Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The impacts of ocean fine-scale whirls on climate and ecosystems (WHIRLS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Sweden,South Africa
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11855066.0
EU funding (EUR): 11855066.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

WHIRLS is about small processes having large-scale impacts. Heat and carbon are the currencies of regional and global climate, constantly exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere. This exchange is strongly influenced by fine-scales ocean eddies—whirls—that flux heat and carbon towards, or away from, the air-sea interface. When the ocean gives up heat and carbon to the atmosphere, climate is warmer and wetter, and vice versa. Carbon that is fluxed towards the air-sea interface, where sunlight is available, can be taken up by phytoplankton that form the base of the oceanic food web. Eddies and fronts alter vertical nutrient fluxes and ocean stratification which help shape biodiversity and ecosystems. The proliferation of fine-scale processes, and their interdisciplinary and large-scale impacts are poorly understood. In WHIRLS we will use a synergistic and interdisciplinary approach to study fine-scale processes across a continuum of scales (1–100 km) and assess their impacts on air-sea exchange and marine biogeochemistry and biodiversity. We focus on the Agulhas Current System around South Africa because it is a global hotspot of eddy activity, ocean-atmosphere heat exchange, and marine productivity and diversity It is also a region that plays a key role for the global ocean circulation and global climate and climate change. We will use multiple coordinated observing strategies, including research vessels and a large ensemble of autonomous platforms, to collect physical, chemical, and biological datasets across scales. These data will be supplemented by high-resolution models of the ocean and the atmosphere, developed with a focus on the Agulhas Current System, as well as the latest data science methodologies. WHIRLS will improve the understanding of fine-scale processes and its representation in future earth system models for better predictions and projections of the future climate.

Keywords: submesoscale and mesoscale ocean dynamics,air sea exchange,biogeochemistry,ocean and climate modelling,climate change,agulhas current system
Bio Inspired Geotechnical Applications to Launch Pan-European Solutions (BIGALPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Romania,France,Switzerland
Call: EIC Transition Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1756837.5
EU funding (EUR): 1756837.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

BIGALPS aims at creating a market breakthrough in the soil stabilization field by offering a unique bio-technology for soil treatment, a complete environmentally friendly solution with the capacity to treat some of the most critical soil stability problems related to current societal challenges (landslides, erosion, foundation soil stabilization, etc.). Bio-cementation is an innovative nature-inspired soil improvement technique, based on the metabolic activity of microorganisms to produce calcium carbonate that binds the soil particles together. The technology has the potential to substitute energy-intensive and polluting soil improvement methods currently available that are hazardous to the natural environment, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The project builds up on two previous ERC projects (Advanced ERC and Proof of Concept) that allowed among others the development of three patents. BIGALPS is the natural continuation of previous accomplishments and will further mature and validate the bio-cementation technology to achieve full compatibility with real environment, existing norms and industry standards while explore the most efficient business model. The work will address two interconnected objectives: (1) mature and validate the bio-cementation technology in solving real engineering problems related to current society needs (landslides, erosion and foundation soil stabilization) and (2) achieve the market uptake as an alternative to traditional cement-based soil improvement techniques. Three pilot sites will be used to mature and demonstrate the technology in real environment as well as to introduce the technology in specific markets of Europe with direct feedback and help from main players of the industry. The goal is to have a market-ready solution which will be investment ready and “de-risked” to ultimately create a market breakthrough and grow into the next big thing in geo-technical and geo-environmental engineering.

Keywords: soil stabilisation,bio inspired solution,bio cementation,soil improvement,erosion,landslides
ETHER – sElf-evolving terrestrial/non-Terrestrial Hybrid nEtwoRks (ETHER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Greece,Ireland,Cyprus,Spain,Portugal,Sweden,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Communication Infrastructure Technologies and Devices (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4901867.5
EU funding (EUR): 4660693.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

ETHER aims to provide a holistic approach for integrated terrestrial-non-terrestrial networks targeting at 100% network coverage, 99.99999% service continuity and 99.99999% reliability, with 3 times higher energy efficiency and 95% Total Cost of Ownership reduction compared to current terrestrial only deployments. To achieve these goals, ETHER develops solutions for a Unified Radio Access Network (RAN) and for the energy-efficient, AI-enabled resource management across the terrestrial, aerial and space domains, while creating the business plans driving future investments in the area. To that end, ETHER introduces and combines a series of key technologies under a unique 3D multi-layered architectural proposition that brings together: i) a UE antenna design and implementation for direct handheld access in the integrated network, ii) a robust unified waveform, iii) energy-efficient seamless horizontal and vertical handover policies, iv) a zero-touch management and network orchestrator to self-adapt to rapidly evolving traffic conditions without human intervention, v) a flexible payload system to enable programmability in the aerial and space layers, vi) joint communication, compute and storage resource allocation solutions targeting at End-to-End network performance optimization leveraging efficient and novel predictive analytics schemes, and vii) energy-efficient semantics-aware information handling techniques combined with edge computing and caching for reduced latency across the distributed 3D compute and storage continuum.

Keywords: 6g integrated terrestrial non terrestrial network,edge computing and caching,unified waveform,ai based network performance optimisation,zero touch unified network management,data analytics
An agentic, multi-layer, GenAI-powered backbone to make an AI system explainable, accountable, and transparent (AIXPERT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,Bulgaria,Cyprus,Canada,Switzerland,Sweden
Call: Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7499753.75
EU funding (EUR): 7499753.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The AIXPERT project proposes a novel, comprehensive approach to developing explainable, accountable, and transparent AI systems. At its core, the project introduces an adaptable, situation-aware AI-agentic platform capable of encapsulating various AI models, regardless of their underlying architecture. This architecture-agnostic approach significantly enhances the trustworthiness of AI systems by providing a consistent framework for explainability and accountability across different model types. The project aims to address challenges in AI explainability, transparency, accountability, autonomy, and robustness by integrating multi-agent systems with multimodal foundation models and leveraging real-time human feedback. This integration enhances AI system trustworthiness and user-friendliness while maintaining flexibility in the choice of underlying AI models. The project will be implemented in a multi-layered architecture, with each layer focusing on specific aspects of AI interpretability and explainability: the Agent-World Interface Layer will define and coordinate AI agents, their situational awareness, and their interactions with real-world knowledge sources; the Dialogue Mediation Layer will control user-agent and agent-agent communications; and the Cognitive Foundation Layer will provide the base capabilities for the system based on explainable multimodal foundation models. The project will also focus on developing a framework for assessing AI trustworthiness, demonstrating the value of explainable AI through pilot demonstrations in healthcare, recruitment services, manufacturing, educational robotics, and creative industries, and ensuring the sustainability of its results. AIXPERT envisions delivering AI solutions that are not only transparent and ethical but also sustainable and adaptable to diverse user needs, ultimately fostering greater trust in AI across multiple industries and societal sectors.

Keywords: explainable ai,multi agent systems,explainable multimodal large language models,context aware systems
Strategies for Competence Integration and Lifelong Learning in European Destinations. Female migrant healthcare workers in Scandinavia. (SCILLED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 267418.56
EU funding (EUR): 267418.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

For several decades, Europe has been investing substantial efforts to boost national, institutional and individual engagement in education and training for adults aged 25-64, also referred to as lifelong learning (from now 'LLL'), to drive sustainable growth and to build a more inclusive society. However, the majority of European contexts has neither reached nor approached the set threshold of aspired lifelong learners, which had been defined in the light of the constantly changing demands on the labour market. Accordingly, LLL in general, and high-quality, timely, tailor-made opportunities for on-the-job training in particular have been declared one of the top priorities for the strategic 2030-goals within the European Education Area. On this account, the SCILLED project questions how (professional) LLL is planned, practiced and experienced in one of the largest and most profoundly transforming industries worldwide: the healthcare sector. This research concern has been put in the context of gender and migration studies and is thus exemplified with the case of female migrant healthcare workers, key resources in the contemporary European socio-demographic and political landscape. SCILLED has been projected as a multi-site, pluri-instrumental research in 3 Scandinavian countries that are considered at the vanguard of LLL governance. It uses thus both, qualitative and quantitative data, to bridge the national, institutional and individual perspective on lifelong and lifewide professional adult training in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The SCILLED research design provides for a replicable pilot study that builds on a holistic view of LLL linking academic and non-academic fields of work. In this vein, project findings will be exploited through a co-created podcast series that involves the SCILLED research participants as protagonists of the production and stimulates hence knowledge generation and science diffusion from citizens for citizens.

Keywords: skill building in healthcare professions,female migrants,professional integration,lifewide learning,citizen science
The tRNA epitranscriptome: a novel player in viral infections (EpiCoVs)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent evidence indicates that codon usage bias regulates gene expression, as synonymous codons are not decoded with the same efficiency. Viruses are entirely dependent on the host translation machinery to express their proteins. Puzzlingly, the genomes of diverse viruses synthesize viral proteins at high levels, such as those of the emerging Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), dengue virus (DENV) and the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 are enriched in rare codons that should slow down their translation. How these viruses achieve this high protein expression remains a fundamental question in virology. In Juana Díez's laboratory, recent findings have revealed an unprecedented interplay of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) with the host tRNA epitranscriptome. CHIKV adapts the host translational machinery toward viral codon usage by overexpressing a tRNA modification enzyme that favors translating a specific set of codons enriched in CHIKV RNA. The proposed project will combine cellular, and molecular biology approaches with -omics analyses to further develop this novel research area and explore its translatability. First, using SARS-CoV-2 as a model, we will study whether the observed CHIKV-induced codon-specific reprogramming of the host translation machinery represents a common mechanism to optimize viral protein expression. Second, we will characterize the tRNA modifying enzymes involved. Third, we will explore the antiviral therapeutic interest of the identified enzymes. Together, these findings will shed light on a novel layer of virus-host interaction and might provide a rationale to consider the regulation of the host tRNA epitranscriptome as a promising target for the development of broad-spectrum antivirals.

Keywords: sars cov 2,coronaviruses,rna viruses,translatome,transcriptome,trna,enzymes,covid19,chikv,zika,denv
Household Chemicals Amplifying Urban Aerosol Pollution (CHANEL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499359.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499359.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Urban aerosol particles are one of the largest human health hazards globally. A significant fraction of urban aerosol is secondary, .i.e., formed via atmospheric chemical reactions of emitted trace gases, with secondary organic aerosol (SOA) driving health impacts in urban air. Decades of air quality regulations have substantially reduced the motor vehicle emissions of organic compounds that act as precursors to SOA pollution. In my recent studies, we show for the first time that volatile chemical products (VCPs) from household chemicals are becoming one of the largest sources of organic vapors in US cities. Based on their chemical properties, the potential of VCPs to form SOA is expected to be high but is as yet unknown. With chemical transport models showing a general shortfall in predicting urban SOA, VCPs are anticipated to be the missing source to bridge this long-standing knowledge gap. The aim of CHANEL is to provide unprecedented data to resolve the urban SOA pollution puzzle and identify the key VCP precursors to aerosol pollution. Using recent advances in state-of-the-art chemical ionization mass spectrometry, we will perform field measurements in European urban areas to determine the chemical composition of VCP emissions. A Zeppelin will be used as an airborne platform to probe the urban “breath” of European cities and quantify the chemical evolution and SOA production from VCPs downwind of urban centers. These measurements will be accompanied by controlled atmospheric simulation chamber experiments to oxidize VCP emissions and retrieve their SOA yields as a parametrization to be used by chemical transport models. In a future of electrified fleets where fossil fuel emissions are expected to further decrease and VCPs will dominate urban air pollution, CHANEL will push the frontiers of knowledge on urban SOA pollution and set the basis for future efficient adaptation policies.

Keywords: urban air pollution,secondary organic aerosol,anthropogenic emissions,volatile chemical products
Correlated Ion elecTRon fOr Nanoscience (CITRON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3325441.0
EU funding (EUR): 3325441.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Electron and Ion beams have become indispensable tools in surface and materials science. Many applications rely on extreme miniaturization, like in nanostructuring and doping, which imposes to control the energy, the number and the locations of electrons or ions at the nanometric level. The CITRON project aims at achieving breakthroughs in focused ion and electron beams, exploiting monochromaticity in the low-energy domain (eV-keV) to reach such a fine level of control of the sources of charged particles. In contrast with standard tools, the proposed developments rely on the ionization of a neutral atomic species and on the simultaneous production, detection and control of both the ion and the electron. Such a detection in coincidence yields correlated information on both particles that can be used to improve the beam properties, like the deterministic knowledge of the creation of the charged particles, and the correction of their trajectories in real time. Using this novel technique, which I have recently demonstrated the feasibility with my group, I propose to develop three innovative prototypes: • 1) A focused ion beam using feedback control with unprecedented focused properties. I will used it to realize semiconductor circuit-editing at the (sub-)nm scale. • 2) A deterministic source of (potentially) any type of ion for controlled implantation at the nm level. I will use it for on-demand doping of quantum devices. • 3) A high-resolution electron-energy-loss microscope with precise knowledge of the electron energy and the position on the sample. I will use it to realize both imaging and vibrational spectroscopy for surface analysis. The synergy between the three prototypes is based on atomic beam laser excitation to create a monoenergetic beam of charged particles, with energy and position controlled by correlation between oppositely charged particles. All will require dedicated optical columns designs and fast time and position sensitive detectors.

Keywords: microscopy,photoionization,correlation,coincidence,feedback control,time and position sensitive detectors,rydberg atoms,surface science,circuit edit,vibrational spectroscopy,focused ion beam,implantation,electron microscope
Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions (Urban ReLeaf)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Latvia,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands
Call: Uptake and validation of citizen observations to complement authoritative measurement within the urban environment and boost related citizen engagement (HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4463982.5
EU funding (EUR): 4206020.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Urban ReLeaf is an action-oriented mission to advance citizen-powered science as a central resource for inclusive urban green planning in support of local policy making, European strategies and monitoring systems (e.g., the Green Deal, Copernicus), and global efforts such as the SDGs (e.g., Target 11.7) and GEOSS. The project will: (i) assess current urban greening policy processes within six European cities and co-create solutions that use citizen observations to complement existing data ecosystems and decision-making; (ii) support the validation and long-term inclusion of active and passive data from citizens for urban environmental monitoring within authoritative data streams, including GEOSS & Copernicus; (iii) Mobilize and empower communities through widespread participation in issues of public interest surrounding urban green infrastructure; (iv) develop a community of practice around topics related to the use of citizen observations for urban planning to foster knowledge exchange and develop capacities across multiple sectors; (v) produce flexible and innovative governance solutions to help scale-out inclusive urban green transitions in support of the European Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals; and (iv) promote recognition, adoption and trust of citizen observations and other novel data ecosystems for environmental monitoring to trigger innovation within public institutions. The project is coordinated by IIASA, who led the WeObserve project, and involves partners from previous successful H2020 citizen observatory projects and as well as six cities (Athens, Cascais, Dundee, Mannheim, Riga Utrecht) that are willing to embrace new data streams for urban greening planning and policy making and to fully engage with citizens including marginalized and vulnerable groups. Urban ReLeaf is also supported by technology partners and those with strong links to Copernicus and GEO.

Keywords: authoritative data,citizen science,urban greening,heat stress,air quality,vulnerable and marginalized groups,sdg 11,european green deal,environmental policy,governance models