Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Experiences of Abortion in Black Rural Brazil (ABRB)

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,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 205635.14
EU funding (EUR): 205635.14
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The 2023 Brazilian national abortion survey highlighted that, despite legal restrictions, abortion remains prevalent, with one in every seven women undergoing the procedure by age 40. A racial breakdown of the data revealed that Black women were 46% more likely than white women to have an abortion. Access to safe abortion is an essential reproductive rights issue and a vital public health concern. The magnitude and criminalization of abortion in Brazil exacerbate the already existing class, gender, and race inequalities in the country. Reproductive health research shows that Black women face the greatest individual and institutional barriers when attempting to access sexual and reproductive care services. This group is also more likely to die from abortion-related causes and face arrest and stigma. These further stark racial disparities make access to safe abortion a matter of racial justice in Brazil. Studies on abortion in Brazil with a racial focus are scarce. In particular, little is known about how Black people in rural communities navigate and challenge legal restrictions, cultural stigma, and racial discrimination when seeking an abortion in a setting that is structurally designed to exclude them and has historically despised their fertility. This project aims to understand the experience and processes of accessing and having an Abortion in Black Rural Brazil through the lens of local pregnant people. Based on anthropological and interdisciplinary studies on reproductive health, gender, and critical race theory, this timely research will investigate how they confront the multifaceted challenges surrounding abortion access and reproductive rights in contemporary Black rural Brazil. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork this study will generate practical evidence to improve rural abortion services in Brazil, enhance the anthropology of reproduction through concepts of stigma, justice, and autonomy, and engage civil society on this urgent matter.

Keywords: black rural communities,brazil,abortion,reproductive rights,stigma,autonomy,inequality,racialization,gender
BlinkIn Visual Assistance - Defining a new category of automated visual support towards to a visual AI Operating System for Europe (not Siri/Alexa). Our moonshot is to "Give the world a Help Button". (BlinkIn Visual Assistant - June 2021)

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: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3900750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BlinkIn develops a platform to enable the next generation of tech support. Tech support is with BlinkIn visual and automated. BlinkIn enables enterprises to create digital assistants for smart devices that guide people interactively through first-time setups, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Our VisualBots will analyse a problem using Computer Vision, interpret the situations through AI/ML recommendations, and guide through a visual resolution interactively using Augmented Reality. With its NoCode Platform, we will build an open European ecosystem where contributors can create, build and sell visual skills to deliver learning models for end-users to simply resolve a problem with their smartphones. Our moonshot is to “Give the world a Help Button”. We define a new category of automated visual support with market potential way beyond the standard audio or chatbots assistant towards a visual AI Operating System as a European counter force to other assistants (ie. Siri/Alexa/Bixby).

Keywords: artificial intelligence,explainable ai,trustable ai,computer vision,federated learning,international,customer communication software,remote support,low emission,visual ai,self service support,edge computing,service innovation,digital services,synthetic data
Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers: Interconnections, Near-Term Applications, and Novel Simulation Schemes (MaBoQuaCo)

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: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 240766.8
EU funding (EUR): 240766.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Simulating the dynamics of quantum many-body systems is notoriously difficult as the computational requirements grow dramatically with increasing system size. While fully-fledged quantum computing may provide a means to handle this challenge, today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are prone to errors and decoherence. This interdisciplinary project promises significant progress in the understanding of nonequilibrium quantum systems and in leveraging the capabilities of NISQ devices for this purpose. The innovative research is going to capitalize on the concept of quantum typicality to explore near-term applications of random quantum states on NISQ devices and to study the emergence of hydrodynamics in isolated quantum systems. By combining state-of-the-art theoretical and numerical approaches with simulations on available quantum hardware, important insights will furthermore be gained into the universal properties of quantum dynamics in driven-dissipative systems, in monitored circuits consisting of unitary gates and projective measurements, and in many-body localized systems coupled to a thermal bath. Tackling these key areas will provide a deeper understanding of fundamental physics and will unravel the inevitable interaction of NISQ devices with their environment. Results may open up new avenues for robust and scalable simulations on NISQ devices, which is vital as quantum technology continues to mature. Additionally, this project will deliver novel NISQ-inspired classical simulation schemes, which are memory-efficient and will pave the way to answer open questions that are challenging for other methods. Highlighting the strong synergy and profound interplay between quantum many-body dynamics and NISQ devices, this project follows Horizon Europe's strategic plan of developing key digital and emerging technologies and is in line with Europe's Quantum Flagship initiative to foster European excellence in quantum technologies.

Keywords: quantum many body physics,far from equilibrium quantum dynamics,computational quantum physics,many body localization,open quantum systems,entanglement transitions,quantum hydrodynamics
Antartic Living Heritage (ALIGHT)

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: Portugal,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169843.44
EU funding (EUR): 169843.44
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The project will shed light on the potential Antarctic living heritage, building tools to map the cultural diversity of the continent. Antarctica is the only continent on Earth with no native human population, territorial demarcations, or urbanization. The human presence is historically recent, beginning approximately two centuries ago. Since 1960, the occupation of Antarctica by people has been officially regulated by the Antarctic Treaty to occur only temporarily, by seasonal rotation, based on scientific proposals, and to generate a very low impact on the environment. Due to the Treaty, logistical cooperation between countries and the coexistence of teams from different nationalities became a notable fact at the Antarctic Scientific Stations. These aspects contribute to the development of a unique set of cultural expressions on the continent, which have never been systematically studied before and, consequently, are apart from protocols for safeguarding global intangible heritage. To begin to overcome this separation, this project pursues the construction of research guidelines oriented to the case of Antarctica and a cultural map using ARCHES, an open software platform belonging to the Getty Foundation based on Geographic Information System-GIS. ARCHES is a software for managing cultural heritage, which, in addition to the geolocation of cultural elements, allows different types of data processing. The guides for this research will be built based on anthropological methodology and ethnographic data collection, and will take into account global cultural and heritage policies recommended by organizations such as UNESCO. The map will be an open tool, prepared to be shared, completed, and improved by future initiatives. Thus, the project will initiate an important inventory to identify and safeguard the Antarctic living heritage, provide resources for society to better understand how people live in Antarctica and how cultural expressions have been generated there.

Keywords: cultural mapping,cultural inventory,history of antarctica,antarctic heritage,applied anthropology research,heritage policies,cultural policies,open source software applied to cultural mapping
The mechanobiology of hypoxia during bone regeneration (HIPPOX)

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: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194259.44
EU funding (EUR): 194259.44
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Bone regeneration is a challenging clinical problem. Each year, millions of patients worldwide experience bone fracture: one every two-to-three seconds. Over 10-15% of these fractures suffer from impaired healing. Especially the elderly population is disproportionately affected being associated with permanent impairment and increased mortality. Two critical events early in fracture repair determine the outcome of the healing process: lack of oxygen caused by blood vessel rupture and mechanical instability. Thus, the progenitor cells that will eventually form cartilage and bone to heal the fracture must simultaneously adapt to both hypoxic and mechanical microenvironments to ensure full tissue restoration. Cellular hypoxia-induced signaling and mechanotransduction are therefore critical to bone healing, but how crosstalk between these pathways impacts fracture repair is unknown. The project aims to define new cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate crosstalk between hypoxia and mechanical signaling during fracture repair and target this crosstalk in an innovative regenerative therapy to accelerate fracture repair. Improvement in therapeutic strategies and rehabilitation will have a global impact and are already included in European health care efforts to ensure health throughout the life course, and to reduce hospitalization time and mortality in the (elderly) population. The project will be conducted in the McKay Research Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, United States (PENN), the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (POLIMI, secondment) and the Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (TUD).

Keywords: bone regeneration mechanobiology hypoxia 3d printing microphysiological systems hif signaling hippo signaling
Genealogies of Human Capital (GenHumCap)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Genealogies of Human Capital (GenHumCap) explores the rise of human capital theories between the collapse of the labor theory of value and the World Bank’s recent Human Capital Plan. Specifically, it charts how human life, although formally absent from market exchange, was rendered tractable to neoclassical practices of valuation and calculated investment; then how diverse experts used these methods to reconfigure healthcare, development aid, and population control programs in the name of maximized future wellbeing. Using methods from sociology, the history of science, and the digital humanities, the project will gather new data from archives, expert interviews, and new text-mining techniques, analyzing the results in light of contemporary French sociological studies of the social sciences. It will do so in close dialogue with leading sociologists at the CESSP in Paris, under the supervision of Professor Gisèle Sapiro. To disseminate its findings, the project will result in a conference, two academic articles, and a book manuscript; and in public-facing summaries in newspapers and EU-sponsored dissemination projects. Through innovative, interdisciplinary methods, GenHuC will provide the first substantial investigation into human capital, advancing multiple fields by reframing a series of sociological debates on 'neoliberalism,' 'biopolitics,' and 'biocapital,' and creating new connections between the history of science, sociology, and economics. In the process it will cement the base for a competitive research career in European academia.

Keywords: history of economics historical sociology of the social sciences history of expertise sociology of knowledge
Power electronics optimisation for next generation electric vehicle components (PowerDrive)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Sweden,Poland,Italy,Ireland,Germany
Call: Nextgen EV components: Integration of advanced power electronics and associated controls (2ZERO) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5998877.5
EU funding (EUR): 5998877.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

With the purpose of transforming road transportation in Europe to zero-emission mobility, POWERDRIVE aims at developing next generation, highly efficient, cost-effective, and compact power electronics solutions that integrate a portfolio of technologies for multi-objective optimisation of electric powertrains of battery electric vehicles. These integrated solutions can be applied to both low and high-performance vehicles, and they will be suitable for diverse types of electric vehicles. The concept of POWERDRIVE is that all the experience and expertise of the project partners in the development of electric drivetrain components will be leveraged and lead into the integration of advanced power electronics solutions for an optimised powertrain. This concept brings additional opportunities to strengthen Europe’s supply chain in electromobility for road transportation and to achieve zero-emission road mobility. POWERDRIVE intends to implement innovative strategies to improve the efficiency and power density as well as to reduce the cost of electric powertrains while keeping performance high and reliable. The technologies developed in POWERDRIVE will accelerate the development and deployment of zero-emission road mobility which will deliver concrete benefits including improved quality of life, economic growth, and new business opportunities for all the EU member states. An optimised EV powertrain will significantly reduce transport emissions and tackle the issues of air quality and noise pollution in urban areas.

Keywords: power electronics,sic,integrated inverters and chargers,real driving profiles
Groundwater DIScharge of Carbon in Permafrost Peatlands (DisC-PP) (DisC-PP)

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 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): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A better understanding of high-latitude terrestrial carbon (C) cycling is essential for predicting global climate futures. This urgency arises from the large C stocks present in permafrost soils and the rapid regional warming observed during the past decades. Complexity introduced by strong coupling between hydrology, soil temperature, and biogeochemical processes in these systems impedes efforts to close the C budget and understand the fate of newly thawed soil organic C. Notably, groundwater discharge of C (GDC) stands out as a significant source of uncertainty in the high-latitude C budget because these fluxes are difficult to measure, highly heterogeneous, and strongly impacted by permafrost thaw. The main objective of the DisC-PP project is to improve understanding of GDC fluxes within permafrost peatlands. Groundwater plays a key but uncertain role in the functioning of these distinctive, C-rich wetland ecosystems. By combining field measurements with ecosystem modeling, DisC-PP will address three knowledge gaps: (1) what are dominant drivers responsible for spatial and seasonal fluctuations in GDC from permafrost peatlands?, (2) how will climate-induced changes to hydrology and C cycling impact GDC?, and (3) what is the contribution of GDC to the overall C balance of permafrost peatlands? The project will be conducted at Stordalen Mire, an intensively characterized permafrost peatland in subarctic Sweden. The modeling component will employ ecosys, a validated process-rich mechanistic ecosystem model that has demonstrated applicability in high-latitude ecosystems. DisC-PP would significantly advance my career via relevant skill development, exposure to different high-latitude ecosystems, and establishment of new relationships with leading experts in ecohydrology. Additionally, the project will enhance comprehension of how lateral C fluxes via groundwater discharge impact high-latitude C cycle and climate feedbacks – a current gap in global climate models.

Keywords: groundwater discharge,permafrost peatlands,carbon export,ecosystem modeling
Unifying classicality and non-classicality (UCAN)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to bring together the study of classicality and non-classicality within the fields of mathematical logic and philosophy of logic. The project is divided into two parts. First, we will unify classical and non-classical foundations of mathematics within a set-theoretic framework. Moreover, our approach is distinctive from previous attempts of such unification. We believe only an algebraic approach has sufficient generality for such a task. Secondly, we will extend our reconciliation of classicality and non-classicality to the area of philosophy of logic and philosophy of set theory. In particular, we plan to unify the study of set-theoretic and logical pluralism. We believe this will allow us to gain new insights into both fields of study.

Keywords: non classical models of set theory,foundation of mathematics,logical pluralism and set theoretic pluralism
BALancing Craton thickness by self-cOmpression, graiN size evolution and viscous anisotropY (Balcony)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cratons, the oldest lithosphere on Earth, have survived for more than 3 billion years due to their neutral buoyancy, high viscosity, and thickness. The geologic record shows that, in the presence of external agents (e.g., mantle plume eruptions), most cratons have experienced partial destruction (e.g., Slave craton). Yet, cratons have retained their 200-300 km thickness more or less to the present-day. We hypothesize that a newly-identified self-compressive mechanism causes them to slowly but continuously regrow with time, promoting re-cratonization. Convective self-compression results from the diversion of mantle flow beneath thick and viscous cratonic roots, and is clearly observed and analysed in our recent numerical models. There may be temporary periods of imbalance if craton destruction is relatively new and self-compression has not had enough time to act (e.g., North China craton). Over time, self-compressive thickening may be balanced by increased shearing at the base of cratons due viscous anisotropy and grain size-dependent weakening. In this MSCA project BALCONY, I will use numerical models of cratons sitting above a convecting mantle to investigate how craton thickness may be maintained for billion years by the self-compression mechanism, despite destabilizing events and continuous erosion from below. My objectives are to develop time-dependent numerical models to investigate (1) the effect of self-compression on craton re-thickening, (2) the importance of viscous anisotropy and grain size evolution for craton thinning, and finally (3) the balance between thickening and thinning, which ultimately determines the long-term thickness of cratons. The project is a perfect overlap between the research interests of the supervisors (Clint Conrad, Agnes Kiraly at the Universtiy of Oslo) and myself. We are all interested in understanding lithosphere dynamics and have previous experience modelling craton stability, viscous anisotropy and grain size evolution.

Keywords: craton,numerical modelling,geodynamics,viscous anisotroy,grain size evolution