Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Colonial Education in Transnational and Transectoral Networks: A Global Intellectual History (1900-1961) (COLED)

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 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the early 20th-century European colonialism became more socially oriented and reflective of the rise of the welfare state. Yet, the better funded and larger colonial school networks became, the more European officials differentiated schools for colonial youth. Addressing this crucial tension, COLED examines how common ideas of colonial education—education for colonial subjects—formed and changed through transnational and transectoral knowledge transfers at the International Colonial Institute, the Save the Children International Fund, the Teachers College, the League of Nations, and UNESCO (1900-1961). Building on my 10-year experience researching education in colonial Africa, COLED: 1) offers the first global intellectual history of colonial education in modern empires, a topic usually studied within separate national cases; 2) shows that deliberate gender-, class-, and race-specific educational planning was a peculiarity of 20th-century European colonialism, thus challenging the common narrative that European states lacked interest in colonial education; 3) identifies for the first time the transition from assimilationist-elitist to differentialist and mass-oriented approaches to colonial education as a byproduct of inter-imperial negotiations between officials, teachers, students, activists, and scholars. Pan-European in scope, this transition questions views of colonial education as a fixed block and of liberal and fascist colonial projects as divergent and mutually opposed. COLED not only fosters interdisciplinary dialogue integrating global history methods with the social and intellectual study of colonialism, pedagogy, and humanitarianism. Also, it promotes awareness among citizens and self-reflection among public agencies committed to universal school rights by contextualizing modern educational inequalities within the still neglected history of institutionalized knowledge exchange on colonial education across networks and borders.

Keywords: modern european empires,colonial education,global knowledge circulation,history and theory of colonialism,history and theory of pedagogy,child focused humanitarianism and development
Biodiversity value in spatial policy and planning leveraging multi-level and transformative change (BioValue)

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: Portugal,Italy,Denmark,Germany
Call: Policy mixes, governance (including financing) and decision-making tools for transformative action on biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2630982.5
EU funding (EUR): 2630982.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Despite international and European policies in place to halt biodiversity loss, the effect of multi-level, and multi-sector, direct and indirect drivers of change contribute to continuing negative trends. The BioValue proposal was designed upon the fact that persistent land use and land cover changes have a major effect on biodiversity loss; and on the assumption that a transformative change is needed on paradigms, goals and values shaping current spatial dynamics by a mix of sectoral policies. Such transformative change is in line with the IPBES (2020) report and the EU biodiversity strategy 2030 calling for co-responsible engagement of all relevant actors, in a whole-of-society approach to biodiversity. To address this call, we will explore the transformative potential of spatial planning, as the arena for action and the territorial expression of multi-level policies, strategic to invert current trends of biodiversity loss. The objective of BioValue is to safeguard and increase biodiversity by better articulating three instrumental perspectives - spatial planning, environmental assessment, and economic and financing instruments -, individually and in combined action. BioValue builds upon knowledge created by several EU projects, including a conceptual framework on transformative change to be adapted for analysing the potential of instruments and their interactions in local case-studies. Transformative potential lies in: a) focussing on key steps of the mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize and off-set) b) addressing indirect drivers, i.a. by guiding the operationalisation of the renewed EU finance strategy within spatial planning to avoid significant harm and to ensure redesign of potentially harmful projects in the design phase, and c) by providing better articulated instruments for mainstreaming biodiversity concerns into other sectors across different levels of governance.

Keywords: spatial planning,biodiversity,environmental assessment and transformative change
Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models (GOLEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1194088.75
EU funding (EUR): 1194088.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The “Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models” (GOLEM) project will create statistically robust models explaining how fiction evolves, based on the analysis of millions of stories and the effects they have on readers. This is the first time in history that this kind of data is available on such a large scale, thanks to the fact that readers all over the world use digital and social media to share fictional stories and to comment on them, e.g. on fanfiction websites or on publishing platforms like Wattpad. GOLEM will use computational literary studies and cultural evolution theory to create accurate models of how the (formal and content-related) cultural traits found in fiction spread and combine. The basis of this evolutionary analysis of fiction will be a knowledge graph database – an infrastructure of interlinked data about stories and reader response – which will be used to test hypotheses related to the accumulation of cultural traits in stories and their effectiveness in achieving cognitive and emotional effects on readers. State-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and advanced statistical modelling tools will be employed to create a major breakthrough in computational literary studies, possibly also contributing to the revision of cultural evolution theories. By focusing on the relations between stories in five different languages, collected from countries in all continents, GOLEM will provide an unprecedented insight into how storytelling, one of the most ancient cultural systems, evolves. Literary history and criticism have offered refined accounts of how fiction works, mostly relying on case studies of limited extent. It is now time to provide robust statistical evidence of the anthropological function of fiction and of how it adapts to different circumstances and cultures, empowering readers to cope with their cultural or societal contexts.

Keywords: computational literary studies reader response cultural evolution
Integrated 4D driver modelling under uncertainty (i4Driving)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CCAM (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Spain,Sweden,Germany,China,United States,Australia,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Human behavioural model to assess the performance of CCAM solutions compared to human driven vehicles (CCAM Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6766958.75
EU funding (EUR): 6766958.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of i4Driving is to lay the foundation for a new industry-standard methodology to establish a credible and realistic human road safety baseline for virtual assessment of CCAM systems. The two central ideas we propose are (1) a multi-level, modular and extendable simulation library that combines existing and new models for human driving behavior; in combination with (2) an innovative cross-disciplinary methodology to account for the huge uncertainty in both human behaviors and use case circumstances. This rigorous treatment of the uncertainty is crucial to assess how much of our confidence in model inputs, parameters, and structure is justified. It also makes explicit how experts from different disciplines judge the outcomes and how justified the underlying assumptions really are. Our consortium combines all the expertise needed to develop this methodology (e.g., traffic engineering, human factors, data & computer science). We have the experimental means to gather the evidence beyond the state-of-art needed to realistically simulate (near) accidents in multi-driver scenarios (access to many data sources, advanced driving simulators, and field labs). We have a strong international network to collaborate with and harmonize our approach with academic and professional partners in e.g., the US (NADS facility); Australia (UQ advanced driving simulator and TRACSLab connected driving simulator facilities), China (Tongji Univ. 8-dof driving simulator and large-scale field lab) and Japan (NTSEL). Finally, we have all the relevant partners on-board to test and apply the methodology (Universities and research labs, OEMs and Tier 1, vehicle regulators, type-approval authorities, standardization institutes, insurance companies). i4Driving offers a proposition for the short and the longer term: a set of building blocks that pave the way for a driving license for AVs.

Keywords: human factors uncertainty driving simulator
Photocatalytic Methylations via Direct Methane Functionalization (MePhoCat)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Methane is one of the most abundant, underutilized carbon-based chemical feedstocks on the planet. Moreover, the simplest alkane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to which United Nations has lunched the global methane initiative for achieving a 30% reduction in its emission by 2030. The current methodologies for the utilization and disposal of methane gas suffer due to being cost intensive and non-sustainable. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop protocols, which allow the transformation of this greenhouse gas into valuable products in a profitable manner. On the other hand, the selective substitution of C-H bonds in drug candidates to C-Me bonds have often led to an average 100-fold increase in their biological activity (Magic Methyl Effect). As a result, protocols which allow the selective incorporation of methyl groups into organic substrates have gained wide attention. The proposed project aims at developing efficient catalytic processes that allow direct methane functionalization by using it as a methylating reagent in a variety of C-Me bond forming reactions through dual transition metal photoredox catalysis. New pathways for the direct use of methane in reactions such as cross-couplings, C-H methylations and cascade cyclizations will be developed based on this novel bimetallic photocatalytic strategy. It is envisioned that the proposed research will open new avenues for the utilization of methane as feedstock for the synthesis of drugs and biorelevant molecules, thus contributing to the reduction in the emissions of this gas and helping to reach UN’s global methane initiative and to EU’s European Green Deal objective of achieving zero net greenhouse gas emission by 2050.

Keywords: cross coupling,c h activation,cascade cyclisation,methane valorisation,methylation
DEScycle: disrupting the €1 Trillion metal industry with low-cost, low-impact metal recycling and production (DEScycle)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Argo Natural Resource Limited is a UK-based company founded in 2018. The company's vision is that of transforming the €1 Trillion metals industry by ending the reliance upon high-energy demanding and polluting processes while its mission is to replace outdated and polluting smelting technology with an innovative, eco-friendly, and profitable solution for sustainable metal recycling from e-waste. E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, fuelled by a rapidly increasing global population, rising standards of living for billions of people and evermore tech products coming to market. The improper treatment and disposal through open burning or landfill pose significant risks to the environment and human health and do not allow the enhancement of the circular economy. To solve what seems to be a never-ending problem, DEScycle has created an innovative, cheap, and clean technology to recycle metals which relies on a new class of chemicals, Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES). DES are eco-friendly liquids made of salts and organic compounds that are capable of dissolving metals with a recovery rate in the range of 99.5% and have a high capacity for holding metals in solution, allowing the replacement of polluting technology like smelting. With a global market value forecasted to grow to €75.7bn by 2030 at a CAGR of 3%, e-waste treatment needs technological improvements to follow Green Deal's requirements and to enhance worldwide circular economy. DEScycle's innovative process boosts metal recovery through Joint Ventures with Upstream Recyclers and allows Retailers and Manufacturing companies to reintroduce their recycled products in their manufacturing processes. DEScycle's business model forecasts a cumulative revenue of €1.32bn in the first five years after commercialization, positioning the company as the worldwide leader in the metal recovery sector. To reach this target, the company is seeking €2.5m in funding through the EIC Accelerator Grant-only option.

Keywords: new methods for e waste recycling replacing polluting technologies
Breakthrough AI-robotics software enabling natural language comprehension, semantic reasoning, and advanced object manipulation (PickGPT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sereact aims to revolutionise the industry by integrating cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) into robotics applications. Although robotics is one of the main pillars of Industry 4.0 and beyond, only 45% of assembly and manufacturing facilities use robots as an integral part of their operation due to the high total cost of ownership and the high skills barrier for using them effectively. Industrial companies, large corporations and SMEs alike, have been vocal about their wish for robotics to be simpler to program, to commission and to use. PickGPT, the LLM-enabled pick-and-place robotics software, is an industry-first, no-code, no-training-required solution that addresses these issues. Based on our proprietary vision-language-action (VLA) model, PickGPT combines the power of LLMs with our computer vision models to enable robots to pick up and manipulate objects with reasoning and accuracy that was previously impossible. PickGPT enables natural language communication with robots, removing the need for complex human-to-machine interfaces and high-level programming languages. It can achieve 1,500 picks/hour with a 99.5% first-pick success rate and has an ROI of under 1 year. With global economic downturns and an increasing worldwide preference for reshoring supply chains, productivity improvements are required for economic growth and regional independence. In this respect, PickGPT will be an essential tool to increase the competitiveness of the European industry by driving up productivity. Furthermore, by lowering the skill barrier for operating robots effectively, PickGPT will reduce the reskilling/upskilling cost for the industrial workforce, and widen the recruitment pool for industry jobs.

Keywords: industry 5 0,logistics,generative ai,collaborative robots,industrial robotics,vision language action model,large language models
Sustainable light-emitting devices through control of dynamic doping (InnovaLEC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Artificial illumination is fundamental and ubiquitous in modern society, and the cuArtificial illumination is fundamental and ubiquitous in modern society, and the current large-scale commercialization of more efficient and practical technologies, in the form of LEDs and OLEDs, is therefore important. This development is not only resulting in improved luminaires and displays, but also paving the way for a wide range of applications in, e.g., medtech, security, and communication. However, a growing concern is related to that the fabrication of LEDs and OLEDs consumes large amounts of critical raw materials (CRMs) and energy, and that their recycling is poorly developed and difficult. A novel illumination technology, the light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC), is in this context interesting, and we and others have recently developed concepts for its material- and energy-efficient and CRM-free printing fabrication and its delivery of efficient emission (although not yet on par with LED/OLED). These combined achievements now pave the way for a timely and important challenge: can the LEC become the first emissive technology that is truly sustainable through its entire lifecycle? We boldly argue that this vision can turn true if we can take control of the defining LEC feature, viz. the dynamic formation of a p-n junction by electrochemical doping. It was recently shown that current LECs suffer from severe quenching of the excitons (the photon precursors formed in the p-n junction) by too-nearby dopants, and we here introduce new insights and methodologies that address this setback through rational design and careful development of new materials. A key task is to tune the mobility of the electronic charge carriers and excitons, through guidelines established by modeling, for the attainment of a sharp p-n junction boundary. We emphasize that our proposed path to high-efficiency LECs does not depend on energy-intense processes or the use of toxic or CRM-based materials.

Keywords: understanding and controlling dynamic doping high efficiency light emission by designed dynamic doping structures truly sustainable illumination devices from cradle to grave
Everyday Politics of Love and Intimacy: A critical exploration of older women's intimacy and sexuality in contemporary family relationships in South Africa (PILOW)

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: United Kingdom,South Africa
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 301142.76
EU funding (EUR): 301142.76
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The PILOW project critically investigates the intimacy, sexuality, and relationships of Black older women (50+) in contemporary South Africa, a demographic often overlooked in both feminist and decolonial agendas. The primary research objectives are to explore how these women construct and experience intimacy, love, and sexuality as they age, how family dynamics, particularly relationships with adult children, influence their intimate lives, and how social institutions like religious institutions shape their sexuality, especially outside of marriage. By addressing these research gaps, the project challenges prevailing stereotypes of older women as asexual and marginalised. This transdisciplinary research is grounded in a feminist decolonial framework and actively involves older women as knowledgeable experts in the co-design of research tools. By including their voices, the project ensures that the concerns and perspectives of older women are central to the research process. In addition to older women, conversations with their adult children, spiritual leaders from religious institutions (referred to as ‘spiritual parents’), and healthcare providers from local clinics, creating a holistic understanding of how personal and institutional factors shape the intimate lives of older Black women. Through narrative interviews, focus group discussions, and ethnographic fieldwork, the project seeks to capture the complex interplay between family, faith, and sexuality in this demographic. The project’s approach addresses broader objectives of issues of social justice, gender equality, and the decolonisation of knowledge. Its focus on marginalised voices contributes to the transformation of critical sexuality studies, while its transdisciplinary nature fosters collaboration between academia, religious institutions, and healthcare providers.The findings are expected to contribute to both academic knowledge and policy discussion on the intersectionality of race, gender and sexual

Keywords: sexuality,intimacy,older women,adult children,pleasure,gender,class,race,decolonial feminist theory,power