Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice (Speak4Nature)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Brazil,Argentina,Chile
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1291942.86
EU funding (EUR): 1260400.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The complexity of current ecological challenges requires to elaborate new methods to understand the way we interact with the environment and to eradicate the anachronistic human-centred conception of nature. Scientists, governments and regulators are asked to create a “justice” capable to reframe the concept of nature as an active player, in line with the notion of Ecological Justice (EJ). Counting on a consortium of 9 international interdisciplinary forefront academic (universities and research centers) and non-academic institutions (a for-profit company and NGOs) in EU and Latin America, Speak4Nature aims to develop new socio-legal instruments and methodologies to provide a common theoretical and operational basis in social and environmental sciences to give voice to non-human beings in legal instances, and to contribute to the creation of a shared vision towards the treatment of “nature” itself useful for the adaptation of the political process to the current ecological challenges. In particular, Speak4Nature will aim to: SO1) conceptualize EJ from a multidisciplinary, intersectoral, and international perspective; SO2) define why, how and under what influence different social sciences extend moral considerability to non-human nature; SO3) map the current social and legal techniques to assert the voice of non-human nature; SO4) empower civil society and stakeholders’ role in ecological awareness, restoration and climate change litigation; SO5) ensure the uptake of project outcomes by developing practical guidelines and training tools on legal techniques and standards to implement EJ principles in disputes over environmental violations. Through interdisciplinary and intersectoral secondments and knowledge transfer mechanisms, Speak4Nature will increase the skills of the involved staff to foster the study, exchange and dissemination of knowledge on issues related to the ecology of law, contributing to the improvement of EJ standards and policies.

Keywords: ecology of law,ecological justice,environmental ethics,philosophy of law,political ecology
Light emitting cryo-cooler (COOLED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland,Malta
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2827548.15
EU funding (EUR): 2729244.58
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Semiconductor-based devices in fields like night vision, space exploration, medical inspection, and telecommunications benefit from operating at low or cryogenic temperatures. However, current cryogenic cooling technologies face challenges in meeting the size, costs, energy efficiency and performance requirements of modern applications. This has led to increasing demand for compact, high-performance electronics and efficient thermal management in miniaturized systems. Optical refrigeration, powered by light-emitting diodes, presents a transformative cooling technology with immense application potential. We have developed an innovation that integrates high-refractive index lenses with low-resistance current-spreading solutions and thin-film light emitter technologies, significantly boosting light emission efficiency. This enhancement enables smaller and more cost-effective low-temperature and cryogenic optical cooling solutions. The primary advantage of the COOLED technology is its ultra-compact size, using up to 95-99% less space than competing technologies. In COOLED, we will demonstrate the commercial feasibility of the solutions by testing these new coolers in industrially relevant use cases. We will also improve device fabrication scalability and performance, advancing from TRL4 to TRL6. Demonstrations will focus on room temperature thermal stabilizers, providing around 1W of cooling power, and optical refrigerators, enabling cryogenic cooling. This novel cooling component will disrupt markets by offering a solution with lower prices, minimal size and weight, and enhanced production scalability compared to existing compact cooling options. Our commercialization plan involves establishing initial production facilities and global value chains for direct component sales by a new entity holding the IP generated during the EIC Transition project.

Keywords: optical refrigeration,light emission,thermodynamics
Film Festivals and War: A Fe-Male Perspective (1939–present) (FESTWAR FM)

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: Italy,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 280202.88
EU funding (EUR): 280202.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A transdisciplinary project traversing cultural history, film and film festival studies, gender studies and digital humanities, FESTWAR FM will offer the first sustainable analysis of film festivals (FF) and war from a gender perspective. Despite numerous examples of women’s involvement in wartime FFs, no global study has yet analysed their roles in FFs in the context of ongoing wars, nor theorised what we might learn from it. The project will break new ground by investigating FF’s evolution as places of memory in conflict situations with a specific focus on women’s position within this process. This will be done through three case studies connected to three armed conflicts that have occurred in Europe since the creation of the world's first FF in Venice in 1932: WWII (1939-1945), Yugoslavia (1991-1999), and Ukraine (2014-present). The research will compare global responses to these wars through analysis of the world’s five most prestigious ‘A-list’ FFs (Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance), with the European and local response of the major FFs operating in the war affected Yugoslavia (Pula, Belgrade, Sarajevo) and Ukraine (Kyiv, Odesa). The analysis will be organized around three categories (CAT): CAT1 – (wo)men on the screen and behind the cameras; CAT2 – (wo)men in decision-making structures; CAT3 – (wo)men on the stage and the red carpet. The project will produce a monograph, two academic articles and an online digital archive (ODA) including a) a data visualisation chart, b) a selection of film extracts, photographs and archival materials illustrating each case study, and c) a podcast with interviews with women engaged in analysed FFs during wars in Yugoslavia and Ukraine. In doing so, it will introduce a gendered innovation in the field of war-related FF studies, enable digitisation and digital distribution of knowledge, data and sources, and provide a public space for (marginalised) women’s voices in line with the EC Gender Equality Strategy 2020–2025.

Keywords: film festivals,war,women s studies,women s cinema,cultural history of war and conflict,cultural memory,oral history,yugoslavia,ukraine,wwii,digitisation of cultural heritage
Development of Cost-Effective Process for Phyco-Remediation of Dairy Wastewater and Valorization of Algal Biomass for Production of Biofuel and Biochemical: A Sustainable Approach towards Bio-Refinery (AlgalBB)

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 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-22
End date: 2025-05-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, Dairy Wastewater (DW) is seen as a major global problem, difficult and expensive to treat and potentially very harmful to the environment as it contains high amounts of organic and inorganic content. The current treatment methods (physicochemical and conventional) are energy-intensive and don’t sufficiently remove the nutrients. But, with the high amount that is produced worldwide: 0.2‒10 L wastewater/ L of milk processed; this is potentially a valuable resource that, if utilized appropriately, can provide high-value green chemicals and biofuel. Therefore, a new cost-effective method for the treatment of DW along with the generation of valuable biomass needs to be developed. In this context, AlgalBB proposes the concept of biorefinery for the substantive treatment of DW via microalgae, coupled with biodiesel and bio-succinic acid (SA) production. These objectives will be pursued through 1) The designing of a microalgae consortia that can remediate DW to achieve a zero-waste process and generate lipid/carbohydrate-rich algal biomass; 2) The green synthesis of magnetic nanocatalyst for developing a low-cost, efficient method for in-situ transesterification for wet algal biomass to produce biodiesel; 3) Development of multienzyme magnetic nanocatalyst for efficient enzymatic hydrolysis to recover fermentable sugars from algal biomass; 4) Immobilization of fermentative bacteria for fermentation of sugars into SA. The interdisciplinary AlgalBB will apply cutting edge biology tools to complete the aforesaid objectives. AlgalBB adopts a circular economy approach that directly addresses clean water, clean energy; actions established by the EU Horizon Work Programme and will support the competitiveness of European biorefineries. The acquisition of transferable skills through AlgalBB will increase my employability in industry and especially in academia, allowing me to establish myself as an independent researcher and reach a professor position within 5-10 years.

Keywords: microalgae,dairy wastewater treatment,bio succinic acid,biodiesel,fermentation,in situ transesterification,magnetic nano catalyst,immobilization
Statistical mechanics of quantum measurement and quantum entanglement (STAQQ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1623750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1623750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal will provide five key planks for a new "statistical mechanics of measurement and entanglement" that is made necessary by several lines of progress. Historically, the powerful theory of emergence in complex quantum systems was developed largely for many-body systems evolving with a time-independent Hamiltonian, usually very close to their ground state. Now, we must understand universality and emergence for a much broader range of quantum dynamical systems. The reasons are several. First, highly controllable quantum simulators are becoming experimental reality: instead of being constrained to Schrödinger dynamics with a fixed Hamiltonian, an ideal device allows arbitrary combinations of unitary evolution, repeated local measurements, and control operations. This larger arena allows new dynamical phases, as demonstrated by the measurement phase transition co-invented by the PI. Second, the "hydrodynamics" of many-body systems far from their ground state - perhaps coupled to an environment - is richer than expected, even for dynamics with a fixed Hamiltonian. New methods also mean it can be understood and computed in detail. The ambitious objectives of STAQQ are: 1) Develop the theory of criticality due to measurement. Entanglement phase transitions are fundamentally different from simple ordering transitions - they require new tools. 2) Map out the broader landscape of dynamical phases in nonunitary quantum systems (with environmental decoherence and/or control operations). 3) Extend powerful computational tools developed (partly by the PI) in simple random circuit models to realistic condensed matter/cold atom Hamiltonians - yielding a detailed theory for the emergence of hydrodynamics (broadly construed). 4) Develop classical analogues of the measurement transitions above - a new branch of classical critical phenomena. 5) Use insights from quantum dynamics to understand "beyond-field-theory" quantum phase transitions, where standard tools fail.

Keywords: quantum measurement,entanglement,decoherence,critical phenomena,universality,random quantum circuits
Supporting the identification of policy priorities and recommendations for designing a sustainable track towards circular bio-based systems (SUSTRACK)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Slovakia,Germany,Belgium,Spain
Call: Benefits of the transition towards sustainable circular bio-based systems from linear fossil-based (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993375.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The transition from linear fossil-based systems to circular and bio-based systems represents an opportunity and a suitable pathway for achieving several SDGs. Indeed, circular bio-based systems depict a great opportunity to reconcile sustainable long-term growth with environmental protection through the prudent use of renewable resources for industrial purposes. This needed transition is a complex process, which does not simply require innovative technologies from the supply-side, but also societal transformations based on a multi-actor process. The circular bioeconomy meta-sector may be a good candidate to put forward a new economic model, which requires transformative policies, purposeful innovation, access to finance, risk-taking capacity as well as new and sustainable business models and markets. However, a critical assessment of the environmental, social and economic impacts of the current linear fossil-based economy, as well as of the improvement potential associated with circular bio-based systems, is needed to underpin the identification of policy priorities. Bearing this in mind, SUSTRACK is a three-year project aimed at supporting policymakers in their efforts to develop sustainable pathways to replace fossil and carbon-intensive systems with sustainable circular and bio-based systems (at the EU and regional scale), contributing to achieving the European Green Deal’s objectives. This will be done by: identifying environmental, economic and social limits of a linear carbon-intensive and fossil-based economy; improving existing assessment methodologies; assessing the environmental, social and economic impacts of the EU’s current linear fossil-based economy; comparing multiple transition scenarios focusing on the most carbon-intensive sectors; identifying priorities according to scenarios analysed in the project and develop guidelines and policy recommendations.

Keywords: sustainable transition sustainability assessment scenario analysis policy measures
Digital twins for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space (SPACETWIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498859.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498859.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and species composition due to anthropogenic disturbances, climate change and other global change drivers. Climate, disturbances and forest structure are all closely linked: changes in climate can lead directly to physical changes in forest structure and vice versa or to an anticipated increase in forest disturbances. However, it is still uncertain how forest structure is impacted by disturbances (locally) and how we can detect and monitor various levels of disturbance regimes using spaceborne satellite data (globally). This project will focus on the impact of drought, fire and logging disturbances across a range of tropical and temperate forest ecosystems. It will lead to a step-change in our ability to observe, quantify and understand forest disturbances and recovery by using time series of the most detailed structural and radiometric 3D forest models ever built: 'digital twin' forests. The key innovations will be: (1) the establishment of an unprecedented 4D dataset across 57 disturbed sites using terrestrial laser scanning (~11,500 individual trees); (2) the development of next generation methods to enable big data science of forest point clouds; (3) the identification of key axes of variation of disturbed tree and forest structure; (4) the first ever implementation of digital twins for optical and microwave radiative transfer modelling; (5) the near-real time inversion of remote sensing of forest disturbances using emulation; and (6) the embedding of forest structure in the global observation process to understand the uncertainties in monitoring disturbances. These innovations will open a realm of untapped research questions and applications that call for the most detailed 3D information on canopy structure possible. These insights are also urgently needed to reduce uncertainties and advance the forecasting of carbon stocks and dynamics within the context of the IPCC.

Keywords: forest dynamics physical geography natural resources management laser scanning forest disturbance forest recovery radiative transfer modelling
Lignocellulosic oil: novel biofuel platform for maritime transportation (SEAFARER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3567500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SEAFARER has the objective to further mature, demonstrate, and bring to market the next-generation bio (fuel) oil process allowing oil refineries to retrofit for 100% climate-neutral operations. Our patented technology is the first process for high-efficient sustainable biomass conversion using lignocellulose and even pure lignin as feedstock – the most abundantly available & non-edible waste biomass on Earth, yet currently to 98% unexploited. Our process is simple (one-step reaction; no catalysts), 80% energy-efficient and more than 2-times cheaper than all existing biofuel oil production methods. Our technology is thus highly scalable, able to produce lignocellulosic biofuel oil (L-BFO) that is fully miscible with all current liquid fuels – a unique feature, especially for the maritime sector, where engines found aboard large ships are adapted to more crude fuels (i.e. no refinement step needed for using our L-BFO) and where replacing (heavy & costly) engines is not an option.

Keywords: maritime transport,environmental and green technologies,industrial bioengineering,energy economics,circular economy,fuel process engineering,clean transportation fuel,sustainable biomass,lignin biomass,lignocellulosic oil,co2 savings,marine fuel oil,green deal,bioeconomy
Virtue and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (VandPW)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Traditionally scholars have considered the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) as the unique vehicle for Aristotle’s ethical views. Over the last decades, however, his lesser-known Eudemian Ethics (EE) has increasingly become widely read and treated as equally authoritative. The relationship between these two treatises is complicated by the fact that they share three books in common: books V, VI, and VII of the NE have been handed down to us also as books IV, V, and VI of the EE; scholars disagree about their origin and where they should be read. In Virtue and Practical Wisdom (VandPW) I set out to give a comprehensive account of Aristotle's account of character virtue in the EE together with two of the so-called common books. Character virtue is accounted for in general terms in EE II. This general account is then applied to the individual virtues of character (courage, temperance, mildness, etc.) in EE III and then to justice in EE IV (=NE V). Finally, in EE V (=NE VI) Aristotle argues that character virtue requires what he calls practical wisdom. Thus a comprehensive account of character virtue in the EE requires us to connect EE II and III to two of the so-called common books, viz. EE IV (=NE V) and EE V (=NE VI). VandPW aims at examining this whole line of investigation. This endeavour will bring out several specificities of the EE vis-à-vis the NE as well as of the common books.

Keywords: ancient philosophy,aristotle,ethics,virtue ethics,practical wisdom