Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Imagining the future in post-industrial Taranto, Italy (TarasLAB)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214344.72
EU funding (EUR): 214344.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The port city of Taranto has grown in the shadow of ILVA, the largest steel plant in Europe. Since the 1960s, ILVA has provided the people of Taranto with livelihoods and hopes for prosperous futures but also contributed to the city’s environmental degradation and public health crisis. In 2012, ILVA was seized after a court's preliminary hearing deemed the steel plant responsible for Taranto's public health and environmental crisis. To reduce polluting emissions, the blast furnaces were shut down and the steel workforce faced layoffs. A socio-economic crisis ensued, adding to the environmental and public health crisis. Since then, the future of Taranto has been on hold: the state's promises to implement environmental policies and nationalise the plant have never materialised. Exploring the tensions between labour and environment, TarasLAB asks: How can the future be imagined and reclaimed when people's livelihoods mostly depend on what is likely to threaten their lives? To answer this question, it combines ethnographic and collaborative visual methods to engage the research participants in a collective project of multimodal storytelling, which will unfold through and culminate in the co-production of an ethnographically informed graphic novel. TarasLAB leverages anthropological theories and methods to analyse timely issues of interests to both society and policymakers: in addressing Tarantini’s concerns about their future, the project aligns its objectives with the European challenges to make Europe sustainable and secure by 2050. The project's results will add to scholarly debates on sustainable futures in the European semi-periphery while offering a unique contribution on the epistemological affordances of Graphic Anthropology. The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna will offer the applicant consistent training-through-research in Political Anthropology, enabling her to grow into an independent and confident scholar.

Keywords: political anthropology,deindustrialisation,industrial labour,environment,future,hopes,risks,southern europe,graphic anthropology
Spatiotemporal models of tissue patterning and cellular commitment during embryonic development (EmbryoAxes)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498683.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498683.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the most remarkable processes in biology is how animals develop from a single fertilized egg within a short time of rapid growth and an explosion in spatial and cellular diversity. Embryonic development is highly deterministic and consistent among different embryos and conserved across species. Astonishingly, embryos reuse the same signaling pathways in diverse developmental contexts to robustly pattern tissues. The advent of single-cell genomics in the last decade has allowed to chart the phenomenology of cellular differentiation at unprecedented resolution and scale. Yet, moving from such single-cell descriptions to models of how embryonic tissues achieve robustness and precision in their differentiation remains exceedingly difficult. To this end, we will develop new algorithms that will infer the spatiotemporal dynamics of differentiating tissues from space-, time- and lineage-resolved data. Tissues will be modelled as groups of proliferating and interacting cells distributed in space and moving along transcriptional, epigenetic and signaling manifolds. Focusing on the developmental stages of gastrulation and early organogenesis, we will reconstruct the spatiotemporal trajectories of cells together with the dynamics of their local niches. These trajectories will serve as the input to mathematical models that will predict local changes in a cell’s state from its signalome, epigenome and transcription factor repertoire. Using zebrafish embryos as a high-throughput system of vertebrate development, we will systematically test these models through time-dependent, combinatorial perturbations with a multiomic read-out. My overall goal is to develop quantitative, data-based models of how transcriptional, epigenetic and intercellular changes at the cellular level translate into robust and deterministic dynamics at the tissue level and to apply these methods to dissect how positional information and cell fate commitment emerges in the vertebrate embryo.

Keywords: spatial transcriptomics trajectory inference cell cell communication embryonic development lineage tracing optimal transport pattern formation gastrulation epigenetics
Toward efficient and environmentally-friendly cooling using active electrocaloric regeneration (ElectroCool)

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: Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Cooling accounts for 17 % of total global electricity consumption. Vapor compression cooling dominated the markets, which uses refrigerants that can leak to the environment and exhibits low efficiency. By contrast, cooling based on an electric-field driven change in temperature of certain materials, i.e. the electrocaloric (EC) effect, promises an environmentally-friendly technology with high efficiency. However, three key obstacles have prevented EC cooling from becoming commercially relevant: small temperature span, low fatigue life, and high applied voltage. This project has an ambitious goal of gaining insight into a regenerative EC cooler, which will enable the design and fabrication of the first regenerative EC device exhibiting a large temperature span with long fatigue life. Performance targets include a temperature span of 20 K, a fatigue life of 10000 cycles, and a low applied voltage. The research is organized into three work packages: (1) advanced material characterization, (2) high-fidelity system modelling, and (3) demonstration of a high-performance demonstrator. To achieve this challenging goal, a strong collaboration will take place between three leading institutions, i.e. the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Barcelona. The applicant is currently at forefront of international advances in developing regenerative cooling technologies, with internationally recognized awards, 24 peer-reviewed publications, and 11 innovation patents. The project will demonstrate a new concept of a robust, high performance electrocaloric cooler, which is expected to transform the current cooling technology to the new one that is environmentally friendly and efficient. A timely award of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will provide the applicant the necessary resources and access to expertise to make rapid progress in this emerging research area and become an independent researcher, ready to compete globally.

Keywords: electrocaloric cooling active caloric regeneration ferroelectric materials solid state cooling sustainable energy conversion
Jamming and Spoofing Resilient Deep Learning Based Software-Defined Multi-Antenna Multi-GNSS Receiver (JASMINE) (JASMINE)

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: Finland,Germany,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) technology is known for precise positioning and timing capability that is of use in diverse fields of science and technology. The rapid development in this field by various nations in terms of deploying new satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, COMPASS, IRNSS/NAVIC), new signals in different frequency bands (L1, L2, L5, G1, G2, E1, E5a, E5b, B1, B2, B3, etc.) is changing the trend of GNSS receiver design. Especially, the intrinsic flexibility of software-based receiver design approach is becoming a competitor to even highly developed ASICs. The goal of this project is to develop ‘Jamming and Spoofing Resilient Deep Learning based Software-Defined multi-antenna GNSS Receiver (JASMINE)’. JASMINE is a multi-antenna multi-system dual-band GNSS receiver with autonomous integrity ability. In this project we propose to build a novel design approach for software defined GNSS receiver, combining deep learning (DL) approach with the expert knowledge to replace existing GNSS receiver algorithms. Novel techniques are proposed for multi-GNSS signal acquisition, denoising, orbit determination (Satellite position estimation), threat detection and mitigation (due to jamming, spoofing and ionosphere) by applying prominent deep neural networks (2D CNN, BiLSTM, RNN/LSTM, 1D CNN) and deep reinforcement learning (actor-critic (RNN/LSTM, 2D CNN), Sarsa, Q-learning, Policy Gradients) methods that add intelligence and give unseen capabilities to JASMINE in comprehending an increasingly complex environment. The proposed JASMINE supports all GNSS RF-frequencies (compatible with new signals), inherits the superiority of signal and navigation processing algorithms through Deep learning technology, and thus presents excellence performance. To achieve reconfigurability and optimized performance, Graphics processing unit (GPU) based Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach is preferred for JASMINE.

Keywords: multi gnss,software receiver,software defined radio,robust signal processing,anti jamming,anti spoofing,deep learning,deep reinforcement learning,gpgpu,soft gpu
Prototype Spiked Microcapsule based Oral Insulin Pill For Diabetes. (Micro-Insulin)

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: Ireland,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 302331.36
EU funding (EUR): 302331.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic syndrome with millions of people affected globally, caused by impaired glucose metabolism due to insufficient pancreatic insulin release or the development of insulin resistance. To control the glycaemic load in the diabetic patient, insulin needs to be administered by parenteral injection which causes patient compliance issues. Oral administration of insulin is the preferred route but there is no oral insulin on the market because of the hurdles it faces in the gastro-intestinal tract. Oral administration is the preferred route but until now there is no oral insulin in the market because of the hurdle (gastric pH and enzymatic degradation, low permeability) it faces in the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, there is an unmet need for oral insulin development. To solve these problems, we will use microneedle technology for development of oral insulin delivery (Micro-Insulin). Oral administration of Micro-insulin will be investigated at the level of physicochemical characterization, preliminary safety assessment in in vitro and ex vivo models, and pharmacokinetics and efficacy in in vivo rodent models. High insulin intestinal absorption will be expected from the polymeric needle microcapsule via its piercing mechanism with controlled and localised release of insulin, which will be facilitated by a polymer matrix and the permeating-enhancing cationic cyclodextrin polymer. The objective of the project is aligned with the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme focus area - Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing and UN Sustainable Development Goal - Good Health and Well-Being. The Global Marie Curie Fellowship research will be conducted in partnership with the outgoing phase at a renowned institution from a third countries and incoming phase at EU country. The team is well equipped with skill and infrastructure required for the project. This will help bring advanced skills to EU countries and will have a significant impact on the fellow's career.

Keywords: oral insulin delivery,peptide delivery,drug delivery,microparticle,pharmaceutics,management of diabetes,drug formulation,microneedle technology,oral absorption,particle engineering
Research capacity building and upskilling and upgrading the research team in NUBiP (Ukraine) on agroecological intensification for crop production (ECOTWINS)

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: Ukraine,Denmark,Sweden,Spain
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499750.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The project objective is to strengthen the research capacity of NUBiP team and create a networking platform for best practices about agroecological intensification to uplift the scientific excellence and translational skills of NUBiP team. The specific objectives are : O1. Enhance research skills for stimulation of scientific excellence and innovation capacity of NUBiP in Ukraine O2. Exchange of knowledge and best practices through joint proposals, publications and visits to enhance scientific reputation O3. Implement field trials on combined effects of biostimulant application and cereal-legume intercrop on productivity and provision of ecosystem services O4. Communication, dissemination and exploitation of project outputs on agro-ecological intensification The main results are 1.Improved research competence and profile of 5 researchers from the coordinating NUBiP team 2.Exchange of best practices to upskill and upgrade researchers from NUBiP 3.Productivity and ecosystem service assessment of combined effects of biostimulants’ applications and cereal-legume intercrops 4.Synthesis of best practices on agro-ecological practices for dissemination and outreach ECOTWINS will enhance the research competence and excellence, as well as management and translational skills of NUBiP coordination team, by strategic and progressive transfer of knowledge and skills from the three EU partners (UCPH, SLU, ESCI). Furthermore, this project will strengthen NUBiP existing networks with other Ukrainian and international institutions by widening its research outlook and network with the support of EU partners. As a test bed and model sustainable cultivation site, ECOTWINS will also have an explorative agro-ecological research as a common theme across the WP activities using local resources. This will contribute to boosting the research in agroecology, disseminatee the sustainability-linked results and awareness to the scientific community, SMEs and general public in Ukraine.

Keywords: research capacity,project management,upskill researchers,cereal legume intercrop,biostimulants,agroecology,best practices,field trials
BIOmimetic selective extraction MEMbranes Hop on (BIOMEM-Hop)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Portugal
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 479360.0
EU funding (EUR): 479360.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The development of functional bioinspired polymer membranes is challenging due to the delicate balance needed for the membrane protein assembly, stability and function, which relies on specific and heterogeneous lipid environments. BIOMEM-Hop on aims to identify the precise lipid composition in newly developed biomimetic membranes required to maintain the structural integrity and activity of target transport proteins. BIOMEM-Hop on will implement an advanced high throughput (Epi)Lipidomics platform in synergy with bifunctional polymers testing, membrane kinetics, and transport activity assessments. This approach will significantly enhance the identification of specific lipid domains required for the stability and function of target transport proteins in protein-lipid domains and in biomimetic membranes. It will also shed light on how key lipids interact with bifunctional polymers, guiding the rational selection of polymers for the efficient extraction of active transport proteins along with their associated lipids. In addition, BIOMEM-Hop on aims to guarantee the uptake of its outcomes by the scientific community, stakeholders, policy makers and citizens to significantly increase the knowledge of the environmental, economic and societal benefits of this cost-effective, low-energy separation technique, as well as to explore additional opportunities in biomedicine and human healthcare. This will be achieved through communication, dissemination and exploitation of the research outputs. BIOMEM-Hop on is implemented by a strong consortium with expertise in polymer testing, transport protein stability and activity, membrane organization, kinetics and transport, and lipid analysis, laying the groundwork to understand and address the specific lipid composition required both for membrane protein activity and functional stability.

Keywords: membrane transporter proteins,membranes,polymers,filtration,bioprocessing,circular economy,pollutant removal
High-resolution auditory restoration by a brain implant operated with a bio-mimetic deep encoder (BRAINCODER)

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-2025-POC, 2025)
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

Hearing loss is a leading cause of disease burden. While the cochlear implant has emerged in the last decades as a major improvement for severe forms of deafness, this medical device still suffers from the lack of resolution which degrades the quality of restored hearing and from contraindications in a significant number of patients. To circumvent these issues, pioneering projects envision the use of auditory cortex implants placed on the last stage of the auditory system in the central brain, as they offer more interaction surface and address a highly plastic network. However, compared to cochlear implants, these new medical devices require novel encoding algorithms adapted to the neuronal code for sounds in the auditory cortex at a high level in the brain. To achieve this, the Braincoder project proposes to leverage recent results made in the context of the ERC CoG Deepen project which characterised essential transformations of the auditory information from the cochlea to the cortex and established that they could be reproduced with deep neural networks. Following these results we have implemented a network which solves the difficult problem of finding the mathematical transformations that compress information about arbitrary sounds onto the stimulator array of the implant, while respecting the key rules of sound encoding in the target brain region. The network architecture chosen allows estimating precisely the information loss in the compression process and to benchmark cortical implant performance against cochlear implants. This technology, along with auditory rehabilitation using a high density cortical stimulation system, has been the subject of a recent patent filing. The goal of the Braincoder project is to consolidate this patent filing and implement these benchmarks to transform this research breakthrough into a robust software demonstrator as well as to establish the business plan to fully exploit our innovations via the creation of a startup company.
Vibrationally Promoted Electronic Resonance Microscopy for Structural-Electronic Coupling Studies in Single Quantum Dots (VIPERMS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In this proposal, I aim to investigate the mechanisms of structural-electronic coupling at both microscopic and nanoscopic levels and their effects on the optoelectronic properties of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) single quantum dots. By leveraging my expertise in the photophysics of HOIPs nanocrystals, my experience in developing and utilizing vibrationally selective microscopy, and my host research group's proficiency in applying advanced vibrational-electronic techniques to study operando optoelectronic devices, we will push beyond the current state-of-the-art. We will develop a novel nonlinear spectroscopic microscopy technique with high temporal and spatial resolution. This approach will not only uncover the intrinsic mechanisms of vibronic coupling that affect optoelectronic properties in single quantum dots—mechanisms often hidden in traditional ensemble measurements—but also provide a unique method for studying how vibrational coupling influences quantum phenomena, such as single-photon emission. Our findings will offer mechanistic insights that can drive the development of new nanomaterials for photovoltaics, lighting applications, and single-photon sources.

Keywords: electron phonon coupling ultrafast spectroscopy photoluminescence carrier dynamics