Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intelligent Breast Cancer DiagnOsis and MonItoring Therapeutic Response Training Network (CanDoIt)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France,Slovenia,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2753981.49
EU funding (EUR): 2650190.4
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

CanDoIt will show how a smart multimodal multi-physic sensor array associated with DNA oligonucleotides and their peptide nucleic acid (PNAs) analogues dedicated for liquid biopsies analysis has the potential for more accurate diagnostic and treatment monitoring of BC through the study of cutting-edge technologies in bio/nanomaterials, sensors and transducers design, fluidics systems, and artificial intelligence. The CanDoIt objectives are to: (1) Train the excellent next generation researchers for interdisciplinary careers in basic, applied and especially translational BC research and with “raising awareness” on social issues; (2) Develop cutting-edge technologies for BC diagnosis and monitoring therapeutic response by bringing together eminent experts from both industry and academia, including engineers, computational scientists, chemists, physicists, and clinicians; (3) Pursue key biological targets through intelligent methods, all the way from early stage to preclinical and clinical investigation; (4) In addition to respond to the BC issue, the intelligent biosystems proposed will be a real technological advance (breakthrough), thanks to the association of different transducers to go towards a multimodal platform, the association of structured nanomaterials inspired by living world and an implementation of intelligent algorithms for optimal analysis; (5) Build a high-impact structure ensuring multi-level dissemination and exploitation of all results.

Keywords: breast cancer novel diagnostics tools exosome nucleic acid innovative biosensing systems translational research research training
Humanitarian Action and Sovereignty in Conflict-Affected Countries (HUMANITY)

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
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): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Throughout the Syrian civil war, the Syrian government directly targeted aid workers and created bureaucratic and administrative obstacles in humanitarian action. This violence presents a dilemma for aid organizations, as they strive to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to those in need without inadvertently supporting oppressive regimes. In contrast, in Colombia, where 8 million people are displaced by conflict, humanitarian access is comparatively less restricted than in many other conflict-ridden countries. This variation in states’ responses raises the question: What explains the differing degrees of cooperation or conflict that host states demonstrate toward international humanitarian action? This research addresses this question. It develops a typology of responses that states adopt toward international humanitarian assistance in non-international armed conflicts. Then, it identifies the explanatory conditions that are expected to influence states’ behaviour towards international humanitarian actors. Lastly, it explores the interactions of explanatory conditions that determine a state’s specific response to international humanitarian assistance in non-international armed conflicts. It aims to conceptualize the diverse responses of states to international humanitarian assistance in non-international armed conflicts. This research will be the first study to develop a typology of state responses towards international humanitarian assistance and offer a configurational analysis explaining the variances in these responses through a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of 27 countries currently experiencing non-international armed conflicts. The findings of this research will deepen our understanding of the conditions influencing state behaviour toward international humanitarian assistance, providing substantive evidence for the global community, including the United Nations Security Council.

Keywords: sovereignty humanitarian action international organizations humanitarian norms violence
ReducINg the footprint of consumer products through public dialoGUe and innovative bio-based MAterials (INGUMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Belgium,Cyprus,Finland,Canada,Greece,Portugal
Call: Eco-friendly consumer products – low-toxicity/zero pollution construction bio-based materials (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5586609.75
EU funding (EUR): 4957716.01
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

INGUMA aims to foster the development of bio-based materials and their acceptance by the public by relying on three main values sustainability, inclusion, and aesthetics - the values of the New European Bauhaus. The value of sustainability will be tackled by developing different types of bio-based materials from raw materials derived from agriculture residues and secondary raw materials from wood processing. Various types of materials will be developed: functionalized fibers, insulation material based on mycelium, resin-free insulation material based on wood fibers, bio-based adhesive for plywood, low-formaldehyde plywood board, wooden sandwich panels, and growth media for plants. In addition, these materials will be integrated into insulation panels and vegetated roofs. The sustainability and circularity of these materials and solutions will be ensured by applying environmental criteria and digital tools that will allow users to make decisions on the most sustainable solutions available. Additionally, the materials will be tested according to European and international standards, as a first step in the commercialization outside of Europe (Canada). The value of inclusion will imply the design of co-creation laboratories that encourage collaboration among stakeholders, fostering transparent communication and generating innovative ideas. These labs will provide a platform for engagement and a structured process for stakeholders to contribute their insights and actively participate in the development of bio-based construction materials. This way, the acceptance of the developed materials, products and solutions by end-users and consumers will be maximized. The value of aesthetics will be accomplished by co- designing and constructing a community house prototype in the rooftop of an experimental building (Derio, Spain) and as part of test houses (Savonlinna, Finland) that will use extensively the materials and products developed.

Keywords: bio based,adhesive,plywood,sandwich panels,insulation boards,plywood,substrate,green roof,co design labs,design thinking,policymakers,experimental building,test houses,lca,digital tools
360 Photonics Career Launch Programs (360 CARLA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,France,Switzerland,Netherlands,Austria,Belgium,Italy,Slovakia,Germany,Sweden
Call: Photonic Strategies and Skills Development (CSA) (Photonics Partnership) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1133755.0
EU funding (EUR): 1133755.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

As in other Deep Tech areas, there is a shortage of qualified professionals in the field. This shortage is due to lack of education and training programs, unawareness of the career opportunities that the field poses, a rapidly evolving technology, and unfamiliarity with the different professional paths that the photonics ecosystems offers, among other. CARLA, the awarded project for the previous call, took on the challenge of promoting careers in photonics among students and researchers through the CARLA camps, photonics career camps. 360 CARLA seeks to build on the momentum created by the successful CARLA project, retain and increase the interest that the CARLA participants have acquired and expand the impact to more and more diverse university students and early-stage researchers. For that, we will create round up programs around photonics applications or markets, that we call verticals: 1) Health: Biotech and Medical Photonics; 2) Quantum Technologies/ Communications 3) Energy, Environment and Sustainability; and 4) Manufacturing/ Industry 4.0. These round up, cohesive programs will integrate career symposiums, mentorship, innovation and entrepreneurship experience and trainings. This will: - Increase the number of students and researchers interested in pursuing careers in photonics. - Appeal to additional STEM students and researchers attracted by the photonics application topic. - Provide participants with a round up, overall understanding of the landscape of the photonics ecosystem surrounding the corresponding vertical, supported by a network of contacts and mentors, experiences in photonics innovation and entrepreneurship and training. In addition, 360 CARLA will collaborate with other EU initiatives in the photonics space, working towards growing and better preparing the future workforce, or around the verticals, so that can leverage each other through sharing strategies, activities, content and dissemination channels.

Keywords: training,career development,photonics careers,entrepreunership,innovation,diversity and inclusion
End to end Real-time Interactive Edge AI analytics platform for Industry and Automotive (sa.engine)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3601250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We develop an end-to-end edge AI platform targeting Industry and Automotive. The platform enables data scientists, engineers, and domain experts with limited coding skills to interactively develop advanced real-time AI and Analytics models for various edge devices and microcontrollers/MCUs. Our core technology and the platform we develop are based on extensive academic research performed by our co-founder Professor Emeritus, Tore Risch and associates. We enable large industrials to bring edge AI solutions to market faster, more efficiently and with scale compared to other solutions. To date we have done ten PoCs with industrials generating feedback for continued development of our platform. We have significant work to do to develop the platform to a readiness level where we can accelerate our commercialization and bring in the next funding round to scale internationally. We are a team of 15 ppl - experienced engineers and serial entrepreneurs with the ability to execute on our plans.

Keywords: interactive real time edge analytics,real time data stream analytics,real time data streaming,edge computing,edge ai and analytics,autonomous edge ai solutions
Common Envelope Transients - Progenitors, Precursors, and Properties of their Outbursts (CET-3PO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489225.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489225.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Common envelope evolution (CEE) is a crucial phase in binary evolution, as it is responsible for the formation of many of the most exciting systems in astrophysics, including sources of gravitational waves. Despite its importance, there are several unanswered questions that hamper the urgently needed progress in this field: What systems enter CEE? What happens during CEE? How the CEE remnants evolve? Recently, a new type of astrophysical transients called luminous red novae (LRNe) has emerged as direct observational evidence of the dynamical ejection of the CE in binaries. My work on their progenitor systems and their late time evolution has shown their potential to study the initial and final state of binary systems entering CEE. The imminent start of operations of the large transient surveys BlackGEM and LSST provides a unique opportunity to bring CEE observational studies to the next level with LRNe population studies. The aim of this project is to study the different stages of CEE in massive binaries using observations of extragalactic LRNe. The sample will contain ~30 transients within 15 Mpc from massive binary progenitors with HST archival data. My team will use a novel transient selection strategy to identify a fraction of these LRNe years before their main outburst, and study the extensive mass loss leading to coalescense. Novel observational and modelling techniques in optical and infrared wavelengths will allow me to derive the energetics, chemistry, dust content, and the geometry of the outbursts. My study will provide the so needed evidence of the physical processes that occur before, during, and after the ejection of the CE in massive binary systems, the characteristics of their progenitors, and their rate in our Local Universe. This will in turn have fundamental impact on several fields of astrophysics such as binary population synthesis, simulations of CEE, and understanding of mass transfer in the progenitor systems.

Keywords: astrophysical transients,binary stellar evolution,common envelope evolution,synoptic surveys
The Emergence of Global Non-Governmental Spaces in Education: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Global Turn in Education (EmergEd)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1330441.0
EU funding (EUR): 1330441.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

About 30 per cent of the world’s population are children. Children are not only the most important people for their parents, but also the future of our societies. Providing them with the best possible education is of inestimable importance. Which education is best, however, is a question that is continually being negotiated. For a long time, this question was answered primarily by national governments. For some years, however, ongoing processes of globalisation are significantly shaping education, leading to what scholars term the global turn in education. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become core actors in this global turnaround. They are increasingly joining forces in education-related transnational networks (i.e., global non-governmental spaces) that express an obvious claim to influence schools and education systems worldwide. Hence, questions arise about the associated risks and benefits for schools, particularly with regard to education's role in promoting educational achievement and equal opportunity among students from different backgrounds. However, despite this increasing relevance scholars have neglected to investigate transnational networks of NGOs in the field of education. EmergEd aims to drastically improve scientific knowledge on NGOs in education by analysing the emergence of global non-governmental spaces in education and how they influence education systems and schools – a contribution from which a far-reaching scientific – and in the long run societal – impact is to be expected. It will do so by developing an inter-disciplinary methodology integrating (inferential) Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Discourse Network Analysis (DNA), alongside qualitative data analysis based on Grounded Theory, to contribute to further theory building. This methodology is highly innovative as it draws theories and methods from different disciplines together in novel ways and thus follows an approach at and beyond the frontiers of disciplines.

Keywords: transnational governance in education,social network analysis,global turn in education,influence of non governmental organisations,discourse network analysis
UltrafasT flOquet PolaritonIcs metAsurfaces (UTOPIA)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Electromagnetic waves interacting with materials give rise to polaritons, hybrid excitations of light and matter. Among these, hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in polar crystals stand out for their low loss and anisotropic behavior. Concurrently, Floquet theory has gained prominence in nanophotonics, enabling the engineering of topological properties in periodically driven systems. The UTOPIA project aims to merge these domains, establishing ultrafast Floquet polaritonics as a cutting-edge field. It seeks to demonstrate this concept in natural van der Waals materials and synthetic metasurfaces. Polariton research has evolved from plasmon polaritons to encompass phonons, excitons, and Cooper pairs. Phonon polaritons, with their anisotropic response, have opened avenues for nanophotonics. Recent discoveries in two-dimensional van der Waals materials like hexagonal boron nitride have unveiled hyperbolic polaritons in natural crystals. UTOPIA bridges phonon polaritons and Floquet theory, aiming to pioneer tailored light-matter interactions. Floquet systems endow physical systems with synthetic dimensions via periodic potentials, enabling nonreciprocal systems, topological phases, and 4+ dimensional physics. While Floquet quasi-energy states have been demonstrated in graphene, the field of Floquet polaritonics remains underexplored, lacking a demonstration of temporally driven changes in phonon polariton dispersion.UTOPIA's objectives include: 1) Demonstrating Floquet-driven topological polaritonic transitions via grating coupling in natural materials, mapping near-field observables to the far-field and enabling dynamical phase transitions. 2) Designing metasurfaces supporting synthetic hyperbolic polaritons, expanding Floquet polaritonics to optical frequencies and various temporal modulations.3) Achieving infrared light amplification via polariton-assisted anisotropic parametric amplification, harnessing polaritonic excitations for efficient amplification.

Keywords: floquet,ultrafast,photonics,polaritons,metasurfaces,non linear optics,
Heat Transport in Fractures and Fracture Networks – Simulation, Inversion, Measurements (HeatSIM)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fractured reservoirs are targets for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), because a network of fractures in an otherwise solid rock is an optimal pathway for circulating the working fluid while efficiently extracting heat. The main ambition of HeatSIM (Heat Transport - Simulation, Inversion, Measurements) is to increase our comprehension of coupled thermal-hydraulic processes and the resulting heat transfer in fractured rocks over different scales, by experimental imaging, numerical simulation and inverse modeling of lab data. The first work package (WP1) will measure heat transfer in laboratory experiments, focusing on the influence of fracture wall topographies and local fracture apertures, dead-end fractures, fracture network topology, and fracture intersections. To this aim, a novel optical thermometry measurement technique, based on the temperature-dependent fluorescence of phosphor colloids, will provide the evolving temperature field within the fluid domain and solid matrix with high spatial and temporal resolutions. A sensitivity analysis will allow quantifying the influence of the various geometric parameters on the outflow temperature. HeatSIM’s WP2 will then propose conceptual simplifications to the experimental geometries, coupled to numerical simulation to predict outflow temperatures. Different such models will be implemented, and their hydraulic and thermal properties will be calibrated from the experimental thermal breakthrough curves. Their outflow temperature prediction capabilities will also be compared. Thanks to the applicant’s strong background in EGS, numerics and inverse modeling, and the host team’s expertise in fractured media, subsurface heat transport and lab experiments, HeatSIM will thus decipher the impact of fractured media’s geometry on heat transfer efficiency, and provide new insights into the prediction of geothermal sites’ efficiency and the optimization of geothermal energy energy extraction.

Keywords: heat transfer fracture networks geothermal energy