastically reduce the energy consumption, carbon emissions and production cost of CFs. This in-turn will radically transform the construction, wind energy and EV industries. CARBOWAVE will achieve this through development of two alternative heating sources; an atmospheric plasma for stabilisation of PF, and a radically new susceptor induced microwave heating technology specifically designed for increasing microwave absorption, allowing the conversion of stabilised PF to CF in a continuous production process at TRL 6.

Keywords: microwave heating,susceptor induced,atmospheric plasma heating,energy transition,carbon fibre reinforced polymers,emission reduction,wind energy,construction,automotive manufacture,
A LANDSCAPE approach to cultural heritage management in the context of climate CHANGE (LANDSCAPEforCHANGE)

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: Belgium,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-03
End date: 2025-07-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal addresses cultural heritage conservation and management in the context of climate change. It goes beyond the traditional differentiation between tangible and intangible heritage and addresses the city as a living heritage. Accordingly, it seeks to develop a landscape people-centered methodological framework that acknowledges the active role of communities in co-producing local knowledge. The proposed framework integrates different perspectives from different disciplines noting the scientific, social and humanities approaches along with cultural and natural heritage perspectives. As a result, it is structured around several axes to address physical settings, landscape perceptions, cultural values, digital heritage practices, and vulnerability of cultural heritage to climate change. To address the complex nature of cultural heritage, the proposed method incorporates social media metadata and traditional data sources and integrates qualitative, quantitative, geographical, and visual analysis along with machine learning techniques. By doing so, it seeks to map how different stakeholder groups value heritage in the context of climate change and assess the vulnerability of heritage and its associated values to climate change. The novel aspect of this proposal is the use of digital technologies to engage local communities in heritage values assessment and heritage management recommendations to foster a sense of communal ownership in the local heritage landscape from the grassroots level. The innovation of this project lies in linking physical vulnerability and risk management concepts with a more general and multidimensional resilience approach focused on the singularities of cultural heritage resilience. Results are expected to draw recommendations for integrating policies and practices of heritage management, sustainable urban development, and climate governance.

Keywords: landscape approach,co creation,climate change,climate resilience,heritage conservation,local community
Composting as a post-treatment method to mitigate the transfer of antimicrobial resistance and spore-forming Firmicute into the food chain (RESISPORE) (RESISPORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The use of animal waste as agricultural fertilizers is a potential source of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotics residues (ABs) and must be managed accordingly. Pre-treatments of organic waste prior to land application offer the potential to abate enteric bacteria, and therefore reduce the risk of contamination of crops or adjacent water resources with resistant pathogens carried in these materials. However, the reduction and fate of such fecal indicator bacteria may not properly predict the responses of of all types of pathogens, especially those that produce spores. The inactivation of spore-forming pathogens, such as Clostridium and Bacillus spp., from animal waste could be challenging given the recalcitrance of the spores these bacteria produce. RESISPORE is an interdisciplinary and innovative project in the field of environment & agriculture that aims to identify intervention management strategies to stop the initial movement of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and spore-forming pathogens from animal waste into the environment and food chain. RESISPORE aims are aligned with current European strategies to produce safe, healthier, and more sustainable food such as The Farm to Fork strategy or the EFSA recommendations for protecting food safety. This project will be delivered by the fellow Dr. Jessica Subirats, with a strong expertise in environmental microbiologist, under the supervision of Dr.Victor Matamoros, who has a strong track-record in environmental biochemistry and agricultural science. The fellowship will provide new expertise and training on analytical chemistry, large-scale biogas operations, agricultural science, and professional development for academics. The fellow will bring her knowledge of AMR and microbiology using both culture-dependent and independent methods. The proposed work will expand the fellow’s research competencies and professional networks, enhancing the development of her career as an independent researcher.

Keywords: anaerobic digestion,aerobic composting,pathogen inactivation,spore forming firmicutes,antimicrobial resistance
Microwave Fingerprinting Artificial Molecular Motors in Virtual Isolation (MiCRoARTiS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1856793.0
EU funding (EUR): 1856793.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MiCRoARTiS is the blueprint for a five-year program of frontier research to develop a sophisticated spectroscopic approach to study artificial molecular motors. The ultimate goal will be to demonstrate the harnessing of conformational dynamics of molecular motors in the gas phase using microwave spectroscopy. My recent research has shown we can measure broadband microwave spectra of molecular motors in idle mode. Such achievement was remarkable not only because rotationally resolved studies of molecules of this size were out of reach until now, but also because it opens a gateway to a new research line that is risky and ambitious, but its potential is clear. Emerging from a static frame to studies of molecular motors in action in the gas phase will unlock their structural dynamics with unprecedented control over the environment. Molecular nanotechnology will gain a new experimental tool that is highly compatible with theoretical modelling approaches. The significance of this project emerges from the current lack of high-resolution probes that are able to capture a complete structural picture of the mechanical steps of these architectures. An evolved structure-solving tool will be developed, exploiting the unrivalled abilities of microwave spectroscopy to recover three-dimensional structures from rotationally resolved spectra. The virtual isolation created in gas phase molecular ensembles will be exploited to disclose intrinsic and interfacial structural manoeuvres of molecular motors. For the first time, rotationally resolved studies of molecular motors will be carried out in geared-mode, and in the gas phase. A new technology for thermal and optical control of samples will be developed to augment the molecular library at reach, carving a path for this methodology to extend beyond the five-year lifetime of the project. A new vision for spectroscopy of artificial molecular machinery will emerge and significantly advance this frontier of research.

Keywords: microwave spectroscopy molecular motors
Combine measures of social assistance benefit indicators to correct for measurement error (COMBINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Aim: To break new ground in the field of official statistics, COMBINE produces error-corrected figures on (1) the number of individuals receiving social assistance benefit at a given point in time and (2) the transition rate out of social assistance between two points in time. Background: Social assistance benefits are an important pillar of the welfare state. Policy making on social assistance benefits is based on official statistics that are produced by National Statistical Institutes with the use of register data. However, register data suffer from measurement error that can severely bias official statistics and, consequently, policy-making that uses these statistics. Innovation: COMBINE tests, applies and evaluates a novel model-based error-detection and correction method on social assistance benefits. This method does not require concrete knowledge of the causes of measurement error. With this method, we produce different and more reliable official statistics on social assistance benefits. Moreover, this method is more efficient than the practices of data-quality improvement that National Statistical Institutes currently apply. Plan: The project is carried out in collaboration with Statistics Netherlands and, in particular, with its Department of Demographic and Socioeconomic Statistics. Besides producing error-corrected official statistics on social assistance benefits, COMBINE delivers an implementation plan of the method to other official statistics (by Statistics Netherlands or other National Statistical Institutes) and a dissemination plan for approaching policymakers and other users of the statistics. Impact: COMBINE will encourage a cultural shift in official statistics by boosting the confidence of National Statistical Institutes in producing model-based error-corrected statistics. In the policy field, as the method is applicable to a wide range of topics, the project contributes to evidence-based policy-making.

Keywords: official statistics,social assistance benefits,hidden markov models,register data