Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Supporting and standardizing climate services in Europe and beyond (Climateurope2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Serbia,Germany,Denmark,Switzerland,Poland,Belgium,Austria,United Kingdom,Norway
Call: Supporting and standardising climate services (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8695369.66
EU funding (EUR): 8695369.5
Participants: 34
Project status: SIGNED

Timely delivery and effective use of climate information is fundamental for a green recovery and a resilient, climate neutral Europe, in response to climate change and variability. Climate services address this through the provision of climate information for use in decision-making to manage risks and realise opportunities. The market and needs for climate information has seen impressive progress in recent years and is expected to grow in the foreseeable future. However, the communities involved in the development and provision of climate services are often unaware of each other, and lack interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. In addition, quality assurance, relevant standards, and other forms of assurance (such as guidelines, and good practices) for climate services are lagging behind. These are needed to ensure the saliency, credibility, legitimacy and authoritativeness of climate services, and build two-way trust between supply and demand. Climateurope2 aims to develop future equitable and quality-assured climate services to all sectors of society by: ● Developing standardisation procedures for climate services ● Supporting an equitable European climate services community ● Enhancing the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability The project will identify the support and standardisation needs of climate services, including criteria for certification and labelling, as well as the user-driven criteria needed to support climate action. This information will be used to propose a taxonomy of climate services, suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, and propose standards where possible. A large variety of activities to support the communities involved in European climate services will also be organised.

Keywords: climate services,standardisation,community support,climate change and variability,climate adaptation,climate mitigation,climate services market,climate policy,metadata,provenance
Entrepreneurship and Place: How Entrepreneurs Manage Evolving Relationships Across the Life-cycle (EPHEMERAL)

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: Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,Spain,Croatia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2754356.76
EU funding (EUR): 2754356.76
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

EPHEMERAL is designed to train a new generation of rural researchers with the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge to advance rural development theory and practice. Our interest in rural places and rural economies reflects Europe-wide calls for stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas and communities with huge potential to contribute towards economic, social and environmental goals. The project’s name reflects our novel contribution to theories and practices of rural place identity, rural entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems by introducing a critical time dimension - Ephemeral: "lasting for only a short time; transitory; short-lived. "Entrepreneurial opportunities are fleeting and transitory; places too are always changing. In this context, entrepreneurs create and develop enterprises that support the continuity of rural society. Building on the idea that entrepreneurs are agents of change and continuity in rural places, the fundamental premise of EPHEMERAL is twofold: i. Place influences opportunities differently at different stages of the entrepreneurial life-cycle, and ii. Entrepreneurs shape local places in different ways as their enterprises develop. EPHEMERAL brings together an interdisciplinary group of rural researchers in geography, economics, business and sociology. As such, it is ideally placed to support young researchers to generate new knowledge and insights for rural audiences by developing and testing new concepts and theories in different regions. To advance rural development in Europe tomorrow’s researchers must embrace interdisciplinary methods designed to reflect multiple and overlapping contexts of time, space, politics, inequality, technological advance and economic change. EPHEMERAL then train new researchers to understand and collaborate across disciplines and regions, and to work in diverse partnerships beyond academia to co-create new knowledge and share learning and best practices.
A ground-breaking Expressive Text-To-Speech platform to create emotionally resonant virtual voices (ETTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Strategic Digital and Health Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2960380.15
EU funding (EUR): 2072266.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Traditional voice production process by voice actors in a studio environment is expensive, time consuming and difficult to adapt to multiple languages. Text to speech (TTS) solutions available in the market are trying to overcome the bottlenecks in the traditional voice production pipeline, but fail to deliver the same level of emotion and prosody of human voices. To overcome these problems, Voiseed designed a ground-breaking Expressive TTS platform, driven by proprietary deep learning algorithms, to create virtual human-like voices, emotionally resonant, through a cost-efficient and time-saving process. Voiseed will offer Voice as a Service so that entertainment, e-learning and advertising companies will be enabled to generate and dub virtual voices into any target language, keeping the required prosody. During the project, Voiseed aims to develop a high quality unique expressive speech data set to release on the market a platform with more than 32 emotions in 16 languages.

Keywords: voice dubbing,voice production,speech synthesis,text to speech,deep learning
Targeting long non-coding RNAs for novel treatment strategies in vascular diseases (LongTx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999495.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999495.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The perception that RNAs are passive carriers of genetic information has been overturned. Due to the diverse targeting abilities and extensive research in RNA modification and delivery systems, nucleic acid-based therapies have emerged as suitable treatment options for many diseases. Targeting RNAs offers opportunities to modulate numerous cellular processes, including those linked to the large portion of ‘undruggable’ proteins. Currently approved protein-targeted therapies interact with <700 gene products, meaning that only 0.05% of the human genome is presently utilized for treatment. On the contrary, a large fraction of the human genome (>70%) is transcribed into non-coding RNAs. Humans produce more than 15.000 long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA), with a substantial subset of these likely being ‘druggable’ via RNA interference strategies, such as antisense oligonucleotides and siRNAs. In my current LongTx proposal, we aim at identifying suitable lncRNAs with relevance to vascular disease development and progression. To be successful, we made sure that we have identified suitable lncRNAs by profiling diseased human tissue from patients with carotid artery disease and stroke, as well as abdominal aortic aneurysms. Both diseases are currently being treated with suboptimal surgical interventions, and the growing affected patient population would tremendously benefit from novel treatment strategies that enable stabilization of advanced vulnerable atherosclerotic lesions, and also limit the risk for acute aortic ruptures and dissections. The two lncRNAs we have identified in preliminary studies using single-cell, bulk, and spatial transcriptomics are called CRNDE and NKILA. We propose to study these lncRNAs in disease-relevant preclinical in vitro (arteries-on-chips) and in vivo (genetically mutated mice and mini-pigs) models, with a strong focus on novel local delivery concepts for antisense oligonucleotide inhibitors that site-specifically target both transcripts.

Keywords: stroke,aortic aneurysm,long non coding rna
Climate impacts of a HYdrogen Economy – the pathWAY to knowledge (HYWAY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,France,Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Sweden,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call: Climate impacts of a hydrogen economy (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3949193.75
EU funding (EUR): 3949193.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The HYway project will be the most comprehensive study on environmental effects of large-scale hydrogen usage to date. HYway is led by a team of experienced scientists who have already conducted extensive research on the climate effects of hydrogen. To fully understand the climate effect of hydrogen emissions, HYway will constrain the hydrogen budget by novel work on surface emissions, measurements of leaks and soil uptake fluxes, and application of a global atmospheric model ensemble combined with observations to quantify the atmospheric sources and sinks of hydrogen. To improve monitoring tools for hydrogen leakages, HYway will develop novel emission modelling and installation-level emission measurements. We will measure the hydrogen soil sink using flux chambers and instrumented drones, and we will use this knowledge to improve process-based models of the sink. The Global Warming Potential of hydrogen and its Effective Radiative Forcing will be quantified, including the component contributions from methane, ozone, stratospheric water vapour and aerosols. HYway will also quantify several environmental effects associated with hydrogen emissions such as stratospheric ozone depletion and air pollution. HYway will build on existing methods to create realistic future scenarios to fully explore the climate and environmental impacts of a hydrogen economy, including co-emissions and associated reductions in fossil fuel-related emissions. HYway includes a large advisory board of industry partners, several of them from established hydrogen collaborations. The advisory board will assist in estimating hydrogen leakage rates and in establishing realistic scenarios for a future hydrogen economy. By evaluating the potential climate and environmental impacts of a hydrogen economy, HYway will provide critical information to policymakers and stakeholders, allowing them to make informed decisions about the role of hydrogen in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Keywords: radiative forcing,global warming potential,hydrogen emission inventory,hydrogen soil sink,hydrogen budget,hydrogen economy,global energy systems,climate change mitigation,earth system models
A Foundation Model for Lattice QCD: Learning to Understand the Standard Model and Beyond (FoundLatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491488.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491488.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite describing fundamental physics with spectacular accuracy, the Standard Model of particle physics is known to be incomplete. As experimental programmes probe its boundaries at higher energies and with better precision, it is critical that measurements are faced with fully controlled theory predictions. Lattice simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) form a major pillar of this effort. However, even with increasing computing capacity, many lattice QCD calculations will not be possible without new techniques. FoundLatt aims to solve this challenge by developing the first machine learning (ML) foundation model for lattice QCD. As exemplified by the highly successful ChatGPT, these large, general-purpose models have recently shown great promise in other contexts. Combining methods from these contexts with specialised ML methods that already accelerate specific lattice QCD tasks, I will create a lattice QCD foundation model that performs multiple challenging tasks over a range of physical parameters. The main innovation of this programme is a "train once, use forever" methodology, which will involve a centralised investment of effort that supersedes impractical training of non-reusable models. This objective will be achieved via three complementary work packages (WPs). My team and I will develop and train a foundation model capable of two critical tasks, importance sampling and precise estimation of observables, first for a reduced model of QCD (WP1) and then the full theory of QCD (WP2). We will also develop a method to learn a "quantum perfect" action for QCD, then fine-tune the foundation model to accomplish this (WP3). Such an action has zero lattice discretisation artefacts, thereby removing one of the largest sources of systematic uncertainty. The main output of FoundLatt will be an ML model that is shared openly with the lattice QCD community, unlocking state-of-the-art theory predictions for the next generation of new physics searches.

Keywords: machine learning,generative models,lattice qcd
Taming Radiative heat Emission with Anisotropic and Time-varying media (TREAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Thermal emission is a fundamental and ubiquitous process of energy and entropy transport, impacting science and engineering in various way. Yet, its stochastic nature, expressed in a broadband spectrum, lack of polarization and directionality, severely limits its control and manipulation. TREAT aims at introducing a novel method for engineering the radiative heat transport and achieving unprecedented dynamical control over the spectrum and the momentum of thermal radiation. To achieve this goal, I propose to combine two classes of emergent materials: time-varying epsilon-near zero (ENZ) media and hyperbolic materials (HMs). The time modulation of ENZ media will allow to overcome the fundamental limits to thermal emission set by the Planck’s and Stefan-Boltzmann’s laws and achieve active control over its properties. While the HMs, will enable to extract and guide the intense thermal radiation confined at the emitter surface, i.e., in its near-field. TREAT objectives address three intriguing questions: i) Can we create a time-varying media with ad hoc time modulation? ii) Can we manipulate thermal emission beyond the Planck’s law using the time-modulation? iii) Can we improve our control of the radiative heat flow in the near-field? Answering these questions requires the combination of expertise in nanophotonics and ultrafast science and perfectly suits my scientific profile. TREAT specifically targets the thermal emission engineering in the transparency window of Earth atmosphere, relevant for radiative cooling, and the development of novel coherent thermal sources in the THz range. TREAT will provide a fundamental advance to our understanding of thermal fields, beyond fluctuational electrodynamics, and a novel method for engineering the radiative heat flux, anticipating significant impacts in several applications of thermal light that would benefit from the active control of its properties, such as radiative cooling, energy harvesting, and optoelectronics.

Keywords: thermal radiation,epsilon near zero media,hyperbolic materials,thermal light coherence,quantum electrodynamics,thermal fluctuations
MAGnets in rEsiLient suppLy chAiNs (MAGELLAN)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Finland,Spain,Cyprus,Slovenia,Italy,Belgium
Call: Recyclability and resource efficiency of Rare Earth based magnets (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7518560.75
EU funding (EUR): 6503323.63
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

MAGELLAN will, for the first time in Europe, create a direct collaboration between material scientists, designers, manufacturers, recyclers and end-users, to engineer and demonstrate at TRL7, a disruptive, sustainable and cost-effective rare-earth-element (REE) permanent magnet (PM) value chain solution for high volume electric vehicle traction motors (EVTM), including: 1) Engineering and demonstration at TRL7 of an integrated highly advanced recycling and manufacturing process for improved resource efficiency short-loop recycling based on magnet-to-alloy, neodymium substitution and functionally shaped PM manufacturing via Powder Injection Moulding. 2) Development of a new EVTM rotor design benefitting from advanced shaped PM to improve assembly, enhance motor performances and facilitate dismantling of End-of-Life motors resulting in improved cost effectiveness and reduced material loss during recycling. 3) Optimisation of magnet recovery and recycling to avoid downcycling by minimising dispersion and dilution of heavy REE; implementation of characterisation and decision protocols to orient recovered magnets to the most suitable recycling route; supporting standardised magnet labelling. MAGELLAN will demonstrate the TRL of highly recyclable PM prototypes in an EVTM within a representative operating environment. Sustainability and business benefits will be demonstrated through life-cycle analysis. The future industrialisation of the MAGELLAN solution is estimated to reach a production of up to 2000t/y, i.e. 10-12% of the expected European EVTM market in 2040 and 4% of the expected European PM market in 2040 including all end-user sectors, thus significantly contributing to improving responsible supply of raw materials to Europe. It will potentially generate hundreds of new jobs in Europe, in PM manufacturing, recycling and REE industry, and contribute to a reduction of PM CO2 emissions of up to 50% when compared with standard magnet manufacturing processes.

Keywords: permanent magnets,rare earth elements,magnet recycling,ev traction motors,eco design,circular economy value chain,powder injection moulding,plasma melting process,sustainable ree sourcing,lca
Global Conservation: Histories and Theories (GLOCO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1932878.0
EU funding (EUR): 1932878.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Today, museums in Europe and the USA are under heightened scrutiny in light of increasing requests for artworks to be returned to their country of origin and growing questions about the appropriate display of ethnographic collections. Conservation practices are changing to include multiple experts to choose the most appropriate methods to preserve material culture. However, while museums display artefacts from many origins and deal daily with complex conservation practices, there is no comprehensive monograph or array of vetted online resources about the legacies of conservation on a global scale. Global Conservation: Histories and Theories (GloCo) will be the first academic research project studying the histories and theories of conservation of material culture at a global level from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. GloCo approaches conservation as a set of cultural and technological practices that aim to preserve and give access to art and material culture. GloCo develops an innovative framework centered around the study of a selection of objects – Mesoamerican featherwork; Asian ceramic; and West African wooden sculpture – and organized around key transversal concepts: forms and fragments; surface and time; and visibility and vulnerability. The importance and innovative dimension of GloCo lies in its broad historical and geographical scope as well as in its contemporary relevance. GloCo considers histories, theories, and forms of conservation within and beyond the West to restore a plurality of perspectives. We will publish four books (PhDs and PI), three articles (PDs), host two workshops, and create an online polyphonic dictionary (PDs and PI) that presents a range of notions tied to various cultures of conservation. These new definitions will become an essential resource for academics, museum professionals, and beyond. Thus, GloCo will reshape the current understanding of conservation through a deep rethinking of its histories and theories.

Keywords: museum,conservation,objects,materiality,practices,art,restoration,heritage