Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Constraining dense nuclear matter with the dynamical tides of neutron stars (DynTideEOS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The discovery of a merging binary neutron star in 2017, GW170817, marked an historic moment in the field of astronomy. This ground-breaking observation, witnessed by both electromagnetic- and gravitational-wave instruments, unveiled a wealth of scientific insights while capturing worldwide public attention. Neutron stars, with their extraordinarily dense interiors, are Nature's laboratory for dense nuclear matter, about which very little is currently known. While in the past, electromagnetic observatories have been the primary sources of neutron-star observations, the emergence of gravitational-wave astronomy, epitomised by GW170817, has introduced a novel dimension to the observational effort. The forthcoming generation of gravitational-wave interferometers will possess even greater sensitivities, but their scientific impact will rely on meticulous design choices, along with the development of advanced data-analysis methods and robust physical models. This proposal, DynTideEOS, will address these critical needs and contribute to the science capability of these instruments at a critical time for design decisions. DynTideEOS considers the dynamical tide, which drives the oscillation modes of the neutron star when the binary is closely separated. This project will identify the dominant modes in the gravitational wave, extract valuable constraints on the nuclear-matter equation of state and pioneer a state-of-the-art gravitational-waveform model for the dynamical tide. Dr Fabian Gittins, with his outstanding background in theoretical astrophysics, joins forces with Prof Chris van den Broeck, a world-leading expert in gravitational-wave observations at Utrecht University. DynTideEOS not only promises original contributions to neutron-star astrophysics and gravitational-wave astronomy, while setting the stage for rich insights into nuclear physics, but will also underscore Dr Gittins's research excellence with a strengthened connection to observational physics.

Keywords: neutron stars,gravitational waves,equation of state,binaries,oscillations
Interdisciplinary Model for Understanding Climate Change Adaptation (IMUCCA)

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,United States,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Social scientists have generally treated climate change (CC) vulnerability as homogeneous across social space, underestimating the serious social distortions and conflicts it produces. Previous research conducted by the Fellow suggests that CC impact is unevenly distributed, even within small social units such as Indian villages, West African towns, or Fijian islands. This project is guided by a hypothesis derived from Fellow's earlier work: economic and social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, religion, caste) have an overwhelming impact on CC vulnerability and adaptation practices. Examining one of the regions where the impact of CC is most advanced – rural India – the project aims to generate detailed empirical data for tracing the connections between CC and existing forms of social stratification. Under the supervision of leading experts in agrarian studies, environment, and modelling, the project result will be turned into a generalisable model that can be used to understand and predict other agrarian societies’ experiences of CC, and their differential modes of adaptation. Drawing on economic sociology, socioecology and environmental economics, the project's empirical research will take place in two villages in Maharashtra, India, where agriculture is in the midst of an ongoing crisis caused by biophysical processes. The Fellow will employ mixed methods, using quantitative household surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews, which will be collected during two research visits to India. The development of an evidence-based framework will make a pioneering contribution to our ability to address the differing ways in which different members of a society are impacted by, and respond to, CC. The project addresses core EU objectives, such as “preparedness for the impact of climate change to protect lives and assets,” so helping confirm the EU as leading developer of knowledge solutions for the most pressing problems of humanity.

Keywords: climate change,climate change adaptation,climate change vulnerability,agrarian societies,rural india,climate change perception
Testing for the universal mind using probabilistic inference (UNI PROB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Spain,New Zealand,Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2122306.65
EU funding (EUR): 2051921.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Is the human mind an evolutionary one-off? Or does it reflect a ‘universal mind’ in which similar cognitive mechanisms repeatedly evolve via convergent evolution? Avian cognition offers a powerful model system for answering this fundamental question about the nature of our mind, because birds last shared a common ancestor with humans 312 million years ago and have evolved brains with a very different structure. However, to unlock the potential of this model system we need to robustly test whether mechanistic convergence has occurred between the minds of birds and humans (the convergent mind hypothesis) and rule out cognitive similarities between birds and humans due to shared ancestry (the ancestral mind hypothesis). UNI PROB takes advantage of decades of research on probabilistic inference, a central, but imperfect aspect of human cognition, to overcome these challenges. To test for mechanistic convergence, UNI PROB will use the cognitive biases and errors humans show in their probabilistic inferences (e.g. the conjunction fallacy, base rate neglect and the hot hand fallacy) as diagnostic signatures for the presence of a similar cognitive system in a species demonstrating the best performances on probabilistic inference tasks of any animal tested to date: the kea parrot. To test for shared ancestry, UNI PROB will present novel, non-verbal probabilistic inference problems not only to humans and kea, but also to a phylogenetic control for shared ancestry: rats. If convergent evolution has occurred, then only humans and kea will solve these problems while showing the same cognitive biases and errors. By testing for the convergent evolution of this cognitive system, UNI PROB can generate conclusive evidence that probabilistic biases are adaptive features of the human mind and discover if there is a new frontier in cognitive science, namely a universal mind that evolves repeatedly via convergent evolution.

Keywords: comparative cognition,intelligence,probabilistic inference,evolution
Can peak water be considered a tipping point for water security in mountain river basins? (TIPPING-RIVERS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Peak water describes the point in time beyond which glacier and snow melt irreversibly reduce. It is widely seen as a tipping point at which hydrological processes in glacierized catchments are forever altered and water security is put increasingly at risk. Through TIPPING-RIVERS, I will systematically quantify the impact of the point in time beyond which glacier and snow melt irreversibly reduce peak water on water security. Using a comprehensive risk assessment approach (risk = hazard x exposure x vulnerability), I will quantify the risk of a ‘tipping’ from a water secure to an insecure region in two case study catchments. Given my background in hydrology, I will put a strong focus on the hazard-component, identifying ecohydrological catchment characteristics which accelerate, delay or hinder negative impacts of melt water loss. To translate the natural hazard into risk for society, I will combine the hydrological analysis with the assessment of the exposure as well as the vulnerability of downstream communities. The assessment of local tipping points conducted in this project, will be based on the planetary boundaries framework. Its use for the identification of local boundaries has thus far been limited but highly demanded to better anticipate and prevent irreversible and adverse changes to the environment. TIPPING-RIVERS will advance the science in this field by developing a framework for local freshwater boundary assessments.

Keywords: peak water,tipping points,water security,freshwater boundary framework
Deciphering translocation-based genome topology effects and their role in lymphoma formation (LymphoTOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499993.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499993.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A central goal in cancer research is to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying tumor formation, such as translocations that result in expression of fusion genes or proto-oncogenes located at the translocation breakpoints. While the consequences of this erroneous expression have been widely studied, other effects of translocations remain largely unexplored. Nevertheless, these can provide vital new insights into tumorigenesis. I hypothesize that translocations disturb the global 3D genome architecture, causing alterations in chromosome territory positioning and interchromosomal interactions. And, that these can account for (in)activation of key genomic loci for which the cause of deregulation remains so far unknown. I will address this hypothesis in the context of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)-related immunoglobulin (IGH) translocations. By genome editing we will create lymphoblastoid cell lines and cord blood cell-derived B lymphocytes in which IGH translocation-based effects can be cleanly dissected in vitro and in vivo. In these models, we will study how IGH translocations affect genome topology, the epigenetic and gene expression landscape and NHL formation. To that end, we will assess (i) chromosome territory structure and interchromosomal crosstalk by chromatin conformation capture and fixed- and live-cell imaging, (ii) epigenetic and gene expression maps using bulk and single-cell profiling and (iii) in vivo tumor formation. Importantly, after exploring the presence of the observed gene expression changes in NHL samples, we will target the coinciding changes in in vitro and in vivo approaches to probe their relevance for lymphomagenesis. Overall, LymphoTOP shall lead to deeper insights into translocation-based genome topology reorganisation and its role in tumorigenesis, and to potential identification of new vulnerabilities of lymphomas. Thus, extending its impact to many fields, from lymphoma and tumor biology to 3D genome organisation and beyond.

Keywords: non hodgkin lymphoma,tumor formation,translocations,genome topology,oncogenic epigenetic lesions,interchromosomal crosstalk
The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the Global South (WOWMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499721.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499721.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Tropical islands are often stigmatized as tax havens. But only a few tropical islands are important exporters of financial services. This is surprising since many of them feature attributes associated with tax havenry. They are small, sovereign, reachable from major financial centers within a few hours, and practice British common law. Why have so few applied tax havenry as a development strategy, nonetheless? Conventional wisdom suggests that political stability, often measured with contemporary indicators of good governance, makes the difference. The perception of political stability among foreign investors is, however, interwoven with racist biases. Previous research shows that tropical islands had to emphasize their British heritage, essentially a code for whiteness, to attract foreign capital during decolonization. WOWMA’s objective is thus to explain why some tropical island jurisdictions were better able than others to convey stability through an image of whiteness in this historical period. In contrast to previous research emphasizing the rule of law, WOWMA investigates the hypothesis that the absence of income taxes paired with white control over government distinguished emerging tax havens from other tropical islands. To this end, WOWMA (1) proposes a new theory on the emergence of tax havenry in the Global South, linking an island’s economic structure under colonial rule to the absence of income taxes and the persistence of white oligarchy; (2) applies causal inference methods on original historical data gathered from archival sources; and (3) probes the persistence of racist biases in investment decisions through conjoint experiments. The project provides unprecedented depth in the study of small island states’ political and economic development. It foregrounds the entanglement of racism with perceptions of political stability and develops new strategies for its measurement.

Keywords: political economy,political institutions,fiscal capacity,racism,colonialism,taxation,microstates
Obtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-Space services. (SAFIR-Ready)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Estonia,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Czechia,Israel,Greece,Luxembourg,Portugal,Italy,Austria,Ireland
Call: Fast Track Innovation and Uptake U-space and Urban Air Mobility (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9286284.28
EU funding (EUR): 6497545.5
Participants: 45
Project status: SIGNED

SAFIR-Ready aims to develop new U-Space services relevant for U3 and U4, that, together with a central Command and Control Center (C2C) and the development of an automated ground integration (Drone Cargo Port - DCP) will allow for automated time critical drone based services for medical and non-medical use cases. To achieve this, the consortium will focus on the development of a ‘Dynamic Capacity Management System’ (U3), ‘Detect And Avoid algorithms’ (U3) and ‘Machine To Machine communication and decision making’ (U4). The medical use cases have already been demonstrated in the predecessor project of SAFIR-Ready, SAFIR-Med. These use cases consist of (urgent) transport between of from hospital rooftops for clinical samples, blood products, medicines, and AED’s. The SAFIR-Ready project will extend these use cases with non-medical critical missions: Inspection flights for railways and electrical grids. These flights can be planned (e.g. routine inspections of infrastructure) but can also be time critical in case of unforeseen issues with the infrastructure (e.g. tree fallen on high tension cable). Shore to Ship for transport of materials, inspector, or pilotage passenger. The consortium will demonstrate the new U-Space services in executing the aforementioned use cases in three different regions: Antwerp (BE), Tartu (EE) and Flushing (NL) In parallel research will be done around social acceptance, privacy protection and environmental impact. The Figure below shows how one base set up, consisting of the Helicus Command and Control Center, a drone agnostic Drone Cargo Port and various UAV-types cover a various set of uses cases.
Past, present, and future status and mitigation for Cyprus shallow-water reef biodiversity and functioning under global change (PUREEF-Y)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Cyprus,Israel,Spain
Call: Twinning Green Deal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500478.68
EU funding (EUR): 1500478.68
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last century and recent decades, the Eastern Mediterranean have warmed faster than most other inhabited regions. In the marine environment, marine heatwaves are known to result in dramatic loss of native species. Further, marine pollutants, like heavy metals and litter, are additional stressors which can be transported from sediment/water column and bio-accumulate in food webs with direct impact on aquatic organisms and humans. Effective management and policymaking are therefore required for the conservation of regional biota. However, Cyprus still lacks capacities and knowledge in the Environment sector, through prioritised in the recently updated Smart Specialisation Strategy for Cyprus. Thus, PUREEF-Y aims at enhancing the progress of the coordinating partner – CMMI, a H2020 Teaming Centre of excellence– towards scientific excellence and policymaking influence by deploying efficient and long-term capacity-building and networking activities with two internationally recognised advanced partners from Israel and Spain. The activities will go beyond the strictly scientific scope and support the mutual development, consolidation, and reinforcement of administrative, dissemination, networking and policy-making competencies. The progress achieved will be demonstrated via a joint research project during which partners will perform baseline assessments of the physicochemical parameters collected from coastal sediments and waters likely to be affected by climate change and ocean acidification; marine pollution levels in key sites around Cyprus, and the health status of key shallow water benthic and planktonic habitats. Over 3 years, PUREEF-Y will result in a long-term linkage between CMMI, UAB and IOLR who share the mission of better understanding past (paleo) and present ecological conditions and designing management plans for monitoring, conservation & restoration, and policy reforms for the future.

Keywords: biodiversity climate change ecology heavy metals marine heatwaves marine litter and pollution marine protected areas mesocosm experiments msfd ocean acidification shallow water ecosystems
Understanding the origins of dendrite formation and growth in LLZO solid electrolytes (Den-LLZO)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have gained crucial importance for energy storage systems due to their high energy and power density, reliability and cyclability. Solid-state electrolytes provide a promising alternative for highly flammable conventional liquid electrolytes, as they offer high thermal stability, high conductivity and improved safety. Dendrite formation and growth through solid electrolyte is one of the main challenges, critically reducing the performance of Li batteries due to battery short circuit. However, the origins of dendrite formation and parameters affecting its growth rate are still unclear. It has been hypothesized that internal defects such as cracks, and grain boundaries serve as potential nucleation sites for dendrite formation as Li transports through solid electrolytes. The objective of Den-LLZO project is to obtain a fundamental understanding the origin of dendrite formation and growth in the vicinity of the microstructural features. Den-LLZO project aims to use atomic scale simulations to establish a mechanism map for dendrite formation in the presence of microstructural defects and to develop continuum models to predict the dendrite nucleation and growth rate in solid electrolytes. In the first phase, we perform first-principle and molecular dynamics simulations to identify when, how and to what extent different internal defects trigger dendrite formation and growth. The second phase seeks to develop predictive continuum models, informed through atomic scale simulations, for monitoring dendrite nucleation and growth in solid electrolytes. The ambitious goal of Den-LLZO project is to propose design principles for suppressing dendrite formation in solid electrolytes, resulting in improved lithium-ion battery performance and lifetime, and hence facilitated transition toward renewable energy.

Keywords: solid state batteries dendrite formation atomistic simulation grain boundary fracture mechanics continuum modelling