Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
From Behavior to Values: An Unexplored Process of Personal Value Development (BeValue)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Given their role as powerful motivators of behavior, values are a key focus of educational programs, but are difficult to remold once set. Our and other’s recent longitudinal studies of youth indicate that changes in behavior may lead to changes in values—and may be a more efficient way to alter values than seeking to directly modify them. This behavior-value link opens a new theoretical avenue for studying value changes. In BeValue, I propose to conduct the first-ever systematic assessment of the bahavior-value link. I will build a novel, comprehensive theoretical model for understanding and testing how behavioral changes affect values. The theoretical model will answer three fundamental questions: What is the impact of behaviors on values? What are the mechanisms that explain this process? What conditions or factors allow or prevent this process? BeValue will focus primarily on adolescents, address multiple levels (individuals, peers, parents, cultural characteristics) and combine the following diverse methodologies: natural field experiments to assess how presocial/environmental behavioral change leads to value change (WP1); app-based and virtual reality experiments to examine the cognitive and emotional mechanisms of the behavior-value link (WP2); longitudinal survey to trace construct development (WP3); school-based intervention designed to enhance proenvironmental behavior as a means to examine how behavioral change predicts value change and the role of self-consciousness in this process (WP4); diary study to assess micro behavior-value longitudinal relations and the contribution of parental attribution (WP5); large-scale state-of-the-art Natural Language Process analysis of how behavior in social media platforms relates to future values in a broad population across various cultures (WP6). The behavioral change model will potentially serve as a practical tool for educators, parents and policy makers to advance prosocial, pro-environmental and other values.

Keywords: values,values change,adolescence,values and social behavior
Political Animals: A More-than-Human Approach to Urban Inequalities (ANIMAPOLIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497452.5
EU funding (EUR): 2497452.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ANIMAPOLIS aims to understand the role of animals in the formation of urban inequalities, asking: How do animals’ interactions with humans and infrastructures co-produce the unequal distribution of risks and resources across urban spaces and populations? It focuses on two critical urban domains, security and public health, that are often characterized by stark inequalities, and takes the role of key animals within these domains – dogs and rats, respectively – as a unique analytical entry-point. Urban inequalities are not only produced and transformed by people. Security dogs have been socialized to identify threatening individuals on the basis of classed and raced markers. Rats pose a public health risk, and thrive in low-income areas with decaying sanitation infrastructure. Urban scholars have recently begun to highlight the importance of infrastructures and technologies in configuring access to essential goods and services. While this research has provided key insights into how non-human entities mediate social relations, it has largely overlooked how animals, too, may co-produce inequalities. While dogs and rats clearly play a role within security and public health, we know little about how they mediate urban inequalities related to these societal challenges. This project investigates such mechanisms by focusing first, on dogs’ and rats’ distinct biological specificities and cultural imaginations, and second, on the spatial, material and affective dimensions of their interactions with humans and infrastructure. The research design develops a two-way qualitative comparison, between different urban contexts and between different animals, through multispecies ethnographies of animal-human-infrastructure dynamics in Amsterdam and Philadelphia. The project’s more-than-human approach extends theoretical and methodological innovations within urban anthropology, geography and human-animal studies in order to open new horizons on the study of urban inequalities.

Keywords: urban anthropology anthropology of animals anthropology of infrastructure
A step change in prediction, mapping, acceptance testing and cost-effective mitigation for railway noise and vibration (QuieterRail)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Spain
Call: NOISE AND VIBRATIONS (HORIZON-JU-ER-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3977877.69
EU funding (EUR): 3283051.57
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

QuieterRail aims to introduce a step change in predicting and mapping railway noise and vibration, in the acceptance testing of rolling stock, and in promoting cost-effective noise mitigation. The established TWINS-based approach for rolling noise is extended to include curves. Squeal noise models are developed including flanging noise and multiple wheel-rail contact points. Proposals are made for improving the CNOSSOS curve noise factor based on project results. To add flexibility to acceptance testing, transposition methods are developed and tested for situations where there are larger differences, e.g. between slab and ballast track. Measurement uncertainty in pass-by noise is studied, including the effects of site geometry. A virtual test method for the noise from freight wagons is proposed and information is gathered on the noise from trains with new propulsion technology. QuieterRail produces guidelines and a data analysis tool for cost-effective noise mitigation by controlling rail roughness using on-board measurement systems. It also provides an open-source tool for whole track system optimisation, addressing life cycle costs, noise, and vibration simultaneously. The goal is to enhance the cost-effectiveness and social benefits of railway infrastructure by reducing externalities. A fast-running hybrid vibration prediction method will be enhanced to include features pertinent to urban situations. It will be implemented in a GIS-based environment to allow mapping of vibration alongside noise. The database with soil impedance and transfer functions and building correction factors will be substantially extended. A track-independent vehicle indicator is developed to allow a first step towards quantifying the vibration emission of trains and the introduction of vibration limit values. Extensive noise and vibration measurements at a mainline site and on an urban light rail network provide for validation of the results and expansion of relevant databases.

Keywords: railway noise vibration,mitigation,rail grinding,roughness monitoring,curving noise,tsi,life cycle costs,noise maps,vibration prediction,light rail,track independent vehicle indicator,gis
Nano-assisted digitalizing of cancer phenotyping for immunotherapy (ImmunoChip)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Every day cancer takes about 30000 lives worldwide, despite multiple treatments developed in the last 50 years. True revolution in the therapy is demonstrated by the immunooncology relying on multiple routes to activate the immune system, using e.g. Chimeric Antigen Receptors, checkpoints inhibitors. Although demonstrating success in the treatment of e.g. lymphoma, the percentage of patients responding to the immunotherapy is less than 30%. Even more, the activation of immune system does not happen at no cost, leading to severe auto-immune reactions, sometimes with lethal consequences. Therefore, the main question of clinicians is: how to efficiently predict the response/no-response of the patient to the immunotherapy? At present, there is no predictive technological platform combining both, highly sensitive analysis of the cancer immunity and the planning of the strategy for potential therapy. I consider cancer as a smart self-adapting machine that plays its own set of rules: it generates and quenches the biochemical signals; initiates the iterative loops and builds up feedback controls to create an immune suppressive environment. My idea is to digitalize these mechanisms. ‘ImmunoChip’ will develop a device combining microfluidics with the specific nanosensory network to study elements of the cancer-immunity cycle to bring a new dimension in the field of preclinical immunotherapeutic cancer phenotyping. The information about the immunosuppressive activity of the cancer microenvironment, immune checkpoints, T cells, efficiency of the immunotherapy, will be collected into respective data patterns. The developed ‘ImmunoChip’ platform will help to answer the questions: can the patient be treated with the immunotherapy? How does the tumor protect itself? Which immunotherapy to use? I am sure that improved decision-making in immunotherapy will lead to a transformative treatment results for more patients and will help to save more lives.

Keywords: nanosensorics,immunotherapy,cancer,biosensors
A Ready-to-Fly Deorbit Device Based on Electrodynamic Tether Technology (E.T.PACK-F)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany
Call: EIC Transition Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONOPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499513.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499513.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Electrodynamic tethers are long conductors in orbit that enable spacecraft to de-orbit and/or re-boost without using propellant. After designing, manufacturing and testing a prototype of a Deorbit Device (DD) in the FET E.T.PACK project and reach TRL 4, E.T.PACK-F faces the next natural step: prepare a ready-to-fly DD based on electrodynamic tether technology to perform, immediately after the project, an in-orbit-demonstration (IOD). The two large companies of the team (SENER Aeroespacial and RFA), playing the roles of DD product developer and end-user, signed a Launch Service Agreement for this first flight. The DD involves several tether-related products that have, by their own, a high innovative and commercialization potential and are mainly owned/generated by the three universities of the team (UC3M, UNIPD, TUD). These products are a software for tether mission analysis, a heater-less electron emitter for electric propulsion applications, a cold gas system, miniaturized avionics, and onboard software for the attitude determination and control of small spacecraft, and a deployment mechanism and damper for tether applications. In parallel with technology development activities, a business model for E.T.PACK-F technologies and consortium structures for their later commercialization (a Joint Venture, startup, and /or technology licensing) will be created. Contact with potential clients, investors, and policy-makers, will be established to validate the business model and prepare the products for the future needs of the market. This entrepreneurial ecosystem, made of interlinked space products, strong industry-academia collaboration, and an end user, is driven by the IOD, which can place all the products in a precommercial state. Tethers can help Europe to create/strengthen new markets on space debris deorbiting and in-orbit servicing, disrupt the existing markets on spacecraft re-boost and station keeping, and open new opportunities for planetary explorations.

Keywords: space debris electrodynamic tethers
Introducing SAFE to European deep tech industry (DEEPSAFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Denmark,Germany,Czechia,Ukraine,Latvia,Spain
Call: Startup Europe (HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1450831.25
EU funding (EUR): 1450831.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

A SAFE, a Simple Agreement for Future Equity is a financial instrument which has been developed by Y Combinator, one visible accelerator in the US more than 10 years ago. Currently, in the US and in Canada more than 80 % of the investments in startups are realized as SAFE investments. In Europe, this financial instrument is not as widely diffused. The reasons for developing the SAFEs lie among others in a higher transaction speed and a lower level of bureaucracy in all periods of the investment lifecycle. Both mentioned reasons might also toughen up the European financial ecosystem. Since such an instrument can not be transferred in a “blind copy mode” into another cultural ecosystem with different policies and mentalities, the objective of DEEPSAFE is to design, validate , disseminate and finally establish an Europeanized instantiation of core SAFE building and deliver it into the European startup ecosystem (40 startups from emerging/moderate regions negotiating SAFE agreements with investors/corporates). As outcome, DEEPSAFE will be providing a validated DEEPSAFE legal framework tailored to EC law, a DEEPSAFE curriculum used for training all stakeholders, a DEEPSAFE White Paper, DEEPSAFE cross-border use cases and best practices for dissemination and awareness creation in order to increase the competitiveness of our startup Ecosystem in Europe.

Keywords: deep tech,investment,corporate investment,start ups
Copernicus Applications for Next-Generation Forest Monitoring (FUTUREFOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Italy,Ukraine,France,Denmark,Slovakia
Call: Copernicus-based applications for businesses and policy-making (HORIZON-EUSPA-2023-SPACE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1631875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1631875.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The European Commission proposed a Regulation on a monitoring framework for resilient European forests in November 2023. It builds on Copernicus as well as existing national data and shall offer better information for decision making and policy implementation across Member States. The intended monitoring system will be comprehensive and reduce existing knowledge gaps through scattered, incomplete, and outdated data on EU forests. Besides the collection of better data for decision making and policy implementation, the proposed law will create business opportunities not only for the growing Copernicus and EO monitoring industry but also to forest owners for marketing their ecosystem services, such as carbon removals. FUTUREFOR addresses key challenges deriving from the proposed law aiming at providing accurate and timely forest data for Europe. The project will closely liaise with Copernicus Entrusted Entities and key national stakeholders to assess the deriving needs from the Regulation together. The project will also support Ukraine adopting EU forest legislation, on its way becoming an EU member in the future. Based on our experiences in forest monitoring, Copernicus, AI and big data analysis the FUTUREFOR project will carry out research and innovation to establish the needed knowledge and propose products and workflows to explore the feasibility and limitations of innovative new and improved existing Copernicus-based datasets. The project will build on operational services that members of the consortium already provide and experiences from earlier H2020 and Horizon European projects. FUTUREFOR will also investigate innovative aerial platforms collecting sensor and image data from the stratosphere. Finally, three commercial business applications will be developed to demonstrate the business opportunities evolving from open Copernicus- and complementing forest data.

Keywords: forest,forest monitoring framework,eu green deal,ecosystems,biodiversity,satellites,uav,in situ
Prejudice: Source and propagation (PSP)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To understand the propagation of prejudice, we need to understand the linguistic devices through which it is expressed. Prejudicial attitudes can be expressed through generic generalisations (or simply generics) like ‘Women are illogical’, which ascribe properties (e.g. being illogical) to groups (e.g. women). The standard analysis takes generics to express claims about the world. This project will develop a novel alternative analysis on which generic generalisations are analogous to exclamations like ‘Ouch!’, in that they function primarily express the speaker’s mental states rather than describing the world. In addition to advancing our understanding of the propagation of prejudice, this project will experimentally assess the novel Generic Bootstrapping Hypothesis, according to which prejudice has a source in our disposition to store evidence in generic form. Main Research Objectives: 1. Specify the expressivst view of generics and show how expressivism avoids problems that arise for the standard view. 3. Explain the harm caused by discriminatory generics. Research output: 1. Two research papers 2. A paper communicating research findings to the non-academic public 3. An experiment assessing the impact of generics about social kinds 4. A conference on issues related to the project 5. A special issue of a journal based on the workshop Training Objectives: 1. Train the researcher in experimental techniques 2. Extend the researcher's competencies to experimental philosophy and cognitive science 3. Transfer the researcher’s knowledge of context and underdetermination to the host 4. Increase collaboration and research opportunities for the host and researcher by bringing members of the researcher's network to host 5. Increase public awareness of debates and research concerning generics

Keywords: prejudice,generic generalisations,expressivism,philosophy of language
Clever Combination of Synthetic Compartmentalization, Carbon Fixation and Compound Biomanufacturing (C5)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Solar-to-X devices for the decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4135920.55
EU funding (EUR): 3930291.98
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The C5 Pathfinder project aims to revolutionize the production of bio-based chemicals by leveraging synthetic compartmentalization and metabolic engineering within photosynthetic cyanobacterial systems. The multidisciplinary consortium brings together experts from diverse fields, including microbiology, synthetic biology, and chemical engineering, with the overarching goal to maximize cyanobacterial photosynthetic CO2 fixation and isoprene product generation. This will be achieved by installing a more efficient CO2 fixation cycle, connecting it directly with isoprene production to maximize carbon partitioning, and constructing a conceptual novel synthetic bacterial organelle, co-localizing selected enzymes. This promotes substrate channeling and creates a favorable microenvironment to enhance their catalytic activity while minimizing metabolic crosstalk with the cytosol and containing toxic intermediates. We will develop a process to directly harvest isoprene from the gas phase, which spontaneously separates from the cells and growth media. This avoids problematic biomass harvesting and product extraction, simplifying the production process. The project's success will be assessed through life cycle assessments (LCA) and techno-economic analyses (TEA) to ensure that the developed processes are both environmentally sustainable and economically viable. The collaboration among consortium members will facilitate knowledge transfer and technology development, leading to the creation of modular and scalable systems suitable for industrial applications. Additionally, workshops and outreach activities will be conducted to disseminate findings and promote engagement with stakeholders across the bioeconomy sector. Overall, C5 aims to introduce groundbreaking innovative technologies which will significantly increase Solar-to-Isoprene conversion efficiency and pave the way for the widespread adoption of bio-based chemicals, contributing to a sustainable and circular economy.

Keywords: synthetic compartmentalization,metabolic engineering,carbon fixation,photobioreactors