Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
High fidelity model-based design for ultrasound detection and widening photo-switching optoacoustics to deep tissue microscopic imaging (HopOn-SWOPT)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Greece
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599961.25
EU funding (EUR): 599961.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

SWOPT is a novel imaging technology that will break through the penetration limits of optical microscopy to visualize individual cells and their function in vivo through several millimeters to centimeters of depth. SWOPT will exploit (1) optoacoustic imaging, a modality which combines signal generation similar to optical imaging with the whole-animal imaging capability of ultrasound readout, and uniquely augment it with (2) photoswitching to resolve signals from single labeled cells from deep within live tissue. This will achieve volume sampling abilities surpassing any optical microscopy by at least three orders of magnitude. HOPON-SWOPT builds on the breakthroughs developed in SWOPT and contributes significant innovations to provide: i) accurate acoustic wave simulations for model-based optimal design of detector array configurations from single to multiple elements, enhancing hardware development efficiency and imaging capabilities; ii) expanding biology expertise of SWOPT to standardized non-animal models in the form of 3D multicellular spheroids and organoids of renal cancer; and iii) a direct comparative evaluation of performance enhancement offered by photoswitching optoacoustics developed in SWOPT over the current state of the art in deep tissue microscopic imaging, i.e. multi-photon microscopy. The widening Partner of HopON-SWOPT is FORTH, the leading research center in Greece with a uniquely placed facility (The Laboratory for Biophotonics and Molecular Imaging) participating in the development of technologies and proof-of-concept studies, encompassing high multidisciplinary expertise in photonic technologies for imaging in biological targets and living systems. The exceptional capabilities of HopON-SWOPT will be demonstrated by proof-of-concept work resolving cellular dynamics and functions in non-animal models of renal cancer, enhancing the aspiration of SWOPT to become routine in life science and bio-medical research as an affordable imaging technology.

Keywords: non animal tissue models model based hardware design deep tissue imaging
Gender Equality Newcomer Instruct-ERIC (GENIE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: EU prize
Destination: EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Newcomer Gender Equality Champions (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-GENDER-Prize, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Instruct-ERIC prides itself on being a champion of gender equality within the research infrastructure community. Following the lifecycle of the first gender equality plan, Instruct has enhanced an already strong historical track record of gender equality, raising the base level of understanding and engagement with diversity practices and actions, whilst also reaching new heights of equality in the wider structural biology community. Instruct has expanded its ambition to include diversity in its equality activities, hence its second iteration being a diversity and gender equality plan – it was crucial to use the momentum gained from the initial audit of Hub staff and activities to measure feedback to develop impactful actions that Instruct can commit to. The culture of gender equality in Instruct runs from the decision-making level, through the Hub and its committees, to the way in which calls and access are provided to users, resulting in an increasingly diverse community of researchers that access Instruct services, providing the launchpad for continuing and improved equality in the structural biology community for years to come. Support from the Newcomer Gender Equality Champions prize will help Instruct to be even more ambitious with its future targets for gender equality and diversity.

Keywords: gender equality,research infrastructure,structural biology
Community-Based Smart City Digital Twin Platform for Optimised DRM operations and Enhanced Community Disaster Resilience (PANTHEON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,France,Belgium,Romania,Spain,Slovakia,Austria,Malta,Armenia
Call: Improved understanding of risk exposure and its public awareness in areas exposed to multi-hazards (HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5025076.25
EU funding (EUR): 5025076.25
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

PANTHEON will design and develop a Community based Digital Ecosystem for Disaster Resilience utilising Smart City Digital Twin (SCDT) technology and leveraging new and emerging technologies and innovations to improve risk assessment, reduce vulnerability, and building community disaster resilience. The aim is to enhance the operational capabilities of CBDRM (community based DRM) teams, by: a community based smart city digital twin environment with components used for simulations, training and evaluation of the behaviour of sub-systems, threats and human factor; an early Detection and Situational awareness environment enabling authorities and FR and SR (first and second) even in complex, remote and demanding locations; an integrated intelligent subsystem, by the utilization collaborative sensing from earth observations and swarms of UAVs optimized to autonomously perform UAV-assisted operations throughout all disaster phases. PANTHEON platform and technologies will be combined with IoT infrastructure, multi-source data (satellite and in situ data, social networks, historical data) to create a tool for assessment of risks, vulnerability and capacity assessment; disseminate and inform decision makers and the public for risks during disasters; engage citizens and stakeholders in the disaster resilience building and share knowledge and best practices; identify vulnerabilities and implement policies, strategies and plans to eliminate future disaster costs; enhance collaboration among people at the local level; promote the conduct of comprehensive surveys on multi-hazard disaster risks and the development of regional disaster risk assessments and maps, including climate change scenarios; promote and enhance, through international cooperation, including technology transfer, access to and the sharing and use of non-sensitive data and information; SCDT will enable collective community behavior into the assessments of exposure to urban multi-hazards across time and space.

Keywords: community based disaster resilience,participatory processes and governance
Cultivating Color: Harnessing bacteria for Sustainable Pigments in circular economy (B-INK)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

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Theology and Politics in Gush Emunim: Using the Bible to Reshape the Land (TheoPolis)

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: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

After the 1973 War, a protest arose in Israel against the return of territories occupied in 1967 to the Arab States. Groups of faithful asked for the re-establishment of ancient Israel borders as narrated in the Bible, giving birth to the religious-fundamentalist and ultra-rightist extra-parliamentary movement of Gush Emunim, meaning “the bloc of the faithful.” It formally operated between 1974, when it was recognized as an ideological group within the National Religious Party, and 1985, when the involvement of some members in the Jewish Underground terrorist group led to its dissolution as an organization. Although Gush Emunim was officially an organization for only a decade, its political actions and ideology have significantly influenced the events unfolding in the occupied territories from 1967 to the present. The project “Theology and Politics in Gush Emunim: Using the Bible to Reshape the Land” (TheoPolis) aims to offer a comprehensive and innovative investigation of how Gush Emunim used narratives, histories, characters, names, and geographical indications from the Bible and the Maccabees traditions to constitute a theological framework for implementing political actions. Through a careful analysis of discourse in the form of speeches, rabbinic teachings, and pamphlets from the group and its leaders, along with coverage in Israel newspapers, TheoPolis will explore how Gush Emunim selected and interpreted specific sections of the Bible and the Maccabees Books to carry on its political goals and will actively contribute to an urgent international and European need, which is the understanding of religious fundamentalism and sectarianism in Israel and the West Bank, besides the spread of messianic ideologies, since they profoundly influence the equilibrium of the world politics. Through a close investigation of primary and secondary sources, the project will shed light on radical ideologies that still today hinder the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Keywords: hebrew bible,settlements history,gush emunim,religious fundamentalism,israel,west bank,israel palestine conflict,ideological interpretation,theology and politics,far right government
Plastic Reprocessing for Organics and Synthetics using Plasma for Energy Redundancy/ Resources (PROSPER)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our lives are materialistically and perhaps literally wrapped in plastic since its use in 1940s and expected consumption would increasingly be 720 million tons by 2040. In 2018, the European Commission (EU) and the EU Strategy for Plastics in the Circular Economy established the main goals for plastic design, manufacture, use, re-use, and end-of-life management by 2030. Nearly 10 % municipal solid waste is plastic out of which nearly 20 % is being landfilled causing geological and environmental instability. In spite of numerous methods for recycling of plastic waste, only primary recycling (re-extrusion) and secondary recycling (mechanical) are well-established. The most challenges are in the large scale implementation of tertiary recycling (chemical recovery) and quaternary recycling (energy recovery) of plastic waste. Further, converting plastic waste into building block molecules, fuels and energy remains a substantial challenge. For these reason, depolymerization of plastic via arc plasma gasification and pyrolysis has been the attractive choice for researchers and technology developers. Armenise et. al. shows the highest cluster of research on pyrolysis of plastic has happened worldwide in last 2 decades. Design of a pyrolysis reactor and the fixing up of the process parameters have been the key bottleneck for the success of the efficient pyrolysis of plastics. Fluidized/ spouted bed reactors are the top most choices for the plastic pyrolysis process. A plasma reactor has shown significant improvement in the process intensification the for the better heat treatment resulting highly desirable organic products such as H2, CO, CH4, C2H4, C2H2 and other smaller hydrocarbons as the renewable energy source. A new Plasma assisted Spouted Bed Pyrolysis Reactor (PSBPR) will be designed and tested for cost effective deployment in industrial use.

Keywords: spouted bed,fluidized bed,reactor design,pyrolysis,waste plastic,syngas,biomass gassification,waste treatment,environment protection,renewable energy technology
Neuronal Control of Fine Movement Components of Egg Laying in Fruit Fly (Neuron to Egg Laying)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

[a short summary to be written shortly]Insect reproduction has a large impact in human well-being through the dissemination of disease and crop failure. Here, we propose to study insect egg laying using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. We will focus on the ventral nerve cord and its role in executing egg laying behaviour commands. We will take advantage of lines previously generated in the laboratory that label small groups of neurons in the ventral nerve cord to establish how different neurons contribute to egg laying motor elements and explore how they communicate with each other and other identified egg laying neuronal elements to coordinate the execution of the different egg laying steps. For this we will pursue the following aims: Aim1- Development of automated tracking of each element of egg laying behaviour. This will allow a precise, quantitative and fast description of behavioural phenotypes; Aim2- Probe the contribution of different motor-controlling neuronal populations to different elements of egg laying behaviour.Activation phenotypes will be recorded, classified and clustered for each ventral nerve cord line; Aim3 - Establish the connectivity of different neuronal populations.The power of Drosophila genetics will be used determine through anatomical and functional means the connectivity between different sets of neurons, including descending neurons from the brain and other local ventral nerve cord neurons. We will also determine how octopamine modulates the functional connectivity between the neurons. With the results of this project, we expect to produce important insights into the mechanisms of control and execution of egg laying behaviour.

Keywords: drosophila melanogaster,egg laying,animal behavior,neural circuits,calcium imaging
Synthetic and scalable data platform for medical empowered AI (AISym4MED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain,Finland,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Belgium
Call: Scaling up multi-party computation, data anonymisation techniques, and synthetic data generation (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6341765.0
EU funding (EUR): 6341765.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

AISym4Med aims at developing a platform that will provide healthcare data engineers, practitioners, and researchers access to a trustworthy dataset system augmented with controlled data synthesis for experimentation and modeling purposes. This platform will address data privacy and security by combining new anonymization techniques, attribute-based privacy measures, and trustworthy tracking systems. Moreover, data quality controlling measures, such as unbiased data and respect to ethical norms, context-aware search, and human-centered design for validation purposes will also be implemented to guarantee the representativeness of the synthetic data generated. Indeed, an augmentation module will be responsible for exploring and developing further the techniques of creating synthetic data, also dynamically on demand for specific use cases. Furthermore, this platform will exploit federated technologies for reproducing un-indentifiable data from closed borders, promoting the indirect assessment of a broader number of databases, while respecting the privacy, security, and GDPR-compliant guidelines. The proposed framework will support the development of innovative unbiased AI-based and distributed tools, technologies, and digital solutions for the benefit of researchers, patients, and providers of health services, while maintaining a high level of data privacy and ethical usage. AISym4Med will help in the creation of more robust machine learning (ML) algorithms for real-world readiness, while considering the most effective computation configuration. Furthermore, a machine-learning meta-engine will provide information on the quality of the generalized model by analyzing its limits and breaking points, contributing to the creation of a more robust system by supplying on-demand real and/or synthetic data. This platform will be validated against local, national, and cross-border use-cases for both data engineers, ML developers, and aid for clinicians’ operations.

Keywords: synthetic data,ai technologies,anonymization techniques,data access,privacy,blockchain
Shifting Perspectives: Visibility and Voice of Women in Worker Cooperatives (WE-COOP)

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: France
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): 1399676.0
EU funding (EUR): 1399676.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The WE-COOP project shifts our traditional androcentric perspective on workplace democracy by investigating the labour experiences of women in worker cooperatives. Studied for their high potential in the democratization of labour relations, worker cooperatives have been systematically considered as a site for class struggle only. WE-COOP excavates how and why worker cooperatives are also a locus where yet unexplored sets of representations, practices and justifications pertaining to women’s emancipation and gender equality at work are produced. Opening a whole new field of enquiry crisscrossing the topics of gender, labour, and democracy, the project addresses two series of questions that cover, respectively, women’s visibility and voice. First, to what extent and how does the democratic apparatus of worker cooperatives allow women to reconfigure labour according to their needs and problems, to re-evaluate the traditional separation between the public and private sphere and to redefine political imaginaries pertaining to their emancipation at work? Second, are there gender-differentiated scripts of cooperative labour and if so, how can they expand our understanding of workplace democracy towards more inclusive analytical frameworks? Focusing on the case-study of France, the project is based on a multi-layered survey of worker cooperatives as well as rare forms of all-women cooperative experiments. It combines quantitative and qualitative methods with an innovative Participatory Research in four incremental steps, allowing for the appropriation by women workers of their narratives and struggles. By unfolding the visibility and voice of women workers, WE-COOP will contribute to the ongoing research on participatory methodologies, produce an unprecedented digital narrative archive on cooperative labour fuelling further research, expand our knowledge on gender-differentiated scripts of workplace democracy while opening a new field of inquiry on feminist utopias at work.

Keywords: workplace democracy
Monolithically Integrated ReRAM and In-Chip Cooling for Emerging Neuromorphic Applications (MIMIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-02, 2022)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 132638.4
EU funding (EUR): 132638.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Heat generation and removal thereof is one of the main challenges for the realization of many future high performance electronics. The heat wall is one of the biggest obstacles to processing large amount of data using the conventional computing architectures. To address this formidable challenge, smart architectural approaches that consider co-design of electronics and thermal management, as well as emerging solutions beyond CMOS, are needed. A resistive switching memory cell ReRAM is a promising candidate for such a technology, which offers performance improvements in digital circuits without a need for aggressive device scaling when combined with transistors. Ultimately, the solution may come from monolithic integration of novel electronics and cooling within the same substrate. In-chip cooling has been recently demonstrated to be promising in GaN power electronics on silicon. However, the multi-step and complicated process flow adopted for fabricating the in-chip heat sink in the state-of-the-art could pose a big challenge for the wide adoption of this new, scientifically and technologically interesting concept. 3D laser lithography is a currently unrealized opportunity to fabricate in-chip microchannels for cooling with substantially simplified fabrication and without a need for cleanroom facilities. Complex 3D structures can be fabricated by this method through a two-step process that includes femtosecond laser irradiation followed by wet chemical etching. In view of the above mentioned, we target to develop memristive arrays integrated with laser-micro-machined in-chip cooling. This offers an immediate and rapid path to overcome the thermal challenges facing today’s computing architectures, and is of relevance to other technologies that suffer from heating during operation. We seek to exploit the highly efficient embedded cooling to pioneer agenda setting advances in addressing the well-known thermal limitations of future logic and memory technologies.

Keywords: monolithically integrated cooling and electronics,laser sculpted in chip microfluidics,reram