Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Breaking the Silence: Amplifying Pluralist Voices to Safeguard Democracy (PLUDEM)

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: United Kingdom,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 325434.9
EU funding (EUR): 325434.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Who controls public opinion online? Research shows that an influential minority on social media spreads illiberal antidemocratic ideas by silencing opposing views to undermine support for liberal democracies. This minority, by being highly vocal and active, creates the illusion of representing a larger share of society. Bots and generative AI amplify this illusion, allowing the minority to shape public discourse and erode support for liberal democracy. This phenomenon reflects the ‘spiral of silence’ theory, which posits that individuals refrain from expressing their views when they perceive the majority to oppose them. However, robust, causal evidence testing this mechanism and its effect on liberal democratic behaviour is lacking. Equally unanswered is how to reverse this trend. PLUDEM addresses this gap by testing whether the ‘spiral of silence’ explains the silencing of pluralist voices and whether this process can be reversed to revive liberal democratic discourse online. The project hypothesises that increasing the visibility of pluralist voices in prominent debates will encourage silenced groups, including women and minorities, to re-engage, promoting pluralist political expression and strengthening democratic behaviour and attitudes. PLUDEM breaks new ground in computational political science by combining large-scale computational analyses, Large Language Models, machine learning, real-world social media and commenting experiments, in a collaboration with a pan-European grassroots network of pro-democratic volunteers. The project will provide robust causal evidence on factors contributing to the erosion of democratic behaviour and attitudes, and explain how to strengthen them. A non-academic placement with a leading European pro-democratic NGO will directly exploit the findings to ensure that PLUDEM’s impact extends beyond the project duration. In sum, PLUDEM explains how to bolster liberal democratic support in a time of acute global democratic recession.

Keywords: liberal democracy,democratic attitudes,political behaviour,counterspeech,online field experiment,survey experiment,hate speech,polarisation,social media,data science,machine learning
Triple junction solar modules based on perovskites and silicon for high performance, low-cost and small environmental footprint (TRIUMPH)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,France,Switzerland,Netherlands,Sweden,Türkiye
Call: Novel tandem, high efficiency Photovoltaic technologies targeting low cost production with earth abundant materials (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5131150.0
EU funding (EUR): 5131150.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The TRIUMPH project aims to initiate the development of a future PV cell technology node, based on an advanced triple junction cell concept, that is widely considered to be the next technology node to come after tandems. Presently, there is considerable amount of attention and research and development (R&D) activities devoted to Pk/Si tandems and already promising cell efficiencies, reliability and outdoor performance results have been obtained. The highest efficiency reported for a 2-terminal (2T) Pk/Si tandem is 29.8%, which has already gone past the Auger limit of Si. Therefore, in TRIUMPH, we plan to venture a step further than tandems by targeting TRIple junction devices, that can add the extra “OOMPH” (hence the name TRIUMPH) needed to reach efficiencies even >33%. These 2T triple junction devices will be based on perovskites for the middle and top cells and silicon for the bottom cell and will build on the knowledge garnered in the field of Pk/Si tandems. Additionally, cost-effective processing techniques that are industrially viable will be selected for scale-up developments, with minimal upscaling performance loss and degradation during reliability testing and outdoor monitoring. As we enter the tera-watt (TW) era of PV deployment, using earth-abundant materials and enforcing circularity become necessities. Towards this objective, we not only explore options that reduce critical raw materials (CRM) such as silver (Ag) and indium (In) in the triple junction devices, but also apply design for recycling principles to the triple junction modules. The consortium consists of 14 complementary partners from both research institutions and industry, each bringing their best forte to the table, which will help to establish the pathway and the value chain for future multi-junction modules. In this way, TRIUMPH would help the European Union (EU) to maintain its technological leadership in the PV domain for the future generation of PV technologies.

Keywords: perovskite,silicon,triple junctions,high efficiency,scalable processes,earth abundant materials,design for sustainability,circularity,reliability,outdoor monitoring
Quartz On-chip for Virus Detection (QOVID)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The global-scale pandemic crisis of COVID-19 requires precise and immediate technological solutions for virological and serological diagnosis tests. These tests must be accurate, rapid, intelligent, and cost-efficient to prevent future rebounds of infections and help control the pandemic. In this context, the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) industry, especially piezoelectric resonators of all shapes and sizes, is a promising strategy to revolutionize the biological detection market. Ultrahigh sensitive nanomechanical resonators showed the potential of this technology for mass loading. Unfortunately, applying MEMS to the biomedical sector requires challenging qualities, making it often unattainable to material scientists and engineers. QOVID offers a solution to fill this gap between MEMS and biomedicine by developing a commercialization solution for piezoelectric α-quartz resonating devices to detect the mass response of SARS-CoV-2 spike molecular interactions as an original readout of viral loads. QOVID builds on the technology developed during the ERC Starting Grant SENSiSOFT to provide a user-friendly versatile Bio-MEMS sensor prototype that will give researchers in the life sciences and biomedical sector without an engineering or electronic training a reliable diagnostic tool to detect SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses. QOVID will scale up a new generation of On-chip epitaxial piezoelectric α-quartz/Si MEMS manufactured exclusively by soft-chemistry with CMOS-compatible processes offering cost-efficient single-chip solutions not only for biomedical applications but also for many other fields. These α-quartz bioMEMS will have thicknesses between 200 nm and 1 µm, this is between 10 to 50 times thinner and 10 to 100 times more sensitive than those obtained by traditional top-down technologies on bulk crystals. QOVID will pursue commercialization and market solutions both within academia and the biotechnology and biomedical among other sectors.
Modes of Expectation Formation in Macro and Finance (MODES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-10-01
End date: 2031-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497285.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497285.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Expectations are central in macroeconomics and finance. I propose to study modes of expectation formation in macro and finance: the ways in which expectations are constructed. These modes can differ in the inputs used and in how these inputs are processed. For instance, agents could consider relevant macroeconomic state variables and process this information through a developed mental model of the economy. A different approach could be based on spontaneous recall of easily accessible personal experiences and use of a simple heuristic. Empirical studies suggest that different modes are relevant, but we do not understand their relative importance, drivers, decision-relevance, and aggregate consequences. This poses a barrier to a unified understanding of belief formation, preventing the field from moving forward. My objective is to answer these questions for the most central domains in macro and finance. I use a novel portable, survey-based approach building on an AI chat, laying the groundwork for a unified account of macroeconomic expectation formation. In Part 1, I study modes of forming inflation expectations among households, managers and experts. I use experiments to understand how rational inattention and memory shape modes of belief formation. I use a New-Keynesian model to study macro consequences. In Part 2, I study modes of expectation formation about aggregate stock returns using surveys with investors. I use linked administrative bank account data to study the consequences of the mode of belief formation for the pass-through of beliefs to decisions. I explore aggregate implications in an asset pricing model. In Part 3, I study modes of expectation formation about aggregate unemployment. I conduct household surveys linked with administrative register data to understand drivers such as cognitive skills, exposure to aggregate fluctuations, and first- and second-hand past job loss experiences. I use a search and matching model to study macro implications.

Keywords: expectation formation consumption and financial behavior memory and experiences rational inattention
Gut microbiome-mediated activities of psychotropic drugs (gutMAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and I mmunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system , related disorders  and their mechanisms , biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases , innovative imm unological tools and approaches , including  therapies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497033.75
EU funding (EUR): 1497033.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mental illnesses are among the most prevalent health burdens, with major depression ranking fourth among the leading causes of disease worldwide. Although diverse psychotropic drugs are available, the delayed onset of drug action, high non-responder rates and frequent side effects still pose significant challenges. Several observations suggest the gut microbiome as major contributor to high inter-individual differences in drug responses. While there is evidence that these drugs lead to changes in the microbiome composition of patients, it has not yet been explored whether these effects are part of the drug mode of action and/or whether they contribute to side effects. The aim of this project is to investigate to what extent gut microbes are involved in the therapeutic outcome of psychotropic drugs by employing model synthetic and patient derived microbiome communities (from stool of drug responders, non-responders and healthy controls), and in vivo gnotobiotic mouse models. We will systematically characterize the reciprocal interactions between gut microbes and commonly used psychotropic drugs ex vivo – from microbial drug metabolism to drug-induced bacterial secretion of neuroactive compounds. For intriguing interactions, we will elucidate the underlying mechanisms and use the knowledge to design engineered microbiomes. We will then employ gnotobiotic knockout mice deficient for primary drug targets of psychotropic drugs and colonize them with microbiome communities carrying the different mapped traits to separate the contribution of drug effects originating from the microbiome from those of the host. Overall, our results will inform microbiome-guided therapeutic strategies whose improved efficacy we will test in vivo. Due to the transferability of the developed technology and if successful, this new research direction could not only revolutionize psychotropic drug therapy, but also pave new ways for improving personalized drug therapy for many other diseases.

Keywords: microbiome gut brain axis,microbial metabolism,systems microbiology,psychotropic drugs
Integration and Harmonization of Logistics Operations (TRACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Luxembourg,Spain,Austria,Estonia,Italy,Malta,Slovenia,Cyprus,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Logistics networks integration and harmonisation through operational connectivity to optimise freight flows and drive logistics to climate neutrality (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9531485.54
EU funding (EUR): 7743673.25
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

Logistics industry is facing continuous and significant challenges during the recent years. The trend is the adoption of intelligent services for increasing the performance of the provided systems and synchromodal operations. Transfers and deliveries can benefit from the use of novel business models that adopt the aforementioned intelligent services when the optimization of the use of shared resources is the core target and become the basis for the provision of a climate friendly infrastructure. The goal of synchromodal operations and the integration of heterogeneous logistics services is the reduction of current transfers in order to reduce the carbon footprint while securing the uninterrupted deliveries and the resilience to any disruptive event. TRACE targets to the aforementioned integration activities offering a universal platform with functionalities related to planning, scheduling, optimization and events management as well as the use of blockchain technology to facilitate the real time conclusion of smart contracts and financial operations, thus, becoming one of the first attempts to provide an ‘intelligent cover’ upon the current logistics frameworks. TRACE envisions real demonstrators in different European countries with different goals that start from transportations with the use of shared resources, the disruptive events detection and re-scheduling of transfers while concluding with the use of unmanned vehicles to automate the last mile deliveries. TRACE also proposes new transfer corridors, safe areas where unmanned vehicles can collect items towards the final destination and new (virtual) hubs. TRACE will perform studies related to the barriers towards the new logistics era, the new business opportunities, the requirements for the legislation and regulatory frameworks and expose the benefits of the proposed approach in terms of the reduction for energy demand and emissions while limiting the operational costs for logistics stakeholders.

Keywords: synchromodal operations,shared resources,integration,artificial intelligence,blockchain,unmanned vehicles
BREATH RESEARCH INTERACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT VIA GUIDANCE AND EXCHANGES (BRIDGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Germany
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499738.23
EU funding (EUR): 1499737.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Greece is still suffering repercussions from the financial crisis of recent years with an overall economic downturn, notably in research and innovation (R&I). The ensuing lag has cleaved a widening gap in the scientific arena between Greece and leading European countries. Limited funding resources and corresponding low prospects for young researchers has intensified this impeding situation. The Breath Research Interactions and Development via Guidance and Exchanges (BRIDGE) twinning project represents an opportunity to reverse this scenario and increase the excellence capacity of the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Greece by sharing infrastructure, skills and methodologies, and via a dedicated training programme, with the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Technologia in Italy and the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Germany. BRIDGE is a three-year R&I venture that seeks to develop and implement advanced tools and complementary mechanisms to establish FORTH as a leading performer in cutting-edge R&I through training and networking activities with the leading partners. This will be achieved via a common vision that focusses on the development of novel perovskite-based nanomaterials and their directed engineering to detect selected volatile compounds that are of relevance to continuing standardization endeavours in breath research. Through a planned series of training and mobility initiatives, BRIDGE will lead to closer links between the partners and will thereby enhance the excellence capacity of FORTH. Moreover, this initiative will support the postdoctoral researchers to improve their research and management skills and to explore new avenues to share ideas, solve scientific and technological challenges, and increase the impact of their discoveries and innovations. The comprehensive dissemination and exploitation strategy will promote the R&I capacity, visibility, and profiles of FORTH and its academic staff.

Keywords: training exchange visits perovskites nanocrystals breath sensing excellence capacity increase research impact
Advanced Wing MATuration And integRation (AWATAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Germany,Poland,Ireland,Netherlands,United States
Call: Ultra Performance Wing Technologies and Integration for Short and Short-medium Range Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14674803.64
EU funding (EUR): 13225141.88
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The aeronautical industry is committed to a collective goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In addition to optimized flight operations and Sustainable Aviation Fuels deployment, two fundamental enablers to reach this target are the introduction of LH2 technologies and new solutions increasing aircraft and engine efficiency. In order to accelerate the Entry Into Service of ultra-efficient hydrogen SMR aircraft, AWATAR develops a Very High Aspect Ratio, Strut-Braced, Dry-Wing characterized by laminar portions in the outer areas, advanced integrated leading edge systems and an optimized integration of an open-rotor propulsion system. With the purpose of anticipating and accelerating future certification processes, the targeted maturation relies on high-fidelity simulations and ground tests (ETW, S2MA, Collins’ Icing wind tunnel). In terms of performance benefits, progress to be made in AWATAR leads to substantial gains with respect to a 2020 state-of-the-art aircraft. The novel aerodynamic configuration with a large aspect ratio targets a drag reduction at aircraft level of 18%. Regarding the Advanced Leading Edge solution integrating the ice protection system, the investigated technology aims for a 50% reduction of the energy budget needed for a fully evaporative system. For laminarity, the expected aircraft drag reduction is about 5-10% depending on the configuration. In addition, the optimized integration of the Unducted Single Fan limits installation drag to less than 4% of total aircraft drag. Overall, AWATAR aims at an integrated SMR aircraft (250 passengers - 2000 nm) offering an 18% reduction in block energy. This 36 months, 20MEuros valued project (14MEuros funding) relies on a strong consortium made of 2 Aircraft manufacturers, 1 Aerospace components supplier, 3 research Centers, 1 Wind tunnel Operator and 2 universities. This complementary and multidisciplinary consortium ensures that AWATAR maturity path is in line with Clean Aviation SMR roadmap.

Keywords: dry wing,strut braced,very high aspect ratio,leading edge,ice protection,natural laminar flow,flutter,unducted single fan integration,overall aircraft design