Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Incentives and Dynamics of Innovation (PRFI)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1587328.0
EU funding (EUR): 1587328.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Innovation is the key driver of competitiveness and growth. It supplants existing technologies and erodes the market position of firms. This creative destruction lies at the heart of endogenous growth models. This proposal studies how patent rights shape innovation incentives and the micro-dynamics of technological competition in Europe and the U.S. Patent rights are a key policy instrument to enhance incentives, and it is critically important that patent-granting agencies function effectively. These incentives influence the dynamics of technological competition, and the extent to which small firms compete effectively with large firms. This proposal exploits patents as a window onto the dynamics of technological competition. Creative destruction operates through innovation and patents reflect the dynamics at this level. Patents are more informative when granting agencies effectively screen to ensure that inventions meet an appropriate patentability standard. Thus, screening is integrally linked to the broader study of innovation competition and creative destruction. This proposal fills critical gaps in the literature, using frontier methodological and empirical tools, and contributes to evidence-based policymaking in science and technology. There are four thematically linked research strands, all of which break new ground. The first strand develops an economic model of screening by the European Patent Office, which incorporates its unique institutional features and enables us to quantify its effectiveness. The second empirically analyses key administrative mechanisms in the European and U.S. patent offices designed to correct screening errors. The third develops a methodology to assess whether the patentability standard is set at the efficient level for society. The fourth strand empirically studies the landscape and dynamics of technological competition and measures the impact of creative destruction on the gains from innovation.

Keywords: property rights,innovation,patent screening,institutional design and evaluation,incentives,creative destruction,technological competition
The cold-chain challenge: à la carte Time-temperature indicators enabled by patterned structural colour in organic semiconductors (VERITASCAN)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global demand for cold-chain logistics is surging, driven by changing consumer lifestyles, government legislations to reduce waste and rapid diversification of supply chains. The pressure is particularly felt in the pharmaceutical and medical industries, where many life-saving products such as vaccines, peptides, blood and plasma explicitly require shipping and handling at specific temperatures. The use of time-temperature indicators to provide visual cues for undesirable exposure to elevated temperatures offers the means for cold-chain verification. However, the existing food market indicators cannot fully address the specific challenges posed by the pharmaceutical industry, such as: i) Small size and flexible form factors; ii) Low cost for item-level applications and distribution in low-income countries; iii) Operation at ultra-low temperatures from –20 down to –70 °C for mRNA vaccines. The ambition of VERITASCAN is to advance a new class of time-temperature indicators, drawing on emerging ‘smart packaging’ concepts and harnessing recent breakthroughs in scalable micro-processing of organic semiconductors realised within my group. Specifically, my team will deliver versatile indicators design based on patterned organic semiconductor films that are erasable on-demand by selection of molecular ‘solvents’. We will optimize the temperature range and accumulative exposure monitoring, as well as validate the commercial viability of the technology via comprehensive field-tests with our industrial partners. My interim objective is to establish a sustainable value creation model in the market. The long-term goal of VERITASCAN is to introduce transformative user-centred technology that addresses urgent societal needs.
Emotional dynamics of protective policies in an age of insecurity (PROTEMO)

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: Germany,Denmark,Poland,Portugal,Israel,United Kingdom
Call: The emotional politics of democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2836911.25
EU funding (EUR): 2836911.25
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

PROTEMO investigates the emotional connection between the state and individuals. The focus is on protective policies and their consequences for individuals, groups of citizens and non-citizens as well as for democracy, political participation, and mobilisation. Such policies, and the emotional dynamics related to them, increasingly dominate politics in the current age of insecurity. Fear, anger, pride and hope are only some of the emotions that are often involved in political interactions and sometimes with important consequences, as events such as the Yellow Vest protests illustrate. PROTEMO asks: (1) How do political actors perceive and influence the emotional needs of citizens (and non-citizens) and how does this play out in the policy process? (2) What emotional reactions, judgements and actions elicit protective policies among individuals and publics in society? (3) How do citizens’ emotional reactions feed back on the policy process? Answering these questions allows us to study emotional responsiveness - a crucial yet neglected aspect of representative democracy. To do so, we will field a representative survey of 11 countries, design experiments, make focused comparisons of a smaller range of specific policies (e.g. pandemic responses, climate change) and conduct several “deep dives” where, we investigate how underprivileged citizens, migrant women of color, and refugees from Ukraine form emotional needs towards protection and build discursive spaces to articulate them in the public sphere. Bringing together perceptions of emotions by political actors and emotional reactions of citizens and non-citizens to protective policies with an analysis of the emotionality of the policy process toward protective policies allows us to contribute to a broader debate on the future of representative democracy and affective citizenship. PROTEMO’s results will lead to improved EU policy-making and enhanced communication of evidence-based policies.

Keywords: insecurity,emotional responsiveness,affective citizenship,protective policies
Deployment And engagement of Resources and citizens for European Emergency Response (DARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Finland,United Kingdom,Portugal,France,Cyprus,Ireland,Belgium,Croatia
Call: Open Topic (HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3635970.63
EU funding (EUR): 3575075.63
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The DARE (Deployment And engagement of Resources and citizens for European Emergency Response) project aims to enhance Europe’s capability to respond to large-scale cross-country disasters, focusing on interoperability and information sharing. By addressing the challenges posed by varied national response systems, equipment, training, and procedures, DARE targets four main gaps: operational standardization, command structure interoperability, digital tool integration, and citizen engagement.The project seeks to harmonize emergency response across European countries by creating guidelines for both technical and command-level procedures. This involves comparing and mapping Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to identify commonalities and improve interoperability. DARE will develop an open-source Dashboard that integrates real-time data from diverse sources, including hazard monitoring systems, local authorities, and citizen inputs. This platform will support situational awareness, enhance communication between command centers and field responders, and provide a public-facing layer for citizen engagement, including tasking volunteers.To achieve these goals, DARE involves numerous European partners, including research institutions, emergency services, NGOs, and universities, collaborating to test harmonized procedures and training modules through workshops and field exercises. The Dashboard will support standardized information exchange, enhancing cross-country deployments and assisting local commanders with up-to-date hazard and resource information. By leveraging artificial intelligence, it will facilitate multilingual communication and engage citizens, enabling real-time volunteer mobilization and feedback loops with communities during crises. Through structured training, interoperability assessments, and cross-country trials, DARE aims to create a resilient emergency response framework. This system will be scalable and adaptable to various types of emergencies.

Keywords: disaster risk management,response,harmonisation of sops,citizen and volunteer enegagement,situation assessment,information sharing
Ontology-based Decentralized Sharing of Industry Data in the European Circular Economy (Onto-DESIDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Italy,Czechia
Call: Sustainable Industry Commons (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3530338.75
EU funding (EUR): 3530338.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Circular economy aims at reducing value loss and avoiding waste, by circulating materials or product parts before they become waste. Today, lack of support for sharing data in a secure, quality assured, and automated way is one of the main obstacles that industry actors point to when creating new circular value networks. Together with using different terminologies and not having explicit definitions of the concepts that appear in data, this makes it very difficult to create new ecosystems of actors in Europe today. This project will address the core challenges of making decentralized data and information understandable and usable for humans as well as machines. The project will leverage open standards for semantic data interoperability in establishing a shared vocabulary (ontology network) for data documentation, as well as a decentralized digital platform that enables collaboration in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. The project addresses a number of open research problems, including the development of ontologies that need to model a wide range of different materials and products, not only providing vertical interoperability but also horizontal interoperability, for cross-industry value networks. As well as transdisciplinary research on methods to find, analyse and assess new circular value chain configurations opened up by considering resource, information, value and energy flows as an integral part of the same complex system. Three industry use cases, from radically different industry domains, act as drivers for the research and development activities, as well as test beds and demonstrators for the cross-industry applicability of the results. The developed solutions will allow for automation of planning, management, and execution of circular value networks, at a European scale, and beyond. The project thereby supports acceleration of the digital and green transitions, automating the discovery and formation of new collaborations in the circular economy.

Keywords: ontology,circular economy,data documentation,decentralized data,standards
Biactantial Agreement in the Endangered Gongduk and Mönpa Languages of Bhutan (Lo-Rig)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Ireland,Bhutan
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496785.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496785.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Gongduk and Mönpa are two Sino-Tibetan languages of Bhutan with no known relatives within the language family. Despite their unique morphosyntactic feature of biactantial verbal agreement, both languages have been largely overlooked in the literature. Gongduk and Mönpa are also at a high risk of extinction. Therefore, it is of absolute necessity that we write their descriptive grammars, based on a natural speech corpus, before they disappear forever. When a people lose mastery of their mother tongue, they often suffer from a loss of identity, and subsequently a plethora of emotional, mental, and social problems. Realising that the description of the world’s languages can provide indigenous communities with the basic set of materials to promote their linguistic heritage and counteract such negative developments, the United Nations has declared 2023-2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. At the same time, linguistic description offers science the opportunity to conduct ground-breaking typological and historical linguistic research. The exhaustive description of Gongduk and Mönpa will enable us to compare their verbal agreement systems to those of other Sino-Tibetan languages and infer the implications for the origin and development of verbal agreement and the language family as a whole. Bhutan’s unique cultural and linguistic heritage forms one of the cornerstones of its national identity and development philosophy. Technological advances present both a risk and an opportunity for safeguarding this heritage. The Lo-Rig project team will apply and develop innovative methods that speed up and simplify the transcription of recorded texts, using technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition, and software applications for the subsequent analysis and dissemination of under-resourced, endangered languages. They will also train Bhutanese linguists, contributing to a more sustainable future of Bhutan’s languages, and produce outputs for language promotion.

Keywords: bhutan biactantial agreement descriptive linguistics polypersonal agreement verbal agreement trans himalayan sino tibetan tibeto burman direct inverse marking language preservation language promotion
Interplay of structures in conformal and universal random geometry (ISCoURaGe)

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: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1389728.0
EU funding (EUR): 1389728.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

My overall goal is to provide novel conceptual understanding of persistent challenges in mathematical physics, in light of recent discoveries of myself and others. The emphasis is especially in finding connections between different areas, making use of my expertise at their crossroads. The first two aims concern statistical mechanics (SM) and mathematical formulations of (logarithmic) conformal field theory (CFT), on the one hand algebraically and on the other hand probabilistically. The last two aims focus on connections and interplay of structures arising in SM, such as Schramm-Loewner evolutions (SLE), with algebro-geometric formulations of CFT. Gaining conceptual understanding is fundamental for progress towards deep results. Specifically, in Aim 1, I focus on CFT correlation functions and plan to reveal non-semisimple and logarithmic behavior, poorly understood even in the physics literature. For this, e.g. hidden symmetries from my earlier work will be exploited. Aim 2 combines this with probability theory: investigations of non-local quantities in critical SM models, relating to specific CFT correlation functions and to SLE. In Aim 3, I investigate the interplay of SLE, CFT, and Teichmueller theory in terms of generalizations of so-called Loewner energy of curves. The main objective is to shed light on the hidden geometric interpretation of Loewner energy from the point of view of formulations of CFT in terms of Riemann surfaces, and eventually also to find its role within geometric quantization. To elaborate the latter goal, Aim 4 combines these ideas with related structures in the theory of isomonodromic deformations. My starting point is the observation that Loewner energy minima and semiclassical limits of certain CFT correlations are both described by isomonodromic systems. I plan to make these connections explicit and implement them in order to discover intrinsic features of the interplay of the aforementioned structures.

Keywords: conformal field theory,loewner energy,monodromy,scaling limit,schramm loewner evolution,statistical mechanics,quantum field theory,quantum group,quantization
Inquisitive Modal Logic (InqML)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 971310.0
EU funding (EUR): 971310.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modal logic is at the heart of an incredibly fruitful interdisciplinary enterprise: it is used to formalize reasoning about key notions like knowledge and belief, obligation and permission, action and outcome, and finds important applications in computer science, AI, economics, and linguistics. In its current form, modal logic builds on truth-conditional semantics, which analyzes meaning in terms of truth conditions. This is the source of two limitations. First, there are important modal notions whose argument is not a proposition, but a question. Since questions do not have truth conditions, these notions cannot be analyzed in existing modal logics. Second, much recent work indicates that natural language modals are sensitive not only to the truth conditions of their argument, but also to the different "alternatives" it presents, thus making distinctions that are invisible to truth-conditional semantics. The aim of this project is to develop a new framework for modal logic that overcomes these limitations; to achieve this, we will replace truth-conditional semantics with a novel foundation: inquisitive semantics. Since inquisitive semantics allows us to analyze not only statements but also questions, it becomes pos- sible to define modal operators that take questions as arguments. This brings a whole spectrum of new modal notions within the reach of logical analysis; examples include the notion of supervenience, several notions of dependence and independence, agential control and influence, and attitudes like wondering and indifference. Moreover, since inquisitive semantics allows us to associate a modal argument with a set of alternatives, we may now define a new class of modalities that are alternative-sensitive. This allows us to systematize a number of proposals made in the literature and to aim for a general theory of the alternative-sensitivity of natural language modals.

Keywords: modal logic questions inquisitive semantics team semantics modality in natural language free choice inferences alternative sensitivity supervenience logics of dependence and independence logics of agency temporal logic epistemic logic