Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Social Cognitive Interventions following Adverse early Life Experiences (SOCIAbLE)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The affective and cognitive consequences of childhood trauma are experienced across the life span, and are associated with poorer mental and physical health outcomes in those affected. While trauma-focused psychological therapies successfully address the affective consequences of childhood trauma, the cognitive consequences have been poorly understood and managed despite being highly predictive of poorer social and occupational outcomes. SOCIAbLE is a novel psychosocial intervention that targets the cognitive difficulties associated with childhood trauma. It consists of a social cognitive skills program delivered in a virtual reality (VR) environment. VR based interventions represent a low cost and scalable method of simulating activities of daily life in a clinical setting. This project will establish whether SOCIAbLE, as a novel VR-based intervention targeting trauma-related cognitive difficulties, is feasible and beneficial to everyday function, based on data from individuals with a history of childhood trauma. Gathering and analysing this data will represent a crucial first stage in knowledge translation, forming the basis for establishing future definitive clinical trials to validate the effectiveness of this approach in patients with mental health disorders. By addressing a major untreated cause of disability, SOCIAbLE has the potential to add substantially to current clinical solutions (e.g. trauma-informed CBT targeting anxiety).
Hydrogen PEM fuel cell stack for marine applications (H2MARINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Finland,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland
Call: Development of a large fuel cell stack for maritime applications (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7499171.5
EU funding (EUR): 7499171.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching objective of the H2MARINE project is to design, build, test and validate two (2) PEM stacks generating 250 - 300 kW electric power designed for marine applications. The H2MARINE project takes a top-down approach, building on a proof of concept of two PEM stacks that are developed in the EU and Switzerland. The H2MARINE project will: Identify the requirements for the tests and conditions as well as load curves that the FC stacks will have to be tested against with the integrated knowledge of a major ship building industry (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) and ship owners (Cleos) representing Gaslog, Drylog Ltd. And Olympic Shipping (totaling more than 100 large ships). - Both PowerCell and EHGroup stack manufactures will benefit from a great consortium surrounding their development, testing and upscaling with unique testing facilities (Beyond Gravity, ZSW, Greenerity, University of Freiburg), industrial partners like DANA, upscaling capacities of stacks by CERTH, EPFL and novel diagnostics development by VTT. This will allow them to enhance the state of the art (SoA) of PEMFC stacks, advance and scale up the system to reach ambitious targets set in the call which will be disseminated by CLUBE member of numerous FCH projects. - Test the proposed solutions in relevant environment/ecosystem, which are designed to fully represent the actual implementation conditions. - Design the stack modules in an optimum manner for up-scaling up to 10MW power train systems. - Test several diagnostics for the stack and overall system integrity as well as for the health status prognosis of critical components. - Assess the technology and economic feasibility of the solution, in order to know its valuable end-use, which will allow the partners to research the potential market/s and identification of the best opportunities.

Keywords: hydrogen,maritime,stack,ship,marine
Internal state drivers of behavioral flexibility and their underlying neural circuitry in the zona incerta (CERTASTATES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494634.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494634.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Survival requires accurate and rapid implementation of adaptive behavior. In a world where our physiological needs and surrounding environment are ever changing, one wrong move could make the difference between life and death. How does the brain successfully compute changes in internal state and external cues, while factoring in experience, to drive the most appropriate behavioral outcome from moment-to-moment? Mounting evidence suggests that the zona incerta, a little studied region, is a central switchboard for such adaptive behavior. This subthalamic nucleus has widespread connections and was recently found to regulate an astounding range of behaviors critical for survival including defense, sleep, feeding and much more. It also encodes associated changes in internal states, such as anxiety, fatigue and hunger, and integrates sensory inputs across modalities. These features suggest that a central function of the zona incerta might be to locally compute needed transitions in behavior based on internal state changes, which are then broadcast to downstream targets to convert this into action. To address this hypothesis, CERTASTATES will employ cutting-edge molecular, circuit tracing, recording and in vivo imaging technologies in mice together with diverse behavioral paradigms and rich behavioral state readouts. The ultimate objective is to uncover how distinct internal state changes: (i) are processed in defined cell types and circuits, (ii) drive behavioral flexibility and (iii) are influenced by deep brain stimulation, motivated by the fact that the zona incerta is one of few established targets in humans for this therapeutic approach. Together, this work will advance our understanding of how neural circuits generate internal states, and in turn process, broadcast and use this information to guide adaptive behavior. Moreover, it will open an entry point for translation by exploring how clinically-applied neuromodulation can transform these vital computations.

Keywords: internal states,adaptive behavior,deep brain stimulation,neuronal and circuit mechanisms
Disentangling psychological interventions for mental disorders into a taxonomy of active ingredients (DECOMPOSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Severe mental disorders, like psychotic or borderline personality are associated with higher mortality, both all-cause and by suicide. Psychological interventions, usually combined with other treatments, are effective options, though less so than for common mental disorders. However, mechanisms and predictors of treatment response, key for improving effectiveness and for precision medicine, are mostly unknown. The greatest barrier is our approach to psychological interventions as “brands” or categories, without knowledge of active ingredients, and particularly of which ingredients are effective. The proposal will bridge this gap by dismantling psychological interventions into components, integrating these into a taxonomy, and radically reevaluating treatment efficacy and personalization from a novel perspective: components instead of brands and categories. We will use recent network meta-analyses to assemble a large collection of psychological interventions for severe mental disorders (psychotic, bipolar, substance use, eating and borderline personality). We will retrieve intervention protocols and extract components iteratively, via multiple rounds of independent coding. We will integrate components in a cross-disorder, comprehensive taxonomy, validated in Delphi surveys and a consensus meeting. We will reevaluate psychological interventions for severe disorders through component network meta-analysis, to identify the most beneficial ingredients and combinations, for symptoms, functioning and attrition outcomes. We will reassess treatment personalization through a component-based lens using individual patient data for psychosis. Finally, we will develop an open clinical decision support system, where users can “assemble” and “dismantle” interventions, visualizing efficacy gain or loss. The proposal is a systematic and reproducible approach to advance a perspective shift from treatment “brands” to active ingredients, potentially upending psychotherapy research.

Keywords: mental disorders psychological treatment network meta analysis active ingredients
Analysis of Skills, Training, Research, And Innovation Opportunities in Space (ASTRAIOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,Greece
Call: Education and skills for the EU space sector (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2239400.0
EU funding (EUR): 2239400.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of the ASTRAIOS project is to provide an exhaustive view and understanding of the current and future offer of space curricula and courses in the EU-27, characterise the demand from European space industry in the next 10-15 years, and identify actionable ways towards the alignment of the European space sector’s curricula and qualification capabilities with skills required by the sector to foster innovation and increase EU competitiveness. These goals will be achieved by mapping the educational offer across the EU-27 at Bachelor, Master, postgraduate, and continuing education levels and measuring the average time and cost required for a degree leading to a career in the space sector. A socio-economic analysis of the population of students enrolled in space-related studies will be performed, which together with the education data will create a Europe-wide space competencies and skills taxonomy to support the identification and analysis of the excellences and shortcomings within the European academic offer for the space sector. The project will analyse future trends and challenges of the EU space sector through desk research, direct industry consultation and automated methods. The analysis will cover current and future needs in both, technical/hard skills and soft skills such as collaborative working, multidisciplinary approaches, and creative thinking that future European students need to develop. Final outputs will include recommendations of actions towards a better alignment between the European space sector’s curricula and the skills required by the future EU space sector, new materials to promote space related jobs and careers, and educational material developed for the Copernicus and Galileo sectors. The consorium in place to achieve this has extensive coverage of the EU-27 space education and industry sector.

Keywords: skills analysis,curricula analysis,space sector market,space education,space industry
Decorated Paper in the Early-Modern Islamicate World: Aesthetics, Techniques and Meaning in Global Contexts (GLOBAL DECO PAPER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1199997.5
EU funding (EUR): 1199997.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Moving away from Eurocentric art historical to truly global and interdisciplinary approaches, this project aims at re-evaluating the early-modern history of the Islamicate arts of the book from a so-far not considered perspective: the border and background decoration of manuscripts. The manifold forms of paper decoration and their techniques have hitherto not been systematically analysed by historians of Islamic Art, who instead have focussed on manuscripts’ figurative illustrations. Labelling decorative devices as subordinate to text and images has proven limiting to a full comprehension of art and to the exploration of global artistic contacts between different cultures within the Islamicate world and between East Asia and the Middle East. Drawing upon previous research initiatives by the PI, this project will bring together scholars from humanities and natural sciences in an interdisciplinary approach to aesthetics, materials, techniques and meaning of decorated paper produced and used in early-modern China, Central Asia, Iran, India and the Ottoman Empire. Favouring objects in the historical centres over well-known materials from collections in the West, this research is designed to further collections in the Middle East and Asia and to bring their understudied artworks under broader scholarly attention through publications and an interactive database. The project has the potential to significantly re-shape the existing construct of Art History by shifting the attention to high-standard yet systematically ignored artistic production of decorated papers; meticulously investigating local traditions through innovative combinations of material analyses, the study of written sources and hardly applied comparisons with contemporary paper-decoration practices; and focussing on networks of trade, diplomacy and artistic exchange in Asia and the Middle East that paved the way for greatly varied and technically advanced forms of augmented paper decoration.

Keywords: decorated paper,islamic world,east asia,early modern period,scientific analysis,global art history
Identifying fingerprints of fragility in complex ecosystems (FRAGILEPRINTS)

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: France,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Ecosystems are deteriorating at unprecedented rate. Climate change is threatening their functioning and the vital services they provide to human societies, imposing an urgent need to understand how they are coping with and reacting to global change. The complexity of ecosystems, however, makes predicting their fragility a difficult endeavor. FRAGILEPRINTS: “Identifying fingerprints of fragility in complex ecosystems” focuses on a critical scenario in ecosystem degradation: large and abrupt transitions following gradual environmental changes, observed across ecosystems worldwide. Despite important progresses, key knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning these transitions, making them notoriously difficult to predict. Current research relates them to the presence of Multiple Stable States (MSS), with small perturbations able to induce large shifts from healthy, species-rich communities towards deteriorated ecosystem states. Understanding of MSS, however, is based on simple models that largely ignore the role of species diversity and interaction complexity, highlighting an extremely relevant gap in our capacity to uncover potential abrupt transitions in species-rich ecosystems. To address this gap, FRAGILEPRINTS will investigate the emergence of MSS in complex ecosystems by combining a novel bottom-up and top-down interdisciplinary approach: increasing complexity in few-species MSS models and adding structure to random high-dimensional complex networks. The combination of the two, each applying mathematical models and numerical simulations confronted with experiments and whole-ecosystem data, will allow the identification of fingerprints of ecosystem fragility: conditions, common across ecosystems, related to the presence of MSS and potential abrupt transitions. These results will be applied to generate a predictive tool with utility in prioritizing areas for conservation, mapping ecosystem fragility or restoring degraded ecosystems.

Keywords: community ecology,ecosystem ecology,ecosystem fragility,resilience,stability indicators,complex networks,multiple stable states
Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

On the backdrop of ongoing debates to decolonialize museums, BEYONDREST asks if the return of looted art can be regarded as a closure of historical wounds. The project probes the focus on restitution that inadvertently casts dispossessed art in terms of contested property. Instead, BEYONDREST explores what kind of loss dispossessed art engenders, and how this loss has shaped the knowledge production on heritage. It focuses on the interlocution between Western Europe, the Near and Middle East, and North Africa, mapping relationships between people and “things” that have largely been left out of current debates. The project starts in the mid-19th century, which witnessed the rise of the museum in its modern form as well as violence unleashed by imperial and colonial projects and dispossession. Innumerable objects made their way into international collections, categorized mostly as “Islamic art,” or as the “universal heritage of humankind” that nonetheless symbolically and proprietarily belongs to the “West.” BEYONDREST tackles dispossession not as a loss to be mended but a means to transform knowledge through inquiries into absence. The interdisciplinary research group will employ a wide methodologically matrix, including ethnographic interviews, visual analysis of exhibitions, archival research, and textual analysis of the laws governing cultural assets to capture the proprietary stakes in the interplay of epistemic remembering and forgetting. BEYONDREST takes risks by centering on what is absent, rather than present, on what is lost, rather than found. It argues that the dispossession of art is not merely a problematic of colonialism or empire, that is of the past, but an ongoing process that is constitutive for the governance of heritage in its national and transnational formations. BEYONDREST’s working hypothesis is that the dispossession of art and cultural heritage is not an aberration, but a precondition for the ways in which art and cultural assets circulate.

Keywords: art,cultural heritage,dispossession,memory and forgetting,absence production of knowledge,cultural heritage and the law
Bioelectrochemical Systems with Immobilized Redox Mediators for Power-to-Methane Conversion (BES.WIRE)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biomethane is a gas consisting mainly of methane (CH4) that can be produced from agricultural and food waste or other organic materials at a low or even negative price. Since biomethane is almost equivalent to natural gas, it is seen as a possible functional substitute: biomethane can be used an energy carrier for excess renewable electricity and as a feedstock for chemical synthesis. It is possible to produce biomethane by means of various biochemical and bioelectrochemical reactors in which the main role is played by methanogenic micro-organisms that convert CO2 or other organic compounds into CH4. This project is dedicated to the development of two bio(electro)chemical reactors based on a trickle-bed reactor using raw biogas from an industrial anaerobic digester and hydrogen from an alkaline electrolysis for the synthesis of CH4. The main fundamental novelty of this project is the use of immobilized redox mediators (anthraquinone derivatives), which promote the rate of methanogenesis and thus increase the performance of the whole set-up. In the case of the bioreactor, carbon particles with immobilized redox mediators are used as the biofilm support material. In the case of the bioelectrochemical reactor, the same materials also act as colloidal electrodes. This approach is expected to significantly improve key characteristics such as methane conversion rate and power density, which will enhance the economic attractiveness of the technology. Also, the project will use zero-gap flow electrochemical cells for the first time to accelerate the screening of promising materials.

Keywords: biomethane,redox mediators,power to x,power to methane,trickle bed reactor,redox flow batteries,bioelectrochemical systems,biogas upgrade,co2 valorization,granular activated carbon,aqds