Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities (EDGES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Spain,Germany,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Ecuador,Peru,Colombia,Chile,Brazil,Mexico,United Kingdom,Finland,Belgium,Argentina
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1412857.14
EU funding (EUR): 1389200.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Indigenous knowledges are crucial for coping with current global crises, such as climate change, loss of biocultural diversity and rise of xenophobic nationalisms. This pivotal historical moment requires multi-centred thinking and action, bringing together the multiplicity of Indigenous and academic expertise. Universities and academia are critically important in developing knowledge, education, and policy directives. Consequently, EDGES adopts those significant arenas to respectfully advance innovative, collaborative methodologies and new strategies for the entanglement of Indigenous knowledges in research, teaching and policy-making institutions. While there have been efforts to foster dialogue with Indigenous knowledges, these experiences remain elusive, local and not structurally transformative, as the shortcomings of multiculturalism and interculturality have demonstrated. How can we question the existing frameworks and develop new and effective entanglements of knowledges that draw from different epistemologies? EDGES addresses this question through six different analytical layers with the significant participation of Indigenous academic researchers and the active collaboration of Indigenous intellectuals and experts. To accomplish this endeavour, EDGES creates a future sustainable and disciplinary diverse network of more than 150 researchers from 18 European and American universities, one SME and one NGO. The project contributes to a pluralist and multi-scale approach to knowledge production, research and dissemination through symposiums, workshops, mini-courses, open-access scientific publications, policy recommendations and social media. It will provide critical tools for universities, schools and communities to foster critical dialogue with Indigenous peoples and other cultural minorities by entangling Indigenous knowledges into university curricula and praxis, contributing to the education of future generations, improving policies and science renewal.

Keywords: indigenous peoples,university,south america,gender,ethnohistory,territory,ethnicity,new climate regime,anthropocene,indigenous languages
Tailoring Quantum Matter on the Flatland (TITAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1976126.0
EU funding (EUR): 1976126.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Designer materials are a key research subject in condensed matter physics offering great opportunities to explore emerging new physics and provide pathways to many-body quantum phenomena that are exceedingly difficult to find intrinsically in isolated materials. The key challenge is to retain the individual quantum ground states in the different components in hybrid materials, while simultaneously tuning the strength of the interactions between them. This requires careful nanofabrication and the complexity of such systems makes further progress difficult. In this proposal, I will use vertical heterostructures of van der Waals (vdW) materials as a flexible platform to engineer elusive quantum states of matter. The general goal of this proposal is the experimental realization of two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductors in vdW heterostructures, and to study the resulting emergent phases of matter. Subsequently, I will use external stimuli (magnetic field, temperature, and chemistry, external gate) to manipulate them. I will couple moir? physics with topological superconductivity and show how the moir? is an external factor that allows additional control over the topologically superconducting phase. Finally, I will combine 2D topological superconductors with ferroelectric materials to fabricate nanoscale reprogrammable topological circuits This will allow controlling topological superconductivity via locally applied electric fields in the heterostructure. I will use molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to fabricate high-quality 2D vdW heterostructures and probe the properties of the resulting emergent phases using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (LT-STM) and spectroscopy (STS). The combination of MBE-STM in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) allows me to fabricate extremely clean, atomically well-defined, chemically tunable heterostructures and gives me unprecedented access to their atomic-scale structure and electronic properties.

Keywords: topological superconductor,majorana zero mode,scanning tunneling microscopy,local density of states,two dimensional heterostructure,two dimensional ferromagnet,moir superlattice,quantum materials
SCALED-UP PRODUCTION OF NEXT-GENERATION CARBOHYDRATE-DERIVED BUILDING BLOCKS TO ENHANCE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF A SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN CHEMICALS INDUSTRY (BIONEER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Norway,Ireland,Germany,Italy,Finland,Estonia,Sweden,Slovenia,Poland
Call: Selective, sustainable production routes towards bio-based alternatives to fossil-based chemical building blocks (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9517357.25
EU funding (EUR): 7499999.85
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The platform chemicals sector is currently highly dependent on fossil-fuels. The small volumes of current biobased platform chemicals are reliant on sugar/starch/oil crops which diverts them from food uses and there are also high environmental impacts linked with their land-use and supply cycles. Lignocellulosic feedstocks, particularly residues, are more sustainable but to date the range of chemicals that have been demonstrated at-scale from these has been limited. In particular, there are a range of functionalities associated with fossil-derived platform chemicals that current biobased chemicals cannot replicate. BIONEER addresses this issue by demonstrating production of a new range of carbohydrate-derived building blocks and platform chemicals at TRL6/7. A selection of additional functionalities obtained through carefully controlled optimised modifications and involving both chemical and enzymatic approaches are conferred to the new building blocks that, for the first time at-scale, allow for the mass-market substitution of fossil-derived chemicals in a range of application markets. BIONEER builds on the TRL4/5 advances made in the development of resource and energy-efficient processes for the production of these building blocks in prior projects. The BIONEER consortium and advisory board covers all stages of the value cycle, ranging from the sourcing of sustainable feedstocks to the extraction and modification of biomass fractions, leading to the production of building blocks that are then application tested in the UV-cured-coatings and personal care sectors by industrial partners. Safety and sustainability aspects are integral to BIONEER, which follows, and seeks to improve, the EU’s safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) framework. It is expected, due to the involvement of key technology developers and industrial partners, that the BIONEER technologies will be rapidly commercialised post-project.

Keywords: scaled up production routes,bio based platform chemicals,building blocks,personal care,coatings,packaging
Unraveling the impact of turbulence in Mixed-phase Clouds (MixClouds)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998531.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998531.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mixed-phase clouds—atmospheric complex three-phase systems containing suspended ice particles, supercooled water droplets, and water vapor—are responsible for most of the precipitations reaching the Earth’s surface. In addition, these clouds play a primary role in the planet’s radiative energy budget and the water cycle. Despite their relevance, there is a lack of a basic understanding of the complex hydrodynamics, heat, and mass transfer between the different water components with numerous scientific open questions. In the last decades, many scientific works have shown a significant impact of turbulence in “warm” (ice-free) clouds and “warm” rain formation in enhancing condensation/evaporation of rain droplets and promoting collisions. On the other hand, the role of turbulence in mixed-phase clouds has never been properly quantified; consequently, up to now, this topic has been nearly exclusively a subject pertaining to atmospheric physics rather than fluid dynamics. I want to change this perspective and analyze the rich dynamics of mixed-phase clouds using a combination of theoretical and numerical tools developed for general multiphase flows. MixClouds is a multidisciplinary project aiming to: i) understand the impact of turbulence in mixed-phase cloud microphysics of water hydrometeors, ii) quantify this impact by determining typical ice and water droplet size distributions at given temperature, humidity, and turbulence levels, iii) developing the next generation of numerical tools to couple multiphase turbulent dynamics at different scales, iv) developing novel sub-grid models to parametrize mixed-phase cloud microphysics and test against known atmospheric observations. The final results can potentially generate a ground-breaking impact not only in the areas of turbulent multiphase flows and cloud physics but also in climatology and in all environmental and industrial applications involving suspensions of three-phase flows in the presence of phase changes.

Keywords: turbulence,cloud microphysics,cloud physics,multiphase flows,dns,les
ADVANCED AI BASED META-SEARCH PLATFORM IN PHOTONICS (AdAIMeetOptics)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MeetOptics is a deep-tech start-up founded by Dr. Bárbara Buades and Dr. James Douglas, CEO aMeetOptics is a deep-tech start-up founded by Dr. Bárbara Buades and Dr. James Douglas, CEO and CTO, previously researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and the University of Oxford. It is a disruptive solution, unique in the global market, being the first specialized search engine for real-time photonic components. Thanks to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and neural networks, it allows the global scalability of help and professional and precise technical guidance in this market. The field of photonics is rapidly growing today. There are more than 100,000 optical components with which to manufacture lasers, microscopes or spectrometers, having approximately 30 technical aspects each, crucial to the final performance. Professionals spend weeks and even months to select a single component, exploring a small fraction of suppliers not knowing most of the time what they really need, creating major industry disruptions. MeetOptics will provide a service through AI together with a real-time Meta-Search engine helping professionals match their technologies and helping suppliers and professionals refine their real needs. MeetOptics will shorten out Photonics technology developments time and will improve companies’ throughput. MeetOptics is seeking Women TechEU funding to develop new Advanced AI algorithms, to scale up its database from 40.000 to 200.000 products, validating its responsiveness to market demands from 100.000 test users and saving time and resources to professionals and manufacturers. It is a 9-month project that is expected to start in 2022, the first day after the signature of Grant Agreement, to subsequently go to market at the beginning of 2023. In addition, the Women TechEU mentoring and coaching support represents a great help to validate the business strategy, identify new business multipliers and access new investors and partners internationally.

Keywords: photonics,meta search,deep tech,ai algorithms,optics,optical components,womentech,optical engineers,photonics ecosystem,serverless nosql database,technical market standardization
Fast Additive Manufacturing for Enhanced Photonic Integrated Circuits (FAMEPIC)

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 GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The wide-range deployment of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) is hindered by high costs and design constraints, a large fraction of which is assigned to the packaging process. FAMEPIC will address these head-on. Our breakthrough approach leverages the potential of volumetric grey scale lithography via Two-Photon Polymerization for 3D-print photonic connections between and to PICS. The process enables on-the-fly alignment thanks to the fabrication of a variety of optical components directly onto the PICs’ substrates, realizing fabrication and chip-mounting in a single-step. Such a breakthrough in PIC packaging is of strategic importance. Integrated photonics is a fast-growing market set to cope with future lack of progress in miniaturisation of electronics and with the exponentially increasing demands on optical data loads in the context of data- and tele-communication applications. Our process- and software-driven approach reduces fabrication time by a factor 10 while allowing precise control of optical modes combined with record-low bending radii of less than 10 µm. Building on very promising results obtained in the past 5 years, including impressive performance and functionality of new types of optical components and wire bonds, the project aims to apply our unique knowhow to unsolved integration problems put forward by our numerous industrial and academic partners. FAMEPIC will demonstrate key characteristics (low optical losses, fast design iterations, low production costs) for accelerated photonic integrated circuit prototyping. This will result in new industrial capabilities supporting the whole European ecosystem of Integrated Photonics.
Understanding individual heterogeneity in ageing from stochastic dynamics of sigma factor regulatory network in bacteria (ASNet)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-15
End date: 2024-12-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ageing is controlled at the molecular level via genetic and metabolic pathways. Ageing rates and patterns vary substantially even with fixed genetics and environment. However, molecular mechanisms of ageing generating individual heterogeneity are poorly understood. Stochastic dynamics of gene expression can be a main source of the variation in cellular damage dynamics leading to individual heterogeneity in ageing. The sigma factor regulatory networks constitute the core part of the bacterial gene expression networks and therefore play important role in deciding the fate of bacterial cells. In this project, I focus on exploring the role and interplays of four major sigma factors rpoD, rpoS, rpoH, rpoN in individual E. coli cells. I plan to (1) obtain these sigma factors’ expression dynamics and the demographic fates at individual E. coli cells in microfluidic platforms under fluorescent microscope; (2) process and analyze big image data in an automated manner; (3) develop mathematical models to interpret expression and demographic signals for damage and ageing. I will combine the knowledge and methods from the disciplines of molecular biology, genetics, fluorescent microscopy and microfluidics, machine learning, population and evolutionary dynamics and mathematical modelling to shed light on the link from stochastic expression dynamics in sigma factor regulatory network towards individual variations observed in ageing fates.

Keywords: bacterial ageing,individual heterogeneity,biodemography,evolutionary demography,theoretical biology,mathematical biology,gene networks,sigma factor regulatory network,bacteria
Leveraging Anaerobic Digestion through environmental stresses (LeAD)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Belgium,Poland,Denmark,France,Italy,Türkiye,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3637267.2
EU funding (EUR): 3637267.2
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Effective (organic) waste management and renewable energy supply are essential in our present society, such as meeting targets of the European Green Deal and the Renewable Energy Directive. Anaerobic digestion can tackle both challenges simultaneously, and has been commonly applied for renewable energy recovery in the form of biogas from organic waste. The complex and sensitive microbial interactions to environmental stressors can cause the failure of anaerobic digestion, imposing challenges for innovation. In LeAD, we introduce the microbial niche nexus concept (tuning microbial communities and their metabolic pathways to achieve multidimensional microbial networks) to achieve more resistant/resilient anaerobic digestion systems, thus improving resource recovery from waste sources under stressed conditions. Hence, LeAD aims to train the next generation environmental biotechnologists in order to address key knowledge gaps and develop models and technologies in anaerobic digestion responding to stressed environmental conditions, which will revolutionize resource recovery from waste towards circular bioeconomy and sustainable development. The 14 tailored projects are tailored based on the design-build-test-learn cycle to train the doctoral candidates with systems knowledge to deal with challenges for transiting waste removal towards resource recovery through anaerobic digestion. To train the 14 doctoral candidates via an international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary program, LeAD brings together experts from several disciplines, forming a consortium of eight beneficiaries and five associated partners (including three industries). Through both local and network-wide activities and events, LeAD will educate next-generation talents with competitive transversal skills and capacities both to the academic and non-academic sectors, further profoundly influencing the future bio-economy and society.

Keywords: anaerobic digestion environmental stressors renewable bioenergy circular economy environmental biotechnologists biofilm conductive materials mathematical modelling omics r k selection theory
'Visual and Instrument Take-Off and Landing Maneuvers with EGNSS and Copernicus' (VITOLMINS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Czechia,Italy,Netherlands
Call: EGNSS - Closing the gaps in mature, regulated and long lead markets (HORIZON-EUSPA-2023-SPACE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2869206.26
EU funding (EUR): 2198807.51
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

'Visual and Instrument Take-Off and Landing Maneuvers with EGNSS and Copernicus' Vertiport accessibility in all weather conditions, and the integration of VCA operations at airports, not interfering with already existing traffic (mainly aircrafts), are seen as major elements to be taken into consideration for the success of IAM (Innovative Air Mobility) operations and services. Today EGNSS provides accurate navigation capability, without requiring any specific ground infrastructure, to civil aviation users. Equally, EGNSS will be a key enabler to develop highly accurate VCA flight procedures in both, visual (VMC) and instrument (IMC) metereological conditions: - for busy airports where VCA and aircraft traffic need to be segregated to optimize the airport capacity: highly accurate flight procedures will allow fully independent operations between aircraft and VCA traffics on busy airport, without blocking runway slots reserved for transport aircraft, and vice versa; - for isolated vertiport, heliport, landing location where VCAs will need to be integrated based on current airspace structure, with highly efficient flight paths, minimizing the noise footprint and avoiding most populated areas through higher levels of flexibility. The implementation of these new VCA flight procedures has to take into account the expectations at environmental level, especially regarding the noise footprint reduction. Indeed, these new procedures might be implemented above urban areas and consequently the noise impact is a major aspect to consider, in particular towards public acceptance. In addition, flight efficiency in terms of power consumption should be prioritized to minimize any impact on flight endurance. The current proposal includes the development of low noise flight criteria and capable EGNSS-Copernicus avionics towards the gradual integration of seamless, efficient,and accurate VCA operations at busy airports and other landing locations in all-weather

Keywords: egnss,evtol,flight procedures design,dual frequency multi constellation