Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Environmental TRANSFORmations in the context of the last hunter-gatherers and first agropastoral groups of the MEDiterranean Alps (TRANSFORMED)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The transition period from the last hunter-gatherers to the first agropastoral groups marked a significant turning point in how humans understood the landscape and their relationship with environmental processes. In this context, the Mediterranean Alps played a key role as a natural corridor connecting the Mediterranean to Central Europe, making the region a hotspot for human mobility and cultural exchange. Notably, this area is highly sensitive to climate fluctuations, and some of these environmental changes may have influenced mobility and resource availability, shaping the cultural dynamics of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. TRANSFORMED aims to deepen our understanding of human-environment relationships during this period through a high-resolution interdisciplinary approach. By integrating newly generated decadal-scale palaeoecological and hydroclimatic data with existing environmental and archaeological records into a common calibration model, we will precisely assess the timing of natural and cultural events and help bridge regional gaps in the archaeological record. Comparing the timing of environmental and cultural transformations is essential for understanding how past and modern societies have responded to the challenges of climate change. By examining major cultural shifts within the dynamic landscapes of the past, TRANSFORMED will provide valuable long-term perspectives into human adaptations to environmental changes. Insights from this critical period when humans emerged as a powerful force of change within the Earth system are crucial for understanding and mitigating both the environmental and societal effects of climate change.

Keywords: palaeoenvironment,mesolithic,neolithic,mediterranean alps,ecological transformations
The Role of Integrated Fire Management on Climate Change Adaptation for Ecosystem Services in Tropical and Subtropical Regions (FIRE-ADAPT)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,France,Mexico,Brazil,Italy,Colombia,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Argentina,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1302457.14
EU funding (EUR): 1278800.0
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

In the last few years, extreme wildfires have risen to international prominence, with widespread media coverage and political attention triggered by devastating fires in many places of the world, e.g. France, Greece, Italy, Brazil (the Amazon), and California. Such fires get out of control and devastate large areas causing unprecedented losses on biodiversity, emitting huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing human losses and smoke-related diseases, and ravaging entire neighbourhoods, villages, or even towns. Climate change is among the key drivers of such wildfires. At the same time, wildfire regimes have been profoundly modified by direct (e.g. land-use change, fire suppression policies) and indirect (e.g. climate change) anthropogenic actions. Integrated Fire Management (IFM or sustainable fire management) has been identified by the international fire community as one of the key solutions to address the problem, requiring an interdisciplinary approach. IFM includes sets of actions aimed at reducing the extent and severity of undesired wildfires while maintaining (or improving) biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. FIRE-ADAPT aims at addressing the full diversity of fire types and their different contexts by bringing together expertise from across regions from the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America for the purpose of improving our understanding of the role of IFM for wildfire prevention and for enhancing natural and cultural ecosystem services. The consortium has set up six Study Hubs in Mediterranean countries (Spain, France, Italy) and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina), to facilitate science-practitioner exchanges and to enhance collaborations and networking. The ultimate intention of FIRE-ADAPT is to contribute to improving knowledge on what practices of IFM can enhance carbon abatement and nature-based solution potential, as well as wildfire risk mitigation, in culturally just and meaningful ways.

Keywords: climate change,carbon dynamics,wildfires,mediterranean,biodiversity conservation,cultural services,wellbeing
Ultralow-power logic-in-memory devices based on ferroelectric two-dimensional electron gases (UPLIFT)

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: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Microelectronics components are at the core of our modern economies. The corresponding global market is exponentially growing at an annual pace of 10-15% and should reach the trillion $ by 2030. The techno-economic framework that has been driving this industry is based on Boolean logic, von Neumann architectures (with separated computing and memory units) and CMOS transistors. It is pictured by the famous Moore’s law, describing the continuous shrinking of transistor size. For years, Dennard’s scaling law of the power consumption provided a path to shrinking such transistors, while keeping the power density constant. However, as technological nodes become today as small tens of atoms, we are hitting fundamental limits, leading to heating and preventing this downscaling,. Simultaneously, the power consumption of information and communication technologies (ICT) represents nearly 5% of the world’s energy consumption. To mitigate these civilizational issues, new devices and architectures for ICT must be invented. The consensus reached by the microelectronics community is that to reduce power consumption (i) memory and logic units must be brought together and (ii) the inherent nonvolatile properties of ferroic materials are a valuable asset to avoid the static power consumption. UPLIFT proposes to develop the POC of a non-volatile, spin-based, ultralow power (aJ) logic-in-memory component, coined FESO, which harnesses the ferroelectric control of spin-charge interconversion discovered within the ERC FRESCO. We will pattern devices down to the 100 nm scale and aim for 100 mV output voltages, 1 ns operation speed and endurance >10^9 cycles. UPLIFT will benefit from a well-defined path towards the commercial exploitation, including a decade-long collaboration between the PI and two researchers from Spintec in Grenoble, with whom the PI is launching a start-up company that will exploit the patent portfolio filed within FRESCO. This POC project will serve both as a support and a propeller for the start-up, to be created in Q1 2024.
DEcoding Metabolic Effectors in plant sTress Response and Acclimation (DEMEtRA)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-03
End date: 2025-03-02
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The European Commission aims at promoting agricultural innovation while preserving biodiversity and without increasing arable land surface. Understanding how plants respond to stress is therefore vital to design new, improved agricultural solutions that meet these requirements. General and conserved plant stress responses to pathogens rely on systemic propagation of Calcium (Ca2+) signalling and reactive oxygen species (ROS) from the site of attack to distant organs. An unexpected, essential link between primary metabolism (i.e. NADP/H production), long-distance Ca2+ signals and ROS propagation was recently brought to light, thus opening a new line of fundamental research (i.e. the metabolic regulation of plant stress signalling) and suggesting that modulation of NADP metabolism can boost plant defences. DEMEtRA (DEcoding Metabolic Effectors in plant sTress Response and Acclimation) aims at obtaining a deep characterization of this metabolic regulation of plant signalling in response to bacterial pathogens by combining biochemical and cutting-edge imaging techniques. This project will produce a thorough characterization of the NADP/H production mechanism and of the perturbations of long-distance signalling caused by a shortage of NADP/H. Finally, it will allow engineering new solutions to improve plant stress responses against pathogens, by acting on NADP/H metabolism. Thus, DEMEtRA will quickly advance fundamental research on plant stress signalling and guide biotechnological applications to improve conserved, natural defence mechanisms in crop plants.

Keywords: arabidopsis,calcium signalling,nadp,ros,imaging,calmodulin
implemented SynergIes, data sharing contracts and Goals between transport modes and AIR tansportation (SIGN-AIR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Serbia,Greece,France,Belgium
Call: Fast Track Innovation and Uptake Multi-modality and Passenger Experience (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5089725.01
EU funding (EUR): 3562807.51
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

SIGN-AIR will develop and pilot a new platform for an orchestrated sharing of data in multimodal traveling. The platform will provide the means for Transport Service Providers (TSPs) to register, reach Data Sharing Agreements with other TSPs and manage their contractual relationships. While the SIGN-AIR platform will only manage the contractual aspects through the types of data offered by the TSPs, the TSPs will continue managing their data and that of their customers. As an added value, the SIGN-AIR platform will provide a number of advantages and services to the stakeholders of multimodal travel for the B2B2C chain through the analysis and exploitation of the contracts: (i) templates for contracts to simplify the legal management, (ii) electronic management and information provision about each specific contract, (iii) routing information for Travel Companions (TCs) with enriched information about the specific contracts for their traveler customers, and (iv) facilitation of single ticketing through the comprehensive understanding of the contracts and the data managed, among others. The whole concept will be moved from TRL2, reached by the mother project SYN-AIR, to TRL 7. This will be done with an intensive evolution of the software and a continuous evaluation and piloting of the software with different important stakeholders that are present in the consortium. The development of the software will generate a Minimum Valuable Product in the first 12 months of the project and, in parallel, it will be piloted and improved through continuous development of the technologies in the following 21 months, reaching a TRL7 platform in month 33 of the project. The partnership is formed by knowledgeable teams in the areas of IT, legal and mobility; including airports TSPs and Transport Authorities on the piloting side.

Keywords: contracts,data flow diagrams,multimodality,data sharing
Integrable Probability (IProbability)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1083750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1083750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project is devoted to integrable probability. The key feature of the field is the prominent role of methods and ideas from other parts of mathematics (such as representation theory, combinatorics, integrable systems, and others) which are applied to stochastic models. This philosophy often leads to very precise limit theorems which seem to be inaccessible by more standard probabilistic techniques. The proposed research is a study of a variety of probabilistic models. Specific examples include the single- and multi-species asymmetric simple exclusion process, a six vertex model, random walks on Hecke, Temperley-Lieb, and Brauer algebras, random tilings models, and random representations. The suggested methodology consists of a range of probabilistic, algebraic, analytic, and combinatorial techniques. The project involves two circles of questions. The first one focuses on random walks on algebras and their applications to interacting particle systems. The specific objectives include studying the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang type fluctuations for the multi-species asymmetric simple exclusion process, computing limit shapes and fluctuations around them for a general six vertex model, introducing and studying integrable three-dimensional analogues of a six vertex model, and developing a general theory of random walks on algebras. The second one focuses on asymptotic representation theory. This area deals with the probabilistic description of representations of “big” groups. Such questions turn out to be related to a plethora of other probabilistic models, in particular, to models of statistical mechanics. The goals of this part include bringing this interplay to a new level, developing asymptotic representation theory of quantum groups, and studying random tilings in random environment. The unifying idea behind these questions is a systematic use of precise relations for the study of asymptotic behavior of stochastic models which are out of reach of any other techniques.

Keywords: asymptotic representation theory,exclusion processes,random walks on algebras,six vertex model,random tilings
Tau-E Breakthrough (TauEB): Infinite clean energy through fusion power to the grid & beyond (TauEB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Ukraine,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2944905.0
EU funding (EUR): 2944905.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Nuclear fusion could provide humankind with an unlimited supply of clean, safe and sustainable energy, which would mean forgetting about the dire effects of fossil fuels. However, after almost a century of billion-dollar investments in nuclear fusion research, continuous fusion reactions have not been achieved yet due to the extremely challenging scientific and technical barriers that must be overcome. The performance of a fusion power plant is fundamentally dependent on the quality of confinement. For the confinement to be effective, it must satisfy two crucial criteria: 1) Stability and 2) The ability to maintain plasma over time with negligible leakage. Building upon the revolutionary mirror fusion concept by Novatron, which inherently stabilizes the plasma, the Tau-E Breakthrough project (TauEB) is designed to provide essential plasma plugs. These plugs are crucial for confining the plasma over an extended period, making it scalable to a fusion reactor that generates energy at a competitive Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). This radically new design will make it possible to bring nuclear fusion technology to the commercial stage in record time, thus changing our lives not only by creating a multi-billion euro market, but above all by providing great social, environmental, economic and geopolitical benefits. To successfully achieve the project’s goals and maximise the impact of its results, we have brought together a multidisciplinary consortium combining the deep knowledge of KTH, KIPT and UKAEA in different complementary fields of nuclear fusion research (magnetic confinement, plasma stability, advanced simulation methods, radio frequency plasma heating, ponderomotive plugging and diagnostics), NFG’s revolutionary Novatron concept and its outstanding technological implementation skills (system design, mechanical design, instrumentation and plasma diagnostics), and IE’s outstanding innovation and exploitation management advice.

Keywords: fusion energy,plasma magnetic confinement plasma magnetohydrodynamic stability radio frequency heating plasma diagnostics,energy confinement time,ambipolar plugging,ponderomotive plugging
REAL TIME MOLECULAR IMAGER WITH UNSURPASSED RESOLUTION (RETIMAGER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3126347.5
EU funding (EUR): 3126347.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last decades, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has been firmly established as the predominant molecular imaging technique due to its unmatched sensitivity and capability to address many different metabolic processes. However, there is huge room for improvement, as current clinical PET scanners are limited to spatial resolutions higher than 2.5 mm and temporal resolutions longer than 5 seconds. This hampers applications of PET for preclinical research and clinical diagnosis in small tissues or lesions and precludes real-time reconstruction of metabolic images. RETIMAGER is a proposal for a molecular imaging system with a ten-fold spatial and temporal improvement on the reconstructed image with respect to current PET devices. This will not only boost the quantitative performance, but it will enable new applications in cardiology, vascular oncology, oncology, neurology, and other areas. We will achieve this milestone by developing smart radiation detectors with non-conventional geometries that combine the advantages of both pixelated and monolithic detectors, the two dominant and seemingly incompatible technologies employed in PET scanners. Our new scanner will provide 0.25 mm pixel resolvability with time frames as short as 0.01 sec. By aggregating these blocks in a unique gantry self-adapting to the geometry of the field-of-view, RETIMAGER will achieve an unprecedented increase in sensitivity and in in vivo real-time imaging with submillimeter resolution. We will pair it with high-throughput data processing and AI tools to assess with a single tracer both perfusion and metabolism in preclinical and clinical models. In the long run, RETIMAGER’s faster, lower dose, and less invasive molecular imaging technology will become a game-changer for understanding disease processes by unveiling new accurate image-based quantitative biomarkers, taking scientific and healthcare stakeholders a step closer to personalized precision medicine.

Keywords: ultrafast image reconstruction high resolution molecular imaging real time positron emission tomography radiation detector design
Borel combinatorics and Approximations (BORCA)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: United States,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196101.9
EU funding (EUR): 196101.9
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Infinite graphs and their combinatorics model large real-life networks, like the internet, but are also an essential tool to understand mathematical structures that are intrinsically infinite, like the geometry of the Euclidean spaces. The project concerns research in descriptive set theory and its interactions with measure theory, dynamical systems, graph limits and theoretical computer science through the study of regularity properties of combinatorial problems on infinite graphs. These considerations played a fundamental role in the spectacular results on the circle squaring problem and form a new field, measurable graph theory. In the last years, an explosion of activity has brought new exciting ideas to this field: formal connections with the theory of distributed computing and random processes, the notion of asymptotic dimension from geometric group theory, or a generalization of the determinacy method of Marks. These ideas have already found several groundbreaking applications and are highly promising in gaining new perspectives on old problems. We propose to employ, combine and further develop these methods with particular emphasis on applications to the study of central questions of descriptive set theory, that is, Borel hyperfiniteness, equidecomposition problems, or the abstract classification problem, as well as on finding new links and applications to classical graph theory, in particular, to algorithmic aspects of partition problems on finite graphs. The fellowship will be carried out over 26 months: 14 at UCLA, 6 at MU and 6 at Leipzig University. The supervisors, Itay Neeman at UCLA and Dan Kráľ, currently at Masaryk University and moving to Leipzig University in April 2025, are leading figures in their respective fields of interest, descriptive set theory and combinatorics. Together with the expertise of the fellow, the project promises a unique potential for bridging these fields, solving deep problems in both areas, developing the fellow's research profile and bringing the contemporary trends of descriptive set theory to Central Europe.

Keywords: descriptive set theory,graph theory,measurable graph combinatorics,borel graph,countable borel equivalence relation,graph limits,extremal combinatorics