Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Pebble growth and drift across gaps carved by giant planets (PLANETDISKOS)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The intricate processes governing the birth of planets take place inside gaseous protoplanetary discs around young stars. When planets grow beyond Neptune in mass, their gravitational influence perturbs the gas density in their vicinity, creating pressure bumps or shallow gaps that effectively halts the inward drift of millimetre to centimetre-sized dust aggregates, often referred to as pebbles, from the outer reaches of the disc. Consequently, pebbles accumulate at these pressure bumps, creating dust rings observable through observatories such as ALMA. Classical numerical simulations of planet formation frequently assume a monodisperse pebble size distribution, contrary to revelations from prototoplanetary disc observations, where pebbles come in various sizes and compositions, influencing the dynamics of planet formation. The PLANETDISKOS project aims to develop a comprehensive model that considers grain size evolution and pebble filtration by gas giants, while accounting for variations in pebble composition and porosity. A novel methodology is proposed to model self-consistent grain size evolution and pebble filtration by gas giants. This approach promises to enhance our understanding of the prevalence of Super-Earths in the presence of outer Jupiter-like planets and the heavy element content of gas giants. Synthetic exoplanet simulations will be conducted, integrating compositional properties, to compare with observed exoplanet populations. Early results from my numerical simulations of pebble filtration demonstrate the potential to achieve the goals of the project. Working with a team of experts in planet formation and cosmochemistry at StarPlan, I will acquire the needed skill set to execute the PLANETDISKOS project, opening new avenues for advancing the theoretical framework of (exo)planet formation.

Keywords: hydrodynamics,pebble accretion,planet formation,gas giant planets,protoplanetary disc evolution
The New Generation Needle by Needle Knitting Machine (NbyN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2192500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1534750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The NbyN system is based on a novel technology using small stepper motors that drive a spiral cam profile that creates the up & down movement of the needles through a lever arm. Due to the lever arm, the small movement by the motor results in significant needle displacement in order to carry out the knitting task. Unlike the traditional approach where the needles are moved by mechanical means in a predefined route and order, with NbyN the needles are driven by electrical means allowing them to move independently of each other completely. The stepper motor is a device used to convert electrical pulses into mechanical rotational movements and allow an easy and accurate control of position and speed. The NbyN technology allows the machine to be much simpler and smaller while becoming more flexible allowing the creation of innovative and varied clothes. The operation of an NbyN machine remains the same but a lot of components can be eliminated that results in cost saving & more reliable.

Keywords: textiles,apparel and luxury goods,circular knitting machine,versatile production,flexible manufacturing,textile industry
Exiled Empiricists: American Philosophy and the Great Intellectual Migration (EXILED-EMPIRICISTS)

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-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493680.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493680.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the 1930s, hundreds of European academics fled to the United States, escaping the quickly deteriorating political situation on the continent. Among them were a few dozen philosophers from a variety of different schools: logical empiricists, phenomenologists, and critical theorists. Especially the first group would have a tremendous impact on American philosophy. Although the local intellectual climate had been dictated by distinctively American traditions such as pragmatism, U.S. philosophers soon began to advance views that were heavily indebted to the empiricists, thereby transforming the American philosophical landscape. Historians have reconstructed the fate of the exiled empiricists. Still, little attention has been paid to the American context in which their movement came to full bloom. This is remarkable since any account of the empiricists' success requires an explanation of why the Americans were so susceptible to their views. What explains the surprisingly positive reception of logical empiricism? And why were the Americans more receptive to empiricism than to phenomenology or critical theory? This project shifts the perspective from the migrant philosophers to the local philosophical climate by 1) quantitatively analyzing thousands of American journal publications and 2) qualitatively examining the archives of dozens of key U.S. philosophers and institutions. Today, it seems natural to carve up the philosophical landscape into an 'analytic' and a 'continental' tradition. Yet few philosophers realize that this deeply engrained distinction is relatively new; it first became popular in the United States in the years after the intellectual migration. In studying the unique American melting pot of philosophical schools (e.g. pragmatism, logical empiricism, phenomenology, critical theory), this project offers a broader, unifying perspective on 20th-century philosophy, thereby transcending the school-based barriers that have often shaped its historiography.

Keywords: logical empiricism pragmatism analytic philosophy history of american philosophy
5D Electro-Mechanical Bio-Interface for Neuronal Tissue Engineering (5D-Neuro)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1750000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1750000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The cellular microenvironment is tightly regulated by biochemical and physical cues. While state of the art electrical and mechanical devices can perturb the biophysical cell niche in 2D monolayers, 3D tissue cultures are considered a much more comprehensive and representative model of the in vivo microenvironment. However, the available biomodulation “toolkit” does not meet the required level of complexity, specificity, and accuracy. This limitation hinders the ability to address basic questions in brain research and to develop new nonpharmacological interventions such as next generation neuroengineering-technologies and biointerfaces. We propose to develop a novel biomaterial for nongenetic leadless electrical and mechanical biomodulation in 3D engineered tissues. The leadless electrical biomodulation will be induced via optical illumination of semiconducting silicon micro- and nanostructures, which will potentially yield spatial resolution of hundreds of nanometres, two orders of magnitude smaller than the current state-of-the-art 3D biointerfaces. The mechanical perturbation will be achieved by spatially defined iron microstructures that will be manipulated via spatially homogenous magnetic fields, resulting in mechanical perturbation resolution down to few microns, which is unprecedented in 3D tissue constructs. Lastly, we will integrate the two materials into a single 3D platform to construct the 5D-NEURO, allowing leadless electrical and mechanical bi-modal perturbation simultaneously and independently. Herein, we will both establish a new tool for biophysical modulation and generate new fundamental knowledge about the role of bioelectrical, biomechanical, and their synergistic effect on neuronal growth and regeneration in 3D models. Moreover, such a platform lays the ground for next generation engineered tissues for applications spanning from fundamental brain developmental research and future translational clinical interventions.

Keywords: optoelectronic,magnetic actuation,electrical stimulation,mechanical actuation,biomodulation
Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 (PRESERVARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997168.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997168.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the early modern period, large-scale food conservation practices such as fermenting, smoking, and pickling were crucial for globalizing trade and increasing food security, and thus for economic and demographic growth in Europe’s cultural trading hubs. In addition, recent research indicates that domestic and trade practices like food conservation were key to the development of natural philosophical and chemical knowledge and vice versa. Yet we still know very little about how knowledge on early modern food conservation was produced, adapted, and circulated across these domains. How can we retrieve and understand embodied, practical historical knowledge through the history of early modern food conservation? How did embodied, practical knowledge of food conservation develop in conjunction with formalised, scholarly knowledge? Who were the people who produced and circulated these two types of knowledge and to ensure food supply before the industrial revolution? PRESERVARE (‘to preserve’) answers these questions through case studies on 1) fermenting, 2) smoking, and 3) brining, curing, and pickling. It employs a theoretical framework rooted in the history of science, and a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach that combines classical historical source interpretation with digital information extraction, archaeological data analysis, and physical reconstructions of early modern large-scale food conservation practices. Addressing these questions is urgently needed for the development of the history of knowledge, and is possible now because of recent developments in digitisation and information extraction, and theoretical and methodological advances in historical research. The project provides a history of early modern food conservation in the Low Countries in a global context, plus a theoretical and methodological framework for the historical study of dispersed epistemic domains and the retrieval and analysis of embodied, practical historical knowledge.

Keywords: food conservation knowledge archaeology reconstructions
Automated Generation of Dense, Functional and Perfusable Bioprinted Liver Constructs for Transplantation (NEOLIVER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Greece,Czechia
Call: Bio-printing of living cells for regenerative medicine (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-TOOL-11, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7964893.25
EU funding (EUR): 7964893.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Despite advances in organ transplantation technology, there is still a huge shortage of transplantable organs. Yearly, 25% of patients with end-stage liver disease on the donor waiting list die, emphasizing the need for alternatives to organ donations, such as bioprinting. Bioprinting presents a promising approach for creating organs from scratch, yet, it faces significant hurdles due to technical and biological challenges, combined with lacking standardized procedures and materials. In NEOLIVER, we will develop large, dense, and vascularized fully functional bioprinted constructs suitable for transplantation. We will achieve this by establishing a GMP-conform manufacturing line for standardized production, ensuring unparalleled quality and safety for future patients. More specifically, by using patient-derived organoids and supporting cells including endothelial cells, we will generate millions of multicellular spheroids as building blocks for bioprinting. Through laser induced forward transfer (LIFT) bioprinting techniques we will create a vascularized liver construct via precise spatial deposition of spheroids and vessels at high density. By integrating this technology with extrusion-based bioprinted vessels for blood supply, we will generate the world's first autologous bioprinted liver, ready for transplantation. To show the safety and efficacy, we will transplant the bioprinted liver constructs in immune-deficient pigs. This, combined with a clinical validation plan, upscaling strategy and Health Technology Assessment (including patient acceptance), will prepare the bioprinted liver constructs for first-in-human trials. Thus, NEOLIVER presents a disruptive alternative to donor organs for patients dealing with end-stage liver disease.

Keywords: organoids,spheroids,vasculature,upscaling,gmp conform conditions,manufacturing,laser laser induced forward transfer bioprinting,transplantation,pre clinical model,hta
Breakthrough Technology for Plastic and Rubber Waste Circular TPE (Ecoplastomer)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3533240.66
EU funding (EUR): 2473268.46
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plastics and rubbers are broadly used to produce different products. Unfortunately, their waste does not degrade and remain in the environment. An increasing amount of generated plastic and rubber waste requires suitable methods for their recycling. One of the “greener” applications of both materials is to use them in the production of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs). However, made in this simple but inefficient way TPEs show poor mechanical performance as a result of incompatibility of polymer blends, hence their applications in industry are very limited. At Ecopolplast, we have created a process that allows mixing recycled scrap tyres with post-consumer plastic creating circular Ecoplastomers (TPEs) that are the greenest TPEs available globally, made exclusively of discarded recycled plastic and recycled tyre rubber and without any chemicals and additives. We have confirmed that our technology works (TRL 6) and now need EIC Accelerator support to scale up the technology.

Keywords: novel materials,production technology,process engineering,open innovation,engineering and technology,environmental protection,environmental and green technologies
Up-cycling plastic waste for distributed passive cooling applications (CoolChips)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CoolChips addresses two grant challenges of our modern society: 1) Global warming requires new technologies to mitigate the ever-accelerating consequences of climate change. Passive daytime cooling is such an emerging technology that requires intricate photonic engineering of materials. 2) Plastic waste is evolving as an increasing challenge to keep our environment pollution-free. We, therefore, will investigate an up-cycling strategy to put used food-packaging polymers to an even better use mitigating global warming. Consequently, we outline synthetic strategies to equip aluminum laminate polymer films, widely known for chips bags, etc., with an additional coating. This coating layer combination will be designed so that solar radiance will be fully reflected and thermal radiation in the mid-infrared range will be efficiently emitted. This unique combination of optical properties is the key to using cold outer space as a heat sink for our environment, day and night. We will achieve this goal by using our knowledge in polymer and composite materials synthesis and processing. We will further develop scalable processing strategies to glue or weld the individual recycling pieces to large passive cooling foils. This upcycling is vital for the envisioned transition to end-user products that can then be realized by established roll-to-roll processing technologies. Foreseeable application cases such as covers for tents, glue-able foils for blinds, or stand-alone parasols will be investigated with established industry partners. The development of the required processing steps and material selection will be tightly accompanied by an intellectual property patenting strategy and market analysis to ensure optimum exploitation of this promising novel material development. Overall, CoolChips will make passive daytime cooling materials accessible to various communities providing a green and affordable way to cooler environments.
Nonperturbative Green’s function method to study electron-phonon interactions in the strong coupling regime (GreenNP)

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: Belgium,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A fundamental area of solid state physics is the study of electrons, nuclei vibrations (phonons), and their interactions in crystals, known as electron-phonon interactions (EPIs). EPIs determine the temperature dependence of the bandgap, and lead to conventional superconductivity, among many other important phenomena. EPIs are usually studied using lowest order perturbation theory, which is only valid when the coupling is weak. However, strong EPIs have been reported in many key materials. For example, there is a huge gap renormalization of about 3 eV in high-pressure hydrogen that makes it metallic, and understanding metallic hydrogen is considered a substantial step towards understanding high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides. Research on the gap renormalization and temperature dependence of the gap of diamond is also very active, with exciting possibilities in the development of LEDs for use in extreme environments like high temperatures. However, existing calculations are not well justified, or perturbative approaches do not match experimental data. In GreenNP, we will study these and other effects due to EPIs using a rigorous nonperturbative adiabatic Green's function approach that the experienced researcher (ER) Dr. Jean Paul Nery has recently developed. Strong assets of the project will be the use of first-principles as opposed to models, and the inclusion of anharmonicities. First-principle calculations will be implemented into one of the prime open-source packages of the community, in collaboration with its renowned leading group at a nearby university; and a secondment will be carried out with a specialist in anharmonicities. By the end of the project, through the study of elemental semiconductors and insulators, there will be a clear understanding of the effects of strong EPIs in electronic properties. The ER will be taken to a leadership position in the field of EPIs and higher-order effects, with excellent future career prospects.

Keywords: electron phonon interaction,electronic spectral function,first principles,bandgap,temperature dependence,forbidden reflection,semiconductors,insulators,diamond,high pressure hydrogen