Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
AUTOMATED RECYCLING SYSTEMS FOR CIRCULARITY (Peregrine)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Electronic waste is now the most hazardous and the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, with 62 million metric tons generated globally in 2022. Despite this growth, waste management remains inadequate, with over three-quarters of WEEE still going undocumented. The improper recycling and disposal of electronic waste, particularly Flat Panel Displays (FPDs) such as televisions and computer monitors, is a significant and growing problem. In 2019, 7 million tons of screens and monitors were disposed of according to the UN, equivalent to €3 billion of valuable commodities if recycled properly. WEEE contains hazardous substances like mercury, cadmium, arsenic and lead, which pose serious health and environmental risks if not handled correctly. For recyclers and waste management companies, the lack of efficient, safe, and cost-effective recycling solutions for these types of waste creates a critical operational challenge. Peregrine Technologies is led by an experienced team of innovators and offers a safe, sustainable, efficient solution to deal with WEEE, while reducing the environmental impact of electronics. Our CircularPro™, a state-of-the-art fully automated recycling system, enables the identification, dismantling, and sorting of FPD components, safely removing hazardous materials such as mercury and cadmium. It then enables the extraction of valuable raw materials, including critical raw materials (CRMs) like indium, which are essential for manufacturing new electronic devices. The data gathered by the CircularPro™ also enables the certification of carbon credits from verified recycled materials. We offer our tech portfolio on a circular business model, Technology-as-a-Service, to allow for continuous improvement. Our solution brings radical innovation to the recycling industry while contributing to the SDGs and the objectives of the Green Deal. It is time to look at WEEE as a source of valuable materials and to capture its circularity with the CircularPro™.

Keywords: circular economy,waste recycling,weee,robotics,automation,ai,cleantech,sustainability,weee,carbon,carbon credits,crm
Migrants’ protests: How the borders of citizenship are conceived, mobilized and constructed by migrants’ farm workers protests (Mig.Pro.)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 280202.88
EU funding (EUR): 280202.88
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Migrants’ workers exploitation in several fields of production is one of the most dramatic and serious aspects of our societies and at the same time one of the not enough explored, discussed, voiced. Nevertheless, hard structural and subjective conditions, migrants workers as several recent case show in Italy and worldwide, protest and more and more raise up their voices and claims, together some times with locals, to equal rights, dignity in work and life conditions. This project explores two contexts – Italy and Canada- of migrant’s labor movements with a central focus on migrants employed in agriculture. It intends to work on the following sets of research questions: how migrant’s workers mobilization and protests: 1) challenges the theory and practices of citizenship: do they restrict or enlarge rights for all? 2) impact on actors self-representation as citizens and their recognition by other actors in the field? For this very timely issue that urges attention worldwide, the two contexts will be approached recurring to multiple theoretical frames, the main being: Migration and citizenship studies and Social Movement studies. Qualitative methods will be privileged even though second hand quantitative data will be utilized as well. Additionally, in order to give ‘voice’ to the subjects’ lives and struggles the project intends to adopt a participatory action research (PAR) approach mixed with ethnography. Participant observations and interviews will provide mechanisms towards a strong orientation to the field. On the other side the direct engagement of participants throughout the research process will create opportunities for democratic and transformative knowledge creation that align with PAR principles.

Keywords: migrants,mobilization,agriculture workers,interdisciplinarity,citizenship,borders,intersectionality,protests,participatory action research
Mathematical Challenges of Higher-Order Interactions in Collective Dynamics, and Applications (HICODY)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain,Korea, Republic of
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The mathematical analysis of collective dynamics has experienced a prominent growth in the last years leading to new frontiers with cutting-edge fields in physics, biology and social sciences (e.g. complex networks, active matter or crowd dynamics). The deep breakthrough is that unveiling self-organization in a large group of agents can be tackled using strong mathematical methods from nonlinear and nonlocal PDEs, like harmonic analysis, energy methods, optimal transport and fluid mechanics. HICODY aims to go beyond the classical restrictive case of pairwise interactions. Indeed, recent advances in neural networks suggest that higher-order interactions are often needed to properly shape collective dynamics. Classical techniques break down in this setting, thus requiring innovative methods. This proposal is divided into three blocks. The first one aims to derive the rigorous kinetic and fluid-type PDEs of statistical mechanics from the underlying microscopic description to represent higher-order interactions at larger scales. Besides, the formation of patterns from multiple interactions will be analyzed in several examples of velocity alignment and synchronization dynamics. The other blocks integrate an interdisciplinary approach which combines analytical and computational tools to face the demanding technical level in two innovative applications: neuroscience and developmental biology. First, novel activity patterns will be explored in large ensembles of neurons with multiple interactions; second, a new PDE for filopodia-mediated morphogenesis will be rigorously derived supported by empirical evidence, contrarily to Turing’s theory based on free diffusion. As an evidence of the researcher capabilities, he has pioneered techniques to derive hydrodynamic and mean field limits in flocking and synchronization models with pairwise singular interactions. The project will be developed alongside his supervisor, who is expert in nonlinear PDEs and mathematical biology.

Keywords: kinetic equations,hydrodynamic equations,many particle systems,collective dynamics,self organization,synchronization,mean field limits,hydrodynamic limits,complex networks,morphogenesis
COMPREHENSIVE PAEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE APPROACH (PALLIAKID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Türkiye,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Finland,Romania,Denmark,Latvia
Call: Novel approaches for palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6884782.5
EU funding (EUR): 6884782.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

PALLIAKID is an interdisciplinary project aiming to evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of novel interventions for children, adolescents and young people (AYA) with palliative and end-of--life care needs in different healthcare systems across Europe, with a focus on those factors that influences the active patients' and family caregivers' engagement. PALLIAKID responds to several needs or gaps identified by the consortium clinical partners, grouped into three cornerstones of paediatric palliative care: 1) Early identification of children and AYAs with palliative and end-of-life care needs, 2) Comprehensive assessment of children and their family caregivers' needs, 3) A comprehensive, personalised, interdisciplinary care plan including Advance Care Planning. The proposed solution entails three main results: PALLIAKID Eary Detection System, PALLIAKID intervention (Needs assessment, Advance Care Planning and Patient Journey digital platform); and PALLIAKID XR-based capacity-building program for professionals. In addition, the project will develop policy recommendations, guidelines and standards for patient-centred communication, together with a scale-up strategy to guarantee the project result's’ sustainability and impact. In this sense, PALLIAKID aims to reduce taboos and misunderstandings of paediatric palliative care with its activities and the planned Public Engagement Strategy. The consortium is composed of 19 entities with the needed and complementary expertise and knowledge to respond to the proposed objectives, including the triad perspective (child-family-professional): five clinical sites to co-design and test the PALLIAKID solutions, two European networks, four experts in the needs assessment and ACP tools to be adapted (HexCom and IMPACT), three technological partners, one expert in evaluation, three experts in SSH and one expert in data and ethical issues.

Keywords: paediatric palliative care,child family professional triad,early identification,needs assessment,advance care planning
Theoretical Understanding of Classic Learning Algorithms (TUCLA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999288.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999288.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Machine learning has evolved from being a relatively isolated discipline to have a disruptive influence on all areas of science, industry and society. Learning algorithms are typically classified into either deep learning or classic learning, where deep learning excels when data and computing resources are abundant, whereas classic algorithms shine when data is scarce. In the TUCLA project, we expand our theoretical understanding of classic machine learning, with a particular emphasis on two of the most important such algorithms, namely Bagging and Boosting. As a result of this study, we shall provide faster learning algorithms that require less training data to make accurate predictions. The project accomplishes this by pursuing several objectives: 1. We will establish a novel learning theoretic framework for proving generalization bounds for learning algorithms. Using the framework, we will design new Boosting algorithms and prove that they make accurate predictions using less training data than what was previously possible. Moreover, we complement these algorithms by generalization lower bounds, proving that no other algorithm can make better use of data. 2. We will design parallel versions of Boosting algorithms, thereby allowing them to be used in combination with more computationally expensive base learning algorithms. We conjecture that success in this direction may lead to Boosting playing a more central role also in deep learning. 3. We will explore applications of the classic Bagging heuristic. Until recently, Bagging was not known to have significant theoretical benefits. However, recent pioneering work by the PI shows that Bagging is an optimal learning algorithm in an important learning setup. Using these recent insights, we will explore theoretical applications of Bagging in other important settings.

Keywords: learning theory,machine learning,algorithms,lower bounds,generalization bounds,sampling,randomized algorithms,boosting,bagging
RUral-uRBAN synergies emerged in an immersIVE innovation ecosystem (RURBANIVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Sweden,Belgium,Czechia,Austria,Lithuania,Germany
Call: Improving rural future through better territorial governance and rural-urban synergies (HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5596030.0
EU funding (EUR): 5495530.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

RURBANIVE will develop 6 Rural/Urban Enablers (RUEs), innovations in six domains favouring bi-directional rural/urban synergies and a well-being economy. A digital space, the “Community Store”, the prominent result of RURBANIVE, will integrate the RUEs along with the “Community of Practice Suite” of policies, facilitating rural/urban communities to create strong synergies. The Community Store will make possible synergies and recommendations, online interaction, dialogue, collaboration, and participation of rural/urban stakeholders. Rural/urban immersiveness (RUI), exploiting the endless capabilities of immersion, will promote experimentation and innovation in rural/urban areas. Immersive campaigns emerging from co-creation activities will be tailored to the potential of 7 Rural/Urban co-Creation Labs (RUCLs) and will enable rural/urban interactions through enhanced social connectivity and experimentation. The 7 RUCLs will represent different geographical and socio-cultural EU contexts, and RUI will ensure that stakeholders across specificities are included in prototyping, testing, piloting, and demonstrating the RURBANIVE results. A novel rural/urban innovation framework, supported by social and technical innovations, will enhance territorial governance and existing policy tools by equipping RUCLs with tangible outcomes on improving their rural/urban synergies. Participatory processes will support dialogue and cooperation, enabling stakeholders to assess and evaluate approaches and scenarios that contribute further to developing synergies and recommendations. The Open Call will fund projects developing their own RUEs, based on the six RURBANIVE RUE domains, to be applied in other rural/urban areas and be available on the project's Community Store and the RUI. An inviting and sustainable ecosystem will be created around RURBANIVE to maximize the project's impact. The broad application of the project innovations will be enabled through the creation of business model.

Keywords: rural innovation,urban innovation,immersion,social connectivity,social innovation,participatory processes,rural and urban synergies,multi actor scheme
New Perspectives on Land Dispossession, Violent Conflict and Migration in the West African Sahel (LANDRESPONSE)

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: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2095696.0
EU funding (EUR): 2095696.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Farmers and pastoralists in the Sahel continuously struggle to maintain control over land faced with rent-seeking elites, processes of modernization and uncertain land rights. The hypothesis of LANDRESPONSE is that smallholders who are dispossessed of access to land are more inclined to either migrate or resist violently. Violent resistance will be studied in this project with regard to the increasing numbers of armed groups labelled ‘jihadist’ in the Sahel and in particular in Mali. The project will investigate the nature of the links between land dispossession and elite capture on the one hand and violent jihadist resistance to governments as well as migration to North Africa and Europe on the other hand. These hypothesized links will be investigated using mixed methods with a particular focus on Mali as a ‘hub’ country in the Western Sahel in terms of both violence and migration. Following this conceptual framework, the objectives directing the project will be – first to investigate whether smallholders in the West African Sahel who are dispossessed of their land and/or fall victim to rent-seeking elites, are more inclined to either resist violently or migrate, and second try to assess why some smallholders are more prone to resist, even violently, while others remain compliant. With its pioneering engagement with these urgent political issues, the project will combine theoretical and empirical approaches from political ecology, critical agrarian studies and peace and conflict studies to generate novel insights about the motivations and agency of smallholders confronted with emerging challenges to their livelihoods. This interdisciplinary research will generate new knowledge on the interactions between land governance, violent conflicts and migration, which will both push the research frontier and provide new ideas for policy formulation.

Keywords: jihadism,migration,land dispossession,corruption,sahel,political ecology
Auxetic Cementitious Composites by 3D Printing (ACC-3D)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498201.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498201.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete is inherently brittle. This is a problem because important structures such as nuclear power plants need ductility to remain functional after earthquakes and impacts. ACC-3D aims at creating novel, ductile cementitious composites by using local reinforcement with an unusual quality, negative Poisson's ratio, known as auxetics. Currently, steel rebars or fibers are used to make concrete ductile. Such reinforcement is only active once the concrete has cracked: it prevents existing cracks from growing. Cracking might leave structures unfunctional or vulnerable to repeated events and aftershocks. Can we make reinforcement actively work with concrete already before cracking by making it auxetic? This has never been attempted before. Emerging auxetics with complex architectures fabricated by 3D printing offer excellent energy absorption capacity. However, they have low stiffness which makes them unsuitable for structural applications. I believe that using auxetics as reinforcement in cementitious composites will result in energy absorption at least 2 times higher than current approaches without impairing the stiffness. Through a preliminary study I discovered that auxetics can outperform conventional reinforcement in cementitious composites in terms of flexural strength and energy absorption. However, the mechanism of interaction between deformable auxetic reinforcement and the stiff cementitious matrix is unknown. In ACC-3D I aim to fundamentally understand and fully exploit the potential of auxetic cementitious composites by combining design, experiments, and numerical modelling. This will allow me to create innovative cementitious composites with high ductility and energy absorption capacity. The approach developed in ACC-3D will open possibilities for development of designer construction materials, allowing mechanical response of building materials to be tuned through purposefully adjusting their material architecture.

Keywords: cementitious composites ductile concrete concrete 3d printing
Architectural Technology Transfer on the Silk Road: Iranian Double-Shell Domes and the West: 14th to 20th Century (DOMES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Iran, Islamic Republic of
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 329702.4
EU funding (EUR): 329702.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

DOMES is an exploration of the shared architectural legacy of Europe and the Middle East. Specifically, my project details the transmission of architectural knowledge across the Silk Road from Persia to medieval Italy during the fourteenth century. Utilizing an innovative research methodology, DOMES aims to overcome traditional classification of architectural history based on the linear evolution and comparison of styles and forms, to promote a more comprehensive account of the history of construction, nourished by the material understanding of site-specific traditions. Utilizing structural building techniques as the basis for the project, DOMES focuses on the transmission of two types of architectural knowledge: technical knowledge and preservationist knowledge. This project proposes that the technological knowledge of building double-shell brick domes was originally transferred from Iran to Italy. Furthermore, DOMES investigates the historical exchange of Italian architectural restorers and Iranian preservationists through the study of the restorations of the same double-shell brick dome monuments during the 1960-70s. Through the combination of the study of unpublished archival documents in Tehran and the on-site analysis of the restorations carried out on monuments, DOMES will provide an innovative example of medieval global architectural history and will narrate the transfer of preservation knowledge from Italy to Iran.

Keywords: architecture domes iran italy medieval seljuk ilkhanid persia knowledge brick technology silk road