Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MARHAB (MARHAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Sweden,Denmark,Portugal,France
Call: Nature protection: Better methods and knowledge to improve the conservation status of EU-protected species and habitats (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4197180.0
EU funding (EUR): 4197180.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The vast majority of marine habitats and species protected under the EU Habitats Directive still show an unfavourable conservation status. This situation is particularly pressing in Northern Europe, where the conservation status of marine habitats in the Kattegat-Skagerrak region is consistently bad. MARHAB’s objective is to improve the conservation status of marine ecosystems by demonstrating an ecosystem dynamics approach to restoration and maintenance of protected habitats. By employing cutting edge technology (genomics, tracking, in situ observations, machine learning) in state-of-art ecosystem research, the project will provide the scientific underpinnings needed to bring about the long overdue reconciliation of fisheries management with biodiversity conservation. Moreover, it will generate a leap in knowledge urgently needed to sustainably manage the productive but severely overexploited ecosystems harboured in the Kattegat-Skagerrak Seas and adjoining coastal waters. MARHAB is urgent, timely and innovative. Urgent, because key habitats and species are in the worst environmental status of the European waters, while European citizens rely on a healthy ocean for climate resilience, and marine resources support livelihoods and food security. Timely, because international agreements such as the 2030 European Biodiversity strategy and the Global Biodiversity Framework (COP15) committed parties to reach important conservation targets in less than 7 years from now, including effectively protecting 30% of the ocean, and 10% with strict protection (in EU). And innovative, because this is a highly understudied region in what concerns marine protection effectiveness. MARHAB engages with the full range of relevant stakeholders at local, regional, national, international, EU and global level. Through a communication strategy tailored to target audiences, MARHAB will contribute to increasing the public and politicians’ understanding of marine biodiversity conservation.

Keywords: aquatic animal tracking biogenic habitats ecosystem modelling gap analysis population genetics in situ observational studies socio ecological framework stakeholder involvement top predators
Trading Truths: Missionaries, Diplomats, and Spies in the South Caucasus (TRASUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499037.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499037.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

TRASUS investigates how religious and political truths move across boundaries. The objectives are to identify the modalities of how truths travel, to propel incisive understandings of how truth-values are attached to collective ideas, and how the resulting truths configure and reconfigure social worlds. Such an in-depth study that theorizes the workings of truth is of paramount importance in an age of misinformation and fake news, in which the transmission of truth is a crucial weapon of power. The project will examine the ‘trade of truths’ along three modalities of transmission (which can intersect and overlap): a missionary modality involving the projection of truth onto those ‘in need’; a diplomatic modality involving the tactful mediation and management of knowledge; and an extractive modality geared towards excavating hidden truths. These modalities will be tested in the South Caucasus, a region onto which expansionist projects have long projected their civilizing truths, and where sociopolitical fragmentation confounds the exchange of knowledge. By carrying out six case studies, the project will examine how these modalities are mobilized in missionary endeavors aimed at converting others, in the projection of nationalist truths onto ethnically cleansed areas, in efforts to mediate between opposing ethnic and religious groups, and in top-down practices of surveillance and bottom-up efforts of critique. Based on long-term, historically informed ethnographic field research, the project will analyze how old and new technologies are mobilized in knowledge encounters, follow relevant ‘truth merchants’, and trace the trajectories of specific truths claims. In doing so, TRASUS will reveal the shifting interlocking of epistemic objects, human engagements with them, and the situations in which they are entangled. This will offer comprehensive and dynamic understandings of how truth is produced; and it will produce new insight into the biases, gaps, and limita

Keywords: missionary activity everyday diplomacy surveillance conspiracy theorizing truth making
Systemic Sustainability Transition Solution for Health Care Organisations through PCP (suHCO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health-care
Action type: Pre-Commercial Procurement
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Spain
Call: Pre-commercial procurement for environmentally sustainable, climate neutral and circular health and care systems (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-14, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4996250.0
EU funding (EUR): 4996250.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

suHCO will address the common challenge of transitioning the healthcare sector to sustainability by procuring a horizontal digital planning and execution-driven system. Suppliers will be requested to embrace and integrate multiple technologies and the latest research in AI, platform, behavioural and economic sciences. The Buyers Group represents three major markets (ES, IT, UK) and the full diversity of EU health care systems (central procurement, hospitals, care homes, surgeries, home care etc.). Leading research organisations on sustainability, logistics and PCPs in healthcare and digital innovation are supporting. The group has already started to recruit a Follower Network. The suHCO-system is to empower all types of Health Care Organisations(HCOs) and their staff to design, plan, implement and act sustainably more easily, quickly and widely. It is to cover four areas of need: 1) to help HCOs and users to understand the growing number of vertical sustainable practices and solutions already available (information); 2) to develop and implement an effective sustainability strategy based on opportunities for impact given the local circumstances (operation); 3) to facilitate all necessary interactions with stakeholders such as health decision-makers and product and service providers (organisation); 4) to change the mindset and upskill administration, end-users and SMEs. The system will adopt to the local regulatory requirements.It will be scalable and can implemented by individual HCOs or entire health systems. suHCO will be modular allowing specialised software companies to embed components into existing solutions. Uptake will rapidly grow the market for sustainable solutions and provide new opportunities for innovative SMEs and start-ups. Advancing the sustainable transition of healthcare will reduce the need for virgin materials, reduce waste and pollution. suHCO advances the One Health Approach through direct impact and high replicability in developing countries.

Keywords: sustainability,platform,ai,circularity
DANube SEdiment Restoration: towards the deployment and upscaling of sustainable management of the sediments across the Danube catchment basin (DANSER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Romania,Croatia,Austria,Bulgaria,Ireland,Ukraine,Portugal
Call: Danube river basin lighthouse – Demonstration of effective and sustainable management of sediments in the Danube river-Black sea system (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9148028.75
EU funding (EUR): 8499982.63
Participants: 35
Project status: SIGNED

DANSER represents a multidisciplinary holistic and scientific based approach focused on the Danube River basin, a vital yet sensitive ecosystem facing climate change and human impacts. DANSER addresses pressing sediment management needs in the Danube River ecosystem, incorporating cutting-edge technologies and aligning with EU policies and directives. Especially attaining the core guidelines of the Danube Sediments Management Guidance. DANSER delivers a pilot phase and envisages the deployment phase, with a strong emphasis on demonstrating active and passive innovative solutions, such as a) spatio-temporal mapping of natural and anthropogenic fluvial processes, b) sediment transport modelling, (c) sediment dating by radionuclide and radiometric methods, d) historical pollution analysis (e) geophysical survey and 3D historical reconstruction of the demonstration sites, (f) river-groundwater dynamics and pollution transport modelling, (g) river processes forecast simulations based on historical and active processes, (h) sediment budget analysis based on sedimentation measuring stations, UAV and bathymetry surveys, (i) water levels and quality monitoring and analysis j) river-side arm hydrotechnical connectivity interventions, (k) stakeholder-engaged sediment parametric evaluation and co management and (l) Nature based solutions for biodiversity characterization monitoring and improvement. On the soft measures side, DANSER enforces proactively a transnational sediment task force, from cooperating with all related instances, and commits with local communities and citizens engagement, including participatory tools. DANSER seeks to restore sediment balance, improve sediment flow and quality, characterise pollution transport mechanisms and integrate such actions and knowledge with EU and worldwide counterparts while still sustaining local and regional economies. DANSER will contribute significantly to the create a sustainable and harmonious human-Danube relationships.

Keywords: sediment dating river aquifer groundwater interaction lateral connectivity in situ,aerial and remote sensing biodiversity sediments task force digital portal training managing authorities
Future-Proof Data Systems in the Post-Moore Era (FDS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496305.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496305.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Three major trends put immense pressure on existing infrastructure. First, there is an increased demand for compute given the exponential growth of data volume we are collecting. Second, as most data- and compute-intensive systems move to the cloud, it is vital to make data-centers more efficient. Third, pressured by the waning laws of computing infrastructure (end of Dennard scaling and its impact on Moores' law) the hardware landscape has embarked on a major push towards specialization. Unsurprisingly, all of these have major implications on software development. FDS addresses these challenges in a holistic fashion by establishing the foundations of a new software infrastructure. More specifically, I propose new system software abstractions that enable more efficient execution of data-intensive jobs on modern hardware; and new cost-models to support reasoning about the performance/resource efficiency trade-offs when scheduling the said workloads. To enable development of future-proof data systems, I propose replacing the traditional monoliths of a logical-graph optimizer and execution engine, with a new flexible framework for optimization and compilation, and a runtime system that can exploit the features of modern hardware, but remains amenable to its evolving nature. Doing so requires innovation on many levels, and combines work from many layers of the system stack: from HW/SW co-design, to compilers, operating and runtime systems, databases and distributed systems. It is a non-trivial undertaking, but it is a necessary one. And it will have big and lasting impact on academia, industry, and society. In fact, I strongly believe that the only way forward towards reducing the increasing gap between data- and compute-demand in resource-hungry data centers is a software-solution that boosts efficiency, embraces specialization, removes redundancy and optimizes for data movement. FDS will be the pioneering system leading the way.

Keywords: data intensive systems,modern heterogeneous hardware,system software infrastructure,compilers,operating systems,data management systems,runtime systems,distributed systems
Quantum Synthetic Models for Entangled Matter Out of Equilibrium (QUANTHEM)

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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1405750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1405750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The exceptional features of many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium are intimately connected with the intrinsic limitations we face when simulating their dynamics on a classical computer, as both are a consequence of the fact that quantum matter is entangled. Digital quantum simulators, or quantum computers, promise to overcome these limitations. However, in the current era of Noisy-Intermediate-Scale-Quantum (NISQ) devices, large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation is out of reach, making full-fledged quantum simulation an ambitious long-term goal. Still, NISQ devices already provide new horizons and opportunities for fundamental research in many-body physics. Indeed, in their native hardware, they can be conceptualized as qubit systems evolving by discrete gates, measurements, and feedback, giving rise to completely new collective behavior and universal phenomena. This project has the ambitious goal of finding and theoretically characterizing new phases of matter which are exclusive to NISQ platforms, charting their largely unexplored phenomenology and possibilities. Taking on a fundamental perspective, at the intersection of many-body physics and quantum information theory, we will pursue this goal based on the study of synthetic models of quantum circuits and quantum cellular automata (QCA). The target results of this project include: (i) Prediction of new dynamical phases arising thanks to the building blocks of NISQ technology and identification of protocols to observe them in existing platforms; (ii) Deeper understanding of topical but hard problems in many-body physics out of equilibrium, made possible by the simplifying minimal structure of quantum-circuit and QCA models. The proposed research is expected to stimulate new synergies between different communities, reflecting the dual nature and interdisciplinary interest of NISQ devices, being both early prototypes for quantum computers and experimental platforms for many-body physics.

Keywords: digital quantum simulation,quantum thermalization,random quantum circuits,many body quantum chaos,quantum integrable models,quantum cellular automata,measurement induced phase transitions
Engineering human cortical brain organoid’s connections to restore brain functions (COnNect)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Brain injuries affecting the cerebral cortex result in devastating neurologic deficits from irreversible loss of neurons and still do not have any therapeutic option. The only possible treatment for these conditions would be the reconstruction of the lost neuronal circuits which could be achieved, in principle, by stem cell therapy. However, when stem cells are engrafted they only provide trophic effect and are incapable of substantial tissue replacement and rewiring the damaged tissue. With this project I aim at implementing a paradigm shift toward a new targeted therapeutic approach enabling restoration of functional neuronal network activity in cortical brain lesions. In this view, I aim at: i) Developing a human-specific hydrogel able to support cortical brain organoids (CBOs) engraftment; ii) Achieving in vitro guidance of functional neuronal connections between CBOs via 3 dimension (3D) bioprinting; iii) Connecting CBO and lesioned mouse visual cortex using intravital 3D bioprinting; iv) Achieving in vivo functional network restoration via guided CBO integration within the lesioned cortex circuit. I already developed in vivo fabrication of customized 3D hydrogels by 2-photon mediated crosslinking of photo-sensitive polymers in cortical brain of living mice adjacent to implanted CBOs, able to guide CBO’s growth in vivo. The ground-breaking nature of COnNect lays on the novel idea of i) creating in situ extra cellular matrix (ECM) mimic structures to re-establish in vivo the neuronal network and the lost neurological functions; ii) using brain organoids as an electrically active unit with defined organized structure to stimulate brain plasticity and reinforce synaptic connections with the host brain tissue. The proposed project has the potential to provide a new beyond state-of-the-art therapeutic option for cortical brain lesion therapy only possible combining multiple competences belonging to different fields: neuroscience, cell therapy, bioengineering.

Keywords: brain organoids stem cell therapy brain lesion repair
Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities (COEVOLVERS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Italy,Slovakia,Hungary,United Kingdom,Estonia,Spain,Czechia
Call: Assessing the socio-politics of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities (HORIZON-CL6-2022-COMMUNITIES-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5254627.5
EU funding (EUR): 5254627.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are governance techniques and models that directly and cost-effectively benefit both nature and humans. Despite the progress in NBS design and implementation, the socio-political challenge is that NBS are often tailored for the privileged, their design is expert-led, and their implementation hampered by institutional and administrative inertia. NBS have not been able to support a just transformation of habits for sustainability, and fail to incorporate non-human actors or include marginal and vulnerable humans as true beneficiaries of these solutions. COEVOLVERS goes beyond the state of the art by introducing a co-evolutionary approach, which offers a radically new view for NBS design and implementation by looking at NBS at the interface of technological and biological spheres and considering full co-creation as an interplay not only between the stakeholders but also between human and nonhuman actors. To accomplish this, COEVOLVERS explores through seven Living Labs (LL) across Europe the situational and place-based conditions around the socio-politics of NBS design and implementation. The purpose is to alter the socio-ecological conditions to provide governance models and techniques, motivation structures and practices for more inclusive NBS and resilient communities. COEVOLVERS helps develop already existing, incipient, and emerging NBS with local actors by means of participatory and digital transdisciplinary methodologies. COEVOLVERS will support the growth of novel capabilities, entrepreneurship, and renewal capacity for a just transition. COEVOLVERS engages and informs policy- and decisionmakers to ensure their contribution to transformational impacts. We integrate co-created knowledge and preparedness to act with actual governance and decision-making structures to ensure implementation and critical evaluation together with the continuous reconfiguration and development of models, techniques and tools.

Keywords: coevolution nonhuman actors living labs affordance semiotics vulnerability,biodiversity,resilience