Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Green Alternatives for European Autonomy Challenge (GAEA)

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: Greece,Poland,Sweden
Call: Expanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1252462.36
EU funding (EUR): 998306.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Contemporary entrepreneurial ecosystems in the RIS (EIT Regional Innovation Scheme) countries largely remain underdeveloped with moderate innovation capacity, a fact often evidenced by the “brain drain” of local talents. The numbers of entrepreneurial student teams, and consequently the innovation development level in RIS Countries are still relatively low. The operation of 7 Incubators of EIT RawMaterials since 2019 in RIS Countries has validated this insufficiency and the lack of uniformity of the national entrepreneurial ecosystems indicating the need for enrichment and support for organic growth. The proposed project, Green Alternatives for European Autonomy (GAEA) Challenge, outlines the implementation of a coherent program for youth employability to reinforce regional entrepreneurial ecosystems by engaging students and local talents in regional and interregional idea competitions. Building on the successful experience of the Greentech Challenge in Greece, GAEA will go beyond the current state-of-the-art a) by widening the conceptual scope of challenges to address to include the dimension of the European autonomy reinforcement within an international context influenced by the war in Ukraine and b) by interconnecting regional ecosystems in a cross-cultural initiative designed to last beyond the 28 months period of the project. GAEA's ambition is to enhance entrepreneurial skills of youth in moderate innovation ecosystems by bringing together educational institutions & private companies in a mutually beneficial way, ultimately boosting entrepreneurial ecosystems growth in EU countries that mostly need it. The project will unfold in two stages, regional & interregional, mobilizing and connecting regional entrepreneurial ecosystems around student ideas and projects that will reach to the market in eight countries (EL, LT, SK, LV, HU, CZ, SE, RS and PL), improving innovation flows among the regions and consolidating this knowledge through accelerated projects.

Keywords: incubation,acceleration,idea competition,ideation,startups,bootcamps,workshops,mentoring,youth entrepreneurship,innovation,expanding ecosystems
From maternal hormones to malaria susceptibility and accelerated ageing: new insights from wild birds. (MATHORMAL)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

For centuries, malaria has been a major global health concern, and despite intensive research efforts, malaria infection remains a key issue for many countries. Malaria parasites are also responsible for wildlife population declines and even extinction of many bird species. Despite being exposed to the same risk, there is a clear inter-individual variation in the susceptibility to malaria infection. Through MATHORMAL, I propose that such inter-individual variability in malaria susceptibility might be linked to both the prenatal programming of physiology by maternal hormonal effects and by initial differences in cellular ageing (i.e. assessed through telomere length). Higher exposure to certain maternal hormones can depress immunity, accelerate cellular ageing, and deregulate the protective microbiome of the uropygial gland linked to antimalarial defensive mechanisms. Thus, I hypothesize that increased prenatal exposure to certain maternal hormones could make the offspring more susceptible to malarial infections, potentially through its effects on telomeres and uropygial microbiome. To test this, I will first use artificially increased yolk hormone experiments (glucocorticoid, testosterone, and thyroid hormones) in a wild bird population and assess malaria infection intensity, immunity, telomere dynamics, and uropygial microbiome. Then, I will experimentally induce early-life telomere lengthening with TA-65 to assess the potential role that short telomeres play in malaria susceptibility. This project will advance our understanding of the inter-individual variation in malaria susceptibility, which will help to improve malaria prevention strategies. MATHORMAL will use an integrative approach at the crossroad of evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology, and parasitology and largely benefit from the dual knowledge transfer between myself (expertise in maternal hormonal effects and avian malaria) and my host group (expertise in maternal hormonal effects and telomere biology).

Keywords: hormone mediated maternal effects,malaria parasites,telomeres,immunology,microbiome,yolk hormones,birds
Quantitative Quantum Matter Analysis (QuaQuaMA)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499190.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499190.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The assumption that the plain vanilla single-band Hubbard model captures the relevant physics of the cuprate materials has been a key motivation for a host of numerical work and quantum simulation experiments. Recent numerical advances challenge this assumption and raise the pressing question: which minimal model can be used to understand quantum materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity? However, extracting the relevant Hamiltonian of real materials is a formidable challenge and usually involves ab-initio methods that only approximately capture strong correlations. The goal of QuaQuaMA is to perform Hamiltonian reconstruction for materials by developing a novel approach where strong correlations take center stage: we will systematically compare observables from experiments on materials with quantum simulators and large-scale numerics, which directly take strong interactions into account. Building upon this year’s Nobel prize work, we will develop and use neural networks to simulate interacting quantum many-body systems. The number of simulations for different candidate Hamiltonians will be minimized through a highly efficient, machine learning based exploration of the vast parameter space. Our advanced numerical methods, in combination with quantum simulation experiments, will also enable the exploration of the phase diagrams of the determined effective Hamiltonians, employing novel observables to reveal the underlying physics. We will focus on three particularly interesting, related material classes with the ultimate goal to distill the essence of unconventional superconductivity: cuprates, infinite layer nickelates, and bilayer nickelates. The Hamiltonian reconstruction framework established in QuaQuaMA will be applicable far beyond these materials, for example to study effective Hamiltonians in the context of light-induced superconductivity, thus generating an enormous impact in the fields of strongly correlated electron systems and quantum simulat

Keywords: quantum simulation,cold atoms,numerical methods for quantum many body systems,fermi hubbard,machine learning in condensed matter physics,cuprates,nickelates,hamiltonian reconstruction
Bringing financial support to innOvation and pOrtfolio activitieS increasing impacT of eic-supported research (BOOST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Spain,Portugal
Call: Financial Support under the EIC Booster Grant Scheme (HORIZON-EIC-2024-BOOSTER, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999932.5
EU funding (EUR): 5999932.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

BOOST Project aims to ease the access of EIC Awardees (mainly EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition projects as well as related third parties) to the EIC Booster Grants. BOOST Project will distribute EIC Booster Grants (lump-sum grants to finance innovation and portfolio activities) to at least 100 invited EIC Awardees. The Booster grant projects will receive up to €50,000 following a first-come, first-served schema. BOOST Project will also provide the EIC and EISMEA with data relevant to assessing the impact of such support. BOOST Project will do this by guaranteeing efficient and EC-rules compliant governance, adequate integration of EIC Booster grants within the EIC community support and EIC/EISMEA portfolio management activities, and gathering operative and impact data that will support evidence-based decision-making by the EIC and EISMEA. To ensure effective task execution and maximize available resources, BOOST Project utilizes a compact and agile consortium. This allows up to 83% of the total budget to be allocated to EIC awardees. The consortium includes SPL, entity specialised in cascade funding, as Call for proposals manager, MWCB, especialised in tech transfer, as Booster grant projects manager, EurA PT as monitoring and impact manager, all of them coordinated by FBA as Project Coordinator and FSTP Manager. This streamlined consortium will rely on a high-quality, curated database of over 820 experts (who regularly collaborate with the partners) to support the evaluation and assessment of Booster grant projects. All this ensuring a seamless connection with EIC procedures and practices, as all partners are actively involved in EIC projects.

Keywords: eic booster grant scheme,eic pathfinder,eic transition,eic pilot pathfinder,fet open,fet proactive,cascade funding,lump sum,innovation activities,commercialisation,market analysis,ip,busi
Pandemic Information to Support Rapid Response (PAIR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: United States,Italy,Denmark,Türkiye,Latvia,Spain,Austria,France,Poland,Estonia
Call: Pandemic preparedness and response: In vitro diagnostic devices to tackle cross-border health threats (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7730705.76
EU funding (EUR): 6993860.49
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

It is clear that critical pandemic decisions need to link rapid, reliable testing with comprehensive modelling of potential impacts. Currently, Europe lacks a comprehensive One 1) A diagnostic point of care instrument (PANPOC) for rapid detection of respiratory RNA viruses with pandemic potential: Influenza A (human, avian and swine), influenza B and beta-CoV (SARS-CoV-2 variants and emerging beta-coronaviruses) (the Target Viruses). PANPOC will be validated by testing animal, environmental and clinical samples (one health approach). 2) A prognostic AI-based platform (PANRISK) to predict the spread of the Target Viruses and contribute to public health by giving an alarm once an outbreak exceeds a given threshold. The platform is based on a pathogen genomic drifting model to predict the risk of animal pathogens drifting to become human pathogens and an epidemiological model to predict geographical and temporal outbreaks of zoonoses. The portable PANPOC equipment will be validated and demonstrated at end-users: hospitals, General practitioners, competent veterinary authorities, health authorities, border controls, airports, refugee camps, etc. The aim of PANRISK is a syndromic surveillance framework for diseases, for targeting directed surveillance in concentrated periods of time and areas. The advantage of the PANRISK model is targeted towards zoonotic diseases, with high precision data that allows high precision in the surveillance for trends. The contribution of social sciences and humanities (SSH) is integral to the project. An SSH partner will focus on social and health inequities in the pandemic preparedness and aims to provide indications for the implementation of the PPP to support the involvement of stakeholders as well as public trust. A policy development partner will align the projects output to the key policy development and implementation processes within the EU. A dissemination and communication partner will ensure efficient communication, dissemination and engagement of the stakeholders.

Keywords: point of care diagnostics,genomic sequencing,ai based prognostic modelling,target product profile,target viruses,influenza a and b,sars cov 2
Urban Frontiers. From Illegal Land Occupation to Legalized Property (Urban Frontiers)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499861.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499861.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

No land, that government and developers see as future cities in the Global South, is vacant. There is no empty ‘no-man’s land.’ Individual citizens, social movements, squatters, and urban developers already engage in making their land use look legal. Urban property development in the Global South often starts out in illegality. Only subsequently does it become legal. This project explains how? Mainstream research on the Global South sees urban land in technical terms of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of providing sufficient housing, infrastructure, and service. Yet, if we fail to understand the significance of institutional transformation of urban land, we will not understand the future political landscape in the Global South, as landed property is the pivot around which government and citizenship turn. With this project, I develop and combine two new concepts to explain how people - and not just the state - code access to land and then conjure up legality for facts already existing on the ground. Coding is rulemaking, whereas legalization gives a rule the quality of law. A rule’s quality as law is not intrinsic to the rule itself, but something attributed to it in social and political interaction. Governments make laws, but the originality of the present project lies in determining how multiple actors aim to make their land claims appear legal as if they were sanctioned and approved by state and law. My team and I will collect material evidence (record artefacts from archives, material structures, physical markers and signs, boundaries, and documents and other expressions not produced directly for us) and ethnographic testimonies (from residents, land users, civil servants, lawyers, politicians, and developers) to establish how illegal land use is made to look legal. Nine conflicts-case studies will be conducted in peri-urban areas of cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by 1 prof (PI), 3 assoc. profs, 3 postdocs and 3 PhDs.

Keywords: property,urban,frontier
Decoding the contribution of TDP-43 for synaptic failure in Alzheimer's Disease (SynTDP)

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: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207183.12
EU funding (EUR): 207183.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an adult-onset disorder characterized by progressive neuronal loss and synaptic dysfunction, leading to severe cognitive decline. Nuclear loss and pathological inclusions of TDP-43 protein have been identified in 20-50% of AD patients, which associate with higher odds of cognitive decline, and faster brain atrophy rates. TDP-43 regulates RNA metabolism, and many of its RNA targets converge at synaptic function. Studies from me and others identified TDP-43 dependent mis-splicing in AD patients with TDP-43 pathology, strongly suggesting that TDP-43 loss-of-function is an important, yet understudied, pathway in AD. Here, I hypothesize that TDP-43 loss-of-function in AD leads to defects in its synaptic RNA targets, which in turn contribute to synaptic dysfunction and thus cognitive defects. I will use post-mortem tissue, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and mouse models to characterize the impact of TDP-43 loss in synaptic function and composition, and matched these with RNA alterations resulting from TDP-43 loss-of-function. This will uncover novel synaptic signatures of TDP-43 dysfunction in AD, and offer new insights into neurodegeneration in AD. I will leverage my PhD training in synapse physiology and postdoctoral expertise in TDP-43 proteinopathy while working under the guidance of Dr. Ana Luísa Carvalho, a leading expert in synapse biology of disease. Dr. Carvalho is a dedicated mentor, and her lab at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) in Portugal is part of a top-tier research center with state-of-the-art facilities and a vibrant academic environment. This experience will be crucial for developing the scientific and transferable skills needed to achieve my goal of becoming an independent researcher within 2-3 years. I am enthusiastic about this opportunity and believe the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship would be transformative for my career and personal development.

Keywords: synaptic transmission,tdp 43,neurodegeneration,rna splicing,synaptic proteome,alzheimer s disease
University Paris-Saclay Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Sciences of Light (LIGHTinPARIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3024000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3024000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

LIGHTinPARIS is a MSCA COFUND Doctoral Programme in the field of Sciences of Light aiming at promoting interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral research projects at University Paris-Saclay (UPSaclay). The Sciences of Light cover a very broad field, from fundamental physics to technological applications in photonics, quantum mechanics and biomedicine and open up an increasing number of technological applications. Among these sciences, photonics is one of the key enabling technologies identified in the Horizon Europe strategic plan. The Paris-Saclay region has been hosting numerous prestigious research laboratories for several decades. To gather its strengths, UPSaclay has been created in 2020 by grouping several academic and research institutions located in Saclay area. It joins 8,100 researchers working in 275 laboratories. UPSaclay was ranked 15th in the 2023 Shanghai University ranking, and 3rd in physics (1st in Europe) in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. Regarding Sciences of Light, UPSaclay gathers 700 researchers working in 28 laboratories across 5 graduate schools. UPSaclay graduates every year 150 engineers and 70 PhDs specialized in optics. In addition, UPSaclay hosts many world class research facilities. The Institute for the Sciences of Light (ISL) has been created in 2020 to foster interdisciplinary synergies among the graduate schools of physics, chemistry, engineering, geosciences and life sciences and promote international and intersectoral relations. The LIGHTinPARIS programme through ISL will recruit 30 PhD fellows (2 cohorts of 36 months each). Industrial and international secondments will also be implemented to allow PhD fellows to shape their careers by acquiring technical skills and networking relationships. Numerous trainings will also be offered to ensure that doctoral students have both technical skills and soft skills by the end of their PhD.

Keywords: light sciences,optics,photonics,nanophotonics,quantum technologies
Laser induced nanojet functionalization of two-dimensional materials for sensing and energy harvesting applications (LANAFUSEHA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169326.72
EU funding (EUR): 169326.72
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project will make an impact in important societal needs in the fields of energy harvesting and sensing for environmental, safety, and medical applications, which are relevant to the entire global population. The development of any of these high-tech areas is associated with the use of new materials. The scope of this proposal is to advance 2D materials by adding to them novel functionalities for improved energy-harvesting and sensing applications. Such 2D materials as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides were selected for functionalization. The creation of nanopores or the attachment of chemically active compounds will significantly expand the capabilities of such materials, for example, it will enable the development of universal chemical sensors for the detection of volatile organic compounds. The project proposes to solve an important problem of functionalization, localized on nanoscale, which will allow minimizing the proposed devices. The disruptive technique to be used in this proposal for nanometer-precision patterning of 2D materials is based on one of the latest nanophotonics advancements, the photonic nanojets. It is possible to functionalize 2D materials by laser with spatial resolutions significantly lower than the diffraction limit, as light in a photonic nanojet can be concentrated into a volume that is one order of magnitude smaller. The project provides for a fairly simple and scalable technology. The low technological hazard of the method and invariance for materials are the basis for economic feasibility. New materials and devices arising from this project will be exploited by the industry, strengthening the EU economy and technological excellence in the fields of energy, electronic technology, health industry, security, environmental and industrial monitoring

Keywords: laser functionalization,optical tweezers,nanojet,graphene,dichalcogenides of transition metals