Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Tracing Informal Constitutional Changes using Word Embeddings (TRACE)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

TRACE investigates informal constitutional changes initiated by constitutional courts, utilizing a novel methodological framework that brings together political science, constitutional law, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Informal constitutional changes occur when a constitutional court quietly adopts new interpretations of constitutional norms, often influenced by political pressures. Traditional approaches in political science and constitutional law are not adequately equipped to explore these subtle shifts. TRACE will employ contextualized word embeddings to track changes in the semantic structure of Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) case law, with a focus on key topics such as the separation of powers, individual rights, and secularism. Turkish constitutional history, marked by recurring crises and the central role of the TCC, offers an ideal context for examining these implicit constitutional changes. TRACE is organized around three objectives. The first objective is to identify the semantic structure of Turkish constitutional case law. The second is to detect informal semantic changes within this case law, using cosine similarity scores and dynamic visualizations to measure shifts in constitutional interpretation. The third is to analyze the contextual and theoretical implications of these findings, exploring the causal relationship between informal changes and episodes of political pressure on the TCC, re-evaluating theories of constitutional change, and generating insights relevant to other constitutional regimes. Through this comprehensive approach, TRACE aims to enhance our understanding of how constitutional norms evolve under political pressure and how constitutional courts adapt their rulings. Ultimately, the project will contribute to the design of more resilient democratic institutions and provide timely insights into empirical legal studies and the ongoing debates about the populist challenge to the rule of law and judicial independence.

Keywords: emprical legal studies,democratic backsliding,natural language processing,constitutional change,constitutional judicial review,
Dark Nerd Communities: A multi-method exploration of toxic degradation in the adolescent technosphere (DANCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499776.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499776.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The online world of adolescent nerd communities, once a refuge for enthusiasts of digital games, technology, and fandom, has taken a troubling turn. Previously harmless niche groups have evolved into ‘dark nerd communities,’ where exclusionary ideologies, misogyny, and extremist views have taken root. Events like GamerGate and the ‘incel’ movement exposed sexism, anti-liberalism, and connections to alt-right ideologies, raising critical questions about the processes behind this shift. This research project aims to explore the mechanisms by which these communities degrade into toxic environments. It seeks to map the diversity within dark nerd communities and dissect the processes driving their toxic evolution, including individual and structural features, group dynamics, and the influence of manipulators (so-called ‘dark agents’). Unlike previous studies focusing on either generalized online risks or extreme cases like incel hate crimes, this project will examine the social and communicative structures within specific nerd communities, providing a nuanced understanding of how everyday degradation occurs. The project will proceed in three phases: defining and identifying dark nerd communities; analysing the communicative and social processes behind their toxic transformation; and testing intervention strategies to mitigate these effects. Methodologically, the project will employ a combination of computational, traditional quantitative, and in-depth qualitative methods. By addressing toxic degradation within dark nerd communities, this research will contribute to a deeper understanding of these communities and provide insights for preserving the safety and integrity of online spaces during a critical transitional life phase. The outcomes are expected to lay the foundations for stemming the tide of toxicity and extremism within the adolescent technosphere.

Keywords: nerds,communities,online communication,toxicity,adolescence,video games,multi method study,online risks,hate speech,disinformation
Integrated multi-angle research and training network to eradicate leukemia minimal residual disease (MIRACLE)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,Czechia,Belgium,France,Italy,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2866725.26
EU funding (EUR): 2637950.4
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

An estimated 300,000 new cases of leukemia are diagnosed each year globally. The most common form of acute leukemia is acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which is generally a disease of the elderly, while acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) is most prevalent in children. The biggest problem associated with leukemia treatment is persistence of residual therapy-resistant cancer cells, called minimal residual disease (MRD). MRD can latently persist in the patient for many months, and in response to unknown signals can reawaken and initiate a relapse, which is difficult to treat and responsible for the low survival rates of patients. Currently, knowledge on mechanisms responsible for persistence of MRD and initiation of leukemia relapse is lacking, making development of therapeutics eradicating MRD difficult and hampering improvement of patient cure rates. MIRACLE aims at eradication of MRD and development of clinically efficient treatment strategies that can deliver long-lasting benefit to patients by training a new generation of researchers. MIRACLE will elucidate the leukemia MRD landscape by integrating the knowledge on mechanisms driving persistence of MRD from different angles, and by the subsequent design of efficient and less toxic, novel targeted combination therapy with increased capacity to induce deep responses in patients. With its multidisciplinary team of scientists from academia and industry MIRACLE aims to educate a new generation of researchers optimally equipped to advance and accelerate development of novel therapeutics directed to MRD, and to progress effective treatments to the clinic. The researchers within MIRACLE will be trained to obtain a unique combination of skills in innovative high-tech technologies, advanced data analysis tools and artificial intelligence, organ-on-chip MRD models, and drug and immunotherapy testing, and will come with innovative ideas to advance future leukemia treatment by integration of several disciplines and data sources.

Keywords: leukemia,minimal residual disease,multi omics,immunotherapy,organ on chip
Sustainable Indium Phosphide (InP) platform and ecosystem upscaling, enabling future mass market (sub-)THz applications (Move2THz)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Lithuania,Netherlands
Call: Global call according to SRIA 2023 (RIA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 38820454.45
EU funding (EUR): 11963652.14
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

Electronic devices evolved significantly, fuelling the digital transformation towards a connected society. To growing need for performance, speed and efficiency pushes wireless applications to operate at sub-THz frequencies and beyond. Today’s technologies, however, come short to efficiently and effectively utilize these frequencies, even taking into account technological evolutions. A disruptive yet commercially viable technology is urgently needed. Indium Phosphide (InP) has outstanding and unique capabilities to surpass other technologies in terms of high-frequency performance. Today, InP is only adopted in niche markets because of its costly and scarce substrates. Move2THz will transform the InP platform and build a fully integrated European value chain providing commercially attractive, ecology-friendly, mass-market technologies suitable for sub-THz frequency operation and beyond, enabling emerging applications like mobile/data connectivity, imaging and sensing. To achieve this, Move2THz will radically innovate the manufacturing process by establishing a breakthrough InP-on-silicon (InPoSi) global standard. This facilitates to upscale the wafer size & volume compatible with CMOS manufacturing capacities, while minimizing the use of rare InP resources and ecological footprint. Further up the value chain, the European InP platform will be developed, matured and adopted through substrates, manufacturing, design and foundry services, including integration, packaging and education. Through Move2THz, the technical excellence provided by our consortium and the technologies developed in this project will significantly strengthen the competitive and sovereign position of Europe. It will secure its supply of semiconductors in a sustainable way for the next generations of wireless applications, generate a wealth of new market opportunities, and make significant contributions to a highly qualified European workforce. To achieve this, InP’s adoptability must accelerate NOW.

Keywords: inp inposi smart cut photonics thz energy efficient 6g sensors sustainability sovereignty green and circular semiconductors ecs lna pa 2 5d 3d hybrid integration
Practical, Learning-Based Tools for Finding and Fixing Bugs (BugGPT)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Software bugs are a major problem for software developers and users alike, as they cause crashes, security vulnerabilities, and data loss. Unfortunately, identifying and fixing software bugs is among the most expensive and time-consuming tasks in software development, accounting for 28% to 50% of the costs of a billion-dollar industry. The LearnBugs ERC project, on which this proposal is based, has developed ground-breaking techniques to automatically find bugs and to propose suitable bug fixes. These techniques are based on artificial intelligence and deep learning, making them particularly powerful for kinds of bugs missed by traditional software developer tools. However, these techniques are currently only available as research prototypes, and there is a gap to be bridged in order to integrate them successfully into the software development workflow. This Proof of Concept proposal, named BugGPT, aims to make learning-based techniques for finding and fixing software bugs practical and usable by software developers. The project will develop practical tools that enable software developers to automatically find and fix bugs in their code. To this end, we will perform technical development activities that address the questions of where, when, and how to suggest bug fixes. Furthermore, we will perform business development activities to identify potential customers, to evaluate the usefulness of our tools, and to compare potential business models with each other. Overall, BugGPT has the potential to make a significant impact on the software development industry by making learning-based bug finding and fixing practical for software developers. If successful, the project could be the beginning of a commercial product that stirs up the market of software development tools.
Prediction of genetic values and adaptive potential in the wild (GPWILD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1704982.5
EU funding (EUR): 1704982.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In order to halt the ongoing biodiversity loss, we need a radically better understanding of key evolutionary and ecological processes of wild populations. The revolutionary methods of my project will enable us to utilize the rapidly-increasing volumes of high-density genomic data for wild populations, and open up unseen opportunities for genomic modeling of eco-evolutionary processes in wild systems. As a result, we will gain an improved understanding of why some species can cope better with the expected global changes of the environment than others. My three major objectives are to: (1) develop a broad set of tools for effcient and accurate prediction of evolutionary change and adaptive evolutionary potential in spatially and temporally structured populations, (2) provide a general theoretical foundation for the developments of new methods to estimate accuracy in important parameters of eco-evolutionary dynamics, and (3) quantify key processes affecting eco-evolutionary dynamics in six exceptional wild long-term study systems by applying the proposed methods. I will do so by developing cutting-edge statistical methodology that builds on the current state-of-the art in animal breeding, human genomics, ecology and evolutionary biology. As an innovative statistician with cross-disciplinary expertise and long collaborations with biologists, I am uniquely positioned for this task. All methods will be developed and tested around the six empirical data sets, as well as via extensive simulation studies that allow us to experiment with scenarios similar to those expected to be available in the near future. My work will expand current research boundaries, both in terms of methods and theory, and has a wide range of possible applications far beyond the data at hand, which will spark additional research. Most importantly, the project will create valuable new insight into adaptive evolutionary processes and how to best preserve the Earth's biological diversity.

Keywords: genomic data,genomic prediction,biodiversity conservation,egological statistics,bayesian statistics,adaptive potential
Designing Stretchable Hydrogel Electrolytes and 2-Dimensional MXene Electrodes for Energy Harvesting via Ionic Thermoelectrics (HITEH)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently, energy harvesting technologies based on the concept of thermoelectricity with direct conversion of waste heat into electricity has received great attention. Thermoelectric (TE) devices have already been used in various industries such as combustion engines, coupled to photovoltaic cells, and to power small home appliances. Conventional TE devices based on electronic conducting materials working through the thermo-diffusion of electrons and holes have been intensively studied and achieved significant performance innovations; however, the small electronic Seebeck coefficient (~100 µV K-1) limits their practical applications. At the same time, these devices cease to work as temperature difference diminishes and are not capable of storing charge. Most of them are based on hard inorganic materials with no/limited flexibility and are not applicable in wearable applications. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new electrolytes with a high Seebeck coefficient and large surface electrodes for high charge storage capability to solve these issues. In this project, we propose the development of stretchable hydrogel electrolytes and 2-Dimensional (2D) MXene electrodes. The proposal consists of 1) design and synthesis of the stretchable hydrogel electrolytes that exhibit intrinsic stretchability (> 300 %) and humidity-independent high ionic Seebeck coefficient (> 50 mV K-1), 2) realizing 2D MXene electrodes capable of high capacitance (> 500 F/g), 3) fabricating energy harvesting and sensing devices based on ionic thermoelectric. This project will give an opportunity for the researcher to gain state-of-the-art knowledge on ionic thermoelectric materials and devices. The experience of the supervisor in various thermoelectric generators will also be fully exploited through this project. Our proposal will contribute to materials science, particularly in energy harvesting society, polymer electrolytes, and 2 dimensional MXene materials.

Keywords: stretchable,hydrogel electrolytes,mxene,ionic thermoelectric,energy harvesting,supercapacitor
Circadian structural transitions of chromatin (ChromaChrono)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1624563.0
EU funding (EUR): 1624563.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transcription factors (TFs) distinctly mark regions of the genome for expression and are the pillars of cell identity. Yet, even at the basic level of DNA recognition by TFs, we know very little about how this is achieved. In eukaryotes, all DNA-templated processes occur in chromatin; however, most studies elucidating the molecular mechanisms of transcription have been performed on histone-free DNA. In the proposed project, we will use TFs as centerpieces to understand how, in the circadian system, the interplay between transcriptional regulatory complexes and chromatin shapes the eukaryotic genome to control gene expression. Specifically, we will use biochemical approaches paired with functional genomics and cryo-EM (single particle and tomography) to investigate how histone identity affects TF-DNA engagement and how TFs and histone modifications influence chromatin organization across biological scales, from nucleotide sequence to chromatin structure in situ. We will exploit circadian time in mammalian cells and the unicellular green algae, Chlamydomonas to elucidate the dynamic gene regulation of a biological system under natural conditions. Using diverse model organisms will enable us to reveal common, conserved properties and processes. Ultimately, these studies will provide unique insight into the fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation while dissecting the molecular mechanisms of biological timekeeping.

Keywords: chromatin,transcription factors,cryo em,circadian
Hydrogen from renewable energy for commercial building heating – a full supply chain demonstration (H2Heat)

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: Spain,Ireland,Estonia,Ukraine,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative renewable energy carrier production for heating from renewable energies (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12818625.0
EU funding (EUR): 10655475.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the H2Heat project is to demonstrate the full value chain for green hydrogen (H2) heating for commercial building heating. 40% of total energy consumed and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in EU correspond to buildings, with 79% of that energy used for heating of water and air conditioning. H2HEAT, in exciting alliance with the Canary Health Service (SCS), wish to create a full demonstration of Green H2 for heating (and later energy). This will serve as the replicable model to be rolled out across the SCS hospitals enabling the SCS fulfil its ambitious ‘Health Zer0 net Emissions Strategy’ delivering deep decarbonization. H2HEAT will use offshore wind renewable energy (RE) to produce H2, from Esteyco 6MW EU funded WHEEL project. The centralised onshore H2 facility, will produce H2 initially with a 1MW electrolyser, to be used to substitute conventional fuel by the large end-user hospital CHUIMI with substantial heating requirements (>0.5MW), using a novel combination of an advanced combustion technology burner specifically designed for H2 operation H2-CHP, and a heat pump. The H2-CHP will produce heat and energy and the energy will power the heat pump for substantial heat provision to the hospital with no waste. Full end-to-end infrastructure for H2 transport and use will be planned, installed and commissioned. Comprehensive and complementary mixture of expertise and know-how provided by the consortium partners will ensure an efficient realization of the technical objectives of the project, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) of H2 fuel for consumers, and develop replicable business models for wide-scale commercial usage of H2 as a direct heating alternative across Gran Canaria. H2Heat will contribute to enabling Gran Canaria become part of the H2 valley economy through locally produced H2 from RE.

Keywords: hydrogen renewable energy carrier,seramic electrolise,chp h2 combined heat and power,heatpump,renewable energy offshore wind