Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Pathways to Social Inclusion for Unaccompanied Minors in the European Union (PATH2EU)

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,Belgium,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-15
End date: 2027-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The project focuses on developing innovative, participatory pathways for the social inclusion of Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) in Europe. By employing a co-creation model and participatory methods such as Photovoice and Living Labs, the project aims to address the unique challenges faced by UAMs. It emphasizes creating an inclusive policy framework that actively involves UAMs as well as other actors in charge of their integration in designing solutions that impact their inclusion and well-being. The core objectives include: 1) analyzing the current state of UAM integration and identifying gaps and best practices through comprehensive research, 2) developing and testing a participatory model that enhances UAMs’ roles in shaping their social inclusion policies, 3) providing practical recommendations and tools for stakeholders, including policymakers and practitioners, to improve UAMs integration processes. The innovative aspect of the project lies in its integrative approach, combining academic research with real-world applications. This model not only involves UAMs but also engages a diverse range of stakeholders, ensuring that the developed solutions are grounded in actual needs and experiences. The project will employ cutting-edge methods and frameworks, such as the EU’s Green Charter, the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ensuring ethical and effective practices in all stages. Key outcomes include improved social inclusion strategies for UAMs, practical tools for implementation, and a robust participatory policy framework that could serve as a standard for Europe. PATH2EU has the potential to offer valuable insights and solutions for similar challenges faced by other regions worldwide. The project will contribute significantly to both academic research and practical policy-making, aiming to make a meaningful impact on the lives of UAMs and the broader migration community in Europe.

Keywords: unaccompanied minors uams social inclusion models participatory research innovative integration strategies living lab photovoice green,ethical and open science research practices
Quantum Interactions in Photon-Induced Nearfield Electron Microscopy (QUIN-PINEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SUSPENDED

Breakthroughs in electron microscopy over the past 15 years have introduced femtosecond laser-driven electron microscopes that probe matter and even hybrid light-matter polaritons with ultrafast time resolution. However, such systems still mostly extract classical properties of light and matter. This project will pursue the next frontier – extract quantum properties of light and matter, such as correlations and entanglement. We will develop a new concept of laser-driven electron interferometry for the goal of creating and measuring quantum correlations in the ultrafast regime. Over the past 4 years, my group has shown how free electrons can interact coherently with light in photonic cavities and even get imprinted by the quantum photon statistics of light. Leveraging such interactions enabled us and other groups to develop theories and experiments for controlling the wave nature of individual electrons, creating coherently modulated electron wavepackets. Here we will harness such coherent electron modulation to develop new microscopy modalities that can reveal important quantum properties of light, matter, and their interactions: We are going to make the first observation of quantum nonlinear optical dynamics of polaritons in 2D materials, to measure the quantum state dynamics in superradiant quantum dot ensembles, and to capture the spatiotemporal dynamics of correlated matter, such as the creation and annihilation of vortices in superconductors. Toward this goal, we will develop a unique ultrafast free-electron interferometer operating at cryogenic temperatures. Exploiting the quantum electron-photon interaction in this system can create unprecedented many-electron entangled states that break classical limits in electron microscopy. Specially designed photonic cavities will amplify the entanglement and promote electron microscopy as a novel platform for fundamental studies of quantum information science.

Keywords: electron photon interactions,polaritons in 2d materials,nanophotonics,plasmonics,ultrafast transmission electron microscopy
PRecisIon Cancer MEdicine RepurpOsing SystEm Using Pragmatic Clinical Trials (PRIME-ROSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Cancer
Destination: Cancer
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Netherlands,Sweden,Denmark,Finland,France,Portugal,Germany,Poland,Croatia,Estonia,Hungary,Spain,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Ireland,Czechia,Romania,Italy
Call: Pragmatic clinical trials to optimise treatments for patients with refractory cancers (HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5968725.0
EU funding (EUR): 5968725.0
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

Millions of people in the EU are negatively affected by cancer, and cancer is one of the leading causes of death and morbidity in Europe (ecis.jrc.europa.eu). The PRIME-ROSE consortium will contribute to the Mission Cancer goal to optimise treatment and support quality of life of more than 3 million people by 2030. The PRIME-ROSE consortium envisions to support Mission Cancer through the following objectives: 1) increase access to optimised and affordable treatment interventions for cancer patients that prolong life and increase quality of life, 2) generate clinical evidence and evaluate effectiveness in Precision Cancer Medicine (PCM)-relevant and synthetically randomised, controlled academic investigator-initiated pragmatic clinical trials, and 3) work together across Europe with relevant experts to implement evidence-based PCM in routine practice and address inequalities in access. This consortium builds on the truly bottom-up, clinician-initiated family of DRUP-like innovative trials that provide broad access to precision medicine for cancer patients. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on ‘Diagnosis and treatment’.

Keywords: pcm,personalised medicine,mission cancer,treatment intervention,cancer,drup,clinical trial
LUMInescence ThermOmeters fOr cLinicS (LUMITOOLS)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Thermal monitoring plays a paramount role in disease diagnosis. The currently available techniques are not performing satisfactorily for sophisticated in vivo temperature mapping. Employing luminescence for in vivo temperature assessment has attracted substantial interest in the past decade. However, despite their great promise and impact, to date, luminescent nanothermometers have not surpassed preclinical stages. Here, nano-safety, toxicity, and biocompatibility remain vivid issues, as the majority of the proposed fluorescent nanothermometers are built of heavy metals (rare-earth nanoparticles, quantum dots). In order to move towards usage of luminescent nanothermometers on the clinical level there is a clear need to resolve these obstacles, which is the goal of project LUMITOOLS. To achieve this goal, at this stage moving away from nanothermometers built of heavy metals seems well judged, at least until current toxicity and accumulation risks can be suitably addressed and rectified. The project aims at building nanothermometers from luminescent degradable nanomaterials without the usage of heavy metals. The aim is to develop stable, well-performing nanothermometers, which thoroughly annihilate after they have done their job, would constitute an important advancement for future research efforts on in vivo thermometry applications. This project would allow delivering nanothermometers with true potential for implementation in clinics.
The Impossible and the Imaginable: Late-Medieval Semantics of Impossibility and the Roots of Complex Mathematics (i2)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498894.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498894.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A popular view in the history of philosophy and science holds that we only conceive what is in some sense possible and cannot truly understand anything intrinsically contradictory. The Chimera is the paradigmatic example of such an inconceivable absolute impossibility in medieval logic. "Chimera" is a necessarily empty term lacking signification and reference. Analogously premodern mathematics dismisses the square root of a negative number as the impossible result of an impossible operation, i.e. something as nonsensical as the Chimera. Yet by the 16th century complex numbers–i.e. those numbers having an imaginary part i = the numerical value of [root–1]–start being used and problematised. Somewhere down the line these "impossible numbers" had become conceivable and manipulable. How and why did this shift happen? i2 seeks the answer in the late medieval semantics of necessarily empty terms. In the 14th century, Marsilius of Inghen (ca.1341-96) makes terms like "Chimera" properly signifying, understandable and referential in his semantics. Marsilius' account of imaginable absolute impossibilities is widely influential in the 15th and 16th centuries. Girolamo Cardano–credited with the philosophical problematisation of complex numbers–seems at least partly aware of this Marsilian tradition. Marsilius' semantics of imaginable impossibilities, its later reception and its possible influence on Cardano have not yet been explored. This is what i2 is set to do for the first time, through a key-concept analysis and the applications of the method of historical and rational reconstruction to a rich textual corpus. i2 will produce a groundbreaking account of the rise of complex mathematics in relation to the medieval semantics of impossibility and imaginability. Based at Radboud's Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, and advised by an international board of scholars, i2 will deliver high-impact outputs in top journals, two books and knowledge dissemination results.

Keywords: history of medieval logic marsilius of inghen imaginabilia history of the philosophy of mathematics
Models of Soil Hydraulic Properties with Adjustable Soil Structure and their Application in an Earth-system Model (MOSS)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The spatial arrangement of solids and pore spaces within soil (soil structure) is a major source of variability in the hydraulic properties of soils. It is through changes in soil structure that biological activity, land management, or the passage of time (including wet-dry and freeze-thaw cycles) affect the capacity of soil to retain and conduct moisture. Nevertheless, soil structure is at most tentatively represented in Earth-system models. As a result, we cannot quantify the effect of biological activity and management on soil water content and thus their full effect on the regional climate or the land carbon sink. This represents an important gap in our understanding of the natural environment, as well as a potential blind spot in our response to the climate emergency. Including soil structure in land-surface models is difficult, because its effect on the soil hydraulic properties cannot be reliably predicted based on a single, easy-to-measure quantity such as bulk density. At the same time, more detailed soil structure data and the methods to incorporate it are largely missing. MOSS will address these issues by 1)~developing a physics-based method of incorporating beyond-density soil structure information into the models of soil hydraulic properties, 2)~implementing this method in a state-of-the-art Earth-system model, and 3)~using the new model to quantify the impact of soil structure on the land carbon sink. By doing so, MOSS will likely demonstrate that soil structure must be included in numerical models and protected in the field. Moreover, the method developed by MOSS will be applicable to agronomical and hydrological models and thus will have a plausible impact on the socially and economically important policy decisions these models inform. Finally, because of the interdisciplinary background of the researcher, we expect that the high visibility and copious training program offered by the fellowship will have a defining impact on their scientific career.

Keywords: soil physics,soil hydraulic properties,land surface models,land atmosphere interactions
Mechanics-augmented brain surgery (MAGERY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2229523.0
EU funding (EUR): 2229523.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims at revolutionising the treatment of brain disorders through mechanics-augmented brain surgery (MAGERY). Due to the ultrasoft nature of brain tissue, surgical procedures have exceptionally high requirements for minimal invasiveness and maximal safety. During the procedure, brain tissue largely deforms and is easily loaded beyond its functional tolerance. A promising technology to improve surgical outcomes is to integrate virtual information either through immersed virtual reality (VR) in training and planning or through augmented reality (AR) overlaying virtual information with the surgeon’s real view. Despite rapid advances, to date, most VR/AR solutions have disregarded the complex region-dependent mechanical properties of brain tissue and mechanics-induced cell dysfunction or death. The MAGERY project will follow a new paradigm by focusing on brain mechanics. We imply that we can minimise unnecessary brain tissue damage by integrating continuum mechanics-based simulations into VR/AR solutions. Realising this objective will require to combine state-of-the-art approaches in live cell imaging, nonlinear continuum mechanics, and computational engineering. The applicant and the MAGERY team will for the first time perform simultaneous large-strain mechanical measurements and multiphoton microscopy, and, through modelling and simulations, identify thresholds for tissue and cell damage under complex three-dimensional loadings. By merging simulation results and VR/AR techniques, this project strives towards real-time predictions of brain tissue deformation and corresponding damage. With her pioneering role in testing and modelling the complex behaviour of human brain tissue, the applicant has excellent prerequisites to tackle these challenges. If successful, this project can not only revolutionise VR/AR for brain surgery, but also leverage our understanding of the cellular response to three-dimensional mechanical loading across length and time scales.

Keywords: biomechanics,nonlinear continuum mechanics,finite element modeling,brain mechanics,brain surgery
High-Efficiency Perovskites on Flexible Substrates for Sustainable Applications (HEPAFLEX)

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: Spain,Israel,Germany,Lithuania,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: Novel Thin Film (TF) technologies targeting high efficiencies (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4308772.5
EU funding (EUR): 4308772.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving an efficient and sustainable photovoltaic (PV) system is a must to power the increasing energetic demands in multiple areas and contexts, in a non-detrimental way to the environment and society. Halide perovskites (HaP) have revolutionized the field due to their high photoconversion performance at the laboratory scale. Consequently, the commercialization of HaP solar cells (PSCs) is now a high-priority topic involving many research groups and companies worldwide. However, mass production methods to fabricate highly efficient, stable PSCs in a safe and sustainable manner present scientific and technological challenges, and fabrication methods at the lab scale cannot be upscaled. To face this situation HEPAFLEX proposes to develop high-performance flexible PSCs, adaptable to multiple contexts, by redesigning the processing approach. The project will address large-area efficiency by combining rapid photonic annealing and large-area thin-film fabrication methods with green chemistry routes. This high thruput approach based on versatile cost-effective flexible substrates presents an opportunity to reduce the environmental and economic impact of the cells, ensuring the versatility of use in multiple applications, allowing for the HEPAFLEX flexible substitution strategy that will extend the effective lifetime of rigid high power supply modules >25 years reducing current photovoltaics’ cost and carbon footprint. The development of the same unique process will also enable pure flexible non-utility scale applications that maintain the highest efficiencies. These currently unfeasible applications will reduce competition between different kinds of land use. The project will ensure the safety of the technology with Pb-sequestration additive active sealants, integrated with recycling methods to reuse the materials. HEPAFLEX will establish a sustainable PV technology based on manufacturing circularity, flexibility, versatility, replacement and recycling.

Keywords: perovskite,photovoltaics,recycle,reuse
Economic and Financial Impacts from Rapid-Onset Compound and Cascading Climate related Risks (ROC3Risks)

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: Switzerland,Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Rapid-onset hazards often compound (i.e. combination of multiple hazards) or cascade (i.e. when a single hazard triggers a sequence of secondary hazards), being a main source of concern for disaster and financial risk mangers due to the potential massive direct (e.g. capital stock destruction) and cascading indirect economic (e.g. employment and GDP), social (e.g. inequality) and financial (e.g. public debt) impacts. While the current understanding on how Rapid-Onset Compound and Cascading Climate related (ROC3) hazards interconnect is progressively improving, less attention is given to how ROC3 risks lead to direct and cascading indirect impacts. The research theme proposed in this project proposal will advance the understanding of ROC3 risks by building on state-of-the-art risk models to tackle three interconnected research gaps, related to the need for: (i) identifying which, how and where ROC3 risks may occur; (ii) reliable ROC3 direct impact estimates, and; (iii) a comprehensive and dynamic assessment of the cascading indirect impacts of risks. Building on an innovative analytical framework that integrates disciplines from different scientific fields including environmental, social, and economic sciences, the project will be the first of its kind to develop and apply a comprehensive methodological framework integrating the intrinsic dynamics of ROC3 risks and the cascading macroeconomic and financial indirect impacts. The researcher and two host institutions will mutually benefit from three-way transfer of knowledge. By providing open-access datasets and open-source software, the project results have the potential to inform disaster and financial risk managers and promote the conditions for building resilience to ROC3 risks. The project is aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement.

Keywords: climate change adaptation climate economics financial risk disaster risk reduction disaster risk assessment cascading impacts