Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration (SUBMERSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Greece,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Norway,France,Georgia,Uruguay,Poland,Czechia,Ireland,Denmark
Call: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9744100.0
EU funding (EUR): 9744100.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal responds to the call Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (2022) (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01). The proposal seeks to directly address the challenges to develop a new world-class research instrument integrating already existing NREN and EPOS infrastructures and Copernicus Marine service, from three European nations, as well as Pan-European and Pan-American institutions, to disseminate FAIR compliant State of Polarisation and Distributed Acoustic Sensor data, gathered from the same, already installed, live, telecommunications submarine optical fibres, in a temporally consistent and geographically dispersed way. Such an instrument would deliver innovative scientific instrumentation, methods and tools as well as advancing the involved research infrastructures by developing new state of the art services and long-term data sets of unique scientific value. This project will enable continuous recording of these types of data for research use by NRENs for the first time, thus supporting of diverse academic, industrial and governmental user communities. Through the integration with EPOS data infrastructure , existing research communities in solid earth (EPOS) and marine science (EMSO), industrial and public body communities can be complimented with entirely new types of data sets unavailable to them before, which it is believed will lead to new areas of research.

Keywords: establish a ground breaking research instrument which will keep europe at the highest level of excellence in science,while laying the foundations for industrial,societal and governmental exploitation
Probing and predicting the dynamical response of the Greenland-Ice-Sheet to surface melt water (REASSESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2960956.0
EU funding (EUR): 2960956.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Over just three decades, the Greenland Ice Sheet contribution to sea-level rise has grown six-fold. Increased basal slipperiness from increased surface melt was initially proposed as a key mechanism reinforcing ice loss, but a wealth of studies deconstructed this idea, leading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to conclude that increased surface melt “has not led to sustained increases in glacier flux”. Last year, however, my group re-established meltwater as a primary mechanism driving ice dynamics, albeit in a different manner than previously envisioned. Basal slipperiness is not set by melt rates but by ice-sheet morphology, which drives low slipperiness in steep and fast glaciers that terminate into the ocean, and high slipperiness in gentle and slow glaciers that terminate on land. As a result, a previously unforeseen meltwater-ice dynamics feedback potentially drives a higher than anticipated mass loss as glaciers transition from marine- to land-terminating in the future. In this project, I plan to REASSESS the control of surface meltwater on ice loss from the changed paradigm that glacier morphology rather than melt rates controls its impact. (AIM1) will probe the mechanisms responsible for the morphology control on basal slipperiness by overcoming long-lasting observational challenges through an innovative seismologically- and geodetically-based monitoring scheme exporting recently established proofs of concept for the first time to Greenland. (AIM2) will predict the control of meltwater on ice-sheet evolution from incorporating the new observational insights from AIM1 into a hierarchy of small-scale physical to large-scale parametrized models. With this strategy, we will, for the first time, fully evaluate the dynamical response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to surface meltwater and its impact on sea-level variations under deglaciation as inferred in the past and expected over the coming centuries.

Keywords: ice sheet dynamics,subglacial hydrology,basal friction,seismology,geodesy,geophysics,instrumentation,modelling,climate change,sea level
MODULAR PULSED PROPULSION SYSTEM (MP2S)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Bulgaria,Czechia,Germany
Call: Future Space Ecosystem and Enabling Technologies (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998434.0
EU funding (EUR): 2270289.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

MP2S is an innovative project, aiming at filling the gap on the 200W class propulsion modules, this power segment being largely popularized by the new space market actors. The main goal of the project is to mature and develop up to TRL5 a Pulsed MPD Arc Discharge Chamber as a building block for an electrical pulse propulsion modular concept. The Consortium is composed of high level specialists, representing Industry: COMAT, ENDUROSAT and Plasma Solve and Research and Technology Organizations: CNRS (two Laboratories: ICARE and LAPLACE), University of Stuttgart. They have a broad experience and know-how in the area of electric propulsion, Plasma physics, simulation, tests, mass manufacturing and business model for space. CNRS and University of Stuttgart will perform experiments and modelisation for a better understanding of physical phenomena of pulsed propulsion. That will allow to characterize different propellant choices, current discharge wave form and magnetic topology. The Consortium will also perform studies to optimize the cathode erosion in pulsed mode, allowing to design new electrodes for a significantly increased thruster total impulsion. Then, PlasmaSolve will customize a software able to simulate different configuration of the P-MPD thruster. Design iterations will be performed to reach the required level of performance. Based on those results, the integrated Pulse MPD building block (with integrated fluid management system) will be developed and validated, with outstanding performances. The modularity and versatility of the propulsion module will bring value to the satellite and enable new in-orbit mission design by Endurosat(ie docking). The industrial strategy will ensure competitive cost, mass production capacity and easy assembly, thanks to additive manufacturing technology and plug and thrust concept. The MP2S partners will disseminate this disruptive and modular solution within the new space market while supporting the European space strategy.

Keywords: electric propulsion pulse propulsion magneto plasma dynamic plasma physics and modelling cathode erosion fluidic management systems modular space thruster
Search for Milli-lenses to discriminate between dark matter models (SMILE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Greece
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1486875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1486875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the most compelling mysteries in both cosmology and particle physics is the nature of Dark Matter (DM). We propose to investigate this problem using strong gravitational lensing of active galaxies on the key but poorly-explored milliarcsecond scales. Gravitational lensed images with angular separation on milliarcsecond scales probe gravitational lens systems where the lens is a compact object with mass in the range 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses. This mass range is particularly critical for the widely accepted Lambda-CDM cosmological model, which predicts many more DM sub-halos, i.e., DM halos on sub-galactic scales (masses below ~ 10^11 solar masses), than currently observed. The most direct way to explore these small angular scales is through the high-resolution of radio Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). We propose to use VLBI data on a complete and large sample of active galaxies (~ 5000 sources) to search for gravitational lens systems on milliarcsecond scales. Given that no gravitational lenses on milliarsecond scales have yet been found, if any of the gravitational lens candidates that this search will produce is indeed confirmed as a true gravitational lens system, this would be a first and a major discovery. A null result instead will allow us to infer a new constraint on the abundance of compact objects in the mass range of interest, with over an order of magnitude better precision than in previous studies, and tighter than the number of 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses subhalos predicted by Lambda-CDM. Such a constraint could help discriminate between DM models that predict different numbers of sub-halos in this mass range. It could also help to constrain a possible contribution of primordial black holes as a DM component.

Keywords: gravitational lensing strong,techniques interferometric,quasars general,dark matter
National Adaptation Hubs (AdaptationHubs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia,Netherlands,Austria,Germany,Belgium,France,Spain,Bulgaria,Slovenia,Slovakia,Cyprus,Hungary,Romania,Sweden,Latvia,Finland,Czechia,Portugal,Greece,Luxembourg,Lithuania,Italy,Estonia,Poland,Ireland,Denmark,Malta
Call: Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance) (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999237.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999237.5
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

AdaptationHubs is a Coordination and support action which clearly and directly answers all the aspects and requirements of the HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02 call for proposals. It will directly result in the establishment and implementation of at least 27 National Multilevel Governance Adaptation Hubs (by developing new structures or supporting existing ones) and a robust grouping and twinning scheme which will facilitate national, cross-border and EU-wide exchanges and cooperations. Additionally, the involvement of associate countries and countries beyond the EU will be ensured through a dedicated outreach programme. To achieve all of this, we have already identified and recruited 27 national expert organisations (National experts) which are directly responsible for or are closely linked to their respective national adaptation governances. These national experts have in turn identified existing structures which can be utilised or built on to achieve the expected project results as well as key stakeholders which must be involved in the overall process. This set-up and preparatory work will enable the AdaptationHubs project to hit the ground running and immediately focus on the task at hand without expending valuable time and resources on scouting and set-up, thus ensuring efficiency, speed and quality. The AdaptationHubs project in numbers: 27 National Multilevel Governance Adaptation Hubs (NAHs) established and operational 135 working sessions of the NAHs held during the project’s duration 1 Central Support Facility set-up and operational 19 Peer-learning and capacity building activities between the NAHs implemented 1 Structural Grouping Scheme developed 54 Twinning activities implemented between regions and facilitated by the NAHs 1 Pilot EU twinning programme set-up and tested 4 EU twinning activities implemented with at least 16 total working sessions

Keywords: multilevel governance national adaptation hubs twinning peer learning
Binding the self: how cortical oscillations bind sensory stimuli into a multisensory representation of the physical self (Binding the Self)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Binding the Self tests the idea that cortical oscillations temporally bind different sensory stimuli into a multisensory representation of the physical self to generate the sense of body ownership, i.e., the experience of one's body as one's own. The project combines psychophysical tasks with electroencephalography and brain stimulation, providing unique insights on the mechanism that binds bodily sensory information. Multisensory temporal integration of visuo-tactile signals is thought to occur within Individual Alpha frequencies (IAF), while integration of tactile stimuli occurs within Individual Beta frequencies (IBF). Stimuli are integrated when they fall within the same cortical cycle and segregated for different cycles; the speed of cortical oscillations is modulated by task demand: cortical frequencies decrease when the task requires temporal sensory integration compared with segregation. Here, my first objective is to show that individual temporal resolution of perception in simultaneity judgments correlates with temporal resolution of multisensory integration involved in body ownership, both when body ownership is induced by visuo-tactile signals and when it is induced by proprioceptive-tactile signals, without vision. Next, I will demonstrate if (i) the integration of visuo-tactile stimuli that underpins body ownership occurs within IAF and if (ii) IAF is modulated by simultaneity judgments, which require temporal segregation, or ownership judgments, which require integration. Finally, I will clarify if (i) IBF integrates tactile information to produce body ownership without vision and if (ii) IBF is differentially modulated by tactile simultaneity or ownership judgments. Binding the Self reveals the similarities and differences between multisensory integration occurring for external events and for own-body perception. Results have implications for clinical conditions with an impaired body representation and for the field of the brain-machine interfaces.

Keywords: body ownership multisensory integration cortical oscillations eeg tacs embodiment
Beyond the Graft: Enhancing Clinical Outcomes through Aortic Biomechanics (Aortic Biomechanics)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims to investigate the biomechanical mechanisms driving adverse aortic remodeling in patients with genetically triggered thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) following prosthetic graft surgery. The study seeks to identify critical features of both native aortic tissue and prosthetic grafts that contribute to the increased risk of distal aortic complications, such as dissection and aneurysm. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Advanced imaging and computational modeling: We will employ state-of-the-art cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and 4D flow MRI to gather detailed pre- and post-operative data. This data will inform fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models to simulate the complex biomechanical interactions between grafts and the native aorta, providing insights that extend beyond traditional approaches. 2. Biomechanical and genetic integration: By analyzing the stiffness and wall shear stress (WSS) of the aorta before and after grafting, and correlating these changes with clinical outcomes, the study bridges the gap between genetic predispositions and biomechanical responses. This approach will also explore the role of hemodynamic forces in driving the progression of TAA, helping to identify patients at higher risk for adverse outcomes. 3. Tailored graft design: The proposal’s innovative approach includes the development of grafts with compliance tailored to individual patient characteristics. These tailored grafts, designed using FSI simulations, have the potential to reduce the risk of adverse remodeling, setting this study apart from others that use standard graft materials. This proposal advances personalized medicine by integrating genetic and biomechanical insights to enhance patient-specific treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms. It aligns with MSCA’s goals by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, driving innovation in healthcare, and translating research into tangible societal benefits.

Keywords: investigating aortic biomechanics in genetically triggered thoracic aneurysms,focusing on graft induced remodeling,fluid structure interaction,and computational modeling for improved patient care
COGNitive Industries for smart MANufacturing (COGNIMAN) (COGNIMAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS, Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Italy,Ireland,France,Germany,Belgium
Call: AI enhanced robotics systems for smart manufacturing (AI, Data and Robotics - Made in Europe Partnerships) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10992302.5
EU funding (EUR): 9484631.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Glass fibre production, precision machining of large parts (e.g. wind turbines), additive manufacturing of medical implants and high-temperature metal production are manufacturing examples with processes that are difficult to automate. The main reasons for the actual labour intensive efforts in these scenarios are lack of full understanding and control over the individual manufacturing steps and the high complexity of the tasks. This has severe impacts on sustainable growth, manufacturing productivity, efficiency and flexibility due to the large amount of unpredictive waste in production and processing time. COGNIMAN is devoted to improving these situations by developing and demonstrating a novel concept of ?digital cognitive smart manufacturing? that will shift the future design of manufacturing processes towards autonomous and predictive manufacturing with improved flexibility, safety and efficiency. This initiative will provide the means to facilitate flexible, resilient, reconfigurable, safe, sustainable, and efficient smart manufacturing by integrating key technologies. They include simulations, digital twins, advanced sensors, machine learning toolbox and cognitive robotics integrated in human-centric modular toolboxes that can be easily adapted to substitute varying manual manufacturing processes. By tackling significant challCOGNIMAN will provide the means to facilitate flexible, resilient, reconfigurable, safe, sustainable, and efficient smart manufacturing by integrating simulation, models, digital twins, sensors, Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning), data processing and analytics, robotics, and autonomous systems in a human-centric modular toolbox that can be easily adapted to new manufacturing processes and environments with the ultimate objective of boosting the European technology and manufacturing sectors competitiveness towards industrial leadership in global markets, as well as to reduce the environmental footprint of manufacturing activities.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,machine learning,social sciences and humanities,collaborative robotics,human robot collaboration,cognitive robotics,sensors,actuators,network of open access pilots