Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Joint Industrial Data Exchange Pipeline (JIDEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Israel,Italy,Austria,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Türkiye,Czechia
Call: Sustainable Industry Commons (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2143702.5
EU funding (EUR): 2143702.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, economies worldwide are pursuing mostly a linear model of production which leads to massive material losses, dependency on geopolitically instable states and volatile markets for primary resources. A circular economy, on the contrary, seeks to counter this approach to ?preserve the value of utilized resources and materials as long as possible, to use them as frequently as possible, and to produce as little waste as possible. European industry needs solutions to mitigate the barriers for industrial data reusability and facilitate the unlocking of value from data. Joint Industrial Data Exchange Platform is a place where industrial data is fused for interconnecting seemingly different sectors into the collaboration pipeline. It builds upon the principles of Industry 4.0, by adopting a coherent approach for the semantic communication between diverse actors aimed towards direct or indirect contribution to the EU?s climate neutrality goals of 2050. JIDEP is a landing place to any organization which has any kind of data obstacle to be addressed, on its paths towards delivering more sustainable material, product, service, or solution. Within JIDEP, built-in tools are made available for unlocking the value of the data, which can lead to the development of more sustainable solutions, technologies, and materials. JIDEP is also an optimizing continuum, covering the entire product lifecycle and steering it towards circular standards implementation at technological and regulatory levels. Finally, JIDEP is a tool equipped with resilience frameworks for growing organizational and industrial capacities to withstand supply chain disruptions in short-, medium- and long-term clauses. As such, JIDEP ingests industrial data and produces sustainability, resilience, and circularity artifacts for its participants.

Keywords: circular economy,sustainability,digital technologies,materials,industry supply value chain
Transnational histories of 'corruption' in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850) (TransCorr)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Romania
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494813.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494813.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Politicians, scholars, and popular writers between 1750 and 1850 routinely characterized South-East-Central Europe as a corrupt political space. A wide range of foreign observers portrayed graft, nepotism, and bribery as endemic. Indigenous critics echoed many of these assessments. Regional insiders and outsiders alike mobilized commentaries on “corruption” for their own political, professional, and personal ends, claiming they could run more honest and efficient administrations, military regimes, and commercial operations than those in power. These notables linked “corruption” to the region's supposed cultural backwardness and economic under-development. In doing so, public figures naturalized notions of “corruption,” making it appear both widespread and organic in the region—popularizing tropes that have endured right down to the present. Yet, “corruption” is a historically specific concept. TransCorr seeks to construct a history of the idea of “corruption” in Central-South-East Europe in conjunction with the rise of modernity. It demonstrates how in the context of new ideas about modernity emanating from West Europe, regional leaders reframed a host of traditional customs and practices as corrupt. It examines how Great Power attempts to transform these borderlands into formal and informal imperial provinces further entrenched novel understandings of “corruption”, often pejoratively associating them with the Ottoman legacy. By tracing out this history, TransCorr reveals a genealogy of ideas, discourses, and attitudes that continue to inform analyses of and discussions within the region today. The project brings the study of this geographic area into greater dialogue with a global story of modernization and aligns the region’s historiography with new innovations in the scientific literature. It also reframes contemporary debates on patronage and graft, and reconfigures broader understandings of center-periphery relations within the region and across the continent.

Keywords: corruption transnational history south east europe informal empire modernity and modernization state building age of revolutions
Epigenetic Pathways of Socioeconomic Disparities across the lifespan (EpiSoDi)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Children who grow up in low-income homes are at risk for worse mental and physical health for their entire lives, a phenomenon known as the “long arm of childhood”. But, understanding and intervening on this process is enormously difficult, as the effects of childhood environments can take decades to become visible in adult morbidity and mortality. What researchers need is a “wormhole”, i.e., a passage through time that connects childhood and adulthood. In the proposed research project, I will examine the utility of DNA-methylation (DNAm) as a “molecular wormhole” for investigating how socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood is linked with (mental)health across the lifespan. The proposed “Epigenetic pathways of Socioeconomic Disparities across the lifespan” (EpiSoDi) project allows me to conduct my independent research project with leading scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Building on the Baby’s First Years Study (N=850), I will, for the first time, integrate methylation profile scores (MPS) into a randomized controlled trial testing whether unconditional cash transfers to low-income mothers for the first 4 years of the child’s life cause changes in the child’s methylome in early childhood. Additionally, I will travel forward through the wormhole, by developing MPSs that index the socioeconomic conditions of childhood, and testing their associations with mental and physical health in older adulthood (Health and Retirement Study, N= 4,018). This will generate important and novel insights in the way social inequality shape differential outcomes in (mental) health across the lifespan. Throughout my research, I have sought to bridge social and genetic science to better understand child development. The project fits this aspiration and is an indispensable step in my career as it allows me to extend my current academic pursuits, further grow into an independent researcher and help me to specialize in the exciting field of epigenetics.

Keywords: epigenetics,methylation scores,social inequality,health across the lifespan,childhood,randomized controlled trial
Non-Hermitian elastodynamics (EXCEPTIONAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1594166.25
EU funding (EUR): 1594166.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SUSPENDED

The properties of artificial materials can be tailored to exhibit extraordinary properties by cleverly engineering their composition. The development of such metamaterials is a prominent thrust in engineering today. One of the greatest challenges is to engineer metamaterials that manipulate waves by design. Of particular interest are elastic waves, since numerous mechanical applications require their control; vibration isolation, ultrasonography, energy harvesting and cloaking, to name a few. The forefront of research in wave control emerged from a seemingly unrelated theory, quantum mechanics, with the development of its non-Hermitian formalism, describing nonconservative systems that exchange energy with their environment. By drawing analogies between this formalism and those of classical systems, researchers have discovered phenomena that defy intuition, phenomena such as zero reflection and chiral absorption, and have exploited them to control light, sound, and elastic waves. Can we go beyond these analogies? I suggest that the answer is hidden in the tensorial nature of elastodynamics, a nature that is unparalleled in other physics. This conjecture is motivated by my group's recent discovery that even conservative stratified solids can generate non-Hermitian features, such as negative refraction and exceptional points. The mechanism that obviates external energy is the coupling between shear and pressure waves that is unique to elastodynamics. What happens when judiciously exploiting this distinctive mechanism together with concepts from non-Hermitian quantum mechanics? In tackling this question I expect to unveil novel phenomena that are inaccessible in other physics. Understanding the mechanics will lead to exceptional ways of shaping waves, thereby benefiting engineering applications that require robust control of elastic motion.

Keywords: continuum mechanics,solid mechanics,mechanics of materials,elastodynamics,wave propagation,elastic waves,shear waves,pressure waves,negative refraction,composites,laminates,active materials
Past and Future High-resolution Global Glacier Mass Changes (GLACMASS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499957.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499957.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

World-wide glaciers are losing mass which affects global sea-level, river runoff, freshwater influx to the oceans, glacier-related hazards, and landscape changes, with implications for human livelihoods and ecosystems. Hence, accurate estimates of past, current and future glacier mass variations at a high temporal and spatial resolution are key to effective adaptation strategies. However, previous mass-balance reconstructions and projections have relied on scarce observations with limited spatial and/or temporal resolution, as well as overparameterized, insufficiently constrained and highly simplified models, the latter necessitated by high computational costs incurred by the global scale. GLACMASS will propel the current state-of-the-art of global-scale glacier reconstruction and projection forward in unprecedented ways by delivering a fundamentally novel and internally consistent physically-based modelling framework that draws, for the first time on a global scale, on both data assimilation and modern machine learning techniques facilitated by emerging global-scale glacier-related satellite-derived data. The framework will be used to reconstruct multi-decadal past glacier changes, and make policy-relevant multi-century projections of mass and area changes of all >200,000 glaciers outside the ice sheets with unprecedented accuracy, spatiotemporal detail and computational efficiency, and also nowcast present mass changes in a near-real-time fashion for selected regions. The model framework will fuse output from a novel physically-based glacier evolution model with all relevant observations available for each glacier, such as in-situ, geodetic and gravimetry-derived mass balances, as well as snowlines and other observations, thus simultaneously exploiting the untapped strengths of different types of observational data sets in an optimal manner.

Keywords: glaciers,glacier mass balance,global glacier modelling,glacier projection,glacier evolution,data assimilation
Automated Image Analysis for High-Throughput Single Molecule Analysis of Biomolecules (Virgil)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Project Virgil aims to revolutionize single-molecule analysis by developing automated, high-throughput image-to-structure software for scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images. This innovative technology addresses a critical bottleneck in biomolecular research: the low data throughput and time-consuming manual interpretation of SPM images. Building on recent breakthroughs in direct SPM imaging of single biomolecules, Project Virgil aims to create a parallel-computing program to interpret SPM images of individual macrobiomolecules into atomic-level structures. The software aims to be stable, versatile, and scalable, capable of analyzing a wide range of biomolecules up to few hundred thousands of atoms. Key activities include building the base program, implementing parallel computing, developing an IP strategy, and formulating a commercialization plan. Project Virgil main innovation lies in enabling first-time access to many previously inaccessible (bio)chemical structures and providing a single molecule analysis platform that far exceeds current manual capabilities. By enabling high-throughput single-molecule analysis, Project Virgil has significant potential across structural biology, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors, in reducing costs, accelerating drug discovery, and advancing personalized medicine. Project Virgil combines cutting-edge science with strategic commercialization planning, aiming to translate innovative research into a commercially viable product with significant impact on single molecule analysis. This project has the potential to reinforce European technological leadership and open new avenues for tackling important scientific and societal challenges at the single molecule level.
Design and Development of 3D Printed Force Transducers (ENFORCER)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Additive manufacturing (AM), as an advanced manufacturing technique, has the potential to transform the landscape of product development, manufacturing, and logistics, as well as increase sustainability in a variety of industries. Over the past ten years, AM, has gained widespread acceptance for producing various engineering and scientific components for research, commercial, and even medicinal uses. The aim of the project is to design and develop 3D printed force transducers. The specific objectives of the project are to contribute to the development of realistic concepts, realizing that transducers are of many sorts and configurations. The formulation of a model for extreme multi-physics situations is a significant goal of the work. The project has a strong multidisciplinary aspect, combining well-developed mechanics, material science, metrology, machine design, and computational analysis. This proposal includes both the transfer of knowledge to the host institution and the training of the candidate in new advanced techniques. This project is in line with the EU strategy for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Keywords: accuracy additive manufacturing force transducer fea metrology precision
Biomedical Image Quantification by a Scalable and Open Cloud Solution (BiQ-Cloud)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BiQ-Cloud (Biomedical Image Quantification Cloud) is a groundbreaking cloud-based platform designed to revolutionize biomedical research by providing scalable, cost-effective, and cutting-edge image analysis tools. Current solutions are often either costly and outdated or require specialized IT skills, thereby limiting access for many users, including researchers, small and mid-sized companies, as well as large-scale organizations. BiQ-Cloud overcomes these barriers by offering a flexible platform that allows users to access the latest image analysis algorithms without purchasing expensive licenses or hardware. By leveraging cloud computing, our system provides on-demand access to powerful processing capabilities and state-of-the-art tools on a pay-per-use basis. Clients can securely upload data, which is processed by dynamically deployed Docker containers, ensuring continually up-to-date analysis capabilities with no complex installations. Our platform supports the rapid integration of new algorithms through an open API, thus fostering continuous innovation. It also leverages client-provided data to train AI models, further enhancing speed and accuracy over time. By democratizing access to advanced biomedical image analysis, BiQ-Cloud accelerates discoveries and improves drug development reliability. The ERC PoC grant will enable us to advance BiQ-Cloud from a functional prototype into a market-ready product, unlocking its potential to transform biomedical research and become the leading platform for researchers and industry professionals worldwide.

Keywords: cloud computing,bioimaging,pay per use
Soil micro- and mesofauna as drivers of microbial necromass dynamics (Soil Fauna MIND)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211186.42
EU funding (EUR): 211186.42
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Increasing soil carbon (C) sequestration is critical to mitigate climate change while supporting food security and reversing land degradation. Soil microbial necromass, i.e. dead microbes, has received increasing attention as significantly contributing to stable soil C. The microbiome itself is controlled by soil fauna, through two main trophic groups: microbivores, directly affecting its size and composition, and litter decomposers, modulating its access to resources. However, on-going environmental changes are altering trophic relationships and how this will impact microbial dynamics and C persistence is highly uncertain. My novel contribution to science will be to integrate soil micro- and mesofauna as a dynamic modulator of the soil microbiome, controlling microbial necromass and C persistence. To achieve this, I will manipulate soil micro- and mesofauna in microcosms experiments following two complimentary approaches, i.e., manipulation based on (1) size or (2) trophic classes. I will track the incorporation of 13C-labelled root litter into microbial biomass and necromass and compare microbial growth and carbon use efficiency, in the presence or absence of different soil faunal groups. After one year of incubation, I will measure C stability indicators (mineral-associated and occluded C, bulk δ15N) as well as newly formed microbial necromass to estimate soil C persistence. The experiment will be carried out at two different temperatures (ambient vs 5 °C increase) in a full factorial design to determine how the faunal control of the microbiome might change under future climate conditions. My MSCA project will shed light on the importance of soil fauna and trophic interactions for microbial necromass and soil C dynamics, a crucial approach in harnessing the potential for soil C sequestration and implementing effective management strategies.

Keywords: soil microbiome,soil microbial necromass,carbon persistence,soil fauna