Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The Experience of Poverty in the Post-Industrial Economy (ExpPov)

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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1393425.0
EU funding (EUR): 1393425.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

The reduction of poverty is of societal importance. After advances in the study of poverty in the late 20th century, however, most high-income countries have settled on an annual measure of household income as their primary measure of poverty. In contrast, ExpPov argues that shifting socio-economic conditions in recent decades necessitate a new conceptual approach for understanding poverty and a new methodological framework for the collection of data related to the experience of poverty. Specifically, ExpPov confronts four central tenants of poverty research. First, in contrast to national or regional investigations of poverty, ExpPov proposes that the geographic distribution of poverty across neighbourhoods within a municipality is an understudied, yet important source of stratification that directly affects well-being. Second, this project expands measurement of the dimensions of poverty to incorporate physical and subjective well-being, confronting the income-specific approach that dominates the field. Third, ExpPov measures the dynamics of poverty throughout the year to understand the sources and consequences of month-to-month volatility in poverty. Fourth, in contrast to the practice of identifying poverty as an outcome of the 'family, market, and state', this project proposes that the dynamics, dimensions, and geographic distribution of poverty are direct sources of the more-fractured family structures, precarious jobs, and tenuous welfare states that define post-industrial economies. From a data perspective, ExpPov introduces tools to produce low-cost panel surveys with the ability to target respondents in particular postal codes and working for specific employers, such as Uber or Deliveroo. Methodologically, ExpPov introduces a framework to evaluate the contextual effects of poverty on the core institutions of social life. Conceptually, ExpPov will reset the field's understanding of the social mechanisms through which poverty is experienced and reproduced.

Keywords: poverty,social policy,labour markets,welfare states,families
Europe and Mobilities: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Economic Transformations (EuroMobi)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Other Culture, creativity and inclusive society destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Presidency event (PL) – Conference ‘Europe and mobilities: challenges and opportunities for socio-economic transformations’ (HORIZON-CL2-2025-GIB-PRES-IBA, 2025)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299975.0
EU funding (EUR): 299975.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The EuroMobi project addresses the socio-economic challenges and transformations arising from demographic, migration and technological changes affecting the European Union. These changes require a deeper understanding of their implications and an enhanced dialogue between researchers, policy makers and stakeholders. EuroMobi aims to bridge critical gaps between academia, policy makers and practitioners by fostering collaboration and facilitating knowledge exchange on socio-economic change in Europe. The centrepiece of the project will be a high-level international conference, a key event of the Polish EU Presidency. This three-day event will bring together leading researchers, policy-makers, NGOs and international organisations to discuss key socio-economic challenges, explore lessons learned from past experiences and identify pathways for future EU reforms and enlargement. Through keynote speeches, thematic panels and networking opportunities, the conference will address key issues such as migration, demographic change, democratic backsliding, technology and AI, and green transformation. It will also present insights from cross-European research collaborations between academic and non-academic actors in the social sciences and humanities, and explore strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration for future Horizon Europe funding opportunities. EuroMobi will strengthen the dialogue between academia and the policy field, facilitating the production of useful insights for policy makers and stakeholders. By fostering partnerships and exchanges, the project aims to develop scenarios for the EU's socio-economic future and contribute to ongoing reforms at both local and European level. The initiative is a crucial step in ensuring Europe's ability to manage and adapt to change in an effective and collaborative way.

Keywords: socio economic transformation,socio economic mobility,social challenges,presidency in the eu council
The Heterogeneity of Lewy Bodies in Single Cells (HETLEWY)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease affecting millions world-wide. PD pathophysiology is associated with protein aggregates called Lewy Bodies (LBs), and aggregation is impacted by cellular environment, post-translational modifications and genetic predispositions. Heterogeneity in the composition of LBs across the brain has consequences for neuronal cytotoxicity and although LBs are a main focus in PD research, only a limited number of projects have explored their heterogeneity. I will investigate LB heterogeneity at the single cell level for the first time -- enabled by technological developments of my host lab, the Mann group, namely Deep Visual Proteomics (DVP). DVP combines high-resolution microscopy, AI-aided image analysis and ultra-sensitive MS-based proteomics to analyse the proteome in a spatially-resolved manner. I aim to identify proteins whose levels correlate with LB heterogeneity, thereby classifying different LB phenotypes and finding ‘tipping points’ in LB maturation that drive cell death. I will first apply DVP to cell culture models overexpressing alpha-synuclein, a main component of LBs, to investigate the composition of LBs and determine candidates promoting various types of LB phenotypes. Such candidates, e.g., the already known tubulin polymerisation promoting protein (TPPP/p25), will be expressed in cells to confirm effects on the LB phenotype. In parallel, I will apply DVP to human brain tissue to identify differences in aggregates across stages of the disease and to distinguish between healthy and sick cells within the same tissue. This analysis will provide unique insights into the progression of the disease and may yield new therapeutic candidates.

Keywords: lewy body protein aggregation alpha synuclein parkinson s disease single cell proteomics
Neuromorphic-Native Ultra-Efficient Event-Driven Radio (NEUER)

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: Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The NEUER project aims to revolutionize next-generation wireless communication systems by drawing inspiration from the human brain's energy-efficient processing capabilities. As wireless networks evolve and integrate more advanced AI technologies, the challenge of managing high energy consumption without sacrificing performance becomes increasingly critical. Current solutions struggle to balance these demands, making it difficult to scale these technologies sustainably. To address this, NEUER will develop a neuromorphic-native communication system that mimics the brain's ability to process information efficiently. By using spiking neural networks (SNNs), which activate only when necessary—similar to how neurons in the brain function—this system will significantly reduce energy consumption while maintaining or even enhancing processing performance in complex signal environments. The research objective is to achieve at least 50% reduction in energy use, at least 15% reduction in latency, and at least 10% improvement in task accuracy compared to state-of-the-art systems. This will be accomplished by integrating advanced deep learning models that work synergistically within the neuromorphic framework, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in energy-efficient AI-driven communication. NEUER is not just a step forward in wireless communication; it represents a leap toward more sustainable and intelligent technologies. By bringing brain-inspired efficiency to the field, the project is set to have a broad impact on both academic research and industrial applications, paving the way for the next generation of energy-efficient communication systems.

Keywords: neuromorphic computing
The Logistics of Popular Uprisings (LOOPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499605.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499605.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Imagine you protest the slide of your country into an autocratic regime. The weather is freezing and you rally in these conditions for weeks. Not a pleasant idea, yet in 2004 thousands of Ukrainians demonstrated against electoral fraud and established a permanent protest camp in Kyiv. For two months, thousands of protesters were in this urban camp, requiring food, toilet facilities and accommodations to regain warmth. And not only in Ukraine, but all over the world, people protest under difficult conditions and have to overcome logistical and personal challenges to pursue their goals. While the literature on social movements and revolution has engaged extensively with popular uprisings and large-scale protests, the logistics that are required for these protests to succeed under autocracy are hardly ever addressed. Existing research has long neglected the fundamental questions that LOOPS engages with. Such as: what logistical activity can be observed during these protests, their quantity and professionalism? Who organizes the portable toilets, provides soup, and blankets? And what effect has the level of professionalism on the legitimacy of the protest and autocratic stability? We will first develop a concept of professionalism in backstage logistics and a theoretical argument about its effect on the legitimacy and course of protests. With this we will create a unique dataset of the logistics during uprisings based on the analysis of images, a new and exciting way to generate data. With a substantive human coding effort, LOOPS will identify the basic logistics, their type, quantity, and professionalism. In a second step, LOOPS will include case studies to gather more information about financial and organizational sources for protest logistics. Third, we will test the impact of these logistics on autocratic resilience. I propose an ambitious research agenda, address a salient research gap, offer an innovative approach to data collection and a multi-method design.
Conversas of Muslim and Jewish Origin in the Premodern Crown of Aragon: Parallels and Contrasts (CONVERSAS)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-23
End date: 2025-10-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project CONVERSAS explores the cultural identities of Muslim and Jewish crypto-religious minorities within coerced mono-confessional pre-modern Crown of Aragon (c. 1400-1500). It will challenge traditional interpretations - based on male centred historical documents and largely ignored within gender blind research - by creating a novel concept of comparison, especially between socio-religious characteristics of these groups’ female members converted to Christianity: Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) and Judeo-Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) suspected of secret adherence to the religion of their ancestors. The project aims to develop an adaptable multi-dimensional comparative and intersectional model to provide cultural, historical and gender analysis of these religious groups. As a sample of multi-dimensional methodology applied to the underutilized archival data - most notably inquisitorial trial dossiers, Jewish and Muslim religious and legal texts, royal documents, local legislations, notarial, and cadastral documents - the applicant will write a research monograph, accompanied by a database of selected manuscripts integrated into the Host’s servers, and (co-)organize a workshop. The research will be conducted in a trans-disciplinary research group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Professor Linda Gale Jones, an international authority of comparative Muslim and Christian gender studies. The applicant will bring philological, historical, and anthropological skills that will facilitate research in the group and the transfer of ideas. Since democratic managing of increasing cultural diversity represents one of the crucial challenges that Europe is facing today the knowledge acquired from Islamic and Judaic intangible cultural heritage will prevent ethnic disintegration and promote understanding and reconciliation toward creating a plural, tolerant and broadminded cohesive society.

Keywords: religious conversion,religious encounters,crown of aragon,judeo conversas,moriscas,
Solar powered atmospheric plasma system for the treatment of contaminated wastewater (SolarPlas)

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: Italy,Pakistan
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207187.2
EU funding (EUR): 207187.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Atmospheric plasma (AP) is envisioned as a revolutionary green technology for wastewater treatment as compared to conventional biological and advanced oxidation processes due to its robust performance in degrading recalcitrant emerging contaminants and micropollutants. AP powered by DC, AC, or pulsed power sources, in the air or in contact with water produces a multitude of reactive species able to attack and ultimately mineralize the contaminants dissolved in water. Salient features of this novel technology include operation at NTP, flexibility, rapid startup, in situ generation of reactive species (e.g. H2O2, O3, ˙OH, ˙NO, NO2˙) without chemical addition which makes it a futuristic green technology. However, an inherent disadvantage is its high energy cost which hinders its large scale application; only a few examples of treatment of real water samples are indeed reported. Previous research on AP application for emerging contaminant removal also lacks in designing and selecting a plasma discharge capable of treating surfactant and non-surfactant types of emerging contaminants efficiently. Therefore the objectives of this proposal include the development and testing of a standalone solar-powered dual discharge plasma reactor (SolarPlas) for sustainable wastewater treatment targeting efficient removal of emerging contaminants of surfactant and non-surfactant nature. The dual discharge will consist of 1) plasma in contact with liquid at the gas-liquid interface for destroying surfactant type of emerging contaminants while 2) plasma discharge at the bottom of the reactor diffused through the air bubbling will effectively degrade non-surfactant type of emerging contaminants from Hospital wastewater and landfill leachate. The main outcome of the project will be in the form of an efficient solar-powered AP reactor (SolarPlas) for wastewater treatment with defined energy efficiency for the treatment of various types of wastewater matrices (municipal, industrial etc.).

Keywords: atmospheric plasma treatment,emerging contaminants treatment,micropollutants,sustainable wastewater treatment,corona discharge,point of use treatment,industrial pollution control
Quantitative extrapolation in ecotoxicology (QTOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2727057.6
EU funding (EUR): 2727057.6
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Reliable assessment of the ecological risks posed by chemicals is a fundamental component of European policies concerned with safe use of chemicals e.g. REACh, The Green Deal, and protection of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services (Water Framework Directive). Chemical risk assessment typically involves extrapolation of effects observed in-vitro and in-vivo under laboratory conditions to predictions of effects at the ecosystem level. This is a very challenging task and current extrapolation models have limitations, notably due to a number of ecological processes that are disregarded by the models and the paucity of data for parameterisation and validation. QTOX will develop mechanistic knowledge and data efficient modelling tools to bridge the gap between standard toxicity data (typically acute effects of single chemicals) and ecologically relevant end points arising from chronic, time variable exposures to chemical mixtures. The results will be achieved through an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training program in which 10 doctoral candidates will characterise the mechanistic processes describing the successive events from exposure to ecosystem-level effects and develop models for extrapolation of adverse effects across levels of biological organisation under environmentally realistic conditions. Notably, the effects of chemical mixtures, dynamic exposure conditions and their interaction with climate change scenarios will be characterised in a series of mesocosm experiments at three sites in central and southern Europe. The mesocosm work will serve as a uniting training element and a rich source of data for testing and validating the modelling framework. QTOX will produce an open access toolbox for quantitative extrapolations in ecotoxicology and a cohort of researchers equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement and develop rigorous approaches for predicting adverse effects of chemicals.

Keywords: mechanistic models,chemical speciation,bioavailability,biological species sensitivity,mixture toxicity,mesocosms,chronic effects,dynamic exposures
The Hardness of Finding Good Algorithms (HOFGA)

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: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498664.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498664.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This is a project in Computational Complexity. The project aims to answer the following question: How hard is it to find a good algorithm for a given computational problem? This question can be asked in several different settings, depending on what one means by "algorithm" (what is the computational model?), "computational problem" (is it a decision problem? a search problem? a communication problem?), and by "good" (do we want an algorithm that uses little time? little memory? few logical gates?). This question has a deep connection with the problem of proving lower-bounds, and in almost every setting where the question has been answered, either the answer was discovered while attempting to prove lower-bounds, or obtaining the answer required the development of new lower-bound methods. It is also known that several variants of the above question are equivalent to fundamental open questions in cryptography, pseudorandomness, and learning theory. The goal of this project is to answer this question in various settings where the answer is unknown: in circuit complexity, communication complexity, data structures, and algebraic models of computation. For each of these settings, we will either provide explicit methods for finding efficient algorithms, or show that the problem of finding such efficient algorithms is NP-hard.