Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The somatotopic organization of proprioception: from bold activity to single neurons up to new rehabilitative tools (ProprioMaps)

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,Switzerland,Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 465071.34
EU funding (EUR): 465071.34
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Proprioception is a hidden sensory modality and, despite its strong role in motor control, it has been almost neglected. The ProprioMaps project has the overall goal of clarifying the neural mechanisms of proprioception, and its plasticity, to develop a proof of concept for motor rehabilitation. It will avail of the unique opportunity of comparing results in humans (fMRI and fNIRS) with neuron activity recorded in monkeys, providing an extensive understanding of the phenomenon. I will pursue this ambitious goal through three interleaved objectives (Obj). (Obj1) I will adopt fMRI topographic methods to define proprioceptive/motor maps (henceforth called body maps) in the brain of four different populations: healthy, hemiplegic (outgoing and ingoing phases), low vision (secondment), and amputees (placement) people. The involvement of these populations will provide important knowledge concerning body map plasticity. Then, using a visual proprioceptive disparity task and computational approaches (Obj2), I will investigate how these body maps integrate visuo-proprioceptive input during a hand reaching task (fMRI and fNIRS) and during walking (fNIRS). Finally (Obj3), I will decode neurons activity of monkeys performing reaching and grasping tasks with and without visual input, to understand the possibility of predicting the type of action and sensory modality used to perform it. Overall, results will tell us whether vision is able to act as a sensory substitution for proprioception and will elucidate the neural correlates of this mechanism. This sensory substitution concept will be developed in an application that will add proprioceptive information to myoelectric prostheses. In summary, the ProprioMaps project will provide an extensive study of the proprioceptive network and its processes. Furthermore, it will lead to a proof of concept of a sensory substitution application for motor rehabilitation that will be further exploited to develop a sensory substitution device.

Keywords: proprioception,sensory substitution,embodied cognition
INNOVATIVE ROUTES TO NOVEL CATALYST FOR UTILISING RENEWABLE ENERGIES (Innovalyst)

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: Netherlands
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The alarming increase in the amount of green-house gases in the atmosphere and its severe climate consequences is a fact that will put life on Earth to serious risks if no quick action is taken on a global scale. C2CAT expertise in catalysis for H2 production, storage and recycling of CO2 will come into play. Contribution to the H2 economy and CO2 reduction will be achieved at C2CAT via design, development and commercialisation of cost-effective alternative catalysts suitable for sustainable processes.

Keywords: marketing,entrepreneurship,business strategy,collaboration,communication,technology management
Scalable Unified Processor Enhancing Revolutionary Computing, Harnessing Integrated Performance for Edge AI, Autonomous Driving, Generative AI, and Decentralized AIoT Applications (SUPERCHIP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Emerging semiconductor or quantum technology components (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3862659.38
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The exponential increase in (sensor) data combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support extensive and complex automation requires real-time supercomputing, which today's semiconductor providers struggle to keep up with. We have developed a patented companion chip for AI and digital signal processing (DSP), Tyr, to create a paradigm shift in context-aware processing and transform industries such as Autonomous Driving (AD) and the AI of Things. This award-winning technology has exceptional processing power and high implementation efficiency, while consuming low power and cost. AD, our beachhead market, is a perfect illustration of data availability and processing limitations. There is currently no commercially and technologically viable solution that allows high / full autonomy at Level 4/5. Therefore, we have focused our product development on the global ambition to create L4/5 AD, enabling real-time processing of all data to ensure 100% safety of the vehicle environment.

Keywords: multi hazards,recommendation engine,3d digital twins
Fuel forming electrocatalysis: Devising multifunctional covalent organic frameworks with vinylenic linkage for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction and water oxidation (COFPOR-4-fuels)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-15
End date: 2026-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global energy demands and increase in the utilization of fossil fuels have contributed towards rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, giving rise to grave environmental concerns such as the green house effect. In order to achieve decarbonization of the energy system, the European Green Deal considers the development of innovative technologies, as the one contemplated in this project, as a key point. Generation of chemical fuels by mimicking photosynthesis is a promising technique. The significance of plant photosynthesis to convert CO2 with H2O into carbohydrates and O2 by sunlight in a green manner is widely known. Artificial photosynthesis is expected to efficiently mimic this process for reducing CO2 with H2O as electron donor, that is, integrating CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and H2O oxidation half reactions in one catalytic system. Electroreduction of CO2 into value-added fuels is of significant importance but remains a big challenge because of poor selectivity, low current density, and large overpotential. Crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are promising alternative electrode materials for CO2RR owing to their tunable and accessible single active sites. This proposal aims at introducing a new class of COFs based electrocatalysts to rationally explore the use of heterogeneous electrocatalysts offering both chemical tunability and stability in harsh reaction conditions. The development of an electrocatalytic model system is proposed herein, which will be meticulously executed via strategic synthetic protocols and optimized by solid-state chemical procedures and crystal engineering so as to provide insights into the architecture of the COFs, reactive intermediates and mechanistic steps involved in the electrocatalytic process.

Keywords: covalent organic frameworks artificial photosynthesis water oxidation vinylenic linkage carbon dioxide reduction
Unified Novel Deep ExploRation for Critical Ore discoVERy (UNDERCOVER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,France,Germany,Czechia,Portugal,Canada,Namibia
Call: Exploration of critical raw materials in deep land deposits (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999987.5
EU funding (EUR): 4999987.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Recent EU initiatives for a circular 'Net Zero' economy highlight the need for increased raw materials, especially critical mineral resources (CRMs). Traditional exploration methods are limited in scale and depth, often missing large CRM deposits under thick cover (500-1000 m). UNDERCOVER aims to transform deep CRM exploration, introducing a paradigm shift by extending the mineral systems concept, currently underutilised in quantitative exploration, to exploration relevant spatial scales. UNDERCOVER integrates key technologies developed by EU academia and companies: - Low-cost lithosphere-scale surveys (e.g., MT and passive seismic) in full 3D target prospective regions. - Regional scale mapping using innovative airborne techniques for identifying exploration targets beyond 1 km depth. - Improved cost efficiency for high-resolution, deeply penetrating seismic and EM methods (e.g., compressive sensing or drones) for deposit study and environmental exploitation planning. - Application of AI and joint inversion methods to integrate multi-scale, multi-method, geological, geochemical, and geochronological data, resulting in a 4D multi-scale mineral systems model. - Incorporation of ESG studies to increase social acceptance and the adoption of our technologies. - Introduction of UNFC guidelines, integral in our novel exploration strategy as part of the Value of Information. UNDERCOVER’s strategy envisions public-private partnerships collecting precompetitive regional and lithospheric data across Europe. Companies can leverage this data to de-risk exploration programs and enhance funding prospects. The anticipated impacts are substantial – a systematic and reliable approach to deep exploration could double the EU CRM potential, achieved at a lower cost than conventional methods. Case studies in Finland, Portugal, and Namibia demonstrate the strategy by identifying several new deep exploration targets and helping a known deposit to become a sustainable mining project.

Keywords: deep mineral exploration,critical raw materials,mineral systems,geophysical data,esg
International Network for Knowledge and Comparative Socioeconomic Analysis of Informality and the Policías to be Implemented for their Formalization in the Europea Unión and Latn America (INSEAI 2023)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain,Romania,Germany,Mexico,Brazil,Colombia,Argentina,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Costa Rica,Peru,Poland,Italy,Paraguay,Portugal
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1643514.29
EU funding (EUR): 1623800.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The INSEAI project aims to create an international network for knowledge and comparative socioeconomic analysis of informality and policies to be implemented for its formalisation in the EU and Latin America. The interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach involves academic (nine from UE and seven from LA), non-academic (three from UE and four from LA), and four non-eligible funding entities. Training activities and debate events will be organised throughout secondments, and specific tools (to detect, prevent and avoid informality) will be developed with the network members and people from their environment's societal collaboration. INSEAI Network faces at least seven critical challenges currently claimed by stakeholders at HEI in Europe and LA: 1) Raising the level of research organisation in the region in the informal issues covering the current state-of-the-art knowledge and formalisation governance lacks. 2) Multiplying the effect of research results opens the possibility of catching public policy interest. 3) Driving the PhD students' attention to informality as an endemic issue deeply rooted in the globalised dynamics changing people's lives and stratifying world peripheral capitalist positions. 4) Developing Open Science, promoting gender equality, and consolidating the network continuity. 5) Developing training tasks, exchanging knowledge and methodologies, and trying to innovate in analysis and quantification tools with the support of research and dissemination technologies. 6) Managing external databases and those generated by the network to offer tools (using big data, algorithms, apps) for public use in favour of informality knowledge and estimation and the formalisation processes governance. 7) Bringing together research and innovation interests from academic and civil society entities to understand the convergences and divergences in structuring labour markets and informality dynamics in regions with different degrees of development.

Keywords: informal activities,social behaviour,quantitative and qualitative social methodologies,socioeconomic policies,scientific communications,new technologies and social participation in open science
Safe and sustainable LOW-Carbon fuels for heavy-duty, aviation, and maritime sectors (LowC)

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: Norway,Germany,Finland,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Assessment of air pollutant emissions from low-carbon fuels in the heavy-duty, aviation, and maritime sectors (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3530382.5
EU funding (EUR): 3530382.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Heavy-duty vehicles (including non-road mobile machinery, e.g. excavators), aircrafts and ships are contributing significantly to emissions of green-house gases and health-relevant air pollutants, such as fine airborne particulate matter (PM2.5) as well as emerging pollutants. For decarbonization of the sector, several new fuels, ranging from hydrogen via ammonia to synthetic eFuels are considered. An import question is how these potential new fuels will influence the emission of air toxicants and other environment- and climate-active compounds. LowC will address if these new fuels for high-power engines have an impact on the emissions of air pollutants and climate-drivers, considering also upstream emissions and secondary pollutants formed under different atmospheric conditions (daytime photochemical aging or night-time atmospheric radical chemistry). LowC will apply a series of state-of-the-art technologies and models. This includes a unique Engine Emission Facility equipped for testing of all currently considered low- or zero-carbon fuels with real ship, aircraft and land-based heavy-duty engines, oxidation flow reactors for atmospheric simulation, novel real-time in-situ exhaust characterization approaches, cutting-edge technologies for offline analysis of collected samples and advanced online air-liquid-interface (ALI) exposure systems for in vitro testing of biological effects in lung tissue models. The toxicological testing will be applied in a tiered manner (screening and in-depth verification), in line with visions of Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century. Emission data, including regulated and emerging pollutants, will feed into pollution emission and atmospheric transport models currently used to underpin EU policy and the Zero Pollution Action Plan. Finally, LowC will evaluate health and environmental impacts and provide guidance and recommendations to ensure that solutions to reduce CO2-emissions and prevent climate change are safe and sustainable.

Keywords: air pollution aerosol chemistry,particulatte matter,climate drivers,toxicity,public and environmnetal heath
DATAPACT: COMPLIANCE BY DESIGN OF DATA/AI OPERATIONS AND PIPELINES (DataPACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Malta,Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Greece,Romania,Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy,Slovenia,Denmark,Bulgaria,Portugal,Austria
Call: AI-driven data operations and compliance technologies (AI, data and robotics partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11176030.0
EU funding (EUR): 9999998.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

DataPACT develops novel tools and methodologies that enable efficient, compliant, ethical, and sustainable data/AI operations and pipelines. DataPACT delivers a transformative approach where compliance, ethics, and environmental sustainability are not afterthoughts but foundational elements of data/AI operations and pipelines. DataPACT contributes to the design, implementation, and management of data/AI operations and pipelines by embedding compliance, privacy, and environmental sustainability at their core design. It delivers compliance by design for data/AI operations and pipelines by developing innovative technical tools (DataPACT Compliance Toolbox) and tool-supported methodologies (DataPACT Compliance Framework) for compliance assessment and realization of data/AI pipelines designed, deployed and executed through a set of pipeline management tools and techniques (DataPACT Compliance-aware Data/AI Pipeline Toolbox). DataPACT validates its core results through a strong selection of seven complementary use cases offered by SMEs, large companies, and public sector organizations in relevant areas, including media and entertainment, healthcare, smart cities, law enforcement and security, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and public data. DataPACT helps them ensure straightforward and cost-effective compliance with existing and emerging regulations and guidelines, shorter time-to-market for compliant data solutions, fair and unbiased data-driven systems, respect for privacy and other fundamental rights, and lower and transparent environmental impact for intensive data/AI pipeline operations. DataPACT gathers a balanced consortium of 18 partners from 16 countries, consisting of two large companies, two public sector organizations, four SMEs, two research centers, and seven universities, covering relevant aspects related to legal, ethical, social, environmental, and technical compliance of data/AI operations and pipelines.

Keywords: data ai pipelines,compliance,toolbox
Living longer in poorer health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox (PARA-MOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498870.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498870.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

If the global foreign-born population all lived in single country, it would be the fifth largest country in the world. The rapid rise and diversification of contemporary worldwide migration has no precedent in history. There is clear evidence that immigrants are healthier than native-born populations are. Although this health advantage is pervasive for mortality (i.e., death), it is regularly absent, or even reversed, for morbidity (i.e., diseases and medical conditions). This is alarming because it suggests that migrants are living long lives in poor overall health. With immigrants’ ageing in place, this should constitute one of the most highly relevant social and public health concerns today. Yet, beyond evidence from disparate data sources of variable quality and coverage, there is a distinct absence of direct, coherent, empirical knowledge of this morbidity-mortality paradox. To address this gap, I aim to establish the existence, extent, and causes of this immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox. I will use cutting-edge techniques to analyse longitudinal micro-level data on morbidity and mortality from the same source of information: the population registers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Work Package A will reveal how prevalent an immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox is within the Nordic region and evaluate the role that this paradox plays in our understanding of wider population health. Work Package B will identify the intricate disease spectrum, causes-of-death, and granular immigrant origins essential to understanding the paradox. Work Package C will identify the mechanisms that can explain the paradox. This research has the potential to (1) transform the limited way in which the health of immigrants is currently conceptualised and understood, (2) revolutionise how researchers analyse immigrant health, (3) highlight immigrant health and its role in wider population health, and (4) directly inform national and international policy.

Keywords: international migration,population health,morbidity,mortality,demography,epidemiology,public health,advanced quantitative methods