Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Understanding the unseen: Function Of CUttlefish polarisation Signalling (FOCUS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-20
End date: 2027-02-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Polarisation information is only accessible to a part of the animal kingdom. Available on land and underwater, it is used in a wide range of behaviours such as navigation, object recognition, foraging, or communication. Polarised information can derive either from the environment or from plant or animal reflective features and, in the latter case, it may be subject to selective pressure. However, the information conveyed by polarisation signals in any species is poorly understood. Among marine animals, cuttlefish are likely to possess the most acute resolution to discriminate angular differences in polarised light (e-vector). Not only do they excel at extracting polarised information but they also possess high-reflectance iridophores stripes on their arms that reflect polarised light. Yet, their functional significance remains uncertain, and the polarisation signals' neural processing is still unidentified. Furthermore, cuttlefish inhabit a wide range of ecological niches significantly varying in turbidity. While early exposure to turbidity affects individuals’ polarisation sensitivity, the role of turbidity in mature adult polarised communication and its impact are still unknown. Nonetheless, the consequences could be severe as turbid oceanic areas are currently expanding along with anthropogenic activity. To reveal the use of light that we cannot see this project will use cutting-edge technology and unfold along three axes. The first axis will use behavioural paradigms to investigate the use and the information content in cuttlefish polarisation reflective patterns. The second axis will evaluate the impact of visual sensory pollution on polarized communication by applying incremental turbidity to the cuttlefish environment. Finally, the third axis will build upon the latest advances in neurobiological technologies to explore the neural processing of polarisation signals.

Keywords: turbidity,polarisation,communication,behavioural ecology,visual ecology,neural processing,cephalopods
Advanced cleantech studies for the enhancement of the research and innovation capacity of the Plovdiv Agricultural University (AU) (ELEMENT) (ELEMENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2484596.25
EU funding (EUR): 2484596.25
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ELEMENT project at the Plovdiv Agricultural University, Bulgaria, represents a notable advance in cleantech and biomass resource efficiency. Key to this initiative is the appointment of an ERA Chair, which will bring significant expertise in applied sciences. The core objective of the project is to stimulate both basic and applied research, with a focus on broadening and enriching the knowledge base in these specific areas. In order to achieve these goals, ELEMENT will establish a new centre of excellence in cleantech and biomass resource efficiency. This centre is expected to optimise the use of existing scientific capabilities, improve the efficiency of innovation generation and application, and facilitate increased multinational cooperation. Through these efforts, the project aims to make a substantial contribution to the field and enhance Bulgaria's scientific standing in Cleantech and biomass resources.

Keywords: cleantech,biomass utilisation,resource efficiency,organic fertilisers,circular economy
Molecules to Circular Energy Generation at Scale (MoCEGS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands,Hungary
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In the energy market, uncertainty shocks such as price fluctuations and policy changes often occur, resulting in top-down negative effects to energy consumers. To promote a more robust, efficient and sustainable European energy economy, the MoCEGS project proposes a multi-level top-down energy planning approach incorporating data-driven process integration, process network analysis and chemometrics as core components. MoCEGS project aims to optimize energy trading, improve system circularity, mitigate uncertainty shocks, and exploit chemical utilization via a unique energy planning framework. The difficulty of developing such a modelling framework is the necessary computational resources and the multidisciplinary expertise involved. The MoCEGS project is planned with high-performance computational facilities and multi-disciplinary training, which also includes a secondment to a different European country. The advantage of proposed approach is that computational time is reduced and also enables high data-resolution. This approach also converts the traditionally linear economy consideration to circular economy consideration via multi-level process integration. The ultimate goal is to link collaborative minds of cross-disciplinary researchers in developing an integrative energy planning framework that will be widely-used to promote energy circularity, address epistemic uncertainty and achieve regional sustainability.

Keywords: energy system analysis,process network synthesis,energy transition,chemometrics
Architecture, Function and Dynamics in Life Sciences (ArchiFun)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Denmark
Call: MSCA COFUND 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-03
End date: 2029-06-02
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2419200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2419200.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Architecture function and Dynamics in Life Sciences (ArchiFun) is an international doctoral programme built within the Arqus European University Alliance. Its aim is to provide a common highly qualified training background to a new generation of researchers in Life Sciences, with a special focus on the relationships between structure, function and dynamics at all levels, from the atoms up to the cells, organisms and ecosystems. ArchiFun DP research topics are related to “Destination 5: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society” of the Horizon Europe Work Programme. ArchiFun will be a successful pilot Pan-European Doctoral Programme, which will implement the vision of the Arqus Alliance towards its completion in 2032. The University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 together with U. Granada, U. Padua, Vilnius U., the Technical U. of Munich and the National Institute of Chemistry of Ljubljana have set up an excellent international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial post-graduate programme. ArchiFun DP will gather excellent supervisors and excellent projects in Integrative Structural and Functional Biology, Biophysical, Biomedical and Life Sciences. ArchiFun will work in synergy with fundamental actors of the European Union other than universities, such as ESRF, the largest research infrastructure, a few components of MOSBRI (Molecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure, a young EU project of medium-size research infrastructures), and 4 small/medium enterprises, which build the creative skeleton of EU. The main objective of ArchiFun DP, as the first real EU DP, is to become a knowledge hub and train responsible new citizens of the world as well as future leaders, giving them the instruments and attitude to excel over and beyond Life Sciences, once back in their own countries or wherever else in the world, whether in academia, public or private sector of activities.

Keywords: knowledge hub doctoral programme integrative structural and functional biology ecology biophysical sciences biomedical sciences life sciences sustainable development goals
Building a space Revolution: Electric Air-breathing Technology for High-atmosphere Exploration (BREATHE)

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: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2344135.0
EU funding (EUR): 2344135.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Airflight and spaceflight gave mankind different perspectives and opened new paths for communication. A gap remains, between 50 km and 250 km of altitude, where the rarefied atmosphere makes it hardly viable to operate with either spacecraft or planes. Air-breathing Electric Rockets (AERs) will allow to close this gap, lowering the altitude of spacecraft operations below 250 km, in the so-called Very Low Earth Orbits (VLEOs). Operations in VLEOs will give radical advantages in terms of orbit accessibility, payload performance, protection from radiations, and end-of-life disposal. AERs combine an intake to collect the residual atmosphere in front of the spacecraft and an electric thruster to ionize and accelerate the atmospheric particles. Such residual gas can be exploited as renewable resource not only to keep the spacecraft on a VLEO, but also to remove the main limiting factor of spacecraft lifetime, i.e., the amount of stored propellant. Several realizations of the AER concept have been proposed, but limited evidence of the concept feasibility is available. The few end-to-end experimental campaigns highlighted the need to improve the AER functional design and the representativeness of simulated atmospheric flows. The difficulty in recreating the VLEO environment in a laboratory limits the data available to validate scaling laws and modelling efforts. The objective of BREATHE is to increase the understanding of air-breathing electric propulsion and to pave the way toward the in-orbit demonstration of the AER concept. With this aim, project activities will focus on: 1) Developing theoretical models and simulation tools, to characterize atmospheric flows and low-temperature plasmas; 2) Merging on-ground testing and virtual simulations, to provide a controlled environment for the characterization of prototypes and the extrapolation to flight conditions; 3) Identifying the main scaling laws governing AERs and, thus, the optimal operating principle and design.

Keywords: electric propulsion,air breathing propulsion,very low earth orbits,vacuum testing
Growing Up with Super-Diversity: The Importance of School Experiences in the Development of Youth’s Inter-Ethnic Attitudes (ORCHESTRA)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As super-diversity becomes an integral part of the modern youth's everyday reality, it is of vital importance for them to learn how to embrace differences, appreciate and value ‘otherness’, and develop positive relations with people of diverse backgrounds. Although the literature suggests that adolescence is an especially crucial period for the development of inter-ethnic attitudes, we still lack a clear understanding of how youth change their inter-ethnic attitudes across this developmental stage and which factors contribute to these changes. To address this important gap in knowledge and go beyond the state of the art, this project will analyze whether youth follow different developmental trajectories of inter-ethnic attitudes across adolescence and provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of school context in shaping these trajectories. The focus of this ambitious project is on attitudes in general, rather than only prejudice, since it will not only find ways to prevent negative outgroup dispositions, but also identify factors that might place youth on positive attitudinal trajectories during this critical developmental period. The project will utilize a mixed-method research design integrating quantitative (i.e., longitudinal large-scale panel data) and qualitative (i.e., semi-structured interviews and citizen science) approaches. The project will not limit its analysis to ethnic majority youth but will also focus on adolescents of various minority backgrounds (including newly arrived Ukrainian refugee adolescents) across different national contexts. New knowledge in this area will make a unique contribution to the theory advancement as well as provide an avenue for developing more personalized and effective programs and interventions aimed to facilitate positive inter-ethnic interactions among youth. The host is the perfect match for the successful realization of the project and provides a highly appropriate environment for the fellow's career growth.

Keywords: inter ethnic attitudes,school context,adolescents,developmental trajectories,citizen science
Visions of economic citizenship in early welfare state France: networks, ideas, and European interwar legacies. (ECOCIT)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Focusing on the intellectual history of the early welfare state, ECOCIT examines three discourses of economic governance of the early French Third Republic: solidarisme, social Catholicism, and revolutionary syndicalism. My innovative research hypothesis is that these traditions emerged from a same late 19th century context, marked by rising tensions between an expanding industrial capitalism and the consolidation of mass democracy. Representing alternative answers to the same set of questions, these discourses not only interacted with each other, but also set the key terms of the later interwar debate on the compatibility between parliamentarism and economic-based forms of citizenship. Two research objectives follow: examining previously neglected interactions between these discourses and, second, mapping the debate in terms of their vision of the relation between welfarism, democracy, and the state, so as to better trace their interwar legacies. Methodologically, I integrate the traditional tools of intellectual history with quantitative methods borrowed from sociology – social network analysis, essential for exploring interactions – and a morphological approach developed in the field of ideology studies, important for mapping the welfare debate. Complementing my previous work on Sorelian syndicalism, the project contributes to a wider research agenda that investigates how late 19th century discourses of economic governance shaped the much more well-known ideological clashes over liberal democracy in the interwar years. A book proposal on this wider theme is among the project’s deliverables. Besides rejuvenating the historiographies of the three discourses (which fail to address the question of interactions) and granting me competence in new research methods, the project allows me to begin tackling a question that is relevant both to welfare state studies and to the history of political thought, allowing me to develop my work towards greater interdisciplinarity.

Keywords: solidarisme,revolutionary syndicalism,social catholicism,french third republic,corporatism,church state cleavage,parliamentarism
A Giant Leap for Keyword Spotting (AGILE-KWS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Denmark,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 286191.36
EU funding (EUR): 286191.36
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Speech technologies like keyword spotting (KWS), which is concerned with the detection of keywords from an audio stream comprising speech, are nowadays in vogue thanks to their integration in many electronic devices in order to comfortably interact with them by means of the voice. Despite all the research progress made over the last decades, the performance of speech technologies is still severely degraded when acoustic distortions like background noise or reverberation are present. This can make these technologies completely unusable for the real-world applications. As a result, this project proposal aims at taking KWS technology forward by researching and developing novel state-of-the-art acoustic distortion-robust methods based on concepts successfully applied to related areas like automatic speech recognition to get a leap of KWS performance in real-world (i.e., noisy) acoustic conditions. This will be achieved while working towards two different and exciting timely goals with high social impact giving an interdisciplinary dimension to this action: 1) the preservation of the NASA’s Apollo mission speech recordings for future generations (during the outgoing phase), and 2) the improvement of hearing-impaired people’s life quality by facilitating voice-based interaction with hearing assistive devices like hearing aids (during the incoming phase).

Keywords: keyword spotting,noise robustness,multi channel speech processing,nasa,apollo missions,hearing aids
HIGH-EFFICIENCY HIGH-POWER LASER BEAMING IN-SPACE SYSTEMS BASED ON SIC (RePowerSiC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Denmark,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: In-space solar energy harvesting for innovative space applications (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4025771.25
EU funding (EUR): 3999997.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

High-power laser transmission (HPLT) is one of the most promising wireless power transfer technologies due to its ability to efficiently transmit energy in space, opening the path to new potential applications. The HPLT uses monochromatic light to transfer energy to a remote system via a laser power converter (LPC). Today, GaAs LPCs possess record efficiencies, with values around 69% at intensities around 11 W/cm2. However, they are limited by a strong decrease in the efficiency with light intensity due to the unavoidable series resistance losses caused by their low energy gap (Egap). RePowerSiC aims to develop a novel high-efficiency laser converter for intensities around 1kW/cm2, which will create a breakthrough in HPLT. The project tackles current HPLT limitations using two strategies: i) introducing new materials with higher energy gaps and ii) developing novel LPC architectures. RePowerSiC is based on silicon carbide (SiC) poly types with Egap > 2.3 eV (50% higher than for GaAs) and on innovative device architectures with Rs~10-4 Ohm cm2 (>10 times larger than GaAs). This revolutionary technology seeks to: i) obtain a power converter with an efficiency > 80%, ii) increase the power density transferred more than 1 order of magnitude when compared to the current technology, and iii) the development of a green material manufacturing technology for eco-friendlier and cheaper devices. RePowerSiC project offers a paradigm shift transferring power in the order of kilowatts or higher thanks to its scalability. The larger power density will allow to reduce the LPC surface and the battery size, or even remove it completely. This high-risk/high-gain technology offers new disruptive solutions to power remote systems, being of great interest for satellites, landers, rovers, and in-space energy transmission for innovative applications. It also creates a new technology avenue in SiC materials and opens new domains of application.

Keywords: power converters,silicon carbide,wireless energy transmission,laser remote transmission,efficiency limits,high power density,advanced materials,green technology,innovative technology