Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The OrigINs of FINancial FragilITY (INFINITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2057919.0
EU funding (EUR): 2057919.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Banking crises are recurrent phenomena. They lead to large declines in economic activity and share two features: i) they are often triggered by runs, i.e., sudden withdrawals by depositors; and ii) they follow episodes of deregulation and/or lax supervision. The 2023 banking turmoil in the U.S. is no exception. After the relaxation of prudential rules in 2018, three midsized banks faced distress as a result of runs, leading to three of the largest failures in history. Motivated by these events, the proposal seeks to enhance our understanding of the occurrence of runs, the process leading to deregulation and the effectiveness of supervision. It is organized in three projects, one theoretical [T] and two empirical [E]. 1) Runs in modern banking [T]. The project builds a new framework to study why banks offer demandable debt, even if it creates run risk. Based on some stylized facts, it departs from the standard assumptions of competitive deposit market, risk averse investors and fully leveraged banks. The results will advance our knowledge on the role of capital for financial fragility, monetary policy transmission and central bank credibility. 2) The political economy of banking deregulation [E]. The link between crises and deregulation prompts the question of whether banks influence regulation. The project studies this issue in the context of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA). Its goal is to better understand banks’ influence on politicians and the channels through which this influence is exerted. 3) Supervision with style: The impact of supervisors on bank behavior [E]. An important question is the extent to which the implementation of banking regulation through supervisory oversight has a role per se in fostering financial stability. Exploiting a unique and novel dataset, the project investigates whether and how supervisory intensity and individual supervisors’ characteristics matter for the effectiveness of supervision.

Keywords: financial crises,bank runs,deregulation,lobbying,supervision
Advanced Technologies for Laser Applications in Space (ATLAS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499275.07
EU funding (EUR): 2499275.07
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main goal of this ERA Chair project proposal is to develop new capacities in the field of Space-borne Laser Research and Applications in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, namely at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) - HiLASE Centre, Czech Republic, by establishing an excellent international scientist, Professor of Space Systems Engineering Massimiliano Vasile, as an ERA Chair and a leader of new research programme on Advanced Technologies for Laser Applications in Space. The new research group will focus on areas of laser use for space sustainability. The new research group will focus on areas of laser use for space sustainability. By preparing specific research and applications strategy, roadmaps, feasibility studies and project proposals in the above-mentioned application area, the ATLAS project will cut across all the aspects of the ERA Chair in transferring knowledge. At the same time, the project will help to popularize Space-born Laser Research and Applications to broad public. As the chosen research area cuts across two complex fields, laser science and space engineering, the Czech Republic’s scientific heritage in laser science, concentrated mainly at the HiLASE Centre, presents an unique opportunity for the development of laser space applications. The research at HiLASE focuses on the next generation of high-power diode pumped solid state lasers. HiLASE laser systems bring a unique combination of high pulse energy, high repetition rate and high efficiency; they are significantly more powerful, more compact, more stable, and more easily maintained than those driven by old-fashioned flash lamp technology. It all makes HiLASE the perfect engine for pushing even more the frontier of laser technology beyond its current limits while aiming for space-born lasers. The ATLAS project will therefore open new opportunities for HiLASE and the Czech Republic to play a leading role in the development of space laser technologies.

Keywords: space sustainability,space safety,space traffic management,high power lasers,lidar,remote sensing,photonics
AI-based wearable sensors for continuous monitoring of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (SensCare)

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: Türkiye
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in Europe, with a total of 3.9 million deaths yearly, accounting for 45% of all deaths. Diabetes is another widely spread disease affecting 60 million people in the EU (10% of the total population). Diabetes is the major cause of death in the age of 20-79. Also, Europe has the highest number of children with type-1 diabetes compared to other regions, with approximately 140,000 diagnosed children, and it has one of the highest prevalence rates of diabetes in children, with 21,600 new cases per year. Frequent glucose monitoring is critical for keeping blood glucose levels within a specific range to prevent potential cardiometabolic disease progression and pathophysiological changes. Current standard healthcare systems are passive and reactive, which deal with issues, incidents, and accidents after the opportunity to prevent damage to the patient has passed. With reactive healthcare, doctors provide treatment once patients contact them after developing noticeable symptoms. Actions are taken after things go wrong and sometimes after the opportunity to save the patient has passed. Besides, economically, reactive safety measures are costly in the long term. Moreover, this routine fails to prevent the onset of health conditions by prioritizing diagnostics and treatment. SensAI aims to tackle the limitations of centralized and reactive healthcare systems by taking a proactive approach using tailored, non-invasive, and personalized solutions (wearable monitoring devices) specifically developed for diabetes and CVDs without affecting peoples’ daily routines.

Keywords: artificial intelligence machine learning cardiovascular diseases monitoring diabetes monitoring for cardiac and glucose monitoring
Metropolitan Inclusivity in Climate And Digital Transitions (MICAD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Hungary,Moldova, Republic of,Albania,Spain,Poland,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Multilevel governance in times of digital and climate transitions (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2779188.75
EU funding (EUR): 2779188.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Metropolitan Inclusivity in Climate and Digital Transitions (MICAD), is an innovative project dedicated the creation of a framework for inclusive metropolitan planning focusing on climate and digital transitions. The primary objective is to advance inclusive metropolitan planning, a goal that will be realized through the creation of a toolkit for local and regional authorities. The effectiveness of this toolkit will be demonstrated with the elaboration of five roadmaps for digital or climate transition in different cities with diverse backgrounds, accompanied by the formulation of policy recommendations to amplify its impact. To achieve these ambitious objectives, a robust consortium, boasting diverse expertise in urban planning, co-creation, and living lab methodologies, has been assembled. Partners will collaborate closely to empower local and regional authorities with the necessary skills to implement these methodologies effectively. Capacity building efforts will extend to replication and exploitation partners, leveraging their extensive networks to disseminate these methodologies globally and assist other international actors in navigating similar transitions. The project will also contribute to the academic discourse by publishing a set of recommendations and articles, further expanding its impact. MICAD's significant contribution lies in fostering international cooperation among local, regional, and international actors. Through this collaboration, the project aims to identify the risks and opportunities associated with implementing inclusive and participatory planning processes. The study and application of community-held innovative processes will provide insights into the most effective and engaging participatory policy-making strategies. The results of these studies will be shared, leading to the proposal of solution models that can be adapted to various contexts.

Keywords: metropolitan planning inclusivity digital transition climate transition international cooperation multilevel governance
Animal cell types across evolutionary timescales: from regulatory characters to cell phylogenies (CELL-SYSTEMATICS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999960.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999960.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cell types are the basic constituents of animal multicellularity, with each type defined by a gene regulatory program that specifies cell function and structure. Thus, understanding cell type diversity is key to explaining animal adaptation and evolution. However, despite recent advances in the molecular characterization of cell types, the phylogenetic relationships between animal cell types remain obscure—mainly because we do not understand how the different elements of a cell type identity program (e.g. transcription factors and regulatory sequences) change over time and how these changes translate into cellular novelties. This project will bridge the gap between cell type micro- and macroevolution, focusing on Cnidaria as a model to study cell type evolutionary processes. We will measure and compare cell identity characters across divergent timescales: from intraspecies variation between sea anemone populations, to cross-species comparisons within Cnidaria, to cross-phyla cell phylogenies. By combining single-cell and functional genomics experiments with advanced computational methods, we will: (i) build whole-organism genotype–phenotype maps at cellular resolution, to explain the genetic basis of cell type evolution; (ii) model the evolutionary processes underlying the diversification, novelty, and functional adaptation of cell types across the cnidarian phylum; and (iii) study the evolutionary conservation and divergence rates of cell type regulatory characters to resolve the phylogenetic relationships between animal cell types (e.g. neurons, gland, epidermal, and sensory cells). The expected results will offer a multi-level, quantitative, and phylogenetic perspective on animal cell types, allowing us to test long-standing hypotheses about cell type evolution. Our novel comparative framework will lay the foundations of cell systematics and provide transformative insights into a fundamental question in biology: how do cell types originate and diversify?

Keywords: multicellularity,animal evolution,evolution of gene expression,cis regulatory evolution,transcription factors,single cell genomics,comparative genomics
Mapping intersectionality: a conceptual and methodological model for the study of inequalities and discriminations (INTERMAPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Spain
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): 1226000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1226000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Intersectionality is a concept that has gone viral in the past decade, becoming the most prominent analytical framework for analysing inequality. Its main premises are that people differently positioned in relation to their gender, ethnicity, age, social class, sexual orientation, etc., experience inequality in different ways, showing that the interconnection of specific social positions produces concrete forms of inequality and discrimination that are differently configured in different spaces. Despite the expansion of this concept, there is a lack of theoretical or methodological proposals that characterize how this variability is configured, leading to a prevailing use of intersectionality as a vague concept. INTERMAPS aims to make a significant paradigm shift in intersectionality studies by proposing a new theoretical and methodological model that, while maintaining the original purposes and motivations of the concept, develops a specific framework that can establish a systematization and characterization of intersectional dynamics. It includes a new theoretical model for conceptualizing intersectional inequalities from a spatial and emotional perspective, the development of new specific methods that combine and integrate qualitative, quantitative, digital and spatial (GIS) approaches and an empirical application that will follow an intercategorical approach. This will allow an analysis of intersectional dynamics in themselves, the creation of new indicators of intersectional inequality and discrimination and the establishment of a characterization and mapping of intersectionality. INTERMAPS will enable a better understanding of how structural inequalities are (re)produced and how they differently affect people’s everyday lives, building bridges between feminist and postcolonial theories, critical geographies and social psychology, and overcoming the divide between quantitative and qualitative approaches in the social sciences.

Keywords: intersectionality feminist theory space emotions social geography gis visual methodologies discrimination inequalities
Causative Link between respirAtory syncytial viRus and chronic lung diseases: Identifying Targets for therapY (CLARITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Estonia
Call: Relationship between infections and non-communicable diseases (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7054563.0
EU funding (EUR): 7054563.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic respiratory diseases are non-communicable diseases for which infections by several respiratory viruses and human genetics constitute major risk factors. The molecular and physiological mechanisms of how these viral infections cause and contribute to non-communicable disease development are unknown. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a virus that infects nearly all infants before the age of 2 years and that is linked to asthma development. We propose an integrative approach to identify genetic risk factors and mechanisms underlying virus-induced asthma. Specifically, using two national cohorts (Estonian and Spanish), we will identify human genetic risk factors and RSV strains that contribute to severe bronchiolitis. We analyse how RSV perturbs intracellular networks to change cellular properties that trigger asthma development. We will use Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques to integrate generated data with the current biological knowledge, to generate RSV-induced perturbation signatures and to identify drug-like compounds able to revert the effects of the RSV-induced perturbations. We will validate both mechanisms and candidate compounds in patient derived airway organoid models and, when promising, in a controlled human infection model trial. CLARITY will impact the understanding, prevention and possibly treatment of virus-triggered asthma. The results will enable development of a genetic risk score for long-term asthma development that enables personalised prevention campaigns, which will be developed jointly with patient groups. The molecular mechanisms discovered, and the drug-like compounds that revert the perturbation signatures, will enable development of mechanism-targeted drugs. Fundamentally, the mechanisms identified in this specific model for a strong viral contribution to non-communicable disease will likely represent general mechanisms of how viral infections cause onset and development of other non-communicable diseases.

Keywords: respiratory syncytial virus,asthma,chronic respiratory disease,epithelial,immune,protein interaction networks,preventive medicine,machine learning,infants,virus triggered,non communicable
Electrically triggered zwitterionic polymers for water harvesting solutions (E-Sprinkle)

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: Spain,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226441.2
EU funding (EUR): 226441.2
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

More than two-thirds of the global population will experience severe water scarcity by 2030. Water harvesting (WH) and managing strategies need to be developed urgently in Europe to face this challenge. Since climate change makes rain and drought unpredictable, water harvesting materials need to collect and release water with deterministic stimuli, as electricity. The applicant (Experienced Researcher, ER), during her PhD and first PostDoc, studied the interaction between water and conducting/semiconducting polymers. She worked on a conducting polymer with glycolated side chains able to undergo volumetric expansion driven by ions and water intake. She believes that such materials are promising for WH, as the collection and release is driven by an electrical stimulus. To increase the water stabilization and retention, she plans to synthetize a new class of polymers based on an electrical-responsive backbone and zwitterionic water-stabilizing side chains. To this end, the ER will be trained on design, synthesis and characterization of polymers at the host institution, the Basque Centre for Macromolecular Design and Engineering (Polymat), by Prof. David Mecerreyes, a leading expert in design and synthesis of innovative polymers. She will then fabricate a prototype that will be tested in a greenhouse on living plants during the secondment at the Linköping University (LiU) with the Electronic Plants group, led by Prof. Eleni Stavrinidou, an emerging expert on interfacing polymers and plants. Finally, the ER will spend a placement at the end of the fellowship at the PolyKey, a startup focused on sustainably scaling up laboratory polymerization processes. Dr. Andere Basterretxea, the CEO of PolyKey, will supervise the ER, training her on scale up procedures. E-Sprinkle will contribute to the scientific and personal growth of the ER, who at the end of this fellowship will be a highly specialized, competitive profile as independent research leader or as manager in industry.

Keywords: conducting conjugated polymers,polyzwitterions,water harvesting technology
Multi-messenger AI-enhanced earthquake early warning (AI-warning)

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-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Earthquakes caused nearly one million fatalities in the last two decades and billions of euros of economic loss. In our current state of knowledge, these hazardous events remain unpredictable. Early Warning Systems (EWS) exist in some countries at risk, but they only send alerts once the earthquake has started, leveraging information recorded close to the epicenter before the most destructive seismic waves reach more distant populated areas. These systems provide – in the best-case scenarios – only a few seconds of warning before the strongest shakings. Moreover, for fundamental reasons, they systematically underestimate the magnitude of large events, which results in dramatic underestimation of potential subsequent tsunamis, which typically cause most of the fatalities and damage. Therefore, making EWS faster and more accurate is crucial to mitigate the hazard associated with these catastrophic events. In the framework of the ERC StG project EARLI, we developed prototype Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms providing faster and more accurate theoretical estimates of the location and magnitude of large earthquakes than state-of-the-art EWS. We propose to implement these AI algorithms in the operational EWS of Peru, with the objective of transforming the theoretical developments of the ERC StG EARLI (Licciardi et al., Nature, 2022; Lara et al., JGR, 2023) into concrete operational improvements in EWS performance. The algorithms we developed use short records of traditional seismic waves and light-speed gravity signals. We will complement these two algorithms by a third AI-based one using GNSS, allowing the implemented EWS to leverage complementary real-time data, and making it the first operational multi-messenger AI-based EWS. The system will rapidly benefit millions of people at high risk from earthquakes in Peru, and serve as a Proof-of-Concept for every region exposed to earthquake and tsunami hazard worldwide.

Keywords: earthquakes,tsunamis,early warning,ai,prompt elasto gravity signals,gps