Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nanomaterials for Infrared Silicon Photonics (NOMISS)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1667410.0
EU funding (EUR): 1667410.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Printed opto-electronics based on solution processable colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) can make available a much-needed small footprint, low cost and flexible platform for optical sensing, imaging and spectroscopy in the technologically relevant short and mid-wave infrared (IR) spectrum (1.5 μm – 5 μm). However, while this revolution took place in the visible spectrum, and is happening at the side of detection for IR light, QD IR light source technology is currently expensive, lacking performance and is based on restricted chemical elements. Moreover, final device assemblies have large footprints, limiting their functionality in consumer devices requiring large scale deployment. In NOMISS, I will therefore explore a route towards ‘printable IR opto-electronics’ by developing a new class of solution-processable QDs based on non-restricted elements with efficient IR emission. I will study both their fundamental IR light-matter interactions, aimed at increasing light emission efficiency, and the possibility to incorporate them with small-footprint photonic integrated circuits (PICs). To this end, I will first extend the bottom-up chemical synthesis of tunable III-V In(As,Sb,P) QDs. Next, I will study their (non-)linear optical properties, using a novel ultrafast and broadband IR optical spectroscopy methodology, in particular focusing on the fundamental questions related to the QD’s organic/inorganic interface and how to optimize spontaneous & stimulated IR emission. Finally, I will develop a framework to combine these materals with silicon based PIC’s to realize cheap & small-footprint IR light sources, in particular optically pumped lasers. After NOMISS, the new cross-disciplinary and high-impact field of 'printable IR opto-electronics' will be available. To meet these high risk challenges, I will lead a multi-disciplinary team with experts in nanochemistry, nanophysics and nanophotonics engineering.

Keywords: nanomaterials,quantum dots,nanochemistry,nanophysics,photonics,optical spectroscopy,femtosecond,excitons,light,pump probe,time resolved,interface,semiconductor,infrared
Auto-tuning, manipulation and braiding of topological quantum bits in tapered nanowire networks (TopoTapered)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Quantum computers will revolutionize multiple technology fields which will have a massive impact on society, in areas such as communication, healthcare, machine learning & artificial intelligence, finance, materials research and development and aerospace designing. Currently, the commercialization of quantum computers for real life applications is still a long shot due to major technical challenges like decoherence, a process in which the environment interacts with quantum bits and changes their quantum behavior causing computing errors. Topological quantum computer platforms offer an alternative route where the topological nature of quantum bits protects them from decoherence, therefore not needing error correction protocols that constraint development of commercial quantum computing systems. These mainly rely on Majorana zero modes, which are topological boundary modes predicted to be decoupled from decoherence. Topological computation is achieved by braiding of Majorana zero modes, but their manipulation is still an experimental challenge. The TopoTapered project aims to develop tapered nanowires and tapered nanowire networks as a scalable technology for auto-tuning, transportation and braiding of Majorana zero modes bound at ends of topological superconducting segments. The innovative tapered nanowire platform for quantum computers will support topologically protected quantum bits making it possible to incorporate the large number of them needed for processing quantum information in quantum computers. Hence, TopoTapered will develop a simplified quantum computer architecture which will be both robust and scalable and therefore will shorten the time to market for quantum computers. Furthermore, to ensure the successful commercialization of our innovation, we will identify our product position in the quantum computing value chain and define the most suitable commercialization plan to establish a sustainable business model for TopoTapered.
Nitrogen cycling in modern sponges with clues about their role in past oceans (SPYCLING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2447257.0
EU funding (EUR): 2447257.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sponges are the oldest metazoans on our planet and can be found in all aquatic environments, from canals in Dutch medieval towns to deep-sea trenches. Nevertheless, we lack a deep understanding of nitrogen (N) cycling processes in sponges from different taxonomic classes. In fact, glass sponges (class Hexactinellida) I collected in the abyssal Central Pacific have a bulk δ15N signal which is inconsistent with their feeding type and trophic level. Due to the large biomass that sponges reach at some sites and their filtration capacity, they can have large impacts on local biogeochemical cycles. Even during earth history, sponges formed assemblages that likely transformed paleoenvironmental conditions in their direct surroundings. Therefore, I propose to study the N cycle in selected species of the four sponge classes and to solve the mystery of N cycling in glass sponges. By studying N cycling in fossilized sponges, I will infer in which N processes the sponges were involved when they were alive. Based on these results, I will derive the environmental marine conditions present during the time of the emergence of sponges. In pulse-chase labelling experiments, the project SPYCLING will feed shallow- and deep-water sponges different 15N-enriched substrates to decipher their diet preferences using bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analyses. These analyses will be supplemented by DNA-stable isotope probing. We will use metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to determine the symbionts involved in N cycling and to constrain the relevant N processes. SPYCLING will identify the areas inside sponges where N is processed by high resolution mapping of 15N-enriched sponges. N cycling in ancient sponges will be studied by measuring fossil-bound N isotope. This ambitious and ground-breaking interdisciplinary frontier research will constrain the role of modern sponges in N cycling and it will examine how past oceanographic conditions and ancient sponges influenced each other.

Keywords: sponges,n cycling,holobiont,microbiome,sponge fossils,stable isotope analyses,meta transcriptomics,metagenomics
Integrated SEnsing, Energy and communication for 6G networks (iSEE-6G)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,France,Belgium,Cyprus,Romania,Israel,United Kingdom
Call: Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4221373.75
EU funding (EUR): 3999523.76
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The idea of Joint communication and sensing (JCS) capabilities is a revolutionary and innovative solution. A single system has the potential to offer significant advances in various fields, such as smart transportation, smart cities, smart homes, healthcare, security, and environmental monitoring. iSEE-6G extends beyond JCS and propose a Joint Communication, Computation, Sensing, and Power transfer (JCCSP) unified radio platform, which includes all support elements of the proposed solutions in future 6G networks. By integrating, exploiting, and supporting 6G key enabling technologies, iSEE-6G offers a) JCCSP-oriented novel intelligent reconfigurable surfaces (RIS) and agile beamforming array solutions; b) JCCSP-optimized physical layer design including waveform design, frame structure design, channel modeling, precoding/beamforming with respect to open radio access network (O-RAN) architectural paradigm; c) JCCSP-enabled cross-layer schemes design under new capabilities in terms of service-oriented network architecture; and d) JCCSP-implemented system-level solutions for providing new functionalities towards a cell-free 6G network. The iSEE-6G Proof-of-Concept (PoC) focuses in JCCSP use cases in aerial corridors, where UAVs with various roles providing different services coexist and coordinate with each other. In IMEC’s testbed static distributed RUs, and vehicular UEs are additionally included for an emergency response incident. The UAVs monitor the area, estimate and report accurate positioning and provide situational awareness through integrated sensing. In ORO’s testbed 5G waveforms based JCCSP exploit the KPI collection capabilities of it. The operation of the testbed will be extended at an outdoor venue, where UAVs and IoT devices will be deployed to test the Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) capabilities. Edge computational power is used for Public Protection and Desaster Relief (PPDR) monitoring and JCCSP-as-a-Service implementation.

Keywords: uavs,aerial corridors,wireless power transfer,reconfigurable arrays,reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,isac,channel modelling,wireless edge caching,positioning with mec support,
Lobbying (A)symmetry: The Dynamics Behind Informed Policy (LOBBYMETRY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499043.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499043.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SUSPENDED

The LOBBYMETRY project addresses two types of imbalances in lobbying: 1) mobilisation asymmetries, which exclude some actors from the policy debate, and 2) information asymmetries, which empower specific groups in their exchanges with policymakers. The LOBBYMETRY project analyses these asymmetries and their relationship to each other, as well as their effects on the ways in which sectional and public interests feed into policymaking. The project studies these asymmetries across populations of interest organisations in twelve European countries and at European Union level, as well as within the climate and digital policy fields, that vary strongly in mobilisation asymmetries and constitute areas where well- or ill-informed policies have vast consequences for humanity at large. LOBBYMETRY strives to open the black-box of policymaker-lobbyist information exchange within these areas, develop measures of informational quality and accuracy in lobbying, and evaluate how and when lobbying pulls outcomes away from the public interest. Methodologically, the project combines cross-country surveys including an AI-aided survey experiment, cross-venue data on 100 issues in climate and digital policy, and different forms of participant observation of the information exchanges between policymakers and interest organisations in i) natural and ii) researcher-controlled settings. This innovative combination of methods will generate unprecedented quantitative and qualitative evidence on lobbyist-policymaker information exchange in varying contexts. If successful, the project will shed light on a serious blind spot in the state-of-the-art literature: the mechanisms through which lobbying actually informs policies. Its findings will speak to pressing democratic challenges, such as the underrepresentation of citizen interests in digital policy, and the design of institutional interventions to improve consultation practices, lobbying regulation, and the quality of legislation.

Keywords: lobbying,public policy,information provision,political mobilisation,digital policy,climate policy,interest representation
Data-driven Simulations for Understanding Reconnection and GEomagnetism (D-SURGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding and predicting energization of particles in space plasmas, e.g. during sub-storms in magnetosphere, is a profound scientific challenge which is hampered by the complex multi-scale interactions in plasma. At present there is no global model which reliably captures the microscopic effects of energetic electrons which participate in matter and energy transfer in the Earth's space environment. These electrons may precipitate and present hazard for our space born assets such as satellites and space missions. The goal is to build a global physics-based magneto-fluid model of plasma with AI component that represents such microscopic physics via machine learning algorithms trained on particle in cell (PIC) simulations. By introducing physics-informed data-driven models, we aim to bridge the gap between local and global scales, offering unprecedented accuracy in simulating space weather phenomena. Such data-driven models will allow us to better understand and predict the evolution of magnetic storms crucial for safeguarding modern technological infrastructure. What makes this goal now possible in this interdisciplinary project are the advances in scientific machine learning in meteorology which the PI plans to bringing from environmental data science to plasma physics as well as the PI's current involvement in energy-conserving Particle in Cell simulations and previous experience in kinetic and magneto-fluid modelling. These innovations will lead to physics-informed data driven model that will be validated with space mission observations. If successful, we will have multi-scale multi-fluid models of plasma that will uncover magnetospheric loading by solar wind and the mechanisms behind acceleration of particles during magnetic sub-storms.

Keywords: closure,subgrid,kinetics,plasma,reconnection,turbulence,machine learning
Development of knowledge and technology to implement retrofilling in power transformers using biodegradable or recycled fluids and fostering circular economy (RETROTRAFO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Argentina,Malaysia,Chile,Colombia,Japan,United States,Canada,United Kingdom,Egypt,Australia,Poland,Germany,Czechia,Slovakia,Türkiye,Italy
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1291942.86
EU funding (EUR): 1260400.0
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

Power transformers play a crucial role in electric power transmission and distribution systems, being both expensive and strategically important. Their prolonged efficient operation is essential to prevent long-term power outages. With tens of thousands of transformers worldwide approaching the end of their typical 30-40 year lifespan, the question of recycling becomes significant. Remarkably, around 95% of a power transformer's materials could potentially be recycled. Recognizing the importance of a circular economy, the European Commission adopted a Circular Economy plan in 2020, aiming to shift from a linear "take, make, dispose" model to a circular one where waste becomes a new resource. While the initial focus was on energy efficiency in transformers, the impact of materials is not negligible. The upcoming revision of the eco-design regulation for transformers in 2023 will introduce new requirements on material efficiency. The proposed project will develop research on transformer retrofilling with alternative or recycled insulating liquids. This technique is based on the replacement of the mineral oil of a transformer in service with a biodegradable and less-flammable fluid. The procedure would lead to safer and more environmentally friendly transformers and could allow the application of higher loads, deferring the replacement of equipment in service. However, the technique has not been sufficiently studied, it is needed to evaluate the impact of retrofilling on the operation of the transformer and to assess its economic and technical feasibility. Project's researchers have applied the circular economy concept to power transformers in various ways during project definition: a) Evaluating the efficient use of materials throughout a transformer's life cycle (renewable or re-refined oils instead of conventional oils); b) Lifetime extension through dielectric and thermal design review and guidance on operation and maintenance.

Keywords: transformers,retrofilling,natural ester,synthetic ester,recycled oils,biodegradabile insulating liquids,life extension,fire safety,increased loadability,circular economy
Philanthropy, Sufism and Legitimacy in the Medieval Islamic West: The Study of Zawiyas as a Socio-Religious Institution (Medi_Zawiya)

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,Morocco,Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to approach the social, political and architectural dimension of the zawiya. This is to say an Islamic institution linked to Sufism that has largely determined the religious life of the Islamic West since the Middle Ages. However, its study has not been sufficiently developed so far and it has only been approached on a few occasions from stagnant perspectives, which has limited the potential to advance in the knowledge of the medieval Muslim society. In this respect, after some previous attempts, I have observed two relevant issues that require special attention. On the one hand, the concept of zawiya, unlike other institutions, has undergone an evolution throughout history and its current meaning cannot be extrapolated to past times. On the other hand, it seems to me that there is no single idea of zawiya and thereby we can reckon at least two different types that coexisted in the same space-time and whose purposes differ significantly from each other due to their sponsor (ruler/shaykh). Nevertheless, there are several inconveniences that may have limited the visibility of both issues up to now, representing thus a research challenge. In the first place, the semantic permeability of the term zawiya; secondly, the disappearance of the oldest examples; thirdly, the lack of coordination between documentary and material sources; and, finally, the absence of accurate planimetric documentation. In short, this project suggests an interdisciplinary study on a group of examples that have been strategically selected to shed light on the above questions. To this end, after an in-depth architectural survey, various types of analysis and a confrontation with similar models and phenomena in the Middle East will be implemented. As host institutions, the UCM (Spain), the INSAP (Morocco) and the OUI (Israel) will provide an excellent framework. Likewise, it is expected a positive impact on the future conservation of some zawiyas of great historical-artistic value