Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FRom ExpEctation TO ACTion (FREETOACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 716144.29
EU funding (EUR): 697930.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The FREETOACT project involves 16 experienced partners and is the legacy of 16 years of a collective participation to the ERN as a Consortium. We will organize events in 16 different French cities, sharing the same objectives and approach to science engagement, and most of the activities, and involving local researchers. FREETOACT is based on two connected themes. In 2022, the public will discuss the functioning of research through an attractive theme, “The unexpected”, which will bring surprises to the visitors, while discussing predictability in research. In the process, in 2023, researchers and the public will debate together around the theme "Our futures". These themes foster the quality of the discussion with researchers (a key factor in enriching the public's vision of science in society), and renew ERN proposition for the public and the press. During the events, we will create warm and aesthetic encounters and design playful activities to be shared by researchers and the public. The 2,800 researchers involved in the project will be coached and trained by mediators. All the local organizers have extensive experience in conducting researcher-public meetings. Thus, “Researchers at school” activities will be organized thanks to our existing networks. Adults will also be able to participate through a new edition of the Great Participatory Experiment in 2023 (a research team will propose participatory research for the ERN in 16 cities). Online activities will be proposed to interact with the public located outside our 16 cities. The French Ministry of Culture will financially support the event for the 5th year, fostering the participation of researchers in humanities and social sciences; the Ministry of Research will also maintain its support. The ERN will take on the responsibility of improving the understanding of how research actually works and will get young people, the public and researchers to question the role of research in shaping our (un)expected futures

Keywords: researchers,public,meetings,dialogue,entertainement,france,european,participatory,atmosphere,experience,future,responsability
Advanced Cryptography from Lattices (ACryL)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud services and shared infrastructures to store data and delegate resource-intensive computations, it is essential for maintaining privacy, security, and compliance with regulations to i) protect data while ensuring that only authorized individuals or systems can decrypt and use it, and ii) guarantee the correctness of the computation performed by cloud services. Advanced cryptographic primitives tackle both of these challenges: on the one hand, attribute-based encryption (ABE) effectively addresses the problem of selective data sharing while preserving confidentiality of unauthorized messages, on the other hand, succinct arguments (SNARKs) enable end users to verify efficiently that outsourced computation was performed correctly by cloud providers. In recent years, both ABE and SNARKs have seen tremendous research progress, especially in the context of lattice-based cryptography, where both constructions often rely on shared techniques, underscoring the deep synergy between these two cryptographic primitives. Leveraging lattice-based assumption offers several key advantages in this context, which are essential to the proposed project, in particular, enabling the construction of ABE for general circuits, and providing post-quantum security, meaning these constructions are believed to remain secure even in the presence of quantum computers. By exploring and developing new techniques that leverage these synergies, this project aims to advance theory and practice in both domains and construct robust, quantum-secure cryptographic systems that address the complex security and privacy challenges of the digital age.

Keywords: cryptography,advanced encryption,proof systems,post quantum,lattice based cryptography
CharactERizing the neuronal Effects of BehavioRAL-modifying proteins from the zombie FUNGI, Ophiocordyceps, using C. elegans (CEREBRALfungi)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a species complex of entomopathogens known for their ability to manipulate the behavior of infected ants (zombie ants). While these behavioral effects are well described, the molecular basis for behavioral manipulation is still being explored. During my current postdoctoral fellowship with the National Science Foundation USA, I have identified a set of putative behavioral effectors and am currently utilizing the model organism yeast to express these biomolecules and test their behavioral effects in ants. This proposal will build on my previous work by utilizing another model organism, C. elegans, to analyze the transferability of these effectors to other animal models and to understand their effect on core neurological pathways. To accomplish this goal, I will collaborate with the Van den Heuvel lab at Utrecht University, a developmental biology team known for their excellence in the imaging of nematodes. Their access to a pre-established C. elegans Yeast-Two-Hybrid library and experience with the genetic modification of nematodes will be paramount in addressing three research objectives set for this project: identifying the biological targets of behavior-modifying effectors using Yeast-Two-Hybrid mating, analyzing the behavioral effects of these effectors via transgenic expression in C. elegans, and evaluating tissue-specific changes at the molecular level in C. elegans using mass spec. Such a project spans many biological subdisciplines, and thus, lends itself well to the international exchange of personnel, advanced training, and ideas, allowing me to make use of my experience with molecular cloning and acquire new skills handling and observing C. elegans. Furthermore, the study of Ophiocordyceps effectors present an innovative approach towards new drug discovery, particularly those with the potential to treat behavioral disorders as fungal secondary metabolites are often used for medications, impacting the public in a positive way.

Keywords: behavior manipulation,fungi,effectors,microscopy,drug discovery,behavioral disorders
Masculinities for the Future of European democracy (MEN4DEM)

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 Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Germany,Poland,Italy,Greece
Call: Gender-roles in extremist movements and their impact on democracy (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3013932.5
EU funding (EUR): 3013932.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

European liberal democracy is at stake as the electoral success of extreme-right parties reveals how positions once seen as radical become mainstream. Extreme-right ideologies seek to overturn democratic values and practices surrounding minority rights, the separation of powers, and the rule of law; they reject equality, foster authoritarianism, and attack personal autonomy while legitimizing threats, harassment and violence. Associated with xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and intolerance towards out-groups more generally, extreme-right movements and parties tend to espouse ‘traditional’ gender roles while mobilizing hyper-masculine identities to celebrate gender inequality, trivialize authoritarianism, and justify anti-democratic behaviour. MEN4DEM will systematically advance our understanding of how masculinity is constructed and mobilized by the extreme right in Europe. Guided by our intersectional theoretical, methodological and normative framework and our mixed methods approach, the program will study how extremism is legitimized on online platforms and spills over into the political mainstream. This knowledge will inform evidence-based strategies to prevent and counter political masculinities that turn against the European Union’s fundamental principles. In co-creation with young men, our societal partners and a European network of gender justice organizations, we will develop interventions to promote models of democratic masculinity that can guide equitable political participation, representation and leadership in the European Union. Our interventions will include concrete tools for policy makers, practitioners, civil society groups and political parties to create a safer and more inclusive European political arena for all. The consortium brings together academic and civil society partners to work towards solutions in Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden, as well as in the EU as a whole.

Keywords: masculinity,political parties,democracy,gender equality
Framing And Bridging Regional research and Innovation ecosystems Capacities for a renewed ERA (ERA_FABRIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Austria,Portugal,Norway,Poland,Croatia,Czechia,Romania
Call: Testing of the ERA Hub concept – pilot phase (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1429975.0
EU funding (EUR): 1429975.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Overarching aim of the ERA_FABRIC project is to define, structure, populate and validate the “interconnected knowledge space” foreseen by the EU ERA Hubs initiative (COM 2020 628 final). Three distinct, and intertwined, dimensions, all of them relevant for policy making, are adopted as a structuring principle for the community to be built and cultivated during the project: 1) ERA Hubs as Knowledge Ecosystems: fostering the dynamic interaction of R&D and innovation actors at regional and multiregional levels, taking into account the different knowledge and cultural contexts and the alignment of research foci and industrial needs; 2) ERA Hubs as Multi Stakeholder Platforms: bringing together the representatives of the various involved interest groups in a seamless and uninterrupted discussion and deliberation on strategic priorities, actions and results evaluation; 3) ERA Hubs as a Policy Co Creation Toolbox: a transformative set of measures and tools operating in a “middle ground” needing to be configured as a distinct space from both the EU and the MS/Regional levels, historically presided over by “ad hoc” sets of instruments (e.g. Framework Programmes for R&I, Structural and Investment Funds, Interregional and Cross Border Cooperation Programmes). It is the consortium’s vision and assumption that the 3 above dimensions should be presided over and made interoperable, in order for the ERA Hubs initiative to become path breaking and impactful at broad EU level. ERA_FABRIC is designed by leading European actors in the domain of regional development. The 11 partners represent 8 Member States and 1 Associated State. With the addition of the letters of interest gathered before the proposal presentation, almost half of EU27 territorial coverage has been reached.

Keywords: era hubs,proof of concept,knowledge ecosystems
Sustainable tecHnologies enablIng Future Telecommunication applications (SHIFT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Italy,Belgium,Lithuania,Greece,Germany,Austria,Switzerland
Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 67327514.51
EU funding (EUR): 18700384.32
Participants: 44
Project status: SIGNED

The global market for next-generation telecommunications systems (B5G, 6G) demands products with higher speeds, better energy efficiency and sufficient power output. The project aims to meet these needs by developing and industrializing next-generation semiconductor technologies (SiGe BiCMOS for ST, RF GaN for UMS) and the associated integrated circuit design and characterization environments. Innovative analog and digital RF integrated circuits will be designed with the technologies developed and integrated as ‘FEM’ modules of innovative telecommunications system demonstrators. New assembly techniques that can solve RF signal integrity and heat dissipation issues, or greatly simplify RF systems, will also be explored. Demonstrators of innovative telecommunications systems will be developed (10 demonstrators; by NOKIA, SAFRAN, SIAE, and other partners), to validate new semiconductor and assembly technologies, on use cases envisaged for wireless B5G/6G networks (more particularly for network access and network trunks), very high-speed optical networks, and Earth observation and satellite telecommunications. The SHIFT consortium brings together players covering the entire value chain of these telecommunications applications, from laboratories to manufacturers, thus guaranteeing the highest scientific level and the possibility of validating the work carried out on suitable demonstrators. Activities will include environmental and economic impact assessments.
Effect of network of different grain boundaries and triple junctions on sensitivity of microstructures to hydrogen embrittlement (HySens)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-10
End date: 2027-03-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A network of grain boundaries (GBs) and a microstructure which is less sensitive to hydrogen embrittlement using grain boundary engineering will be assessed on multiple scales. The fabrication of bi and tri crystals with a great variability of grains misorientations according to the probability of their presence polycrystalline nickel and nickel-based superalloys will be done. The hydrogen-GBs and hydrogen- triple junctions (TJs) interactions will be examined for different configurations of nickel bi-crystal and tri-crystals systems having variety of grain boundary energy, vacancy concentration and excess volume. Finally, influence of hydrogen on GBs and TJs will be characterized by diffusivity, trapping or segregation energies and cohesive energies. The atomistic level investigation will be done to understand the fundamentals of hydrogen embrittlement of GBs and TJs having same orientation as of fabricated crystals. The bi- and tri-crystals will be modelled in Molecular Dynamics code using LAMMPS software for understanding at atomistic level. A 3D polycrystalline FEM model will be reconstructed and these simulations should provide the optimum solutions for the architecture of the GBs and TJs networks to obtain the less sensitive microstructures to hydrogen embrittlement.

Keywords: hydrogen embrittlement,grain boundary engineering,diffusion,crystal growth,triple junction,molecular dynamics,fem
Forecasting Global Change Impacts On Ecosystems Using a Unified Plant Functional Spectrum (PLECTRUM)

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: Estonia,Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Functional traits of organisms determine their responses to the environment, disturbances, biotic interactions, but also their effects on ecosystem processes. Therefore trait-based approaches can potentially advance our understanding of complex ecological questions. However, straightforward approaches for accurate predictions of community composition and ecosystem functioning from traits are not yet available. Studies have considered different traits, which hampers synthesis, and analytical tools have been limited. Trait-based predictions need a holistic approach incorporating all aspects of the functional structure of plant communities within a unified plant functional space (UPFS) that considers the independent information provided by above- and belowground traits. PLECTRUM takes advantage of the UPFS and provides solutions for three of the most intractable problems for trait-based ecology: (i) the dimensionality of functional variation across ecosystems, (ii) predicting functional structure from environmental variables, and (iii) using this knowledge to forecast the effects of global change on functional structure, ecosystem functioning, and species’ extinction risk. I will combine the information from massive datasets of vegetation plots and plant traits with the first global standardized sampling of key above- and belowground traits. I will use this data to quantify functional dimensionality across ecosystems, and estimate the position of thousands of species in the UPFS. Then, I will use species distributions in the UPFS analogous to images and apply deep learning methods to link the functional structure of communities to ecosystem functioning and environmental change. The methodological toolbox developed in the project, combined with the synergy of aboveground and root traits, will allow us to forecast the effects of different global change scenarios on plant communities and their functioning across scales.

Keywords: functional diversity,traits,global change
Fostering Internet-based Values of the Environment (BIG-5)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489325.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489325.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Nature-experiences are on the decline, but does that mean environmental values are as well? — Where the decrease of experiences of nature is often cited as a cause for dwindling appreciation of nature and consequently less commitment to environmental stewardship, I argue that the internet is an overlooked factor in multiplying nature experiences, creating nature values, and fostering environmental stewardship, thus counteracting the ‘extinction of experiences’ of nature. With more than half of the global population already using social media, the BIG-5 project utilizes five of the world’s largest social media platforms to better understand the fostering of physical-virtual nature interactions that support sustainable global transitions in a rapidly changing world. The BIG-5 project introduces Digital Relational Values (DRVs) as fundamental and eudemonic values that are developed within virtual communities, triggered by indirect experiences of nature. It will trace these values across five landscape types, five large social media networks, and in five European languages through qualitative and quantitative (big data) approaches in an inductive-deductive manner. Furthermore, the BIG-5 project will develop and apply innovative empirical approaches that allow to (a) identify DRVs across different social media platforms, (b) understand how they spread across virtual communities, and (c) examine the relationship between virtually produced DRVs and physical environmental stewardship. BIG-5 will thereby challenge the assumption of an “extinction of experiences” and the consecutive decline of nature values and care for the environmental. It will further strengthen the importance of relational values as a foundation for environmental stewardship and contribute to a novel understanding of a physical-virtual continuum in the generation of nature values. Finally, BIG-5 will also advance on ethical consideration regarding the use of social media socio-environmental research.

Keywords: social media,relational values,environmental stewardship,nature experiences,physical virtual continuum