Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EXOplanet Diversity and the Origin of the Solar System (EXODOSS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498943.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498943.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ongoing discovery of ever-more Earth-like exoplanets raises the question how these planets form. Answering this question requires a breakthrough in our understanding of terrestrial planet formation, since this topic has previously been studied almost exclusively in the context of the Solar System and with an emphasis on the late-stage giant-impact phase. However, recently, a window into the very earliest stages of planet formation has opened through radio observations of protoplanetary discs around young stars that reveal large reservoirs of mm-sized pebbles. In EXODOSS, I will model the full planetary growth process, starting from these primordial pebbles, in order to improve our fundamental understanding of terrestrial planet formation. In order to do so, I will develop a first-of-its-kind GPU-accelerated N-body simulator that models planetary growth and composition in a protoplanetary disc where angular momentum is transported by disc winds. The code will follow the growth of the first pebbles and km-sized planetesimals to larger protoplanets, up to the late dynamical evolution of fully-grown planetary systems. Additional supporting hydrodynamical simulations will provide much needed accurate prescriptions for the evolution of the protoplanetary disc and for the accretion rates of pebbles and gas onto the cores and atmospheres of young protoplanets. Taken together, I will establish a self-consistent model of planet formation capable of addressing how Earth-like planets form, with results that can be confronted against dynamical and compositional constraints from the Solar System and the growing population of well-characterized Earth-like exoplanets. These theoretical investigations are needed in the broader context of humanity's search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets in our galaxy, our desire to understand their formation, and as a first step in tracing the origin of the elements, such as water, required for the development of life as we know it.

Keywords: terrestrial planet formation,earth like exoplanets,solar system,protoplanetary discs,planetary composition
Boosting the digital transformation of aviation supply chains for advanced composite aerostructures (CompSTLar)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Norway,Italy,Ireland,Switzerland,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Competitiveness and digital transformation in aviation – advancing further composite aerostructures (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5551896.53
EU funding (EUR): 4932483.62
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

CompSTLar proposes a novel, holistic integrated-and-interoperable physical and digital-driven research ecosystem encompassing automated and scalable composite technologies, multiphysics-based and data-driven models, AI-powered tools, and sensorized processes and products, for the advanced design and cost-competitive manufacturing, intelligent maintenance and repair, and sustainable recycling of novel graphene-functionalized multifunctional and multimaterial (M&M) thermoplastic composite (TPC) aerostructures. Key developments to pave the way towards the CompSTLar ambition are: 1) an innovative, bespoke, laser-assisted ATL process with in-situ ultrasonic quality inspection boosted by off-line X-ray computed tomography characterization and AI-powered tools -to propel zero defect and high-volume ISC-ATL manufacturing; 2) advanced ML surrogates of high-fidelity multiphysics, and multiscale composite damage simulation coupled with on-the-fly optical fibre- and novel laser-induced graphene-based strain sensor data - for real-time structural health assessment and monitoring; 3) a modern induction-assisted conduction welding process enhanced with data-driven modelling grounded on parametric numerical simulations and real-world novel Fresnel-based sensor data - for smart repair of next-generation TP aerostructures, and 4) pioneering recycling process to facilitate complete undamaged recovery of TPC tapes suitable for reuse with ATL to confirm sustainable circular manufacturing. Digitalized methods, processes and tools will be physically tested and digitally integrated into an interoperable IIoT collaborative, modular and decentralized digital research infrastructure, i.e., CompSTLar end-to-end digital pipeline. CompSTLar digital ecosystem will support the optimized design, sustainable manufacturing, efficient maintenance, repair, and circularity of M&M composite aerostructures, allowing faster, more accurate, and more informed decision-making along the aircraft supply chain.

Keywords: composite technologies,graphene,isc atl manufacturing,shm,repair welding,recycling,optical fibre and lig based sensors,digital pipeline,interoperability,data driven models,multiphysics,mdo
Unleashing gaze: Neuro-cognitive processes underlying gaze control and perception across free-viewing eye movements (FREE-VIEW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499228.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499228.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We constantly move our eyes to explore our surroundings. In between short periods of fixation, saccades cause drastic changes to the visual input – yet, we experience a continuous and stable world from the incessant flow of snapshots. While the perceptual consequences of saccadic eye movements are manifold, experiments to study them are surprisingly similar, and lean towards a paradoxically passive investigation of active visual perception. Instead of isolated, stereotyped eye movements directed by artificial cues, everyday gaze is dynamically driven by scene statistics and internal goals. To genuinely understand active perception across eye movements, we need to study it under natural but still precisely controlled conditions – which so far has been hindered by methodological limitations: the transient nature of peri-saccadic phenomena requires real-time knowledge of the upcoming saccade to tailor the perceptual measurement to its predicted spatial and temporal dynamics. Fortunately, free-viewing saccades are not random, but guided by salient and relevant scene features. My team and I will introduce a methodology that evaluates these factors online, to predict saccades during free exploration on dynamic visual noise. To study active perception through gaze-contingent measures across unconstrained viewing, my approach integrates high-precision yet rigid techniques from classic vision science with more flexible but coarser methods of scene viewing research, where subtle peri-saccadic processes are traditionally not considered. Combining state-of-the-art psychophysical, computational, and neuroscientific expertise, FREE-VIEW will pioneer our understanding of actually active perception and gaze control, assess the validity of inferences drawn from atypical, instructed saccades, and introduce a versatile tool for testing populations that may struggle to learn or adhere to stringent instructions, such as children, the elderly, patients, or non-human primates.

Keywords: active perception,saccadic eye movements,presaccadic attention,predictive remapping,trans saccadic integration,visual sensitivity,psychophysics,transcranial magnetic stimulation tms,reverse correlation
Blood and Tears: The Emotional Experience of Classical Greek Warfare (Blood and Tears)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Blood and Tears: the Emotional Experience of Classical Greek Warfare aims to provide the first comprehensive and scientific analysis of the emotional aspects of Classical Greek military campaigns in the period 490-323 BC. Previous scholarly analyses fail to fully address the issue, offering either simplistic and inadequate reconstructions (Hanson: 1989), or seminal contributions on single phenomena regulating the emotional experience in war (e.g. cohesion: Crowley: 2012; social pressure: Cairns: 2019, van Wees: 2004). This study will fill a considerable gap in the scholarship with a fresh, multifaceted approach to the emotional and psychological aspects of Greek military campaigns. The cultural idiosyncrasies of the Greek culture(s), the interplay of different cultural dynamics, and the difference from polis to polis will be acknowledged to reconstruct a culturally appropriate and solid picture. The modern notion of morale will be used as a heuristic tool to unravel significant patterns and psychological phenomena hidden in the ancient sources, whilst three case studies – Athens, Sparta, and the Ten Thousand – will frame inter-poleis similarities and differences. The findings are expected to dramatically advance the promising field of the study of the emotions and psychology of the ancient Greeks, but also to develop a better appreciation of how ancient intelligentsia conceptualised complex socio-psychological dynamics.

Keywords: ancient warfare ancient greece athens sparta morale history of emotions ancient psychology
Mediterranean Island Cleantech Innovation Ecosystem (MICIE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Malta,Netherlands
Call: Preparatory action for setting up joint programmes among innovation ecosystems actors (HORIZON-EIE-2021-CONNECT-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 508517.86
EU funding (EUR): 482000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Cyprus and Malta, being small islands with similar needs, will leverage on the work that they have been doing with EIT Climate-KIC to bring all the relevant partners together, exchange ideas, organize workshop and prepare action plans in the innovation field of their National Energy and Climate Plans.

Keywords: mediterranean islands,cleantech ecosystem,national energy and climate plans
Comparative physiology of adaptation to cold-extremes in boreal ants (ChillAnts)

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: Belgium,Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The acquisition of cold-tolerance is one of the most ecologically relevant processes for ectotherms inhabiting temperate and boreal climates. Given the fundamental importance of cold-adaptation in shaping ectothermic species’ distribution, much effort has been put into deciphering the physiological mechanisms constraining the plasticity of their cold-tolerance. However, we still know little about how evolutionary pressures have shaped cold-tolerance acquisition in some key and ecologically relevant models for colder-ecosystems such as ants. Ants are among the most represented and abundant insects in temperate and boreal climates, providing unprecedented amounts of ecosystem services by their sheer biomass. Some higher-latitude species further display the striking ability to survive prolonged exposure to temperatures of -40°C, yet, to this day we still lack a clear and comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms supporting this impressive feat. Considering this central gap in our knowledge, we propose here to explore the molecular-level mechanisms associated with the temporal acquisition of cold-tolerance in ants inside a consistent study system made of groups of boreal, temperate, and Mediterranean closely related species. Using this phylogenetic framework, we will (i) compare species’ potential for cold-hardiness and link cold-tolerance acquisition with the (ii) genetic response and (iii) metabolomic reorganization in models. Overall, this project proposes to explore important yet unanswered aspects of insect cryobiology that are located at the frontier of our current understanding of ecophysiology. It will explore the comparative physiology of cold-acclimation in boreal ants, allow for the potential discovery of novel cold-tolerance mechanisms in insects, and ultimately, feed data into our integrated understanding of how from gene to organisms, the acquisition of cold-tolerance has shaped the success of insect life in colder environments.

Keywords: insects,social insects,ants,cold tolerance,evolution,molecular adaptation to temperatures
GREEN AGILE SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION (GRASP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,France,Ireland,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom
Call: Low TRL research in micro-electronics and integration technologies for industrial solutions (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3220641.75
EU funding (EUR): 3215641.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Flexible Electronics has been one of the fastest developing technologies in recent decades. The traditional path is electronic components such as silicon chips (e.g., microcontrollers) integrated onto flexible substrates called “hybrid integration” or “flexible hybrid electronics” in integrated smart systems. We believe that this approach is not a viable long-term solution for future high-volume, low-cost and conformable integrated smart systems. Our vision is an integrated smart system that is built with only flexible electronic components including analogue circuitry, digital logic and memories. We call such a system a “Natively Flexible Integrated Smart System” or NFISS. NFISSes will enable new products in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods and healthcare wearables that have not been possible before because conventional silicon chips are too costly, too bulky and not conformable. The project will develop a flexible microcontroller unit (FlexMCU), which is the key component missing to enable NFISSes. The FlexMCU must be a low-power chip integrating a variety of functionality to address the functional requirements of the applications in FMCG and healthcare wearables. A novel hybrid complementary low-power thin-film transistor technology (100x per-transistor power reduction) will be developed to fabricate the FlexMCU in a sustainable flexible chip fab with 100-1000x less environmental footprint. The FlexMCU design is tailored to a specific domain composed of an open-source RISC-V based processor with built-in security features, an analogue frontend, on-chip memory and other peripherals. Then, the FlexMCU will be assembled using novel assembly and bonding methods onto a flexible film, which is, in turn, integrated onto a flexible substrate along with other flexible electronic components to build the first proof-of-concept NFISS that will be validated on two healthcare wearable applications.

Keywords: green semiconductors,flexible electronics,complementary tft device,flexible integrated circuits,flexible chip assembly
Imagine (if) Platforms. European Progressive Parties and the Digital Commons. Mapping Ideologies and Practices. Comparing Political Imaginaries. Measuring Societal Impacts (IMDIGICOMM)

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: Spain,Italy,France,Poland,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192865.12
EU funding (EUR): 192865.12
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Putting the ‘people at the centre of the digital transformation’ is one of the core goals of EU strategies for the digital decade. However, the excessive power of a few non-European big tech companies governing the digital transition also carries risks for EU citizens. While state-of-the-art theorises and describes the new opportunities and threats of the political impacts of ‘platformisation’, the question of whether and how a new progressive politics for the digital age is emerging is rarely asked. IMDIGICOMM will answer these questions in four steps. First, building on critical literature on the ‘digital commons’, IMDIGICOMM will elaborate a three-pillar theoretical framework to make sense of how digitalisation affects gender, democratic and productive relations. The assumption underlying IMDIGICOMM is the emergence of a new cleavage counterposing two models of platformisation: the ‘digital as commodities’ and the ‘digital as commons’. Second, empirical research will focus on Progressive Parties in five countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain) to map their ideologies and practices regarding the digital transition to assess whether they facilitate or hamper the advance of the 'digital commons'. Third, the maps will result in a ‘Digital Commons Politics’ Index to measure the extent to which parties’ imaginaries on platform societies contribute to redirect the digital transition, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis will assess the combination of conditions that may lead to an increase in the index. Fourth, the project will evaluate the societal impacts of transformative shifts from the ‘digital as commodities’ to the ‘digital as commons’ through a digital dashboard. IMDIGICOMM represents a stepping stone to elaborate the theoretical and methodological tools to make sense of the politics of the digital age. Finally, IMDIGICOMM aims to open future research pathways to systematise the understanding of the political confrontations in platform societies.

Keywords: digital commons,digital politics,european progressive parties,political imaginaries,political impact
A mechanistic understanding of Arctic River Methane Emissions (ARIMETH)

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: Sweden
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): 1902360.0
EU funding (EUR): 1902360.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Constraining the global methane (CH4) budget is an urgent need to predict future climate. Rivers are an important source of CH4 to the atmosphere, with surprisingly high rates of emissions in northern regions. The high emissions from Arctic rivers are driven by lateral inputs from surrounding land and are very sensitive to climate, but challenging to assess. Given the severe impacts of ongoing climate change at high latitudes, CH4 emissions from Arctic rivers have a large potential to further increase, but we are unable to quantify and predict future emissions due to a lack of process-based models that represent river CH4 emissions. The limitation arises from our poor understanding of river Arctic CH4 cycling, with a clear lack of mechanistic studies that are foundational to advancing process-based models. ARIMETH aims to address this issue, by initially generating the mechanistic understanding of Arctic riverine CH4 cycling. Subsequently, the project will develop the modelling tools to predict current and future CH4 emissions. To achieve this goal, the project will conduct a comprehensive approach, including a whole-stream warming experiment, high-resolution measurements with state-of-the-art CH4 sensors coupled with remote sensing data, pan-Arctic sampling campaigns to find the sources of CH4 using carbon radioisotopes, and developing deep-learning mechanistic models for river CH4 emissions. The outcomes of ARIMETH will offer ground-breaking insights into river CH4 cycling, spanning from the river itself to the catchment, and to pan-Arctic scale. Finally, ARIMETH will determine if CH4 emissions from Arctic freshwaters are underestimated when lateral fluxes to rivers and emissions are not accounted for. This is critical to predict future trajectories of global warming, as well as discover unrecognised feedbacks between the terrestrial-aquatic-atmospheric compartments in the broad carbon cycle.

Keywords: methane emissions,river biogeochemistry,river process based modelling,arctic,catchment ecology,river methane cycling,carbon biogeochemistry,ecosystem ecology