Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain "losers of feminism" as mainstream voters (UNTWIST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Denmark,Germany,United Kingdom,Hungary,Switzerland
Call: Feminisms for a new age of democracy (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2697318.75
EU funding (EUR): 2697318.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

UNTWIST aims to promote gender equality as a core value of the EU, defending it from the emerging threat that the oppositional gender rhetoric from extreme populist parties represents. By developing policy recommendations that uphold gender equality as both a value and a way of life, our project will contribute to shaping the global future, thus fulfilling relevant objectives in the EU’s political agenda for the period 2019–2024. By understanding if extreme populist parties are acting as niche parties, substantively representing (but also twisting) the needs and demands of citizens “at the margins”, who feel abandoned or disempowered by current mainstream feminist discourses and policies, it will co-create alternative ways of addressing those citizens. Thus, developing, and implementing new policies that can counter gender-equality-repressive strategies and the policies of extreme populist parties. Representative democracies will consequently be reinvigorated, and the citizenship empowered, by a better safeguarding of gender equality. UNTWIST’s main working strategy toward that end will consist of empowering (non-radical/populist) parties in Europe to improve their representation of the gender-based interests of the citizenry through the definition, enhancement and transfer of a policy recommendation handbook with evidence-based policy recommendations that: 1) help mainstream parties improve their substantive representation of sex- and gender-based needs and demands in ways that diminish the appeal of extreme populist messages (untwisting oppositional gender messages, particularly from right-wing populism); and 2) contributes to the widening horizon of gender expectations and overcomes current “gender fatigue” among citizens. The improvement in substantive democratic representation by these parties will decrease citizens' interest in the anti-feminist messages of radical or populist parties.

Keywords: extreme populist parties,gender fatigue
Novel biomaterials to prevent dental peri-implant infections (NOMAD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Ireland
Call: Smart and multifunctional biomaterials for health innovations (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4708219.25
EU funding (EUR): 4708219.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Peri-implant infections are a devastating complication of dental implants, occurring in approximately 20% of all patients, that can ultimately lead to implant instability and loss. Considering this high prevalence rate and the lack of predictive treatments in severe cases, prevention of peri-implantitis has become a major challenge in clinical dentistry. NOMAD will develop innovative biomaterial approaches for dental implants, from TRL3 to TRL5. Various functionalised implant coatings for titanium and zirconia implant surfaces will reduce the risk of infection (and associated inflammation), improve soft-tissue sealing at the gum line, and promote osseointegration. A further innovation are multi-material crowns and abutments using additive manufacturing combined with grafting of nanotubes, enabling controlled release of prebiotic as well as antimicrobial compounds in response to bacterial adhesion at the onset of infection (i.e. smart conditional release). A combination of these approaches will be employed in the final product to provide a customisable, all-round solution focusing on crown, abutment and/or fixture for prevention of peri-implantitis. Advanced in vitro testing using complex cell co-cultures in bioreactor systems, and biomechanical stability tests will enable selecting the most promising biomaterials for testing in relevant in vivo models. These results will enable rapid progression to first-in-human studies of new biomaterials after the project. A cost-benefit and regulatory analysis will be performed and an innovation management strategy will develop a roadmap for commercialisation. The NOMAD consortium includes a major dental implant manufacturer, academic groups, SMEs working on biomaterials innovation and a specialist innovation company. The project is a major opportunity for enhancing EU competitiveness in biomaterials and inter-sector technology transfer.

Keywords: functional coatings,antimicrobial,soft tissue sealing,osseointegration,controlled release,electrophoretic deposition,additive manufacturing,in vitro models,in vivo testing,health economics
Large-Scale Structure of Entanglement (LargEnt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-02
End date: 2031-02-01
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499297.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499297.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Entanglement is the key resource for quantum information processing. Its study has revolutionized our understanding of condensed matter, quantum fields and even quantum gravity. One of the most fascinating insights is the connection between the classification of topological phases of matter and long-range entanglement. This project will explore a novel aspect of entanglement in ground states of quantum many-body systems: their large-scale structure of entanglement (LSSE), describing those entanglement properties that are stable against perturbations on arbitrary finite subsystems. Just as macroscopic bulk properties, the large-scale structure of entanglement only sharply reveals itself in systems with an unbounded number of degrees of freedom. Yet, it can uncover entanglement properties of finite-size ground states otherwise invisible, such as their capacity to embezzle entanglement: the task of extracting entanglement without leaving a trace. Relativistic quantum fields and certain critical systems exhibit this counterintuitive property. Remarkably little is known about the LSSE of quantum many-body system and its relation to phases of matter. Moreover, the LSSE of quantum fields has been argued to be radically modified by gravity -- disabling their ability to embezzle entanglement. Holographic duality in turn establishes a correspondence between quantum gravity and critical many-body systems, placing the LSSE at the center of modern theoretical physics. The project LargEnt will establish a new paradigm to describe the entanglement content of many-body systems, by a) developing the necessary tools to determine the LSSE, b) clarifying the relation between LSSE, criticality, and topological order, and c) developing a theory to determine whether ground states of many-body systems or vacua of quantum fields can act as multipartite embezzlers. The results of LargEnt will add a new dimension to the classification of ground states of many-body systems.

Keywords: entanglement theory,quantum criticality,topological order,tensor networks,multipartite entanglement
Non-Hermitian Transport in Anderson forbidden land (Beyond_Anderson)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Greece
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1525000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1525000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal is centered around the recently discovered (by the PI) ground-breaking way of transport in strongly Anderson localized non-Hermitian media. Initially Anderson localization was studied on electrons but it was later realized that photons provide an alternative cleaner route. However, one fundamental problem of photonics is that of inherent material losses. As the paradigm of parity-time symmetric optics indicates, the resolution of this problem is the judicious combination of gain and loss via index engineering. Such non-Hermitian paradigm provides the opportunity to overcome Anderson localization after sixty years by proposing a novel way of transport unique in the complex photonic media, something that is experimentally impossible in condensed matter physics. The key idea is the inclusion of appropriate gain-loss index profiles that allow light to cross the forbidden land of Anderson via sudden jumps, despite the fact that all eigenstates are localized. My proposal is focused on four directions that span out of the main theme of sudden jumps. The first one is the role of openness in the most general case of uncorrelated disorder. A second open question is that of existence of jumps in correlated media that support constant-intensity states. For both questions the maximization of the effect based on wavefront shaping and index engineering is important. A third question is the possibility of topologically protected jumpy transport in disordered topological insulators. Finally, I intend to examine the more difficult and fundamental problem of many-body effects on non-Hermitian jumpy transport. The underlying mathematical framework, is that of non-Hermitian random matrix theory and pseudospectrum, a widely used method in turbulence studies of fluid mechanics. My project is expected to open a new path in both disordered photonics that exploit the unique features of non-Hermiticity, namely extreme sensitivity, exceptional points, and novel lasing schemes.
Closely Related Languages: Processing, Attrition and Exposure (CloReLa)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-15
End date: 2027-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mainland Scandinavian (MSc) marks a fascinating linguistic scenario: relying on mutual intelligibility, speakers use their native language (L1) when conversing with foreign MSc-interlocutors and keep doing so even if immersed in the target speech community for years. This raises the question if non-native speakers of a closely related target language (Ln) use different grammars or resort to the L1 grammar when processing the Ln, whether parsing it causes attrition, and if any of this is modulated by exposure. CloReLa (Closely Related Languages: Processing, Attrition and Exposure) addresses these issues by comparing processing and judgment data of native speakers of Norwegian and non-native speakers with L1 Swedish or Danish. To this end, we employ an innovative combination of on- and off-line methods: Eye-Tracking while Reading (ETR) and Acceptability Judgment Tasks (AJT), conducting in-person studies at UiT and collecting data from speakers in Sweden and Denmark via web-based surveys. Considering closely related languages serves to close important knowledge gaps: these exhibit a broader range of contrasts than dialects, no common standard to fall back on and a slowly deteriorating mutual intelligibility. Whether non-native speakers postulate dedicated rules and are more prone to attrition or not has extensive implications for models of the cognitive organisation of linguistic systems and factors affecting their formation. CloReLa emphasizes the potential of closely related varieties and sparks methodological advances by promoting a novel mix of methods to study (un)grammaticality in parsing. The action allows the PI to build on psycholinguistic and theoretical expertise and trains him in ETR and transferable skills, an ideal mix of training-through-research and formal training. In AcqVA Aurora, which excels in research on multilingualism, he will contribute to ongoing projects and take the lead on CloReLa to become a top-class linguist doing cutting-edge research.

Keywords: multilingualism,cross linguistic influence,language processing,closely related languages,passive voice,attrition,optionality,norwegian,swedish,danish
PastFood: From the Lab to Edutainment (PastFood)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Public Engagement with Research Award
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC-2024-PERA (ERC-2024-PERA, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

My ERC Starting Grant “FoodTransforms” (678901) showed that the Mediterranean Diet has been the result of early global interconnectedness at least since the Bronze Age. We integrated archaeological analyses with the multidisciplinary scientific analyses of food remains in human dental calculus and biomolecules in ancient vessels informing us about past food practices. From the very beginning, we aimed to communicate our results to citizens of all ages worldwide in a most inclusive way assuming that the deep history of the Mediterranean diet will be of greatest interest. Moreover, we wanted to raise archaeologists’ awareness of calculus as an important archaeological source material. We decided on a multi-channel strategy for which we successfully raised additional funding from the German State. Based on an extensive press outreach strategy and our social network activities, ca 1000 press reports worldwide and many radio stations informed about our results and paved the way for the success of the main focus of our outreach: With edutainment, citizens learn about the past while having fun. Therefore, we collaborated on TV documentaries and co-created the computer game “Epic Palace: Knossos”, both of which target a very broad audience. The TV documentaries on ancient Egypt in which we presented some of our major results were watched by more than 7 Mio viewers. The computer game, available in English and German, reached a worldwide audience. The impact of our research is visible on many different levels from blog discussions (e.g. on Lady Gaga’s blog and food blogs) and commentaries to our social network activities, films and “Epic Palace” up to dentist magazines and energy companies informing their customers about our research. I benefited greatly from our outreach, which opened up new interdisciplinary collaborations, and I have started teaching students not only about our scientific results but also how to conduct inclusive and entertaining public outreach.

Keywords: edutainment,tv documentaries,computer game,mediterranean diet
Feeding the Roman Army, Making the Empire (FRAME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998825.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998825.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

FRAME capitalises on advances in archaeological science and a critical mass of archaeological material to examine how the Roman Empire’s frontiers in Europe functioned as economic as well as militarised zones. The Empire’s expansion and longevity relied on the capability to maintain large armies and provincial garrisons for long periods. The army comprised c. 300,000 soldiers, mainly concentrated on frontiers and supply was a vast challenge, yet how it was achieved remains poorly understood. International in scale, this multi-disciplinary project will explain how the army was supplied with food and the impact this had on the landscapes and economies of frontier provinces and beyond. The Roman Empire’s frontiers are iconic, and their extensive remains have been a focus of research for centuries. Traditionally viewed as physical and cultural boundaries between civilised Romans and their ‘barbarian’ neighbours, Rome’s frontiers in Europe are ready for this ground-breaking project that will reappraise their functions and roles and make a major contribution to the study of Roman imperialism’s remarkable resilience and longevity. FRAME focuses on the somewhat neglected (in Roman studies) resource of food remains (animals, plants and organic residues in ceramics) in five frontier regions. By combining cutting-edge multi-isotope and organic residue analysis with archaeological and historical evidence, the project will reconstruct the military diet across frontiers, address how food was produced, the networks that supplied it and the impact this had on frontier landscapes and economies. The ambitious analytical programme will reveal the regional strategies core to the functioning of the Roman Empire and how they were affected by cultural choices and environmental constraints. This multi-scalar methodology, using a suite of methods never before integrated in archaeological research, will provide a blueprint for studying past food supply in wide-ranging contexts globally.

Keywords: roman archaeology,biomolecular archaeology,material culture studies,ancient textual sources,roman economy,roman military,isotope archaeology,organic residue analysis
Interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action for Health (INTERACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden,Finland
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6652800.0
EU funding (EUR): 6652800.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The last decades are characterised by great breakthroughs in the understanding, diagnosing, and treating of many diseases. As fields advance, researchers are increasingly challenged to merge domains in order to tackle complex health-related societal issues. Thus, the next generation of researchers require strong collaboration skills and abilities to integrate knowledge from other disciplines into their research efforts. Despite this, formalised interdisciplinary research training falls short. INTERACT is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme with the goal of inspiring and enabling fellows working seamless across STEM disciplines to advance health solutions in the fields of cancer and neurological diseases. Fellows will work on original PhD projects bridging across biology/biomedicine to chemistry, physics or engineering. We will also include science didactic research on interdisciplinary education at graduate level. INTERACT’s main goals are: 1) to create a model for structured ‘convergence science’ training in Denmark, 2) to discover methodologies and approaches supporting interdisciplinary STEM research, and 3) to nurture fellows’ entrepreneurial and transversal skills, important for their future intersectoral career options. We will recruit 66 international fellows over three cohorts at two implementing partner organizations, the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark, ensuring fellow diversity through unbiased, transparent and merit-based selection. Selected fellows will be jointly supervised by an Interdisciplinary Supervisor Team, will undertake international secondments, obtain transferable skills training and career activities provided by other-sector partners. INTERACT will be one of the first European doctoral programmes on ‘convergence science’, strengthening Europe’s role at the forefront of interdisciplinary and intersectoral research training, with potential to solve complex unmet health needs.

Keywords: interdisciplinary stem research,interdisciplinary research training,cancer,neurological diseases,biomedicine,physics,chemistry,engineering,natural science didactics,science education
Satellite-based protection of cultural heritage from landslide risk (SLIDE)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The protection of cultural heritage buildings (CHB) against slow-moving landslides has become increasingly urgent due to climate change exacerbating these threats. Among CHB, historic masonry churches (HMC) warrant special attention due to their global spread, high risk exposure, and high vulnerability to slow-moving landslides. SLIDE addresses this challenge by using an interdisciplinary approach that combines remote sensing, structural and numerical analysis, and soil-structure interaction modeling. For the first time, the project will thoroughly characterize and model the action of slow-moving landslides on HMC using remote sensing techniques. It will also enhance understanding of the structural response of HMC to slow-moving landslides and develop tools for damage prediction at a territorial scale. Implemented at TU Delft under the supervision of Prof. Giorgia Giardina and benefiting from a secondment at UNIGE under the co-supervision of Prof. Chiara Calderini, SLIDE is designed to support Dr Ferrero in achieving her career objectives. The project will enable her to acquire new scientific and transferable skills. Additionally, it will strengthen her international network and enhance her ability to secure research funding, aiding her development towards an independent research position. In the long term, SLIDE aims to: (i) generate new insights into the structural response of CHB to slow-moving landslides, (ii) enhance policymaking and enable timely damage prediction and interventions, (iii) promote the design of new strengthening measures to reduce the vulnerability of CHB, and (iv) raise public awareness about the importance of CHB protection. Through these efforts, SLIDE will mitigate damage from slow-moving landslides to CHB, contributing to the preservation of cultural heritage. In doing so, the project will also support the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the European Union’s commitment to safeguarding heritage buildings.

Keywords: cultural heritage buildings historic masonry structures heritage protection remote sensing landslide risk climate change vulnerability and damage assessment