Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Monkey Troubles: Confronting Control in Contemporary Singapore (Monkey Troubles)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Monkey Troubles is a comparative ethnography of control in human-monkey interactions and in the worship of a monkey deity in Singapore. It investigates how everyday interspecies and ritual encounters prompt ordinary Singaporeans to reflect on what control is, who has it, and how these ideas shape Singaporean relationships with other species and the environment. The study deploys an interdisciplinary approach grounded in anthropology, religious studies, and the environmental humanities to comparatively analyse the diverse understandings and practices of control that take place in everyday interactions with monkeys and a monkey deity. The project approaches these encounters as parallel interactive contexts in which humans struggle to interpret the ultimately opaque intentions of non-human others through communicative cues, including gesture, facial expression, posture, and gaze direction. The many uncertainties raised by these encounters make them key sites in which people generate ideas about the limits of human control, with critical implications for Singaporean attitudes toward wildlife management, conservation, and environmental governance. The project demonstrates that control is a culturally diverse and multispecies phenomenon that is decisively shaped by how people interpret the limitations of human control when interacting with more-than-human others. It also serves as a ground-breaking model for applying interaction analysis to other situations dealing with nonhuman entities such as religious studies and multispecies studies.

Keywords: environmental humanities,multispecies ethnography,monkeys,spirit mediums,face to face interaction,wildlife conflict,singapore
IMPROVING WASTE MANAGEMENT OF BIOBASED PLASTICS AND THE UPCYCLING IN PACKAGING, TEXTILE AND AGRICULTURE SECTORS (MoeBIOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Slovakia
Call: Recycling bio-based plastics increasing sorting and recycled content (upcycling). (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9745759.16
EU funding (EUR): 7013928.5
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

MOEBIOS is an application of the circular (bio)economy concept: the development of three value chains incorporating separate recycling streams for bioplastics (BP’s) to improve waste management efficiency throughout Europe. It is a systemic innovation: it will create linkages addressed at the different key stages of the whole chains to solve a hierarchical challenge, from the collection of the bioplastic waste (simulated streams), up to the upcycling and validation of the final recycled end-products (holistic and coordinated solution). The new value chain will imply sorting, conditioning and valorising three types of waste streams from the packaging, agriculture and textile industries into three end-products, targeting to reach at least the same quality and functionality than the original grades, while the end users’ acceptance will be assessed as well. As cornerstone targets for maximizing project’s impact, the upscaling of the recycling processes will: (1) be integrated in pilot plants on the premises of actual industrial recycling lines currently operating in waste management companies, not disrupting them, and reaching a final TRL = 6/7 or even beyond. (2) focus on bioplastics for which recycling processes are still not in place, excluding bio-based analogues (“drop-ins”): PLA and PLA blends, PHA and its blends, PBS and PEF, accordingly with the market. The use of PBAT will be assessed as well. A Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) and a transdisciplinary methodology will engage waste producers, waste managers, bio-based and (bio)plastics industry, public authorities, standardization agencies, citizens and media multipliers, creating a co-creation and co-ownership innovation environment of + 50 participants.

Keywords: agriculture,textile,food packaging,waste management,sorting,recycling,biobased polymers
Integrated Baltic Ecosystem for Social Innovation (IBESI)

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: Estonia,Lithuania,Sweden
Call: Integration of social innovation actors in innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-15
End date: 2025-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 631248.93
EU funding (EUR): 498927.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Social entrepreneurship is still developing in the Baltic States. There are low numbers of social enterprises (SEs), and most of them lack profit-generating business models. Moreover, social entrepreneurs lack connections with the overall innovation ecosystem. The goal of the Integrated Baltic Ecosystem for Social Innovation project (IBESI) is to ease the access of Baltic States’ social entrepreneurs to the resources of innovation ecosystems. Two objectives will help to achieve this goal. First, the project aims to strengthen the social economy of the Baltic States by integrating social innovation actors with existing entrepreneurship ecosystems. Second, it aims to increase the number of the region’s social economy actors having strong entrepreneurial skills. The project also intends to encourage the transfer of knowledge and interlinking between a more mature social innovation market - the Nordics - and Baltic States as well as between social innovation actors within the region. The activities of the IBESI project target key challenges preventing the development of the social economy in the region. Social innovation training for hubs will improve entrepreneurs’ knowledge about social innovation and their motivation to contribute to this sector. Hackathons aim to decrease the lack of SEs in the region, while accelerators that partly rely on the knowledge transfer between social entrepreneurs and experts from other sectors will ensure that social entrepreneurs have the competencies necessary to develop successful SEs. The mapping of the social finance ecosystems in the region and crowdfunding pilots will improve SEs confidence to apply various financial strategies, while Nordic/Baltic workshops for investors will encourage impact investments. The reports, study visits and workshops for policymakers intend to scale successful innovation models from the Nordic to the Baltic countries.

Keywords: interlinking,acceleration,transfer of knowledge,social economy,baltics,nordics
Mechanisms of Social Learning in Social Contagion and Cultural Evolution (SOLAR)

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: Sweden
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): 1499993.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499993.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Social learning – learning from the behaviors of others – is key for our success as a species. Ideas and behaviors are transmitted between individuals and across generations via social learning, which gives rise to the evolution of human cultures. Social learning might also fuel modern threats, such as the growing social contagion of misinformation in social networks. Despite the crucial role of social learning across a myriad of human behaviors, surprisingly little is known about the (i) psychological, neural and computational mechanisms of social learning, and (ii) how these mechanisms create societal-level phenomena. The SOLAR project takes on the challenge of developing a new theoretical framework that addresses these issues. The framework will be formalized in novel computational models. The same coherent set of models will be tested on (i) the level of the brain using brain-imaging, (ii) the level of individual behavior, and (iii) the level of the population, using multi-agent simulation and analysis of real-world interaction in social networks. SOLAR involves three programs that address three fundamental, but as-of-yet unanswered questions about human social learning: (1) What are the mechanisms that produce social learning? (2) Does social learning drive social contagion? (3) How does social learning promote cultural evolution? In contrast to previous accounts, I predict that these seemingly disparate questions can be unified and understood by a coherent set of simpler social reinforcement learning mechanisms. I will test this hypothesis with a unique multi-method approach that bridges the “nano-level” of the brain, via the micro-level of human behavior, to the macro-level of the social group. SOLAR will shed new light on both fundamental scientific questions about the nature of human social learning, and on pressing social issues, such as how to explain and reduce collective risks due to social contagion (e.g., spreading of misinformation).

Keywords: social learning,cultural evolution,social neuroscience,social contagion,reinforcement learning,computational modeling,cognitive neuroscience
Enzyme Mimicking by Metabolite-Metal Nanozymes with Exceptional Operational Stability (Meta2Zyme)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Israel
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): 2776000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2776000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While enzymes are highly useful in various applications, their limited operational stability and production costs have led to an extensive search for stable catalytic agents that will retain the efficiency, specificity, and environmental-friendliness of natural enzymes. Despite extensive efforts, there is still an unmet need for improved enzyme mimics and novel concepts to discover and optimize such agents. Inspired by the catalytic activity of amyloids and the formation of amyloid-like assemblies by metabolites, our group pioneered the development of metabolite-metal co-assemblies that mimic the catalytic function of common metalloenzymes with remarkably safe and simple building blocks. Intriguingly, the assemblies exhibit high efficiency and exceptional robustness, even under extreme conditions of temperature, pH, and salinity that are impractical for enzymes. Yet, we had only explored a minute fraction of the chemical space as present in natural enzymes. In this project, we propose the first-ever systematic exploration of a vast combinatorial matrix consisting of metabolites and metal ions that co-assemble into unique supramolecular catalytic active sites, analogous to the organization of covalently bound residues and metal ions in conventional enzymes. The proposed work will involve advanced experimental and computational techniques, including artificial intelligence-driven predictive modelling based on functional, structural, and mechanistic data, to identify, optimize, and test the new nanozymes in various relevant application scenarios. Through this comprehensive study, we will not only identify and characterize highly efficient nanozymes, but also gain fundamental insights into the evolution of natural enzymes and design principles of catalytic nanomaterials. This high-risk/high-gain project has the potential to revolutionize the mimicking of enzymatic catalysis and develop robust, highly efficient, cost-effective, and eco-friendly catalytic assemblies.

Keywords: self assembly,bio inspired materials,nanotechnology,molecular recognition,metabolite metal association,enzyme mimicking,catalysis
Tracking galaxy evolution with precise and accurate metal abundances in the interstellar medium (ISM-METALS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The introduction of heavy elements (metals) into the interstellar medium (ISM) via stellar feedback processes is crucial for the regulation of star formation and thus galaxy evolution. Metals set the heating and cooling balance in star-forming regions, and establish the carbon chemistry that is necessary for life on our planet. The gas-phase metal abundance (metallicity) is the most accessible measure of the build-up of chemical enrichment over cosmic time. However, there are large systematic uncertainties in our metallicity measurements, to the extent that we do not know if most galaxies are metal-rich or metal-poor compared to the Milky Way. These long-standing uncertainties plague our understanding of metal variations, but can now be addressed by vast new homogeneous data sets resolving tens of thousands of individual HII regions across nearby galaxies. This ambitious ERC starting grant tackles this problem by applying a data-driven approach to emission line measurements in our own Milky Way, Local Group galaxies (SDSS-V/LVM) and more distant Local Volume galaxies (PHANGS-MUSE). This project aims to resolve long-standing discrepancies in absolute metallicity calibrations and develop new and robust prescriptions that directly address electron temperature uncertainties. We will apply our methods to map out metallicity variations across more than 50 galaxies, providing quantitative constraints on the mixing scale and correlations with local physical conditions in the ISM. My leadership roles in LVM and PHANGS uniquely qualify me to lead this proposed ERC project. By establishing a new homogeneous local benchmark for absolute metallicity measurements, the ISM-METALS project will build a foundation for future studies of galaxy metallicities, enabling the robust interpretation of metallicity variations soon to be measured across cosmic time with upcoming new facilities (JWST, ELT).
Resolving troubling discord in Boreal versus Austral late Holocene temperature history (BOREAUSTRALIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2094176.0
EU funding (EUR): 2094176.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

According to temperature reconstructions based on natural climate proxy archives (ice cores, lake sediments, tree rings etc.), Northern and Southern Hemisphere (NH, SH) temperature histories differ in important features over the past millennia. This stands in contrast to the broad hemispheric agreement found in corresponding climate model simulations. I hypothesize that a new tree-ring proxy, based on quantitative wood anatomy, can be used to improve temperature reconstructions in both hemispheres, and by this reduce differences between reconstructions and simulations. Preliminary studies show such results at regional scales in Eurasia, and Hemispheric scale networks based on quantitative wood anatomy are thus expected to confirm my hypothesis. These advances will be novel and highly relevant to communities engaged in climate modelling, climate reconstructions, and human history research. To test my hypothesis, the project is divided into the following aims: 1. Create Boreal and Austral networks of quantitative wood anatomy data from tree rings from already sampled, as well as newly sampled trees growing in extra-tropical regions. 2. Use the new proxy data to examine volcanic-related responses specifically in the SH, where model simulations and existing proxy reconstructions clearly disagree. 3. Investigate if intra- and inter-hemispheric patterns of long-term temperature changes are more coherent among the new proxy records, and less different from corresponding model simulations. I am convinced that the results of this project will substantially improve upon the quality of both NH and SH temperature reconstructions, but if improved NH and SH reconstructions remain distinct from corresponding simulations, this may constitute an important basis for revisiting system physics implemented in current climate models. The outcome of these investigations will thus likely challenge conventional wisdom in at least one, and possibly several research communities.

Keywords: southern hemisphere,northern hemisphere,climate change,tree ring anatomy,earth system models,volcanic cooling,late holocene,current warming
European Arthurs, Medieval To Modern (EUARTHURS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Iceland,Italy,France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2885002.56
EU funding (EUR): 2885002.56
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

European Arthurs, Medieval to Modern’ (EUARTHURS) examines, for the first time, in cross-cultural synchronic and diachronic ways, the conceptualisation and the transmission of Arthurian matter in its move from its origins in early medieval narratives from Wales into other geographical and linguistic areas in Europe in the Middle Ages, into other genres and art forms that endure to the present day. Starting from the dichotomy that used to be perceived, in modern scholarship, between ‘centres’ of cultural power and diverse regional ‘peripheries’, EUARTHURS problematises both medieval and modern academic definitions of where the centre or centres were (and are) of this best-selling tradition in the Middle Ages, and explores their constant re-invention in traditions seen for far too long as ‘peripheral’ in European medieval writing and art, then in post-medieval forms. Supported by a team of non-academic partners, including repository libraries, archives, museums, and publishers, as well as creative environments, EUARTHURS aims to demonstrate that the culturally- and politically-specific environment which framed the appearance and then the dissemination of Arthurian legends across Europe shaped the key elements in these stories that led to the endurance of this global cultural export from then on and to the present day. The very academic tradition functions as an obstacle when it comes to examining how texts travelled across linguistic borders and what happened/still happens to them when they do. This is why we need EUARTHURS, as a ground-breaking cross-linguistic, comparative, cross-period project that trains the next generation of researchers to understand global movements of cultural texts and artefacts and how some texts go ‘viral’ while others are marginalised. EUARTHURS will demonstrate that the endurance of these forms of human expression is due to the relevance of the topics in modern negotiations of identity.

Keywords: medieval literature medieval art forms post medieval literature
Upgrading business potential of Enzybiotx (ENZYBIOTX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Since the discovery of penicillin people were living in justified confidence that available antibiotics can cure any bacterial infections. Emerging antibiotic resistance was usually overcome by treatment with new generation of antibiotics, but during last decades bacteria are clearly winning this race. Overuse of antibiotics, particularly in agriculture, and lack of investments in discovery of new antibiotics lead us to situation when increasing number of bacterial infections cannot be cured due to lack of effective remedy. Antibiotic resistance surveillance revealed rising antibiotic resistance around the world. WHO predicts that if no appropriate actions are taken by 2050 antibiotic resistance will be responsible even for 10 mln deaths every year. To address this urgent medical need new antibiotics and alternative methods of combating antibiotic resistant bacteria are needed. One of the new approaches which is getting more and more interests among academic and industrial research groups are enzybiotics, bacteriolytic enzymes that in a very effective and selective way eliminate bacteria, including antibiotic resistant strains, at the same time displaying very low resistance prevalence. Enzybiotx provides a deep-tech platform for tailor made-enzybiotics targeting specific bacteria. Our company has developed the platform for design and generation of new enzybiotcs to target pathogenic bacteria of interest as an answer to the need of alternative antimicrobials development. The company in collaboration with potential clients is able to prepare tailor-made enzybiotics which target pathogens and in collaboration with the client, perform all tests needed to adjust enzyme’s properties to be able to introduce them to the final products. The founders of the company are experienced academics who have gathered unique expertise in isolation and characterisation of new enzybiotics.

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance,non antibiotic solutions,enzymes