Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Microplastic pollution in freshwater sediments: effects at the hydrology, microbial biofilm and thus water quality under global change threats (SEDIPLASTIC)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We live in the “plastic age”. Plastics are key for societal innovation and used on a daily basis. However, due to their ubiquity, persistence, inadequate management & improper waste disposal, they tend to accumulate in the environment. Besides, during their life cycle, they degrade into tiny polluting bits called microplastics (MP<5mm), considered a major environmental threat. Biodegradable plastics (BioMP) have become an alternative since they can be mineralized under certain temperature and moisture conditions. Fluvial sediments and their inherent microbial communities could potentially decompose BioMP due to their role as a nutrient recycling and its high enzymatic activity. However, how the degradation of BioMP will affect nutrient re-cycles in aquatic ecosystems, an essential ecological service, is still unknown. In addition, global change, especially, rising temperature, and hydrologic extreme events, mobilize plastics in freshwater systems and further degrading them into MPs. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop tools to assess, predict and mitigate their effects on freshwater ecosystems. SEDIPLASTIC seeks to explore and provide new knowledge on MP (non- and biodegradable) effects on freshwater sediments under global change conditions. Sediment columns with different grain size, with/without microbial communities, and microparticles (inert, MP, BioMP) will be used. Hydrological parameters, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, bacterial biomass, viability, and functionality, and MP mobility and degradation will be analysed. Moreover, to better understand the key role of MP in freshwater sediments and how can affect ecosystems services, a predictive model will be developed using project experimental data. Project outcomes will impact beyond academia providing novel tools for industry, government, and thus societal wellbeing. It will contribute to major EU research priorities and to global efforts such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (6, 12, & 14).

Keywords: freshwater systems,ecotoxicology,biofilms,sediments,infiltration systems
Dynamic Iridescent Signalling in the peacock jumping spiders Maratus (DynISM)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230184.72
EU funding (EUR): 230184.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Iridescence, a change in colour with viewing direction, is an optical effect that is abundant in nature. Many insects, birds, plants, and arachnids exhibit iridescence and yet very little is known about the functions of this dynamic signal nor how it has evolved. DynISM will make significant progress towards understanding these fundamental biological questions by taking advantage of a particularly colourful group of spiders, the peacock jumping spiders. Using state-of-the-art approaches in optical physics, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary biology, DynISM will elucidate the mechanisms by which these spiders generate iridescence, how they use these dynamic signals, and how iridescence has evolved within this group. By uncovering the mechanisms employed by nature to generate unique optical effects, like iridescence, DynISM will also have significant implications for the field of bio-inspired photonic materials.

Keywords: biophotonics,iridescence,signalling
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR ACCELERATED BATTERY TESTING (DigiBatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Belgium,Austria,United Kingdom
Call: Digitalisation of battery testing, from cell to system level, including lifetime assessment (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4524762.5
EU funding (EUR): 4524762.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The current paradigm for battery testing is fragmented, time-consuming, and expensive. To fully characterize the performance of a battery cell requires a wide variety of both destructive and non-destructive tests, some of which can last for months or years. A new paradigm for battery testing is needed that takes full advantage of the latest advances in automation, data science, and modelling to bring battery development firmly into the digital era. DigiBatt will slingshot the European battery industry forward by developing novel digital approaches to extract more value from fewer tests. This will save valuable time and resources in a highly competitive industry. DigiBatt has assembled a consortium representing some of the world's leading battery research institutions, Gigafactories, and integrators, and will apply recent advances in autonomous battery testing, model-based simulation, and data-driven semantics to promote digital battery testing from TRL 4 to TRL 6.

Keywords: battery,battery testing,digitalisation,digital twin,fair data
Flexible, scaLable and secUre decentralIzeD Operating System (FLUIDOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Ireland,Germany,Greece,France,Switzerland
Call: Future European platforms for the Edge: Meta Operating Systems (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8415433.95
EU funding (EUR): 8406433.95
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

FluiDOS leverages the enormous, unused processing capacity at the edge, scattered across heterogeneous edge devices that struggle to integrate with each other and to coherently form a seamless computing continuum. By way of a disruptive, open-source paradigm that hinges upon secure protocols for advertisement and discovery, AI-powered resource orchestration and intent-based service integration, FluiDOS will create a fluid, dynamic, scalable and trustable computing continuum that spans across devices, unifies edge and cloud in an energy-aware fashion, and possibly extends beyond administrative boundaries. Notwithstanding its innovation signature, FluiDOS will build upon consolidated Operating Systems and orchestration solutions like Kubernetes, on top of which it will provide a new, enriched layer enacting resource sharing through advertisement/agreement procedures (in the horizontal dimension), and hierarchical aggregation of nodes, inspired by Inter-domain routing in the Internet (in the vertical dimension). Intent-based orchestration will leverage advanced AI Algorithms to optimize costs and energy usage in the continuum, promoting efficient usage of edge resources. A Zero-Trust paradigm will allow FluiDOS to securely control and access geographically diverse resources, while Trusted Platform Modules will provide strong isolation and guarantee a safe deployment of applications and services. FluiDOS will pursue the above goals through the creation of an open, collaborative ecosystem, focused on the development of a multi-stakeholder market of edge services and applications, promoting European digital autonomy. The involvement of stakeholders is planned from the outset of the project through pilots and demonstrator in the fields of intelligent energy, agriculture and logistics, which will challenge FluiDOS capabilities to adapt to different environments and operating conditions, while showcasing its ground-breaking innovation potential.

Keywords: edge computing,energy aware computing,sharing economy
Innate behavioral modulations across different life stages (InnBeMods)

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: Belgium
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): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The balance of risk-taking and avoidance is essential for survival. Across different stages of life an animal’s priorities shift, which is reflected in changing behavioral preferences both during adolescents, when typically more risks are taken to facilitate exploration, and parenting, when avoiding risk is prioritized to ensure the safety of their young. These behavioral changes are correlated with distinct changes in hormonal levels. In mice, recently weaned adolescents exhibit high levels of corticosterone while parenting mice have increased oxytocin. The principles of how these changing hormonal levels impact the processing of information in neural circuits is poorly understood. Visually evoked avoidance behaviors are triggered through circuits of the superior colliculus. Here I will uncover how changing hormonal levels act to influence the processing of visual stimuli arriving from the retina and the resulting behaviors (e.g. freezing or escape). I will determine how this circuitry is affected by hormonal changes occurring across different life stages and whether these changes explain the resulting changes in behavior. To accomplish this, I will measure changes in innate defensive behaviors at different life stages, then identify the underlying circuit mechanisms involved. My expertise in precise circuit dissection in the retina provides me with the ideal background to uncover the mechanisms underlying the hormonal modulation of circuits in the superior colliculus. Recent technological advancement in functional imaging and large-scale electrophysiology along with new understandings of cell types and pathways of the superior colliculus provide the appropriate opportunity to identify the local and global modulations of visual processing driving hormone dependent changes in innate defensive behaviors. Overall, this research will provide valuable insight into how hormonal fluctuations allow animals to adapt to their changing needs across different stages of life.

Keywords: visual processing,superior colliculus,neural signaling,neuropixels
Unlocking the potential of the Mobility Innovation Ecosystems and Networks (INNO-MOB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Serbia,Poland,Bulgaria,Greece,United Kingdom,France
Call: Towards more inclusive networks and initiatives in European innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 490339.29
EU funding (EUR): 400743.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

INNO-MOB will focus on the opportunities that initiatives & networks offer to innovative and dynamic businesses through an inclusive mobility innovation European ecosystem business support framework. The emerging sustainable mobility market will be used as the vehicle to examine the opportunities provided and develop mechanisms to support the deployment potential of companies in bringing innovations to the market quickly. The project will use the services offered by the seven partner institutions but also through an enlarged network of initiatives and clusters run in the respective countries. The specific objectives include: To define the needs of the innovation’s stakeholders in the mobility sector, to support the mobility networks & initiatives apply an ‘opening up’ strategy, to create interconnected innovation networks on mobility and to implement joint awareness raising and communication campaigns to reach out to more stakeholders in different territories. INNO-MOB will deliver a Mobility Innovation Network ( MIN) platform that will incorporate a Stakeholder Chain Map Intelligent Platform function that will provide a holistic picture of the networks, initiatives and their offer. A search engine, offer-demand /marketplace space and communication exchange forum will be incorporated too. The initiatives and networks will be able to offer their services through the platform with the aim to create more inclusive and diverse mobility ecosystems.
Synoptic Precursors for deveLoping Improved Constraints on Extreme Rainfall (SPLICER)

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: Norway
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): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding the impact of climate change on extreme rainfall is vital for informed mitigation and adaptation plans. However, climate models struggle to produce realistic rainfall. SPLICER will provide unique insight into the origin of European rainfall errors in climate models and help improve future projections of extreme rainfall. Our approach recognises that localised rainfall extremes are part of a multiscale process, starting with the global mean climate and mediated by synoptic weather precursors. We exploit two main novelties: 1) A ‘tiered model’ approach, considering global earth system models, regional models and novel km-scale models (also known as convection-permitting or storm-resolving) in a holistic framework. 2) A physically-based decomposition of rainfall drivers, into global, synoptic and local terms. The analysis is supported by the adaptation of tools from the weather forecasting field, which will enable systematic identification and quantification of rainfall precursors in large multi-model datasets. This interdisciplinary proposal will advance a new mindset linking weather, regional climate, and global climate modelling communities together, and build international research links between the networks of the fellow and the host institution. Novel insights into changing local rainfall extremes will be directly communicated to stakeholders and the public, as well as scientific peers, ensuring societal impact. The training goals of SPLICER are intrinsically integrated with research objectives, ensuring the fellow will develop transferable skills and competences (in particular; numerical modeling and stakeholder engagement), promising to improve academic and non-academic employability. The fellow will expand the host institution’s research capacity in understanding synoptic drivers of extreme events, and will contribute research-led teaching via provision of courses and workshops for graduate students, PhD and postdoctoral researchers.

Keywords: hydrometeorology climate impacts climate modeling synoptic dynamics
A Multimodal Approach for Digitizing, Analyzing, and Simulating Traditional Musical Organs Through 3D Technologies, Acoustic Analysis and Interactive Experiences (MusicSphere)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Germany,Cyprus,Belgium
Call: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for digitisation and analysis of dynamic processes, objects and complex combined data (HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6654950.01
EU funding (EUR): 5994965.01
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In essence, MusicSphere aims to develop tools that combine advanced technologies for preserving, studying, and providing access to the cultural heritage aspects of traditional musical organs. The project will focus on traditional wind instruments such as Pipe Organs and their ancient Greek counterpart such as ‘Hydraulis’. By employing digital technologies precise digital replicas of these instruments will be created, capturing intricate physical and mechanical details and aiding in the preservation and restoration efforts. The study will involve analysing the unique sound characteristics of the organs and utilizing acoustic simulations in order to accurately recreate their tonal qualities and the interaction of sound with surrounding architecture and environmental conditions. Virtual and interactive tools will be developed to simulate the handling of these instruments, providing platforms where users can experience them in digital or augmented reality environments. By integrating 3D visual data, acoustic properties, and interactive models into a cohesive system, the research will try to offer a holistic understanding of the instruments' artistic and functional significance. The results will contribute to the long-term preservation of these cultural artifacts by creating digital archives and enhancing public and scholarly access through interactive technologies and educational applications. Another key objective is the projection of the results to the past in an effort to approximate the acoustic characteristics of non-functional musical instruments. Surviving fragments or detailed historical records will be used to create accurate digital 3D models of the partly preserved artifacts and the missing segments will be recreated through advanced computational techniques based on similar instruments from the same period or region. Non-invasive techniques will identify the properties of the original materials, which can then be digitally and/or physically replicated.

Keywords: acoustics,musical cultural heritage,simulation,extended reality,digitisation,dynamic process,combined data
Reading provenance from ubiquitous quartz: understanding the changes occurring in its lattice defects in its journey in time and space by physical methods (PROGRESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Romania
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2657500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2657500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantitative provenance analysis studies are instrumental in understanding the tectonic and climatic processes that are shaping Earth`s landscape. Although the most abundant mineral in the sedimentary system is quartz, almost all studies in provenance analysis investigate accessory minerals. Quartz crystals contain a vast number of point defects, intrinsic or due to impurities. Although our understanding on the formation and dynamics of these defects is far from complete, a few of these defects in quartz are used for dating Quaternary sediments by luminescence (thermoluminescence (TL) or optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)) or by electron spin resonance (ESR). PROGRESS aims at proving that point defects in quartz have also the capacity to carry genetic information and their modifications can provide evidence for antiquity, metamorphism (or lack thereof) as well as knowledge on weathering, transport, or recycling. This information can be unravelled by ESR and luminescence methods in combination with microscopic techniques such as scanning electron microscopy coupled with cathodoluminescence (CL) wavelength resolved spectroscopy. To understand changes that are occurring at atomic level in quartz in nature in geological time, PROGRESS will investigate quartz grains extracted from independently dated old to young quartz-bearing continental crustal sources, metamorphosed rocks versus their unmetamorphosed equivalents, fresh versus highly weathered samples, as well as intrusive versus volcanic rocks, besides conducting experiments in laboratory environments. To tackle nature`s complexity during sediment movement in space and time the effect of physical and chemical changes that occur during transport of quartz grains will be investigated by the study of river sediments that drain different lithologies. These investigations will allow a simple quartz based fingerprinting method to be developed, that will have a significant impact on quantitative provenance studies.

Keywords: provenance,quartz,defects,luminescence,electron spin resonance