Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Beyond Sound: Intelligent Audio Modules Powered by Next-Gen Modulated Ultrasound Speakers and Advanced Sensors (SESPK)

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): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SonicEdge's SEAM100 project represents a breakthrough in audio technology that will revolutionize how we interact with AI and smart devices. By pioneering modulated ultrasound MEMS technology, we've achieved what was previously thought impossible: a full-range speaker that's 10X smaller, twice as efficient, and capable of unprecedented integration with sensors and microphones in a single package. Our innovation addresses critical limitations in current audio technology that constrain the evolution of AI interfaces, wearables, and smart devices. The SEAM100 combines a multiple sensing functionalities into a speaker module and reduces speaker size from 250mm³ to just 24mm³ while delivering superior audio performance, enabling next-generation devices that were previously impossible to create. With TRL 8 technology validation, established manufacturing partnerships, and five active customer engagements including two signed Joint Development Agreements, we're positioned to transform a €12B market. The project will strengthen European leadership in audio and MEMS technology, create over 100 high-skilled jobs, and establish new industry standards. This €2.14M EIC project will accelerate the development of integrated audio modules that combine speakers, microphones, and sensors in an unprecedented compact form factor, enabling Europe to lead the next generation of audio technology and AI-human interaction.

Keywords: audio,mems,sensors,ai,iot,semiconductor,speakers,ultrasound,microphones,biometric sensors
Insider Threat Management for Critical Infrastructure Cyber-security: A Three-party Game-Theoretic Perspective (INSIDER)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Cyprus
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Dr Gehui Xu will carry out a project focusing on Insider Threat Management for Critical Infrastructure Cyber-security: A Three-party Game-Theoretic Perspective (INSIDER). The impact of insider threats on cyber-security will be studied from a game-theoretic perspective, and effective defense strategies will be developed to identify, assess, and mitigate complex internal-external coordinated attacks. The established theoretical framework will be applied to microgrids, a crucial component of critical infrastructure, providing valuable insights into their security enhancement. This approach aims to establish a close connection between cyber-security and game theory. The project will be carried out with the Control and Power (CAP) Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Imperial College London (ICL), under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Parisini. As a part of the project, a 3-month secondment will be carried out at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE), University of Cyprus (UCY).

Keywords: game theory,cyber security,insider threat,mechanism design,microgrid
The role of an expanded family of exported effector kinases in environmental sensing and regulation of virulence in human malaria. (VirulenceControl)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and I mmunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system , related disorders  and their mechanisms , biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases , innovative imm unological tools and approaches , including  therapies
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999935.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999935.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The most severe form of malaria in humans is caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Cytoadhesion of infected red blood cells (iRBCs) to host endothelium and iRBC rigidification are the major contributors to pathology. Cytoadhesion is mediated by transport of a protein called PfEMP1 onto the surface of the iRBC. It prevents clearance of iRBCs in the spleen and promotes parasite survival, but can cause the obstruction of blood vessels leading to pathology. Thus, the parasite has to strike a fine balance between preventing its own clearance through sufficiently strong cytoadhesion and control of rigidity, and killing the host. The paradigm in the field is that the strength of cytoadhesion is dominated by expression of PfEMP1 variants with different affinities for host cell receptors. We now have strong evidence that the parasite can rapidly regulate its cytoadhesive properties using a family of atypical kinases (the FIKK kinases) it exports into the host cell. This gives the parasite a yet unrecognized ability to respond to conditions encountered in the host, such as fever or hypoxia in areas of high parasite sequestration, and influence disease outcome. This is important: Of the 6 human infecting Plasmodium species only P. falciparum exports FIKK kinases into the host cell. As this species is responsible for ~95% of all fatal human malaria cases, it is paramount to understand FIKK- function in pathogenesis. We will use cutting edge approaches to: (1) identify the function of FIKK kinases in controlling cytoadhesion and rigidity in conditions frequently encountered in the human host and determine RBC remodelling in samples from patients. (2) Identify the molecular underpinnings of FIKK function in controlling cytoadhesion and (3) perform a thorough biochemical characterisation of the atypical FIKK kinase family. In summary we aim to answer the paramount question about the functional role and the evolution of the FIKK kinases and the pathogenesis of P. falciparum malaria.

Keywords: host pathogen interaction,parasitology,malaria,plasmodium falciparum,kinases,virulence,phosphoproteomics
Network Inpainting via Optimal Transport (NIOT)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The precise digital reconstruction of natural networks such as blood vessels or plant roots is crucial to ensure the quality of simulation-driven predictions. However, these structures can often be accessed only via noninvasive techniques, leading to artifacts that compromise the reliability of the data and the derived simulations. No technological solution is currently able to recover digital reconstructions of "real" networks from corrupted images. The NIOT (Network Inpainting via Optimal Transport) project aims to fill this technological gap by defining for the first time a robust mathematical formulation of the image network reconstruction problem. Thanks to the most recent advances of the optimal transport theory, we will finally encode into equations the well-known fact that several natural networks are designed to transport resources with the least effort possible. We will adopt a variational image processing method, where the reconstructed network is obtained as the density minimizing the sum of the discrepancy with the observed data and a branch inducing functional. As such, our proposed methodology builds a bridge between the image regularization and optimal transport communities. A major ambition of the project is to pair the theoretical analysis with robust simulation tools that are capable of handling real data arising from MRI acquisition techniques. This will require exploitation and development of dedicated components to handle large datasets, both from a data handling and a multiscale simulation perspective. Our algorithm will be tested on a sequence of increasingly channeling problems. We will start from simple synthetic networks, then we will use an high-quality map of the blood vessel network of a mouse brain. The final benchmark will be to reconstruct of corrupted vascular networks in MRI scans of human patients.

Keywords: optimal transport,branched transport,networks reconstruction,image processing,inpainting,brain blood vessels
How Much Is It? The Pre-Modern Philosophical Outset of the Algebraic Variable (MUCH)

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: France,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MUCH delves into the crucial and still vastly understudied interplay between mathematics and philosophy in the 14th c., shedding light on pre-modern questions that resonate with ongoing concerns on mathematical knowledge, abstraction, and reality. What is the link between calculation and the conception of a quantified item? How do we think of a quantifiable unknown in equations? The case of 14th-c. Italy is key to grasp the emergence of such problems, their development and cascade-effect on European mathematics of the following centuries. MUCH unravels the feedback loop between philosophical notions and processes involved in mathematical practices, prominently algebra: quantum, inquantum, and variable in equations. Rooted in pre-modern notions of extension, quantum represents an existing quantified substance, while the variable (i.e., unknown value) stands as a neither continuous nor discrete thing that can be quantified. Inquantum is the specific epistemic process connecting quantum and the variable: a layered abstraction that allows mathematical properties to be distilled from non-mathematical ones. For the first time, MUCH implements a careful study, connecting pre-modern texts and actors from different institutional and professional settings (universities, religious and merchant schools). By intertwining historical contexts, MUCH disentangles how quantum’s and inquantum’s philosophical underpinnings paved the way for Ch’s mathematical application, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the pre-modern scientific thought. MUCH’s leading-edge hypothesis has the broader academic goal of bridging the research fields of history of mathematics and philosophy, deepening our comprehension of historical mathematical development but also emphasizing the inseparable relationship between philosophical inquiry and scientific progress.

Keywords: history of medieval philosophy history of medieval mathematics medieval italy epistemology of quantification
Building models of, with and for sustainability transformations (TRANSMOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498060.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498060.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While the need for sustainability transformations is ubiquitous, understanding why and how they succeed or fail is limited. Explanations often focus on either agency-related or systemic factors. Understanding the complex dynamics of transformations, however, requires approaches that bridge perspectives, and recognize the interdependent personal, political, social and ecological dynamics at play. TRANSMOD addresses this gap through interdisciplinary analysis of transformative change in the context of natural resource governance and food systems across the Global South and North. It focuses on how novel ideas and practices emerge and take root in response to crises, such as resource decline or Covid-19, and in interaction with existing structures and processes, such as dominant narratives, power relations and biophysical dynamics. The project will reach its objectives through an approach that transcends a focus on systemic processes versus agency by analysing change or lack thereof as emerging from their relations. It will achieve this through two methodological advancements: i) combining simulation modelling with empirical research of past transformations, which allows analysing key material and immaterial social and social-ecological processes through in-depth case studies and testing their effect on emergent system dynamics through modelling, and ii) making sense of the complexities of change through engaging in ongoing change-making processes. Together, these activities will serve the development of complexity-aware theories of transformation. The project will open up new opportunities for sustainability science by establishing the conceptual and methodological foundations for research that goes beyond natural-social divides with the help of building applying a next generation of social-ecological models. This will enable new ways of theorising that account for the complexity of cross-scale and interconnected social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene.

Keywords: emergence,social ecological systems,transformation,food systems,natural resource governance,theory building,agent based modelling,dynamical systems modelling
A Fermionic Orbital Quantum Simulator with Local Digital Tunnelling Gates (FOrbQ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2234475.0
EU funding (EUR): 2234475.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fermions are ubiquitous in nature, and the study of fermionic systems with strong correlations lies at the centre of many fundamental and relevant problems in modern physics and chemistry. Any microscopic simulation not only needs to treat exponentially large Hilbert spaces but also has to accurately represent the fermionic exchange statistics. However, classical numerical methods suffer from a well-known sign problem, and conventional gate-based quantum computers employ distinguishable spin-1/2 degrees of freedom, which requires a significant algorithmic overhead for handling fermionic systems. FOrbQ will be the first quantum processor with digital gates that addresses the anticommutation on the hardware level by using fermionic neutral atoms. Drawing from my ten-year experience with optical superlattices and quantum gas microscopes, I will develop stable, programmable tunnelling and exchange gates in an optical lattice with full local control over the tunnelling rates. With tunable collisions of atoms and a rapid cycle time, FOrbQ introduces a digital bottom-up approach for the simulation of strongly correlated Fermi systems. By directly controlling the coupling between fermionic spin orbitals, FOrbQ will implement local 2D Hamiltonians efficiently without the cumbersome fermion-to-spin qubit mapping. I will apply the novel hardware to open questions of hole pairing and exotic superconductivity in the Hubbard model, as well as perform the first simulations of molecules. Inherently, the atoms implement particle-number conservation and spin symmetries, making FOrbQ a powerful platform for electron simulations from multi-band Hubbard models to quantum chemistry. FOrbQ combines well-tested robust technologies of ultracold atoms with concepts from quantum computing to create the first fermionic quantum computer and outline a clear path towards a practical quantum advantage for the simulation of electrons.

Keywords: quantum simulation,quantum computer,
Strengthening Translational Research for Improved Metabolic Health (STRIMHealth)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Serbia,Sweden,Portugal,Netherlands
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1465894.25
EU funding (EUR): 1465894.25
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Curbing obesity-related diseases is one of key priorities of the Horizon Europe 2023-2024 work programme. Although metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most common chronic liver disease and prominent manifestation of metabolic syndrome, its real socioeconomic burden is likely underestimated. Serbia is affected both socially and economically by the increasing incidence of MASLD, with a prevalence of 45%. Therefore, the establishment of a center for metabolic disease research in this region is an important priority. The STRIMHealth project aims to develop a joint research strategy of Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković” (IBISS) with three leading European institutions, in order to step-up and promote scientific excellence and innovation capacity of IBISS, and to establish the Metabolic Disease Research Unit as European Knowledge Hub. The project partners have multidisciplinary skills and complementary knowledge that will significantly enhance the research and management capacity of IBISS and increase its visibility, attractiveness and networking. The objectives of the STRIMHealth project are: 1) to enhance IBISS´ scientific excellence by creating an impactful research framework with leading EU research institutions; 2) to strengthen IBISS´ research capacity for forefront translational research; 3) to sustain IBISS' growth by improving its research management and administrative capabilities; 4) to strengthen and expand IBISS' networking with both academia and industry. These aims will be achieved through a series of research partnerships, workshops, trainings, knowledge exchanges and staff visits, and transfer of experience between partners. STRIMHealth project will increase IBISS research capacity in the field of metabolic disease, link it to existing EU initiatives, and develop a competitive multidisciplinary research unit with strong international networks.

Keywords: metabolic diseases,metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease,multi omics,bioinformatics,system biology
Eva Sadoun, CEO of LITA and Rift, economist and activist for a more feminist, inclusive, socially and environmentally just economy (Eva Sadoun)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: EU Prize for Women Innovators
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: France
Call: Rising Innovators Category (HORIZON-EIC-EIT-2023-WomenInnovatorsPrize, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I’m Eva Sadoun, I’m an entrepreneur (CEO of Lita.co and of Rift.), an economist and an activist, In 2014, when I was 24 years old, I co-founded LITA with the ambition of increasing transparency and democracy within the financial sector. I chose to go into this field in particular because anything related to money and investments is seen as a men's reserved area. I wanted to challenge this myth and embody a different kind of entrepreneur and leader in this realm. It was also a way of being an agent of change, and shaping an ecological, socially just and feminist economy. Lita is the first European investment platform, present in France, Belgium and Italy, exclusively dedicated to social and environmental enterprises. And over the past 9 years, it has already redirected more than 130 million euros towards European startups and SMEs. In 2020, I also launched an app called RIFT, which gives citizens access to transparent information regarding the way their savings are used by their financial institutions. In addition to the group I run, my passions and realms of influence are numerous. I ran the Mouvement Impact France for the 3 past years, a European ecological and social lobby that allowed me to largely influence the public debate on companies can pave the way for a sustainable economy. I am also an economist. In 2022 I published an essay called "Une économie à nous", that benefited from a large media coverage. It deconstructed and dissected the dominant economic narrative in order to reclaim the economy and make it our ally in the face of the great social and environmental challenges of our time. I am currently working on a podcast and a think tank about how the care economy can be an emancipatory economic ethic for the economy as a whole and be a concrete alternative to the liberal and extractivist economy we live in. Lastly, I have received several prizes and distinctions for my achievements and my influence.

Keywords: social and climate justice,feminism,care economy,social and environmental entrepreneurship,empowering