Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Sonar Sensing System for Crop Yield Estimation (EchoYieldEstimation)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With the rapidly growing world population, accelerated climate changes and global migration, nutritional security is a major challenge. This situation calls for fast development and utilisation of agricultural technology that will push agricultural yield production to its full potential. Yield estimation in agricultural production is thus central for both agricultural planning as well as for successful agroeconomic management. Despite its importance, agricultural yield estimation is currently almost solely done manually without assisting technology and it is therefore inaccurate and limited to small areas. To meet this challenge, we offer a unique sonar sensing system for large-scale, rapid yield estimation. Our technology, as demonstrated in a recent peer reviewed paper, and in additional preliminary studies has unexampled advantages compared to other sensors. The sonar-based crop estimating sensor has been patented and initial tests show that it is capable of estimating pepper and tomato yields with ~90% accuracy under laboratory conditions. The technology has several advantages over pursued optical based solutions including the ability to penetrate the vegetation and its functionality under all lighting conditions. In the proposed project, we will expand those tests to additional key vegetables, e.g., cucumbers, and elaborate our approach to make it functional under field conditions, aiming to provide farmers with a reliable tool for crop estimation. Our team is composed of sonar, agriculture, robotics and business experts, covering all of the needs of the project. We will collaborate with agri-robotics companies and agricultural stake-holders in the EU to fulfil the goals of our PoC project. The project will ultimately lead to the necessary steps for establishing a spin-off company that will exploit this invention and provide a product to the benefit of European and worldwide farmers.
Semiclassical understanding of ergodicity-breaking in many-body systems (SemiLIOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The detailed understanding of quantum many-body effects is a highly relevant task in modern condensed matter physics. It is assumed that quantum many-body systems generically exhibit a notion of ergodicity, captured by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. However, it is numerically observed that there exist various ergodicity-breaking effects, which violate this assumption of fundamental thermodynamics. The most prominent example of such ergodicity-breaking is many-body localization (MBL), which arises from an emergent integrability induced by local integrals of motion. Despite the conceptual analytic intuition, most investigations on many-body localization are confined to small-sized numerical studies, only. The project goes beyond this state in devising an analytical view on ergodicity-breaking by combining concepts from many-body physics with modern classical and semiclassical techniques. The aim of this project is to rigorously transfer the notion of classical integrability by means of the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theory towards the emergent integrability of MBL in the semiclassical regime. To this end, the study provides a detailed understanding of the transition from MBL to ergodicity, and thereby lays out the foundations for a many-body KAM theory in terms of symplectic geometry. Furthermore, as entanglement is the central observable of ergodicity-breaking, the project is complemented with an analytical investigation of entanglement in the semiclassical regime. The current advances in the experimental realization of quantum simulators and quantum computers render this project to be highly relevant and timely. The completion of the project will provide the missing link between classical KAM theory and quantum mechanics and establishes a firm foundation for future investigations of the quantum-classical correspondence in many-body systems.

Keywords: semiclassical physics,many body localization,ergodicity breaking
Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,New Zealand,Morocco,Australia,France,Germany
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 469200.0
EU funding (EUR): 469200.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The WET project aims to establish water-electric propulsion technology as a standard choice for future space missions. Through a multifaceted approach, the project will address several interconnected aspects: (i) the architectural and conceptual design of a water-based electric thruster, (ii) feasibility analysis of converting the thruster's building blocks to water, focusing on neutralizers, (iii) assessment of water plasma cross-sections using theoretical and numerical approaches to enhance understanding of underlying physics, and (iv) feasibility analysis of a toolbox comprising diagnostic and measurement tools dedicated to water-based plasma, alongside upgrades to testing facilities to accommodate water thrusters. Targeting the 500 – 1000 W range, the project aims to cater to the SmallSats segment with flexibility for potential deep-space applications. Emphasis will be placed on ensuring mutual interactions between each aspect to establish a common knowledge base and lay the groundwork for future standardization. This sustainable approach will provide a catalyst for relevant follow-up activities. By the project's end, conceptual development of this technology is expected to reach TRL 2/3.

Keywords: water propulsion,in situ resources utilization,plasma thrusters
SKILLSPAN – TRAINING FOR IMPACTFUL RESEARCH CAREERS (RESKILLSPAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Croatia,Germany
Call: Strengthening researchers’ skills for better careers – leveraging the European Competence Framework for Researchers (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499845.0
EU funding (EUR): 499845.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

ReSkillSpan aims to maximise the impact of the European R&I system by equipping researchers of all career stages with skills needed for impactful careers within and outside academia. Building on the research-specific skills that many researchers have already mastered or are expected to have mastered, the project will develop the transversal skills that will allow them to successfully span boundaries between academia, industry and society, as well as navigate a potential entrepreneurial journey and acquire the right skills to successfully combine the lab with market, and societal needs, ultimately, generating social and economic impact. This aim will be achieved by conceptualising, designing and pilot-testing an innovative modular training and mentorship scheme as well as a certification model. All deliverables will target and be pilot-tested with researchers of all career stages and a variety of disciplines from the HEIs and research institutes participating in the project and beyond. We will: - Develop a deep understanding of and exchange the best practices in training offered by HEIs, research institutions, and other training providers on the improvement of research and transversal skills development for researchers - Conduct a gap analysis of skills based on ResearchComp and identify “industry” and “transversal” skill areas that can transferred to the academic context - Conceptualise, design and test training courses addressing identified skills gaps, as well as other training interventions including peer-learning events and the Impact Project mentorship scheme - Develop and test a certification model based on micro-credentials, as well as the system for creating personalized learning journeys for individual researchers using the self-assessment tool -Raise awareness amongst researchers about impactful, inter-sectoral and entrepreneurial careers as well as the importance of science communication to empower them to communicate about their impact more effectively

Keywords: valorisation training,impactful researchers,researchcomp,competency development,transversal skills,science communication
Robust biomarker binders, probes and assays for sustainable precision medicine (MIPrecise)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Denmark,Norway,South Africa,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4330300.78
EU funding (EUR): 4205898.36
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Cancer treatment outcomes vary widely due to inequalities in access to tests, drugs and the need for regular visits to specialist clinics. Many limitations can be addressed by developing more sensitive and robust tests for underexploited cancer biomarkers that can detect cancer sooner, be deployed in local clinics and simplify sample shipment and storage. Such tests will improve health outcomes, and also reduce the substantial environmental impact of biological reagent manufacture and patient travel. MIPrecise is an innovative and integrative network for training of doctoral candidates (DCs) that aims to address these challenges by re-engineering the diagnostic development and delivery pipeline through use of inexpensive, highly stable imprinted polymers. Training a new generation of doctoral scientists in methods that can develop and transition the novel diagnostic and monitoring platforms is crucial, for sustainable development and future impact for cancer patients. Through four work packages MIPrecise will make progress related to the following cancer relevant topics: - Assays for guiding personalized therapies based on kinase inhibitors - Robust assays and home based sampling for small cell lung cancer - Discovery of new biomarkers for more precise cancer diagnostics - Fast and sensitive liquid biopsies for assessment of tumour aggresiveness The project will give 13 DCs a first-class interdisciplinary and intersectorial training program that combines scientific excellence with important transferable, business and entrepreneurial skills. This meets needs for highly skilled researchers supporting a competitive MedTech sector in Europe. 12 leading groups in the field of molecular imprinting, smart materials, proteomics, single cell analysis and clinical diagnostics at 8 universities, 1 research institute and 3 companies will form an inter-disciplinary expert network to develop disruptive greener technologies to address inequalities in cancer care.

Keywords: sustainable healthcare,molecular imprinting,posttranslational modification,phosphorylation,diagnostic assay,home based sample collection
Realizing the Promise of Higher-Order SMT and Superposition for Interactive Verification (Nekoka)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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 CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Proof assistants (also called interactive theorem provers) have a long history of being very tedious to use. The situation has improved markedly in the past decade with the integration of first-order automatic theorem provers as backends. And recently, there have been exciting developments for more expressive logics, with the emergence of automatic provers based on optimized higher-order calculi. The Nekoka project's aim is to make higher-order SMT and λ-superposition a perfect fit for logical problems emerging from the verification of software and mathematics. We will start by extending higher-order SMT and λ-superposition and implementing them in automatic provers to provide push-button proof automation for lemmas expressed in higher-order logics. To reach end users, we will integrate the automatic provers in interactive tools: both general-purpose proof assistants and software verification platforms. As case studies, we will use our own provers and integrations to formalize quantum information theory and verify a big data framework in collaboration with domain experts. Beyond providing representative case studies, this will help build a user community around our tools and technologies. In terms of scientific impact, the improved higher-order SMT and λ-superposition calculi will substantially advance the art of higher-order automation and help reorient research in automated reasoning towards the needs of end users, whether computer scientists or mathematicians. Our tools will outlive the project, serving end users and continuing to be useful for future research. At the societal level, the project will herald a future in which automatic provers and proof assistants are routinely deployed in tandem to verify critical computing infrastructure and to formalize research in computer science and mathematics, thereby leading to more trustworthy software and science.

Keywords: interactive theorem proving,proof assistants,automatic theorem proving,sat solving,smt solving,logic,proofs,software verification,formalization of mathematics
Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts of non-food biomass global supply chains (BAMBOO)

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,Netherlands,Austria,Peru,Tanzania, United Republic of,Germany,Switzerland,Portugal
Call: Quantify impacts of the trade in raw and processed biomass on ecosystems, for offering new leverage points for biodiversity conservation, along supply chains, to reduce leakage effects (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3291496.5
EU funding (EUR): 3291496.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Despite its importance, biodiversity is at a high risk of a 6th mass extinction. Widespread trade networks spanning our globe allow consumption in one part of the world to cause biodiversity impacts elsewhere. Unfortunately, we have limited and incomplete tools for assessing the impacts of trade on biodiversity, which hampers mitigating these losses for policymakers, retailers and other stakeholders. In BAMBOO, we want to rectify this situation with a focus on non-food biomass. We will develop models to quantify biodiversity impacts using four indicators: species richness, mean species abundance, functional diversity and ecosystem services. We will use LC-IMPACT and GLOBIO for impact categories that already exist but update them to the newest state. More importantly, we will complement them with novel impact categories to cover impacts across the terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms. We will create a new, hybrid multiregional input-output (MRIO) model based on the well-known EXIOBASE and the biomass-specific FABIO models. This MRIO model will be linked to our impact assessment methods and the integrated assessment model IMAGE for scenario generation to assess global trade and identify potential leverage points for halting and reversing biodiversity loss now and under future scenarios. Apart from global assessments and recommendations, we will test our models on two local case studies: fishmeal production in Peru and cotton production in Tanzania. To maximize our outreach, we plan to develop an online tool that will allow stakeholders to use all models easily. In general, our models will be freely available on Zenodo. Overall, BAMBOO will provide comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the effects of biomass trade from land and sea on biodiversity and ecosystem services and an improved way of identifying leverage points. This will ultimately contribute to better environmental decision-making, supporting to reach science-based targets and the SDGs.

Keywords: multiregional input output analysis,integrated assessment model,life cycle assessment,species richness,mean species abundance,functional diversity,ecosystem services,global scenario
Terahertz Spin Wave Logic (SPINWAVE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Finding a fundamentally new approach for data processing in the fastest and most energy efficient way is a frontier problem for applied physics and technology. The amount of data generated every second is so enormous that the heat produced by modern data centres has already become a serious limitation to further increase their performance. This heating is a result of the Ohmic dissipation of energy unavoidable in conventional electronics. At present, the data industry lacks a solution for this problem, which in future may contribute greatly to the global warming and energy crisis. An emerging alternative approach is to employ spin waves (magnons) to realize waveform-based computation, which is free from electronic Joule heating. However, the present realization of this approach, called magnonics, uses electric currents to generate and modulate magnons. This project aims to replace the electrons with light using antiferromagnetic materials, in which spins precess on a picosecond timescale and strongly couple to electro-magnetic waves. This interdisciplinary approach at the interface between magnetism and photonics not only circumvents Ohmic losses, but simultaneously pushes the operation of magnonics to THz clock-rates. Firstly, we will develop theoretical framework and a numerical solver to describe antiferromagnetic spin dynamics, strongly coupled to electro-magnetic radiation at THz frequencies. Secondly, we will develop prototypical antiferromagnetic logic elements that may have an enormous impact upon future magnon-based information processing technology. These two tasks will be pursued in parallel as the development of the solver will be validated through comparison of the numerical results with the experimental data, while the design of the magnonic logic will be informed by the numerical simulations.
Gravitational Wave Theory: Feynman Toolbox for Einstein Gravity (GWtheory)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Since the discovery of Gravitational Waves from a binary black hole merger in 2016, we have entered a new era in exploring the Universe. Binary black hole and neutron star mergers are the primary sources of gravitational waves. High-accuracy theoretical predictions for the motion of compact binary systems play a fundamental role in interpreting data and maximizing discovery potential for present and future observations, such as LIGO-Virgo-Kagra. I have played a pioneering role in the development of a new framework aiming at efficiently calculating gravitational-wave observables using modern theoretical tools initially invented for CERN’s LHC experiments. Using this framework, we have obtained the most precise theoretical predictions for the gravitational dynamics of binary inspirals to date. This project aims to push the precision frontier for theoretical predictions for the gravitational observables of inspiralling binary systems. This will be achieved by innovating computational methods for classical gravitational dynamics using cutting-edge techniques from quantum field theory and modern mathematics, including Feynman integrals, effective field theory, special functions and applied algebraic geometry. We will derive a set of new precision corrections for the dynamics of inspiralling binaries, including spin and finite-size effects, beyond the current state of the art. These new results will be used to construct more accurate waveform models. The latter are crucial to understanding long-standing questions in fundamental physics and astronomy with next-generation gravitational-wave observations, such as the LISA and the Einstein Telescope in Europe, which in turn may provide fundamental insights into Einstein's theory of gravity.

Keywords: feynman loop integrals,effective field theory,post newtonian post minkowskian theory,gravitational two body problem,gravitational waves