Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The politics of aspiring sovereignty: Understanding separatist politics from a performative perspective (SovereignPerformance)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997994.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997994.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Existing analytical approaches are poorly equipped to make sense of political entities that aspire sovereign statehood and present themselves accordingly, but which lack a recognised status. The prevalent scholarship struggles to categorize sovereignty-aspiring entities. This project departs from the extant literature in that it places the unsettled nature of sovereignty-aspiring entities – their defiance of categories – at the heart of the equation. Rather than resolving the interpretative “to be of not to be” dilemmas around their status and activities, the inherent contingency of separatist politics becomes our central vantage point. Turning to political performativity and aesthetics, the project seeks to determine how the performative repertoires of sovereignty-aspiring entities create democratic political space to bend or break the bounds of the formal institutional landscape. The project centres on three case contexts, which are highly rich and highly diverse: the Catalonian independence movement, the autonomous administration of Rojava (Syria) and the Tamil nationalist movement in Sri Lanka. It takes an inductive approach to then corroborate our findings within and beyond these cases. The project is structured around four inter-connected work packages each with its own research question and method. 1) We will use political ethnography to establish what political repertoires sovereignty-aspiring entities use. 2) We will use qualitative content analysis and art-based methods to assess the aesthetic dimensions of these repertoires. 3) We will use focus-group workshops to establish constituencies' understandings of these repertoires. 4) We will build a database of separatist political repertoires around the globe to validate our findings. The project’s overall objective is to give a new impetus to the study of separatist conflicts with a rich and robust research agenda that combines a new conceptual lens with an innovative methodological approach.

Keywords: contested sovereignty performative politics political ethnography separatist conflict political violence and civil war catalonian independence movement rojava autonomous administration sri lankan tamil nationalism
Humour as an epistemic practice of the political present (NoJoke)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1895277.5
EU funding (EUR): 1895277.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Something weird is happening in politics. Satirical parties, comedic journalism and memeification are gaining more and more traction; the slippages between parody and sincerity, play and earnestness, real and fake, ridicule and seriousness have proliferated at a dizzying rate. Global entanglements, new technologies, and the surge in populist politics are producing a cacophony of intricate cognitive, social, and economic dissonances bordering on the absurd. The underlying hypothesis of NoJoke is that these dissonances, and the comical reactions produce, have become formative phenomena of the political present; they have seeped into the social fabric and into the ways in which people appropriate their lifeworlds and make sense of themselves and others as political actors. The practice of humour, NoJoke argues, can help us to make sense of the political present; it offers a unique methodology of discovery, a specific education by attention with regards to dissonances that elude conventional academic methods. Bringing together insights from the anthropology of politics and the political, from studies on humour, satire and laughter, and from anthropological advances in ontology, epistemology and methodology, NoJoke will conduct research with humour and humourists, and not merely on them, and establish a radically new approach to the study of the political present. Through a long-term comparative study with caricaturists, comedians, writers of satire, satirical politicians and comedic journalists in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Caracas, Johannesburg and the Iranian diaspora, it will follow three objectives: (1) to explore the intrusion of humour and humourists into the field of politics; (2) to articulate a theory of humour as an epistemic practice ? a mode of perception, creation and anticipation ? in and of the political present; (3) to launch an alternative practice of academic knowledge production by converting the heuristic of punchlines into a practice of theory.

Keywords: epistemology humour methodology politics
ULTIMO - Advancing Sustainable User-centric Mobility with Automated Vehicles (ULTIMO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CCAM (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Spain,Greece,France,Netherlands,Norway,Denmark,Belgium
Call: European demonstrators for integrated shared automated mobility solutions for people and goods (CCAM Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 37601196.25
EU funding (EUR): 24198270.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

During the past few years many projects and initiatives were undertaken deploying and testing Automated Vehicles (AVs) for public transportation and logistics. However in spite of their ambition, all of these projects stayed on the level of elaborated experimentation and never reached the level of a large-scale commercial deployment of transport services. The reasons for this are many, the most important being the lack of economically viable and commercially realistic models, the lack of scalability of the business and operating models, and the lack of user oriented services required for large end-user adoption of the solutions. The ULTIMO project will create the very first economically feasible and sustainable integration of AVs for MaaS public transportation and LaaS urban goods transportation. ULTIMO aims to deploy in three sites in Europe 15 or more multi-vendor SAE L4 AVs per site. A user centric holistic approach, applied throughout the project, will ensure that all elements in a cross-sector business environment are incorporated to deliver large-scale on-demand, door-to-door, well-accepted, shared, seamless-integrated and economically viable CCAM services. We target the operation without safety driver on-board, in a fully automated and mission management mode with the support of innovative user centric passenger services. ULTIMO’s innovative transportation models are designed for a long-term sustainable impact on automated transportation in Europe, around the globe and on society. The composition of the consortium ensures the interoperability between multiple stakeholders by making adoption of new technology at minimum costs and maximum safety. The integration of the ongoing experiments of previous AV-demonstrator projects ensures highest possible technical and societal impacts from the very beginning of the project, as well as during the project lifetime and even long after its completion.

Keywords: automated vehicles av,user centric,co creation,public transportation,maas,laas,large scale demonstrator,shared mobility,economically sustainable,door to door services,ccam,societal impact
Basic Sciences 4 Society needs: postdoctoral training (BS4S)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Poland,Germany,Netherlands,Finland,Italy,Sweden,Switzerland,Canada
Call: MSCA COFUND 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-COFUND-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3384000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3384000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

“Basic Sciences 4 Society needs: postdoctoral training” (BS4S) is a research training programme of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IChF) for postdoctoral fellows (ERs). Focused on fundamental research, IChF is also known for its commercialisation endeavours, such as spinning off Scope Fluidics, which later sold digital PCR to Bio-Rad Labs for $170 m. The programme aims to reshape researchers’ mindsets, encouraging them to consider societal, market, or technological needs in their work. BS4S promotes a need-driven innovation approach, making research more accountable to society and enhancing knowledge flow between academia and business. BS4S will admit 20 fellows (36M fellowships) selected in transparent, open and merit-based calls, evaluated by external independent experts. Candidates can choose the research area from IChF’s offer (chemistry, biology, physics) and propose their own interdisciplinary project. Mentors’ expertise aligns with IChF’s Core areas Of Excellence (Advanced Biomaterials & Technologies for Health; Photonics and Light-Driven Processes; Catalysis & Materials for Sustainable Transformations) and with Horizon Europe, Green Deal and Smart Specialisations Strategies. BS4S fellows will have two mentors: one from IChF and one from a foreign institution. 20 ERC/EIC application-oriented holders have committed as partners to mentor fellows and host secondments. During the fellowship, ERs will advance their projects through CDP-driven training, focusing on transforming fundamental research into products/services, with support from 12 businesses offering internships and mentorship. Partners like Scope Fluidics (microfluidics for medicine), Perosol (perovskite solar cells) or EcoResorces (sustainable solutions) will drive sustainable technology development. BS4S will equip fellows with skills to transfer knowledge, start businesses, incubate projects, and translate innovative research into societal-impact products.

Keywords: science for society,green and sustained technology,need driven innovation,frontier research,interdisciplinary research,combining chemistry with physics biology medicine
Intersectional Exile: Irish-Iberian Identities and the Comparative Translation of Diaspora (1592-1642) (Intersectional Exile)

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: Ireland,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This public and digital humanities project will carry out cutting-edge research on identity formation at the dawn of the modern nation state. In 1492, after defeating the last stronghold of the Moors in Granada, the Spanish monarchy consolidated its power through a series of religious and political reforms: this not only led to a harrowing century of exile for Jewish and Islamic populations, but also a time of refuge for Irish Catholics fleeing from the cultural oppression of English expansion. In each case, they used multilingual writing to maintain a sense of community in societies fuelled by the paranoia of religious and ethnic purity. Their records thus offer insight into the formative relations between language, identity, and historical discrimination, yet the materials left by Irish-Iberian exiles often remain little known even among scholars. ‘Intersectional Exile’ will address this gap by researching, translating, and publicly presenting a selection of early modern materials from the Salamanca Archive — a rarely studied collection of perspectives written in Spanish by Irish-Iberian exiles. The MSCA fellowship will make this possible through key access to the current location of the Salamanca Archive at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (hereafter NUIM) and contextual materials in its original location at the Universidad de Salamanca (hereafter USAL). When combined with the professional guidance of Prof Valerie Heffernan (NUIM mentor) as well as rare Irish-Iberian expertise of scholars like Prof Thomas O’Connor (further NUIM support) and Prof Javier Burguillo (USAL secondment mentor), the project will add vital nuance to scholarly theories and histories of intersectionality. In doing so, the experienced researcher (hereafter ER), Dr Laura Francis, will also address the Council of Europe’s urgent call to understand the roots of current migration biases and face past injustices through ‘memorialisation and education’.

Keywords: early modern studies,public humanities,digital humanities,histories of migration,multilingualism,translation studies
AI SUITE FOR HARNESSING GENETIC INSIGHTS (VarYX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The human haploid genome, composed of over 3 billion bases, harbors variations passed down through generations. These inherited variants shape traits and disease risks, but identifying causal mutations remains challenging due to the complex relationship between variant type, gene function, and limited understanding of genomic functional regions. Clinical interpretation requires deep expertise and robust tools. Geneyx has earned a strong reputation for high-quality variant discovery and interpretation, helping expand its user base and diagnostic yield. While many machine learning (ML) approaches have emerged to assist interpretation, most are limited to well-characterized variants, like missense or splice changes, and show poor generalizability across broader variant types, particularly in non-coding regions like UTRs, promoters, enhancers, and structural variants. Geneyx holds a real-world advantage: access to large-scale, manually curated datasets and expert knowledge from analyzing hundreds of thousands of rare genotypes. These assets provide a rich foundation for supervised AI training. Unlike models built on synthetic or noisy public data, our datasets represent diverse, real-world clinical cases. In this project, Geneyx leverages its proprietary data to complete the development of AI tools capable of prioritizing complex genetic variants through the fine-tuned neural network (NN) model capable of identify overlooked variants and improve prioritization in clinical settings. We are also building an “AI assistant” to assist analysts in real time, enhancing both accuracy and speed of interpretation. By integrating advanced AI with real-world genomics, Geneyx is committed to removing bottlenecks in rare disease diagnosis and driving actionable insights into clinical genomics.

Keywords: health related biotechnology,patient care,big data,algorithms and complexity,ontologies,neural networks,genetic programming,fuzzy logic
RESTORING IMMUNITY CONTROL OF GI CANCERS (TIMNano)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel,Portugal,Italy
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2091268.36
EU funding (EUR): 2007750.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

TIMNano is focused on Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) methods and bioinformatics to identify unique molecular fingerprints associated with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers using 3D-bioprinted patient-derived tumors. The project integrates nanotechnology, bioinformatics, immunology, and cancer biology to develop a novel platform utilizing immune cell-targeted biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) aimed at enhancing therapeutic efficacy by inducing tumor destruction following optimal T- and B- cell activation. The Targeted Nano-immune Modulator (TNM) platform specifically targets local dendritic cells (DCs) to boost T cell-DC chemotaxis within lymph nodes, thus initiating a robust systemic anti-tumor immune response. This approach combines two complementary tumor-killing strategies. Unlike conventional cancer immunotherapies, TNM stimulates both cytotoxic T cells and powerful B cells, which differentiate into long-lived memory T and B cells, as well as antibody-secreting plasma cells capable of producing high-affinity antibodies. TIMNano aims to progress through the five stages of product development including Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) production (with technology transfer and scale-up already accomplished), non-clinical efficacy, safety, and toxicokinetic studies, using industrial-scale products within the first 2 years. This will be followed by the subsequent filing of an Investigational Medicinal Product Dossier (IMPD) with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and then a Phase 1/2 clinical trial will be initiated in the third year of the project. Funding and support from the European Innovation Council (EIC) will be critical in founding a spin-off company and securing additional investments from private investors, venture capital and investment banks, crucial to further complete the clinical development program by ourselves or upon merger and acquisition deal with a larger Pharma company.

Keywords: targeted nano immunotherapy nanotechnology 3d bioprinted cancer models gastrointestinal cancers dendritic cells cancer vaccines
Reactive adaptive behaviour elicited by events in close proximity of the body (RAB-PPS)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Our perception of the surrounding world is intrinsically related to the motor system. In any natural environment, animals become adept at sensing sudden (transient) events and adapt their behaviour accordingly, in order to survive. We are often exposed to sudden sensory stimuli, which, irrespectively of their sensory modality, evoke a series of fast modulations of muscular activity, named Cortico-Muscular Resonance (CMR). This type of “Reactive Adaptive Behaviour” (RAB) may be strictly connected to the distance between us and the surrounding sensory stimuli. How does the brain cope with transient events (e.g. threats) in close proximity of our body? The notion of Peripersonal Space (PPS) has been introduced 40 years ago to highlight the link between somatosensory and visual processes related to the space immediately around the body. Whatever can be seen or touched in close proximity to our body inevitably affects our behavioural responses in terms of reflexes or voluntary actions. This proposal aims, for the first time, to systematically explore how reactive adaptive behaviour (i.e. CMR) is affected and modulated by transient, sudden stimuli (or events) within the PPS. The proposed experimental set-up will have the advantage to resemble real-life (ecological) environments. Here we have also the unique chance to use a combination of techniques such as high-density EEG recordings (hd-EEG), behavioural techniques (i.e. psychophysics), electromyography (EMG), eye- and motion-capture on both primate and non-human primates. Moreover, we will have the rare opportunity to perform intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) in non-human primates, by recording from brain cortical structures which are fundamental in planning and organizing movements (e.g. premotor areas).

Keywords: peripersonal space,reactive adaptive behaviour rab,cortico muscular resonance cmr,sensorimotor planning,eeg,ieeg,emg,behavioural neurosience
iINGUT: immunotherapy on an INtegrated GUt microbiome and Tumor on-chip. (iINGUT)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276633.26
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In 2020, cancer affected 2.7 million people in the European Union and claimed 1.3 million lives, including more than 2,000 young adults. If immediate action is not taken, cancer cases are expected to increase by 24% by 2035. This project aims to accelerate the development of new cancer therapies. Immunotherapy, particularly through immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), stands out as a highly promising treatment, utilizing the body's own immune system to target and destroy cancer cells with greater precision and fewer side effects than other approaches. Yet, the effectiveness of ICIs varies significantly between patients and tumor types. In this regard, the hosting laboratory has been on the frontline in studies that revealed the influence of the individual gut microbiome on the heterogeneity in ICIs response, opening new avenues for improving treatment outcomes. iINGUT (immunotherapy on an INtegrated GUt microbiome and Tumor on-chip) is a novel platform designed to study the modulatory role of the gut microbiome on the response of solid tumors to therapy, and in particular to ICI. iINGUT consists on a mechanically active microfluidic system integrating the complexity of multicellular structures and functions of the human intestine with a module dedicated to patient-derived tumor models. The entire platform can be personalized with fecal, blood, and tumor samples from the patient, providing a time- and cost-effective tool for predicting treatment outcome and developing novel immunotherapy-based strategies tailored for specific groups of patients. iINGUT will enable me to apply my engineering background to complex biological questions, facilitating my growth as a researcher and advancing my interdisciplinary expertise.

Keywords: microfluidics,immunotherapy,organ on chip,gut microbiome,tumor microenvironment