Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
KnowLEdGE creation and iNcreasing acreage of legumes in Diversified cropping systems by quAntification of theiR ecosYstem services. (LEGENDARY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Denmark,Serbia,Germany,Luxembourg,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,Netherlands
Call: Valorisation of ecosystem services provided by legume crops (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4739663.75
EU funding (EUR): 4739663.75
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of LEGENDARY is to remove the barriers that hamper a significant and stable increase of the growing area of legumes in Europe. LEGENDARY has the ambition to develop tools and methods going considerably beyond the state-of-the-art to quantify Ecosystem Services (ESs) of perennial and of annual legumes in different agro-climatic zones. Based on co-creation, LEGENDARY aligns its research strategy with the actual needs. Field experiments will be monitored by a combination of traditional observation methods and advanced sensing technologies whose sensor reads are translated to ES trait values by means of dedicated statistical and machine learning models. These data will be fortified with results from past/ongoing projects. Valuation of the provisioning ESs will mainly be based on historical data, as the focus is to develop tools/methods for the valuation of the regulating services as well as for the valuation of cultural/social services including recreation, education and aesthetic values. These tools/methods will provide ready-to-use indicators to better equip farmers/advisors to evaluate and appreciate the benefits of legumes, including enhanced fertilising regimes, management of noxious organisms as well as recommendations to strengthen crop diversification and longer rotation cycles with crops beneficial for the environment, the farmer and the consumer. A user-friendly Collaborative Multicriteria Decision Support System will be developed, to assist farmers in the choice of legume species and cropping systems suitable for their farm. LEGENDARY’s results will contribute to develop guidelines for science-policies bodies. Consequently, the results and implementation actions provided will ultimately contribute to achieve five of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and to accelerate the transition required by the European Green Deal. LEGENDARY’s legumes have the ability to promote soil health and will thus contribute to the Soil Deal for Europe.

Keywords: ecosystem services legumes agro ecology plant based protein
Development of a novel bone-adapting injectable smart hydrogel for bone tissue engineering (BONEGEL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Defects that weaken bone tissue are a major challenge in orthopedic surgery as they can lead to fractures, significant morbidity, and reduced quality of life. Existing treatments do not provide the necessary mechanical strength, adaptability to dynamic bone remodeling, and osteoinductive properties required for effective bone regeneration. The BONEGEL project addresses this gap by proposing an injectable, self-healing hydrogel specifically designed to treat bone defects in non-weight-bearing bone. The BONEGEL approach includes several key innovations: a dextran-based hydrogel that utilizes the host-guest interactions of cyclodextrins to create a dynamic hydrogel that can adapt to irregular bone defects; the incorporation of laponite, a nanosilicate that improves the mechanical strength and osteoinductive properties of the hydrogel; and an effective and safe release of dexamethasone to accelerate bone regeneration. In addition, the project will optimize an ex vivo model for testing injectable materials for bone tissue engineering to ensure the efficacy and safety of the hydrogel prior to clinical application. This interdisciplinary project brings together expertise in materials science, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to provide a safer and more efficient alternative to current treatments for bone defects and expedite its clinical application. By overcoming the limitations of existing therapies, BONEGEL has the potential to improve patient outcomes and shorten recovery times. This aligns with the EU's priorities for innovation and sustainability in healthcare, ultimately promoting a healthier population and better quality of life for patients. Beyond the scientific, societal and economic impact, this project will advance my career by providing me with the critical knowledge and experience I need to position myself as a leader in the biomaterials and tissue engineering fields and open doors to future academic collaborations and industry partnerships.

Keywords: bone tissue engineering biomaterial hydrogel bone cyst bone regeneration cyclodextrin supramolecular hydrogel
Dynamics and REplica Analysis of Monitored Systems (DREAMS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The DREAMS (Dynamics and REplica Analysis of Monitored Systems) project aims to understand the physics of monitored quantum systems, i.e., many-body systems that periodically undergo a series of repeated local measurements. The competition between the monitoring and the unitary dynamics, which respectively favor and hinder the building up of non-local quantum correlations, can give rise to a measurement-induced phase transition. Such a transition can be detected, for example, by looking at the growth of the entanglement of a subsystem or the purification time-scale of an initially mixed state. As entanglement is a central quantity in quantum information, a complete understanding of the dynamics of monitored systems and their critical behavior would have significant consequences both at the theoretical level and in the development of quantum technologies—such as error correction and quantum control via feedback. To this end, a replica approach has been recently proposed. This has the advantage of framing the evolution of the system in terms of linear equations, at the price of introducing the need for an analytic continuation of our results. DREAMS is divided into three parts. First, the dynamics of some fully-connected models will be investigated through the replica formalism. As the physics of these models is dominated by mean-field effects, it is possible to derive exact analytic solutions and understand the conditions under which critical behavior could emerge. Then, more realistic, finite-range interacting systems will be taken into account to probe the validity of our predictions in the presence of a spatial modulation of the coupling. An extensive numerical activity will be carried out to test our prediction. Finally, these results will be reinterpreted in light of the existing theoretical frameworks for monitored systems, trying to extract general predictions.

Keywords: quantum physics,entanglement,open quantum systems,monitored systems,measurement induced phase transitions,critical phenomena,replica symmetry breaking
Tuneable Luminescent Signatures Based on Bio-based Carbon Dots for High-Security Encryption Tags (ToolTag)

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: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191343.12
EU funding (EUR): 191343.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Security systems based on luminescent signatures are the most widely used for the development of anti-counterfeiting technologies, authentication, and interactive marketing. These systems, when combined with physical unclonable functions (PUFs) produced using cost-effective and reproducible techniques, can offer an effective solution for a drastic reduction in the circulation of pirated products worldwide. The "Tuneable Luminescent Signatures Based on Bio-based Carbon Dots for High-Security Encryption Tags" (ToolTag) project aims to develop an efficient, configurable, and scalable protocol for creating anti-counterfeiting systems. This will be achieved by modifying carbon quantum dots (CDs) through electron irradiation (EI) to create PUFs. Since the luminescent signature of CDs can be influenced by the chemical environment, these tags are also expected to be used for evaluating the quality control of food products. To achieve this goal, two approaches will be adopted to modify the CDs using EI: the first involves the modulation of the luminescent signature of CDs in the liquid state for subsequent ink fabrication and PUF printing, while the second consists of the insitu generation of CDs on polymeric substrates through the in-situ printing of PUFs via EI. For the final development of the anticounterfeiting technology, an algorithm will be designed to convert the raw luminescent signals from the CDs into a unique digital signature. This multi-disciplinary approach, combining nanotechnology, materials science, and data processing, positions ToolTag as a groundbreaking solution in the fight against counterfeiting, offering a scalable and configurable protocol that can be tailored to various industries. By leveraging the latest advances in EI, this project pushes the boundaries of current anti-counterfeiting technologies, providing a novel, efficient, and consumer-friendly tool for verifying product authenticity and quality.

Keywords: carbon dots,electron irradiation,food packaging,encryption tags,physical unclonable functions please
Injectable nanoelectrodes for wireless and minimally invasive neural stimulation (NANeurO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499725.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499725.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neural devices used in the brain and spinal cord have yielded medical breakthroughs to improve the lives of people with spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, and hearing loss. However, current neural devices are large, complex, and invasive, and are therefore used by only a fraction of people who could benefit from them. Instead, I want to make neural devices that are nanoscale, injectable, and wireless. By lowering invasiveness and implantation risk, this technology could address the unmet medical needs of more people with neurological impairments. The work proposed herein is to develop a minimally invasive nanoelectrode system capable of wireless, spatially selective, and multiplexed neural stimulation. I have previously developed nanoelectrodes that directly stimulated (i.e. with no genetic/biochemical neuron modification) the deep brain of mice as a proof-of-concept. This was possible because, unlike other wireless neural technologies, device powering was nonresonant, and thus independent of size. In my proposed research I will now develop optimized nanoelectrodes, and I will approach this by developing a toolbox of nanomaterials to study and learn from. In particular, I will look at how nanoelectrode size and shape affects signal/response and neurostimulation. This approach will generate new, enabling technologies, such as the ability to individually stimulate some particles while ignoring others, for multiplexed stimulation control. While the field of nanoscale and wireless neuroelectrodes is exceptionally small, new, and high risk, the proposed work could one day enable minimally invasive, wireless neural modulation.

Keywords: neuroengineering,nanomaterials,wireless electrodes
image-Guided computational and experimental Analysis of fractured Patients (GAP)

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: Italy,Norway,Poland,Netherlands,France,Switzerland,Ireland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2791121.14
EU funding (EUR): 2679933.6
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Age-related bone fractures are a major health concern, resulting worldwide in high economic and psycho-social burden, morbidity and increasing mortality. With aging and in presence of bone pathologies, human bone becomes more brittle and prone to damage. A disruptive clinical hypothesis considers Covid-19 virus as an additional contributing factor in bone deterioration. At the macro-scale, the identification of fragility is assured by the clinical practice: common clinical tools, however, are able to predict only 70% of fractures. For this reason, a deep investigation of the bone micro-architecture would be a fundamental hint for the comprehension of damage mechanisms, improving the reliability of fracture risk indicators and performing more accurate diagnosis of bone pathologies. This knowledge level goes beyond the current state of the art and this is where GAP comes into play, providing attractive, multi-disciplinary and versatile training strategies for multi-scale comprehension, detection and patient-specific treatments of bone fractures. The over-arching aim of GAP proposal is to educate young and talented scientists towards a combined high-level experimental and numerical approach for the early-stage accurate, precise detection and mini-invasive treatments of bone fractures, shedding some light on bone micro-scale alterations due to pathologies. The inter-disciplinary findings, that exploit cutting-edge multi-scale imaging facilities and advanced artificial intelligent-based strategies, will be a crucial aspect in the training of skilled researchers and will enable Europe to overcome the silent paralysis of its healthcare system.

Keywords: bone micro damage synchrotron scaffold artificial intelligence topological analysis fracture detection
The Challenge of Islam and the Transformation of Eastern Christian Normative Regimes, ca. 630-1100 (NOMOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999281.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999281.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the crucial half-millennium between the death of the Prophet Muhammad and the First Crusade, an absolutely essential part in the origins of Christian-Muslim relations has been overlooked, namely how the normative regimes of Eastern Christians – including those of Byzantium, the Islamicate world and the space in between – grappled with the rise of Islam. Exploring this history has important implications for our understanding of the development of Christian-Muslim relations in the premodern period, the genesis of Eastern Christian legal regimes and the earlier precedents which Eastern Mediterranean states after the year 1100 might have drawn on in dealing with Islam. By assembling a corpus of “Saracen law” provisions and utilizing cutting-edge, AI-supported technologies to create new editions of legal texts, NOMOS will examine how, within the realm of normative knowledge, the new religion was interpreted, circumscribed and defined and, moreover, how the encounter with Islam itself shaped long-term developments within Eastern Christian legal regimes. Despite differences in literary language (Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Armenian), levels of statehood (ranging from the Byzantine Empire, the smaller Armenian principalities to the stateless Coptic and Syriac communities) and confessional affiliation (Orthodox, Monophysite or “Nestorian”/Church of the East), the encounter with Islam constituted the most significant factor in the late antique development of each of these legal normative orders in this period. This innovative, legal-historical approach to the history of the early medieval Middle East will not only offer a new way of looking at Late Antiquity in the first centuries of Islam, but will also provide a crucial new narrative of Christian-Muslim relations in the Eastern Mediterranean world before the First Crusade – and thereby problematize the traditional “Western”-dominated paradigm for this history.
SUPRAmolecular Hydrogel Driven Assembly of Designer Heart Tissues (SUPRAHEART)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The SUPRAHEART proof-of-concept project aims to use our squaramide-based (SQ) filamentous double network hydrogels for assembly of engineered heart tissues (EHTs). As the current dependency of EHTs on natural materials (e.g., collagen I, Matrigel) limits their large-scale application as cardiac models, their generation using a fully synthetic matrix will provide improved reproducibility, tunability and scalability, opening the door for their use as a high-throughput pharmaceutical testing platform. Expanding on our development of bioactive and mechanically tunable squaramide-based hydrogels for the 3D culture of a broad range of cell types, we will scale-up the synthesis of the needed squaramide materials, perform in- depth characterization of the structural and mechanical properties of formed hydrogels, develop protocols to generate EHTs in the squaramide hydrogels and evaluate the quality of the formed tissues within the materials. In parallel with these activities, we will prepare a business plan that presents a roadmap to market, perform detailed market research on these mechanically tunable hydrogels for 3D cell culture and protect our intellectual property (IP) position. Should a patent application be successful, we will collaborate with local partners for commercialization through product licensing.
Voices from the Anthropocene. Maps and Frameworks for Ecological Conflicts (VAMP)

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: Italy,Brazil,France
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): 243641.28
EU funding (EUR): 243641.28
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative framework for a better understanding of ecological crisis. The current approach is based on the idea that we are going through a global crisis of nature. However, the Anthropocene hypothesis, a geological epoch marked by industrial activities, shows that what we are facing is not a crisis of "natural entities", but a crisis of the concept of nature. Accounting for this semantic instability in ecological controversies allows us to see conflicts of representations where different social groups "give voice" to non-human entities. Our aim is to provide a transferable protocol to deal with that, consisting in i) deconstructing non-transformative rhetoric on environment; ii) rearrange human and non-human assemblages in sustainable ways; iii) rethinking "environment" as the effect of a ployphony resonating simoultanously in the technosphere, the biosphere and the infosphere. To that end, our approach intertwines political ecology, anthropology of nature, Science and Technology Studies and eco-feminism in a semiotic oriented theory of enunciation. This approach will be tested through two crucial cases of "voice giving" to non-humans: i) the battles for the conservation of Amazonian Forest, recently exposed to further extractivist attacks by Bolsonaro's Government; ii) and the struggle against high impact railroad linking Turin, in Italy, and Lyon, in France. Our transferable protocol, taking into account gender, social and cultural differences that ecological controversies manifest, will provide a comprehensive cartography of "forms of belonging". That reshape entirely the theoretical space of politics, making room for a better representation of ecological redirection challenges. The methodological tools for this are those of semiotics of culture and ethnography. We will put them to use for a comparative study on how non-humans are given a voice by political, mediatic, scientific, grassroots and administrative discourse.

Keywords: environmental literacy,ecological controversy,political ecology,cognitive sciences,semiotics
Application for an AI Factory in Austria (AI-AT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European High Performance Computing
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EUROHPC (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Artificial Intelligence Factories (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2025-AI-01-IBA, 2025)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 29999998.79
EU funding (EUR): 14999999.45
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

AI:AT – the AI Factory Austria – is a national initiative aimed at sustainably strengthening Austria's AI ecosystem. Through state-of-the-art supercomputing infrastructure, targeted support services, and a strong partner network, we are laying the foundation for powerful, secure, and economically viable AI applications. Funded by the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking, AI:AT makes a central contribution to Europe's competitiveness and innovation capacity in the field of artificial intelligence. With AI:AT, a key building block for a Europe-wide visible AI ecosystem is being created. We are fostering synergies with flagship projects such as the planned AI Center at the University of Vienna and TU Vienna, the biomedical AI institute AITHYRA, and the FWF Excellence Cluster Bilateral AI. In this way, AI:AT – the AI Factory Austria – sustainably strengthens Austria's international position as a hub for technology and innovation.