Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust (PROTRUST) (PROTRUST)

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: Norway,Sweden,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 3
Project status: TERMINATED

Large firms such as Amazon, Google and Facebook have been making worldwide headlines for abusing their market power and violating antitrust rules. Within the European Union (EU), the European Commission (EC) has been a regulatory powerhouse in competition policy with the capacity to counterbalance unfair dominance of large firms. Such antitrust cases tend to gain news coverage and lead to discussions in the public sphere. In other words, they become subject to ‘politicisation’. But does politicisation affect citizens’ trust in public authorities and large companies, and if so, how? PROTRUST (Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust) investigates the effect of politicisation of EU antitrust cases on citizens’ trust in the European Commission and in the firms involved. It does so through an innovative combination of (1) a claims-making analysis of media coverage of antitrust cases in selected countries and (2) survey experiments based on the identified media frames from the claims-making analysis. PROTRUST is hosted by ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, where it benefits from the expertise of Prof. Tobias Bach and other academics in the areas of trust, public administration, and EU studies. It also relies on the support of two secondment institutions, GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp, and Lund University, adding key expertise in the areas of political economy, transparency and technology. PROTRUST builds a bridge between politicisation and trust research, advances knowledge on politicisation in the field of competition policy, and provides a novel analysis of the impact of media frames in relation to competition and antitrust. Considering the dominance of large firms and the emerging challenges of democratic governance in the digital age, analysing the link between politicisation and citizens’ trust is a timely and pressing topic.

Keywords: trust,antitrust,competition policy,politicisation,eu,european commission
CARinata and CamelINA to boost the sustainable diversification in EU farming systems (CARINA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Bulgaria,Spain,Greece,Germany,Lebanon,Serbia,Tunisia,Slovakia,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Maximising economic, environmental and social synergies in the provision of feedstock for bio-based sectors through diversification and increased sustainability of agricultural production systems (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8505505.25
EU funding (EUR): 7512996.75
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

CARINA is built on a multi-actor consortium and participative decision-making process through mutual learning, transparent communication, and inclusive multi-perspectives and transdisciplinary engagement. From the proposal clearly emerges the importance of social innovation as the nerve center for the evolution of the whole project. Nine Lighthouses, 5 Living Labs, and 9 Policy Innovation Labs will be established across Europe playing a leading role in the co-creation of CARINA innovation actions. CARINA focuses on new sustainable and diversified farming systems including 2 new oilseed crops, carinata and camelina, able to provide multiple low iLUC feedstocks for the bio-based economy. We firmly believe that a participatory approach is necessary for successfully scaling-up innovative farming systems. Engaging farmers and other stakeholders in jointly developing solutions under specific environmental, technical, and social conditions has been highly considered in CARINA. We estimate about 3M farmers being potentially reached by CARINA thanks to the direct cooperation with its partners. To find a broad consensus by primary producers, a new crop should enable to promote and harness biodiversity, be easy-to-grow, and technically feasible within current cropping systems. Carinata and camelina fully meet these requirements, able to successfully grow almost everywhere in Europe and in northern Africa. Carinata and camelina provide high quality oils that will be transformed into innovative bio-based products (bioherbicides, bioplastics). The co-product from oil extraction is a protein-rich cake, which will be valorized as animal feed, and in a multitude of high added-value products, exploiting the mucilage and glucosinolates contained within. CARINA capitalizes on a highly experienced team of 20 partners, +6 affiliated entities, from 13 EU and Associated Countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Serbia, Tunisia, Morocco, Switzerland).

Keywords: oilseed crops,protein,co products,cascade approach,biodiversity,lighthouses,living labs,co design,biopesticides,biostimulants,sustainable diversification,certification,knowledge transfer
Collusion and Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets: A Unified Approach (COLLABOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1383447.0
EU funding (EUR): 1383447.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years, the European Commission and national competition authorities have shown significant interest in collusion and anticompetitive practices in labor markets. While extensive research has enhanced our understanding of imperfectly competitive labor markets, a critical gap remains in our comprehension of modern anticompetitive practices and explicit collusion by employers. Additionally, recent evidence suggests that unions might alleviate the negative wage effects of employment concentration on wages, but we know little about how unions might serve as a remedy against anticompetitive employment practices. To address these gaps, I propose the following research agenda: First, I will develop a benchmark theoretical model to study various anticompetitive practices in labor markets, including wage-fixing, no-poaching agreements, and noncompete clauses. A main purpose of this model is to provide a transparent approach to quantify the impact of these practices on wages, employment, and overall economic welfare using readily available data. Second, I will extend this model to incorporate the role of unions and asymmetric information, exploring how unions might counteract anticompetitive practices and interact with pay transparency initiatives. Third, I will confront the theoretical framework with empirical evidence on firm pay dynamics, thereby working to reconcile two large literatures on firm dynamics and pay premiums across firms. I will document empirical patterns using recently developed reduced-form methods and employer-employee data and examine the implications for the structure of labor market frictions. This analysis will assess the consistency of the models with observed patterns in wages, productivity, and worker mobility. Ultimately, this research aims to inform antitrust policies by developing and empirically assessing a comprehensive model of anticompetitive practices in labor markets, incorporating unions, information frictions, and firm dynamics.
Computational Modelling of Tangible Objects on Multisensory Interfaces (TANGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France,Belgium
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): 1499886.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499886.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Current interactive systems provide realistic audio-visual feedback while haptic feedback is limited even though haptic interactions with devices are essential and touch plays a large role to convey immersive sensations. Thus, usable high-fidelity haptic rendering has the potential to improve interactions with interactive interfaces and future metaverses. Knowledge has started emerging on haptic rendering and multisensory perception of tangible objects. Still, combining multiple techniques to stimulate the full bandwidth of tactile sensitivity remains a hard challenge and little is known about the perceptual integration of tactile cues such as friction, temperature, or vibrations. Thus, there is the intricate twofold challenge of developing new haptic techniques based on models of cognitive multisensory integration whose investigation requires advanced stimulation techniques. Thus, the originality of TANGO is to address the problem of multisensory rendering of tangible objects from a holistic view by considering simultaneously multi-dimensional haptic techniques, tactile acuity across its psychophysical dimensions, and mechanisms of multisensory integration. Specifically, TANGO aims to 1/ characterize typical gestures and contact mechanics during interaction with real objects. 2/ understand how gestures and the dimension of haptic feedback influence perception of simulated tactile objects 3/ create a computational model of multisensory integration that outputs perceived realism during interaction with objects. Studies will also consider two main population factors: age and sensory impairment. Finally, the outcome from 1-3 will serve to design sensorily rich tangible 3D elements on displays, in virtual reality, and on maps for visually impaired. By a strongly interdisciplinary approach combining haptics, computer science, and neuroscience, TANGO will optimize haptic rendering in multisensory interactive interfaces to enhance its use in human-computer interactions.

Keywords: multisensory integration,haptics,computational modelling,psychophysics
Lisboa Unicorn Capital (LisboaUnicornCapital)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Capital of Innovation Awards
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: The European Capital of Innovation Awards iCapital 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lisboa can be more than one may ever imagined. With almost 2000 years of history, it is now a global city, just as it was in those early days. However, it aims to go further. As the gateway to Europe facing the Atlantic, Lisboa is cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial, the result of an economic and social dynamic that has borne fruit in the last decade. More than just being a trendy city chosen by welcomed tourists and digital nomads for temporary remote work, Lisboa aspires to create value through the talent it attracts and the innovation it promotes and supports, to invest that capital in benefit of social justice and environmental sustainability. This is the vision of a city that aims to blend scientific and technological research with culture and social innovation. This is the path that the current municipal executive leading the city government wants to take, inspired precisely by the European Way. It is a sustainable and humanistic model of development, in contrast to models that rely on volatile premises and are sensitive to flows and circumstances. The vibrant entrepreneurial community that took its first steps in Lisboa is now mature and aspires to take the next step, to grow and scale. Lisboa is no longer just a Startup city, Lisboa is becoming a Scaleup city, and aims to be a Unicorn Capital, fostering and nurturing research and innovation in open labs, welcoming students, investors, dreamers. Because Lisboa is the Home of the Believers. Lisboa aims to be iCapital Europe 2023, as a Unicorn Capital, an open lab available to innovation and experimentation, committed with sustainability, thinking global and acting locally, with the citizens needs as focus and their participation as lever. From the returns provided by the innovation-driven economy, the city will be able to invest in policies that develop social welfare, culture, and citizenship, without losing site from Lisboa's identity and reinforcing its authenticity. Landing page: https://icapital.lisboa.pt

Keywords: entrepreneurship,unicorn capital,open innovation,sustainability,glocal,community,ecosystem,scaleup,collaboration,future,network,knowledge,talent,people,creativity,diversity,smart city
Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration (AGISTIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,France,Spain,Netherlands,Finland,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Demonstration of innovative forms of storage and their successful operation and integration into innovative energy systems and grid architectures (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8912148.88
EU funding (EUR): 7930450.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

AGISTIN will enable industrial grid users to rapidly deploy renewables through advanced integration of innovative energy storage technologies at the interface with the grid. Rapid decarbonisation of industry through electrification, the growth of renewables, and the need for grid stability present a unique opportunity for new forms storage of storage and integration schemes to emerge. The main objectives in the project are to develop new forms of energy storage that meet grid needs for short-duration flexibility and stability, reduce the impact of new, large demand on the grid, and reduce costs for large grid users through innovative storage integration. This project will exceed the state of the art for aqueous batteries, use of irrigation systems as energy storage, grid interface designs and provision of advanced grid services from large load users. Two demonstrations and three test activities centered around renewable hydrogen electrolysis, irrigation pumping, and fast EV charging are used to demonstrate advanced concepts for energy storage, grid integration and grid users. AGISTIN results in reduced grid connection for industrial grid users, reducing H2 production cost by 10% and improved grid stability through advanced grid services, that enable grids to run with 100% renewables. The innovative storage technologies directly addressed in the project include aqueous electrochemical recuperators, with properties between super capacitors and batteries, use of irrigation systems as energy storage and aluminum ion batteries. These technologies will be developed to test and demonstrate in the target use cases, resulting in TRL level increases for each. The consortium consists of members from 9 countries and across the value chain best able to exploit project results, including; storage and power electronics providers, industrial grid users, a grid operator, a engineering consultancy, research institutes, universities and an energy storage association.

Keywords: energy storage,industrial grid users,grid integration,grid services,aqueous battery,electrolysis,flexibility,renewable generation,irrigation systems
Probing new physics with four top quarks (4TopAndMore)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-16
End date: 2026-02-15
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons are collided at the highest possible energy to generate subatomic elementary particles. We use the results of these collisions to understand our universe at the most fundamental level. Many theorists believe that new physics exists at a very high energy. The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle known to date with unique properties. It is therefore naturally suspected to have hidden connections with new physics. The simultaneous production of four top-quarks (tttt) is the most energetic process accessible with the LHC, making it a unique place to search for heavy new physics, which are less likely to appear elsewhere. The first evidence of these extremely rare events was only revealed last year, and we know very little about them. With the world-record energy at LHC Run3 (13.6 TeV), we expect 20% higher tttt events production rate. This offers a timely opportunity to further study this process. With an aim to find new physics, we will study tttt events in unprecedented detail with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. We will measure the inclusive production rate and the kinematic properties of these events. We will use the measured results to probe new physics, with unique approaches that do not rely on new physics predictions made upon specific assumptions (which could be wrong). The results have the potential to reveal new physics that are too energetic and beyond the reach of the LHC. This will be the first time this is done for tttt events. The measured tttt event kinematics will be corrected to remove effects from the detector resolution and acceptance. This allows theorists to directly test their new physics predictions against the experimental results, continuously generating impact in the relevant scientific community. We will combine the results of tttt events with those of other types of events containing top quarks to build a global picture of the top quark in terms of its subtle connections to new physics.

Keywords: top quark four top quark production new physics atlas lhc
Unravelling the Molecular Specificities of the Archaeal Core Replisome (ArcRep)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The ability of cells to copy their genome before cell division is one of the wonders of biology. For DNA replication to succeed, multiple proteins act in concert forming a dynamic molecular engine known as the replisome. Great effort has been made to characterise all the components of the replisome, yet our understanding of how they work together to achieve DNA replication is still very limited. Recent studies have provided initial structural clues on the T7 phage, yeast and human replisomes, yet there is a large knowledge gap around the archaeal one. Furthermore, the archaeal replisome constitutes a living molecular fossil with a blend of bacterial and eukaryotic features that can help us better understand the emergence of eukaryotes. The first aim of ArcRep is to use recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the first structure of the archaeal replisome, revealing the molecular contacts that allow it to function. The second aim is to further understand how the replisome interacts with DNA, and to assess its potential for future development of tools that harness the sophistication of nature’s replisome in a test tube, as novel single-cell genomics biotechnology. With the cryo-EM experience I gained during my PhD, I will join the Sauguet lab to build up on their ample experience in the structure of archaeal replication proteins, and achieve the first aim of ArcRep. During a secondment in the Gardner lab (New England Biolabs, USA), who are experts in archaeal replication enzymology and have an established collaboration with the host lab, I will further characterise the replisome with methods previously developed in their group. This will achieve the second aim of ArcRep backed by a world leader in the production of reagents for life sciences. The distinct expertise that each of the three parties brings to ArcRep is an ideal melting pot for it to succeed and for me to acquire invaluable experience in both academic and industry environments.

Keywords: dna replication,cryo em,replisome,archaea,euryarchaea,pold,dna polymerase,helicase