Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Earth Observation Multi-mission federation layer (DOMINO-E)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Poland,Austria,Latvia,Germany,Spain
Call: End-to-end Earth observation systems and associated services (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3323366.63
EU funding (EUR): 2425270.37
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The DOMINO-E project, proposed by a consortium of European organisations, including scientific institutes and SMEs and led by Airbus Defence and Space, aims at solving the key challenge of availability and reactivity of earth observations from space, by enabling multi-mission accessibility on a scalable and automated way. The implementation of a multi-mission/multi-sensor federation layer allows the end-user to address a variety of acquisition assets using scheduling and optimization algorithms. The orchestration between the users’ patrimonial missions and the third party missions is based on reactivity, persistence, precision and costs criteria, while user experience is improved thanks to cognitive assistants. The challenge is to overcome the current technological, architectural and economical roadblocks of existing mission ground segments: mono-mission architectures, un-harmonized interfaces between different ground segments, inexistent or crude multi-mission collaborative coverage and dispatch services. DOMINO-E consists of designing, analysing and modelling the multi-mission federation layer based on users’ requirements and is supported by demonstrations of added value services. A market analysis is performed to assess the commercial perspectives of multi-mission federation approach in terms of client acceptance in sharing assets, industry’s make or buy strategy and SME capability to build catalogues of multi-mission services. This innovative federation layer supports the change of space industry paradigm from instrumental push to end-client vertical needs pull and allows the EU space industry to embrace the emerging data driven space market. In such, DOMINO-E contributes to European non-dependence for the development of Earth-observation technologies and foster European competitiveness by supporting SMEs in developing multi-mission services agnostic to the end-to-end or ground segment systems integrators.
Leaky-wave focused Ultrasound through Metamaterial ENgineering (LUMEN) (LUMEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499967.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499967.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a promising non-invasive technology capable of targeting specific brain regions to treat, among others, movement disorders such as essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease tremor. Yet, its effectiveness is currently limited by the excitation of leaky Lamb waves, which radiate energy at arbitrary angles in the brain, causing undesired aberrations. To mitigate these effects, the state-of-the-art technology for tFUS relies on patient-tailored aberration compensation strategies that take advantage of more invasive techniques, such as MRI guidance and X-Rays, making tFUS not accessible for all patients, expensive, and not readily available for small-scale laboratories. LUMEN addresses these challenges by dressing the patient with acoustic metasurfaces, engineered structures designed to manipulate wave propagation. Instead of compensating for aberrations a posteriori, this project leverages acoustic metasurfaces to control the leaky-wave radiation mechanism at the source, creating functional devices able to focus ultrasound without the need for more invasive and complex correction strategies, thereby revolutionizing the focusing mechanism of tFUS. This approach not only aims to make tFUS more affordable, but also enhances the ability of tFUS to reach peripherical regions of the brain that are typically hard to access and provides a focusing mechanism effective across diverse skull geometries, making it suitable to treat different patients. The outcomes of this research have the potential to transform the treatment landscape for millions suffering from tremor disorders, neuropathic pain, cancer-related pain, while also advancing the fields of wave physics, medical imaging, and therapeutic technology. Achieving these goals could lead to more inclusive, non-invasive therapeutic options, greatly improving patients' quality of life and reducing healthcare costs globally.

Keywords: phononic crystals acoustic metamaterials leaky waves time varying media transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation
Scaling Minima ultra-low energy computing technology to make intelligent wireless devices energy efficient (MINIMA EDA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3497500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2448250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Number of wireless devices is growing rapidly. Today, there are 30 billion wireless devices in circulation, like our smartphones. However, by 2035, there will be 1 trillion of these wireless devices in circulation. Nearly each of these devices has a brain called a microprocessor. Unlike brains, their energy efficiency leaves a lot to be desired. This is why Minima exists. We make microprocessors consume radically less energy using our ultra-low computing technology. This makes wireless intelligent devices energy efficient. Our patented technology consists of hardware & software components that are directly integrated into microprocessors prior to manufacturing. This enhances performance & energy efficiency of wireless devices that power the Internet of Everything, that are often tasked with collecting & analysing data directly at the source. This allows us to enter the €6.3 billion semiconductor market and change the market’s energy consumption from the inside out.

Keywords: microprocessors,internet of things,embedded pervasive systems,integrated circuits,intelligent wireless devices,internet of everything
LEAF: heaL thE plAnet's Future (LEAF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 302250.0
EU funding (EUR): 302250.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Starting from the encouraging results of the LEAF (heaL thE plAnet's Future) project in 2022 and 2023 NIGHT edition, we are now proposing a step forward to increase the awareness on the importance of research and innovation, to improve trust in the researcher's work by effectively involving the society in experimenting science through 900 events. All activities will cover EU Green Deal topics (Farm to Fork, Biodiversity, Circular economy, Zero-pollution, toxic-free environments, Health & Wellbeing, Energy and resource efficient buildings, secure energy, sustainable and smart mobility). The main goal is to make science accessible and fun to everyone, thus generating a practical understanding of how to cope with climate change issues. The LEAF project will be developed in 20 cities in Italy, involving 43 partners, 6 of which as Associated, with a series of events happening during the last week of September 2024 and 2025 thus including the NIGHT. LEAF 24-25 project will include a series of specific activities dedicated to schools to permit researchers to engage with teachers and pupils on challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, health and other issues related to the European Commission priorities such as the European Green Deal. In particular, in this edition we will reinforce the experience at school involving institutes located all around Italy and in particular in small towns with difficulties in reaching NIGHT events. First year will be devoted to fulfill the achievements reached in last editions while in 2025 our main goal will be the improvement of project KPIs thanks to the validation of the Researchers@Schools activity. The overall result will be a relevant increase in the awareness of why and how the researcher's work is relevant for the benefit of our current and future planet, as well as effectively encouraging young people in embarking in scientific careers by generating a real impact on science.

Keywords: green deal,climate change,science communication,outreach,young people
CertiFOX: Certified First-Order Model Expansion (CertiFOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999928.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999928.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The field of combinatorial optimization is concerned with developing generic tools that take a declarative problem description and automatically compute an optimal solution to it. Often, users specify their problem in a high-level, human-understandable formal language. This specification is first translated into a low-level specification a solver understands and subsequently solved. Thanks to tremendous progress in solving technology, we can now solve a wide variety of NP-hard (or worse) problems in practice. Moreover, these tools are increasingly used in real-life applications, including high-value and life-affecting decisions. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that they be completely reliable. The central objective of this proposal is to develop methodologies and tools with which we can guarantee with 100% certainty that the right problem has been solved correctly. To achieve this ambitious objective, I will build on recent breakthroughs in proof logging, where solvers do not just output an answer, but also a proof (or certificate) of correctness. However, a major limitation of current techniques is that correctness is not proven relative to the human-understandable specification written by the user, but relative to the low-level translation that the solver receives, meaning that there is no guarantee that the solver is solving the original problem. In this project, I will investigate end-to-end guarantees of correctness. When successful, this will have a major impact on the way combinatorial optimization software is developed, evaluated, and used: the proofs produced will enable (1) debugging, since proofs contain detailed information about where bugs occurred, (2) auditability, since proofs can be stored and checked by an independent third party, and even (3) rigorous evaluation of algorithmic improvements (I, for instance, have first-hand experience of winning a solver competition due to a bug that would have been caught easily using proof logging).

Keywords: combinatorial optimization,proof logging
Hypothalamic neuronal plasticity drives response to social experience (SOCIALPLAST)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ability to learn and adapt in response to diverse social experiences is fundamental for animal survival. While key defensive actions against social threats such as flight or fight are innate, previous social experience can guide the selection of the appropriate response to minimize future harm, such as the development of social avoidance following social defeat. The ventromedial hypothalamus is a key brain structure in the innate defensive system, and activity in its ventrolateral part (VMHvl) can mediate both social aggression and escape, yet how previous experience influences hypothalamic social threat processing is not understood. Recent evidence has shown that social defeat can promote functional reorganization of neural activity in this structure, but the mechanisms of such plasticity have not been studied. In this project proposal, I plan to systematically investigate experience-dependent synaptic and neuronal plasticity in the VMHvl. First, I will use state-of-the-art in vitro electrophysiological techniques in mice to comprehensively explore changes in synaptic transmission in this region following social defeat. Second, I will leverage a recently developed calcium imaging method combined with optogenetics to follow and manipulate synaptic plasticity in the freely behaving mouse. Together with ethological behavior quantification techniques, this approach will allow me to identify and causally test the in vivo functional consequences of defeat-induced plasticity in the VMHvl. If successful, this project will provide novel insights into the synaptic and circuit basis of hypothalamic adaptations to social defeat. Gaining a mechanistic and physiological understanding of neuroadaptations following social experiences will offer new targets for therapeutic manipulation of maladaptive responses to social adversity that underlie many psychiatric disorders and pose a significant public health challenge.

Keywords: social behavior,synaptic plasticity,hypothalamus,electrophysiology,calcium imaging
ETHME: The Ethics of Mortality Measurement (ETHME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There are around 55 million deaths in the world each year. How should we evaluate these deaths? Diseases and injuries give rise to both morbidity and mortality. Until the 1950s, epidemiologists were concerned with counting the number of deaths. Since then, evaluative measures concerned with the disvalue of death have grown. In parallel, there has been a debate in analytic philosophy since the 1970s that concerns whether death can harm those who die. The philosophers in this latter debate have not focused on deaths at a population level. In all societies, the demand for health care exceeds the available resources. However, to prioritize scarce resources in a consistent and meaningful manner, we need reliable health measurements to begin with. In society, we use considerable resources to prevent deaths, and the majority of the global disease burden springs from mortality rather than morbidity. Thus, it is remarkable that so few resources are used to provide theoretically robust death measurements. People's attitudes toward death are naturally ambivalent. On the one hand, death is the worst thing that can happen to us. On the other hand, death is nothing to us. Sophisticated methods have been developed to measure morbidity. Such work remains for mortality. There have been almost no cross-fertilizations between epidemiology and philosophy regarding mortality measurement. Accordingly, ETHME announces the ethics of mortality measurement as a novel and developing field within the philosophy of epidemiology. The core objectives of ETHME are to (a) develop and refine the understanding of the nature of the harm of death, (b) reconcile the evaluation of deaths in summary measures of population health with the most promising accounts of the harm of death, and (c) develop a theoretical grounding for evaluating procreation in future individuals. One work package will be devoted to each objective (WP1–WP3).
Deformation and Recrystallization Mechanisms in Metals (D-REX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Combining strength and formability, metals are indispensable for modern life. Their properties firmly depend on processing, typically involving a series of plastic deformation steps that introduce defects deep below the surface. Our current understanding of the evolution of defect structures is phenomenological, and strongly limited by characterization tools being either limited to surfaces or not available at deformation levels relevant for metal processing. D-REX strives to radically improve our understanding of structure-property relations in plastic deformation and thermal annealing of metals by visualising and quantifying the structural dynamics in 3D with 100nm resolution – within bulk metals. This will be achieved by developing a unique multi-scale full-field X-ray diffraction microscope enabling time-resolved 3D strain and orientation mapping. Using pink beam diffraction imaging, the time resolution of the microscope is expected to be ~100× better than the existing diffraction imaging methods. The unique experimental results will be used to guide and validate crystal plasticity and phase field models. D-REX opens a new way to address the unresolved questions of how metals get stronger during deformation and how this affects the annealing processes. For the first time, industrially-relevant deformation levels can be quantitatively and systematically mapped in real-life conditions. This will not only lead to a new scientific understanding, but also provide unprecedented access to critical material parameters from the bulk that will refine material models. More broadly, the novel multi-scale methodology and systematic approach of D-REX will be a game-changer for studies of many hierarchically-ordered crystalline materials.

Keywords: plastic deformation,dislocation structures,recovery,recrystallization,annealing,x ray diffraction,x ray imaging
Construction in the Formal Sciences (C-FORS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2023956.0
EU funding (EUR): 2023956.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The notion of construction figures centrally in mathematics and other formal sciences. An idealized, infinitary constructional approach is successfully applied to set theory, which provides the foundation for contemporary mathematics. C-FORS aims to develop new, similarly groundbreaking applications of the constructional approach. This will be the largest concerted effort to date to develop a foundation for the study of intensional entities, e.g. propositions and properties, where a variety of paradoxes still arise, with no agreed-upon solution—nearly a century after set theory received its proper foundation. However, infinitary constructions are poorly understood, and there is no known way to apply the constructional approach to intensional entities. C-FORS aims to overcome these limitations by developing a critical but liberal conception of construction inspired by my increasingly popular potentialist metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics, and by using two theoretical tools developed by me, inspired by constructive mathematics, but only recently generalized so as to overcome various limitations and thus permit novel applications. C-FORS makes a range of groundbreaking applications of these tools, thus achieving a lasting impact on several disciplines. In philosophy, I provide radical alternatives to the currently fashionable use of typed languages and exotic non-classical logics. In the foundations of mathematics, I develop a pioneering constructional approach that retains the strength of set theory, while incorporating insights from the constructive tradition. I launch a rigorous approach to constructed entities in formal ontology. In formal semantics, I develop novel theories of propositions and properties, and a new logical foundation for the study of nominalization and group formation. Overall, C-FORS offers pioneering interdisciplinary research where philosophy and logic yield—and are themselves constrained by—novel applications to the formal sciences.

Keywords: infinity,predicativity,intuitionistic logic,properties,propositions,proper classes,intensionality,hyperintensionality,paradox,grounding,nominalization,group formation,formal ontology