Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Food storage in the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent (FoodStore)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

FoodStore investigates food storage systems in the Northern Fertile Crescent (western inner Syria, south eastern Turkey, northern Iraq) during the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC, in order to define the relationship between storage practices, socio-economic complexity and ecological conditions. During these millennia, the area experienced different trajectories leading to the emergence of complex societies, and the storage of food staples was central to these developments. The project has a multi-level design that combines the collection of published data, with the direct study of storage facilities from key archaeological sites. These features will be investigated through a combination of traditional macro-archaeological methods with micro-archaeological techniques from applied geological, chemical, and biological disciplines: microstratigraphy, Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy, and phytolith analysis. Key objectives for FoodStore are the establishment of a robust analytical protocol to investigate food storage practices in archaeological contexts; to develop an interdisciplinary framework to tackle issues connected to food preservation; to contribute to the collaboration between archaeology, anthropology and natural sciences; and to enhance the relevance of archaeology to support traditional rural heritage and food management practices.

Keywords: fertile crescent food storage social complexity social inequality food security
Unravelling the neuro-ethological components of emotions in honey bees (FEAR-BEES)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-03
End date: 2024-10-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The idea that invertebrates may have basic or primitive forms of emotions is growing. In part, this is based on cumulative evidence of high-level cognitive skills in these miniature brained animals. However, the mere presence of high-order cognitive skills does not imply the existence of emotional states and the characterization of the mechanisms underlying emotional states in invertebrates is still at its infancy. The study of proximate mechanisms of emotions in invertebrates has the potential to bypass the discussion on the appropriateness of semantics labels and advance our understanding of how the neural architecture and neurotransmitters involved in invertebrates emotions compare to those found in mammals, including humans. This project will exploit a multicomponent approach, including behavioural, neurophysiological, and cognitive correlates, to obtain powerful insights on the emotion of fear in invertebrates. Using the honey bee Apis mellifera as a model system, this project will: 1) characterise the behavioural and physiological correlates of "fear" using an equivalent paradigm of fear conditioning widely used in vertebrates, 2) investigate the molecular cascade of "fear" by quantifying the biogenic amines and neuropeptides in specific brain regions and circulating neuro-hormones in the haemolymph using cutting edge techniques, and 3) test the effect of blocking or activating different aminergic/hormonal systems by local injection of specific drugs/amines/hormones in the brain/haemolymph to identify casual links between specific brain regions and emotional processing. Besides advancing our current understanding of the emotional system of invertebrates, the project outputs will affect how we interact with invertebrates and will open fruitful ethical discussions to change current research policies.

Keywords: emotions,fear
BIRDSHADES BUSINESS MODEL VALIDATION AND IPR STRATEGY (BirdShades WomenTech)

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: Austria
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

BirdShades is a female led startup which develops an invisible window film to save billions of birds worldwide. We have recently successfully produced our first large scale pilot line which we are going to sell in a Pilot Customer Programme. We plan to validate our business model and to improve our IP strategy to ensure and pave they way that BirdShades will become one of tomorrows cutting edge deep tech champions which protects biodiversity worldwide.
Politics and aesthetics of indexical representation in digital games and VR (GAMEINDEX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1792888.0
EU funding (EUR): 1792888.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many contemporary digital games and VR experiences – including the Assassin’s Creed series of historical games – claim to provide realistic representations of places or people. But how is this realism achieved and which places and people get included? To answer this question, GAMEINDEX focuses on indexical representations – traces of real-life objects or people in the simulated worlds of digital games and VR. Such indices include 3D scans of buildings or the likenesses and performances of actors who provide motion capture data. GAMEINDEX will investigate indexical representation in digital games and VR using the following methods: 1) ethnographic on-site research of indexical techniques, such as motion capture and photogrammetry, 2) qualitative analyses of selected games that represent peripheral locations or groups of people, 3) analysis of the public discourse about indexical techniques. In the final step, the project will synthesize empirical findings into a theory that will chart the relationships between production practices, game content, and public discourse, elucidating political and aesthetic dimensions of indexicality. Due to the pressures to succeed on the globalized market, games have underrepresented and misrepresented peripheral locations and underprivileged groups of people. So far, studies of representation in games have focused on tropes and stereotypes within the games’ content. Thanks to its focus on indexicality, GAMEINDEX will provide a breakthrough in the study of media representations by transcending close readings and content analysis and studying how representation arises in the production process. The resulting theory will serve as a tool for critique, helping us understand how real locations and people are being exploited and reconfigured into entertainment products. At the same time, it will provide inspiration for developers to create more diverse and just representations of real-world phenomena.

Keywords: digital games,virtual reality,indexicality,game production studies
Deciphering the regulatory logic of the ubiquitin system (E3-SUBSTRATES)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1528843.0
EU funding (EUR): 1528843.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the primary route through which eukaryotic cells achieve selective protein degradation, the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) plays a key role in virtually all critical cellular processes. A major unresolved question concerns how the ubiquitin system attains such high selectivity towards its myriad of substrates. The main specificity determinants are the E3 ubiquitin ligases, which recognise cognate ‘degron’ motifs found in substrate proteins. However, for the majority of the ~600 E3 ligases encoded in the human genome we still have little or no knowledge as to their substrates, and our understanding of degron motifs remains limited. This knowledge gap prevents us from appreciating how key cellular processes are regulated and impedes the development of small molecules capable of either inhibiting or hijacking E3 ligases for therapeutic benefit. To complement the biochemical and proteomic techniques that have served as the primary route to discovery in the field, we seek to exploit functional genetic approaches to understand how E3 ligases recognise their substrates. Leveraging an expression screening platform that enables proteome-wide stability profiling, our specific goals are to: (1) identify physiological substrates regulated via degrons lying at their extreme C-termini, (2) define novel mechanisms through which conditional protein degradation is achieved via phospho-degrons, and (3) characterise the spectrum of degradative pathways responsible for the instability of hundreds of the most short-lived cellular proteins. For each goal, we will first provide global insight by systematically interrogating the proteome for relevant substrates; for the most interesting candidates, we will then seek detailed mechanistic understanding to illuminate new biology. Successful completion of this work will transform our understanding of how specificity is achieved within the UPS and greatly facilitate its future therapeutic manipulation.

Keywords: ubiquitin proteasome system protein degradation genetic screens
Hpc AlliaNce for Applications and supercoMputing Innovation: the Europe - Japan collaboration (HANAMI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European High Performance Computing
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EUROHPC (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Spain,Italy,Finland,Germany,Portugal,Sweden,United Kingdom,Poland
Call: EU-Japan Partnership (HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2022-INCO-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

A number of European leading Research Organizations (referred as RTOs hereafter) and research supporting organizations, with a long history of scientific and technology collaboration with Japan, are building a consortium for a proposal focusing on the development of joint High Performance Computing (HPC) applications for future generations of supercomputing platforms/architectures (preexascale, exascale, post-exascale) from Europe and Japan. European and Japanese research centers work together to develop and optimize applications of these methods in various scientific fields, such as material, biomedical and health (especially covid19 research, drug design …), and environmental sciences (such as climate modeling, seismology and prevention of natural disasters), and many other fields such as high energy physics, astrophysics, quantum computing, etc. The existing joint activities between the European consortium and the Japanese research institutes will bring together the required expertise to develop applications: this expertise ranges from fundamental research and applied science for designing new models, to the optimization, development and the integration of new and ambitious workflows and models to efficiently profit from pre-exascale, exascale, post-exascale and hybrid architectures deployed or already operational in Europe and Japan. The European consortium gathered in the HANAMI proposal is willing to support and foster joint scientific teams to improve the performance and transferability of European and Japanese HPC applications by leveraging the skills and expertise of the scientific community within Europe and Japan. This consortium focuses on the HPC, AI and DA application communities, represented by the CoEs, academic and industrial organizations addressing the strategic research areas that are material, biomedical and climate.

Keywords: material science,climate and weather modelling,biomedical,life science,pre exascale,exascale
The world´s most energy efficient Industrial Air Compressor (Airon)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

70% of all industrial sectors rely on compressed air for their daily operations. Compressed air production accounts for 10% of global industrial electricity consumption, corresponding to substantial carbon dioxide emissions. The production of compressed air with the conventional screw and turbo compressors is costly and unsustainable. Enairon air compressor technology addresses this inefficiency by introducing the first fluid type compressor design. Our patent-based compressor is a game-changer, empowering customers to cut electricity expenses by 37%, simultaneously reducing maintenance needs—a persuasive argument in a sector where electricity constitutes 80-90% of a compressor's lifecycle cost. This translates into multimillion-euro savings and a significant decrease in CO2 emissions. Additionally, our compressor is simple and robust, ensuring heightened reliability, decreased maintenance requirements, and an extended lifespan. Our solution has been demonstrated in a relevant environment at pilot customer Stora Enso Paper AB dedicated in the Pulp and Paper Industry (TRL 6). We target a lucrative market opportunity, estimating a TAM of €30.31 billion by 2030 in the stationary segment. With a modest 4.7% estimated total market share by 2030, we estimated revenues of more than €100 million, indicating the sale of about 70 compressor units across European and Asian markets. We request €2.5 million of EIC Accelerator grant, this will propel Enairon towards market entry with the first series of 400kW compressors, a tenfold increase in air volume from our current prototype, within two years. With a clear path to revolutionizing compressed air production, Enairon stands at the forefront of sustainable industrial solutions, ready to make a lasting impact on energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and global industry standards.

Keywords: compressed air,industrial electricity consumption,sustainable technology,fluid type compressor
Science-based Brain Training at the comfort of your home – medically certified (Brainhero – Embracing Neurodiversity)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-03
End date: 2025-04-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3542428.75
EU funding (EUR): 2479700.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Brainhero provides the first medically certified home-based EEG neurofeedback product with personalized therapy for children with ASD and ADHD. It integrates portable low production-cost hardware with its software, providing mobile training and advanced features for therapists. The set offers simplicity and readiness to use, reducing the setup time from 15 to 2 minutes. In addition, Brainhero reduces 10x the cost of the EEG hardware and 60% of the cost of therapy, enabling scaling up to many patients. With home therapy, our users gain convenience, eliminate travel and other logistic problems, enable adaptation of individual scheduling, and benefit from the comforting and known environment. Furthermore, personalization of the training software according to a patient’s individual brain profile optimizes training towards neurotypical levels. Brainhero increases 10x adequate training time compared with clinical 1-to-1 sessions once a week and drastically reduces overhead for parents.

Keywords: medical devices,neurofeedback,bci,quantitative eeg
Open Autonomous programmable cloud appS & smart EdgE Sensors (OASEES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Spain,France,Germany,Romania,Luxembourg,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7987425.0
EU funding (EUR): 7987425.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

The massive increase in device connectivity and generated data has resulted in the proliferation of intelligent processing services to create insights and exploit data in a multi-modal manner. Currently, the most powerful data processing operates in a centralized manner at the cloud, which provides the ability to scale and allocate resources on demand and efficiently. Centralized processing and cloud hosting, bound and limit their services and applications to operate in a resource restricted manner, relying usually on large single entities to provide, i) Authentication, ii) Data storage, iii) Data processing, iv) Connectivity, v) Vendor-locked environments for development and orchestration. This significantly limits the user from its data governance and even identity management. Similarly, existing solutions for edge device authentication require a centralized entity to trust them and authenticate them, rendering a non-portable identification paradigm. OASEES aims to create an open, decentralized, intelligent, programmable edge framework for Swarm architectures and applications, leveraging the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) paradigm and integrating Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) processes for efficient decision making. The OASEES vision is to provide the open tools and secure environments for swarm programming and orchestration for numerous fields, in a completely decentralized manner. An important aspect in this process is identification and identity management, in which OASEES targets the implementation of a portable and privacy preserving ID federation system, for edge devices and services, with full compliance and compatibility to GAIA-X federation and IDSA trust directives and specifications. This situation solidifies the need for an integrated enabler framework tailored to the edge’s extreme data processing demands, using different edge accelerators, i.e. GPU, NPU, SNN and Quantum.

Keywords: decentralized autonomous organization,human in the loop,self sovereign identity,object id
MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTIVE EVENTS USING PEOPLE-CENTRIC PREDICTIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE DISASTER AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE (Minority Report)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Belgium,New Zealand,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Solutions for the identification of vulnerable buildings and people-centric built environment, and for improving their resilience in disruptive events and altered conditions in a changing climate (Built4People Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5319898.75
EU funding (EUR): 4479124.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Despite digital, predicative systems improving our ability to foresee the impact of disruptive climate events on our cities, the complexity of these environments, coupled with the lack of data to assess the impacts of such events, leaves large swathes of urban areas exposed to future events. These conditions are exacerbated by climate change, growing urban populations, and vulnerable, ill-equipped building stocks, designed for a shifting climate, thus not guaranteeing occupants safety and resilience of the interconnected built environment. Minority Report will develop and implement a co-creation framework, to support the delivery of a people-centric technology platform integrating: 1) innovative predictive digital technologies, 2) rigorous models (3+) for risk (including vulnerability and uncertainty) assessment and categorisation, 3) advanced weather forecasting and early warning for climate events, 4) BIM, digital twins, monitoring systems and DSS, 5) energy simulations and behavioural models based on AI (including evacuation models), 6) newly developed approaches from SSH (>20 co-creation events), 7) and deep renovation passports (3+, efficiently combining 10+ deep retrofit solutions). The final objective is to deliver the Minority Report technology platform for a functionally, sustainable circular value chain for construction and renovation of built environments, for improved climate change mitigation (heat waves, category 5 storms, wildfire) and disaster resilience (floods, earthquakes, etc.), through unprecedented environmental targets (70% Energy savings, 30% Carbon footprint reductions, 60% Environmental impact reduction). Minority Report will apply its universal co-creation framework across three demo sites representing three distinct climatic areas, situated in EU and the IndoPacific (Dublin IE, Patras GR, Wellington NZ). These demo sites share both common and local environmental and societal challenges, which enriches the proposal’s scope and scalability.

Keywords: climate change mitigation,climate change adaptation,disaster resilience,people centric vulnerability categorisation,renovation passports,predictive digital technologies,co creation