Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Maximising impact and accessibility of european climate research (MAIA)

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,Greece,Ireland,Portugal,Austria,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands
Call: Maximising the impact and synergy of European climate change research and innovation (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4049234.0
EU funding (EUR): 4049234.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

MAIA applies to the subtopic a) of the HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-03 Topic. MAIA will act as an impact multiplier by providing social structures, technological and outreach activities to accompany, potentiate and help maximise the impact of climate research projects funded under Horizon Europe. MAIA constitute the response from a group of coordinators and core partners from seven H2020 precursor projects in climate change research (BINGO, BRIGAID, CLARITY, Connecting Nature, DRIVER+, PLACARD and RESCCUE). In these projects, driven by the EC’s advice to identify synergies and spark collaboration, we liaised and detected a clear need for increased connectivity and a more robust approach to synergies management as means to unlock more meaningful and impact-oriented interactions. MAIA pivots around connectivity as a key enabling factor for an effective outreach. Therefore, we are envisioning specific actions for enhancing i) the connectivity of existing communities (consolidation and activation of a Pan-European community of problem owners, solution providers, and enablers); ii) the connectivity of knowledge and technological infrastructure (creation of the MAIA Portal); and iii) the connectivity of the EU climate research (coordinating an EU climate change research Cluster). Communication and Dissemination activities of the EU climate change research projects will be reinforced and amplified by our active outreach campaign, aiming towards the democratisation of climate knowledge. Moreover, MAIA develops a comprehensive cross-project exploitation-support programme. MAIA also addresses awareness raising, the strengthening of the science-policy and science-civil society interfaces, and the support for climate action and sustainable behaviours through several actions dealing with active dialogue supported through community engagement activities and the use of SSH.

Keywords: connecting knowledge outreach societal engagement clustering activities exploitation dialogue
Targeting telomeric DNA damage response as a new strategy to fight immunosenescence and improve vaccine response (TELOVACCINE)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The immune system is remodeled with age, going through a series of changes known as “immunosenescence’, including the involution of primary lymphoid organs, the contraction of the immune repertoire, a progressive lineage skewing towards the myeloid lineage and a low-grade pro-inflammatory status. A consequence of immunosenescence impacting the morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases is a dramatically reduced vaccine response in the elderly. Thus, reducing the burden of immunosenescence has the potential to impact the effectiveness of vaccine response. An established hallmark and driver of age-associated functional decline is telomere dysfunction. Dysfunctional telomeres are actively transcribed to generate telomeric non-coding RNAs (tncRNA) which are essential to recruit DNA Damage Response (DDR) factors at damaged telomeres, thus fueling DDR and causing cellular senescence initiation and maintenance. Sequence-specific telomeric antisense oligonucleotides (tASOs) target these tncRNAs and effectively inhibit DDR activation, ameliorating age-related phenotypes in mouse models. The telomerase-deficient (Terc-/-) mouse model, causes telomere shortening and dysfunction, recapitulating features of immunosenescence: immune system reactivity reduction, decreased long term renewal of hematopoietic stem cells and lymphocytes numbers, increased neutrophil count. tASOs treatment has beneficial long-term effect in this model, by decreasing immunosenescence and counteracting inflammation. We now plan to test the efficacy of tASOs treatment on ‘rejuvenating’ the immune system of aged wild type mice, a ‘physiological’ setting for aging. The final goal will be to assess if tASOs impact on vaccine response in both models: young Terc-/- mice and aged WT mice. In summary, we plan to determine the efficacy of tASOs to improve immune responses, including vaccines, in the elderly.
Fair and inclusive twin transitions for a stronger social Europe (FITTER-EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Spain,Germany,Hungary,Portugal
Call: Tackling inequalities in the green and digital transitions (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999875.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

FITTER-EU (FITTER) aims to contribute to existing research on the origins, dynamics and determinants of inequalities and enable anticipatory governance to support a fair and inclusive twin transition in Europe. The project innovates by the formulation and development of an ecosystem (FITTER ecosystem) that pivotally includes a highly interactive and gamified Digital Platform powered by an Intelligent Predictive Decision Support System. Through a co-creation methodological approach, this ecosystem will enable policymakers to predict which social groups may be at risk of being adversely affected by twin transition policies under different scenarios, with the option to simulate the implementation of these policies to assess inequalities and social exclusion risks. The Digital Platform within the ecosystem will provide proposed mitigation measures and better practice guides that can be used to curve potential negative effects of policies on identified at-risk groups. The FITTER ecosystem also incorporates wider platform connectivity capability and better practice guides which, through a foresight engagement process, will help to meet the needs of the engaging FITTER Cluster Community Group of Stakeholders (CCGS). The CCGS includes key pan-European members such as policymakers, civil society organisations including trade unions, as well as business angels among other targets.

Keywords: twin transition,intersectionality,risk assessment,co creation,mitigation policies,gamification,digital platform
Dwelling alone or together: An integrated framework of peer victimization, (co-)rumination, and mental health (DWELL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Finland
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): 1499855.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499855.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Why do some youth suffer debilitating depression or anxiety after being victimized by peers yet others grow hostile? Why do some youth dwell alone on their problems (rumination) yet others dwell with their friends (co-rumination)? When does talking to friends about problems (e.g., victimization) help or hurt? Despite the serious (and potentially long-lasting) consequences of peer victimization, these questions remain unanswered. We lack a detailed understanding on how victimization, (co-)rumination and mental health co-develop, or when and why their associations differ between individuals. DWELL moves beyond the state-of-the-art to address these questions in three work packages. WP1 examines individual differences in the pathways between victimization, rumination and mental health. In contrast to existing work, WP1 focuses on why some victimized youth, but not others, ruminate about their victimization – even years later as adults. In WP2, I put forth a new conceptualization of co-rumination - as a dynamic process that can vary within a person across their friendships, rather than as a static trait. Towards this aim, I introduce a novel co-rumination measure that captures who co-ruminates with whom. By identifying a network of co-rumination ties, this also allows for ground-breaking insight into how co-rumination spreads in a peer group. WP3 integrates these findings into a holistic framework, accounting for the temporal ordering of victimization, (co-)rumination, and mental health. Through a multi-method design (longitudinal studies, register data, daily diary, observation), and a novel co-rumination measure, DWELL explains individual differences in day-to-day, short-term (~1 year), and longer-term (up to adulthood) effects of victimization and (co-)rumination on mental health. This framework will help prevent suffering of victimized youth, and has far-reaching implications for non-victimized youth who engage in (co-)rumination in response to other stressors.

Keywords: peer victimization rumination co rumination mental health
Novel dry air switchgear technology to reduce industry’s dependence on SF6 (Nuventura)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3543125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2480187.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nuventura develops medium voltage (MV) gas insulated switchgear (GIS) which replaces SF6 - the world's strongest greenhouse gas - with dry air. Annual SF6 emissions are 8,100 t, equal to the CO2 emissions by 100m cars. 85% of SF6 gas is used as a GIS insulating medium. Though recycling of SF6 is possible, it is usually not done due to difficulty & cost. It can be expected that SF6 that exists now & that is produced in the future will persist for thousands of years, whether in GIS equipment or, ultimately, in the atmosphere. SF6' atmospheric lifetime is 3,200 years. MV power grids (12-40.5 kV) use 3 types of switchgear: air insulated switchgear (AIS), solid insulated switchgear (SIS) & gas insulated switchgear (GIS). AIS have a large physical footprint, costly maintenance, & inability to meet the demands of urban grids. SIS works only in rare & highly specialized use cases. Nuventura combines the advantages of GIS & AIS in a new dry air switchgear that is sustainable, safe & reliable.

Keywords: greenhouse gas,electrical industry,alternative technology,climate change mitigation,global warming potential,industry 4 0
The BRight Side: Understanding the role of the Brain’s Right hemisphere for language development in autism (BRight)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BRight will investigate alternative right-hemispheric pathways for language development in autism. While language is especially left-lateralized in the typically developing brain, there is increased right-hemispheric involvement in autism. It is unclear whether these right-hemispheric neural pathways contribute to language deficits or if they form a potential compensatory network, facilitating an alternative route for successful language development. This is especially interesting to examine in the preschool age as language abilities are at their most variable and intervention strategies at their most effective. BRight has four objectives: 1) characterize typically developing neural pathways for language in the left and right hemisphere; 2) compare individua neural pathways of autistic preschoolers to the typically developing children; 3) relate right hemisphere variables to a preschool battery of language assessments; 4) longitudinally examine preschool neural variation to school-age language abilities. BRight will achieve this by collaborating with an existing research consortium that studied autistic preschoolers using MRI and by adding a new time point to examine these children now that they are at the school age. BRight will overcome previous limitations like an overreliance on isolated brain measures and a dependence on group-level analyses that cannot capture the heterogeneity of the autism spectrum by employing novel data fusion and normative modeling approaches. By integrating across multiple brain measures (including structural MRI, diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI). The highly interdisciplinary approach taken in BRight will fundamentally impact our understanding of brain-behavioral correlations and the neural foundation of language in autism. The project will have significant impact on the researcher’s career as she will receive rigorous training in cutting-edge neuroimaging and statistical techniques from leading experts in the field.

Keywords: autism,language development,data fusion,normative modeling
Glass-ceramic innovation ecosystem for implementation of new research directions in applications (GlaCerHub)

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: Slovakia,Czechia,Spain
Call: Excellence Hubs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4994751.25
EU funding (EUR): 4994751.25
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth stem from innovation and are vital in collaborative research projects. However, given the heterogeneity of economic and industrial frameworks between North/Western Europe and South/Eastern Europe, open calls for European funded research projects often exacerbate the knowledge gap between more and less developed regions. This in turn, limits the economic impact of this funding on areas that often need it the most. Czechia and Slovakia have been growing their gross domestic expenditure on R&D, almost doubling it since 2005. However, this growth does not directly equal innovation, with patent applications per million of the population not reaching 15% of the EU benchmark. The GlaCerHub project will strive to support the virtuous innovation and economic cycle by capitalizing on the present-day competitive advantage of the advanced glass and ceramics industry to create a place-based innovation ecosystem in the border region between South Moravia (Czechia), and Trenčín (Slovakia), a region with long tradition in these areas. The GlaCerHub consortium will create a dynamic, specialist innovation ecosystem for the advanced glass and ceramics sector by stimulating new synergies between industry, academia, government, society and other European innovation Ecosystems. In the long term GlaCerHub will become a self-sustaining entity, supporting the creation, development, piloting and protection of strategic technologies, training of all stakeholders from the quadruple helix, and creating and supporting technology transfer. The long term impact will be to increase: - investment in glass and ceramics R&D - IP protection and patent applications - spin-off creation - intersectoral PhDs (and international PhDs) - licensing transactions - national, regional and European recognition of GlaCerHub as a centre of excellence

Keywords: glass,ceramics,training programme,tech transfer,strategy,talent attracion and development
Recycling of High Quality CRM Resources from Machining Tools for Re-use Applications (RESQTOOL)

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: Belgium,Spain,Germany,Italy,Luxembourg,Finland,Poland,Liechtenstein,Ireland,Sweden
Call: Recycling technologies for critical raw materials from EoL products (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8577717.5
EU funding (EUR): 6956195.76
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Recycling of High Quality CRM Resources from Machining Tools for Re-use Applications RESQTOOL will offer a sustainable and energy efficient solution for recycling and responsible supply of Critical Raw Materials (Co, W, Ta, Ti, Nb) from EoL products in Hard Metal industries of metal/wood cutting, construction and tool manufacturing by lowering the carbon footprint and energy consumption of Zinc reclaim process and developing advanced hydro- and solvo-metallurgical bio-chemical recycling based on agro-industrial waste RESQTOOL will explore the potentials of Zinc Reclaim and Bio-chemical Recycling processes in the complete value chain of Hard Metals to offer a responsible, circular and sustainable supply of Critical Raw Materials in Europe together with a contribution to EU Climate neutrality objectives. The project will demonstrate within 4 years the capability of these two complementary processes to re-use and recover Critical Raw Materials in all stages of the Hard Metals value chain ranging from collection, logistics, sorting and separation to cleaning, refining and purification of materials. Demonstrating an approach towards zero waste manufacturing by means of energy and resource efficiency, and by a validation using real parts from the HM industry, the project will go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of maturity (from TRL 5 to 8) and hence contribute to the European Green Deal.

Keywords: hard metals,critical raw materials,recycling,sustainability,circularity,re use,
Mapping the diversity of Type Ia supernovae explosions (SN-DIVE)

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: Physics
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): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are the explosive luminous deaths of accreting white dwarfs (WD) in binaries. They play a vital role in chemical enrichment, galaxy feedback, and were instrumental in the discovery of dark energy, as our most mature cosmological probe. However, next to these "normal" and cosmologically useful SNe Ia, a surprising diversity in WD explosions has been revealed, with a much wider-than-expected range in luminosities, light-curve timescales and spectral properties. These "peculiar" events indicate that there are multiple ways a WD can explode and contaminate pure cosmological SNe Ia samples. A promising path to relate these peculiar explosions with the numerous proposed theoretical models is by investigating their host galaxies and estimating the ages of their underlying stellar systems, as different progenitor scenarios involve different timescales that control the production rate of these events. The aim of this action is to outline the variety and resolve the origins of these extreme SNe Ia. I will use the current state-of-the-art "discovery transient machine", the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), to compile the largest homogeneous sample of peculiar SNe Ia, characterise their population properties and host galaxy parameters, determine the ages of their progenitors and link them to theoretical progenitor channels. By the end of this action, I will provide a detailed map of the SNe Ia diversity that will help decontaminate next-generation cosmological experiments, such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and offer a significant advancement in understanding how a WD explodes.

Keywords: supernovae,white dwarfs,optical astronomy
Structuring Effective Climate Change Agreements through Perfect Procedures: an Experimental Approach (SECCAPPEA)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175737.12
EU funding (EUR): 175737.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Structuring Effective Climate Change Agreements through Perfect Procedures: an Experimental Approach (SECCAPPEA) The solution to the climate change problem can be no longer postponed because more and more indicators are showing that we are getting closer to the tipping point of an irreversible process. At the same time, climate change is a global issue that cannot be tackled by means of the commitment of a minority of virtuous agents or communities. Instead, problems of global outreach like the global warming can be solved only through a high degree of international cooperation: this is exactly the main goal of the international agreements on climate actions. However, despite several international agreements signed during the last decades for the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, nations have generally failed to comply with the prescriptions of climate change agreements, so that greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. This lack of commitment produced no relevant changes in terms of reducing the risks related to climate change. The SECCAPPEA project, through methods and tools belonging to behavioural and experimental economics, aims to study and examine perfect procedures as a new way to structure self-enforcing international climate change agreements, so that they can produce tangible results, reducing the likelihood of the world heading into the so-labelled “climate chaos”. The project will last 24 months and will be developed between the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (associate partner for the outgoing phase) under the supervision of Professor Scott Barrett, and the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) at the University of Trento (beneficiary) under the supervision of Professor Luigi Mittone.

Keywords: experimental economics game theory