Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Automating authenticity: Probabilistic storytelling and AI influencers on social media (AI INFLUENCE)

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 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates the emergence of AI influencers on social media, which include fictional avatars with human-like personas and AI doubles of human influencers who chat with their followers via direct messages (a new feature on Instagram). Preceded by a range of CGI-constructed virtual influencers entirely scripted by human creators, newer AI influencers are created and operate by way of various large language model (LLM)-powered tools, from text-to-image generators that can be used to make avatars to text generators that allow these entities to make post captions, comments, and send direct messages. Given their ability to automate the affective labor that goes into crafting an “authentic” personal brand, a key dimension of social media-centric brand culture, AI influencers are increasingly featured in marketing campaigns as models and brand ambassadors. Working across the disciplines of feminist media and cultural studies as well as digital anthropology, I explore the social implications and political economy of the convergence of generative AI technologies and brand culture, emphasizing the growing technologically-mediated role of language in the so-called “creator economy” on social media platforms. The project is based on digital ethnographic fieldwork designed to demonstrate the function and impact of what I term the “probabilistic storytelling” of AI influencers, which reflects both the probability-based semantics of LLMs and the ways in which these stories are interpreted and shaped in human social media user imaginaries and practices.

Keywords: social media influencers,authenticity,generative ai,affective labor,brand culture
Framing the Late-Pleistocene chronology of environmental and cultural change in Doggerland (FLOOD)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During the last Ice Age, sea-levels were much lower than today. A land bridge, known as Doggerland, connected the British Isles to the European mainland. Doggerland was part of the Eurasian Mammoth Steppe, a continuous biome of grasslands and plains. It was a productive and fertile environment with rich resources, and formed a core habitat for humans. With the warming temperatures of the early Holocene, the ice sheets melted and rising sea-levels submerged Doggerland. Remains of this extinct world are often found on the beaches of the North Sea, and in the nets of fishermen. These finds generate great interest, both in society and in academia, and are being studied across various disciplines. Robust chronological frameworks are crucial for understanding cultural and environmental changes, especially when the stratigraphic context of finds is uncertain. Radiocarbon analysis of several high-profile ancient bones from the North Sea has yielded unexpected results, with anomalously young dates for extinct megafauna, and marine mammals dating to periods when the North Sea was dry. It has been suggested that these dates are affected by contamination, but this was never formally investigated. FLOOD will directly address this issue using cutting-edge advances in radiocarbon dating, including biomolecular assessment of samples to identify contamination, and compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of the amino acid 'hydroxyproline'. FLOOD will (re)date a selection of high-profile samples with the aim to put a long-lasting debate about the validity of these dates to rest. Results will have widespread implications for the study of sea-level fluctuations, climate change, archaeology, (marine) paleoecology and importantly, for the field of radiocarbon dating.

Keywords: radiocarbon dating doggerland compound specific radiocarbon analysis of amino acids marine paleoecology megafauna archaeological science
Conceptualising Processes of Monumental Architectural Creation in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age (DAEDALOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1876640.0
EU funding (EUR): 1876640.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DAEDALOS aims to challenge the predominant metanarrative that uniformly sees monuments as an attribute of centralised, hierarchical political economies and top-down power structures, a view that exerts a strong influence on our understanding of the organisation of Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean societies. In the 2nd mill. BCE, Mainland Greece, Western Anatolia and the islands of Crete, Cyprus and the Cyclades witness a growing architectural elaboration. Impressive ‘palatial’ monuments are built, which are often interpreted as the seat of rulers exerting centralised control over the population. The surmised political power necessary for the mobilisation and management of the human and material resources invested in monumental construction is taken as further evidence for the leading function of these edifices, and for the position of their commissioners at the top of hierarchical socio-political systems. Taking into consideration the ability for human groups with no centralised leadership to efficiently manage and control resources, DAEDALOS questions the preconceived conflation of monumental architecture and centralised hierarchical power. To assess this, the project will analyse integration and segmentation patterns in 2nd mill. BCE monumental building projects of the Aegean and Cyprus, and investigate the organisational centralisation of the societies that managed the labour and material resources invested in construction. Based on the architectural study of monuments distributed over 35 sites and their examination through new, specially devised analytical parameters, DAEDALOS will explore the possibility for grassroots, bottom-up building processes and their impact on architectural creation. By doing so, the project aims to trigger a paradigm shift in the ways we approach and interpret monumental architecture while producing nuanced and compelling definitions of Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age socio-political systems.

Keywords: monumental architecture monumental building projects building process ancient architecture palaces resources mobilisation resources management collective performance collective action construction sequence cooperation dynamics scale of monuments architectural energetics craftspeople architectural labour gis web gis spatial analysis ancient leadership socio political organisation bronze age societies dual processualism
Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film (DREAM-Film): practices and methods to improve the accessibility to restoration and promote competency exchange. (DREAM-Film)

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: Netherlands,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140718.24
EU funding (EUR): 140718.24
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Today, only a small part of the analogue audiovisual collections has been digitised, and workflows and digitisation practices are carried out mainly in institutional centres at a national level. This situation leads to the question: Is online audiovisual content truly representative of European (and global) film history? The DREAM-Film (Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film) project aims to develop alternative approaches to film digitisation, restoration, and quality assessment based on the experience of well-established institutional archives and smaller non-institutional centres to make those actions more democratic and inclusive by reducing restoration costs in time and resources. As a result, more accessible and adaptable digitisation practices and restoration software will be generated, promoting research and knowledge-exchange with strategical dissemination and communication actions. The main strength of this project is the interdisciplinarity and the mutual knowledge exchange between archives and research centres of humanistic and scientific faculties. The network involving those centres will be a base for developing more suitable practices and education plans to make film restoration practices available in institutions based in underrepresented countries and smaller non-institutional archives.

Keywords: archives,audiovisual,movies,cinema,access,democracy,globalisation
Spin Curves Enumeration (SpiCE)

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: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1465438.0
EU funding (EUR): 1465438.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Enumerative geometry aims at counting geometric objects that satisfy specific algebraic conditions. The modern treatment of enumerative problems of curves has revealed deep connections between geometry, representation theory, and theoretical physics. These connections are established through the cohomology of moduli spaces of curves. The description of the structure of these cohomology groups is crucial in this modern perspective, and I will use spin curves to address this issue. Spin curves are refinements of curves carrying an extra sign, + or -, that enables the construction of new cohomology classes called spin classes. Spin classes carry rich algebraic structures that can be used to investigate enumerative problems. In the SpiCE project, I will study 2 open problems with this approach: Problem 1. Dubrovin defined Frobenius manifolds to study deformations of enumerative problems at a cohomological level. How can we describe singular Frobenius manifolds? Problem 2. How to enumerate curves in surfaces of general type? Spin curves have been extensively studied through techniques from several branches of mathematics. Yet, a general framework is missing. In SpiCE, I will combine my expertise in these fields to consider spin classes from a unified perspective. This novel approach will provide the means to prove structural results and enable significant progress on Problems 1&2. Problems 1&2 revolve around 3 fundamental families of spin classes and their interplay, which frame the 3 work packages (WP) of SpiCE and their respective goals: WP A. Witten’s class: prove a spin reconstruction theorem. WP B. Gromov-Witten theory: establish Virasoro constraints for spin curves. WP C. Strata of differentials: express spin Witten’s class via moduli spaces of differentials. The outcome is a framework that provides new methods to compute spin classes. These effective techniques pave the way for long-term research on the deep algebraic structures associated with Problems 1&2.

Keywords: moduli spaces,enumerative geometry,intersection theory
Driving Climate Positive Futures (DREAM-PLAN)

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: Spain,Estonia,Finland,Netherlands,Norway,United Kingdom,France,Denmark,Australia,Sweden,Lithuania,Switzerland
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6144000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4300800.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

RMIT EU spearheads the Driving Climate Positive Futures (DREAM+PLAN), a truly interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral PhD program, uniting European and Australian research via 32 doctoral positions for double degree. DREAM+PLAN brings together a community of visionary changemakers, leaders, who dream big and develop tangible pathways for solving local and global climate-related challenges, all united by a mission to create a positive impact, towards a more sustainable, fair, inclusive and thriving planet for future generations. The need for 1. resilience (ability to withstand and recover from disruptions), 2. restoration (ability to repair or rehabilitate degraded ecosystems) and 3. regeneration (fostering the renewal, revitalization and replenishment of ecosystems, communities) research is more acute than ever. The overarching objectives of DREAM+PLAN research training program is to create and deliver, legacy-worthy, novel, cutting-edge, 3i-centric training through best-practice multi-faceted, multi-modal group and individual training options for DCs. Ultimately, breeding the next generation of high-performing ESRs equipped with a unique set of skills and capabilities to fully comprehend and address the multifaceted nature and scale of climate change, across sectors. DREAM+PLAN’s training program is aligned to contribute to EU Missions, the European Green Deal and supporting RIS3 strategies and includes 3 annual doctoral schools, adopting a novel scaffolding approach. DREAM+PLAN will fully embrace diversity and through its ecosystem approach, develop pathways for ESRs towards new mindsets, behaviours, technologies, policies supporting the transition to more sustainable, fairer, and productive futures.

Keywords: global innovation,climate change,climate futures,sustainability,resilience,restoration,regeneration,unique intercontinental phd supervisory model
Pathways of resilience and evasion of tipping in ecosystems (Resilience)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Israel,Canada
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9848970.0
EU funding (EUR): 9848970.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

There is an urgent need to understand the catastrophic effects that global environmental and climate change can have on the Earth, its system components and ecosystems. One area of critical concern is the imminent high-impact, abrupt and irreversible tipping of ecosystems. Recent discoveries indicate that tipping could be evaded and even reversed in ecosystems through spatial pattern formation of vegetation, thereby creating pathways of resilience. Many undiscovered pathways of resilience through spatial pattern formation could exist for tipping-prone ecosystems. This resilience could be even enhanced by the unexplored connection between spatial pattern formation and community assembly. The aim of RESILIENCE is to fundamentally advance our understanding and predictions of tipping and critical transitions in ecosystems and reveal how these can be evaded and even reversed through spatial pattern formation. The RESILIENCE team consists of field-leading and complementary PI’s and is capable of addressing all aspects of this overarching project, linking theory and observation, spanning the fields of ecology, physics and mathematics. RESILIENCE will develop a new theory for emerging resilience through spatial pattern formation and link this with real tipping-prone biomes undergoing accelerating global change: savanna and tundra. Central to our theoretical approach is the novel mathematical connection between the origin of the formation of patterns and their resilience once they emerged. Our empirical approach will include the analysis of existing and new data from in situ observations and drone and satellite-based remote sensing. Our research will reveal which conditions and spatial patterns lead to the evasion and even reversal of tipping. Identifying these conditions and patterns will also expose how human interventions can prevent or reverse tipping and uncover that tipping-prone ecosystems could be much more resilient than currently thought.

Keywords: self organisation,spatial pattern formation,tipping points,critical transitions
Standardized Approaches to Modelling and Examination of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (SAME-NeuroID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,France,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Ł-PORT in Wrocław is a young government institution that conducts cutting-edge research and promotes the commercialisation of scientific discoveries. The aim of the Twinning project is to place the Life Science and Biotechnology Centre (LS&BC) of Ł-PORT in an international network of European biomedical research. This will be achieved by intensifying collaboration with leading neuroscience centres from France, Germany and the Netherlands. The scientific focus of this initiative stems from the shared vision of the consortium partners to develop new solutions for neuropsychiatric diseases. It is estimated that 27% of the EU adult population suffers from at least one mental disorder. These statistics are largely due to inadequate understanding of the biological basis of the disease, leading to suboptimal therapies. Recent studies have discovered numerous genetic risk factors for mental disorders. The next step is to investigate their contribution to disease-related phenotypes using Standardized Approaches to Modelling and Examination of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. The SAME-NeuroID aims to adopt in Ł-PORT the methods developed in the partner laboratories, in order to achieve a consistent experimental workflow to facilitate the discovery and validation of new therapies. Consortium partners will support the LS&BC in boosting the technical skills and management excellence, while educational resources will be utilized to accelerate the formation of the next generation of well-trained scientists. Interdisciplinary activities will be organized to disseminate the unified toolbox and cross-pollinate the existing academic and commercial environments. A comprehensive communication campaign for promoting our results among stakeholders will increase the competitiveness and visibility of Ł-PORT in the international research community. Collectively, the SAME-NeuroID will be a true milestone for positioning LS&BCŁ-PORT as a new hub of excellence for neuroscience in the ERA landscape.

Keywords: neuropsychiatric disorders,standard operating procedures,ipsc,animal models,behaviour,training
Breaching the protective cancer stroma with radiotherapy-responsive liposomes (RADIOCONTROL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1942158.0
EU funding (EUR): 1942158.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Liposomes have been the most successful type of nanomedicine for cancer patients, playing a leading role in improving the tolerability of chemotherapeutics. However, to advance the success of liposomal drug delivery and cancer treatment, new approaches to physically trigger drug release in cancer tissues and increase the permeability of the protective cancer stroma are needed. This project will investigate whether radiocatalytic nanomaterials can be integrated in liposomes for spatiotemporal-controlled drug release, the alleviation of cancer desmoplasia, and improved efficacy of co-encapsulated drugs. Liposomes will be composed of oxidation-susceptible phospholipids that encapsulate hydrophilic drugs in their aqueous core. Radiation-absorbing nanomaterials will be included in the liposomes to produce high levels of reactive oxygen species when activated by X-rays. This will oxidize the liposomes and facilitate the release of the encapsulated drugs. Simultaneously, the cytotoxicity of the oxidants is expected to reduce the high cell densities in the tumor periphery, enabling the therapeutics to deeply permeate the cancer tissues following their release. This customizable strategy will be developed in the context of pancreatic cancer, a chemoresistant form of cancer with poor survival rates. This project develops a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the physicochemical mechanisms of radiotherapy-induced drug release, adaptive optics microscopy to study tissue permeability in 3D cultures of desmoplastic pancreatic cancer, and multimodal in vivo imaging to uncover the therapeutic potential and mechanisms. Radiotherapy-controlled drug release from liposomes is a ground-breaking novel concept, and its capacity to increase cancer tissue permeability has never before been demonstrated. When successful, new avenues for controlled liposomal drug delivery will emerge that can significantly advance the standard-of-care for many cancer patients.

Keywords: liposomal drug delivery reactive oxygen species photodynamic therapy radiotherapy chemotherapy cancer microenvironment enhanced permeability and retention pancreatic cancer