Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Stakeholders-driven pathways for blockchain implementation in the agri-food sector (TRUSTyFOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Germany,Luxembourg,Portugal,Netherlands,Croatia,Egypt
Call: Research & innovation roadmap for blockchain technologies in the agri-food sector (HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999283.75
EU funding (EUR): 2999283.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

13 participants (11 beneficiaries and two affiliated entities) from 7 EU and 1 third countries join forces for supporting the Strategic Research Agenda of the future joint research program on the subject of Blockchain by shedding light on the current partial and fragmented picture of block chain technology (BCT) applications in the agri-food domain and by clarifying the benefits and opportunities which BCT can concretely to stakeholders throughout the food chain offer. The project intends to prepare the way for R&I activities for the decade to come, basing its assumptions on systematic monitoring and reviews of national, European and international R&I pilots/use cases, experiences and best practices and on consolidated and balanced stakeholder views. The active involvement of users is required from the very beginning for the identification of needs and use cases, which will be subsequently translated into operational requirements for services. The goal of the project is to understand why communities, i.e. users, accept/reject blockchain-based projects, the mistakes done by others for not repeating them, the best and innovative practices in blockchain development in agri-food sector (considering its complexity) for arriving to shape different possible futures for BC application. The project will investigate and discuss both technical aspects as well as non-technical barriers to BCTs deployment, but also other issues fostering BCTs deployment, such as interoperability, innovative business models, standardisation and regulatory issues and will be at the base of White Papers addressed to EC. At the same time, the project intends to provide to users some a framework of services (and guidelines) for empowering them in future BCT implementation.

Keywords: agri food,stakeholders,co creation,player centred approach,participatory,use cases,roadmap,scenarios,framework,white paper
Photon-Atom Non-linearities and Deterministic Applications via arrays (PANDA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Alternative approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Communication, and Sensing (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3984437.5
EU funding (EUR): 3984437.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The quantum properties of photons -- allowing low-loss long-distance transmission, multiplexing large amounts of quantum information into a single channel, and operations in standard, room-temperature settings -- yield great promise for scalable quantum computing (QC). However, low interaction is their great weakness for quantum information processing (QIP), as quantum circuits require photon-photon interactions. To date, two-photon interactions have only been facilitated either probabilistically with low efficiency or between individual photons via intermediaries with errors much too large for practical QIP. PANDA has an ambitious core goal of building the foundation for a photonic quantum computer: an array of neutral rubidium atoms with subwavelength spacing carefully designed to harness collective effects to implement lossless, deterministic photon-photon interactions. Combined with novel high-efficiency single-photon handling, we will construct a powerful platform for strong, efficient, controllable non-linear operations with many QIP applications. These include deterministic two-photon quantum gates with unprecedented efficiency and repeat rates. We will especially apply our platform to continuous-variable (CV) QIP, particularly Measurement-Based QC, which fully utilizes quantum light field advantages, but has been hindered by the lack of deterministic non-Gaussian photon state generation and is not addressed in the Quantum Flagship. Using our platform for deterministic photon subtraction will address this and, with a CV theory roadmap we will develop, pave the way for photonic QC. Our two-photon gates will also be applicable to Discrete-Variable QIP, placing PANDA in a complementary position to many possible portfolio projects. PANDA incorporates world-class experimentalists and theorists from leading research groups and SMEs with the expertise required to develop core technology that will both yield marketable IPR and fulfill our ambitious objectives.

Keywords: neutral atom array photonic quantum computing continuous variable quantum information two photon quantum gates non gaussian optical states superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
Safe and sUstainable by desigN: integRated approaches for Impact aSsessment of advanced matErials (SUNRISE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Bulgaria,Spain,Denmark,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Austria,Greece,Luxembourg,Belgium,Korea, Republic of
Call: Integrated approach for impact assessment of safe and sustainable chemicals and materials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3843642.5
EU funding (EUR): 3749417.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

SUNRISE will develop an overarching Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (IIAF) designed to support SSbD decision making along lifecycle stages and value chains of advanced materials (AdMa) and their products. The IIAF will be a 3-tiered approach with each tier corresponding to an integrated methodology for health, environmental, social and economic impact assessment (supported by a toolbox) targeting a different group of users at different stages of the innovation process and requiring a different level of data and expertise. To enable these methodologies to account for stakeholder trade-offs in decision making, we will develop them in a co-creative process that balances the perspectives and interests of key actors from industry (including SMEs), regulation, policy, consultancy, academia, and the civil society. To facilitate cost-efficient generation of input data for the IIAF, we will develop and apply Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA), New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), as well as screening level and more advanced sustainability assessment tools based on Environmental and Social Lifecycle Assessment, Lifecycle Costing, and Circularity Analysis. The IIAF, its integrated impact assessment methodologies and the toolbox of newly proposed methods and tools will be provided as an Open & FAIR web platform, including a database, designed to support impacts-based decision making for future AdMa. These outcomes will be tested and demonstrated in industrially relevant case studies. The goal is to foster acceptance and support for the IIAF platform and the newly developed approaches to ensure their adoption and implementation by the stakeholders. The new knowledge generated in the project will be transferred to public authorities at the EU and national levels to support them in the implementation of SSbD-related policies for chemicals and materials based on improved understanding of potential safety and sustainability trade-offs.

Keywords: safe and sustainable by design,advanced materials,integrated impact assessment,health impacts,environmental impacts,socioeconomic impacts,stakeholder trade offs,new approach methodologies
High Performance and Large-Scale Electrodes for Selective Ion Recovery (PassIon)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The growing global concern surrounding water scarcity spurs societal impact by ensuring accessible and affordable freshwater resources. Furthermore, the increasing demand for high-value, non-renewable resources like phosphate and lithium, often found in waster or process water streams, coupled with their dwindling availability, requires robust strategies to establish secure supply chains. Electrochemical deionization (ECD) stands out as a promising solution due to its ability to fine-tune selectivity for specific ions. Over the past two decades, ECD has made remarkable progress, driven by factors like membrane use, surface functionalization, innovative cell designs, diverse electrochemical modes, and a deeper grasp of theory and application. Novel electrode materials, particularly intercalation materials, as developed and studied in the ERC Consolidator project E-Motion, have enhanced ion-selectivity in ECD. In PassIon the up-scaling and electrode stability that follow from our scientific results obtained so far – and our filed patent – will be validated. This will not only boost the desalination performance of ECD processes at larger scale, but also enable employment of such processes for resource recovery in an effective and sustainable way. Two work packages have been defined, one on the technical aspects and one on commercial activities. The team will regularly meet with the strategic advisory board to be installed and engage with potential end-users and sponsors, mainly via the vast networks of Wetsus and our industrial mentor. A risk analysis has been made and risk-mitigation measures are in place to boost the breakthrough innovation of combing desalination with salt recovery. PassIon is set to achieve Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 4 to 5 through validation, culminating in the delivery of a market consultation report and initial commercialization plans. These critical steps are essential in laying the groundwork for the development of a demonstrator.
Statistics-driven Planet Imaging in Circumstellar Environments (SPICES)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The SPICES project applies and develops state-of-the-art statistical methods to image forming exoplanets and characterize planet-forming disks. More than 5000 exoplanets have been detected as of today, showing a great diversity in planetary system architectures that is still not entirely understood. Many of these planets were found in systems that have dissipated their birth environment, and do not allow for the study of the early times of planet formation. Originally formed in gaseous protoplanetary disks surrounding newborn stars, long-period giant planets such as Jupiter shape the evolution of planetary systems including that in our own Solar System. They can gravitationally interact with disks and imprint signatures such as gaps, rings, and spiral arms. Such features are routinely observed in high resolution disk observations, suggesting that a large population of massive planets are actively sculpting protoplanetary disks. Later on, these gas-rich disks dissipate within a few Myr while terrestrial planets form, and planetesimal collisions lead to second- generation dust populations (i.e., debris disks). Observation of planetary systems in different stages is therefore key to understanding their formation and evolution. Using modern statistics-based methods, I propose the Statistics-driven Planet Imaging in Circumstellar EnvironmentS (SPICES) project to perform unprecedented inspection of planet forming disks, thus detecting planets that are embedded in disks while characterizing disk mineralogy. By doing so, I will bridge the gap between revolutionary data analysis methods in analyzing and the myriad of high-quality data, and ultimately provide new insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems.

Keywords: protoplanets planet imaging planet disk interaction multivariate statistics
The Geopoliticization of Trade Policy (GEOTRADE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2485639.0
EU funding (EUR): 2485639.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, we witness the “geopoliticization” of trade, namely the linking of national security concerns to trade policy. While this geopoliticization is related to the U.S.-China trade war and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has become a broad phenomenon affecting most countries worldwide. Much existing research sees governments in the driver’s seat of this process. By contrast, I explain the domestic politics behind the geopoliticization of trade policy focusing on the interaction between the economic interests of domestic actors and national security concerns. My approach is ground-breaking because I will: 1.) develop an original theoretical argument that distinguishes between three causal pathways for the influence of domestic actors: one where the economic interests of domestic actors constrain geopoliticization, one where business actors shape trade measures in line with their economic interests, and one where business actors drive the geopoliticization of trade. 2.) collect and analyse a large amount of novel empirical evidence, including on public opinion and business associations, to test this argument. This research will cover not only the three most important trading entities (China, the EU and the U.S.) but also India, Mexico, and Turkey as examples of middle powers that have only received scant attention. 3.) innovate in terms of methodology by combining evidence on inputs into the policymaking process, the policy process, policy outputs, and policy consequences to test an explanation of politics. The project promises to have a significant impact not only on the literature on the trade-security nexus but also on work done on the political economy of trade, interest groups, public opinion, international conflict, and the political economy of emerging countries. Given that geopoliticization affects the international order, the distribution of wealth, and the likelihood of interstate conflict, the project is of high relevance for several broad debates.

Keywords: geopoliticization,trade policy,national security,domestic politics,business associations,public opinion
AI to predict Cancer metastasis using Ultra-Echo-Sono imaging (AI CUrES)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer metastasis is the leading cause of death within tumor disease and is currently an unmet clinical need. This dramatic clinical evidence requires immediate action in terms of early diagnosis and then pre-emptive therapies, not only for the primary tumor, but especially at the first stages of metastasis formation. Metastasis is the result of a complex mechanism, still under study, which involves the trafficking of biological materials, in particular extracellular vesicles (EVs), from the primary tumor site towards other tissues. The project AI CUrES aims to propose novel methodologies for early diagnosis of metastasis, by gaining new knowledge at the early stage of their formation with a real-time and predictive approach. This work has the future vision of predicting possible patient’s outcomes and helping to set timely pre-emptive therapies. I believe that this is possible by exploiting the EVs specifically produced by the primary tumor, here by colorectal cancer (CRC). In AI CUrES, such EVs will be tagged by specific nanosized-contrast agents and their trafficking in biological media reported by an innovative multi-modal bioimaging technology having high resolution, deep tissue penetration, real-time and molecular characteristics. The collected images of EVs trafficking towards recipient cells or tissues will be refined and further elaborated by artificial intelligence algorithms, with the aim to predict the possible metastasis development from a starting CRC tumor mass. AI CuRES will prove the efficacy of this approach by enabling, as expected outcomes, deep scientific knowledge on metastasis formation mechanisms and demonstrating a breakthrough innovation in bioimaging technologies and digital tools for health monitoring and diagnosis of oncological patients. The results can be also useful in other tumors leading to metastasis and to empower Europe towards digital tools for predictive diagnosis.
Phenomenological implications of neutrino effective theories (PheNUmenal)

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: Spain,France,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

There are few but strong indications that the Standard Model of Particle Physics cannot be the ultimate theory of nature. The increasing number of proposed extensions, together with the lack of new particles found by the LHC, is prompting us to consider the effective field theories (EFT) as the best framework to explore deviations from the Standard Model. Nevertheless, the most commonly explored EFT framework does not consider the existence of new light particles, such as those predicted by many theories trying to explain the origin of neutrino masses or dark matter, and therefore cannot account for two of the biggest unsolved problems in particle physics. Considering the existence of new sterile neutrinos for definiteness, this project aims at building a new EFT framework where additional light particles are included to the commonly used EFT formalism. First, it will extend the few available works in the subject to construct a theoretically consistent framework. In the second part, it will make use of this formalism to identify and compute the most relevant predictions for the near-future experimental landscape.

Keywords: neutrino masses,sterile neutrinos,effective field theory
Analytic methods for Dynamical systems and Geometry (ADG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
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): 1479500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1479500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this project is to study a broad class of dynamical systems by using tools from the fields of harmonic analysis and PDEs (semiclassical, microlocal analysis), and to apply these new results to a variety of problems of geometric origin. In a first part, we will mainly focus on systems exhibiting a weak hyperbolic behaviour (partially, non-uniformly hyperbolic systems) for which analytic techniques are far less understood compared to the uniformly hyperbolic setting. We plan to study statistical properties of such systems, and the regularity of solutions to transport / cohomological equations. Then, we will address rigidity questions in geometry and dynamics such as marked length spectrum or boundary / lens rigidity, Katok's entropy conjecture. In a third part, we aim to study Anosov representations and meromorphic extension of related Poincaré series via microlocal techniques. We expect the tools developed in the first part will help to understand part two and three. 1) Statistics of weakly hyperbolic flows, study of transport questions. Ergodicity, mixing, polynomial or exponential mixing of partially hyperbolic / non-uniformly hyperbolic systems. We also plan to study cohomological equations and prove Liv\v sic-type theorems. Finally, we will study equilibrium measures (existence, uniqueness, and properties) for compact extensions of Anosov diffeos / flows. 2) Geometric and dynamical rigidity for flows / actions. Marked or unmarked length spectrum rigidity conjecture for (non-)uniformly hyperbolic geodesic flows, lens and boundary rigidity, Katok's entropy rigidity conjecture, rigidity of Anosov actions (Katok-Spatzier's conjecture), Kanai's regularity conjecture. 3) Anosov representations. Spectral theory of Anosov actions on infinite volume manifolds, meromorphic extensions of Poincaré series. If finite, we aim to compute the value of these series at the spectral parameter 0.

Keywords: microlocal analysis,weakly hyperbolic dynamical systems,geometric rigidity,inverse problems,anosov representations