Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Towards Seamless climate INFOrmation: merging sub-seasonal and seasonal predictioNs to better manage climate-related rIsks Affecting the wine sector (SINFONIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The wine industry is one of the agri-food sectors most highly influenced by climate variability and change at different timescales. In particular, the integration of reliable and timely sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) climate information in decision-making might help the wine sector to better manage climate-related risks. This explains the recent interest of the wine industry in these sources of climate information. However, one of the challenges that prevent the users from the uptake of climate information is the lack of coherence between the climate predictions from different sources (i.e., forecast systems at sub-seasonal and seasonal time scales). This project will develop a novel methodology to produce coherent S2S seamless climate information for the wine industry. This will involve 1) the understanding of the inconsistencies between the climate prediction sources at S2S timescales that prevent the users from a coherent flow of climate information and 2) the implementation of a methodology that merges sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions by using the knowledge from the physical processes relevant for the climate predictability at both timescales. The new scientific knowledge and methods will be co-developed in collaboration with representative stakeholders. They will work with the fellow to design the climate information that has actual value for the management of the vineyards, wineries, and the strategic planning for the wine market. The methods developed in this project could be further exploited to produce seamless S2S predictions for other socio-economic sectors (e.g., agriculture, health, and energy). This action will be developed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain), a well-known institution in the implementation of successful climate services for different socio-economic sectors. Furthermore, a secondment period is projected at Météo-France (France), which is a producing centre of operational sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions.

Keywords: sub seasonal prediction,seasonal prediction,climate services,co production,wine production,seamless climate information
Training the next generation of experts in knowledge-based design PRinciples Of induStrial-scale PhotorEactoRs (PROSPER)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Slovenia,Belgium,France
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2304133.56
EU funding (EUR): 2304133.56
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

PROSPER's overarching outcome will be the availability of knowledge-based design guidelines for industrial-relevant application cases, together with strategies for scale-up and a safe long-term operation, ultimately leading to the broad application of photochemistry on an industrial scale. PROSPER will setup a tailored network to train the next generation of experts on fundamentals, design principles and application of industrial-scale photoreactors through comprehensive education on a broad portfolio of topics related to photochemical processes and through hands-on training on industrially relevant research topics. By this, the industrial and academic partners of PROSPER will overcome implementation hurdles and enable the chemical industries’ transition towards sustainable production. The main scientific objectives are: 1. to develop standardized methods for measuring the photon flux and characterizing radiation fields, 2. to understand the impact of mass and heat transport effects on the performance of photoreactors as a basis for developing novel industrial photoreactors for sustainable processing and process intensification, 3. to establish reaction control strategies which maximize photon use efficiency and enable long-term operation, 4. to elucidate safety requirements for photochemical processes and 5. to develop a knowledge-base on photochemical reactor and processes development, containing design guidelines and principles together with performance criteria for photoreactors to enable a knowledge-driven development and scale-up, eventually leading to standard reactor designs. Joint interdisciplinary research by academic and industrial partners will be realized by excellent training through a high-quality, cross-sectional research network including 6 internationally reputed research institutions and 4 leading companies to train experts on photoreactor design with special focus on application at the interface between academic and industrial research.

Keywords: photoreactors,reaction control,reactor manufacturing,scale up,transport processes,radiation field,actinometry,radiometry,multi phase reactions,high power light sources,performance criteria
Transparency solutions for transforming the food system. (TITAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Greece,Spain,Norway,France,Finland,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Portugal,Serbia
Call: Increasing the transparency of EU food systems to boost health, sustainability and safety of products, processes and diets (HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11053903.31
EU funding (EUR): 9618791.0
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

The TITAN project will demonstrate the latest transparency related solutions to help drive the formation of a demand-driven European economy predicted on the production and consumption of healthy, sustainable, and affordable food. Comprising 28 partners from 14 countries (10 MS and 2 associated countries), TITAN will provide an extensive platform for the development of a wide range of innovations that aid transparency and address key challenges identified in the European Green Deal (EGD). With a broad mix of cutting-edge technology providers SMEs and start-ups, linked to leading research centres and agri-food stakeholders, TITAN, through dedicated business support together with a €1.25M open call, will provide a fertile breeding ground of ideas and solutions for businesses to thrive within the new strategy of the EGD. Through a co-creation approach, 15 innovative solutions including exploiting Blockchain, AI and IoT will be demonstrated in a first wave of TITAN transparency related innovations. These will be supplemented by a further wave of innovations on themes selected by stakeholders in an open call that will be open at the end of Year 1 of this four-year project. The new innovations will deliver transparency solutions in the areas of food safety and authenticity, traceability, health and sustainability and improving information to the consumer. The innovations will be supported by cross cutting WPs dedicated to transparency, ICT solutions, policy, business support, management and communication and dissemination. The project is led by industry facing, not-for-profit organisations with extensive outreach capabilities within Europe and beyond that will enhance the transferability and upscaling and impact of TITAN solutions and provide the building blocks of a demand-driven economy that provides healthy, sustainable, and accessible food for its citizens.

Keywords: sustainability,health,blockchain,ai,iot,data sharing,consumer behaviour
Foundations for Antitrust and Policy on Digital Platforms (FAPoD)

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: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1191078.0
EU funding (EUR): 1191078.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Internet markets tend to concentrate in the hands of a very few large platforms. These platforms have been accused of abusing their monopoly power vis-a-vis their users (consumers, sellers, advertisers) and maintaining the latter through hostile behavior towards potential competitors. They are said to harm users by ‘self-preferencing’, data harvesting, creating 'monopoly positions' and extracting resulting rents with high fees, all the while avoiding competition by acquiring, copying and otherwise disadvantaging potential competitors. This proposal addresses these concerns in four parts. Part 1 focuses on the dual role of online marketplaces, whereby the platform both runs the marketplace and acts as a seller on it. I aim to understand how such hybrid marketplaces conduct themselves toward consumers and third party sellers. The model will be used to evaluate recent policy proposals and suggest ways to avoid significant unintended consequences. Part 2 studies how platforms steer consumers to sellers. As most platforms let sellers set prices and collect fees on revenues, a platform’s own algorithm and her choice to augment/replace it with a position auction may be consequently driven by revenue maximization. I plan to show that steering systems may drastically alter pricing, leading to ‘mediated’ competition. Part 3 explores the nature of recommendation algorithms, particularly the interplay between consumer search and algorithm effectiveness. I demonstrate that algorithms may be self-fulfilling and self-defeating, which determines their effectiveness and significantly alters the resulting allocations and their efficiency. Part 4 explains the circumstances in which an incumbent platform may acquire an upstart platform. These depend on, the overlap of existing user bases, increasing returns to data and monopoly power over advertisers. Acquisitions may be used in situations of both no and substantial overlap in user bases, with mixed welfare consequences.

Keywords: digital platforms,marketplaces,regulation,antitrust policy
Australia-France Network of Doctoral Excellence (AUFRANDE)

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: Spain,Australia
Call: MSCA COFUND 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-COFUND-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10752000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7526400.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

AUFRANDE is a highly ambitious 15.6M€ interdisciplinary doctoral training program linking France and Australia through 64 unique doctoral training positions. Led by RMIT Europe with participation of 22 French and 15 Australian academic partners and supported by over 40 non-academic partners, AUFRANDE aims to create a critical mass of collaborative doctoral training agreements between multiple institutions across France and Australia, reinforced with regular events where Candidates and Supervisors come together, share common experiences and build a sustainable community. The many legal and procedural elements developed to link the French and Australian research ecosystems during AUFRANDE implementation will lay a strong foundation for long-term impact on future collaborations and careers. To ensure that AUFRANDE attracts top talent globally, all Candidates will: - dual-enrol, earning doctoral degrees from both France and Australia, - be employed in France on attractive salaries with full social security benefits, - able to extend contracts up to 3.5 years, giving ample time to complete secondments, research and training activities, - spend up to 12 months on secondment in Australia, with generous 10,000€ travel allowance. Additionally: - Each position will be advertised with at least three topics to choose from, proposed bottom-up by Supervisors across all disciplines. - All research projects will have the direct involvement of a non-academic partner, ensuring inter-sectoral experiences and societal relevance of the research, - Training schools will be held regularly at multiple locations across France and Australia, bringing Candidates and Supervisor together to learn and network. - Dissemination will aim to attract female, at-risk and widening countries applicants, - Best practises in international co-supervision and doctoral training will be documented and shared with the international community.

Keywords: doctoral training excellence co supervision cotutelle double degree international france australia intersectoral interdisciplinary societal impact
Regulation of Articular Cartilage Zonal Emergence: Harnessing Developmental Pathways to Enhance Regeneration (ReZone)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2265746.0
EU funding (EUR): 2265746.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Articular cartilage (AC) has a complex zonal structure and composition, providing it with its essential functional properties. However, when cartilage is damaged, the zonal complexity does not regenerate, leaving an inferior tissue which is prone to degeneration. As a result, cartilage injury commonly leads to pain and the eventual need for joint replacement. Progress towards true regeneration of AC requires an advance in understanding of how zonal complexity (and corresponding function) emerge over development. The most promising clue to understanding zonal emergence is that mechanical forces are known to be important for normal AC development. ReZone will reveal the mechanisms underlying zonal emergence through a novel goat model in which a common veterinary procedure is repurposed to create a radically altered mechanical environment in the developing joint. By comparing gene activity between normal and altered states of zonal emergence, I will identify pathways likely to be involved in zonal emergence. I will leverage my expertise in cartilage explant culture and mechanostimulation bioreactors to develop a novel in vitro explant model, and use this model to validate candidate pathways. Finally, I will demonstrate the therapeutic potential of molecular regulators of zonal emergence using gene-activated biomaterials to regenerate zonal emergence in an in vivo, large-animal model of cartilage repair. ReZone will provide a step-change in our understanding of how zonal AC develops postnatally, including the role of mechanical loading. The project’s ambitious aim is to bring about enhanced regeneration of AC through activation of the developmental processes which form functional cartilage in early life. Revealing key mechanisms underlying zonal emergence in immature AC will enable true regeneration of injured AC, improving quality of life for patients with articular cartilage defects worldwide.

Keywords: articular cartilage development mechanical loading extracellular matrix composition,structure and mechanical properties
MARITIME JUST-IN-TIME OPTIMIZATION INTEROPERABLE PORT CALL AND VOYAGE OPTIMIZATION TOOL (MISSION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,Finland,Italy,Greece,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Lithuania,Sweden,United Kingdom,Romania
Call: Integrated real-time digital solutions to optimise navigation and port calls to reduce emissions from shipping (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8919798.25
EU funding (EUR): 7436448.25
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

Delays within the maritime supply chain can lead to a “hurry-up-and-wait” syndrome of vessels sailing at a predetermined speed to their destination port to find the terminal or port not ready thus waiting at anchorage in the port area. Updated information about current states are not communicated to all partners in the different port call phases. This makes traffic of vessels waiting, entering, and departing from ports challenging. Communicating terminal or port readiness earlier to vessels allows them to adjust speed and save fuel of up to 23% of the overall voyage including the avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions. The average annual waiting time at anchorage is found to be ca. 9% for wet bulk, ca. 9% for dry bulk, ca. 7% for LPG tankers, ca. 7% for dry breakbulk, ca. 5% for container ships, and ca. 4% for LNG tankers. RoRo-vessels benefit from less traffic-condensed port entries and seaways as well as transparent real-time communication of readiness levels regarding ports and terminals as well as multi-modal hinterland transportation critical for RoRo-port departures. MISSION will develop an interoperable digital real-time-based optimization and decision support tool enabling coordinated port call operations planning and execution in terms of time, fuel consumption, environmental impact, and safety spanning the overall maritime supply chain. Stakeholders benefits from increased transparency and information sharing between shipping companies, terminals, ports, and service providers, enabled to optimize their resource and capacity planning including port’s hinterland modalities in compliance with the Maritime Labor Convention.

Keywords: port call optimisation,ghg emissions reduction,fuel consumption,port operations,analytics,it systems
Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives (X-KIN)

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: Austria,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 294284.64
EU funding (EUR): 294284.64
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Research context During the past decade, the “ancient DNA revolution” has reopened key questions about prehistoric kinship that within archaeogenetics is narrowly viewed as genetic proximity. From a socio-cultural anthropological perspective, however, kinship is not only a biological but also a performative and imaginary principle for structuring and maintaining social relations. Frequently, it is not blood but houses that play a crucial role in forming kinship relations. Therefore, a unified study of dwelling spaces and biological markers of kinship is crucial to understanding kinship in prehistory. Research questions • How can the material structures such as settlements, buildings, artifacts, and biological markers be read as ‘material codes’ of prehistoric kinship? • How can ethnographic reports exemplify rather than verify variability in kinship during prehistory? Research sites Four research sites in southeastern Europe and Anatolia have been selected: Çatalhöyük, Lepenski Vir, Arslantepe, and Vučedol. Methods KINSCA will align ethnographic reports with archaeological data to further contextualize houses and settlements as well as biological signatures of individuals to illuminate prehistoric kinship practices. This will be achieved through triangulation of analytical methods By employing archaeology of kinship approaches based on cross-cultural anthropological insights, controlled comparison between ethnographic and archaeological material, and regional comparison between archaeological sites. Innovation Several archaeologists have voiced the need for archaeologists to move beyond understanding kinship through biogenetic links but as a social practice instead – joining well-known insight from earlier socio-cultural anthropology. For the first time, kinship in prehistory will be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective, including socio-cultural anthropology, bioarchaeology, and prehistoric archaeology, within a common analytical framework.

Keywords: prehistoric kinship,ethnography,kinship patterns,residence,descent,subsistence practice,southeastern europe,anatolia,interdisciplinary approach