Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intelligent New Radio Access Network: Deployment and Management (IRAM)

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-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148478.4
EU funding (EUR): 148478.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The fifth and sixth generations (5G/6G) of cellular networks have to handle an unprecedented surge in data traffic, which comes as a result of the emergence of a wide range of applications, notably, the Internet of Everything, haptic internet, digital-twin, to name a few. On one hand, mobile users expect to experience high-speed and reliable wireless access at an affordable cost. On the other hand, service providers aim at maximizing profits and are expecting cost-effective solutions from wireless industry. Increasing the capacity of the Next Generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) capitalizes in a part on reducing the cell sizes and the transmissions on high-frequency bands (e.g., millimeter wave) that offer small coverage. However, these solutions call for a dense deployment of base stations, where traditionally each comes with the expenses of establishing fiber links to the core network and a site acquisition (tower lease). The wireless industry leaders opt for developing flexible and more cost-effective NG-RAN that revolve around the dense deployment of low-cost radio access nodes with Integrated Access and Backhauling (IAB). The wireless backhauling/fronthauling feature will ease the task of IAB nodes deployment/relocation and save in the cost of the fiber-based bakchauling network. Although IAB is an attractive solution that could make dense deployments economically viable, efficient approaches for the optimization and management of the resulting large-scale and heterogeneous NG-RAN remain subject to investigation. Together with my supervisor Prof O. Ercetin, I will contribute to the efforts of building cost-effective NG-RANs empowered by IAB nodes, in particular, to the automation of the deployment, operation, and fast-recovery of NG-RANs. This project investigates two overlapping and complementing research problems: unsupervised planning and optimization of NG-RAN; and reliable backhauling/fronthauling wireless network for IAB nodes.

Keywords: next generation radio access network,low cost radio access nodes,reliable backhauling fronthauling wireless network,unsupervised planning and optimization
Exploring photoexcitation-induced dynamic evolution of the small molecule activation at point defects (PDE SMADD)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

For the photocatalytic reduction of inert small molecules using nanomaterials, surface point defects (such as vacancies and heteroatoms) play an important regulatory role. In particular, promoting the activation of adsorbed molecules is directly related to the subsequent multi-step reaction. Traditional simulations mainly focus on the relationship between the ground state fixation model and activation, while ignoring the exploration of the influence of dynamic evolution of defects and molecules on the activation process in the photoexcitation environment. Through the combination of first-principles, many-body perturbation theory, ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, and experimental verification, we will explore the dynamic evolution and the mechanism of the adsorbed molecule activation process at point defects under photoexcitation. 1) We will study the relaxation process of photogenerated hot electrons at point defects, analyze the formation and evolution of transient and vibrationally excited states of adsorbed molecules, and expand the static activation based on the conventional "acceptance-donation" mechanism. Simultaneously, by exploring the spin state transition and exciton effect at the point defects, we will reveal their effects on the lifetime of molecular dynamic activation intermediates. 2) By studying the dynamic evolution of point defects under molecular adsorption and photoexcitation, we will clarify the regulatory effect of point defects in semi-stable states on the evolution of adsorbed molecular excited states. 3) We will explore the effect of liquid-solid interfaces on the dynamic activation process of small molecules under photoexcitation. The implementation of this project will help resolve many contradictions between the static mechanism and the experimental results, and it will provide a reliable theoretical basis for the photocatalytic performance optimization of point defects.

Keywords: density functional theory surface point defect photogenerated charge excited state dynamics inert small molecule reduction
Information Frictions in Hiring Decisions (INASHI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1746614.0
EU funding (EUR): 1746614.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last decades, internet has sped up and increased interactions between employers and workers, but aggregate unemployment does not seem to have been much impacted by this revolution. This could be because information frictions are not a first-order contributor of unemployment, or because current tools and institutions do not enable truthful and effective communication between firms and workers. Employers, who are often on the short side of the market, find it difficult and costly to screen potential employees. INASHI aims to provide theoretical frameworks and new empirical evidence about what the remaining information imperfections on the labour market are, how important they are to aggregate unemployment and unemployment of the most vulnerable segments of the labour market, and what solutions can be put in place to improve the recruiting process. INASHI will combine novel data on how firms search for workers on large online job boards with administrative data on vacancies, and matched employer-employee data. It will also leverage a series of randomised controlled trials to test how the provision of new information to employers, whether about candidates or about features of the market, help them make better hiring decisions, leading ultimately to higher aggregate hiring, and higher-quality matches. Three countries will be studied, Austria, France, and Sweden, so that INASHI will provide evidence valid in a variety of contexts.

Keywords: hiring,recruitment,information asymmetries,firms,employers,skills,signals
Cofactors at the core of tau prion behaviour (cofacTau)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: France
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): 1449750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1449750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tau is an intrinsically disordered protein that regulates microtubule activity in neurons. Aggregation of tau into amyloid fibrils is diagnostic of several diseases, termed tauopathies, that include Alzheimer's disease. Distinct amyloid aggregate structures, so-called "strains", are involved in different tauopathies. These assemblies can spread and recapitulate pathological phenotypes when injected in cells and animals. This is the hallmark that tau aggregates follow a prion behaviour. To date, the factors guiding the formation or propagation of specific strains are unknown. Showcasing this crucial gap in knowledge is the fact that none of the brain-extracted tau amyloid structures has been reproduced in vitro. This project intends to establish a paradigm shift for the very definition of tau strain. I propose the novel hypothesis that the co-aggregation of tau with other biomolecules such as lipids or polyanions, so-called cofactors, is a defining property of tau prion strains. To demonstrate this hypothesis, I will test that the tau-cofactor interactions (i) dictate the structure of tau aggregates, (ii) enable structure replication through seeding and (iii) dictate the neuropathology developed in cells and mice after inoculation of tau seeds. My approach is to study the pathological properties and the conformational evolution of tau aggregates in the presence of biologically-relevant cofactors possessing different physico-chemical properties. By mapping the interactions between tau and cofactors, my goal is also to establish the canonical rules governing tau structural differentiation. This proposal combines multiple methods including EPR and NMR spectroscopy, AFM-based nanospectroscopy, biochemistry, cell biology and animal histology. The proposed paradigm shift would have a very high impact in the field of tauopathies, for example by enabling accurate structure-based drug discovery, revealing new drug targets and pinpointing key deleterious metabolic pathways.

Keywords: epr spectroscopy,biophysical methods,multi technique approach,tau protein,tauopathies,prion like aggregation,amyloid aggregation,tissue analysis,cofactors
Satellites for Wilderness Inspection and Forest Threat Tracking (SWIFTT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,Latvia,France,Ukraine
Call: EGNSS and Copernicus applications fostering the European Green deal (HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3680231.26
EU funding (EUR): 2853249.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Forests are essential to life on Earth. They provide habitats for thousands of creatures and combat climate change through carbon sequestration. However, our forests are threatened by insect outbreaks, fires, and windthrows. Notably, insect outbreaks are one of the leading causes of forest loss globally, destroying 85M ha of forest worth €15B annually. At the same time, wildfires destroy 400M ha annually on a global scale, according to the European Space Agency. The wind is also a significant forest disturbance agent in the temperate forests of France, Germany, and most of Europe. Climate change affects forests, causing insects to breed more frequently. It also provides more dry fuel for global wildfires. The dry conditions increase the length of the fire season and the size of areas affected by the fire. In addition, both the frequency and the severity of large storms causing windthrow can be attributed to climate change. As a result, countless habitats are lost, and CO2 sequestered yearly decreases by over 4850M tons. Our solution, SWIFTT, will provide a scientifically sound and technically feasible way to help monitor and manage forest risks: windthrow, insect outbreaks, and forest fires. SWIFTT will enable forest managers to adapt to climate change with affordable, simple and effective remote sensing tools backed up by powerful machine learning models. Our solution will offer a monthly health monitoring service using Copernicus satellite imagery to detect and map the various risks to which forests and their managers are exposed. Early threat detection aids timely intervention. SWIFTT will be tested in real conditions by several end-users from the forest industry across Europe.

Keywords: precision forestry,forest health,satellite imagery,copernicus,sentinel 2,sentinel 1,bark beetle outbreaks,wildfires,windthrow
Waveforms for Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIWaveforms)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The breakthrough detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK) is generating waves of excitement within the physics community. The detection itself led to the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Even more exciting is that the first detection was only the start. LVK continues to make groundbreaking discoveries as the detector is tuned to be sensitive to ever more distant sources. The next quantum leap in GW science will come with the launch of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), recently adopted as a flagship European Space Agency L-class mission with support from NASA. Just as X-ray, gamma-ray and radio observations of the electromagnetic universe unveiled a host of sources which were previously undetectable by optical telescopes, the sensitivity of LISA to an entirely new GW frequency band will open the field up to a whole new realm of sources such as Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), supermassive binaries, and exotic objects such as cosmic strings. LVK demonstrated that a hybrid approach is essential for GW science: experimentalists built the detector, while theoreticians produced models for the expected waveforms from GW sources. These waveforms form a crucial part of the data analysis pipeline; a matched-filtering approach is used to extract signals from noisy GW observations, and this process fundamentally relies on access to accurate waveform models. Without the models, many GW signals would go entirely undetected, and even those that are detected would be poorly understood. Many of the GW signals LISA will observe are qualitatively very different from those of LVK sources and will require fresh approaches to waveform modelling. Gravitational Self-Force (GSF) has long been established as the only viable approach for modelling highly asymmetric black hole binaries such as EMRIs, but no comprehensive, efficient and accurate GSF models yet exist. This project will, for the first time, build those models.

Keywords: gravitational self force
Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods (UPTAKE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Greece,Denmark,Sweden,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6289522.5
EU funding (EUR): 6289522.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum. As a result, UPTAKE will develop a harmonised, comprehensive, inclusive, integrated, and transparent CDR knowledge inventory to evaluate a wide range of CDR technologies and methods, quantifying their national, European, and global costs, effectiveness, and removal potential as well as risks, constraints, and side-effects at different scales, and their prospects of technological progress. The UPTAKE approach will allow the assessment of geographical, sectoral, socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trade-offs, co-benefits, and opportunities emerging from portfolios of different CDR methods. The enhanced socio-technical understanding of CDR methods will feed into an ensemble of state-of-the-art integrated assessment models (IAMs), which will help improve the integration of CDR methods given the EU policy objectives set for 2030, 2050, and beyond climate neutrality. UPTAKE will assess CDR governance and policy frameworks considering social acceptance, accountability, monitoring, and regulations for sustainable CDR rollout at scale. As a result, UPTAKE will generate an open and interactive CDR roadmap explorer to investigate strategies that are resilient to risks of failure and disruption, and minimise adverse impacts on society, economy, and the environment, aiming for a just, inclusive, and sustainable transition.

Keywords: carbon dioxide removal,negative emissions technologies,decarbonization pathways,cdr roadmaps,governance frameworks,climate neutrality,monitoring,reporting,validation,sustainable carbon cycles
Development, integration, and demonstration of Advanced software tools in SCADA systems for combining Teslas and EDisons world to reAlize high, medium and LOw voltage hybrid AC/DC gridS (DAEDALOS)

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: Italy,Germany,Spain,Bulgaria,Belgium,Hungary,Norway
Call: Development and integration of advanced software tools in SCADA systems for High, Medium and Low voltage AC/DC hybrid systems (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7391325.0
EU funding (EUR): 5996436.76
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The optimised connection between power system design, preoperational planning, and real-time monitoring and control is crucial for effective stability management of future power systems. This applies to both the HVDC/MTDC power system connecting renewable energies and the AC/DC hybrid power system. Real-time capable algorithms and tools play a significant role in enabling optimal operation of the hybrid AC/DC system, ensuring the avoidance of circular flows and supporting security analyses. Additionally, innovative ancillary services such as frequency control, mitigation of periodic frequency fluctuations, voltage regulation, and reactive power control are essential for stability management. Managing and controlling hybrid AC/DC systems and HVDC grids is a complex task that requires a collaborative effort among the main stakeholders such as TSOs, DSOs, OEMs, Policymakers and regulatory bodies and Energy producers and energy consumers. The DAEDALOS project aims to address this complex task to facilitate the transition of the current power grid towards a novel approach where such AC/DC hybrid systems and MVDC/HVDC grids are foreseen to enable the growth of intermittent renewable energy sources. The DAEDALOS project is a 48-months project, divided in 7 WPs, that sets out to develop a comprehensive framework and specific advanced software tools to support planning, operation and monitoring of AC/DC hybrid systems and MVDC/HVDC grids on a state-of-the-art SCADA system, addressing and going beyond both current and future issues of these systems (such as low frequency oscillations detection and mitigation, RoCoF, short-circuit prevention, inertia estimation, etc.). DAEDALOS novel technologies will be developed and tested at TRL6-7: two demonstrators, one in the campus facility of University of Aachen, and the other in the University of Catalunya facility, will be realised to demonstrate the performances and the overall readiness of the proposed solution.

Keywords: hybrid ac dc system,mvdc hvdc grid,mtdc grid,scada systems,ancillary services,grid codes,decision support tool,low frequency oscillations,system split prevention,inertia estimation,rocof
Universal Data Compression with Circular Context Trees (UNIDACT)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Within the ITUL project, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant, we have developed a data compression algorithm based on circular context trees. The proposed algorithm is universal in that it can compress any type of data. The proposed compression algorithm offers unprecedented compression performance, and shows an average of at least 82% improvement over commercial algorithms like Lempel-Ziv (ZIP), Burrows-Wheeler transform compression (BZIP), and more complex state-of-the-art algorithms like prediction by partial matching (PPM) and context tree weighting (CTW). The proposed algorithm has linear decoding complexity. The proposed PoC is intended to extend the current binary implementation to arbitrary alphabets, provide fast encoder/decoder implementation, develop specific applications to compress satellite observation data and genomic data, develop an indexed version of the compression algorithm in order to access some of the data without full decompression, and investigate specific software licensing options and opportunities.