Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Empowering Edge AI with Systolic Arrays (EDGE-SA)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 236161.37
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The primary aim of EDGE-SA is to investigate the potential suitability and applications of Systolic Arrays (SA) and Evolvable Hardware (EHW) as acceleration solutions for data processing challenges that demand extensive computation at the edge, especially crucial for resource-constrained devices. These technologies can serve as supporting mechanisms alongside existing technologies like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Additionally, indoor tracking of assets is considered as a real-world application context to enhance and validate the research since, at present, there is no reliable commercial solution available in the market that can deliver high accuracy.

Keywords: edge computing ai ml sa ehw ann microelectronics vlsi fpga indoor tracking
Black sea fLoating Offshore Wind (BLOW)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Bulgaria,Romania,Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Austria
Call: Innovation on floating wind energy deployment optimized for deep waters and different sea basins (Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, North-east Atlantic Ocean) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21242887.5
EU funding (EUR): 15483361.26
Participants: 17
Project status: TERMINATED

Let’s harness the floating offshore wind energy potential of the Black Sea, let the wind BLOW. Offshore wind is currently one of the most cost-efficient, clean and scalable power sources. As of today, offshore wind farms rest on bottom-fixed foundations and are mainly deployed in shallow water areas with depths less than 50m. Floating offshore wind energy is expected to play a key role to materialise the vast potential of deep-sea areas. Project BLOW aims at unlocking the Black Sea fLoating Offshore Wind potential, by demonstrating a disruptive cost-efficient floating integrative unit design optimised for low and medium wind speed areas. BLOW will implement a 5 MW demonstrator in the Black Sea and will pave the way to industrial mass production and to the deployment of floating offshore wind farms. In order to accelerate the energy transition in the region, the project will couple synergies with the Oil & Gas sector and foster societal acceptance and cross-border policy development. BLOW targets an expected LCOE of 87€/MWh by 2028 (and 50€/MWh beyond 2030) and an environmental impact reduced by 40%.

Keywords: floating offshore wind,black sea
Sharing the Pronoun. Extreme violence, social resistance and the shaping of cultural memory in Spanish American contemporary documentary poetry (SHAPE)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 284877.2
EU funding (EUR): 284877.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

SHAPE proposes a new cultural approach to the study of 21st century Spanish American documentary poetry as a form of social and community resistance in the shaping of a shared memory about extreme violence in Latin America. This is a peculiar type of poetry using in the very body of the poem a variety of ethnographic, historical (archive texts, chronicles), visual, audio-visual, and virtual documents that have not been created by the poet. The use of those texts in an intimate and non-mimetic code such as poetry determines a stylistic short-circuit which has developed, in different forms, across all Latin America. In this context, documentary poetry has been commonly used to verbalise the tragic consequences of the systemic institutional and non-institutional forms of violence against women, migrants, indigenous or LGBTQ+ people. In spite of the key social function this poetry has assumed in Latin America in recent years, no comprehensive study has been produced on it yet. SHAPE aims to fill this gap by building a model of interpretation of documentary poetry not only as an aesthetic expression, but also as a powerful tool to preserve and construct social memory about suffering. To that aim, SHAPE intends to adopt an interdisciplinary methodological approach involving literature, cultural studies, cultural history, and ethnography, in order to investigate how this poetry contributes to the processes of resistance to extreme violence. Due to the intertextual nature of documentary poetry, my expertise in intertextuality and genre contamination is a key factor for the successful completion of the project. The aim is to generate a new cross-cultural conceptual reflection on how to use literature to resist new forms of racial and social discrimination. Thanks to this MSCA grant, I will strengthen my academic profile by acquiring the relevant competences to offer a new wider perspective on how to view the problem of social and institutional violence in Latin America.

Keywords: spanish american literature and culture intertextuality documentary literature latin american studies violence gender migrants minorities cultural memory racial and social discrimination
PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION IN EARLY-LIFE INFLAMMATION – TARGETING IMPACTS ON LIFE-COURSE HEALTH (INITwide)

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,Croatia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 592521.25
EU funding (EUR): 592521.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The INITwide proposal aims to facilitate the active participation of researchers from GENOS, a partner institution from a widening EU country, within a large INITIALISE (#101094099) consortium, consisting of leading European research institutions. Over the past decade, researchers at GENOS have developed substantial knowledge and expertise in the field of high throughput glycomic analysis, an area of competence that is only available in a limited number of laboratories, none of which are presently affiliated with the INITIALISE project. The focus of the INITwide proposal is protein N-glycosylation, a complex posttranslational modification that plays a crucial role in various biological processes. Glycan biosynthesis is extensively influenced by genetic, epigenetic, and the environmental factors, thus, glycans are considered as integrators of all these stimuli. This makes them valuable biomarkers and functional effectors in many (patho)physiological conditions. GENOS will provide a valuable addition to the INITIALISE multi-omics platform and will actively contribute to achieving INITIALISE objectives, aimed at the investigation of early-life factors linked with life-course health. The INITwide's methodology includes profiling of total plasma protein, IgG, and cell and tissue N-glycans, using state-of-the-art technologies. The contribution of the widening partner to the INITIALISE project will be implemented within the existing structure of the project, with the dedicated tasks in several work packages, without the disruption of the original workflow. In summary, INITwide proposal aims to enhance the understanding of glycosylation's role in early-life health and disease, by incorporating GENOS as a partner with expertise in glycomics, thereby expanding the INITIALISE’s capacities and impact.

Keywords: glycomics,immune imprinting,multi omics,exposome
Intuitive interaction for robots among humans (INTERACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 1499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Thanks to developments in computing, sensing and communication technology, great progress has been made in the control of robots affixed to the factory floor, mobile robots in controlled environments, and self-driving cars in medium-complexity environments. However, mobile robots are not yet capable of seamless interaction in human populated environments, primarily due to the high complexity of modeling and reasoning over the effect that robot actions have on other robots and humans, and the inherent uncertainty. Humans rely on intuition, namely the ability to understand interaction instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. However, for control systems it is notoriously difficult to model intuition, and to do so with safety guarantees with respect to physical constraints. My goal is to provide mobile robots with the ability to reason about their coordination with other agents and the associated risks, take appropriate actions and continuously reassess. I will reach this goal by developing an innovative approach across the boundaries of Motion Planning, Multi-Robot Task Assignment and Machine Learning. In INTERACT I propose a holistic view on the interaction of mobile robots and humans, where I will consider multiple spatio-temporal granularities ranging from individual interactions to the interaction of a robot fleet with humans in a city, and from short term (local) to long term (global) effects of the interaction. Robots will use past experience to learn local and global intuition models of their interaction with the environment. These intuition models will be integrated in novel uncertainty-aware optimization methods to compute safe interaction-aware trajectories, task assignments and routes for mobile robots. INTERACT will lay the foundation for intuitive multi-robot interaction, make it possible for teams of mobile robots to safely interact in human-centric environments and enable a new level of automation in factories and cities.

Keywords: multi robot systems,motion planning,dynamic vehicle routing,intelligent transportation
Gain Environmental Efficiency by Saving Energy (GEESE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Bulgaria,Italy,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Lithuania,United States,Ireland
Call: Industrial Research & Validation for Aviation Green Deal (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8791343.75
EU funding (EUR): 5356611.76
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

GEESE will develop with SESAR the introduction of Wake Energy Retrieval (WER) operations within Europe. Two solutions will be developed in GEESE, and a transversal Wake science work package: The first one is "Enable Europe to North Atlantic WER Operations". This Solution will continue developing and refining the initial Concept of operation (CONOPS), its Safety assessment, analyse impacts on legacy systems, and develop simulations and trials to assess assumptions. ANSPs Partners, together with EUROCONTROL, Airlines, will particularly develop the Pairing Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) between Airlines Operational centres, Network Manager, and Air Traffic Controllers. Simulations will help consolidate the CONOPS, as well as trials will demonstrate the feasibility to develop the pairing CDM, and test it in real condition (with passenger airlines). Safety and Regulatory aspects will be addressed, as well as the economic benefits with a CBA (Costs Benefits analysis). TRL6 is targetted. The second solution is "Scaling up the WER concept to continental Europe". This Solution will provide operational solutions for the extension of Wake Energy Retrieval operations within European domestic airspace. Traffic flows from Europe to Asia, from Europe to the Middle East and from Europe to Africa are particularly interesting for WER application. CONOPS definition and assessment with simulations with ANSPs, ATC system providers, Network Manager and Airlines expertise will be conducted. TRL4 will be reached. As an enabler to operations, a Wake science work package will investigate transversal science-based aspects of operations, such as non-CO2 potential benefits of formations, in addition to better known CO2 benefits, and as well better understanding of the vortex behind the pair to support regulatory separation.

Keywords: wake energy retrieval
Role of prenatal stress-induced fetal neuro-immune rewiring in susceptibility to develop pediatric eczema (PRENATALL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2857135.0
EU funding (EUR): 2857135.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The prenatal period is a critical timeframe during which all the physiological systems of the body, including immune and sensory systems, develop their specific functions and adapt to possible incoming cues. Atopic dermatitis, also known as “eczema”, is the most common skin manifestation in infants and toddlers from 3 months to 2 years of age, with a very early onset during the first years of life. While genetic and immune factors play an important role, recent epidemiological studies have listed prenatal stress as an important risk factor of allergic disorders, and associated prolonged exposure to high emotional strain during pregnancy to an increase in the offspring susceptibility to develop eczema. The proposed project aims to seek external factors that might influence the development of eczema in infants through the lenses of neuro-immunology. We wish to use sophisticated mouse models, single cell transcriptomics and whole-tissue imaging approaches to evaluate how a relevant model of non-infectious prenatal stress can predispose offspring to develop eczematous lesions that resemble pediatric atopic dermatitis. We will then explore if the observed phenotype could be driven by in utero dysregulations of myeloid cells (in particular mast cells) and peripheral sensory neurons development and subsequent formation of abnormal skin neuro-immune units in offspring. To accomplish these goals, we have proposed herein a body of work that is solidly based on preliminary data, with four Aims that will test innovative hypotheses by using informative transcriptomic approaches, as well as a new multiplexed imaging system that we recently developed. This work will thus address significant gaps in our knowledge about how prenatal adverse events could set the stage toward the development of classical features of pediatric eczema and, most importantly, should lead toward potential new therapeutic/preventive options for allergic disorders.

Keywords: mast cell,myeloid cell,eczema,atopic dermatitis,sensory neurons,allergy,single cell rna sequencing,multiplexed imaging
Towards increased biosafety for non-target insects - Damage-activated proteolysis to selectively enhance toxicity of pesticides (DETOXPEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999720.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999720.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Insects numbers and diversity have rapidly declined in the EU and worldwide. Pesticides, and particularly the toxicity of insecticides to non-target insects (e.g. bees), are one of the major drivers of insect declines. Apart from destabilizing natural ecosystems, pollinator disappearance directly threatens food security. To help combat insect decline, I propose an innovative approach for the damage-activation of pro-pesticides (DAPP) by plant proteases that are activated in the gut of feeding caterpillars. Non-target beneficial insects that cause no damage, including pollinators and natural enemies of pests, are spared. My team pioneers the study of proteolysis in the plant wound response, following our recent discovery that physical damage activates a class of proteases, called metacaspases. I hypothesize that i) damage-activated plant proteolysis is a largely unrecognized but potential key player in the plant wound response to insect herbivores and ii) this knowledge can be used to enhance pesticide biosafety. We will study the impact of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), an invasive insect pest and potential major threat to EU agriculture, on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the economically important crop maize. A combination of advanced (N-terminomics) and novel (Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration) proteomics technologies will allow us to uncover unknown plant metacaspase substrates and damage-activated proteases and to assess their impact on insect herbivory. These fundamental studies will feed information into a pipeline of first-in-class DAPP development, where we will modify biological insecticides with newly-discovered protease cleavage sites. Finally, we will test toxicity against target (Spodoptera) and non-target insects. My early-stage and fundamental research on damage-activated proteolysis can have a tremendous positive impact on the increase of insecticide selectivity to help combat the escalating problem of insect decline.

Keywords: insect decline,plant wound response,arabidopsis,maize,protease,proteomics,n terminomics,genome editing,insecticide
Ab initio nucleaR Reactions in the Discovery perioD of exotic nuclei. (R2D2)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A century after its discovery, the atomic nucleus remains a subtle organization of protons and neutrons interacting through QCD. Its properties are the driving mechanism of cataclysmic events in the cosmos like those leading to the synthesis of medium-to-heavy elements. Unfortunately, precise, fundamental nuclear data, which are essential both to the sustainability of our civilization through technological applications, and to our understanding of the universe, are still a considerable undertaking to measure or to compute. Our objective is to unlock the applicability of ab initio predictions of nuclear collisions, which have been, so far, lagging behind that of static properties of nuclei. To reach this goal we aim: 1) To develop perturbation theory to ab initio reaction modeling, and by this means to open up to reacting systems above the p-shell; 2) To exploit the aforementioned development in the context of strict effective field theory for nucleons. We expect these achievements to allow us to contribute to the understanding of the detailed balance between nucleons that will be uncovered at the edges of nuclear stability at facilities like Spiral2 in France and FAIR in Germany. The experience researcher (ER) will bring to the host group its know-how in perturbative methods, of which he has been a practitioner in nuclear structure, and, in doing so, he will boost the applicability of the host ab initio reaction tools. In turn, he will benefit from the supervisor’s expertise in reaction theory and effective field theoretical tools thereby acquiring a strong and valuable portfolio aiming to perform nuclear evaluation of data and predictions for supporting both theoretical and experimental nuclear astrophysics needs. In conclusion, this project is mutually beneficial to the host group and the ER. It will increase the ER visibility both at the EU and international levels, ready his managerial and mentoring skills for future career opportunities in academia or industry.

Keywords: nuclear reaction,ab initio methods