Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Indigenous women caught between intimate violence and deforestation processes (W-Deforest)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-15
End date: 2027-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

On the back of environmental conservation projects, many indigenous women play a role in deforestation processes. My case study on the Yine people from the Peruvian Amazon, Madre de Dios Region, focuses on the gender dimension within processes of small-scale informal timber trade, carried out from a buffer zone of the Manu National Park (globally, one of the most important protected natural areas). Despite being the last link in the chain of ethnic and gender subordination, Yine women seek to redeem their position of subordination and economic, physical and affective vulnerability through their labour. On this basis, W-Deforest explores a unique link for social sciences: gender and intimate violence in relation to environmental tensions. How does the violence suffered historically and structurally by indigenous women shape their current relationship with the deforestation process? W-Deforest proposes an innovative research method that arises from anthropology, community psychology and Digital Humanities. Among the different results, podcasting is the most innovative output that contributes to multiple objectives: new scientific co-produced knowledge, greater self-awareness among indigenous women, differentiated restitution activities and a great impact among a diverse European audience. A mixed methodology, which crosses classic ethnology tools with others inspired by community psychology, will encourage the group of indigenous women to use talking maps and collective self-representations to explore new forms of self-narration. Upon completion of the Work-Packages at my host institution, UNIVE - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – (Italy), the project will fill a significant gap in anthropological studies on gender violence, Amazon ethnography and political ecology. At the same time consolidating my position as lecturer and researcher with updated skills in digital humanities and innovative methodology for data dissemination

Keywords: gender based violence,indigenous women,deforestation,indigenous memory of violence,digital humanities,podcasting,community psychology,peruvian amazon,co produced knowledge
LEARNing IN social interaction and the role of inter-brain SYNChrony (LEARNINSYNC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Social interaction plays a pivotal role in human learning across the lifespan. Research shows that learning in social interaction co-occurs with inter-personal neural synchrony (INS), i.e. the temporal alignment of teacher-learner and learner-learner brain activities. In addition, some have proposed that INS may actively facilitate learning. However, previous work i) does not identify the specific social contextual factors responsible for the emergence of learning, INS and the INS-learning association and ii) provides mainly correlational rather than causal evidence of the INS-learning association. LEARNINSYNC aims to overcome these limitations. It combines EEG hyperscanning and multi-person transcranial electric stimulation (tES) to i) identify the specific social contextual factors contributing to learning, INS and INS-learning association and ii) test whether INS causally promotes learning. Experiment 1 adopts a 2x2 design where two participants (learners) learn from a third one (teacher) in social contexts varying the co-presence of the other learner (present or absent) and the teaching contingency (live or recorded). During the learning stage, EEG signals are measured from all three participants. This will characterise inter-brain dynamics across three people, moving beyond predominant dyadic literature and closer to real-world group learning. Experiment 2 tests the causal role of INS in learning: it exogenously induces teacher-learner and learner-learner INS during the learning stage, by mirroring the neural signals’ frequency, phase, and topography observed in experiment 1, and compares learning after real vs sham stimulation. Understanding the causal role of INS in social learning will inform current theories of INS and models of social and educational neuroscience. In a world where remote and asynchronous learning is increasingly prevalent, this work carries societal impact in the development of interventions for educational and work settings.

Keywords: interpersonal neural synchrony,social learning,hyperscanning,multi person brain stimulation,social contingency,social co presence,social interaction
Enhancing Cancer Vaccine Science for New Therapy Pathways (CANVAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,France,Italy
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499512.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499512.5
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the project Enhancing Cancer Vaccine Science for New Therapy Pathways (CANVAS) is to significantly raise the scientific profile, networking, and research management competencies at the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (ICCVS) at the University of Gdańsk (UG), Poland, to achieve improved research excellence in cancer vaccine science. The project aims to contribute to reduction of the disparities in R&I in Europe by networking activities with outstanding leading European research partners: University of Rome Tor Vergata (UNITOV), Italy, and Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France. The partnership includes also a biotech start-up Real Research (Poland), to foster intersectoral knowledge transfer for innovative translational research approaches. A strong focus on upgrade of grant writing and research management skills will improve long-term competitiveness in obtaining funding. In addition a joint pilot study is planned in the project. We expect that it will provide the foundation for a novel patient tailored therapy of non-small cell lung cancer. Thus, apart from the scientific impact, in the long term innovations generated with the support of the CANVAS partnership have a translational potential to contribute to improving therapy for cancer patients, which give the project a pivotal economic and societal impact.

Keywords: increasing scientific,collaborative and management competencies,immunopeptidome,cancer immunotherapy,t cells,pdx model,3d cell culture,computational immunology,mass cytometry
Innovative bio-based building materials with thermal energy storage function (BIOBUILD)

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: Sweden,Belgium,Austria,Spain,Italy,Romania,United Kingdom
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): 4808467.0
EU funding (EUR): 4636971.25
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of BIOBUILD project is to develop and demonstrate fully bio-based building materials with thermal storage function that can replace high environmental footprint products. Our solution demonstrates functional incorporation of bio-based phase change materials (bioPCMs) into solid wood and wood fibres bound by plant oil resins, lignin, or fungal mycelia to produce novel bio-composite building materials with significantly improved thermal properties. The novel materials possess a high multifunctional performance, meet requirements for sustainable “green” production, and ensure end-of-life options and recycling. Environmental and social impacts and benefits are fully integrated into the life-cycle perspective.

Keywords: bio based phase change materials bio binders,bio composites energy storage fungal mycelia building materials lignin parquet plant oil resins solid wood wallboards wood fibres
Integrated approach to assess the levels and impact of cONtaminants of Emerging concern on BLUE health and biodiversity modulated by climate change drivers. (ONE-BLUE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Portugal,Greece,Netherlands,Ireland,Germany,Croatia,Sweden,Cyprus,Belgium
Call: Integrated assessment and monitoring of emerging pollutants in the marine environment (HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6200138.75
EU funding (EUR): 6200138.75
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

ONE-BLUE will provide an integrated assessment of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and their impacts, will develop new monitoring tools, and will provide an advanced understanding of the combined effects of CECs and climate change (CC) on the different marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. The following objectives are defined: • Improve the current knowledge of the concentrations, profiles, fate, behaviour, and effects of CECs, in the different marine compartments and ecosystems through three case studies (Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the Mediterranean Sea) and develop safety guidelines and protocols for future CECs monitoring in marine ecosystems. • Provide an advanced understanding of possible interaction between CC and CECs in marine ecosystems with studies under controlled conditions in marine mesocosms. • Develop a database (DB), the CECsMarineDB, following FAIR principles, with a database management system (DBMS) to collect the data generated in ONE-BLUE and capitalize data from other projects and existing DBs. A graphical user interface (GUI) will be developed and used for data exploration and demonstration of the fate and behaviour of CECs in a changing environment. • Provide new solutions in support of the implementation of relevant EU policies; (i) a series of new approach methodologies (NAMs) to improve the ecotoxicity assessment of CECs in marine ecosystems; (ii) a tiered effect-directed approaches (EDA) combining toxicological assessment and chemical analysis; (iii) an advanced ultrasonic system for sampling and enrichment micro/nanoplastics from seawater; (iv) a remote autonomous sensor to assess CECs in marine waters in quasi-real-time; a decision support system (DSS) based on machine and deep learning strategies to assess and forecast combined effects of CC and CECs in marine ecosystems. • Disseminate the project results and establish the exploitation plan for the developed technologies.

Keywords: cecs,effect based monitoring,eda,microbial biodiversity,database,dss,guidelines
Sustainable Options for Liquidwaste Utilization Through Innovative OxidatioN (SOLUTION)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 234530.4
EU funding (EUR): 234530.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Among several advanced oxidation techniques, photoelectrochemical oxidation (PEC) by bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) processes where both electrical (electrochemical oxidation) and light (photocatalysis) energy are synergistically harnessed to degrade organic contaminants has received major attention due to its excellent resistance to photocatalytic corrosion, narrow band structure, and low cost. However, high charge recombination, caused by nanoporous BiVO4 photoanodes weakens the charge transport, and this could be improved by introducing surface modification using quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs). The proposed Fellowship–Sustainable Options for Liquidwaste Utilization Through Innovative OxidatioN (SOLUTION) offers a novel photoanode material and fabrication technique in a peroxymonosulfate (PMS) system using surface-modified BiVO4 (Q-BiVO4) to remove emerging contaminants such as poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics from WATCH list and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in secondary treated wastewater (sewage) effluent. SOLUTION also meets SDG 6 set by United Nations. Modelling of the PEC system and subsequent lifecycle analysis will facilitate EU industries to produce water for safe use through an eco-friendly and sustainable route, thus preserving the environment’s biodiversity. The Fellowship will also train the researcher in a broad range of techniques that will expand his research portfolio by undergoing intensive training on material characterization, electrode fabrication, modelling, and life cycle analysis at TU Delft, Netherlands. This training, combined with his strong background in analytical environmental chemistry, and wastewater treatment, will significantly expand his skill set, generating a highly valued researcher in the promising European wastewater treatment sector. The project will also enable long-term collaborations between the Fellow’s previous institutes and the EU.

Keywords: emerging contaminants,photoelectrochemical oxidation,ppcp,pfas,surface modified bivo4
Developing GRAFTing to enABLE hybridisation of new species for agriculture and forestry (GRAFT-ABLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999880.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999880.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern agriculture depends on developing new crops and techniques to enhance yields, disease resistance and tolerance to drought and extreme temperatures. One such innovation has been the development of plant grafting whereby two plants are cut and joined together to combine their best properties. At the graft junction, cells from the different plants expand, divide and in some instances exchange genetic material including DNA. This exchange of DNA forms hybrid cells between the two plants. Our ability to graft distantly related plants is growing and thus, hybridisation at the graft junction is a promising means to allow plants to hybridise that normally could not. However, how tissues fuse and cells hybridise remains largely unknown, and our ability to exploit this hybridisation technology remains limited In GRAFT-ABLE, I will consolidate my expertise in plant grafting and build a dedicated team to identify the processes and molecular players that contribute to tissue fusion and DNA exchange at the graft junction in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Using a combination of advanced microscopy techniques, single cell sequencing and genetic screens, I will identify how cells hybridise and determine which genes and cells contribute to hybrid cell formation. Using this information, I will deploy chemicals and novel grafting techniques to enhance hybridisation rates and to develop transgene free methods for hybrid formation. Graft hybrids will be generated from Arabidopsis thaliana to its relatives and also from various agriculturally relevant species. By unravelling the molecular and developmental processes that occur at the graft junction, GRAFT-ABLE will provide fundamental information to better understand how different plants fuse tissues, how hybrids form and develop novel methodologies to isolate and grow hybrids. Such hybrids could overcome breeding barriers and combine genomes from two species to form superior plants for agriculture and forestry.

Keywords: plant hybridisation,plant grafting,plasmodesmata,arabidopsis,conifers,cell walls,tomato,graft hybrids
Quantum Thermodynamics of Precision in Electronic Devices (ASPECTS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Austria,Sweden,United Kingdom,Malta
Call: Basic Science for Quantum Technologies (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2648447.5
EU funding (EUR): 2648447.25
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum technologies exploit the counterintuitive physics of the microscopic world to gain an advantage over purely classical systems. In order to achieve commercial usefulness, major research efforts are now devoted to scaling up current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. The fundamental challenge to be overcome is noise, whose presence is necessitated by basic quantum and thermodynamic principles as well as limitations on the precision with which such devices can be measured and controlled. To overcome this challenge, we need to understand the fundamental thermodynamic limitations on precision in quantum devices. Remarkably, it has recently been predicted that coherent quantum processes exhibit a new kind of quantum advantage with respect to classical processes: the laws of quantum thermodynamics allow higher measurement precision for less energy and entropy cost. The ambitious goal of ASPECTS is to demonstrate, explore, and exploit this novel effect on two of the most promising quantum technology platforms: namely, superconducting qubits and nanoelectromechanical devices. Specifically, we will design and build quantum circuit devices to experimentally assess the energy cost of timekeeping and qubit readout. With support from advanced theory and numerical simulations, we will demonstrate quantum-thermodynamic precision advantage in our measurements. This ground-breaking advance will usher in a new paradigm for quantum metrology in which quantum-thermodynamic effects boost both efficiency and precision. Our balanced consortium of early-career researchers is founded on our strong existing collaborations and our unified and coherent vision for the future of energy-efficient quantum technologies. Bringing together world-leading expertise in precision measurement, quantum information, and non-equilibrium statistical physics, ASPECTS will make a deep and lasting impact on the European quantum technologies landscape.

Keywords: quantum metrology,quantum information,quantum thermodynamics
Comparison and rigidity for scalar curvature (COMSCAL)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1421111.0
EU funding (EUR): 1421111.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Questions involving the scalar curvature bridge many areas inside mathematics including geometric analysis, differential geometry and algebraic topology, and they are naturally related to the mathematical description of general relativity. There are two main flavours of methods to probe the geometry of scalar curvature: One goes back to Lichnerowicz and uses various versions of index theory for the Dirac equation on spinors. The other is broadly based on minimal hypersurfaces and was initiated by Schoen and Yau. On both types of methods there has been tremendous progress over recent years sparked by novel quantitative comparison and rigidity questions due to Gromov and by on-going attempts to arrive at a deeper geometric understanding of lower scalar curvature bounds. In this proposal we view established landmark results, such as the non-existence of positive scalar curvature on the torus, together with the more recent quantitative problems from a conceptually unified standpoint, where a comparison principle for scalar and mean curvature along maps between Riemannian manifolds plays the central role. Guided by this point of view, we aim to develop fundamentally new tools to study scalar curvature that bridge long-standing gaps in between the existing techniques. This includes a far-reaching generalization of the Dirac operator approach expanding upon techniques pioneered by the PI, and novel applications of Bochner-type methods. We will also study analogous comparison problems on domains with singular boundary motivated by a first synthetic characterization of lower scalar curvature bounds in terms of polyhedral domains, and by the general quest for extending the study of scalar curvature beyond smooth manifolds. At the same time, we will treat subtle almost rigidity questions corresponding to the rigidity aspect of our comparison principle.

Keywords: riemannian geometry,scalar curvature,mean curvature,comparison geometry,rigidity,dirac operators,bochner method,index theory